Chapter Four; The Mix-up

Harry dug his cellphone out of his pocket as he left the wizarding hospital and stepped outside to call his father. After a few rings his father finally picked up.

"Hullo?" he questioned.

"Hey Dad it's Harry. I just wanted to let you know that Ginny just finished checking me out,.. I mean examining me and she told me that I don't seem to have anything too serious it's just a head cold." He explained.

"Well, that's good news son." His father told him.

"So anyway, I'm ready for you to pick me up now." Harry said.

"I'm afraid I can't do that Harry. You see, your sister's down at the courthouse." He told him as a great sensation of horror, panic, and complete and utter astonishment and disbelief struck him. For Harry already knew which sister that his father was referring to.

"What!?" he exclaimed. "What in the world is she doing there!? What did she do!?" he cried.

"Well apparently she thought it would be a good idea to take Jerry down to Dragon's Delight." His father told him.

"Oh no!" Harry groaned. "Did anything else happen?" he asked him as his father took a deep breath and sighed heavily.

"I'm afraid so. One of the dragons was violently attacked. Jessie witnessed it since she had to work a bit later. Anyway, David said that his injuries were so bad that he would probably have to be put down." He explained.

"Great! I tried telling Hermione that it was a bad idea for me to miss work today but she wouldn't listen to me no matter what I said." Harry said.

"Listen Harry, I can't believe I'm saying this but you shouldn't blame Hermione since I just happen to agree with her. You need your rest. Besides, there's no way that she would have known that this would happen. If you should blame anyone blame your sister's own stupidity." His father told him.

"So what's going to happen to her? Will she go to Azkaban?" he wondered.

"I don't think so. If anything they'll make her pay a fine for too much involvement with a muggle in the wizarding world and have her do some community service. However since she is underage I'm probably the one who is going to have to end up paying which probably means a month of grounding for her." His father replied.

"Ouch. She's not going to like that." Harry said.

"I know but I'm afraid that I'm going soft. I was going to say several months of grounding but I didn't want to ruin her whole entire summer. If this happens again it probably will be though. Anyway, if you feel that you can't fly or apparate home, I can get either Ron or Hermione to come and get you." His father told him.

"No it's alright, Aaron's still here. He brought in his son since he's been sick as well. I'll just see if he can drop me off. Otherwise I'll probably attempt to fly since I don't think I'm anywhere near ready to apparate yet." He explained.

"Alright then Harry, I'll see you later. Right now I have to go down to the courthouse to get this all sorted out. I love you, feel better son." He told him.

"Thanks and I love you too. Goodbye." Harry said before he hung up and turned around to see Aaron standing behind him holding onto Danny's car seat by the handle. Aaron attempted to hush him while the baby boy continued to cry.

"I'm sorry Harry, Danny's not too happy with me right now. Of course if I had a thermometer stuck up my rear end I'd probably fuss about it too. He usually cries himself to sleep though so I wouldn't worry too much about it." He explained.

"Oh it's alright I'm not. I'm more worried about my sister at the moment to tell you the truth." Harry told him.

"Eve or Heather?" Aaron asked him even though he was already pretty sure which name that he was going to say.

"Eve. She got into quite a bit of trouble with Jerry. And it looks like we've lost another dragon. That isn't her fault though." Harry told him as Danny finally settled down and stopped crying before he slowly started to close his eyes and fall asleep.

"Yeah I know, those males can get quite aggressive with each other." Aaron said.

"Actually, I tend to think that it's the females that can be the most dangerous. Especially around their eggs." Harry told him. "Anyway, I was wondering, do you think that you can take me home? My father can't come and get me since he has to go down to the courthouse to take care of Eve's situation." He said.

"Sure, no problem Harry. That is if you don't mind the smell of dirty diapers. And we might to have to pull over if Danny has any problems." Aaron told him. "My guess is that he'll probably sleep the rest of the way though." He said.

"That's alright." Harry told him as he started walking into the parking lot with him while he carried Danny's car seat and held the diaper bag up over his shoulder.

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Snape made a look of disgust as he pulled into the driveway and noticed all of the owl feces gathering up on the front porch next to a pile of envelopes. "Weasley and Granger must have been making out all day, otherwise I don't think there would be any excuse for them not to clean all of this up." He said while he parked the car and turned off the engine before turning over to look at his daughter that sat inside the passenger's seat.

"As for you young lady, I want you straight up in your room with no nonsense whatsoever. That means no television, videogames, or cellphone. And I'm also afraid that I'm going to have to confiscate your broomstick. Do you understand me?" he questioned her sternly while scolding her with his finger.

"Yes Father." Eve replied while glancing down at her lap. Then they both threw off their seatbelts and climbed out of the car. Snape grabbed ahold of the pile of envelopes and unlocked the door before he and Eve went inside. As soon as he made sure that she had gone to her bedroom like he had instructed her too he went out in the backyard. Both Angel and Zip finished doing their businesses and started playing and chasing around with each other while Tobey swam around in the pool.

Teddy and Heather who were also inside their bathing suits swung on their swings to get dry while Ron and Hermione watched them from the patio. Snape pulled up a chair and sat down beside them before placing the pile of mail on top of the table. "I was going to ask you why it looks like a brigade of owls showed up on our doorstep but it looks like that you guys have been out here all afternoon." He said.

"Yeah, we figured that since it's a nice day that we might as well make the most of it." Ron explained before asking how Harry was.

"He should be fine, he's just got a little bit of a head cold." Snape told him. "He's on his way home right now. Aaron's dropping him off." He said as Hermione suddenly caught sight of the mail pile and stared at it.

"Speaking of Aaron, I remember him calling me and asking me what Bill's and Fleur's address was. It looks like he got it correct, so I wonder what it's doing here." She said as Ron picked up the pile and started going through it.

"Jessie's is here too, as well as Derek's and he lives all the way in Hawaii now." He told her when all of a sudden they heard a car door slam and Harry and Aaron shouting their goodbyes to one another. As Harry rounded the corner he stopped and stared wide eyed at the pile that was now sitting on top of the table.