The Favourite Godson
"WHAT?"
Harry jumped and sat up in his bed, his curtains swinging open so he could glare at Ron. "Keep it down, Ronald, I'm trying to sleep!" He snapped.
"Bit rich coming from you, Harry. Weren't you keeping us all awake just two nights ago when you were complaining about no-one playing tag with you?" Seamus retorted, smirking. Neville and Dean laughed at the indignant expression on Harry's face. It was a common occurrence for Harry to keep them awake long into the night.
"Not tag, Seamus." Harry rolled his eyes. "Death-tag! There's a difference, you know."
"Sure." Dean said. "Because death-tag sounds completely normal and totally not dangerous compared to normal tag."
"It is dangerous, that's the point!" Harry argued. "It makes it more fun!"
"Harry Potter, everyone!" Dean announced sarcastically. "The Boy-Who-Lived-Despite-Doing-His-Very-Best-To-Die!"
Neville laughed at Harry's offended expression. Ron was still staring at the letter in his hand with disbelief.
"But-but- wait, does Sirius know?" Ron asked Harry, giving him a quizzical look.
"Know what?" Harry asked, interest finally piqued. "What are you talking about?"
"Charlie sent me a letter." Ron said slowly. "It had two pictures in it. One of his wedding-"
"He's married?" Neville asked in surprise, sleep forgotten. "Since when?"
"A year ago is what he's put here." Ron frowned at the letter. "Mum is going to go ballistic, apparently he eloped. You'll never guess who with!"
"Tonks." Harry said confidently. Ron scowled at him. "Sorry! But breaking into Order meetings meant I had to watch them giving each other doe-eyes across the table. It was gross!" Harry mimed gagging.
Ron just snorted. "I do not envy you at all. But anyway, look at this!" He handed Harry a small picture. The other three Gryffindor boys got out of bed to look over Harry's shoulder.
"THEY HAD A KID?"
"KEEP IT DOWN!" Someone, who sounded suspiciously like Ginny, yelled from the floor below. Harry, Neville and Dean dissolved into giggles.
"They had a kid!" Harry said faintly, looking at the small, blue-haired baby. "A metamorphmagus kid as well! Oh, that kid is going to give them trouble!"
"Sirius is the godfather." Ron said with a smirk. "They're coming to the castle tomorrow."
"What?" Harry croaked. "But.. but.. but Sirius is MY godfather! I don't care if Tonks is his cousin, she can't steal my godfather for her baby!"
"You can be the godfather to more than one child, Harry." Seamus said consolingly. Neville, however, smirked.
"You'll have to get used to being second favourite, Harry." He said seriously. Ron caught on and stifled a laugh. "Everyone loves babies far more than teenagers, you know."
Harry gave them all a betrayed look. "But I saved the Wizarding world from Voldemort! I'm Sirius' best friend's son! I have to be his favourite!"
"Yeah, but Teddy has tiny little fingers and toes!" Ron wiggled his fingers with a gleeful smirk. Harry scowled.
"I- ugh! I hate you all." He grouched, and Neville and Ron burst out laughing. Dean and Seamus watched the three boys with amusement, far too used to their antics now to be phased.
"HE WHAT?" The Gryffindor boys shared a look at the screech from the floor below. Ginny had clearly just received her own letter.
"KEEP IT DOWN!" Harry shouted back, not one to pass up on the opportunity for payback.
"SHUT IT, BOTH OF YOU!" Hermione yelled.
"BUT CHARLIE HAD A KID, HERMIONE! AND HE'S MARRIED!" Ginny argued back.
"HE DID WHAT?" Harry and Ron stifled laughter when they heard a loud bang from a few floors below.
"IT'S ONE IN THE MORNING, EVERYBODY BE QUIET!" The usually mild-mannered and cheerful Dennis Creevey screeched.
There was twenty seconds of silence, and then the entirety of Gryffindor house's laughter echoed through the tower.
~
The next morning, Harry and his friends headed straight for the Hospital wing. Charlie and Tonks were waiting for them, looking exhausted but happy. Charlie was holding a small bundle of blankets proudly.
"Let's see!" Ginny demanded, using Harry's shoulder to lean over to try and get a better look at her first nephew. Harry shook her off and she stuck her tongue out at him.
"Not my fault you're short!" Harry taunted, earning himself a wallop on the back of his head. "Ow!"
"Shut up, you'll wake him!" Hermione scolded, craning her own neck to try and get a look at the child.
"This is Teddy Tonks-Weasley." Tonks said proudly, snatching the bundle from Charlie and handing it to Ron.
"I'm an uncle!" Ron said tearfully, rocking the sleeping child slowly. Charlie grinned and ruffled his hair.
"I'm an aunt, and I want a turn now. Gimme!" Ginny said impatiently, arms outstretched. Ron handed the baby over, rolling his eyes as Ginny softened immediately.
Harry watched them wistfully, smiling as Ginny cooed at the green-haired boy snuggled in a fluffy blue blanket. Neville nudged him gently and Harry grinned at his friend. Hermione gave him a side hug and then went to coo over the baby with Ginny.
He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to grin at Charlie. "Congratulations on being a dad!" He exclaimed quietly. Charlie chuckled.
"Congratulations on being an uncle." Harry gaped at him. "Harry, you've been an honorary Weasley for years, since the day my mum met you. You are just as much of an uncle to this little guy as Ron is."
Harry definitely didn't cry, it was just hay-fever. Ginny gave him a watery smile and handed him the baby, giving him a one-armed hug.
"You're my second favourite brother." She whispered. Everyone knew Bill was Ginny's favourite. Even Charlie being the one to make her an aunt couldn't displace Bill from top spot.
Harry ruffled her hair with one hand and rocked the baby with the other. He looked very peaceful, making a few cute baby noises in his sleep. Dean and Seamus, who had been dragged along for the ride, watched them all with a smile. It was amazing, really, how much they'd all grown in seven years.
"There's my godson!" Harry turned to grin at Sirius, but was ignored. He felt the baby being lifted from his grasp and watched as Sirius walked off with the child, Tonks laughing at her favourite cousin's antics.
"He didn't even pluralise the godson!" Hermione snickered. Harry scowled.
"Remus, want a new godchild?" Harry asked the bemused man. Remus grinned at him.
"If you mean yourself, then absolutely not. I'll be grey-haired in no time!"
Harry pouted. He pouted a lot these days.
~
"I knew it!" Remus winced and Amelia smirked at the look on Harry's face. Without letting go of each other's hands, they turned to face Harry. "I told you, didn't I Draco? I told you there was a reason the map showed them together so much!" Harry jabbed him in the arm several times with a victorious finger. Draco shoved him off.
"Yes, you did, three thousand times." He said grumpily. The poor blonde was sick of relationship talk. "Can we go now?" He sent a desperate look Remus and Amelia's way. Remus mouthed and apology and Amelia grinned in amusement.
"I sort of thought it would be Snape and Amelia who ended up together." Harry looked slightly disappointed but then smiled widely. "Nah, this actually makes quite a bit of sense! Maybe the awful matchmaking spell that put Sinistra and Snape together was right after all. Actually, no, both of them like being single far too much. What is it with everyone in this castle being so against relationships? I'm almost at the end of my list."
"Good, so let's leave." Draco whined. "I want to go to bed now please."
"No, no time for sleeping!" Harry grinned brightly. "Now, next on the list is... Percy and Penelope." Harry said, pulling two pieces of parchment from his pocket. "Which will be difficult considering neither of them live here at the castle with us. We'll have to move onto the next couple. Cedric and Daphne? No, same problem, Cedric can't get in the castle. Ooo, what about Narcissa and Lockhart?"
Draco blanched and Harry cackled. "Kidding! Neville and Hannah are already together, so I can cross them off. Oh, how about Ginny and Dean?"
"What are you up to now, Harry?" Remus asked tiredly. Amelia just grinned at Harry, already having an inkling what the boy was doing from the gossip page Ginny and Kreacher ran in the student-version of the Quibbler: The Quabbler. Harry had no idea most of the Hogwarts staff and Amelia's ministry department were all subscribed.
"Since Charlie and Tonks eloped, me and Draco have been making sure it doesn't happen again using the marauders map!" Harry smiled innocently at the two adults.
"Unwillingly, on my part." Draco added. "Harry, can't you get Susan or Daphne to help instead? I'm tired!" He resisted the urge to stamp his foot. Only because if he did Harry would tell his mother and he would never hear the end of it.
"No, I promised Daphne I would use you. She gave me a whole box of Minnie's biscuits for it! She's also one of my targets." Harry said, noting something down on one piece of parchment before studying the other. "Ginny and Dean next then?"
"Harry, Weaslette doesn't want a relationship." Draco said. Harry stopped short.
"What? Really?"
"In Ginevra's words 'I am an independent woman and I like it that way, Malfoy, so don't get ideas from my relentless pursuits that are purely for my own enjoyment in embarrassing you."
Remus stifled a chuckle.
"So no Ginny and Dean, then. I can't believe that's another person I can't set up! To be fair, Ginny's always a been a bit of an anti-romance girl."
"I'm an anti-romance boy, so let me leave!" Draco begged. Amelia's eyes danced with unshed laughter.
"No." Harry faked a gasp. "Oh look, Cedric just appeared in the Headmistress' office! What a funny coincidence!"
Draco rolled his eyes. "Potter, I do not care. I just want to go to bed."
"Tough bananas, we're going to see Minnie and Cedric. Bye Moony, Amelia!"
"I'm going to kill Daphne." Draco said, allowing Harry to pull him away. "I swear it."