August started with Harry waking up early in the morning like he normally did. He got up, worked out, showered, and then went downstairs to begin his new task of making breakfast. Today's menu was going to consist of omelets. Since he didn't know everyone's preferences, he decided to simply create them as needed and that required a lot of pre-work chopping ingredients.
He thought about last night. He knew he'd fallen asleep against his mother, but she must have gotten up shortly after he started snoring and tucked him in. It was a weird having someone care for him, he thought. Ginny was as close as it had come and they'd never spent the entire night before. She'd certainly never tucked him in. Thinking of Ginny nearly caused him to nick his finger with a knife, so Harry concentrated on cutting the tomatoes and not of his ex-girl. As callous as that sounded in his head, he really didn't want to stop in order to bandage his fingers. His heart ached for her, but his mind was finally starting to get past the longing he had for her.
Of course, it helped greatly that he finally had something he'd always wanted: a family that loved him.
While working, he thought about the day's forthcoming activities. Dad was staying home to watch the rest of the kids while his mum was taking him to Diagon Alley to get his supplies for school. He had originally asked to go alone, but that idea had thoroughly been trashed by both parents. Being told "no" by both adults had led to Harry doing something he'd never done before - he pouted. His mum laughed at his expression, telling him he looked adorable with those sad, puppy-dog like eyes. Harry had flushed red and immediately stopped, much to his mother's continued amusement.
So now it was just him and his mother going. Dad had wanted to go as well, but someone needed to watch the kids. Remus, being the nanny of two households, had insisted years ago that he was not going to watch both households at once unless it was an emergency. Even a werewolf can be pushed so far, and watching James and Sirius' wallcrawlers was more than enough work for anyone. So his dad had the job of watching his kids today. Usually Lily kept an eye on them during the morning and then after afternoon naps, Remus came over while Lily made dinner. Remus rarely stayed for dinner, usually excusing himself to watch over Sirius and Amy's children instead. Or going out for a meal.
As is, Harry was surprised that his mum trusted his dad so thoroughly to watch the kids without supervision. The past month had been an eye opener for Harry. He had noticed many things that the other Harry had simply overlooked, or hadn't even bothered to notice. The first and foremost was that his father let the kids get away with anything short of burning the house down. It seemed that he and Sirius were on the same shift at work and while Harry supposed they were good enough at their job to warrant lead roles, they were hopeless with kids seeing as they were hardly older than that themselves. Remus was the parent to most kids and they respected him. Well, as much respect as any kid had for an adult. Let's just say that when the idea to de-pants the Marauders came up, Remus wasn't selected for inclusion in that prank. The rest of the day both other adult males in this little duo-family wore kilts. And short kilts at that. Heh, heh, heh, teach them to try and pull a fast one on Harry.
Harry started cooking fried potatoes while humming a song that Ginny had taught him. It was a lullaby that Mrs. Weasley sung to Ginny when she was a little girl. Harry liked that song and knew that one day he'd have to find the words that went with it. Maybe one day when he talked with Mrs. Weasley. Whenever that was. If events happened like they should, he would definitely be seeing her and Ginny on September 1st at the train station. It didn't do his heart much good to dwell on it now - in time he would be back with her. And this time he was going to ask Ginny out whenever he could. Whether it be going to a ball, or into Hogsmeade, or just to the library. He was going to beat Michael Corner who had dated Ginny in her 4th year.
Ginny had once told him that Michael enjoyed dating girls, usually at the same time. Unlike Parvati, who dated many boys; she at least had the good manners to break up between dates. Or to inform date #1 that she was also seeing date #2 later on. Michael liked to withhold that information and when Ginny had found him hitting on Cho Chang one day, just about beat him senseless. Or was going to but instead exacted her revenge by shrinking a delicate part of his anatomy for a month.
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