Chapter Twenty-Four:

Enyo calls the Potters and Remus to come over the next night. "I heard what Harry said to you. He wanted you to ask me about this whole thing. Well, instead of waiting for what will never happen, I am going to tie you up and tell you." She waves her hand and magic inhibting ropes tie the three of them up.

"I can see that you are mad. Tough shit. This isn't about you. It hasn't been about you since you decided to have Hermione, or since you decided to take Harry in. You can't just bask in the good times, you must be able to handle the bad too.

The reason I am doing this is because, I am afraid that Harry might do something that he would regret if I let him talk to you. He loves you three very much and that is why I am willing to live with it if it needs to be done.

Here it is. Harry is a siren and Hermione is not only his siren but his soul bound mate as well. They share a mental connection, even if they don't know about it yet.

She came to me asking about why he was growling, more irriable and much more affectionate towards her. She also noticed that other girls were sniffing around more often. I explained to her that once a siren finds their mate, they need to mark them. It is much like a Veela marking their mate.

If the siren doesn't, they will start getting more irriable at the world; the call will increase, to try and get the mate to submit to the idea; and will be more amorus toward the mate. The call not only calls to the mate, but also to the others in close proximity of the mate's gender.

Like a Veela, if put off for too long, the siren will suffer from insanity. She was all for it, but I could not let her go without a warning. The same that I gave Harry, when he came to me. When a siren marks the mate, it produces a child. Hermione and Harry must have discussed it during their honeymoon.

Once the mark is done, the siren will still call, but only if the mate is far away for more than three hours. Hermione decided that they should speed up their education, so that they can avoid most of his calling, if they are taking the same classes.

She got him up to speed with Runes and Arthimancy, he took the OWLs in it. They pared down their scheduals to T-frig, Charms, Potions, Runes, Math, Defense and Herbology. Harry passed on playing Quidditch and they both passed on Head Boy and Girl.

She has been able to handle all that, without too much strain, but she has been up most nights trying to read as much as possible so to be ready for any situation that should arise. I have seen Harry carrying her to bed late at night because she has exhausted herself. They made the decision together and with as much information as they could gather.

Harry was going to let himself go crazy, by the way. He had decided not to put any pressure on her, if he could help it. He wanted her not to be tied down to a child that she didn't want just because of him and his sanity.

I don't care how much she says that she is fine. Hermione is not. She needs support and I am taking her down to tell her mother and then the Grangers. I had explained that she would be getting into deeper waters than they were used to. I didn't with you three, because I figured that you would ask Remus about me. I now know better. I see that our decision to ask him not to talk about us was wrong.

I am sorry if our coming back put a thorn in your paw, Remus. We were looking for the ones that we lost. I never stopped looking for them, I never stopped worrying about them, or any of you. If your father and I had known about Hermione, James and Lily's death or any of it. We would have been back in a flash to help.

This is the turning point in your relationships with the kids. Either you can swallow your issues and be there for them or they will chalk you up to another group of adults that let them down.

Now I want to hear what you three are thinking. I am going to sit here and listen to each of your worries." Enyo pours herself a cup of tea and sits down across from them.

Remus feels like a kicked dog. His mother always knew where to poke. "She is so young. They both are. They may have made this descision, but what about talking to their parents about any big problems and decisions? I feel like I shouldn't sanction this." He can tell that his mother sees his wanting to cower from her.

"Alright, thank you for venting. I suggest that you calm the hell down, then write a letter to your daughter. I know darn well, your brother is not going to let her within the same room as you right now. He has gone into full protection mode and all he sees, and I can tell that it is steming from Hermione's mind, right now is Old Man Snape. Granted, Becca was further along, but what happened when Snape found out? You are making your daughter feel like her mother right now. Add to the fact that Hermione is deathly afraid of letting down the one adult in this whole world that she could really relate to. She is scared witless of this."

Enyo turns to the Potters. "James?"

James is the one that has sat back and thought this through the most. "At first, I thought that they hadn't thought this out very far, but sitting back and listening to what you said about them looking for answers to each symtom, that Harry was willing to go crazy, so she didn't give up on her dreams, and remembering how much stress Becca went through because of her father.

I also took into consideration that the Marriage Law is making these kids have children. In that respect, they will not be alone in the experience. I don't care about the rest, but I and the power I hold as head of our House, will be behind them.

I want to hold my grandchild. This is one of the things that I never thought I would get to do, before the child joined me on the other side."

"Thank you for understanding just a bit." Enyo nods and turns to Lily.

"I want to be happy, but I just can't right now. My jealousy in her being able to concieve that easily aside, they are too young. I also figured that I would be a grandmother after I got into my fourties."

"If we had not died Lily, we would have been close. Just because we still have our twenty year old bodies doesn't mean that we would't be 34. Age is not an excuse." James chastises his wife. It doesn't happen often, but he is in the right and he knows it.

"Harry needs the support now, as he did during the battle. They have been married for almost a year now. On top of them relying on themselves for so long, that's why they didn't consult us.

Remus, did you and Becca sit down with your parents after you got pregnant and discuss wheter or not to keep the baby, no. It is a decision that needs to made by the parents themselves not the grandparents. I didn't go to my father and ask for permission to try for a baby with Lily. We decided to start trying and when it didn't happen we decided to adopt Harry.

Those two are just doing what we did, but they knew that it would produce a child and still decided to go ahead after looking at it from all sides.

Moony, think about this way, would you have talked about marking Becca, if you knew Hermione would be the result? Wouldn't you have thought and talked it all out before marking her? They did, they just didn't think that we would jump all over them."

Lily and Remus think about what James is saying. He can see that it will take more time for them to come around. Maybe less for Moony, than Lils, but they will see what they are doing to the kids.

Until then, James is going to go with Enyo, Harry and Hermione. Becca needs to hear from him. Right now, he is going to his son, daughter and grandchild. James stands and nods to Enyo.

"I'll take up a tray of food to them. I am sure they are hungry, and Mya needs the food." Enyo loads him up and he carries it up to their room. James hears Harry growl when he knocks. "For Heaven's sake Harry. Open up, We need to talk and the four of us need to eat." James calls through the door.

It opens and a suspicious Harry looks at the food. "Enyo loaded it, I have only carried it up. My wand is in my robe. I want to talk and I want to get some food into my daughter.

Listen, it will take some time for your mother to come to terms with this. In our minds it was just yesterday that you were still a baby. Remus is stuck on you two being too young. I would agree, if the soul bond didn't age you. I can see it.

The fact that your mother called him Old Man Snape did not set well. That is what he is acting like if you took the creature part out. He doesn't reget you, Hermione, but he feels he didn't deserve to be a parent and this is striking a little too close for comfort. My raising that you two have been married for almost a year didn't either.

I for one cannot wait to hold my grandchild, so you have an ally. Now eat up. All three of you need your strength. I am going with you all tomorrow, just in case your mother decides to throw a fit also. I doubt Becca will. She was saying that the sooner she had grandchildren the better in her book. Remus will be in hot water, the next time he goes to visit."

The three of them ate in silence and talked until Hermione fell asleep. James kisses each of them and lays his hand on her stomach, it felt hard already.

"Goodnight little one. Grandpa can't wait to hold you, so you hold on and be good for Mummy." He whispers.

He hugs his son once again and tells him that he was proud of him for thinking it through and for being willing to put his needs aside for hers. "You are growing into a good man." He says as he closes their door with a smile on his face. Enyo is standing outside the door. He helps her place a ward on it that notifies her when someone is trying to get in.

When he opens his own bedroom door, James is expecting to find a pillow and blanket for the couch. The one in the den looks like it might be comfortable enough. Lily had not done the mad wife thing though. She is waiting in their bed, reading a book.

James gets ready for the night and climbs into bed with his wife. Lily places a bookmark in her book and turns to him. "Did you really have to pull rank over this? You sanctioned this whole monsterous affair. Our son is going to be a father in eight months time. They are too young." Lily goads him.

James sits up and shakes his head, upset that she is still stuck on their ages. "Lils, you and Remus are forgetting three large things. One, they are soul bound. That means that if an age spell was done on them, it would show that they are eighteen. I do believe that our age was eighteen when we adopted Harry. I know how old Remus was when Hermione was concieved, seventeen. So no, they are no too young and you two are being hypocritical.

Two, they are married. We have no right to interfere in a decision that was discussed and thought out within their marriage.

Three, and this is quite a big one. If they had been matched by the hat, for the Marriage Law, would you be having such a fit over this.

I have read the law. Marriage is just the first step. It is meant to repopulate our community. That means that they will be requiring these kids to start a family. That is what I meant when I said they will not be alone.

The castle is being renovated as we speak for family suites for the married students, in each suite is a place for nurseries."

Lily thinks for a moment and nods. "Alright, I can see your point, James. I am just nervous that they are tying themselves down too early." She tells him as she lays down.

"Lily, are you saying that we were too young to have adopted Harry? We started trying right after our wedding. I was seventeen, so were you.

Normally, I would be with you. It almost seems too young, looking back as a parent, but we can't be hypocrits about this. It was alright for us, but not for them? They have worked out everything else.

Harry and Hermione explained what they want to do for positions. Harry wants to run a bookstore. Hermione is looking at being a Healer. She said she wants to have her own practice instead of working at St. Mungo's. That means that they have discussed it out more than we had at that point in our lives."

James decides that the couch is looking more inviting by the minute. He and Lily have never been this divided by an issue before. He looks at her and can tell that there is more this than what she is letting on. "What is the real issue here, Lily? You are not that broken up about their ages, I can tell. It has to be another problem than just that."

"Fine, I am being overshadowed left and right here. Hermione is a lovely girl, I am glad that they found each other again and all. I just am having a bit of an adjustment period.

I was the smartest witch of our time. We were the it couple. She has supassed me in every class. She has been taking every class since third year, aside from Divination and no one can fault her for that.

She has excellerated herself and Harry so much that they are entering their seventh instead of their sixth years. She is called the greatest witch since your ancestor. She is diffinately much more powerful than I will ever be.

Now she has concieved on top of it. Granted, Enyo said that it always happens with sirens, but the idea is still in my mind that she can do something that I can't. I cannot measure up to Hermione. What will Harry need me for when he has her and Enyo?" Lily is crying on James' shoulder by the time she is done.

"Lily, you are still his mother. He will come to you. Look at Ares, with him around, Harry really doesn't need me. Yet he does, because Ares is limited on his experenice down here. Enyo is the same way. Harry needs human parents to relate to his human problems.

I am sure Dan and Emma went through the whole thing too. Hermione has her real parents back and she still needs Emma and Dan to ground her." James rubs her back. He can tell that the poison that was darkening her heart is gone and she will be better once she sleeps on it.