Chapter 24
“Reckon we can replicate Sirius’ mirrors?” Harry asked Remus.
“Not without Sirius and James’ notebooks.” Remus muttered.
“We could try Hermione’s ʛalleons?” Colin suggested.
“The Aurors have two-way parchments.” Tonks offered.
“Can we modify that to be multi-directional?” Harry asked Fred.
“We can try.” The redhead replied.
~~~
May 28th 2920
The day was bright and warm, with a gentle breeze from the west. Ideal travelling conditions. But that didn’t stop Harry from being mother-hen and fussing over Golly. It was his second day in harness and Harry was taking no chances of the stallion over-taxing himself. Because of this, they started out, later than usual and everyone was in agreement that they’d take a longer lunch break, followed by stopping when the sun was still well above the horizon.
The all knew that whoever the person was that was at Bree, they’d been there for years and were likely well established.
As he sat with Golly’s reins in his hand, a tiny part of Harry wondered if it could possibly be his mother, in Bree. But the larger, more practical part, shrugged it off and said they’d find out, soon enough.
Knowing that the people in the Iron Hills were safe and accounted for, concern fell on the two to the west. Did they get Fred’s Patroni? And if so, how did they react and how will they respond? Who were they and were they connected to any of the travellers? Would they welcome the travellers? Did they even know who the travellers were?
Harry paused to let Golly drink at a tiny brook, then paused a bit longer, a hundred yards on, so that each of the other wagons could do the same. He blinked in surprise as Tonks trotted around the side of his shop-cart with Teddy in her arms.
“Wotcha, Harry.”
“Wotcha, Tonks.” Harry replied.
“Can I ride with you for a bit?”
“Sure. Pass me Teddy and hop on up.” He held out his hands for the giggling baby. “Hello, cub. You gonna ride with Uncle Harry?”
Teddy babbled happily and Golly’s ears flicked back as he listened to the new sound. Slowly, the tension that had entered the stallion’s body, when Tonks had first appeared, faded away.
“Nice one, cub.” Harry nuzzled Teddy’s fat cheek and looked askance at Tonks when she wiggled on the seat beside him.
“Your drive-seat isn’t all that comfortable, Harry.” Tonks muttered.
“Cushioning charms,” was all Harry said in reply.
“Huh.” She grunted and applied the charm, before settling down with a sigh of pleasure.
“Yeah. Can I keep Teddy for a bit?” Harry asked, holding the boy close. “I miss my Teddy time.”
“Until lunch, sure.”
Harry grinned and when he heard Fred whistle, he laughed and called out, “move out, ponies,” in a happy voice. Golly had quickly learned the command and eagerly leant into his harness, putting the shop-cart in motion. A quick glance over the top of the cart, showed the other wagons following him.
“What’s up?” Harry asked.
“Nothing.” Tonks shrugged. “Just thought I should touch base with you. Anything I need to know?”
“Nothing new since last night, no.” Harry answered.
“Oh, good.” Tonks smiled. “I can just enjoy the ride.” She leant back on the seat and tilted her head back, closing her eyes to enjoy the sunshine. “Tell me a story, Harry. Tell me about my son’s life, for the last few months. You’ve had him for longer than we did and we missed so much.”
“Nah, I gave Fred some memories and he’s going to turn them into training memories for you and Remus.” Harry answered. “Might not be exactly the same as being there, but it’s pretty close.”
“Ooh, yes, please.” Tonks nodded quickly. “So…? What was it like? On the run with Ron and Hermione?”
“Interesting…” Harry shrugged. “I spent far more time with Hermione than I did with Ron. For all that the Weasleys are pro-muggle, they’re very… magical... And they’re very sheltered.”
“How?”
“Ron had no idea what hardship is. No idea what it means to go hungry. Not just missing a meal or two, but so hungry you no longer feel it. He hadn’t listened to Hermione when she told him what our ‘camping’ trip was going to be like. Little to no food, living in a tent, changing locations every day, hours researching with the books that Hermione stole from Dumbledore’s office and the Black Library, walking for hours instead of apparating because we didn’t want the Ministry to track us, not popping back to the burrow for meals and clean clothes or showers.”
“Sounds pretty rough.” Tonks grimaced. “You’d probably have been better to go purely muggle.”
Harry shook his head. “We thought about it, but while Ron was with us, we never really considered it, he would have just stood out too much. And after he left, we realised that going muggle wasn’t going to help, it would just give the Ministry an easier way to track us.”
“Any magic in a muggle area is traceable.” Tonks nodded.
“Yeah, we figured that might be the case.” Harry agreed.
“And you and Hermione never…?” Tonks trailed off suggestively.
“No.” Harry disagreed. “She’s my best friend. And she's got a crush on Ron”
“Oh, okay, hadn’t known she was interested in anyone.” Tonks winced. “Sorry.”
“And so you should be.” Harry huffed. “Geez, Tonks, you need to pay a bit more attention, Ginny was… Yeah… I liked Ginny…”
“Sorry, Harry.” Tonks slid her arm around the dark-haired dwarf’s shoulders. “Just tell me to shut up for a while, okay?”
“Shut up, Tonks.” Harry obediently repeated the direction.
Tonks snorted, but stayed quiet. Teddy, however, decided that he didn’t like the silence and started to babble to Harry.
“Is that so, cub?” Harry held the reins in one hand and Teddy with both arms, reasonably confident in his ability to multi-task like this, he’d had plenty of practice, after all. “I know, you like Uncle Harry’s stories. You want to hear about Uncle Harry, Aunt Hermione and Uncle Ron breaking into Gringotts and stealing a dragon?”
Tonks’ eyes widened and her jaw fell, as she turned her head to face Harry, but Harry wasn’t paying attention to her, his focus was on the boy in his arms and the pony in front of him. “We’d spent a few days with Aunt Luna at Uncle Bill and Aunt Fleur’s place, when Aunt Hermione realised that we had Bellatrix’s wand and a chunk of her hair. So, we decided that we could ‘second-year’ it, to get into her vault…” Harry spent the next couple of hours telling Teddy and, by the fact that she was sitting beside Harry, Tonks, the story of breaking into and out of Gringotts bank.
After lunch Tonks re-joined her husband, taking Teddy with her.
“How was your morning?” Remus asked.
“Oh, God…” Tonks moaned.
“That good?” Remus chuckled.
“Harry, Hermione and Ron brewed polyjuice potion, in a bathroom, in second year... then did it again, in Bill and Fleur’s back shed, so they could break into Gringotts.” Tonks answered.
“What…?” Remus gasped.
“Hermione polyjuiced as Bellatrix and used her stolen wand as identification.”
“…oh, gods above…” Remus’ eyes went wide.
“Ron dressed up as Dolohov’s brother.”
“… no…”
“Harry went in under his invisibility cloak and used the imperius on Manager Bogrod.”
“… not another word…” Remus muttered. “I don’t want to hear another word…”
Of course, his wife just ignored him and kept speaking. “They got into the vault and stole Hufflepuff’s cup.”
“… no…”
“And to get out, they stole a bloody dragon.” Tonks sighed.
“How the hell did you find this out?” Remus demanded.
“Harry’s telling Teddy stories about us and those that got left behind.”
“Including Ron and Hermione…” Remus muttered.
“Including Ron and Hermione.” Tonks nodded. “That means all the shit that he got up to at school and out of it.”
Remus looked at Tonks and very seriously asked her, “should we be letting Harry near Teddy?”
Tonks tilted her head as she considered the question. It was many minutes before she answered.
“Yes.” She finally said. “The more Teddy knows about the good and the bad of magic, the better. And knowing the ‘adventures’ that Harry got into, the trouble it caused and the consequences, maybe he’ll hesitate before he runs head-long into something.”
Remus raised a brow. “He’s the son of a Marauder and an Auror. Do you really think knowing the consequences is going to stop him?”
Tonks sighed. “Nope, but if we’re lucky, Harry will be right beside him, to make sure he stays alive, until he learns a little discretion.”
The pair looked at each other for a few seconds, before they started to snicker. Snickers that became chuckles, that led to all out laughter.
“Yeah, right.” Remus said between laughs. “Harry will be teaching him everything he can and encouraging him, anytime Teddy expresses an interest in a prank.”
“Oh, we are so screwed.” Tonks muttered.
“We are.” Remus nodded.
“Sounds like fun.” The pair said together and started laughing, again.
They stopped at Bell Bridge for the night and planned to stay there the following night, as there was to be a small market, the next day, and travellers were always welcome. Harry and Fred put their shop-carts in place, but left them locked, with a space between them for Lavender and Colin’s tables.
It was at dinner that evening, that Harry realised that while he’d pushed Fred, Colin and Lavender to have a business to make a living with, he hadn’t talked to Remus or Tonks about either of them doing the same or that he’d given them, their share of the Summoned monies.
“Hey, Remus?” He asked as, Colin and Fred took their plates.
“Yes, Harry?” Remus replied.
“I forgot… we put aside a portion of everything that was Summoned, for those that we picked up along the way.” Harry said.
“Like Dora and I?” Remus asked.
“Like you and Tonks, yes.” Harry nodded. “Give me a minute and I’ll fetch Lavender and she can explain. While I do that… Have a think. What are you going to do, here? For a living, I mean?” With that, Harry left his seat and went across to Lavender and Colin’s wagon, knocking on the doorframe, to announce his presence. “Lavender? You wanna come explain the money stuff to Remus and Tonks?”
“Sure.” The girl answered, from where she was putting clean laundry away. “Let me just fetch the moneybox.”
“Cool.” Harry re-joined the others around the campfire, pouring a mug of tea for Lavender, knowing that the girl would want one.
“Here, you are. Your share.” Lavender tossed a purse at Remus and a second at Tonks, as she reached her seat.
“We don’t-”
“No arguments.” Lavender held up a hand. “Colin, Fred and I made the decision to split the proceeds of the Summonings. Only the money, jewellery, precious metals and gems. Everything else went into the stash, that we used to stock you from.”
“Harry kept all the money, jewellery, precious metals and gems from what he Summoned, from Dol Amroth to Two Rivers, just west of Pelargir.” Fred added, as he brought over a plate of Harry’s mini-cupcakes. “Everything else he added to the stash. Oh, sure, he kept a few things for himself, but so did we.” He shrugged and went back to help Colin.
“Any money I Summoned before Pelargir, is mine.” Harry went on. “Pelargir and after? Lavender, Colin and Fred made the call on that. Not me. You want to argue the matter? Argue with them, not me.”
“We divided it up.” Lavender explained. “Initially, we split it in half. One half was for us, divided into a set number of portions. And the other half, for communal funds for buying a home, somewhere we can all use as a base for our businesses.”
“Right.” Remus nodded.
“But once we past the second Dunland Guard-Station, and left a purse with them, to help travellers stock up before Rohan, we changed that slightly.” Lavender said. “The portion that we’d given Harry? He placed a quarter of it in Teddy’s purse and a quarter was added to the communal portion.”
“And that’s the end of my involvement.” Harry said. “I’m not helping with the Summoning or the sorting and I get nothing out of it, but I can buy any purses, pouches, locks, keys, lockboxes, trunks or anything that involves locks or keys. I pay the communal purse a quarter of what I will sell the items for.”
“Fair.” Remus nodded, again.
“Colin, Fred and I got together and we redistributed the Summoned monies.” Lavender said. “We’ve never been quite comfortable with having as much as we did, so we came up with a different plan. Instead of equally dividing it, we decided that we’d take a set amount and as we pick up more people, each of them would be given the same amount.”
“That sounds… more reasonable…” Remus agreed.
“We still left one half for communal money.” Lavender continued. “That’s for both our big purchases, like a home or our travel expenses. Oh, or larger one-off purchases. Like your ponies.”
“I thought Harry bought them.” Remus argued.
“No. He handled the purchase, but he used the communal purse to do it.” Lavender corrected.
“Huh.” Remus grunted. “I think I’m happier about that, than Harry paying out of his own pocket.”
“Yeah, that’s how I felt, too.” Fred agreed as he and Colin sat back down. “Dishes are done.”
“The communal money is split up, we keep a smaller amount in the purse, that we can use for purchases like grain and food, and the rest is in the kitty, which is a tin lockbox.” Lavender went on with her explanation. “The other half, the start-up for our pickups, is also in a lockbox and we keep a few empty purses in it, just in case we find someone. Each person will get a purse for everyday use, it’s charm to sort the coins into the relevant pocket and has an ‘As Necessary Expansion’ charms as well as featherlight and HIPS. As well as a second purse for your 'savings'. If you want a lockbox, instead of the second purse, to keep the majority in, Harry will only charge you what we make him pay. ”
“Right.” Remus nodded.
“Between the two purses, you get þ100, ‡100, ƒ500, Š500, Ç500, §10, which is… um… correct me if I’m wrong, Fred… Š8000-ish? Or Ç800-ish?”
“About that, yep.” Fred nodded.
“And there’s enough to give Dora and I that much, each?” Remus asked.
“That’s less than ten thousand sovereigns, Remus.” Lavender sighed. “And not all of it in sovereigns. We’ve probably got over a million coins, a barrel each of florins, sovereigns and crowns, as well as a bucket of sceptres. Each barrel holds well over two hundredthousand coins. Yes, we have enough.”
“…oh…” Remus sounded stunned.
“Yeah…” Lavender sighed, again. “Money’s not really an issue. We’ve probably enough, right now, to give out a hundred start-up purses, maybe even two-hundred. We’re going to use the communal kitty to either buy or lease a property, that we can call home. We need some sense of permanence. And Colin, Harry and I, really need to finish our magical educations, too. Not so much the academic side of things, but the practical stuff. The last three years at Hogwarts were little more, than time spent reading.”
“I heard about Madam Umbridge.” Remus nodded.
“She was nasty…” Lavender screwed up her nose.
“Well, I think I can help.” Remus offered. “The library that Hermione sent is quite good and what Andromeda and Kingsley sent was even better. All of my books, everything of mine from Grimmauld Place, books, potions, equipment, clothes, everything. And the same for Harry and Sirius. And that reminds me, Harry? I need a trunk to put your things in and one for Sirius’ stuff would be good. I think Andromeda even managed to get some of James and Lily’s things, but I’m not completely certain. I know it’s not mine or Sirius’, and Dora says they’re not hers, but beyond that? I don’t know…”
“Do you think we can make a copy of Hermione’s library trunk?” Harry asked. “I’ve no idea how many books it can hold and I don’t want to overcrowd it.”
“They come in a few different sizes.” Remus said. “One hundred, five hundred, one thousand, five thousand, ten thousand and fifty thousand.”
“How do we tell?” Harry frowned.
“Inside the lid, there’s a set of basic instructions.” Remus replied. “It should have the model and book limit printed there.”
“Cool, I’ll check it out in the morning.” Harry replied. “But it would still be handy, for each of us to have our own library trunk. In hunting for a spell that would let me copy Teddy’s stories into a book, I found a spell that would let me copy an entire book. Don’t ask me how, but somehow it sidestepped the copywrite issue. If we could find some empty books, I think I have a dozen or two, we could copy all the books and then there’s no reason we all can’t have a complete library.”
“You’re sounding a little like Hermione, there, Harry.” Fred grinned.
“Sod off.” Harry threw a mini-cupcake at Fred, who caught it and shoved it into his mouth. “Great manners, Fred, your mother would be so proud.” Harry snarked.
“She gave up on teaching George and I manners, years ago, mate.” Fred said, around the mouthful of cake.
“Ew, gross.” Lavender grimaced. “Mouth shut, Fred.”
Tonks and Remus looked at each other and snickered.
“You sound like siblings.” Remus chuckled.
“We are.” Colin said. “None of us wanted to be alone and…Well, we’ve decided that we’re adopting each other, so…?” He tossed a cupcake at Harry, who snatched it out of the air and handed it to Lavender, who smiled and quietly thanked him.
“Good.” Remus said. “I think you all deserve to have family. And I hope that Dora and I are included in that family. But… I’m only Teddy’s father, none of you get to call me dad or Dora, mum. Got it?”
The four younger dwarves looked at each other and grinned. “Yes, Uncle Remus.” They all said together.
“Bloody brats…” Remus muttered.
“You volunteered us to join them.” Tonks shook her head, chuckling. “Your fault, not mine.”
Remus sighed. “Yes, dear.” He knew when he was beaten.
~~~
May 29th 2920
The market wasn’t the largest they’d been to, but it was very profitable.
Remus had helped them set up their stalls and then wandered off with Tonks, occasionally reappearing with various items that one of them had bought. Leather seemed to be Remus’ primary purchases, but Tonks went after a tinsmith and emerged from his stall with what Harry knew, thanks to Seamus, were the pieces of an alcoholic still.
But as he had customers cooing over Teddy, who was strapped to Harry’s chest, when she dropped her purchases at his stall, he had to bite his tongue and remind himself to ask her about it later. Next, Remus was back with a box of threads and bone tools. Then Tonks with a selection of bottles, different sizes and shapes. Remus came back with a boxes of screws, bolts, nuts and nails, before taking Teddy from Harry and settling down behind Harry’s cart and making notes, on scraps of parchment. Tonks made three more trips, each time returning with boxes of fruit and when she set out on her fourth foray into the market, she returned with a box of plants.
Magical plants.
Boomberry, crazyberry, dirigible plums, Alihotsy, Lady’s Mantle, Moly, Niffler’s Fancy, Gurdy Root, Fanged Geranium, Fireseed bush and a pair of Flitterby bushes. Also, in the box was a smaller box, that when Harry looked at it and raised a brow in question, Tonks opened it to show carefully labelled envelopes of seeds.
“Nice.” Harry grinned. “Professor Sprout would be so pleased. Your husband’s out back, with Teddy and Crookshanks.”
“Great.” Tonks had to stop, as more customers descended on Harry. “Later.”
“Tonks?” Harry asked, as they returned to the camp that they’d made, on the northern side of the creek. “What’s with the still?”
“I was thinking about what you said to Remus, last night.” Tonks answered. “About making a living? I thought about it and I just didn’t know. But after dinner, I was going through the stuff that mum sent and I found dad’s journals, as well as a box of memories and a travel pensieve. I checked out some of the memories and… well… there was a whole group of them that dad got from mum’s Uncle Alphard. He worked for Trivet’s as a brew master. The memories show everything, from choosing a still, to setting it up for various different types of alcohol, to what to add when and how much. There’s even his recipe book. Well, the memory of it and I know the charms to copy text from my memory to parchment, so I can recreate it.”
“Right…” Harry tilted his head, he wasn’t quite understanding where Tonks was going with all of this.
“I’m not talking ordinary alcohol, Harry.” Tonks huffed. “I mean Firewhisky, Boomberry Brandy, Dirigible Plum wine, Rhubarb Brandy, Niffler’s Gin, Fireseed Scotch and Butterbeer.” She named the seven top alcoholic drinks in the wizarding world. “With Alphard’s memories to guide me, I should be able to recreate them. And we know from Tharbad, that dwarves like their drink. Imagine how they’d react to Firewhisky…” She grinned.
“Oh, hell…” Harry snorted. “There’d be a riot to see who could get to it, first…”
“And how much would they pay for it?” Tonks asked, a very fake innocent expression on her face.
“You could probably charge them as much for a gallon jug, as they’d normally pay for a Hogshead barrel of ale.” Harry answered, his own expression earnest. He knew he couldn’t pull off an innocent face.
“Exactly.” Tonks nodded. “I figure, I’ll start with a few fruit wines and spiced ales, until I can get the magical plants flowering and fruiting.” She nodded to the box in front of her and Remus’ wagon. “And get some practice that way, before I start with the magical stuff.”
“Your call,” Harry shrugged, “I have no idea what’s involved, so it’s all up to you.” He turned to Remus. “And what about you? What are you going to do?”
“Paper.” Remus answered. “I’m going to make paper and books. Thanks to you and Dori, I have a journeyman’s bead in bookbinding and I know how to make paper, so…? It makes sense. I can use magic instead of some of the larger tools, clamps and the like, to hold things until I can manually put things together.” He shrugged. “But it’s going mean that both Tonks and I will need shop-carts if we’re going to do the rounds of the markets.”
“Nope.” Tonks shook her head. “Only one cart. I’ll only be taking a small amount out and about and that won’t be for a few years. Plus, I can always keep my stock in a trunk that shrinks.”
“Huh…” Remus grunted. “That’d work.”
“Eventually,” Harry said, “I figure, that all of us will have a wagon to sleep in, and a shop-cart that’s towed behind it. Like my rig or Fred’s.”
Both Tonks and Remus turned to look at the wagons.
“Yes.” Remus nodded. “I can see that working.”
~~~
May 30th 2920
They left Bell Bridge not long after sunrise, Golly, Dancer and Delilah leading the way. The stallion was calming down and after lunch, Harry planned to try placing him further back in the caravan, but he was uncertain that it was going to work. Golly only seemed calm when he could hear Harry’s voice and that wasn’t going to work, not in the long brew. Plus, Harry missed driving Onyx and Ebony, although at this point, Golly was almost level favourite with them.
Tonks and Remus left Teddy with Harry, again, that morning and the young dwarf enjoyed the time he got to spend with his godson. It wasn’t until lunch time and spotting the newly risen moon over the plains to the north east, that Harry paused, blinking at the sight.
“Hey, Remus?” He called. “Come on over here.”
“What’s up Harry?” Remus asked as he reached out to tickle his son’s cheek.
“North east.” Harry nodded. “You seeing, what I’m seeing?”
Remus turned and faced the direction that Harry mentioned. He studied the horizon and the plains between them and it, but whatever Harry was seeing, Remus was missing it.
“No, I don’t think I do.” Remus said slowly.
“Above the horizon, about fifteen degrees.” Harry huffed.
Remus blinked and lifted his eyes, finally seeing a bright moon, fat and full.
“The moon…” Remus whispered.
“Yeah…” Harry agreed. “That’s a full moon.”
“Oh, dear…” Remus muttered. “You’re going to-”
“-do nothing.” Harry cut in. “That’s May’s full moon. What did you do for the March and April moons?”
Remus opened his mouth, paused, blinked and shut his mouth. It was a full minute before he spoke. “Nothing, I did nothing for either full moon.”
“Meaning?”
“I had dinner and went to bed beside my wife.” Remus whispered. “I’ve done that every night since we arrived here.”
“Right.” Harry nodded, slowly. “Tonks!” He called, loudly.
“You bellowed?” Tonks asked, cheerfully, as she joined them.
“Check it out.” Harry nodded in the direction of the moon.
After a few seconds, Tonks huffed. “What am I supposed to be seeing?”
“May’s full moon.” Harry replied.
“Oh, bollocks…” Tonks swore.
“Why?”
“We don’t have a basement here that can hold Moony.” She answered.
“And you need that… why?” Harry asked.
“You know what Moony is and what he can do, Harry.” Tonks snapped.
“So, what did you do for the March and April full moons?” Harry repeated the question.
“What do you mean, what did we do? We…” Tonks trailed off, as she realised the answer to Harry’s question. “We… we… went to bed…”
“Like any other night, right?” Harry was beginning to come up with a theory.
“Yes…”
“And Moony didn’t make an appearance.” It wasn’t a question.
“No…”
“Do you know why?” Harry asked. “Cause I think I might an idea...”
“Really?” Tonks grunted.
“Yep. Wanna hear it?”
“Oh, by all means.” At this point, both Harry and Tonks were ignoring a shellshocked Remus, who just stood there and stared at the moon.
“Remus died.” Harry said.
“And?” Tonks frowned.
“At least on Earth, Remus died.” Harry went on. “And Remus was a werewolf, but that’s not Earth’s moon.” Harry jerked a thumb in the moon’s direction. “This isn’t the moon that he reacts to. Either that or…”
“Or…?”
“Or in the process of Remus dying and being transported here, the werewolf part of him got left behind.” Harry shrugged. “But either way, that’s the third full moon that Remus has failed to change for.”
“…oh…” Tonks staggered over to Remus and somehow the pair clung to each other.
Harry smiled and turned away, this was a private moment and he was hungry.
Their camp that night was, again, beside a creek, this time the creek was wide and shallow, forcing Harry, Colin and Fred to pull out their shovels and get digging. It was too close to the road for them to use magic openly, but the three of them still managed to deepen a section of the creek, until it was deep enough to reach their knees. Then, it was time to wash ponies and clothes.
Tonks watched Harry as he washed Teddy’s clothes, for the most part, he used magic as a tool. Rather than applying cleaning charms, he used magic to turn the soap into a lather and push it into the fibres of the fabric, then mimicked the motions of a washing machine before rinsing each item in the creek and hanging it in the sun to dry.
“Why not just use a Tergeo?” Tonks asked.
“Because sunlight has antibacterial properties and sterilises at the same time, plus things dried in the sun smell nicer than those dried with Tergeo.” Harry answered.
“Huh.” Tonks grunted and nodded. “Okay, that makes sense.”
“Yep.” Harry grinned.
“And you know this… how?”
“Hermione requested that Gringotts send me some memories, one of them was a training memory of paediatric childcare.” Harry shrugged. “She wanted me to be able to care for Teddy, right from the start.”
“Oh.” Tonks thought about that for a moment. “Thanks, Hermione?” She said hesitantly.
“Definitely, thanks, Hermione.” Harry nodded.
“Okay, then…” Tonks nodded. “Thanks be to Hermione.”
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