Harry Potter's Real Dad

After a long day playing games with the other kids and watching muggle magic tricks like a quarter in the ear performed by his new grandfather, the family settled down for a Sunday roast, which Harry managed to eat a few bites of it before Severus let him excuse himself to play with Joshua and their monster trucks while the adults talked quietly again, resuming their card game from earlier.

While Harry rolled his truck after Joshua's, he noticed the girls' playing with their dolls, and while Ruth and Iris chatted away, they also moved their hands. Esther also moved her hands, and Harry realized he had yet to hear the little dark-skinned, three-year-old say a word. He stopped zooming the truck around and pointed at the girls.

"What are they doing?" Harry asked Joshua.

Joshua pushed his car back over to Harry and looked over at his sisters and Iris.

"Signing," he said. "Esther's deaf."

"What's that mean?"

"It means she can't hear. She was born that way."

"Can she talk?"

"She makes noises, but she doesn't really talk. She goes to therapy or whatever for that, but it's really hard for her to learn stuff like that so we just stick with signing. I'll show you how to say hi!"

Joshua dragged Harry over to the girls, who paused in their game of house to watch what they were doing.

"Since when do you want to play dolls?" Ruth asked, crossing her arms.

"Since never!" Joshua shot back. "I'm introducing Harry to Esther. This is how you say hi."

Joshua moved his hand from his forehead and out in a salute like manner. Harry copied him and Esther signed back with a smile. She then touched her index fingers together, one hand closed, the other splayed open, and she rested the tips of her index fingers against her cheek and made a small twisting motion.

"That's her name," Joshua said. "The letter "e" and the sign for dimple kind of blended. Mum picked it out for her cause she's the only one with dimples. You can also spell it out." Joshua demonstrated by moving his hands too fast for Harry to see what each letter was. Joshua grabbed Harry's hands and began shaping them as he said, "This is your name. Harry."

Harry allowed Joshua to manipulate his hands through each letter before trying it on his own.

"And "my name is" looks like this," Joshua said, taking two finger and throwing them off his forehead in a similar manner as "hello" before pointing to himself and the spelling out his name. Ruth did the same, but much slower, as did Iris. Harry gave it a try himself.

"My name is Harry," he said slowly as he signed out everything.

Esther smiled, then pointed at herself before touching her thumb to her forehead, her hand closed.

"What's that mean?" Harry asked.

"She said I know," Joshua said with a smirk.

"Oh," Harry said, smiling at everyone's laughter.

"Aw, look at the kids," Tori said, setting her cards down and grabbing a muggle camera, snapping a few pictures.

The adults looked over their shoulders at the children in the living room gathered in a circle, their toys abandoned as they practiced and taught each other different signs. Severus smiled as he watched Joshua move Harry's hands in the correct manner while trying to tell Esther that he liked his stuffed dinosaur the best out of all his gifts. Severus had picked up on a few words here and there and could generally figure out what the little girl might want, but he still learned something new from Iris whenever they visited. He was glad Harry was taking to it just as Iris was.

As the evening ended, Tori collected her children, holding Esther and keeping her other two close to her side as they floo'd backed to her own house. Addie and her husband left soon after, and Severus was left packing up Harry's new gifts and settling his kids in their car seats. Nami and Pappy kissed each kid goodbye, Iris gladly returning the affection while Harry was unsure of how to react. On the way home, Iris and Harry were still going over the British sign language alphabet, Iris showing Harry the correct hand movements for each letter. After ten or so minutes, they fell silent, and Severus glanced in the rearview mirror.

Iris, snuggling her doll, and Harry, cuddling Spikes, had fallen asleep.

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