Fred and George Weasley came through the Floo and waved their wands over each other to banish the soot. They gave each other a nod before living the room while calling out –
"Oh Harrikins…"
"… Your most charming…"
"… Sauvé …"
"… Enchantingly humorous …."
"… and devastatingly handsome guests are here…"
"… just like you requested."
Harry Potter poked his head out of a room and gave the twins a smile, "Hello boys. Do try to keep it down, will you?"
The twins slapped a hand on each other's mouth as they tiptoed into the room Harry was in. They found the man, their friend, their partner, more their brother than Ron the Git, to be standing in the middle of the room with what appeared to be bundles of clothes in his arms.
"Sorry Harry…" They whispered in unison, bending down a little to look at the bundles in his arms.
"So finally we get to meet the newest Potter sprogs…"
"… Though we can't help but notice that you have another set of twins, Harry…"
"… and here I thought that mum and dad told you horror stories about raising twins…"
They gently clapped the man on his shoulder, not wanting the disturb the babies in his arms.
Harry snorted, even though he had bags under his eyes from sleepless nights, he couldn't stop beaming at his children.
"Well, I'll admit that raising twins who took after their namesakes is no walk in the park, but I can't deny that our lives are more interesting with Jamie and Siri's antics."
"What else did you expect by naming your boys after the Marauders?" Twin One commented.
"… And we resent the fact that you let Ron and Neville babysit them but never asked us. We demand a chance to raise the next generation of the Marauders." Twin Two finished.
"They are the godfathers, hence, they have the privilege. Anyway, let me introduce you to the newest addition to my family… Lads, I like you two to meet Ingrid and Farzana Black."
The elder twins gently held the baby twins in their arms.
George (supposedly) said, "Thank Merlin that they got their features from their mother…"
Fred (allegedly) contributed, "Yeah, but the wisps of hair on their tiny heads tell us that they got the infamous Potter hair."
Harry nodded, "And my eyes too."
"What did they do to you, Harry?" The one on the right asked with mock sadness.
"Pardon?"
"You were not satisfied by giving them your hair, you had to lump them with those weird names too?"
Harry frowned, "Oi, they are perfectly suitable names. Ingrid means beloved or beautiful; whereas the meaning of Farzana is intelligent or wise."
The left one whispered to the little girl in his arms, "Your father is a berk, little darling. Maybe it's the Black in him."
"Whatever. The Black tradition was to name the children with constellations but we decided to stop doing that. Padfoot asked me to take the family away from its old traditions. Anyways," Harry rubbed his hands and excitedly did a little hop, "the reason I asked you two morons over." He waited for the twins to look up to him, "The Lord and Lady Black, wish to ask you, George Fabian Weasley and Frederick Gideon Weasley, to stand in as godfathers to young Ingrid Lilith Black and Farzana Esmeralda Black in the Godparents Ritual."
Harry had to stifle his laughter in fear of waking up the girls, but the flabbergasted twins with their jaws hanging almost to the floor was definitely a pensive memory.
[IOS]
"Black, Ingrid!" Called the Deputy Headmistress. She looked up from the list in her hands and set her eyes on the waiting group of First Year Hogwarts Students. Her eyes found the twins at the front of the line, both identical to the last hair – the Potter hair and emerald eyes and the mischievous smirks. She raised an eyebrow towards the one on the left.
"I am not Ingrid, she is" The left one said indignantly.
"Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother and can't tell us apart?" The right one chimed in.
The entire Great Hall roared in laughter as the poor professor become flustered. At the Head Table, Headmistress Minerva McGonagall narrowed her eyes at the two professors at her left, both of whom had their heads in their hands.
Professor Hermione Potter, Transfiguration Mistress, Head of Gryffindor and Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts, gnashed her teeth, "Zip it! And it is Professor Potter! Now get up here quietly and get sorted."
The left twin gave her an unrepentant smile as she moved forward, "Only joking, Professor. I am Ingrid."
Headmistress McGonagall looked at her Potions and Defence professors with her narrowed eyes, "It seems that they are trained well by their godfathers."
Harry Potter-Black and Daphne Black could only nod their heads. They are still intimidated by the Scottish woman even after all these years.
"What were you thinking?!" She hissed at them.
"In our defence," stated Professor Daphne Black, Potions Mistress, Head of Slytherin, "we were sleep deprived and neither of us was thinking straight."
"Where was Hermione?"
Harry cleared his throat and then squirmed in his seat as his old professor and current boss turned her glare at him, "She was left by herself to look after Jamie and Siri…" they looked on as the said twin boys – James and Sirius Potter, Hermione and Harry's twin sons, Third Year Gryffindors, mirror images of their father but with their mother's eyes, did an impromptu jig as their half-sister from their other mother, Daphne Black, joined them in the House of Lions.
McGonagall sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose, "So, not only now we have James and Sirius, exact copy of their namesakes, we also have another set of twins trained by their unrepentant godfathers – Fred and George Weasley?"
Harry and Daphne exchanged a worried glance before Daphne spoke up, "Er, Minerva, there is something else you should know about…"
The older woman felt a chill ran up her spine, "What is it?"
Daphne gulped, "You see, Fred and George thought that the girls needed proper nicknames…"
"And?"
Harry sighed, "So now, we have Ingrid 'Gred' Black and Farzana 'Forge' Black."
Minerve looked over at the Gryffindor table to watch as the four Potter-Black children put their heads together conspiratorially.
"Is it too late to submit my resignation?"