Ch 49 Mostly Lily Luna's Point of View

'Boggarts. This is not good.

'Not academically inclined. That's what grandma Weasley said. Maybe I am the least academically inclined of the cousins. I'm the only one who almost failed half their OWL's. I'm not dumb. I just don't care for anything but Quidditch. Quidditch and Bill Lionheart Jr.

'Bollox and Boggarts. Maybe I am dumb. I did it this time. Even I know what it means when the pregnancy test potion turns clear. A sixth year student should know better.

'It's my fault too. Billy and I are the best pair of chasers since my mother Ginny and his mother Donna were chasers for the Harpies. Everybody says so. James says that he may hire me for James Potter's Chudley Cannons. Billy is already on the team, as field captain, and he thinks I might be good enough to be on the team, or will be when I … except … damn.

'Healer Swan is coming back. She knows mum and dad. I am really in deep now.'

"Is Billy Lionheart the father?"

"Yes, Billy is the father."

"He will have to come here."

"No! It's not his fault!"

"You didn't exactly get pregnant by yourself. Is he the father?"

"Yes."

"Well when we find out a student is pregnant, is going to have a baby, the first thing we do is to get the father here. You both are going to become parents. You both helped make this baby, and you are both going to be responsible for taking care of it."

'Oh crap, boggarts. I really have gotten Billy in trouble too. It's my fault. We were playing Quidditch around the pond, and it was hot and sweaty. When the other people had enough we all took off what we were wearing over our bathing costumes and went into the pond.

'I was wearing a sexy two-piece outfit. Mom did not like how little it covered. It did not cover much of my bust. I have nice boobs. Big enough for a five-foot-tall one-hundred-pound sexy little girl, not too big but plenty big enough. Big enough to need a little support, but you can do that with charms. A real narrow waist, nice ample hips, just like my mum before she had children. Oh Boggarts. Am I going to look like my mum when I have children? There was not much covering my bottom either. Just enough.

'Bill's bathing costume did not cover much of him either. He is not a big man, but he is big enough. He has a sexy body. We've been doing a lot of snogging, but I was still a virgin. Well maybe we were doing more than snogging. I had him inside my bra or swimsuit. It feels good when he plays with me. He never got too far but he sure felt enough of my butt. Did I say I have a real nice butt? I'm nice looking. I felt almost enough of him as well. He has a nice butt too, and nice abs and, he is sexy!

'I talked him into taking the Floo to his house and take a shower together. That's a lot of fun! Then I took off my bathing costume, and then took off his. He was excited! We had to go to his bedroom and do special spells. I had several spells that we used to make it more fun. I found mum's Touch-of-Lust Spell! Maybe two flicks was a problem? Maybe I should have found a spell to keep me from becoming pregnant. Boggarts. I always forget something. I really forgot something this time.

'We were gone for an hour. Just enough time that mum and dad were getting worried. I don't know why they were worried. What did they think I would do? I guess I DO know why they were worried. They have been telling me and Bill to cool it. I mean I'm sixteen. Mum was married when she was seventeen. She tries to tell me it was because dad killed Riddle and it helped claim his estates because Uncle Bill was a relative, and he needed to work on money and estate issues. I'm not sure I believe her. I think she married dad because she was not any happier being a virgin than I was. I've seem mum and dad together. They are still shamelessly in love. I know she loves my dad's body, and dad loves her body. Bill Lionheart is sooo sexy! I love his body! I loved it when he and I made love. Of course we had to do it all over the next day.

'It's been hard finding a place for sex at Hogwarts. We did it once when he visited. Maybe if I'm pregnant they will let us sleep together and have sex. If I'm pregnant? That stupid potion stays clear. I'm pregnant all right. I mean my period is late and I've gotten sick to my stomach and my boobs are tight like they are getting bigger. Who am I kidding? I got sent up to the infirmary because I lost my breakfast in class.

'Mum's going to kill me. Well no, she likes grandchildren too much to kill me. What is she going to do? Send a howler to me announcing to the whole school that her oldest daughter has gotten herself with child at sixteen? Like I haven't gotten howlers before. How many times did I get howlers? I can't count. Maybe a school record. I got howlers from mum and grandma the same morning. It probably was not a good idea to get on the table and bow after getting both howlers. I got another two the next day. "Not amenable to discipline." Mum and I do fight a lot. Is she going to yell when she finds out! Crap. Bollox. Boggarts.

'Bill is going to kill me. No, he is too nice a guy to kill me. He's a better student and probably a lot nicer than I am too. I'm lucky I'm with him. And what do I do to him? He is just starting to play Quidditch with James, and now I'm asking him to marry me? Well, he's not going to be happy. He's the first person I'm going to see. What am I going to tell him? I'm going to have to cry. I'm going to have to bawl. Bill melts when he sees me cry.

'How long is it going to take before Bill comes?

'When will they tell mummy and daddy? Who's going to tell mummy and daddy? When? Are they going to ring them and have them come here? Am I going to have to see them today? Boggarts! This is not going to be a good day.'

"Hi, Bill."

"What's going on, Lily? Why did they call me? We were in a team meeting and I get a call that I need to come to Hogwarts and see you."

"Well, see that potion?"

"Yes."

Say more than 'yes' Bill. Do I have to tell him? Everybody else is waiting around waiting for me to say something. Oh, no.'

"Bill?"

"Yes, Lily."

'Oh crap, I'm going to have to tell him.' "It's a pregnancy test, Billy."

"You're pregnant?"

"You're the dad. You have to be the dad. You are the only one I've had sex with. I love you. It was a lot of fun but we are … Oh Bill … I've really messed up now."

"You didn't exactly do it by yourself. I should have known better than to take you into a shower together. I should have stopped you when you started taking off your bathing costume. I had plenty of … Oh Lily we really did it this time."

'Oh, Professor McGonagall is here. She is not happy. She is sort of scary when she is not happy. She is really not happy. She is waving her wand over both of us. She is asking Genevieve Swan to examine both of us. They are talking. Bill is not saying anything. I like to talk, but anything I say is going to be the wrong thing.

'McGonagall is leaving. Where is she going?'

"Bill, what are we going to do?"

"We're going to get married, and raise a child and maybe more than one. I'm going to still play for James, and maybe, after you have our baby, you can get back into shape and we can be the best two chasers in all Quidditch. I still love you, Lily Luna Potter."

"I love you too, Bill."

'No one is telling us we can go. It sure looks like we are going to have to stay here until … are they calling our parents. Boggarts. At least Bill is holding my hand. I'd really like to get into bed with him right now. I really want to make love with him! That would probably be a spectacularly bad thing to try and do right now. I've done enough spectacularly stupid things, but this is probably not the time to do another one.

'Matron Swan gave me a potion to take every morning. It should help with morning sickness, and help keep me and the baby healthy. What is a sixteen-year-old girl doing having a baby? I had sex with Bill Lionheart Jr., and it was fun, and I want to have more sex with him. I just should have found out about contraceptive spells first.'

Harry Potter was not happy. What in the world had Lily done now that he had to leave a meeting and go to Hogwarts? She was by far the most troublesome of all the children. Well, Albus had more extraordinary adventures, but he always tried to be a good person. Lily was disobedient. She had her mother's temper, but not always her mother's judgment.

Ginny was furious! Her contractions had just started to become regular, and she was thinking of going to St. Mungo's, but instead she had to go to Hogwarts because of Lily. Lily! Even with both her mother and her trying to talk some sense into that girl, not to mention all the talks Harry had with her, she was hard to control, impossible to control. What had she done now?

Harry, Ginny, and McGonagall came in. Donna Lionheart was already in the room.

"She's pregnant," said Ginny. "That's the only reason both families would be called like this."

"It's not the first time in your family history, Ginny," McGonagall observed.

"That's not a particularly helpful comment at this time, Minerva," Ginny snapped.

"It's not Bill's fault," said Lily, in a panic. "I'm the one who suggested we take a shower together and I'm the one who took off my bathing costume and then I took off Bill's and then I had the spells except I never found the contraceptive spell but I always forget something and I really messed up this time but now that I'm pregnant can Billy and I sleep together because I really love him and what can happen, I mean I can't get pregnant because I'm already pregnant…"

"LILY!" said Harry and Ginny and Bill Jr. and Donna at the same time. McGonagall was laughing.

"You've got a randy one there, Harry, Ginny" said McGonagall. "At least she has not been promiscuous. She has been lusting after Bill Jr.'s body since maybe her first year."

"Are they a good match?" asked Harry.

"We've done the spells for compatibility" said Minerva. "I've also been watching them. Bill Jr. comes as close as anybody to being able to control Lily, and they are compatible."

"What do you want to do, Bill?" asked Harry.

"Marry Lily and raise our child," Bill responded. "I still would like to play for the Cannons."

Donna thought, "I kind of figured that they would get married. I was worried that we would have a baby on the way before Lily graduated from school."

"You became pregnant in August," Ginny guessed. "Those two days that were so hot, and you disappeared after the family Quidditch games and a little swimming."

"You knew?" Lily asked.

"No," Ginny reflected, "but looking back at it it's easy to see."

"What are our options for Lily at Hogwarts, Minerva, now that she is pregnant?" asked Harry.

"It's not the first time we have dealt with this," Minerva McGonagall replied. "Not with the ages of the students we have at the school. If Lily was a seventh year, and we were further along in the year, we would not do much of anything. Lots of babies have been born less than nine months after their parents left Hogwarts. When you have a sixth year who comes to school already pregnant it's a lot more awkward."

Minerva looked at Lily. "What do you want to do, Lily?"

"I want to be with Bill," Lily replied, looking hopefully at Bill.

"You cannot stay here unless you are a student," Minerva told Lily, "and you are just hanging on as a student as it is. Do you think you could get all your assignments handed in, on time? Do you think you could really study for a few months? Because if you cannot you are going to have to leave school."

"Crap," I said. "Bollox. Boggarts. I knew this would be a bad day. Bill, could I just live with you? I would rather live with you than stay at Hogwarts."

Bill looked at the two sets of parents. Then he told Lily, "I will marry you, and we will make it work. I wanted to marry you anyway, and was planning on asking you, maybe next summer."

"I can live with Billy and help you with the Quidditch column, mum," Lily pled.

Ginny and Harry looked at each other, and with the subtle nods that old married couples have agreed.

"Get your things, Lily," Ginny told her daughter.

"I do have room for her in my apartment in Chudley," Billy announced.

"I'm going to call Hermione, so these two can be married before they are living together," Ginny told everyone.

"Hello, Hermione."

...

"Lily is pregnant, and will be moving in with Billy Lionheart. We would like them married first, if possible."

...

"Billy is seventeen, so he is an adult. Donna is here, though. Harry and I are both here, and we will agree, so legally we are fine.

...

"We will have dinner together at Grimmauld Place, just the immediate family, then, and get them married after."

Ginny turned to the other people. "Well, that is arranged."

"It doesn't sound like it is going to be much of a wedding," Lily muttered.

Ginny snapped, "Do you want to stay in school, so we can arrange something over Christmas?"

"No," Lily sniffed.

"Well then, you are getting married tonight," Ginny insisted.

"Yes, mother," Lily agreed.

"I should get home," Ginny sighed.

"I will help Lily move," Donna volunteered.

"I really ought to get back to the Cannons," Billy apologized. "I only have one key to the apartment, so you should duplicate this one." He handed the key to his mother.

Harry waved good bye and Billy left.

"I will take you home before going back to work," Harry told his wife.

'Of all the stupid things that could happen this was the dumbest. I thought I would get yelled at. I thought I would get kicked out of school. I though … well I did not know what I thought. I have not always thought out things too well anyway.

'I'll be Lily Luna Lionheart, a mother nursing a baby. But I will be married to Billy, and he will be playing for my brother's James Potter's Chudley Cannons, and maybe after I finish nursing the baby I can get back in shape and play too.

'Boggarts. Bollox. Damn.'

'This ought to be the happiest day in my life. I'm getting married today. I'm the daughter of Harry Bloody Potter, Sir Harry Potter Order of Merlin 1st class with honors, three freaking Orders of Merlin first class, and he is wealthy to boot, and I ought to have a huge wedding with a hundred bridesmaids and a ten-foot-tall wedding cake and here I am getting married at Grimmauld Place with just my parents and the Lionhearts' and the Granger-Weasleys'. We are in the middle of the Quidditch season, and Billy has a game tomorrow and then he has to be at practice Monday morning.

'Boggarts.

'I'm not sad that I'm getting married. It's better than not being able to be next to Billy, not being able to have sex. Besides he did it to me. He's going to have to live with an emotional wreck of a wife for the next seven months. Well, I really did it to him, especially with mum's Touch-of-Lust Spell, but I'm still an emotional wreck.

'I helped get the Quidditch column ready, and that was good. It was a lot of work though. This being a grownup isn't quite as much fun as I thought it would be.

'I wish someone would yell at me. Mum never yells at me anymore. When I yell at her she just looks sad, or exasperated, or both. "It's the best we can do considering the circumstances." Every time I hear that I want to scream. The circumstances are that her stupid sixteen-year-old daughter got horny and had sex with her boyfriend and became pregnant.

'Witches have known how to get rid of pregnancies for thousands of years. It's one of the things that got us in trouble with Christians. I grew up somehow knowing that no Potter, no Weasley, would ever consider getting rid of a pregnancy. That was even more unthinkable than not nursing your baby, not what we do. We have our babies and nurse them, and love them. Love them. That's a good thing. And we love stupid girls who get themselves pregnant, but I still would feel better if somebody bawled me out.

'Every time I yell at my mother, or get frustrated, she looks at me with the look she gave me when I hurt myself when I was little, and she could not immediately make something right. I saw that look a lot. I did a lot of stupid things when I was little. I hurt myself all the time, being stupid. And now when she gives me that look I break down in tears and run into her arms and cry. I wish she'd yell at me.

'I'm getting bustier. I've got more cleavage than I've ever had. I do not know if I like being so big, and mom says I'll probably get bigger. Bill likes it. Boys like girls with big boobs, but it's not them that get stared at and have all that weight hanging out in front. It's not Bill's body that's changing. He has to put up with me, but he gets to keep playing Quidditch, and I had to quit the moment they knew I was pregnant. Boggarts.

'I've always had a flat stomach. Flat and muscular. That's just starting to get a little bigger. Everything I own is going to have to be altered to fit as I get bigger. Mom used to be 100 pounds. She was only 89 pounds when she was playing Quidditch. She was about 135 for years, but now she's 145, bigger around the top and hips than I was, and she says she was exactly the same size. She has a belly now. She is still fantastically good looking, but she looks like a middle aged mum.

'At least they let us sleep together. It's not like something could happen that could change anything. The magic that they use to bond witches and wizards together is real strong, and real permanent. It's easier to kill your spouse than to leave him. Bill is being just fantastic. I wish Bill would yell at me sometimes, because I messed up his life so much, but he just says that he loves me and we will work all this out together. "We're doing the best we can under the circumstances."

'Grandma Weasley gave me the book, Witches and Wizards Graphic Guide to Married Sex. I knew something like that existed. The cousins have a copy that gets passed on to each new crop of seventh years. No way they would give it to a girl just going into her sixth year. Grandma Weasley has given a copy to each new bride before her wedding day. It's graphic all right! Like Bill and I are going to have much of a chance to read it and practice. Quidditch season is intense, and James wants to win! Well, I want them to win too, but …

'I didn't even get any bridesmaids. Just my brother James as Bill's best man and Bill's sister and James wife Erica as my matron of honor. I mean I really like James. He's a Quidditch fanatic too, and he was the best seeker Hogwarts has seen in like a hundred years or so, and he's still going to keep Bill as a chaser and maybe me after I have this baby and get back into shape. "It's the best we can do under the circumstances." It's all true, and I'm 'the circumstances,' but I still wish they would just yell at me sometimes.

'Boggarts. Bollox. Damn.'

"Hello, Rose. Are you free for lunch?"

"Do you want to come over to Malfoy Manor, Lily?"

"I can. Billy is busy with practice, and I'm free."

Lily took the Floo over to Malfoy Manor, where Rose met her. Lily looked around at the magnificent living room.

Rose told her, "I would like to have a fireplace or closet in the entrance hall instead of in this space, but have not figured out how to remodel the house. Everything I want to do seems to make the house larger, and it is too big already."

Lily didn't say anything. The size of the living room was rather overwhelming. Lily followed Rose into a large entrance hallway, and then into a moderate sized room that was some combination of office and sitting room. With a wave of her wand Rose changed the room so there was a modest sized dining table and two chairs.

"It is better eating in here than in the dining room," Rose remarked. "More private. Elanor and Bella are sleeping, but one of the Elves will bring them to me when they wakes up. Nursing two babies is way more complicated than nursing one, and harder, even if they nurse at the same time."

"You are really rich," Lily remarked, looking around.

"Really rich, and really busy," Rose replied. "Both Scorpius and I would rather be in school, but there is nothing we can do about it. Well, I guess we could walk away from our responsibilities, but neither of us are that kind of person."

"How come you and Scorpius didn't have sex once you were pregnant?" Lily wondered.

"You mean at school, before we can back for the Christmas holidays?" Rose tried to clarify.

"Yes," Lily wondered.

"We were not married!" Rose exclaimed. "I've tried to be a good person, and a Christian, and you are supposed to wait! It isn't like we didn't want to, but both Scorpius are trying to be good people."

"Was I a bad person for?" Lily didn't finish the sentence. "I guess I was. It was, I should have been real embarrassed."

"You were not embarrassed?" Rose gasped.

Rose tried to read the expression on Lily's face. Rose didn't think Lily was exactly embarrassed by what she did.

"Being a grownup is harder than I thought it would be," Lily complained.

"Nobody else's fault," Rose noted. "Wait until you have a baby that needs to eat when you need to sleep."

"Well, I would rather help mum with the Quidditch column, and being with Billy is nice, so I guess I shouldn't complain," Lily admitted.

"Then, don't complain," Rose responded. "I have plenty of baby things to loan you. The babies have grown out of their infant things. Do you want to see what we have after lunch?"

"Sure," Lily replied as one of the Elves brought in their meal. "It's expensive being a grown up, and anything I can get for free I am going to take!"

The two witches spent much of the rest of the meal and sometime afterwards talking about what Lily would need when she had her baby, and what Rose could loan to her.

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