20 random facts about Harry Potter (as told by Sirius Black and Remus Lupin)
Twenty Random Facts about Harry Potter (as told by Remus Lupin and Sirius Black)
1. Remus sussed out your mum was preggers before she even knew, said she was glowing, and the tea she conjured tasted a bit like licorice and washing up liquid.
2. When she told your dad, he picked her up and spun her around, after which she was promptly sick all over his shoes.
3. When your mum was pregnant with you, there were a good three weeks towards the end when she would only eat pumpkin-flavoured ice cream and chocolate frogs. After you were born, she could hardly look at the things before going green in the face.
4. Be glad you're a boy, Harry. If you were born a girl, you would have been named Gertrude, after your grandmum, and would have inevitably been nicknamed something dodgy like 'Trudy' or 'Gertie’'
5. When you were born, your mum’s magic was so wonky that she turned your dad's hair purple and curly. He was so overjoyed when you finally came that he forgot and left it that way for hours after.
6. To celebrate, your dad single-handedly turned every scrap of paper at the Ministry of Magic baby blue. I hear that even today, people still find the random errant scrap of blue parchment.
7. Your dad wanted to decorate your nursery with quidditch-themed wallpaper, but your mum insisted on ducks. The night after the nursery was finished, Sirius snuck in there and transfigured the wallpaper so that the ducks were riding brooms and tossing around a quaffle.
8. The first time you met your cousin Dudley, you both cried nonstop for a good twenty minutes before your mothers both decided it was best to cut the visit short.
9. Once, your parents let Sirius babysit you while they went out, and when they returned, the whole kitchen was full of green smoke and the two of you were up on the roof, Sirius staring up at the stars while you slept peacefully, your little face buried in the crook of his neck.
10. Every night, your mum would sing you to sleep with a Muggle lullaby that her mum used to sing to her when she was tiny.
11. Your dad dropped you once, while your mum wasn't home, but managed to catch you before you hit the ground with rather spectacularly-timed levitation spell.
12. Your first word, much to everyone except Sirius’ dismay, wasn’t mama or dada, but 'pafoo.'
13. Your very first sign of magic was making the neighbor's cat (which you were terrified of) float eight feet off the ground. Cat never did come by the house again.
14. You took your first steps while your mum had her back turned, putting away some groceries in the pantry. By the time she'd turned around, you'd walked clear over to the icebox and were busy attempting to get to the cookie jar on top of it.
15. Your favorite toy was a broken snitch you found in your dad's old school trunk while he was cleaning it out. You carried it around night and day until it rusted because you drooled on it so much.
16. When they took it away, you cried so hard that your dad went out and bought a brand new snitch, broke it, and put a couple of heavy waterproofing charms on it before giving it to you
17. Your dad was dead set on getting you a trainer broom for your second birthday, but your mum threatened to have his bits removed if he did anything of the sort. He'd already picked out the model from the catalog and was planning on having it owled to Remus’s flat.
18. In the summer before they went into hiding, your parents used to have barbeques in their backyard every Saturday. Inevitably, your mum and I would sit in the shade and talk about how our weeks went, your dad would be hard at work burning meat on the grill and you would end up curled up around Padfoot, sleeping in the warm sun, tiny hands fisted in his thick fur.
19. Your parents taught you how to play hide-and-seek as soon as you could understand it. Just in case.
20. On the night they-- on the night Voldemort was killed, I was the first to arrive at the house. I found you whimpering, sprawled on the floor next to your mother's body. When Hagrid found me, I was rocking you to sleep, singing you a broken lullaby while I wiped the tears from my eyes.
ETA: OMG myrafur made me gorgeous art of # 20! *wibble*