Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns Harry Potter and I based the fic off of IcyPanther's Parenting Class. (With her permission!). Whoa, I haven't read that story in almost 4 years!

Hey all! Sorry I haven't updated in almost a year. I can't believe I put the story to the side. I will do my best to stay on top of things and write!

It has been a tough year for me, with medical issues and college, though I know that that is not an excuse.

As always, thank you to Tamx2 for beta-ing. You have been there for me through thick and thin. Don't know what I would do without you!

CHAPTER 13: All the Raindrops

Snape, Blaise, and Draco stood dumbfounded as Leah began wailing. 'What do we do? Why is she crying?!' Suddenly, Missy stomped her foot and shouted, "Explain yourself! Have you kidnapped us? Give us back to our parents!" When no one responded, Missy huffed and stated, "I don't like you!"

As Blaise began laughing, Draco cleared his throat and said, "Hi guys! My name's Draco Malfoy! Apparently you don't remember your parents dropping you off here last night! Well, you two have been invited to participate in a camp for gifted children! You'll be here for six weeks and Blaise and I get to take care of you! We'll show you around and introduce you to the other participants. While you are here, you get to learn what it is like to be a teenager in modern Wizarding Society!"

Silence reigned as the twins took in this new information. As Leah quietly wiped her tears away, Missy crossed her arms and pointed out, "There is no such thing as magic, dummy! That only happens in fairy tales!"

The three adults paled as they realized one vital thing that the girls had forgotten to mention: as kids, they didn't know magic existed.

"But, but your mom's a witch!" Draco blurted, flabbergasted. "So is your older sister! You attend Sleepy Hollow's School for Gifted Youngsters!"

Leah looked up and asked innocently, "We learn magic at Sleepy Hollow's? But all we're doing is learning to read. And write. And count. And what the colors are. Guess what! I can count to thirty!" Here she grinned, waiting for the adults to praise her and generally think that she's brilliant.

"Well, I can count to fifty! And I know how write my name better than you do!" Missy stamped her foot again.

As the two little girls began their bickering, Snape sighed and made a decision. "All right girls! That's enough! Stop bickering! You're six years old and know better than that!" Blaise and Draco watched in shock as the two girls immediately stopped and muttered, "Yes sir."

Snape continued, "Now, you have been offered this amazing opportunity, and must show some decorum. Please follow me. We are going to the Headmaster's office to resolve this misunderstanding."

Draco and Blaise could only watch as the two girls nodded quickly and ran after Snape.

"How does he do it? Not only can he intimidate students, he can get control over crazy pipsqueaks!" Draco muttered as he took off after Snape. Blaise only shrugged and followed, hoping against hope that the girls would calm down over the day.

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"Ah…how…interesting. So you girls don't think that magic exists, eh?" The Headmaster said softly as the two girls shook their heads. "How to resolve this. This is quite unexpected. Even Miss Granger took it better than these two have."

A quiet voice broke his mumbling. "Um…sir, who is Miss Granger?" The adults looked down at Leah, who was sitting quietly in an enormous armchair. "I mean, I don't even know who she is, how can I be compared to her?"

Draco chuckled. "Well, let's just say that she is the most literal and clear-headed little kid in the world."

"Oh. Can I meet her?" Leah smiled, sincerely interested.

"Oh, that might work. Severus, would you please find Miss Granger and bring her here, along with Mr. Potter and Mr. Weasley?"

"Sir they are at breakfast right now, perhaps we should-"

"Breakfast?! I'm hungry too. Who cares if magic exists, I want to eat!" Missy exclaimed, Leah nodding dutifully by her side.

"Er…perhaps we can do that as well…" Dumbledore muttered, flabbergasted about the difference in personality between Little Missy and Big Missy.

"Why don't Draco and I bring Leah and Missy downstairs and introduce them then? That way they can eat too." Blaise asked.

"Splendid idea! Simply splendid. Go along children, please stay with your caretakers." Dumbledore herded the four out of the room. As soon as the door was shut, he turned to Snape to ask, "How well do you get along with them?"

"With who, sir?"

"With the Pasline children. Both Blaise and Draco were surprised enough to lower their Occulmency shields. They thought loudly enough about you that it hurt my ears. How, rather why, do you get on so well with them?"

Snape stalled, "I'm not sure what you mean sir. I treat all children the same and get the same reaction back. The girls were simply listening to authority the way every child should."

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outside of the headmaster's office…

"Um…your name is Draco, right?" Draco looked down at the two girls, surprised that Leah had been the one to initiate the conversation. She was so shy as a kid!

"Yes, my name is Draco. This is Blaise. We're both seventeen years of age. And we're British."

"I knew I liked you guys! You're British?! Oh my gosh, I'm so excited!" Leah squealed and clapped her hands together. "This is my second time coming to England! I've always wanted to live here too, but mommy says that the time isn't right. Our older sister Becky is going to a new school in a year or so, and Mommy said something about not wanting to settle for less. I didn't really get it…" Here, Leah smiled happily, grabbed Draco's hand, and swung her arm softly, as if she didn't have a care in the world.

"Well, I'm hungry! Can we go now?" Missy whined. Suddenly a loud growl emitted from her stomach. Her blush was enough to make the other three start laughing.

Finally, Blaise answered, "Of course. Let's go introduce you to some bona fide British children."

As they walked down the hall, Missy asked, "What does bona fide mean?"

-scene break-

Unfortunately, by the time the kids got to the Great Hall, most of the other children had made their way to classes. Draco ran to catch Harry, Ron, and Hermione before they got to class while Blaise helped the girls sit down at the table and find something to eat. He discovered just how picky children can be when they want to. Leah carefully buttered her toast until it was covered with a thin layer of butter. Missy wouldn't drink the pumpkin juice, stating that it was "dessert juice," and that she would only have milk at breakfast time. Leah happily followed her lead. Blaise decided he was in for a hard month or so with these kids—they were like Hermione squared, minus the pronunciation-fixing.

Draco waved Blaise over when he entered the Great Hall with Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "We have GOT to introduce the girls to Hermione. It may just save our lives." Blaise looked at Draco like he was crazy until Hermione began talking.

"Hi! I'm Hermione. I'm also from a family that does not believe in magic, but logically when you think about it magic must exist because think of all the impossible things that occur daily around the world and there is no explanation for them aside from magic. For instance, how we interpret color in our everyday lives when color does not actually exist as a physical property. Or how every snowflake is different. Or how radio waves travel and carry sound without being distorted. Or how on earth we can eat hotdogs without getting sick. Or why writing on post-it notes is so addicting? Or—"

"I like you." Leah blurted as Hermione droned. "You're interesting. Want to be friends?"

Hermione beamed. "Yes! You're nice. How did you get your hair to braid like that?"

Leah pulled Missy over to Hermione and the three began talking about anything that came to mind. Draco and Blaise gave relieved sighs and grinned at Harry and Ron, who looked a little hassled by Hermione's overflowing intelligence.

Blaise looked at their faces and muttered, "Trust me, she isn't as bad as she could be. Try having to deal with two of her." Harry and Ron laughed as Leah proceeded to drag Hermione to the breakfast table with one hand and tow Missy with her other hand. Missy seemed slightly disgruntled to have her bossy role taken over, but also seemed to enjoy being able to ignore Hermione as she ate her breakfast.

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Draco stared down at Hermione and asked Blaise "Wait, how did this happen?" Blaise shrugged. Ron looked over at them and said, "Shouldn't it be Harry asking that? He's the one stuck with the twins."

Leah and Missy had decided that they wanted Harry to take them to the bathroom. Not Draco or Blaise, but Harry. Thus, Ron was left with Blaise, Draco, and Hermione to go to class while Harry tried to find a girl's bathroom that wasn't haunted. Unfortunately, this meant that Hermione wanted to ask Draco and Blaise what they knew about Leah and Missy, because she wanted to know more about them. Fortunately, it meant they didn't have to deal with Leah and Missy's frantic reaction to their first encounter with a ghost as they made their way back to class after finding the bathroom.

"OH MY GOD!!! Missy it's a ghost!" Leah yelped as she grabbed Harry's leg and tried to run away. Missy bravely stood her ground and shouted "EVIL SPIRIT BE GONE" before realizing that it didn't work like in the television shows and running back to hide behind Harry's other leg. Harry just shook his head and whimpered, "Why me?"

"Good God, Mister Potter, who on earth are these little children? Why are they shouting so?" The Bloody Baron thundered as he made his way down the hallway towards the group, emanating cold air before him. The Baron stared down at the children, a curious expression on his gray face.

Harry immediately smiled painfully at the Baron and replied, "I'm sorry sir, but they've never seen a ghost before. I don't believe they knew they existed." He reached down and pulled Leah off of his leg before grabbing Missy's hand and then continued. "Girls, this is one of the ghosts of Hogwarts, the school we are at right now. Yes, ghosts are real, and no, you can't banish them using Sailor powers. This is the Bloody—"

"Hello children, I am Lord Edmund de Willsey, Baron of Edinborough. It is a pleasure to meet such energetic young ladies as yourselves." Harry's jaw dropped at the Baron's cordial address to the girls.

Leah and Missy looked at each other, then at the Baron, then back at each other. They awkwardly smoothed their hair and clothes and looked up at the Baron. "It is very nice to meet you sir. Please excuse our um…, shouting sir, we were um…. Surprised by your presence." Missy beamed at Harry after finishing her statement.

"May I ask what you two lovely young ladies are called, so that I can address you properly in the future?" The Baron patiently waited for the girls to answer as they looked back and forth and gestured at each other to answer him.

"Um, I'm Leah Pasline and this is my twin sister Melissa Pasline, but she likes to be called Missy. We're six!" Leah smiled and held up five little fingers to show the Baron, who chuckled at her announcement.

"Very good to know young lady. Well I must be off, I promised the Fat Friar that I would join him for a late breakfast, seeing as he had his morning prayers today. Good day!" The Baron whisked away, flying above the three through the ceiling.

Leah said, "Harry, are there other ghosts at the school?" Harry nodded yes. "They don't…you know, haunt people do they?"

Harry laughed. "No, they don't. You don't have to worry about that."

Draco and Blaise were both ecstatic that they had missed having to deal with that introduction and incredibly let down that Harry did not get it on tape.

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Three days later, after the girls have adjusted to being away from home and at the castle…..

"Harry, what is a poltergeist?" Leah asked as she walked down the hall between Draco and Harry. Draco was flipping through his notes for Defense and muttering under his breath in French, causing Leah to think he had lost his marbles.

"Why do you ask?"

Leah shrugged. "I heard some of the older girls talking about one earlier today in the bathroom. They were complaining about the poltergeist making them wet. Are poltergeists Wizarding sprinklers?"

Harry struggled to hide his amusement. "Um, not quite. Though they can act like one sometimes! Poltergeists are pretty much the physical embodiment of disorder. They play pranks on people and can be invisible or tangible. Our resident poltergeist is a big pain in the butt."

"DID SOMEONE SAY MY NAME????" Peeves thundered as he appeared out of nowhere. Leah, Missy, and Hermione began screaming while the four boys just silently begged Peeves to go bug Mrs. Norris. Peeves shook his belled shoes at them and started to throw balloons filled with shaving cream at the group, laughing manically as the girls continued screaming and the boys swatted the balloons away with spells.

Suddenly, a balloon slammed into Peeves' face. "Go away you big bully!" Leah yelled, shaking her little fist imperiously at the stunned poltergeist, shaving cream splattered across his face and garish hat.

"Yeah!" Missy and Hermione began throwing the balloons back at Peeves as he bellowed nasty things at them and flew back down the hall, scattering suits of armor as he went.

"Ha!" The three girls shouted, then they began to giggle. Leah reached up and grabbed Draco's hand, saying, "He reminds me of that great big bully from kindergarten! We sure showed him!"

Missy giggled as she jumped up and down excitedly. "That was great! We should do that again!" The boys quickly began shaking their heads and repeating "NO! You can't do that, you'll get in trouble!"

Missy turned to Leah and asked, "Didn't you punch the bully from kindergarten though? You didn't throw balloons at him…."

Leah nodded and beamed. "Yeah! That was fun."

Draco and Blaise exchanged horrified glances. "You punched a guy? In kindergarten??"

"Yup! Mommy taught us how!" Leah giggled.

Missy nodded and added, "Mommy is a black belt!"

Harry, Ron, Draco, and Blaise looked at each other and all thought, "So that's where they get the crazy…" Hermione, of course, wanted to know what style their mom had her black belt in, as her father was a triple black belt and super smart and did they know he was a dentist as well as a super hero with ninja powers?

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"We've got to get to potions," Blaise said at breakfast the next day as the group chatted with Terry and Ernie who were struggling to get Hannah to finish her milk. "Snape will murder us if we skip another class." Draco and Blaise had missed most of their classes the day Leah and Missy became children because they had spent it introducing the girls to the Wizarding world and then helping them to become fast friends with Hermione. Snape was not pleased but had taken their excuse pretty well.

Harry and Ron immediately stood up and grabbed their bags. "Yeah, we'll head over with you guys. Hermione would throw a fit if we separate her from the twins." Hermione stuck out her tongue at the boys' laughter as she linked arms with Missy on one side and Leah on the other. The three girls typically spent most of the day with each other, entertaining themselves enough that the boys were practically the best students of their year, they had so much free time.

Unfortunately, Potions was not going to be an easy class for them today. "Quiet down class." Snape said as he swooped into the room. "Today we will be working on the Ruach (1) Potion. This potion has properties that increase not only physical strength but also mental and emotional strength. It is often used as a psychiatric tool to help a patient be strong enough to face fears and the problems in their life head on. It is not permanent, and is not addictive—the patient only uses this potion to face hard situations. The more it is used, the less effective, so it must be taken wisely and with consideration. It contains very simple ingredients, but the mixing is complex. You must focus.

In order to make it possible for you to focus, I have arranged a room for the children to play in until you are finished." Snape waved all the young children over to him and stared down at them haughtily. "You will all follow me. Say good bye to your caretakers now." A chorus of goodbyes followed the children from the room as the students began setting up their cauldrons.

Draco jumped as Harry dropped his cauldron on the workbench beside him. Ron followed him over and Blaise shrugged as Harry and Ron began setting out their supplies. Ron looked up at the two Slytherins and said, "Trust me, you do not want Harry and I working on this by ourselves. When Hermione is here she keeps an eye on us. We'll explode something otherwise."

Draco shuddered and replied, "Fine, just don't rush through it. Go slow and read ALL of the directions." Ron and Harry nodded.

Two hours later….

"We're done!" Ron and Harry highfived as Draco startled awake.

"Took you long enough," Blaise muttered, shutting his book and putting it in his bag. "Missy, Hermione, and Leah will have torn the room apart and driven Snape mad by now." The four boys collected the last of their things and closed the classroom door behind them as they strode down the hall to the room where the children were playing.

Blaise paused outside of the door, his hand resting on the doorknob. "Do you hear that?" The others looked around, listening intensely. "It sounds like singing."

They all shrugged and pushed open the door. Their jaws dropped at the sight before them. The three girls were dancing around Snape, throwing their arms in the air as he shook his head at them and singing at the tops of their lungs: "If all the raindrops were lemondrops and gumdrops, oh what a rain it would be! Standing outside with my mouth open wide, ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, if all the raindrops were lemondrops and gumdrops, oh what a rain it would be!" The singing continued, the girls kept dancing, Snape stayed standing the middle refusing to pick them up, and the boys continued standing at the door astounded.

Finally Snape relented and picked up Leah and Hermione, one in each arm, and began doing an awkward little dance, struggling to hide his grin as the girls continued singing, laughing as the professor bounced them up and down and hummed along with them. Missy kept laughing and dancing and then shouted, "Me too, me too!" and Snape put down Hermione and Leah to pick her up and give her a turn.

Draco could not hold in his laughter anymore and guffawed, startling Snape and the girls. Snape paled dramatically as the girls shrieked and ran over to greet their caregivers. Draco kept laughing while the other boys stiffly patted the girls on their heads and told them to get their things. Snape eventually cleared his throat loudly, smoothed his robes, and said gruffly, "I trust that this will not leave this room."

Harry, Ron, and Blaise said in unison, "What won't leave this room? We didn't see anything." They turned and bolted from the room, leaving Draco to wheeze, "Yes, of course not Uncle Sev, we won't say a word" and pull the girls from the room as they shouted their farewells to the embarrassed professor.

The only thing Draco could say when the group had reached the dorms was, "I always knew he liked children."

The other three boys only nodded and trusted that by morning they would forget the sight of their most fearsome professor playing with the children and honestly enjoying himself.

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Of course, as always, bath time does become an issue with rambunctious six year olds. Draco and Blaise had been putting it off, trying not to mention it and hoping that nobody would notice, but after Ron of all people said that the girls needed a bath and it wouldn't be that bad, they decided that they would have to bring it up.

"So, girls, when do you like to take your baths?" Draco winced as Blaise asked the question that he feared the most.

Leah and Missy looked up from their coloring books that Becky had sent up when she heard they were children and grinned. "Before bedtime! But we can do it by ourselves. No boys allowed!" And thus the rules were set.

Draco and Blaise set up the bathroom with fluffy towels, sweet smelling soaps that wouldn't hurt the eyes, and water that would never cool or get dirty for the girls as they ran around singing their "bathtime song." The boys were used to the songs, since apparently the girls had songs for everything, including brushing their teeth. As soon as the girls went into the bathroom, the boys relaxed. Finally! Peace and quiet for a few minutes. Oh, how wrong they were.

Draco worked furiously on his essay, knowing that he probably didn't have as much time as he thought he did and that meant he had to hurry. No more staying up until the wee hours of the morning working on homework that he should have been doing instead of playing with the girls! He was going to be responsible!

Blaise flipped through his essay as he proofread it, keeping one ear open listening to the girls giggle away in the bathroom. He could hear splashing around and Missy telling Leah to "sit still" while she shampoo-ed her hair. Suddenly, there was a huge scream from the bathroom and Missy came running out, streaming water everywhere as she bellowed her dismay to the world. "She SPLASHED me!!! I'm really wet! And I was washing her hair too! Get me unwet!" Missy pulled at Blaise's arm while she glared back into the bathroom, where Leah's soapy head peeked up from the tub, laughter echoing around the tiled room.

Draco immediately stood up and accio-ed a towel, wrapping it around Missy as she stomped her foot. Blaise let Draco dry her a bit as he pushed all his work away from the edge of the table and from Missy's soaked clothes. Draco patted Missy sympathetically on the head and said, "Here that should help a bit. I'll do a spell to dry you off too. Blaise, do you remember the movement for the spell?"

Both Draco and Blaise stared as Missy jumped and yelped, "I'll go back in now!"and ran back into the bathroom with the towel. They heard her tell Leah loudly, "No more splashing or I'll make Becky magic trick you again!" Obviously, the threat worked because Leah settled down and bathtime continued in silence. Draco and Blaise were dying to know what Becky had done to Leah, but knew better than to ask the girls. Discreetly, Blaise scribbled out a note to Becky, asking her why that threat would work so well and could she let them know what she did, so they could use it on Leah and Missy?

Late that night, after the girls had gone to bed, Draco started when there was a tap on the window. Blaise jumped up and opened the window to reveal Becky's owl, with a letter attached to its leg. "Thanks, no need to wait for a response," Blaise said as he untied the letter and settled back into his chair. The two boys held their breaths as Blaise opened the letter. What was Becky's secret?

Laughter erupted from Blaise's throat as he read the letter. At Draco's raised eyebrow, Blaise passed over the letter, chuckling merrily.

Blaise—

It's not that big a secret. All kids practice spells on their baby sisters, right? Well, Mom didn't want the twins to know about magic yet in case they blabbed to their Muggle friends, so whenever I did accidental magic we called it a magic trick or something like that. Unfortunately, I once got quite annoyed with Leah after I caught her eavesdropping on me and my friends after school. To get her back for laughing at us and to teach her not to do it again, I whipped out my wand and did a spell on her. Not only was she horrified at first, but we couldn't undo it for a while and it had to go away on its own. She couldn't go to school, and in kindergarten she hated missing school because she would compete with the class bully for the best Lego castle during building time. It probably traumatized her –laugh-

Just tell the girls you will do a magic trick on them that won't go away and they will stop being annoying. They both learned their lesson—never let someone cast a magic trick (read: spell) on you when they don't know what they're doing

Good Luck~Becky

P.S. The spell I used? I gave my baby sister fox ears. She looked very cute with these huge, bright orange ears sticking out of her head!

Author's note:

Spirit, related to strength, in Hebrew

I hope that this was worth the wait! I will try to update soon. We are nearing the end!