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Who: Arthur Weasley, Susan Bones
Where: Order HQ
When: 26th November, 2001
Status: Complete

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Susan had to smile. Of course it all couldn't be learned from a book and here was proof. She felt a great deal more relieved about having someone, albeit it seemed like she was almost stealing away his fatherly advice that should be doled out to his own children.

Such was the state of the world.

"I actually wouldn't mind hearing the stories. I could sell the embarrassing ones to significant others for a lovely profit."

She started to chuckle. "And you thought that Slytherins had cornered the market on cunning, didn't you? Hufflepuffs can be sneaky... it's just unexpected when we do it."

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Arthur laughed, rubbing at the stubble that had begun to grow on his scalp again. "It certainly is. At least you have the tact to do it, I've never met a Gryffindor who did." He pondered this for a moment. "Possibly Hermione," he said, with a grin. "But she's an exception to most things."

"The one thing we always found," he said, turning back to a more serious expression, "Is that no one pregnancy is ever the same. Not even on your second, third, fourth child. There are always some things that will be similar but it won't be the same. So if you read anything that worries you, just remember, it's probably not going wrong. It's just your sprog being a little different."

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"That she is. Sometimes I wonder if she's not a Gryffindor but just all of the houses. She probably would have done well in any of them. And that's just from knowing her this past year."

Susan clasped her hands in her lap, just under where her body curved outwards from its original shape as if she was cradling herself in her arms. In a way she sort of was.

"I'm fast learning that. Just from flipping through the pages... though I've not read much of the books... but the pictures. I think I look a lot different than what they use as examples. Terry says its because he's so tall and I'm much shorter..."

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"Everyone's bodies are different, Susan. Molly looked a lot different to you when she was pregnant, because she was larger than you generally. I'm afraid it's another one of those things that you just have to...guess as to whether it's what your body would do or not."

He smiled and looked fondly at her bump. "I'm sure he or she is perfectly healthy, especially since you've been eating so much fruit," he said with an impish grin. He hadn't missed how fast the apples had been disappearing.

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"Ugh... oh don't remind me." Susan grimaced. "It couldn't have been chocolate cake or lemon pie... no it had to be apples. And When I want them.... its like I want them so desperately and they taste so good... and then once I'm done I can't believe I ate them because I have never liked apples in my life.... texture-wise or flavour."

It just completely baffled her as to why the wee bean, as Terry liked to call him or her, would choose apples as the food it wanted the most.

She thought for a moment and changed the subject completely. "How did you decide on names? Terry and I haven't really talked about it... And there are so many in the book..."