A New Story

Chapter 11

When it got late, Ron and Hermione needed to get back to their homes.

'Bye, Harry. Next time, you can come to the Burrow with Professor Snape. My mum would love to meet you.' Ron said.

'Goodbye, Harry. I really enjoyed coming here. You are welcomed to come to my home too. I will send you my address.' Hermione told him.

'That reminds me, if you ever want to send me post again, can you send me through muggle post if possible? Dad is scared that someone will intercept the mail sent from owl.'

'Sure, I'll make sure to tell my mum.'

'That would be even more convenient, I don't have an owl so I was already planning to send it by post.'

'Here. Send it to this address. It won't be sent directly to here, the entire house is covered with a Disillusionment Charm.' Harry handed them a piece of paper.

'Thanks.' and they both touched their portkeys and went back to their homes. 

Harry went back in the house and Severus was leaning on the doorframe.

'So did you have a good time with Weasley and Granger?'

'Yeah, they said we can go to their homes if we want. And I already gave them the address for them to send me post.'

'Good. Miss Granger seemed infatuated with the library. She kept asking me if she could borrow this book and that and in the end I charmed a bag to be endless, handed it to her and told her that she can take any book she wants and return them when she meets you.'

'Hermione's like that all the time. I think if she could, she'd take the entire library.'

A week later

'Hey Dad, I just got a letter from Hermione, her parents told her that if we want, we can come over to their house tomorrow. Are we free to go?'

'Have you finished your summer homework yet?'

'Not all, still have Transfigurations and Charms left.'

'Well, I recommend that you finish those as soon as possible so how about this, if you take the homework to Granger's and do it with her, you can go.'

'Okay, I can do that.'

'Then, write a response to Granger and I will send it to her.'

Next day

Knock knock 

'Hi, Harry.' Hermione opened the door and greeted when her mum came out of the kitchen.

'Hello. You must be Harry, Hermione's been talking all about you.' Hermione's mother looked down at the short boy. 'Good morning, Mr. Snape.' she couldn't help but blush under the handsome man's gaze. 

'Good morning, Mrs. Granger.' Severus stuck his hand out for a handshake.

'Oh, please, call me Monica.' and shook his hand.

'And you can call me Severus.' 

'Come in, Harry,' Hermione tugged on Harry's sleave and dragged him upstairs to her room, 'We need to do our homework first.' 

'It's always work with you.' Harry sighed.

'The quicker we finish, the quicker we can do stuff we like.' 

They used about an hour to do the work while their parents were downstairs chatting.

Downstairs

'So, Severus, Hermione told me that you are a professor at Hogwarts.'

'Yes, Monica, I am. I am currently the potions professor at the school. Your daughter is doing very well by the way.'

'Sometimes, I worry that she is too unlike the other children. When she was in primary school, I always had to go to her school and see her teacher because other kids bullied her. She studies a bit too much, other kids thinks she's a know-it-all. Does she have the same problem at Hogwarts?'

'Monica, you have nothing to worry about, she is fitting in quite well with the other students and has exceptional grades. I can even say she is the brightest witch of her age.'

'Really? Well, that's very good. She doesn't talk a lot about Hogwarts, my husband and I still have some trouble with all the magic stuff.'

'What would you like to know? I can tell you about it.'

Two hours later-upstairs

'Finally, we're finished with all the torture.' Harry sighed in relief.

'Stop being so dramatic, it wasn't that hard.'

'For you, it wasn't.'

'You just need to study harder. Okay, now, remember last time when I went to your house I found out something about Professor Snape?'

'Yeah?'

'I borrowed some books on that topic and I found that it is super possible for any Prince to carry a baby because as long as they have Prince blood in them, they can do it.'

'H-how does that actually work? I mean like how does-you know, the baby get in there?' Harry fidgeted nervously and blushed for asking such a question.

'The same as any normal baby would "get in there".' Hermione quoted Harry's funny use of words. 'You do know how it works right? The birds and the bees?'

'Yes, yes, of course.' Harry was now as red as a tomato.

'They need to carry the baby longer though, since they have to form a birth canal.'

'How long?'

'Depend on age, it can sometimes even take up to three to four years if the bearer is young.'

Just then, Monica came upstairs to check up on them. 'Kids, are you finished yet?'

'Yes, Mum. We're finished already.'

'Great, you two can come downstairs. Prepared some tea for you.'