Life with the twins was interesting, they seemed to do three things only; eat, sleep and cry. Harry was helping out the best that he could as a five year old by fetching and carrying, behaving the best he could and caring for the twins like a proper big brother. He was enjoying being a big brother now the babies were here and found that although Mummy and Daddy were constantly tired he was still important to them. He was getting to spend a lot more time at the Burrow with Mrs Weasley and the rest of the family. Mrs Weasley cooked with him and they spent the summer holidays out de-gnoming the garden and going on outings to parks and zoos and Arthur would take him to see muggle films and festivals.

Harry loved being at The Burrow, he liked that he could be a cheeky and mischievous 5 year old he never got to be before, he enjoyed caring for the twins but he liked being cheeky more. He was staying with the Weasley's for two weeks for his summer holiday, the twins were still a bit too small to go anywhere so when Harry found out the Weasley's were going camping he asked if he could go with them. After several in-depth conversations where his Daddy had told the Weasleys a trillion things they might need to know about Harry staying with them the Weasleys and Daddy both agreed that they would be okay looking after Harry he was dropped off at the Burrow.

The first week he was going to spend at the Burrow just to make sure he was okay with staying under the care of Molly and Arthur before they took him further away from his parents. Harry was in his element and he was soon causing chaos, Charlie was here too and they wasted no time in having some fun. When they first arrived through the floo Harry ran straight up to Mr Weasley for a hug and found himself swept up into the mans arms so the man could hold him easier. Harry and Charlie had already said their goodbyes to the rest of their family and their bags were already in the room they would be staying in.

It was Fred and Georges room and Harry was hoping to find some forgotten prank products there. After a quick lunch Harry left to explore the house, he checked floors for easily lift able slats and after an hour of searching he found it, the gold mine of Weasley products. There were hair dying sweets, aviatomobiles, antigravity hats and some other sweets which were without wrappers but suspected that one of them was a canary cream. He stashed these in his bag for later and took one of the flying toy cars in his pocket to play with downstairs.

Charlie was sat reading on the sofa, Mrs Weasley was knitting and Mr Weasley was no where to be seen. "Where's Uncle Arthur?" he asked. "Hello Harry, he's cleaning out the old shed if you want to go and help him or we could go to the pond." Mrs Weasley offered with a smile.

"Can we go to the pond later Aunty Molly?" Harry asked.

"Sure we will go after lunch for a swim, why don't you go and help Arthur, I'm sure he would appreciate the help sweetheart" she told him sweetly.

"Ok, you wanna come Charlie?" Harry asked.

Charlie shook his head preferring the quiet company of Molly Weasley to the energetic company of his younger brother and exhuberant uncle.

Harry made his way out into the Weasley shed in his combat shorts and green t shirt, Daddy always bought him green stuff…typical Slytherin.

"Hi Uncle Arthur, what ya doing?" Harry asked climbing onto the top of an old work table which was taller than he was and sitting on top of it to watch as his uncle went through a deep cardboard box.

"Hiya Harry, I'm sorting through some of my muggle stuff, need to make some space for some new objects I've got coming in, wanna help me?" Arthur asked excitedly knowing the Snape children grew up in a mostly muggle way, Severus said it helped them appreciate magic more if they had to grow up muggle.

Arthur held up a toaster before chucking it into the pile to dispose of, Harry wondered around picking up muggle toys here and there before jumping into Arthurs almost empty box and closing the flaps over himself giggling loudly, he was just the right size to fit inside the box without any problems and although the older part of his brain was telling him that this was massively childish but his five year old brain was over the moon and his imagination was working overtime, he was happy pretending that he was in a space rocket travelling to Mars and Uncle Arthurs tickling hands were alien tentacles trying to stop him reaching his destination. The game lasted until Harry eventually gave in to the alien tentacles and Uncle Arthur picked him up and pretended to eat him while he blew raspberries on his exposed belly.

After lunch-

Arthur and Molly walked with the boys down to the lake, it wasn't very deep so Harry was allowed to swim without arm bands with Charlie, Charlie was trying to play swim tag with Harry but Harry was too busy trying to splash his big brother, Harry dived under the water and swam to Charlie who was in the water yanking his swim shorts down and off before tossing them onto the side where Molly was sat with Arthur carefully watching the boys.

"HARRY" Charlie shouted and after spotting him beneath the water jumped on top of him pinning him down before pulling his shorts off to and chucking them out of the water. Harry spluttered when he finally arrived back above water and looked towards the Weasleys ready to protest when he and Charlie both realised the water they were in only reached their knees. Blushing both boys dove back into the water and splashed and wrestled with each other playfully. Eventually the brothers wore themselves out and were simply sat in the water. Mrs Weasley retreated back inside and Arthur looked at the two knackered boys before chucking them their swim shorts which they hastily tugged on before trudging out of the water and walking behind Mr Weasley back to the Burrow where they could shower before dinner.

Barely making it through dinner Arthur carried Charlie up to bed who had fallen asleep on the floor in front of the fire whilst Molly carried Harry who had fallen asleep on the downstairs toilet and after changing him into his night clothes they tucked the children in.

"Remember when ours were this small?" Molly asked Arthur while she stroked Harry's fringe from his forehead.

"Yea, I remember carrying the twins up to bed like this, I think the last child I carried up to bed was Harry Potter, when he fell asleep with Ron on the couch the first time he stayed here. I woke Ron up and sent him to bed but Harry was flat out, couldn't wake him up." Arthur remembered with a smile.

"I think it's time we went to bed too, we are no longer as young as we once were and I have a feeling these two are going to be quite the handful." Molly said taking her husband hand and after turning the light off and pulling the door to they left to get some rest of their own.