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Hermione Malfoy was sitting at her vanity with her five-year-old Ursa sitting in the floor beside her watching her Mummy get ready to go out, already having gotten herself ready. Hermione had plans with Ginny Potter Susan Weasley and Pansy Longbottom to go to a spa as they all had several young children and needed a Mommy’s Day out. Some were at Hogwarts and some were old enough to go to Wampus, the children’s school that was 5-year-old and up. The rest were going to Dragonettes Daycare that was run by Hanna Abbott Nott and Lavender Brown Goyle.
Hermione had Scorpius Draco at 9, Regulus (Reggie) Sirius at 7, Ursa Jean at 5, Altair John at 3 and Carina Narcissa at 10 months. Ginny and Harry have James at 11 at Hogwarts in Gryffindor, Brian at 9, Lily at 6, Artie at 4 and surprise Minnie at 11 months. Pansy and Neville were the most surprising with August at 12 a Gryffindor as well and acing his Dad’s Herbology class, Posie at 10, Petunia (Tunie) at 9, Patrick (Rickie) at 9, Nathan at 7, Norma at 5, Addison at 3, Emmett at 2 and Eleanor at 9 months. Susan and Ron had Hugo 9, Jeanette 5, Carson 3 and Rosalie 8 months. The last babies were a surprise for all not anticipating having so many children.
Molly was in Nana heaven having adopted the Slytherins as her own as well. Narcissa was over the moon with how many grandkids that Hermione and Draco had provided her with, but she wasn’t as hands on as Molly was. Augusta though had the most bragging rights, and it seemed that having so many great grandchildren had reversed her age and she was very hands-on and less strict than she had been with Neville. Unfortunately, Hermione’s parents had been killed in a boating accident not even remembering that they had a daughter. They were buried in Australia, and she had managed to get her hands on their items forging documents that she was their niece. She was able to show her kids photos so that they would know their other grandparents.
With the older kids at school Draco had told Hermione that he was going to take the day off and spend it with Carina. He tried to spend equal time alone with each of his children, so they didn’t feel left out. He was a wonderful father but still relied heavily on Lupie their paid Nanny Elf. He had sworn today that he could handle Carina on his own as Lupie was off that day. Hermione knew he could do it but was sure that she was going to come home to some kind of mess.
The plan was to drop the older kids off at daycare or school and then spend the rest of the day at the spa and get home in time to get them from school and daycare. Hermione wasn’t doing much, just braiding her curls so they would be out of the way and putting on moisturizer. Ursa had inherited her mother’s almost sentient curls out of all the children and was always wanting to learn how her Mummy took care of them. The only difference between Hermione’s curls and Ursa’s were that Ursa’s were Malfoy white blonde. All the kids had the white blonde hair but Carina and Altair had Hermione’s brown eyes instead of Draco’s silver eyes.
As Hermione finished with her hair they heard Carina wake up and they headed to the nursery. Hermione got Carina up and changed and they and Ursa headed downstairs where Draco was supposed to have everyone else gathered and ready to go. And ready to go they looked.
Altair was fighting Draco getting his shoes on, the boy loved to be barefoot. Scorpius was holding Regulus’s book above his head. Scorpius had a growth spurt recently and was a good head taller than his brother. Draco was too distracted by trying to wrangle Altair’s shoes on that he was missing the fight that was breaking out on thee other side of the living room.
As Hermione stepped off the last stair, Scorpius looked up and all his Mum had to do was give him a look and he passed Reggie’s book back too him and grabbed his backpack and headed toward the floo room. Reggie gave his mum a “thank you” and followed his older brother. Finally Draco got Altair’s shoes on and stood up with his hands on his hips looking proud like he had won a great victory.
“Did you finally manage it?” Hermione asked him.
He looked up startled before giving her a patented Draco Malfoy smirk “No problems.”
“No problems hey? I guess we need to get your hearing checked as well then.” Hermione tells him. They had recently had to visit a magical optometrist as Draco was having issues at times reading and they had given him some silver glasses to wear when he was reading. Hermione found them to be very attractive.
Giving her a confused look Draco asks “What do you mean?”
She gives him a you goofball look and tells him “Scorpius was holding Reggie’s book hostage again.” Reggie was their sensitive and studious child. Hermione had a feeling he would be their Hufflepuff. With 5 kids it was sure that they would have at least one. Scorpius was determined to be a Slytherin after Draco, Ursa was Hermione’s mini and wanted to be in Gryffindor, Altair was a for sure Ravenclaw and Carina was yet to be seen at only 10 months old.
“Ah, I’ll have a word with him.” Draco states.
They got Altair up and Hermione passed Carina over to Draco.
“Are you sure you can handle her all day alone? She’s teething and fussy more than normal.” Hermione states, she had a small fever that morning and they didn’t want to send her to daycare.
“I think I can handle it. I’ve got plenty of numbing potion for her gums and we’ve got Ms. Rachel on the t.v. she seems to calm her and distract her best.” Draco stated.
“Just don’t forget that Lupie is off work today and had plans with other elves.” Hermione reminds Draco with a sharp look. He sometimes got overwhelmed and would call on Lupie if he needed back up.
“I won’t forget. I can handle it.” Draco assured her before kissing her goodbye.
Hermione, Ursa and Altair headed to the floo room and headed to drop everyone else off.
Pansy and Susan were already waiting outside The Witches Spa Bar talking when Hermione arrived.
“Posie was not happy that she wasn’t able to join me today and had to go to school. I promised her that we would do a mini spa day this weekend and that seemed to appease her. She’s 10 going on 15.” Pansy was saying.
Susan “I dread when Jeanette gets older. She is already trying to get into my makeup and succeeded one day and I thought Ron was going to have a fit.”
Hermione laughed on hearing that “Ron won’t be happy when she gets interested in boys either.” They all laughed when she said that.
“What’s so funny?” Ginny asks as she approaches from the public floo.
“Just talking about how Ron will be when the girls discover boys.” Susan tells her sister in law.
The girls exchange hello’s and hugs and proceed into the spa
As he hears the floo go off for the last time Draco looks at Carina in his arms, she is chewing on her finger and he tells her “Let’s get you something better to chew on.”
He heads to the fridge and gets her teether out of the freezer and passes it to Carina who decides that she does NOT want it and throws it across the room.
“Accio teether” Draco calls and once it returns to him he cleans it and puts it back in the fridge.
Next he tries to give her a wash cloth with ice in it and he tries giving it to her but once again it’s rejected. He wants her to have something to chew on that’s not her finger, but the little miss is not having it.
Finally he decides that she must be hurting and gets the numbing potion rubbing the right amount on her swollen gums before heading settling her down in her high chair and fixing her morning bottle from Hermione’s expressed milk and some cereal in it.
Once fixed he picks her up and heads to the living room and puts on Ms. Rachel.
The first few hours go well and Carina happily sits in her bouncer after eating and watches Ms. Rachel with rapt attention. Draco is able to get some reading done before a horrid smell reaches him. He realizes that she must have messed her diaper. He takes her up to her nursery and once he gets up there he realizes that she has had a blow out.
Draco will admit he can handle a stinky diaper but when it leaves their diaper and runs all over he does not handle it well. Trying his best not to gag and also not get poo everywhere he cleans her up the best as possible before heading to the bathroom to give her a quick wash.
The quick was turns out to be not so quick, Carina is their water baby and loves bath time. He lets her play as long as she is happy and once she finally starts to slow he realizes that it’s coming up on lunch then nap time.
He gets her out and re-dressed before heading to the kitchen for her pre-prepared lunch courtesy of Lupie from last night. He feeds her and cleans her up before heading upstairs where he rocks her till she falls asleep.
He tip toes out of the room and heads to his and Hermione’s bedroom and to change his shirt as Carina had been polite enough to share her lunch with him. After changing he heads for the stairs but before reaching them he hears Carina fussing.
He heads back to the nursery, popping his head in “What’s wrong with my little princess.” She just cries harder. He picks her up and feeling of her can tell her fever is back. He heads to the bathroom and grabs the fever potion and gives her the right amount. Knowing it will take a few minutes before she feels any relief he sits in the enlarged glider that they have in there and starts to rock. She takes a bit to calm down, leaving Draco feeling helpless. Unfortunately he can tell that her gums are swollen again and he accio’s the numbing potion giving her a dose of that as well.
It takes an half an hour before Carina drifts back off and he tries placing her down in her crib but she is quick to wake so he decides to keep rocking her. He spends her whole nap holding her and rocking in the chair.
Thankfully she wakes from her nap and is her usual happy self. So they head back to the living room where he places her on her bouncer on the coffee table and starts to read her one of their magical books and using his magic to make the characters float off the page and act out the story above her head which she absolutely loves. He does this for a while before he hears the floo go off.
He can tell from the wards that it’s his mother and father, he had told them the day before that he was staying home that day and is not surprised that they stopped by to check on him and Carina.
“Dragon darling?” Narcissa calls.
“In the living room mother” Draco calls back.
They enter and Lucius is laden with bags and Draco can tell that Narcissa brought more gifts for the kids. Hermione had made a rule when Scorpius was little that it was fine as long as it was not much and it was educational. This did not stop Narcissa.
Lucius sets the bags down and reaches to get his granddaughter from her bouncy chair.
Narcissa comes up beside him “How is the little princess doing today? Still running a fever?”
“She’s run one earlier and I’ve had to give her numbing solution a few times but since her nap she has seemed better.” Draco tells them.
Narcissa goes to one of the bags and pulls out a dragon shaped teether telling Draco “I found this one at the store and it vibrates, between that and the different textures it’s supposed to really help." She freezes it with her wand and starts to pass it over.
“She threw her favorite one earlier, she may not want anything but her finger and food right now.” Draco warns her.
“Let’s see shall we.” Narcissa presses it to Carina’s mouth and the little girl fusses for a moment and then starts to gnaw on it letting out a happy noise when Narcissa starts the vibrating function. Her little eyes widening.
Lucius holds it to her mouth helping her keep it there and takes a seat on the love seat and Narcissa sits by Draco who looks a little worn out.
“Has the day been rough?” She asks him.
“Not really, I did have to hold her in the glider her whole nap as every time that I went to put her down she woke up and began to fuss.” Draco tells his mother.
“You were a rough teether as well son, either one of us or the elves had to hold you constantly.” Lucius mentions while still paying attention to the baby in his arms. She is staring back at him and has a lock of his long hair in her hands. She’s not pulling, just holding it.
Draco decides that the moment is one for her book and grabs the camera they keep accessible and snaps a shot of his father and his daughter.
Narcissa smiles, things were not so great between her two men when Draco first got with Hermione and Lucius was disappointed at the loss of their pureblood line but now, he couldn’t care less. He loved being a grandfather and the kids loved him. He was notorious for sneaking the older kids’ extra dessert when they were at the manor.
Narcissa told Draco that she had gotten some books for the others, one on quidditch for Scorpius, one of Luna and Rolf Scamander’s books for Reggie, a book on kneazle’s for Ursa and a picture book of Dragons for Altair.
As they sat there speaking about the kids and how Narcissa and Lucius wanted them to come stay soon, Hobbs, their chocolate kneazle jumped on the couch demanding pets from Draco causing Narcissa to laugh.
They stayed for another hour, Carina passed to her grandmother after a bit where she smiled at Narcissa who sang to her. A favorite pastime of all the kids was listening to her sing to them.
By the time that Hermione arrived home with all the other children, Draco was working on dinner with Carina in her bouncer on the island watching her Daddy work.
“Altair and Ursa take your bags to your rooms and you can have t.v. time. Scorpius and Reggie bring your bags to the kitchen and I’ll help with your homework.” Hermione called to the children.
They all obeyed their mother and as the boys settled at the kitchen table, Scorpius asked “What’s for dinner Dad?”
“Spaghetti and meatballs” Draco responds.
Hermione comes in and kisses Draco quickly on the mouth before settling in with the boys to help them with their homework.
This school was magic only and taught the basics without using wands so that when they got their wands, they should have the theory down, it also teaches arithmetic, wizarding history, muggle history, magical creatures and about potion ingredients and flying. Things so that the kids were much more prepared for Hogwarts when the time came.
It’s one of the things that Hermione had pushed for when she was first at the ministry and there was a lot of support from all sides for kids to be better prepared. Even homeschooled kids follow certain criteria even though they are taught by their parents. They had several schools set up across Britain, England and Scotland.
Because of where they all lived the only kids that went to school where Scorpius and Reggie did was Pansy and Neville’s children. Their younger kids went to the same daycare as well except their youngest who stayed with a paid nanny elf and her mother most days.
Ron and Susan’s kids were homeschooled by Susan and Ginny and Harry’s went to a school not far from the ministry where Harry and Ginny worked. Ginny, after retiring worked in Magical Games and Sports. Harry was an auror but was contemplating retiring to take over for Snape as the DADA professor. He was going to become the Headmaster in a year or two as Minerva was retiring soon.
Flitwick would become the assistant Headmaster as Sprout had retired two years before otherwise it would have been her position. If Flitwick retires then Neville is in position to become assistant Headmaster but he is not one to want it. Both Snape and Minerva have been speaking with Hermione about her stepping in but with the kids so young she does not want to miss so much of their lives.
Once homework was done and put away the family all sat down to eat. Several conversations going on at once but Draco managed to draw everyone’s attention.
“Your grandparents stopped by earlier today.” Draco stated
“Did they bring anything?” Altair asked.
Draco gave him a look and he looked down “Sorry. They don’t have to.” The boy stated reprimanded.
“They did but you shouldn’t expect it. I will get them after dinner and you can all check them out then.” Draco stated.
Hermione was proud of Draco, before he expected to be spoiled as he was when he was younger and before the kids came along. Now though he was able to share and expected the kids to do so as well and not to always expect something from people.
Once dinner finished and Draco had handed out the books, Draco sat down with Altair to look at all the Dragons. Hermione sat with Reggie and they looked through Rolf and Luna’s book. She still believed in things that others didn’t but she had actually been able to prove that some of the things she believed in actually existed. Ursa read her book with Hobbs in her lap while she showed him the pictures and pet him. Carina was happy to look at the book with her mummy and brother, she was mainly in it for the cuddles. Scorpius went to his room to practice some of the moves in the book with his mini quidditch pitches.
After a while it was time to start with bedtime routines. Altair gave little fuss as he had worn himself out learning about dragons. Carina went down without a fuss this time and was out like a little light. Ursa put on her little bonnet (good for her curls) and insisted that her daddy read her bedtime story that night. Reggie got ready and headed to bed with his new book, it wouldn’t take long before he was out. Scorpius got to stay up just a little later than his siblings and put up a bit of a fuss at having to put away and stop playing with his quidditch toys.
Once all the kids were in bed Draco and Hermione met up in their bedroom, going through their own nighttime routines. They discussed the day and how they each spent it. He told her about Carina’s issues and showed her the photo that he took of Lucius and Carina for her book and Hermione coo’d over it and loved it. She was so glad that the kids got to having the loving grandparents that they did and hated that her parents would never get to know them.
They eventually fell asleep, knowing that Carina would be up in a few hours for a feed and to be cuddled back to sleep.