About Harry

Molly

It is not exactly an absolute silence. As soon as Harry's cry stops, are Sunrise's screams the one merging with James shouting for me terrified in the background.

Me and the healer run there and Sunrise, crimson in the face, is screaming and trashing in James' arms.

'Grandma!' he exclaims frightened rocking her 'She just started out of the blue! I cannot calm her down!'

'Mummy, mummy' is the only intelligible word repeated over and over while she is flailing dangerously.

The healer intervenes gesturing me to take her from James but even before this passage is complete, the scream is quenched already in a whimper. She puts her plump arms around my neck 'Grandma' she moans 'Grandma, I want mummy'

I smoothen her curls while the healer is all busy with her wand pointed over her temple pronouncing incantations under her voice.

'Yes, my dear. I know you want mummy, but she cannot come' I reply wistfully following every gesture of the healer, searching her eyes.

'And daddy?' she asks sniffing.

'Daddy cannot come either' I say 'But he is fine'

In the meanwhile the healer nods slightly in my direction reassuring me. It was only a tantrum not the beginning of a seizure as we were all fearing. Probably she heard Harry screaming.

'He is not fine' she moans putting her head on my shoulder 'I wanna go to daddy'

'Another time, sweetie' I say taking her to bed, James following us like a shadow.

'You must sleep now' I add sweetly.

'With Jamie' she whines, her eyes still full of tears.

'Yes Midget, I'm here' he says sitting close to her on the edge of the bed and only then she relaxes and starts to close her eyes clutching James's jumper with one hand and starting to suck her thumb with the other.

James caresses her absent minded, but he has got a truculent look on his face watching us all.

'What the hell is going on???' he mouths.

Albus is the only one ready to answer, and not to be heard by Sunrise slumbering, he mouths back.

'Dad woke up'