25 June 2010

Harry's stupid little wish-upon-a-star thing had worked, and Daphne was beginning to wonder if Muggles had discovered more about magic than anyone expected. She walked out of the Healer's office in a daze.

They were having fraternal twins, a boy and a girl. In the wizarding world, where identical twins were much more common, this was astounding. That Daphne knew of, the last set of fraternal twins to be born were Amycus and Alecto Carrow about fifty years ago. She didn't want her children to be compared to them.

Daphne wasn't sure how she ended up back at home. When she resurfaced back to reality, Harry was pulling the container of birthday cake flavor ice cream out of the freezer box. She decided he had a good idea: a brain freeze would be much more preferable to the headache she was currently developing.

"So, middle names," said Harry once they sat down at the table, a large bowl of ice cream in front of each of them. He was trying to sound casual, but she saw through him at once.

"You already have something in mind, don't you?" she sighed, setting down her spoon. "Well, out with it. But be aware that I maintain vetoing power."

"I was thinking we could be more original," he said. "I know how much your mum values her heritage, so why not something Danish?"

Daphne blinked. That was not what she'd been expecting. Now she was feeling all warm and fuzzy when the ice cream was supposed to help clear her mind.

"You can't pronounce half of them," she pointed out after a moment.

Harry summoned the gigantic book of names from the other room. They'd briefly gone through it to find more names in case the twins were identical. She supposed Evan and Ruby would now be reserved for any future children they might have.

"But there's so many to choose from!" said Harry. "And look, Helene and Marius would be perfect!"

Deciding to humor him, she let him show her both entries in the book. He'd obviously done his research before proposing the idea.

Helene

Origin: Greek mythology (see Helen)

Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German

Meaning: Shining light

A moon of Saturn

Marius

Origin: Latin (see Mars)

Usage: Romanian, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, French, Lithuanian

Meaning: male

A crater on the moon

"Harry Potter," she said slowly, "did you actually pick good names?"

He looked quite pleased with himself. "Amazing, isn't it?"

"Amazing, indeed," she murmured.

In the beginning, they'd discussed the other names he and Ginny had considered. James Sirius was probably the best of the worst, but they all sounded like names created by a sixteen-year-old child. In fact, Daphne wouldn't be surprised to find out Ginny did come up with them as a teenager. Everyone knew about Ginny's life-long dream to marry Harry Potter.

That brought another thought to mind, though.

"Do you know anyone named Helene or Marius?" Daphne asked.

Harry screwed up his face in thought. "Er, there's Helena Ravenclaw. And I think Marius Black was my great-uncle… But other than them, no."

She moved around the table to sit in the chair next to him. Grabbing his hand, she placed it on her belly and grinned at him. Harry's eyes were already wide with wonder before she even spoke.

"Congratulations, Mr. Potter. You're about to be the proud father of Calla Helene Potter and Damon Marius Potter."

AN: Calla and Damon's names have significance to both sides of the family. That's always been a major issue of mine with JSP, ASP, and LLP.

I'm focusing on doing short fluffs right now because we could all use a little bit of that in our lives.