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[Note: “x-x” = speech & ‘x-x’ = thoughts & *x-x* = telepathy & #x-x# Parseltongue]
[Teddy's first birds and bees talk]
~~~SUMMER PASSTIMES~~~
The Hogwarts Express delivered its passengers to their parents and guardians at Kings Cross for their summer holidays. A couple of days later the schools' principals met around a table on the patio at Chalet Cadmus. Their main aim was to sort out the less favoured subjects. Having seen how Faustus operated with his multilingual classes, the heads felt that this idea could be spread further. However, before that discussion got underway Gerhard reported back.
“It is as you expected Harry. Ludwig and Kremhilde had been ensorcelled. It seems that during the previous summer holidays they had gone off together, against their parents’ wishes. Skulking around to avoid those who were looking for them, brought them to the attention of some satraps. They set up a honey trap. Suffice to say, the satraps inveigled the way into the youngsters’ confidence, and set them up in a lakeside lodge belonging to a sympathiser. We know how passionate youngsters can be, don’t we?”
That got him knowing nods from his listeners.
“Well, they inhabited a bed together and whilst asleep, Along with an enabling charm, certain destructive ideas were whispered to them. Aimed, I’m afraid, at you and Draco, Harry.”
“I’m not surprised. Lucy has a particular objection to our way of life.”
“I cannot see why,” put in Minerva: “You’ve done your duty to wizard-kind and have four beautiful children. They have a stable home life full of love. You even managed to parent young Teddy, and he’s turned out to be a very outstanding student.”
Gerhard grinned: “It is unusual, I must say, but the results are good. The results for my too youngsters are better now, too. We have managed to remove the ensorcelling and the parents are now reconciled to the fact that these two are truly in love. Their marriage is to take place during these holidays. It is slightly shotgun, because when our magi-medics removed the curses, they found that Kremhilde was pregnant. I have an invitation for you four seers to attend.” He handed the envelope to Harry.
~~~ PLAIN SAILING ~~~
Now that Harry and Draco were freelance, there was no need to be on duty during the summer months. So, the seers were discussing possible holidays. Astoria suggested Vienna and a number of musical festivals.
Draco screwed up his nose at that idea and the four of them chuckled. “We can’t take the children there.”
“I know … Let’s go sailing … the Sirius is available,” suggested Harry: “James seems to like it; so do Scorpius and Albus. I think Michael has taken out the Regulus, he’s got Vicky Frobisher with him; there’ll be wedding bells soon with those two.”
“Well at least I know that Harry will keep his instrument to himself this time.” Draco smirked at his lover and then at Ginevra: “Even if Michael has other ideas.”
“Vicky’s cornered him, so to speak.” That remark got cushions thrown at Astoria.
“I’ll go and floo the Lodge, shall I?”
“Yes, please Harry, I want to practice some more navigational skills; now I’m less worried about the words.”
“You mean you want to order us around,” smirked Ginevra.
“Well someone has to keep you in check.” Now it was Draco’s turn to be assailed by the cushions.
Harry left to visit the floo and returned ten minutes later all smiles: “Berwyn will have it ready in an hour.”
That caused a flurry of preparations, ending with the biggest piece of luggage for the children’s accoutrements; however, miniaturised it made no real impact.
“I wonder if there’s a charm for miniaturising children?” Draco asked, red faced from picking up Lilly; who was wriggling in glee.
Lilly had been running about shouting: “Boat! Sea! Fish!” and repeating the mantra incessantly.
Harry beamed at his daughter’s enthusiasm: “Berwyn says he’ll rig lines so we can clip her [nodding at the chanting Lilly] onto them so she won’t fall overboard.”
Just then Teddy came in: “Hi Uncle Harry, where are you going?”
“Were taking a holiday on board Sirius and taking the family with us.”
“Does that mean I can come too? You didn’t take me earlier in the year and you did promise I could, didn’t you?”
*We can’t refuse him, we said we’d take him next time.*
*We do regard him as family, don’t we?*
*We’ll need to sort out the sleeping arrangements.*
*He might like sleeping under the canvas – you know how he loved the tent on the lawn a couple of summers ago.*
*Fine …* “How soon can you be ready?”
“Five minutes.”
After the boy left, Harry immediately flooed Andromeda.
“… Yes, he can Harry, I was wondering what to do with him. He’s had what he calls his nautical bag packed, ever since you said he could come a few weeks ago.”
“We’ll be gone for more than a day, Aunt Dromeda.”
“That’ll be a relief. I can sort out his mess of a bedroom whilst he’s not around to object.”
Harry heard Teddy arrive and breathlessly start to explain to his grandmother, just before he closed the floo down.
Seven minutes later a panting Teddy arrived back at Chantry Cottage, carrying a miniaturised bundle. He saw Draco glancing at his watch: “I’m only two minutes late, Uncle, I can still go, can’t I?”
Draco chuckled: “I was wondering if, in such a short space of time, you had managed to pack everything.”
“Yes, I did – I made a list out after you had talked to me three weeks ago, here it is.”
Draco took the list and glanced through it: “My, my; you are thorough aren’t you. Is there bait in the tin?”
“No Uncle, you said you’d show me where to dig some up. It would have gone off by now, wouldn’t it? Where shall I be sleeping?”
“You can top and tail with James …” Draco answered as Teddy screwed his nose up “… Or you can sleep under the canvas awning in the cockpit.” Teddy’s eyes gleamed.
“I wanna sleep wi Teddy in de pit,” James demanded.
Teddy screwed his nose up again.
Draco winked at the young Lupin and turned to look at the even younger Potter: “So you want to sleep on the hard boards and roll off into the water, do you? Or would you prefer a cosy bunk all to yourself?” and applied a light belief charm.
“Furry de bunk,” James stated emphatically.
There was a quiet chuckle at James’s mixed words.
“Do you have your medallion with you, Teddy?”
“Yes, Aunt Astoria. But you’ll have to hand me through the portal to Laggen Lodge. I visit the Burrow quite often. If I smile at great-aunt Mollie, she gives me buns and cakes. Besides that, I like their funny crooked house and the fish in the almost lake.”
“Almost lake?”
“Yes! That’s what Uncle Arthur calls it. He says it too big to be called a pool and not big enough to go boating on, although he and I did make a raft last summer. I was glad you taught me to swim, Uncle Harry, ’cos it came to pieces in the middle. The Minister was told off by Great-aunt for that.”
Harry chuckled: “Auntie Mollie told him off when he got me into trouble too.”
“Was that when you and Uncle Ron flew the car to Hogwarts?”
“That was one of the incidents, yes.”
“Where is it now?”
“Still hiding out, as far as we know. There are rumours that it rescues naughty students when they stray into danger. Quite possible, knowing the latent magic that resides in the Forbidden Forest and how dangerous it can be.”
“Uncle Ron says it rescued you from the acromantulas.”
Harry blushed, remembering being milked by the spiders: “We had to talk to Aragog because Hagrid wasn't there, and we wanted information about the basilisk. Uncle Ron and I were very scared, and the car helped us get back to Hogwarts. I don’t recommend any young mage venturing into the Forbidden Forest. It still is very scary.”
*Aren’t you going to tell him about your sexcapade?*
*No, Draco, he isn’t. Teddy’s still getting used to the idea of our bed sharing arrangements.* Astoria sounded very firm.
*We’d only just finished when he burst into our bedroom three days ago, I just managed a quick broonie-transfer before he snuggled down between us,* sent Harry.
*A couple of years ago he used to do that with us,* sent Ginevra: *Still, the medi-mage said that the next stage of his development would be when he preferred his fathers; even if you aren’t really.*
*Normal behaviour for a normal boy,* added Astoria: *I’m so glad we managed to offer him an un-deprived upbringing.*
*It was Aunt Dromeda moving into a cottage that helped.*
Teddy looked at Ginevra piercingly: “You’re doing it again,” He accused.
“What?” Ginevra tried to look innocent.
“You can’t fool me. I know when you’re silently communing. I’ve seen you doing it too often. I bet it was about the uncles sharing a bed. They’re different from Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron because they share and so do the parents of my friends at school.”
“That’s because we like each other’s company.”
“It’s more than that, isn’t it?”
*He’s given us the handle to explain, so we’d better get on with it.*
“Do you remember the discussion we had some weeks ago, whilst watching the bull servicing the cow?”
“Yes, Uncle Draco, that’s what’s been puzzling me. Aunty Ginny says she had the children normally and so does Aunt Hermione. Uncle Ron shares a bed with her, so I suppose he did what the bull was doing to the cow there, but that doesn’t explain how Aunty Ginny got pregnant.”
“I had a special session with Aunty Ginny on the boat before we went to Scotland.” Harry told Teddy: “We’ve planned it so all our children will have birthdays close together. Normally Uncle Draco and I have our fun together in bed because we love each other.”
“Yes, I know, I could smell it three days ago when I came into your room. Does that mean you don’t love your wife?”
“I love her in a different way – like special friends, just as we all love you; even when you forget to knock before entering our bedroom.”
Teddy giggled: “I didn’t knock because I wanted to see what you did together, like the bull and the cow. Do you play with each other’s willies like I do sometimes?”
“Yes, that’s one of the things we do. You do remember that we agreed some time ago, that that kind of behaviour was private, don’t you?”
“Yes, but I don’t see why?”
“Humans are different to animals, Teddy. The bull doesn’t really care especially for the cow, or the boar for the sow, for that matter. However, when we mate it’s a sign of something special happening. With us mages our magic has to agree as well. It’s not something you will really understand until you’re a little bit older and experience for yourself. You’re great friends with Jamie Fellowes at the moment, aren’t you?”
“Yes,” here Teddy looked down at his shoes: “And we’ve been experimenting together, privately.”
“Good, perhaps you obtained a thrill from what you did.”
The guilty look left Teddy’s face; he had obviously expected his guardians to disapprove: “Yes, Uncle Harry.”
“Well imagine something twenty times better, if you can. That’s what it’s like for Uncle Draco and I, or, for that matter, your two aunties.”
“Oh!” Teddy thought for a minute; with the adults dreading the next question: “Can we go to the boat now, please?”
Lilly started her: “Boat! Sea! Fish!” chant again, so they used the portals to reach Laggen Lodge.
~~~SAND~~~
On coming out of the Lodge portal Harry noticed some more dinghies tied to the jetty and, as he turned to ask Galvin the reason, noticed two or three tents.
“Some of your friends asked if they could come and stay for a week during the Easter Holidays,” Galvin explained: “And then more mages asked to stay, apparating in from Lands End. We know they’re the good ones because the ward team placed and egg-shaped village-ward over our little archipelago. Gabrielle came along with Gottfried at the half term, they brought their own tent. That got us thinking.”
“Why the platforms?”
“We intend to build five chalets on them when we have the money, Draco. All the workable land on our island and Holm Island is being used for agriculture. There’s a gravelly rocky band between the sand and the food plants where our fruit trees provide shade. The sand’s all right for tents until a spring tide or a storm. So Seamus had a practical team put up the platforms and fixed rings to them so the guy lines can be fixed. They’ll form the floors for the chalets later on.”
So you bought the wood?”
“No Draco, the team used driftwood and transformed it. Now, if anything reasonable drifts ashore we put it on one side instead of on the fuel pile.”
“Good idea; so why did Gottfried and Gabrielle come?”
“To install the thaum-anchors in the seabed, whilst the others of the ward team made the dome. It occludes in the same way that the Hogwarts one does. It repeated what we had before. looking like a group of dangerous barren rocks.”
“Did you say something about other mages?”
“Yes Astoria … They’re mainly ones who live in Godric’s Hollow and a few that the Dumbledorians vouch for. Gastropod and Binder tell us that the bad ones bounced off the wards at Montecristo; so, because the wards are the same, we feel safe to take in those paying guests and they feel safe as well.”
*D’you think that Gabrielle and Gottfried are co-habiting?*
*Possibly! They’re older than Ludwig and Kremhilde. I know that the Delacour’s look kindly on their courtship.*
*Come on, let’s get on board.* “Thanks for provisioning it, Berwyn. With us and the new guests won’t you be short of water?”
“No Harry, Hamish came and taught us and our elves a special water lifting charm and we have a saltwater flushing system for the toilets now. It was that that used most of the water before.”
“Fine … Can you recommend somewhere to moor tonight?”
The seer family was now on board the sloop Sirius.
“We’ve had a go at the jetty on Long Island. If you go south round Holm Head, it’ll take just over an hour to get there and you’ll still come to rest within the wards. North Bay has some fine sand for the kids and the channel some good fishing. Tie up south of the jetty and you’ll be sheltered. I’d not venture north about, because the sun’ll be in your eyes when you attempt the Scours passage.”
“That’s one of the races, isn’t it?” Harry asked whilst starting to raise the sail.
“That’s right. Just don’t attempt it between mid and low tide. There’s a tide table near the helm.”
“Draco wants to try his navigational skills.”
The two McLaggens chuckled: “Let us know when you’re going through the Scours and we’ll mark you out of ten.”
Standing at the helm, Draco looked alarmed: What’s ten?”
“No scratches!”
“And nine?”
“Slight scraping noises from the keel.”
“Okay, okay, so what’s nought?”
“Mayday! Mayday!”
“It’s alright, Draco. We’ll all be wearing lifejackets,” said Ginny, grinning up through the hatchway.
Only then did Draco realise that they were pulling his leg; so he stuck his nose in the air and yelled: “Let go for’ard.”
A surprised Harry jumped; and subsequently loosed the bow lines, which Galvin untied from the bollard and threw back on board. Astoria oversaw Teddy as he and Berwyn dealt with the stern lines. Then they were underway.
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The breeze was from the west so Draco took a south easterly course until he could see clear water between Rage Head and the Ragged Rocks. South-south-west took them through the passage and well out to sea, beyond the range of the wards. This long tack enabled them to turn North-north-west to take the sound between Long Island and Holm Island; the last reach was north-westerly to attain the jetty. Thus, they came back inside the wards.
Harry was in the prow, heart in mouth, on the approach. He felt Draco was coming in far too fast, but blond knew the tide was against them, hardly squashing the fenders before Harry jumped on to the jetty to tie them up. Draco, meanwhile, had dropped the hook in order to hold the stern steady.
That night the family ate on deck in the evening sunshine, before rigging the awning to make Teddy’s bedroom.
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Later in the evening, when they came to make up the port side double-bed, they found a note pinned to the mattress indicating that it was possible to make this into two bunks and giving the instructions. It also said that a safety canvas could be rigged so that the occupant would not fall out of the top one in rough weather. After a short discussion James was allocated to this and, once he was in bed, the canvas side was fixed. This meant that Scorpius had the bottom bunk and Lilly’s cot could be secured by the girls’ double bunk. Thus, the free passage to the heads was maintained for every-one. Teddy was intrigued by the pumping system of the sea toilet; volunteering to pump it out each time someone had visited the heads.
~~~ MORNING ~~~
As usual it was the youngest children who were up bright and early. All of them being able to walk meant that one adult would have to be on the qui-vive in case they fell overboard. To begin with, Scorpius and Albus climbed into the mothers’ bed and James decided to do the same with the two male seers. After a while of James’s wriggling, an uncomfortable Draco arose and went to look for Teddy. He was not in his bed; the bedroll was neatly folded, and a corner of the canvas undone. Fearing the worst, the blond stuck his head out into the bright morning sunlight.
“Hi, Uncle Draco, I’ve caught a couple of herring for our breakfast. All Uncle Harry has to do is gut them. Mage McLaggen says she has shown him a spell for doing that.”
*I heard that, Draco. I’m getting up; will you start the stove and get the frying pan on, please?*
*Yes, as soon as I’ve fitted Lilly’s life jacket on her, she’s just climbed up the companionway and is squirming, so it’s difficult.*
*We’re seeing to the other two, * Ginevra sent; *Are we eating on deck?*
*It’s lovely up here, why not. Shall I roll the canvas back.*
*Okay! I’ll see to the frying pan,* came from Astoria.
“Teddy!” Draco called out: “Will you come and help set up the table, please.”
Teddy let out an expletive and then complied. When Draco took him to task about the word Teddy apologised and said he had just missed catching another denizen of the deep. In fact, his ‘couple of fish’ turned out to be four fat herring, and, once Harry had cleaned them, the appetising smell of cooking had everyone’s mouth-watering. Half each for the seers and Teddy; the rest, shared among the youngsters, worked out fine; coupled with orange juice, cereals plus coffee toast and marmalade afterwards.
Draco sat back replete: “I fancy just lazing around here today, how about everyone else?”
“I can catch us some fish for lunch. They seem to like the shade of the jetty.”
“Maybe for dinner, Teddy,” Astoria temporised: “And something different from herring, please. We do need to vary our diet.”
“Okay, I’ll try for cod or plaice. Uncle Draco, you said you’d show me where to find the bait.”
“The tide’s on the ebb so we’ll go and look for casts on the sand.” *So much for being lazy.*
There was a big splash. Lilly had fallen overboard. Harry readied himself to dive in when he heard gurgling laughter. His daughter was bobbing upright in the water, splashing and making her way slowly towards the shore.
“You were right to give her swimming lessons, Lover. She’s doing quite well. She’d probably do better if the life jacket wasn’t on.”
“Don’t undermine the rule, Draco.”
“No Astoria I won’t, but if we took a rug and a couple of sunshades onto the beach, she wouldn’t be aboard, would she?”
Lilly reached the shore and Teddy met her, bringing the dripping youngster back to her Mothers. Lilly was a little peeved at being stripped and dried: “Want swim!” was her new refrain.
Whilst she was stripped, Ginevra applied some waterproof sun-blocker all over the excited youngster and then re-equipped her with her life jacket. She looked a little strange wearing nothing but the life saver. They had decided that the usual poolside nudity would pertain here as well. Teddy was slightly wary about removing his underwear, but a couple of jokes from his uncles decided him to adhere to the bare norm. Needless to say, they all slathered on the sun-blocker. Once on the beech Lilly’s and everyone else’s life jacket came off. Draco took the spade and, with Teddy, went looking for bait. Harry had water duty until Lilly decided that sandcastles were more fun.
Later, there was a little trickling stream which Draco had managed to dam, the young lady sat in it, soon to be joined by Scorpius and Albus. They splashed each other under the matronly eye of one mother.
Midday came and, despite the cooling breeze it was too hot to sit in the sun. The three youngsters had tired themselves out and were lying on the rugs under the sun-umbrellas trying to keep their eyes open. Draco smiled and accioed a story book. He had a way of reading out loud that lulled the children into quietude. This time it worked on the adults too and he was soon surrounded by somnolent bodies. The deckchair he was sitting in was very comfortable, so he dropped off as well.
An hour later the seers were awoken by elves apparating in: “We have prepared lunch,” Huppert said.
Draco was the first to become compos mentis: “Thank you, I thought you were asked not to serve us.”
“You said not to come on board to serve you, Master,”
Draco chuckled: “Okay, I understand, thank you for the kind thought.”
“Is it your intention to stay here all day?”
“Quite probably; why do you ask?”
“Would you like us to cook and serve the plaice Master Teddy has caught, for dinner? We have McLaggen home grown vegetables to accompany the fish and an assortment of fresh fruit for the dessert.”
“That would be lovely Huppert, thanks,” Harry was now fully awake: “It will save me having to gut them.”
“May we exchange the herring Master Teddy has caught for kippers for your breakfast? We can then prepare them to go in the smokehouse.”
“Of course, I think we’d better give you permission to come on board whilst we are tied up here. Teddy … I think we have enough fish for today thanks.”
Teddy pulled a face; so Harry suggested an exploration of the island, by way of recompense.
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