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Chapter Six: Saved!
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The group of four stood outside the room, looking at the large, closed wooden doors before them. Ron let out a heavy sigh, putting a hand on Harry's shoulder.

"Alright mate, you're up. It's time to play the hero and get little Leander out of the evil monster's grasp," Ron said. Harry turned to him, skeptical.

"Are you mad?! I'm not going in there! Why don't you go? He's your non-biological nephew!"

"Yes, that may be so but you lost him! And besides, I don't want to go in there."

Harry rolled his eyes, looking at the two girls for some support. Hermione looked away, pretending to be busy in observing something else while Luna stared blankly right back at Harry. Sighing, Harry pushed past them and headed for the doors. He stared up at them for a moment before slowly pushing them open. The Potions classroom looked quite different empty. The lights seemed much dimmer, giving the room more of a scary atmosphere. The lack of lights made it even more difficult to see around the room. Taking a few steps forward, Harry walked hunched down as a way to avoid being seen. He jumped slightly at the sound of the doors closing. He was completely alone. Gulping, he whispered out Leander's name.

"C'mon baby, where are you?" he looked around under the desks. Nothing. "Leander… Please, please come—"

"Sorry professor, I didn't mean to miss your lesson, I was just feeling ill," came the sound of Malfoy's voice coming from the small room up in the classroom. Snape's office. Panicking, Harry dove under a desk.

"You know I don't take absentee-ism well Malfoy. Not only that but your performance in this class is lacking. Don't let it happen again." Snape's stern and hateful voice warned. The door creaked open and the two stepped out. It was then that Harry saw Leander underneath a large desk, sitting looking quite indifferent. Not only that but he was in pure sight of the two men coming out of the office. Harry tried to gesture to him, only to fail.

"Oh, darn. This is ridiculous!" he muttered under his breath. I have to think of something quick! I can't let Draco see us! What in bloody blazes am I going to do?! He thought. It was then that a thought struck him. Of course! Why didn't I think of it before! Clearing his throat as quietly as he could, he whispered, "Accio Leander!"

Snape stopped walking immediately, looking around the room suspiciously. He swore he'd heard something. Draco too heard it, recognizing both the voice and the name. Feeling that his help was severely needed, Draco began to talk to Snape as a means of distracting him.

"Oh, professor, I was just wondering…" what am I going to say? "You see… I seem to have found this um… Wart…"

Harry tilted his head to one side. It took a moment before Harry realized just what Draco was doing. Seeing that this was his chance he made to crawl, forgetting about the chairs in front of him.

"What was that?" Snape turned quickly at the sound. Harry froze in his spot, his heart pounding in his chest.

"Nothing! Nothing at all professor, now back to my wart… Um…"

"Wart? What are you talking about?"

Treading carefully, Harry made his way to Leander, his arms out and reaching for him. Just a little more…

"POTTER! What are you doing?!" it was Snape. He looked furious. Harry looked at Draco who was glaring.

"Uhm… Professor… You see I seem to have misplaced my glasses and—"

"You mean the ones you are wearing? Get up this instant and explain yourself Potter, NOW!"

"Oh, ha! Well, silly me sir, I—"

"Petrificus Totalus!"

"NN!"

"You've got some explaining to do!" Draco shouted as he lunged and grabbed hold of his baby.

"Can we just please get out of here!?"

"Wait! Hang on," Draco said and walked up to Snap, wand pointed out. "I'm sorry professor, but I've got to. Obliviate!"

"You have to unbind him!" Harry said worriedly. "Or someone's going to find him like that and we'll get into more trouble!"

"He's going to see us anyway!" Draco snapped back.

"Wait! I got it! Stupefy!" and Snape's body fell to the floor. Running as fast as they could, Draco and Harry bolted out of the potions classroom.

Ron, Hermione, and Luna rushed to their aide as soon as they came out. Draco handed Leander to Hermione, spinning around to glare at Harry. Harry blinked.

"We should probably make it look like he fell asleep or something…" Harry said uneasily, knowing that Snape wasn't what Draco wanted to talk about.

"WHY? WHY WAS MY BABY OUT?!" Draco shouted, not caring at the moment if anyone had heard. It didn't matter, he was infuriated and he couldn't even explain why. He knew half of it was the fear of failing and being expelled.

"It's not my fault alright?" Harry shot back and glanced at Hermione. He was about to blame her once again but decided it against it. "I… I lost track of him while I was caring for Lily. I'm sorry, but at least we found him!"

"You're the worst baby sitter there is, Potter." Draco shook his head. He took back Leander, heading for the room of requirement.

"Hey! What about Snape?" Harry called after him.

"You got yourselves into this mess. You three figure it out," Draco called out over his shoulder and disappeared into the next hall.

Sighing, Harry shook his head. "Well, come on then… Maybe we can have some fun putting Snape back in his office…" and the other two followed close behind.

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"Oh, there you are," Ginny said as soon as Draco and Leander walked through the door. "Have a nice walk?"

Draco blinked for a moment before realizing that she had no idea what had just happened. He nodded, flopping down onto the sofa next to her. She took hold of Leander, giving the little baby a kiss on the forehead. Draco watched her.

"You seem… Tired." Ginny informed him. "I hope the babies weren't that much trouble?"

Draco shook his head.

"Well… Good then. I'm going to get Leander a bottle…" Ginny felt uneasy being watched by one of her enemies. She stood, walking to the kitchen, still feeling Draco's eyes on her. Just then, the doors opened and Hermione, followed by Luna, Ron and Harry came in. The two boys flopped down on the sofa next to Draco, exhausted.

"What'd you do with him?" Draco asked a moment later. He was careful to keep his voice low.

"Made it seem like he fell asleep doing paper work… It should do," Hermione said with a shake of her head. "Who would have thought parenting would be so hard?"

"I wonder how mum and dad did it with us Weasley kids…" Ron pondered.

"I just hope I wasn't that much trouble," Luna said as she tried to weasel her way next to Ron. He was too tired to care that she was so close.

"Well, I've got homework to do, so I'd better get going on that," Hermione declared. "What?" she asked when they all looked at her as though she were a lunatic.

"Aren't you tired at all?" Harry asked.

"Well, yes, but I've got to do my work too you know! Just because I'm a parent temporarily doesn't mean I can slack off. Really, you guys should know better." she said.

Everyone chose to keep silent but in Harry's mind, he couldn't help but think how amazing she was to be able to handle both parenting and school. He smiled. Hermione caught his smile and smiled right back before going into the kitchen to study the day's lessons.

Author's Note:

Good God! Can you believe I updated at all?! I know, I know... You all probably this story was a lost 'cause seeing as I updated it June... Lol six months have passed by wow! It's already almost Christmas... You think I should put a Christmas chapter on here? Hehe.. Christmas with babies how cute! I'd like to thank those who've reviewed! I'm terribly sorry for the long update but I promise you I shall finish this story! If you keep reviewing, I think I will if not... I'll probably hold off more updates for another... 6 months? Lol. Well anyway! I hope people are still reading this!! I love you guys!! I hope this chapter wasn't that terrible!!

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PS: I looked at Chapter five and realized I spelt my own penname wrong... LOL XD silly me