Lizzy rushed over to her father and hugged him, Harry returning the gesture. After a moment Harry loosened his grip on her but Lizzy didn�t, she instead squeezed him tighter.
�Hey, I�ve only been gone a few days,� he said, but tightened his grip on her again.
�I know but I missed you.�
�Alright, come on you two lets go out for dinner, my treat.� Ron said, pulling them apart and dragging Harry out of the door.
�No Ron I�m really tired I just want to sit down for awhile and be with my daughter, but I would love for you both to join us.�
�Yeah sure, we�d love to�oof.� Ron grunted as his wife elbowed him in the stomach.
�We�ll leave you two alone for the night. How about we have dinner tomorrow?� Hermione suggested.
�Sure, that would be great,� Harry replied before they bid each other goodnight and the two Weasley�s left.
Lizzy and Harry talked long into the night and Harry carried his daughter to bed at 3 in the morning when Lizzy fell asleep in her chair.
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It was 8 o�clock the next morning when Lizzy awoke. Still extremely tired she looked around to try and work out what had woken her and found her self in a room she had never seen before. She got up and pulled on a robe she found on a chair in the corner and wandered out into the rest of the house which she now recognised from the night before.
Once she was out in the hallway, the noise which had awoken her started again. She followed the sound to the bathroom where she found her father leaning against the wall next to the toilet alternating between vomiting and coughing.
Harry didn�t realise she was there until she sat down next to him, rubbing his back.
�What are you doing up? It�s still early, go back to bed.� He said hoarsely as he started another bout of coughing.
Lizzy left the room and returned a moment later with a glass of water. He thanked her then drank some and spat it out again before drinking the rest only to throw up again a moment later.
�How longs this been going on?� She asked handing him the refilled glass.
�Since Tuesday but its just the flu it will go away, don�t worry.�
�But I do worry, Dad you don�t have an immune system anymore the only thing fighting this is your magic and magic runs out. I don�t want to lose you too soon.� She said burying her face in his shoulder.
Harry flushed the toilet and stood up to hug her properly.
�I�m not going anywhere for awhile yet,� he said pulling her away from his chest so he could see her face, �Now, why don�t we do and have some breakfast, then we can have a look around Hogsmeade, you won�t have seen the town yet have you?�
Lizzy shook her head lightly in answer and they both went down stairs and made some breakfast, Harry only eating a dry bit of toast in the hope that it wouldn�t upset his stomach, before they both headed out into the town.
While it was a Hogsmeade weekend for students 3rd year and above, they weren�t allowed into the town until 10 as they still half an hour until the students arrived, and Harry was pretty sure he didn�t want to stay out too long because of the teachers that would also accompany them.
�Come on, I want to show you Zonko�s,� Harry said dragging her in the direction that he remembered the shop being but much to his surprise and delight, he found that while it was still a joke shop, the name had changed.
Lizzy watched as a huge grin split across her father�s pale face as he looked at the shop before them, labelled in large and rather spastic lettering as, Weasley�s Wizard Wheezers.
�So they actually made it, I had wondered,� her father said softly to himself, before pulling Lizzy into the shop.
The walls were covered with a huge amount of jokes, packed along the walls and in boxes on the floor. The shop had also been enlarged with magic so it was larger on the inside then it looked on the outside.
Many of the tricks that could be seen on sale, Harry had seen and accidentally eaten or touched while in school at the hands of the Weasley twins, much to his dismay. But there was also hundreds more with he had never seen before.
�Don�t touch anything, you will regret it.�
�Dad, I�m not three anymore, I�m not going to brake anything.� Lizzy complained.
�No, I�m serious, you don�t know what it will do, something could bite or change the colour of your skin or anything really, I knew the guys who started this place it was dangerous being in the room with them.�
�Why thank you.� Someone said from the door at the other end of the shop.
�Yes what a compliment,� An identical person said.
If possible Harry�s grin grew wider at the sight of the two.
�Fred, George.� Harry greeted.
�Yes, and who do we have the pleasure of meeting?� Fred, or maybe it was George queried.
�Have you forgotten your benefactor so quickly?� Harry asked in mock disbelief.
�Harry!?� The twins shouted in unison before swooping down on him and embracing him. Lizzy having to move backwards quickly to avoid being knocked over.
The trio beamed at each other at the joy of being reunited after so many years and Lizzy once again couldn�t help but think about the life he could have had if she hadn�t been born. But she was bought back to the present when the twins squeezed him to hard sending him into another fit of coughs.
Lizzy went back to her father�s side and rubbed his back until the coughing stopped then she handed him a bottle of water she had brought with her for him, in case this happened.
The twins had instantly gone sober when Harry started coughing but when they saw that he was alright they went back to their happy selves joking to try and break the tension in the room.
�Didn�t swallow one of our coughing crunchies did ya Har?� George asked.
�No it�s just a little cough, nothing to worry about.�
A frown etched itself on Lizzy�s face and Harry saw it but she said nothing.
�We heard rumours that you were back but we didn�t think they were true, I would have thought it would be in the papers. Even after you disappeared there was still a story a week about you.�
�Yes well I don�t think the ministry want it getting around that I�m back.� Harry croaked, his voice having gone rough again from coughing so much.
�Come on.� One of the twins said grabbing Harry�s hand pulling him towards the back room.
�What where are we going,� Harry asked.
�Where do you think, Mum�s been worried sick about you.�
�Oh no I��
�No, your going to the burrow whether you like it or not.� The twin kept hold of his hand even when they got to the fireplace in the back room of the shop as if he was going to run away.
CONTINUE TO PART 2