Chapter Twenty Two: Christmas and a Birth
It was Christmas Eve and Harry was decorating the entire manor for tomorrow. Teddy was asleep on the sofa in Ginny's arms while Harry finished the tree and began on the tinsel for the house. Lovely streams of red and green shining tinsel being draped over the fireplace and walls of the living room the last room to be done as it was the biggest. Ginny just watched as her husband decided to do it all without magic. "Harry, you do remember that we can use magic to do that, don't you?" Ginny asked looking at him struggling to put tinsel up, she was trying to supress the giggles.
"Yes I remember. But it looks nicer if you make a small mistake here and there, it makes it look homely for everyone." Harry said humming Come ye Merry Hippogriff's loudly thinking of all his family coming together the Weasley's and Potter's, the Grangers and Sirius and Hagrid his full family under one roof once again.
"Someone's excited about tomorrow and it isn't Teddy who's acting like a child." Ginny said giggling at Harry's humming and off-key singing which put her in a festive mood, they decided last year not to celebrate instead they said Teddy was sick because of the pain of losing everyone.
"Hey come on it's our first Potter family Christmas, of course I'm excited I mean I loved being in the Burrow at Christmas but…I felt a bit out of place at times." Harry said continuing to hang tinsel and after finally finishing sitting down beside Ginny.
"I understand that Harr…we had our parents you had the Dursley's, it wasn't fair to you that you were made to feel like that." Ginny said holding him close and smiling as he kissed her stomach.
"I'm over it now Gin, all that matters now is the turkeys are in the oven and tomorrow I can have a Christmas dinner with my families and friends." Harry said kissing Ginny for several minutes and putting Teddy in bed for the night and taking the turkeys out of the oven and wrapping them up in foil for the next day. He and Ginny then went to bed for the sleep they needed as tomorrow would be a busy day.
"Mama, Dada!" Teddy shouted as they woke up seeing him with Spear and smiling at the boy and his new pet who were playfully chasing each other.
"Merry Christmas babe." Ginny said hugging Harry tightly and kissing Teddy's cheek tightly and hugging the new dog who licked her face all over the place and kept wagging his tail to Harry.
"Merry Christmas my love." Harry said kissing her for a minute and then kissing Teddy's cheek and hugging him tightly. He then went to make breakfast for the three of them even though most of Teddy's went to Spear not that Harry minded it was soon going to be the dog's favourite day as leftovers would be piled upon him.
After that they dressed in their finest as everyone arrived; the Potter's first then the Weasley's followed by Hermione and the girlfriends Angelina, Katie Alicia and Percy's new girlfriend Audrey. And Hagrid and Madam Maxime and finally Sirius and to everyone's surprise Rosmerta. "Hello Harry sweetheart, how ya been?" she asked kissing his cheek. They all went to the parlour where Weasley jumpers and other gifts changed hands.
"Here you are Harr." James said handing him a small box. Harry opened it and was shocked to see a ring with the Potter family coat of arms on it.
"A ring, thanks dad." Harry said hugging his dad and admiring the Potter arms.
After that all gifts where dished out and dinner was served and they all took turns doing their announcements.
"Well me and Olympe got married." Hagrid said showing two beautiful rings the size of crowns.
"That's great!" Everyone said together.
James and Lily both smiled as Lily went to speak. "I'm pregnant." She said and everyone hugged her including Harry who was happy a new sibling was coming.
Next were Sirius and Rosmerta. "We're getting married." Sirius said showing them the ring. "And I'm pregnant." Rosmerta added to the conversation.
Charlie announced that he and Katie Bell were getting married to a great amount of applause.
"More weddings than anything this year." Harry said to himself thinking of many ceremonies and stags.
"Me and George are having a baby." Angelina said holding her stomach and smiling.
"Fred and I are got married." Alicia said hugging Fred who looked like he was about to die again.
"That's wonderful dear!" Molly said hugging Alicia tightly.
"Audrey and I are expecting twins." Percy said and everyone hugged them tightly.
"Ron's been promoted to second in charge of the Auror's and I have been made head of the 'Elf rights Society'." Hermione said being hugged by her parents and everyone else.
"We have a name for the baby; Abigail after Ginny's grandmother and Dora after Tonks." Harry said rubbing Ginny's stomach.
After all the news they finally tucked in to a lovely dinner which was devoured by all and Spear was even full after some leftovers. All the extended family decided to relax in Potter manor and James and Charlie were roped by Sirius into having a broom race which resulted in a crash and two broken noses.
"Honestly you two should have had more sense than that." Molly and Lily said together to everyone's amusement.
The whole group then began getting photos taken by Ginny who wanted a Christmas scrapbook. "Ok, Harry, Dad and Sirius go into your Animagus forms for a picture." She said as they obliged and two stag's and a dog appeared and took the picture they changed back. Then all the women got a picture taken, then the men and then the babies Victorie and Teddy who kept smiling in every picture. Finally one of Harry, Ginny and Teddy ended the book.
Then Ginny bent over in pain and to everyone's dismay went into labour. "HARRY! GET THE THINGS SHE NEEDS HURRY!" Hermione shouted taking Ginny to sit down and breath. Harry ran to his room and set everything up for the hospital.
"Ginny come on let's go!" Harry said getting the car as Bill carried her into the car Molly and Lily went with them. After five minutes they arrived at St. Mungo's and entered the building. "I need Healer Patil please." Harry said and Parvati appeared leading them into a room.
"She's three months early Parvati!" Harry said holding Ginny's hand as she pushed. He felt scared at the thought of losing Ginny and Abigail in one night.
"Okay Gin…I need you to push now." Parvati said softly into Ginny's ear and Ginny pushed and after several attempts and a few hours the small baby appeared; red Weasley hair and green Potter eyes barely open and barely breathing Parvati used a spell and the baby began crying and finally went to sleep. "She'll be in a magic incubator for a few days. Does she have a name?" Parvati asked them.
"Abigail…Dora…Potter." Ginny said before falling asleep.
"She'll sleep for a while Harry. Let's do the cert." Parvati said trying to take Harry's mind off it and keep him busy.
Name: Abigail Dora Potter
Born: 26/12/1999
Healer present: Parvati Shanti Patil
Mother: Ginevra Molly Potter
Father: Harry James Potter
"How did Ginny's name appear?" Harry asked looking confused.
"I pointed her wand to it and her signature appeared it's a way to allow the mother to rest." Parvati said taking Harry's Holly wand and pointing it to the paper sealing it as official.
Harry then went to the incubator and looked at his daughter. "Hello Abi I'm your dad. I'm going to be your favourite person for about fourteen years then you start liking other people more…but I'll always be here for you my darling daughter." Harry said wiping a tear from his eye.
"Harry, are you alright?" Lily asked rubbing her son's head and holding him close. "She's beautiful." She said looking at her granddaughter for the first time.
"Yeah…she is." Harry said thinking of the joy his dad and Remus must have felt and knowing that now he has two beautiful children to love and care for.
"Where is she?" Molly asked and immediately started crying in happiness. "Oh such a beautiful baby Harry." She said crushing Harry with a hug.
Hermione and Ron ran into him and hugged him much harder than Molly. "Harry…she's gorgeous." Hermione said kissing his cheek. "Yeah bro…she's stunning." Ron said hugging him tightly.
"I need some air." Harry said going onto the street beside the hospital. 'I'm a dad to two kids and I'm nineteen…and I love it.' He thought to himself as Ron came out to beside him.
"Are you alright Harry?" Ron asked looking concerned.
"Fine Ron…we really changed mate huh? You a second in command Auror, Hermione the head of a Ministry department, Ginny a Holyhead Harpy soon and me the assistant to the Minister…we really matured." Harry said thinking of his time in Hogwarts.
"You did and Hermione did but me I'm still a kid at heart." Ron said laughing. "Nah I suppose I am a bit more mature now I'm living with her." He said looking at the picture of her and him in his pocket.
"Man I hope Ginny is alright she looked like she was in a lot of pain earlier." Harry said thinking of her in all that pain.
"Ha-ha I keep forgetting you were surroundedd by Muggles. Harry when you by Muggles. Harry when women give birth in our world a quick spell heals them." Ron said laughing.
The following day Ginny was allowed to hold Abigail for the first time and both of the Potter girls were discharged.
A/N: I'm taking a few days off to write bigger chapters so please stay with me for a few days as I will not be posting.