Chapter Three: The Hogwarts Express

Hermione woke up early the next day, thanks to Seth. She got dressed and walked over to where Seth was sleeping. She changed his diaper then changed him into his new baby clothes, the Gryffindor Robes.

"Everybody is going to love you." Hermione told Seth. "I'm sure you'll like most of them."

Hermione held Seth and then walked down into the kitchen where Mrs. Weasley was cooking breakfast.

"I see Harry and Ron aren't up yet." Hermione said.

"No, I'll let them sleep for a few more minutes but if they don't wake up I am going to have to go up there, and they don't want that." Mrs. Weasley said as she grabbed her wand and smiled.

Hermione sat down at the table and then put Seth on the floor beside her feet. She reached into her baby bag and took out a stuffed phoenix toy and gave it to Seth. It was Seth's favorite toy.

Mrs. Weasley sat a plate of breakfast on the table for Hermione, "I will be right back, those boys are in for a rude awakening." She said as she tightened her grip on her wand and walked up stairs.

Hermione laughed as she saw Mrs. Weasley walk away. "Uncle Ron and Uncle Harry are going to get it now." She said to Seth.

She continued to eat her breakfast when she saw Ron and Harry running into the kitchen half dressed.

"Bloody hell, The woman's gone mental." Ron shouted.

"Well we need to get to King's Cross on time." Hermione said.

"Well she didn't have to break into the room and send jinxes at us. I thought she was going to send a Killing Curse at one point." said Ron. Seth giggled!

The two boys sat down at the table and began to eat breakfast. When Hermione was finished with her breakfast she picked Seth up and walked back into her room and started to pack her stuff and Seth's stuff. She waved her wand and made the lugage levitate behind her as she walked down the stairs into the living room.

"Is everyone ready?" Mrs. Weasley asked.

"Yes." The Weasleys, Hermione and Harry said in unison.

"Good." Mrs. Weasley said and then they all walked out the front door and into the yard where a ministry car was parked.

When they were all in the car they drove off.

~King's Cross~

Everybody started running towards Platform 9 3/4 , they were going to be late.

"Hurry up, if you don't get on that train so help me I will blow your heads off." Mrs. Weasley was shouting.

They all ran through the wall and on the platform.

Hermoine hugged Mrs. Weasley and let Seth hug her before she got onto the Hogwarts Express. "Bye, Mrs. Weasley." She said from a window on the train. Hermione closed the window and sat down beside Seth.

"It's good to be going back, isn't it?" Harry said.

"Yes, I guess." said Hermione, "I can't wait until I get to do my work but I don't really want to see everyone, what will they say? They probably notice that I wasn't in school at the end of term and they will definitely notice that I will have to leave classes early sometimes to deal with Seth, and they will definitely notice Seth."

"Yeah, they probably did notice you left. There was no one else raising their hand in the classes to answer the questions." Ron joked

Hermione punched Ron on the shoulder.

"Aaahh." Ron yelled.

Hermione smiled as she turned to Seth and made funny faces with him.

"So what are you going to do with Seth when your in classes?" Harry asked.

"Well, I sent Dumbledore a letter asking him that question and he wrote back saying that he would set up a nursery in the Hospital Wing and Madame Pomfrey would watch over him." Hermione answered.

"Well that's good."

"Yeah, Im going to let her keep him alot because of all the work I will have to do preparing for the N.E.W.T.s. I hope she will keep him when I'm doing that."

"She probably will. She knows how important the N.E.W.T.s are." Harry reassured her.

Hermione, Seth, Harry, Ron, and Ginny settled down in a compartment. They put their trunks away and sat down.

"Can I hold Seth?" Ginny asked.

"Of course," Hermione answered, "You his godmother after all."

Hermione handed Seth over to Ginny. Ginny sat him on her knees and bounced him up and down talking to him in funny voices.

"It's amazing how everyone goes crazy when a baby is around." Hermione joked.

Pansy Parkinson walked up to the door with her usual gang of Slytherins.

"Oh girls don't leave your men alone for to long, the whore might take them." Pansy laughed and so did everyone else and they walked away.

Hermione tried not to let it get to her but she couldn't help but let a tear fall.

"Oh Hermione, don't listen to them. Pansy is the one tat sleeps with everyone in the whole school. She even goes for some of those Hufflepuffs, but nobody else knows about that." Ginny tried to cheer her up.

"Yeah, thats true. I think that she's jealous of you really." Ron said.

"Why would she be jealous of me? I was raped, then got pregnant at sixteen, and now I'm a teenage mother at the age of seventeen trying to finish school. Not much to be jealous of."

"Not really, the one good thing you got out of all of that was the cutest, most loving baby that has ever been born." Harry said.

"Well, that's true." Hermione smiled.

"She knows how happy Seth makes you and she wishes she could have that kind of happiness. She can't find that in the money that she has, or all tha people she sleeps around with. She can't find the most amazing thing that could ever happen to someone, the love that you have for your son."

Hermione felt much better now, and even felt sorry for poor ole Pansy.

By the time that they arrived at Hogsmeade Train Station, Hermione had already changed four dirty diapers, fed Seth twice, and put him down for a nap once.

"Thank goodness, we're here. I've never hated this train trip more than this time." Hermione sighed.

Everyone started to get their things down and getting everything ready to get off. Hermione picked up Seth and grabbed on to his diaper bag and her trunk. As they walked out in the aisle, hermione got a lot of strange looks from eveyrone around her.

"Oh my gosh, is that Hermione Granger with a baby, good-two-shoes Granger?" Hermione overheard.

There were a lot of grasps and whispers. Hermione now knew how Harry felt whenever he walked down the halls of Hogwarts.

When they were about to get off the train Hermione got a glimpse of Draco Malfoy. She almost fell out right there on the train.

"No, no, no, no. I can't let him see me or Seth." Hermione panicked.

"It's ok, Hermione. We'll surround you and he won't see." Ginny said.

Everyone surround Hermione and Seth as they got off the train. Draco looked over but quickly looked away suspecting that they were doing something stupid. After he turned around they quickly ran for the carriages that were lead by Thestrals.

"That was close. I don't think I can bear to be around him or let Seth be around him. He can't see my baby."

"Hermione, he's gonna find out about Seth, if he hasn't already." said Ginny.

"I know, Ginny. It's the innevitable, but I still don't want him to see Seth. There's still the possibilty that he will think that its someone elses."

"I doubt it. He knows you wouldn't dare do anything that stupid." Ron explained.

They finally made it to the castle. They got off and ran into the castle so no one could see the baby that clung to Hermione's arm. When they were in the castle they went to Dumbledore's office. They shouted out all the different types of candies and then the statue started to move. Hermione opened the door to Dumbledore's office.

"Hello, Miss Granger."

"Hello, Headmaster. Do I need to take Seth to Madam Pompfry now or what?" Hermione asked.

"You can just give him to me and I'll take him to Madam Pompfey. All of you need to get down to the Great Hall so you won't be ate for the feast."

"Ok, thank you Professor Dumbledore." Hermione said.

They all left the office and made their way down to the Great Hall. They settled themselves down and got ready for the usual sorting and feast.