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Birth of the Potter Children | ||||||
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Category: Post-DH/AB Characters:Harry/Ginny, Hermione Granger, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Nymphadora Tonks, Ron Weasley Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Drama, General, Romance Warnings: Death, Intimate Sexual Situations, Violence Story is Complete Rating: R Reviews: 59 Summary: Third in the Almost Happily Ever After series, starting at the end of the hunt for the remaining supporters of Tom Riddle and the end of Ginny's Quidditch career. Hitcount: Story Total: 123095; Chapter Total: 4790 Author's Notes: More about Andromeda and Teddy |
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Early in October Andromeda Tonks finally came back to the New Burrow. She came back on a Monday, arriving with Molly shortly after Ginny had gotten back for one of her regular sessions with Harry and the Mind Healers. Molly and Audrey let Andromeda help with some of the smaller children. Teddy wanted nothing to do with his Grandmother, and avoided her. Late in the day, after Teddy and Mitzi had helped Ginny with her physical therapy, Teddy told his Grandmother, “I help Mummy with her Physical Therapy. PHYSICAL THERAPY is play that helps Mummy get better. I am a good boy helping my Mummy getting better.” “You can tell me all about it at dinner,” Andromeda said. “I go HOME every night with my REAL Mummy like all REAL boys do!” Teddy said. “You don’t stay here?” Andromeda asked. “You no stay here all the time,” Teddy said. “You run away! Mummy Ginny and Gran Molly not run away.” Andromeda sort of backed away from Teddy, and then ran into her bedroom. Molly took Ginny aside and said, “I will be over to talk to you after Teddy is in bed.” That evening after Harry came home, when Teddy was occupied elsewhere, Ginny said, “Andromeda is back from St. Mungo’s.” “How was it?” Harry asked. “Teddy told his Grandmother that she ran away. Andromeda didn’t take it very well. Mum said she would talk to us about it after Teddy is in bed.” “Everything is getting in place at work to allow me to go to San Francisco,” Harry said. “Are we going to take Teddy?” “We can see if he would like to go,” Ginny said. “We can ask Mum tonight. “You really can get away for over half a year? There are not any big things that the Ministry wants you to do?” Harry said, “The biggest thing the Ministry and the Aurors are trying to do is to account for all the people who went missing during the war. We think a lot of them are alive, and either held somewhere against their will or in hiding not knowing that it is safe to come out. I can probably be more help eventually finding those people if I take the courses.” About nine, after Teddy was in bed, Molly came over. She had a copy of Witch’s Weekly and a copy of Witch’s Rumors. “They both say you are pregnant, Ginny,” Molly said. “You have gained back much of the weight you lost when you were at the Harpies.” “I haven’t even had my monthly yet,” Ginny said. “I’m probably going to have to gain back all the weight I lost to get pregnant.” Molly said, “Teddy has had a harder time each time Andromeda leaves for one of her little vacations at St. Mungo’s. I’m not saying she doesn’t have a real problem, but it has had its effect on Teddy. She is going to damage her relationship with her grandson if something doesn’t change.” Ginny said, “We were thinking of taking Teddy to San Francisco with us.” “I don’t think you should leave him here,” Molly said. “I’m going to miss him, but you and he will be back. It is going to be hard on Andromeda, but she’s brought some of this on herself.” The following Monday Harry and Ginny were surprised to see a rather large group at what was usually a counseling session. All the healers who were involved in treating Ginny’s head injury were there. Andromeda Tonks was also there. The lead healer said, “Ginny, healing from a head injury takes time. We can see signs that you are doing too much. You will get to where you can be as busy as you are now, but for the next couple of months at least you should take an hour break in the morning and another one in the afternoon.” “Do I have to?” asked Ginny. “Only if you want to get better,” the healer said. “Who will watch Teddy and the other little children I play with and teach?” Ginny asked. The healers turned to Andromeda. She looked around, and took several deep breaths, like she was having trouble starting to talk. She finally said, “After last Monday, when Teddy didn’t want anything to do with me, I went crying to Molly. Have you ever had her angry at you?” Ginny nodded vigorously. Harry had never experience one of Molly explosions, but he had seen almost all of her children as they had. One of the healers said, “We now know that Bellatrix cursed the Lupin and Tonks families when she killed Nymphadora and Remus. That is why Andromeda has had such a hard time getting over her depression and terror. She should have been much worse, but it is hard to be too depressed when you are living in the Weasley household. “When the last vestiges of Bellatrix were killed Andromeda began to have a chance to really heal. But old habits die hard.” Andromeda said, “Molly has been working with the healers, and she knew that I didn’t have to escape to St. Mungo’s this time when Ginny was hurt. It was just an old habit of avoiding drama and just hiding.” Andromeda continued, “I cannot blame myself for losing it right after I found out that Nymphadora and Remus were dead. Getting better is hard work, and I guess I was depressed enough that I didn’t want to put in the effort. “I didn’t realize that my self-indulgence this time could cost me Teddy. “Molly was right to yell at me. I’m not saying it will be easy, but I promise you all that I will not run away from Teddy again!” Ginny said, “You want to take care of Teddy when I go down for a couple of short naps?” Andromeda said, “I want that. I want it enough to fight for it.” Ginny asked, “Why wasn’t Teddy cursed like Andromeda?” Molly looked at the healers, who nodded to her. Molly then said, “He WAS cursed. To the best of our knowledge Bellatrix planned to have Teddy an orphan, and she thought that no one would love, to quote that awful Lucius Malfoy, ‘the spawn of a werewolf and a half-blood.’ But something happened that Bellatrix could never imagine. Andromeda really could not take care of Teddy, but Ginny took over, nursed him with his mother’s milk, and comforted him and loved him. She loved the curse right away! When Ginny went back to school I took over, and Teddy has not lacked for the love of mother figures.” Ginny said, “During the first few days Teddy was so frantic. There were times when I thought he wanted to be permanently attached to me. He so needed love. There were times when he would panic if, after I was through nursing, I would try to cover up. It wasn’t always easy being modest.” “Modesty be damned,” Molly said. “Teddy needed you, and you loved the curses right away. I am so proud of you!” “I am too, Love,” Harry said. “You are doing a great job of mothering Teddy. I am sure you will be a good mother to our children.” For the rest of the Autumn Ginny rested twice a day during the week, and Harry made sure to have all of Saturday and Sunday off to be with Ginny and make sure she didn’t push herself too much. With a lot of encouragement Mitzi also got better and better in helping Ginny when she needed help, and telling her to slow down when Ginny needed to slow down. Slowly Ginny started to appreciate Mitzi and be grateful for her help. |
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