• Growing up Harry •

• good day •

October 31st 1981

Harry sucked on his dummy and walked around on shaky little legs gathering toys and handing each of them to James

"Why thank you munchkin" James said softly watching his tiny son struggle to pick up his toys while still remaining on his feet

Harry crouched down to pick up a particularly big dragon stuffy and fell down straight on his bum, James winced expecting his son to wail and scream in pain

But Harry simply giggled and struggled to his feet once more

James let out a relieved sigh, it was still 6 in the morning and Lily needed her sleep, she'd stayed up until 3 the night before marking student's essays

James tried to reason with her to come to bed several times but she insisted on finishing them all, James was just relieved it was a Saturday and she could sleep in as late as she would like

His job turned out to be quite enjoyable, he loved teaching the students ... and showing off how skilled he was

The only challenging part was denying the impulse of calling Snape Snivellus. So far he'd only seen the greasy git once, and quite frankly that was enough for him

He already despised that the Slytherin man got to spend six hours everyday alone with Lily ... though he trusted Lily enough to not say anything and knew that she was trying to mend the friendship that had broken years ago

Luckily Dumbledore had allowed Lily and James to have full usage of the floo network, to ensure that on the weekends they could spend time with Harry and come home each night to care for their son

Harry and recently been spending a lot of time with his Uncle Sirius and Dumbledore, often alternating between the two throughout the week

It was rather hectic at the moment, busy schedules and busy times but James partially loved it ... it made him feel young again to be at Hogwarts and to see all of his Professors which he supposed now were his peers

Though he had to admit it was difficult to get up this morning. He had gotten up early and fed Harry to try and ensure Lily could get her much needed sleep

James was feeling pretty proud of himself,  he'd done just about everything perfectly for his son apart from dress him. Harry was only wearing his nappy, he refused to allow James to dress him which was odd because Harry had never put up a struggle over being dressed before

He liked to think maybe Harry wanted to be like him. James often strut around the house wearing nothing but his boxer briefs

James smiled and shut his eyes, a feeling of overpowering tiredness overtaking him

However, before he could find sleep he felt a gentle tugging at his finger

He opened his eyes and looked down to find Harry looking at him with those wide green eyes

"Hey what's up munchkin?" James rubbed his eyes and yawned trying to focus his attention on his son

Harry whined and pulled harder at James' fingers reaching his chubby little arms over his head

James smiled and picked up his son resting him against his chest as he laid back on the couch