Albus Potter, Classmates and Elves

Ch 34 Lily Luna's Train Ride and Sorting

More significant additions and help from Deb and Diane.

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Ginny watched as Harry walked in with Minerva, more in love than ever with him. He arose first, used the loo, shaved, brushed his teeth, and then woke up Minerva and changed her, before bringing her in to nurse. That was love.

She put Minerva on a breast, naked above her waist, and relished in the skin to skin contact, Minerva nursing and touching her, and Harry lovingly looking at her, one hand on her thigh. Minerva was old enough to wean, but she was such a good toddler it was hard to give up this physical and emotional closeness. Besides, unlike her other children, Minerva would stay in her cot playing while Harry came back and touched all of her.

Life was good.

Lily was going to Hogwarts today. It was hard sending a young child away to school. Some Magi had started a home schooling program so they could wait until third or fourth year to send their children to Hogwarts, and Ginny understood both the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. Lily would be with her brothers and cousins, though, and not alone. Ginny remembered being at Hogwarts with her brothers. Although she would miss her daughter, she felt better knowing that Lily would have family around to watch out for her. Having family around should help Lily feel better as well.

Ginny looked lovingly at Minerva. She was not her mother with all those children, and having a fourth child was still at times a little bit of a surprise to her, but she was not quite ready to be a mother without a child at home either.

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"Are all the children ready for school?" Harry asked at breakfast later that morning. He had put down the morning paper when Ginny came into the room and the two served themselves breakfast from the platter.

'Our three are ready," Ginny announced, taking a sip of tea and toast, "Rose is going to be over prepared as usual. I helped Hermione get Hugo's things ready yesterday afternoon. Hermione has never quite learned how to manage Hugo.

"Ron is at the store. There are always people doing some last minute shopping. He is going to Floo over at the last minute to meet us. Hermione, Rose and Hugo are going to be here in a bit, and we all will go over together. We are using the Closet network this year. First the guard Elves, Mo, Jo and Dobedo will go, then Hermione, Rose and Hugo. Mitzi and I will follow with James, then Albus and Frerin, his Elf. You bring up the rear with Lily and Jane."

"Yes, ma'am," Harry kidded, causing Ginny to roll her eyes at him.

Harry walked out of the Closet and onto the train station. His Magic/Muggle Mobile beeped. There was a message on it that read, "Four Muggles with cameras are looking at the space between platforms 9 and 10." Harry was glad that he had insisted on everyone using the Floo or Closet networks this year. He had even had them stop using small offices or closets at King's Cross Station. Every Muggle family was paired with a family of Magi, and came to King's Cross from a remote location by Floo or Closet. No one, Magi or Muggle, was supposed to come to King's Cross station

He had several Aurors on the other side to keep any family of Magi from trying to go through the entrance to platform 9 ¾, and also to keep them from yelling out to Muggles, or trying to help what they thought were Muggleborn. Last year someone had taken a very blurry and bad video of one of the students disappearing the barrier and it had been spotted by the Magi department in charge of keeping an eye on those types of video and pictures. They had been quickly able to discredit the video but it had been close as it had gone viral on YouTube and in several other platforms. This year he did not want a repeat of that, as once on the net always on the net.