Advance Arrangement
by Teddylonglong

All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story. I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.


During the following months, Lily and Remus used their free time watching their former friends and classmates, who had children of Harry's and Bobby's age, on the screen. They quickly decided to choose two of the Weasley children, seeing that Pandora seemed to be overwhelmed caring for eight children at once.

'Perhaps the twins,' Lily thought, knowing that Pandora was slightly irritated by their behaviour. 'They're funny but also kind to the younger kids. However, they're two years older than ours.' She decided to discuss the matter with Merlin and then speak with Arthur Weasley and Pandora, to whom she had revealed herself as Luna's godmother on the girl's first birthday.

"We should try to invite Draco Malfoy, even if only to spare him an education by his parents," Remus suggested. "While Narcissa was fairly decent, her husband is one of the worst wizards I know."

"Absolutely." Lily remained pensive for a moment. "I'm not going to expose myself to the Malfoys though. I'll speak with Severus. He's Draco's godfather after all."

In a similar matter, she asked Minerva to speak with Augusta Longbottom, her old friend from their own time at Hogwarts. As Neville was her godchild, she had often watched him on the screen, only to realise that his upbringing with his strict grandmother had to be everything but pleasant.

She also asked Buckbean if he could recommend two goblin children, only to be told that he had twins of the same age as their own and that his wife might be willing to teach at the school.

Severus introduced her to Cicero, his private elf, and he promised to ask Bandhu, one of the elder elves from the Isle of Elves, for a recommendation, as soon as he was able to get away from Hogwarts.

Croaker finally introduced her to Tobi, who was a yeti and promised to choose one or two talented yeti children for the school.

HP

On the day after Harry's and Bobby's second birthday, their younger sister Angelica was born, and Lily observed in amusement how the twins fawned over the baby. 'Oh Merlin, if the twins are being spoiled by everyone, it's going to be much worse with Angelica,' she thought with a combination of amusement and absolute annoyance. With her red hair and emerald eyes, Angelica was the spitting image of herself.

"Of course, she's going to be spoilt." Santa laughed aloud. "She will be the princess of the North Pole, and the world will adore her."

"Oh no." Lily groaned, however, merely watched quietly, when Santa introduced the baby to the North Fir Tree.

"She will be extremely powerful," Santa promised, before he summoned one of the puppies.

To her surprise, the puppy appeared accompanied by what seemed to be a very young puppy. Santa placed the two babies, human and canine, next to each other on the soft bench in front of the tree, and Lily observed how a cone from the tree headed straight to the babies and engulfed them in one large golden glow.

She smiled happily, when James reassuringly laid an arm around her back, whispering, "Our princess will be all right."

"This is Lucy," Santa explained, when he laid Angelica into her arm and Lucy into James'.

"I guess that they're bonded?" Lily asked, trying to keep her voice calm and not show how upset she was at the realisation that her baby would sooner be able to manage the Animagus transformation into a white puppy than to walk and talk.

"Yes."

HP

A little more than a year later, the Selective Academy of Magical Science opened its doors as a primary school for ten three-year-olds and two five-year-olds. Apart from Harry and Bobby, the first pupils were Daphne Greengrass, Neville Longbottom, Draco Malfoy, Fred and George Weasley, Yeti Blub, the goblin twins Jane and Kengo as well as Toni, who was a free elf.

While Merlin was the headmaster, he had hired Remus, Buckbean's wife Gwenlin, Tobi the yeti and Bandhu, one of the elder elves, as teachers, and Lily would also teach a few classes as Unspeakable Fluffy.

HP

On the first of September, Merlin, Remus and Lily as Unspeakable Fluffy headed to the school igloo with Harry and Bobby, who were accompanied by Paws and Claws, their inseparable familiars.

"I hope everyone is nice," Harry whispered to Bobby, who nodded, eagerly.

"If not, Paws n' Claws will bite them."

"No, Mummy said they mustn't bite."

"But they can frighten them."

Lily had to try hard to not laugh at the three-year-olds' conversation. To her relief, by now, they had reached the oversized entrance hall of the school igloo, and she motioned for the twins to wait for a moment.

"The other children will arrive here any minute now. Remember to not transform into your Animagi forms."

"Yes," the twins chorused.

Just then, Arthur Weasley arrived with his twins in tow. While Arthur went to greet Merlin, the twins headed over to Harry and Bobby.

"Hello there…"

"We're Fred…"

"… and George Weasley…"

"… Are you perhaps…"

"… twins as well?"

"Yes." Bobby was the first to respond.

Harry nodded. "We're twins. I am Harry…"

"… and I am Bobby."

To Lily's relief, the two pairs of twins' conversation was cut short by the arrival of the other children, human, goblin, elven and yeti, and the older twins pulled everyone into introductions.

'They're really friendly,' Lily thought. 'Perhaps, it's good to have two older boys in the class, even if we teachers have to provide different material for them than for the others.'

After Merlin introduced the teachers to the group, the parents returned home, and Remus led the children into their classroom.

HP

Harry and Bobby thoroughly enjoyed themselves. They loved each of their classmates, even if they were especially thrilled to have two more couples of twins in their class. Remus taught them to read and write capital letters as well as easy magic. Sometimes, he had the Weasley twins take turns reading stories from a book, which was similar to Beedle the Bard, however, had been written by Merlin, to the younger students, and the younger pupils eagerly listened to the boys' reading.

When everyone returned home by Portkey at three o'clock in the afternoon, Harry and Bobby transformed into their canine forms and dashed home, apparently knowing that they were faster in their puppy forms.

HP

When the four puppies dashed into the screen room in obvious excitement, thirteen-month-old Angelica immediately transformed into her puppy Animagus form as well, and the four older puppies began to tell the two younger ones everything about an apparently exciting day.

'I just hope they won't put any strange ideas into Angelica's head,' Lily thought, unaware of just how much of a real prospect this could be.

tbc...

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