Harry Potter -his children

"Mum, how long till the train gets here? I'm freezing" Lily Potter moaned to her mother
"Well, I did tell you to put that extra jumper on" Ginny replied, putting her arms around her nine year old daugter who was stood shivering on platform nine and three quarters

"Where one earth is your father?" and as Ginny spoke Harry appeared on the platform closely followed by Ron, Hermione and Hugo. Harry went over and joined his wife and daughter, Hermione ran over and hugged
Ginny while Lily broke her mothers hold and ran over to Ron, "Hey Uncle Ron! she hugged him, then turned to Hugo "c'mon we're over here" she took his hand and pushed through the growing
crowds of parents waiting for their children to arrive home for the christmas holidays. When she reached her parents, she noticed people around staring at her dad "Why're they staring again they
did it in the summer too!" she demanded, looking around and scowling at people close that where gazing at her father. Hugo too looked around curiously and to Harry's relief the platform filled with
steam, the Hogwarts Express had arrived back at kings cross station, Ginny and Hermione rushed forwards to greet James, Rose, and Albus while Harry and Ron went straight to the luggage
carriage and began to unload their childrens trunks.

Albus Potter ran towards his father with a smile that strethced from ear to ear "Dad! You were right! The Hat let me choose! The Sorting Hat let me choose!" his voice was full of excitement when he
reached his father he flung his arms around him, Harry hugged his son and muttered "I told you so" in his ear. Albus broke away from his father and went back through the crown to say goodbye to
his friends and re join his mother, Harry and Ron loaded the trunks onto the trolley and set off back to join their families, when they reached the group Hermione and Ginny were tormenting James "oooh! she seems, lovely, is she your new girlfriend James" Ginny laughed James looked absolutely humiliated "No!" he said defensively "She's my best friends sister"
"Never stopped your dad" Ron added aiming a light knock at Harry's shoulder, everyone laughed then Lily interrupted "Can we carry this on in the car please, it's freezing!"


The group arrived in Godric's Hollow, they settled themselves around in Harry and Ginny's living room and began to joke, while decorating the house they would all be spending Christmas "Pass me the tinsel will you Harry?" Hermione called across the room Harry leant across the table to reach for the tinsel but Rose got there first she stuck her tongue out at her uncle playfully and ran across the room to her mothers side, the resemblance between them was remarkable, Rose like Hermione had long brown bushy hair that settled half way down her back and her brown eyes filled her
face, she'd also inherited her mothers brains and was now telling the room how she has achieved full marks on a suprise charms test. "Well done, Rosie!" said Ron ruffling his daughter's hair, she
wriggled out of his reach and threw him the most Hermione-ish glare that Ron took a step back where as the rest of the room laughed.
Ginny raised her wand, she sent mistletoe, holly and berries, and ivy up and made it hang artistically from the ceiling, Harry smiled across the room at her "That looks brilliant!" Ginny beamed and then raised her voice above everyone elses "Who wants soup?" they all nodded in agreement and Hermione joined Ginny in the kitchen to help.

The kitchen was huge, the centre peice was the table with chairs set for twelve, the worktops were granite, and the floor wood. In the corner a sweeping brush was cleaning what seemed to be off it's own accord. The huge window looked out into the back garden which streched out behind the house and over onto the hill tops where Harry and Ginny regurlarly took the children out to play quidditch. "Neville and Hannah are meant to be coming soon, with little Sophia" Ginny informed Hermione as she reached into the top shelf of the cupboard to get the pan out "Oh that will be lovely, how old is Sohia now? seven, eight?" Hermione asked as she stared to chop the tomatos into small peices.
"She's eight, I only know that because I went to see Hannah in the leaky cauldron the other day while i was in diagon alley, she runs the place now you know" Ginny added "Business is going great too"  there was a loud crack from outside the back door and Neville came in and smiled hugely at them both "Hey guys, it's only me for now, Hannah's bringing Sophia by the floo network arriving in the pheonix pub in the square" he explained "how're you both?"
"We're fine, thanks" they said simultaniously smiling, "Would you like some soup Neville?" Ginny added "We're in the middle of making some for everyone so it'd be no trouble"
"Please" he accepted "where's everyone else?"
"Through there" Hermione gestured towards the living room that opened as she spoke, Ron came out and shut the door behind him Hermione turned round "Ron, look who's here"
"Neville! Mate! How are you? How's Hannah? and little Sophia, speaking of them, where are they?" Ron spluttered out Ginny shook her head "What is it twenty questions?" Hermione smerked and ron
pretended not hear. Neville explained to Ron where Hannah and Sophie where and then allowed him to steer him inside the living room to see Harry and the children.


Hannah and Sophia arrived a little later, much to Lily's joy, she had always got on very well with Sophia, and they both sat in a corner with their heads together giggling away. Hermione and Ron had got up and danced together under the influence of many firewhiskys, and then fell asleep curled around each other on the armchair they had been sharing all night. James' source of entertainment had arrived later that evening in the form of Teddy Lupin, who had only meant to be staying a couple of hours but ended up staying the night after sending a patronus to his Grans house under Ginny's orders. Albus sat in the corned with Hugo playing wizards chess and seemed to be losing quite horrificly as Hugo seemed to have inherited his fathers talent for the game. Ginny and Hannah had disappeared into the kitchen to make a cup of tea and Harry got talking with Neville about really trivial things at first then they got onto talking about Dumbledore's Army "And do you remember when you were teaching us how to stun, and Hermione flattened Ron" Neville was going on excitedly Harry laughed aloud at the memory of Ron's face as he picked himself off the floor "My  favourite thing to teach was always the patronus charm" Harry added "It was fascinating to see what form peoples took, I remember being especially impressed with Ginny, when she blew up the
practice death eater" Ginny came back into the room and interrupted "Well, when i'd grown up with Fred and George, blowing things up came naturally" They laughed Ginny took Harry's hand flicked
her wand so that the wireless in the corner would turn up and took him to the middle of the room and began to dance "Oh no, Ginny, do you remember my terrible dancing at our wedding, i got
laughed at then too" he joked taking hold of her waist "They only laughed at you because you fell over my dress" Ginny giggled at the memory, she looked over towards Lily, who had fallen asleep
in the corner she had settled herself in, "Aww, bless her, it's a shame, she loves this song, you could have danced with her"

It was after midnight when Neville leaned over his daughter, picked her up in his arms without disturbing her sleep, shook hands with Harry, pecked Ginny's cheek after his wife, then took Hannah's
hand and stepped into the green flames to return home. Ginny settled herself in the free arm next to the fireplace and told Albus and Hugo to take themselves to bed, while Harry took Lily in his
arms and put her to bed.
James had falled asleep infront of the fireplace lying on the cushions he had taken from his room while Teddy had gone to bed shortly before hand, she summoned the
blanket from the airing cupboard upstairs and made it land on top of him to prevent him getting cold. When Harry returned downstairs he lifted Ginny up sat down and cradled her like a child on his
knee, he looked around the room at his two best friends holding each other as they slept, at his son, who's red hair glew bright in the light of the fire and at his wife who seemed to be falling
asleep on his knee he waved his wand casually at the fire to extinguish it, held Ginny close into his chest and closed his eyes.