James Sirius Potter: Birth Story

Teddy's Sixth Birthday.

Ginny awoke with a start, and she quickly sat up. She looked around the master bedroom, and was reassured with the familiarity of the room. She then looked down to her belly, and rubbed it soothingly. She had just awoken from quite a nightmare. She felt scared and in danger, and had no one to save her, but Ginny being Ginny saved herself, but found herself falling down a never ending chasm, hence why she woke up how she did.

She looked over towards Harry, who was sound asleep, but decided against waking him. She slowly crept out of their bed, and walked slowly into the kitchen.

Tomorrow was Teddy's birthday, he would turn six years old, this shocked Ginny, as it only felt like yesterday that she was introduced to the little boy herself, and getting to see the loving smiles on both Lupin and Tonk's faces. These beams always resonated with her, as she imagined that one day she wold have those smiles present on her face, on the day her child was born, and that day was quickly approaching. But today was about Teddy, and she wanted to make sure that she could celebrate the occasion with her Godson, without any trouble.

Ginny had been feeling poorly as of late, only last night was she vomiting constantly. Padma assured her it would be okay, but that didn't take away from pain she was experiencing.

"I just hope I'll be alright for when he gets here." Ginny spluttered out, after Harry helped her up from her awkward position in front of the toilet. Ginny had just vomited out her breakfast, luckily Harry heard her, and rushed

"Don't worry if you can't, you've got to do whats right for you." Harry told her firmly, taking her hand, and leading her out to the living room.

"But it's his special day." Ginny told him, sitting down on the couch.

"I know." Harry kissed the top of her head. "But don't worry, everyones coming, he'll be loving the attention too much to notice."

Ginny pursed her lip, and shrugged her shoulders in agreement. "I guess you're right then." And she gave no more thought to the subject, and slept on the couch, for an hour or so, before she was woken to the squeals of Teddy Remus Lupin.

"--- so excited!" Teddy squealed at Harry who was laughing, as Ginny rubbed the sleeps out of her eyes.

"What? How long have I been asleep before?" Ginny said through a yawn.

"About three hours, don't worry, you haven't missed anything. Dromeda just left." Harry informed her, letting Teddy out of his arms.

"Mummy!" Teddy screamed, sprinting towards Ginny, luckily, Harry managed to grab Teddy before he could jump on her, but Ginny merely laughed.

"Hello Teddy!" said Ginny, feeling a pang of pain when being referred to as 'Mummy', "You excited for tomorrow?"

"Um hum! I see Vicky, Domi an all of friends!" Teddy exclaimed happily.

"It's going to be lots of fun." Harry replied in agreement, "but we've got to go somewhere first." He jerked his head knowingly at Ginny, who understood what he was saying immediately.

Every year, on Teddy's birthday, the trio visit Remus and Tonk's graves, at the graveyard in Hogsmeade. It was of the utmost importance for Harry and Ginny, to assure that Teddy understood that Remus and Tonks were his real parents, and that they weren't gone by choice. They weren't going to tell Teddy how they died, because that simply wasn't fair on the child, but they wanted him to know who they were.

"Say hello to your parents Teddy." Ginny whispered to him softly, a little over and hour later. They were standing in the silent graveyard, in front of two simple head stones, one belonging to Remus, one to Tonks.