Weremouse

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Ch. 43

Harry and Draco soon fell into a routine. Every morning they would take Deeto, James, and Gwen along with Ron and Hermione’s daughter Cleo, (after Harry and Hermione had started calling her Seethreepio, Ron and Draco had taken to calling her Seethru) and drop them off with Poppy and Winky, who would watch the quartet through the day while their parents were in class.

Therefore, the Infirmary was visited quite frequently by the four parents whenever they had a free block; Harry and Hermione more often, because they were both breastfeeding. Hermione soon sent off for breast-pumps for the two of them, and this allowed the ‘dads’ to help feed the babies, and also gave the parents greater freedom of being able to leave the babies with someone else for a while.

At the end of the day, they would collect their offspring, and go back to their rooms. They would then study and do homework for an hour with their friends, before playing with their children, getting them ready for bed and the putting them to bed. They would then spend the rest of the evening studying and finishing their homework, before going to bed themselves. Most often then not, they were too tired to do more than cuddle before falling asleep. Harry would get up with the triplets in the middle of the night to feed and change them. And then in the morning the cycle would repeat itself.

The only thing that changed on the weekends was that their rooms had become the hang-out place on non-Hogsmeade weekends and so most of their friends were to be found there, and while they were present neither Draco nor Harry ever held any of their children for longer than a few seconds, before they were snatched out of their arms. The same was true for Ron and Hermione.

Luckily, Harry and Draco kept a small refrigerator, charmed to work on magic, filled with bottles of breast milk, both from Harry and Hermione, in bottles that were color-coded for each child, Deeto’s were green, James’s red, Gwen’s yellow, and Seethru’s (as most had started calling her, because that was how Ron and Draco introduced her) were pink. Most were even willing to change and clean the cloth diapers Harry and Hermione had decided to use as a cheaper and more environmentally friendly compared to disposable diapers.

Therefore the quartet had many honorary aunts and uncles, both in the student body and the faculty. Everybody wanted to baby-sit the babies, but the only ones that were trusted enough for this honor were Auntie Poppy, Papa Severus, ‘Granny’ Remus, Aunt Minerva, Aunt Ginny, and Uncle Sirius. The babies seemed to like being with their Papa Severus best, which was probably because he would spend time as a mouse with them, just like Harry did.

Harry’s behavior had evened out. Severus speculated that the potions accident had caused Harry’s transformation to a full female mouse so suddenly, that his body hadn’t been able to adjust completely to the influx of female hormones, before his pregnancy caused an even greater change in his levels, not letting his body adjust to the new balance until about 24 hours after giving birth.

The babies were four months old, when Draco noticed something strange about Harry, but it was pushed from his mind as the NEWTs approached and everyone stressed over getting ready for them. Hermione organized study groups, and kept everyone on track. Once the exams were over, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and let their minds rest before it was time for them to join the real world. No one noticed Harry’s weird behavior before it was too late.

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A/N: What could possibly be wrong with Harry?