Weremouse

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A/N: Here's chapter 19. Hope you all enjoy it. Beta'd by cyn. ^.^

Ch. 19


Harry looked around the room; it seemed it was time for his secret to come out, but he would wait until confronted about it. After all, his main priority was to protect his pups. "What do you mean, Poppy?" Harry asked in what he hoped was a steady voice.

Snape opened his mouth to speak, but Poppy interrupted him before he could, "According to a fairly reliable source, two mice fitting your descriptions were seen having sexual relations. Now, boys we asked you to tell us about anything that happened, that would count as something important to tell us. Why didn't you?"

"Why is it so important?" Draco asked, "And anyways, we kind of swore a Wizard's Oath not to discuss what happened that night, not even with each other."

"Oh, Gods, this is horrible," Snape muttered under his breath, only Harry really hearing him.

"Well, it was important for us, because I had found out some things about Weremice from a colleague of mine. It seems that female weremice have an estrous cycle that goes along with the lunar cycle, with estrus occurring during the night of the moon. Estrus is when the female is fertile, meaning that she can become pregnant. So, we needed to know so that we could deal with the pregnancy."

"What!!" Draco squeaked out. He turned to Harry, and gestured at him, "You mean I could have gotten him pregnant?"

"Yes, and you just might have actually done it. Since Harry hasn't come to me at all on the last two full moons, I'll have to do a scan to check to see if he is. Harry come sit on the examining table, she said pointing to the table in the corner of her office.

"OK," Harry said meekly.

"Wait Potter," Snape interrupted, "I've been meaning to ask you this for several days now. Why are you wearing a glamour? I noticed it in Potions the other day."

Harry sighed. "Well, you see, I'd gotten used to being in the halfway form, and so I'm more comfortable like that. I just started staying like this when I'm not in full mouse form, and wearing a glamour to cover it up," Harry rambled. While he was talking, he had clambered onto the examing table, and pulled off his shirt, and laid it beside himself.

"Harry, remove the glamour now, so that Poppy can exam you," Severus bit out in frustration, somehow knowing that Harry already knew he was pregnant and was likely covering it up. As the glamour around Harry faded, Severus saw a slight shimmering around Harry's stomach area, "And the other one."

"Oh, fine," Harry grumbled. The three others in the room gasped as a very visible bulge came into view, on what used to be a nice set of washboard abs. Harry had his mouse ears, tail whiskers, and 5 pairs of nipples again.

"You knew," Draco gasped in shock, "Why didn't you tell me?"

Harry stared at his hands, as he squeaked out, "Yeah, but I had to protect my pups. I can't let anything happen to them," as he talked his arms cradled his stomach.

Draco stood up and walked towards Harry, "Harry, why would you need to protect the...did you just say pups, as in more than one?" At Harry's nod, Draco fell to the ground in a faint. Severus picked him up and placed him in the chair, but didn't try to revive him. He walked over to Harry.

"Yes, Harry, why would you need to protect your pups from us?" Snape asked slightly disgruntled.

"Well, I thought if you knew, you would make me give them up," Harry said clutching his stomach even more.

Poppy had been waving her wand in the background getting readings from the mouse-boy on the table.

"Amazing, Harry, did you know that in this form, you are now almost completely female. Can you switch back to human form or can you not go back?" Poppy asked.

In answer, Harry simply transformed into his human form. Poppy waved her wand some more, "Astounding. Sev, even though Harry is now a fully functional male, his organs have been moved around to accomadate a womb. Harry? Would you mind removing the spells from your womb so that I can get readings on your pups?"

"Sorry, I can't do that. They're protection wards that protect the pups from harm. My magic automatically put them up, and I can't remove them without harming them."

Draco interrupted quietly, having just come to, "Harry, do those wards happen to protect against injuries, from say if you were to fall, from a certain bird we know?"

"Um, Draco, are you really mad because I didn't tell you?" Harry asked worriedly.

Draco sighed, "No, Harry. But you didn't answer my question. Was there a possibility that you could have injured my pups if you had fallen?"

"Oh, no. The protection wards even protect me from falls," Harry giggled. "So are you happy about the pups?"

"Madam Pomfrey, Sev, can you leave us alone for right now, we need to discuss some things, then you can look at Harry some more. Oh, Poppy, how long do weremice pregnancies last? He looks pretty big for just being two months along," He looked at Harry and saw that he had again transformed into his halfway form, "Why'd you change back?"

"It's more comfortable," Harry mumbled and then looked at Poppy, "So how long until the pups are born?"

"Well, my friend told me that different weremice have different gestation periods, but that on average about five months," Poppy said. "Now we'll leave you two alone to talk." She walked out of the office with Severus, closing it behind them.

As they turned to walk to a corner to talk, Albus Dumbledore swept into the room. He paused when he saw that they were standing off to one side, "Ah, Poppy, just the woman I wanted to see. Severus," He nodded at Severus, and then did a double-take. "Um, Severus my boy, those pajamas are delightful, but you may want to change seeing as how students will be starting to awake and move around the halls in a few hours," he said with his eyes twinkling.

Severus looked down at himself, 'Oh, crap. I just had to be wearing Remus's pajamas tonight of all nights.' "Headmaster, if you'll excuse me. Poppy tell Harry I want to see him in my office after classes today. Draco too." He then swept out of the Infirmary with as much diginty as one could have wearing Scooby-Doo pajamas.

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