(...) and the red-headed girl trailed tearfully behind her brothers, clutching her father´s arm.
"It won´t be long, and you´ll be going zoo", Harry told her.
"Two years," sniffed Lily. "I want to go now!"

"You´ll write to me, won´t you?" Albus asked his parents immediately, capitalising on the momentary absence of his brother.
"Every day, if you want us to," said Ginny.
"Not every day," said Albus quickly. "James says most people only get letters from home about once a month."
"We wrote to James three times a week last year," said Ginny.
"And you don´t want to believe everything he tells you about Hogwarts," Harry put in. "He likes a laugh, your brother".

(...) The new boy resembled Draco as much as Albus resembled Harry.
 

"Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked Teddy what he was doing-"
"You interrupted them?" said Ginny. "You are so like Ron-"
"-and he said he´d come to see her off! And then he told me to go away. He´s snogging her!" James added, as though worried he had not made himself clear.

"Oh it would be lovely if they got marries!" whispered Lily ecstatically. "Teddy would really be part of the family then!"
"He already comes round for dinner about four times a week," said Harry. "Why don´t we just invite him to live with us and have done with it?"
"Yeah!" said James enthusiastically. "I don´t mind sharing with Al - Teddy could have my room!"
"No, " said Harry firmly, "you and Al will share a room only when I want the house demolished."

"Don´t forget to give Neville our love!" Ginny told James as she hugged him.
"Mum! I can´t give a professor love!"
"But you know Neville-"
James rolled his eyes.
"Outside, yeah, but at school he´s professor Longbottom, isn´t he?" I can´t walk into Herbology and give him love ..."
Shaking his head at his mother´s foolishness, he vented his feelings by aiming a kick at Albus.
"See you later, Al. Watch out for the Thestrals."
"I thought they were invisible? You said they were invisible!"
But James merely laughed, permitted his mother to kiss him, gave his father a fleeting hug, then leapt on to the rapidly filling train.

"What if Im in Slytherin?"
The whisper was for his father alone, and Harry knew that only the moment of departure could have forced Albus to reveal how great and sincere that feat was. Harry crouched down so that Albus´s face was slightly above his own. Alone of Harry´s three childre, Albus had inherited Lily´s eyes.
"Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enouh to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew."
"But just say-"
"-then Slytherin house will have gained an excellent student, wont it? It doesn´t matter to us, Al. But if it matters to you, you´ll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The sorting Hat takes your choice into account."
"Really?"
"It did for me," said Harry
He has never told any of his children that before, and he saw the wonder in Albus´s face when he said it.

"He´ll be all right," murmured Ginny.
As Harry looked at her, he lowered his hand absent-mindedly and touched the lightning scar on his forehead.
"I know he will."
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years.