You're Such A Baby!
Chapter 2: To The Hospital Wing
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As Lily made her way to the hospital wing, James grabbed a strand of her long darkred hair.
"Why's Lily so big?" He suddenly asked.
"What did you say, James?" Lily asked.
"Why's you so big?" James said again and Lily giggled at his choice of words. "And where's this?"
'He does know how to find the difficult questions first...' Lily thought with a sigh.
"Well, this is a school, it's a school where you go when you know magic." Lily explained. "Do you know about magic?"
"Of course I know magic, silly! And why is you so big?" James asked once again.
"Um... that's because of magic. It's because of an accident, and now we have to go to a Healer, to see if we can fix this."
"No! Not to the Healer! I don't want to go!" James said as he held on to Lily with his tiny fists.
'I never knew he was afraid of the docter.' Lily thought, amused.
"Yes, we have to go to the Healer. We're here already."
James tried to escape, but she held on to him.
"Madam Pomfrey?" Lily called. "There's something with James Potter."
Almost immediately, the schoolnurse arrived.
"What's wrong with mr Potter, miss Evans? And why do you have a toddler with you?"
"Well, that's the problem. This IS James Potter."
"Who's that, Lily?" James asked.
"That is madam Pomfrey. She is the school nurse."
"Nurse?"
"Yes, nurse, a kind of Healer."
"Oh... But I don't want to be with a Healer!" James tried to escape again, and this time, he startled Lily and she let go.
James ran as fast as he could on his little legs to the door.
"James!" Lily yelled after him. "Come back here!"
"Catch me if you can!" They heard him yelling.
Lily sighed and ran after him. She could hear him laughing around a corner and sprinted around it. Not to far ahead ran James. A moment later she had caught him.
"Come on, squirt." She said as she held on to his hand and went to go back to the hospital wing. But James let himself fall to the ground in protest.
"I don't want to go there!"
Lily sighed exasperated. She didn't remember him being this stubborn when they were kids.
"If you go to madam Pomfrey with me, I'll show you some magic afterwards, okay?"
James thought about it and then stood up. "Deal. But it won't hurt will it?" He added.
"No, squirt, it won't hurt, I promise."
Lily never would have thought she'd be walking hand-in-hand with James again, but here she was walking with a toddler-version of her irritating housemate.
They entered the hospital wing again and James looked suspiciously at the schoolnurse.
Lily almost had a fit of giggles because of the face of the toddler.
"Miss Evans, if you would be so kind to put mr Potter on the table." Madam Pomfrey said in her usual impatient voice.
Lily led James over to the high examining table (do they have those) and lifted him up on it.
As the schoolnurse started examining James, she asked Lily:
"So, what happened exactly?"
"We were having Charms, and I was about to reduce something when someone pushed me and the half-pronounced spell hit him square in his back.
"I see." Madam Pomfrey said, as she was done examining James. "There's seems to be no harm to him, accept his change in age. How old are you, mr Potter?"
"Three" James said holding up three fingers. "And my name is James. Daddy is mister Potter."
"Well, miss Evans, I suggest you take mr Potter here to the headmaster, as I can't do anything to help him. As you're the Head Girl, you probably know the password to his office?"
"Yes, I'll go there right away, come on, squirt." She said as James jumped back to the floor.
She took James hand again and they walked down the halls to the gargoyle in front of professor Dumbledores office.
Lily wondered why the hallways and classrooms all were deserted, but realized then that it was probably lunchtime already. One look at her watch confirmed her thoughts. But that would also mean Dumbledore was in the Great Hall having lunch.
"Lily, where is this Dumblore?"
"Professor Dumbledores office is behind this statue, squirt, and we'll wait for him there. Lemon Drop." As the gargoyle sprang to life to reveal the staircase, James squeeled in delight.
"It moves!"
"Yes, but lets go up now, okay?"
James let go of Lily's hand and ran up the stairs.
"James! Not so fast!" Lily called worried. 'I can't believe it, I actually worry about the little piece of dynamite!'
Lily went the last part of the stairs with a couple of large paces and reached the door to Dumbledores office with James in front of it.
Just to be sure the Headmaster wasn't inside, Lily knocked on the door.
No response came, and after she had knocked again, she opened the door and went inside, not really sure if she had permission to be here. But since she had no intention of going into the Great Hall with the toddler, she remained.
Meanwhile, James was jumping up and down trying to get to Fawkes as Fawkes was looking down on James with curiousity.
"James! You'll hurt yourself if you keep doing that!" Lily warned.
"But I want to see the bird! What is it?"
Lily aproached the boy and bird and lifted James up so he was level with the Phoenix.
"Fawkes, I don't know if you recognize him, but this it James. James, this is Fawkes, he's a Phoenix." Lily introduced to the intelligent bird.
Fawkes let out a single note that still lingered in the air as Lily quickly turned around.
"Hello miss Evans."
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