Harry woke up the next morning to Lexi's crying. He groaned and sat up in bed before getting up to take Lexi out of her cot. Harry marvelled at how much she had grown already. She looked nearly two months old. Harry sighed and went over to her trunk. He pulled out her baby bottles and the milk and carried Lexi downstairs. Mrs Weasley was already up. She looked at Harry. "Morning, dear. You're up early," she said, trying to be cheerful. Harry was glad she wasn't still shouting at him.
"Lexi's hungry," he replied.
"Oh, let me get that for you," said Mrs Weasley, taking the bottle out of Harry's hand. She filled it up and took out her a wand. "Imakium!" she cast a quick warming spell on the bottle. "My mother taught me that spell. It's perfect for babies," she said, handing the bottle back to Harry.
"Thanks," he said as he began to feed Lexi.
"Dumbledore said he will be here around noon with Sirius," Harry nodded. He looked at his watch. It was only half nine.
When Lexi finished drinking, everyone was already downstairs apart from Ron. "I'll go get him. I have to dress Lexi anyway," said Harry. He went upstairs and into Ron's orange bedroom. He opened Lexi's trunk and took out her nappies and clothes. He quickly got her dressed and disposed of the dirty nappy. "Ron, get up!" he said, shouting Ron. Ron groaned and rolled over.
"I'm up, I'm up," he said, rubbing his eyes. Lexi grabbed one of her little dolls and Harry took her back downstairs. He set her down on the table beside him as he ate breakfast.
"Harry I'm going to Diagon Alley tomorrow to pick some things up for Molly. Is there anything that Lexi needs?" Mr Weasley asked Harry. Harry looked up from wrestling his fork out of his daughter's hand.
"Actually I need some more baby formula, nappies and some of those teething toys," he said. "I'll give you the money before you go tomorrow. Thanks!"
"No problem, Harry," said Mr Weasley, winking at him. Harry grinned and turn to face Lexi again. She had a handful of his beans and was about to try to eat them when Harry caught her arm.
"No, Lexi," he moaned as he grabbed a bit of kitchen roll. Before he could clean her though, she threw the beans into his face. Everyone laughed and Lexi giggled, feeling very pleased with herself. "Great, thanks, Lexi!" said Harry sarcastically.
A little while later Harry was in the sitting room talking to Ron and Hermione and Ginny played on the floor with Lexi. "I still can't believe you have a kid!" exclaimed Ron. Harry shrugged.
"Yeah, well, fifteen year olds don't usually have kids, do they? Especially not half vampires," he said simply. Ron laughed.
"It's weird, isn't it? She looks about two months old, when she's only three days old! She'll probably be walking or talking before we even go back to school!"
"I know. It's mental. Lexi's so smart, but I guess growing a month every day will do that to you," he joked. Ron chuckled.
"Hermione's already teaching her, you know. I feel sorry for the poor kid. You need to set some rules for Hermione, mate!" said Ron looking over at Hermione.
"A..B...C..D..E...F...G..," Hermione was trying to teach Lexi the alphabet and the funny thing was, Lexi seemed to be enjoying it. Harry watched as Lexi sat, giggling and clapping.
"She isn't doing any harm. Yet," said Harry, raising his eyebrows as Hermione started showing Lexi letters out of a little book. Harry went down to rescue Lexi. "She needs her nappy changed!" he told Ginny who glared at him angrily for taking Lexi.
Harry lifted Lexi up and walked up to Ron's room. He quickly changed her and set her on the bed while he disposed of the dirty nappy. "Come on Lexi," he said picking her up and giving her a cuddle. Lexi responded by burping in his face. "Yep, love you too," he sighed and carried her back downstairs. He entered the kitchen.
"So it is true, then," Harry turned to see Sirius standing in the doorway to the living room. Harry grinned awkwardly. "I thought Dumbledore was just messing with me!" exclaimed Sirius.
"Well, he wasn't and before you ask, yes, she's a half vampire," Sirius' face broke out into a grin and he chuckled. He motioned for Harry to give him Lexi and Harry gently placed her in his arms.
"Cute," he muttered, smiling at her. Sirius then tuned to Harry with a very serious look. "She's not going to eat my face off, is she?" Harry laughed at this and shook his head. He followed Sirius into the empty living room and sat down. "She's got yours and Lily's eyes. Apparently your hair too," said Sirius, ruffling the small bit of jet black hair Lexi had.
"Yeah," said Harry. He didn't really no what to say.
"So how come I've been told she was born on Friday. She's obviously at least a month a half!" said Sirius turning to face Harry.
"She was born on Friday. She doesn't grow normally. It's like she ages a few weeks every day. I don't know if she's immortal," Harry looked down sadly. Sirius cleared his throat and handed the baby back to Harry. Harry smiled and set her down onto the floor with the book Hermione was showing her earlier.
"Oh," replied Sirius. He looked around and then he smiled. "I remember when you were born. You cried all night for the first few weeks. Lily was a heavy sleeper so you don't wake her up, but your dad was up all night with you. He used to fall asleep at random moments during the day. One time he fell asleep at breakfast and his head fell into the bowl of cereal!" laughed Sirius. Harry chuckled.
"Lexi sleeps through the night, lucky for me!" he grinned.
After a while Dumbledore came in to tell Sirius that he needed to return to Grimmauld Place. Harry said his goodbyes to Sirius and went to join the others in the living room.
Sorry it's such a sort chapter, but I might have another one up tomorrow evening. I'm a little disappointed with the amount of reviews I've been getting. Please, please review and I'll try my best to get the next chapter up as soon as possible. My fanfiction wasn't working at the weekend so I couldn't log in! It was hell. Then I got The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K Rowling today so I've been reading that and I couldn't really think of anything to add to this chapter. I'm starting the new chapter right away though!
