On The Green

Chapter nine: Meeting the nanny!

April 7^th

Sevvy and I Portkeyed to Diagon Alley to buy some Maternity Clothes, you know the kind that grows with your body. It was really fun. I didn't even know that they sold Hogwarts robes in that kind of material. But I think it's just a charm, placed upon the fabric.

We even started shopping for some baby shower presents for the four babies that would be born around June. We bought four of those Silencing thingy's. You know so the babies won't start screaming! At least I was able to get out of Hogwarts for a while. That's more than I could say of the others.

My friends didn't know why Dumbledore wanted Sevvy to escort me to Diagon Alley. I guess Ginny would say that Dumbledore didn't want me to go around snooping in Diagon Alley. The real reason stayed hidden, they would find out soon enough when the baby was born.

Dumbledore must have sent Sevvy with me, because he was afraid I would get kidnapped, and didn't know where I had to look for the stuff I needed. As if Sevvy knew, he had to ask Ginny's mother first!

May 12^th

Dumbledore told each expecting mother and father that he had hired a nanny for the babies for the coming years. Her name is Daisy Stacey. He introduced her to everybody at dinner... after dinner she went to every expecting couple or single mum-to-be. So that meant that she visited me also. She wrote down my due date, October 20^th, and on her question where the baby's father was I didn't answer.

It was not for her to know who the father was, not yet anyway. That would happen soon enough as it was. Not that I was ashamed of Sevvy, but if I had to study Occlumency along with Harry because of my pregnancy... For all I knew she could be a spy for You-Know-Who! Come to think of it, I don't like her all that much, but as long as Dumbledore would trust her with his own child... than that was good enough for Sevvy and me.

But it was certainly getting busier. The Hospital Wing had already four places reserved for the four pregnant women in their last month. My baby wasn't due until October. Madam Pomfrey had me help in the Hospital Wing very often. I seemed that she wanted my help when the babies would finally arrive. I told her that I would do what I could, but

I was shocked to see my own name on one of the reserved beds.

"We have to be prepared for everything, Ms. Green!" she said. Normally she would tell me how irresponsible I had been and all. Now she didn't. I suppose that Dumbledore had talked to her. Dumbledore was a very clever man; just as clever as my Sevvy.

And true some babies come early, but they don't come as early as May when you're due in October!