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In just a moment, they arrived in Godric's Hollow.
"It is right over there, Mistress. Muggles can not be seeing it but wizards can be seeing it now."
The house was a smokey ruin. A wall and part of the room were blown clean away from the building. Smoke poured out from the living room, where an obvious spell fight had taken place. Narcissa walked up the walkway to the blown out door. The door hung by the bottom hinge and barely stood upright.
Narcissa gasped and covered her mouth with her hand. There was spell damage all over the place. Furniture lay haphazardly around, partially transfigured.
James Potter lay dead in the corner of the room behind the overturned sofa. Narcissa let out a high pitched squeal of horror at the sight of James' body laying akimbo behind the barricade, his wand still clenched in his fist, just like Lucius.
Narcissa gasped. This was her out.
"Hurry," she said, turning to the little elf that had followed her in. "Get Lucius' body and put it next to James'."
The elf did as Narcissa bid. In just a moment, Lucius lay next to James. Lucius looked like he had been fighting beside James. Narciss stepped forward and swallowed the lump of bile in her throat. She cast an incendio at Lucius' left arm, where she knew his dark mark to be. The arm burned to ash, the tattoo gone with the flesh, until only charred bone remained. She stepped forward and placed her foot against Lucius' wand and pushed. Hard. She heard the loud crack as the wand snapped in two.
Narcissa turned her back on the macabre scene, the scent of burning flesh in her nostrils. She gulped in air, trying to keep the vomit inside.
She turned and walked to the stairs. It was obvious the Dark Lord had finished off James before heading elsewhere.
As Narcissa ascended the stairway, she heard a strange sound - a baby whimpering. She started to run up the stairs.
She saw an open doorway with light from the moon streaming in. Narcissa hurriedly pushed the door open the rest of the way and looked inside.
Baby Harry Potter was curled up beside his dead mother, holding a lock of her fiery, red hair. Her bright green eyes were open and unseeing. Narcissa hurried to the boy and picked him up.
"Oh you darling precious boy! I'm so sorry. Are you hurt?" She checked the 15 month old baby over quickly. She saw the cut on his forehead. She cast a healing spell on it but the wound resisted healing. She cast a dark arts detection spell on the wound.
"The killing curse? But how can that be? How are you alive?"
Narcissa looked around and saw the pile of dark robes beside the overturned crib. She would know the bone white wand lying amongst the robes from anywhere. It belonged to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.
She moved forward and kicked at the robes. They were empty. Voldemort's body was knocked clear out of the terrestrial plane of existence. She grabbed the wand up and snapped it. She dropped the pieces back on the empty robes. Narcissa looked at the boy again.
"There's something in that scar. We have to get it out."
She set the baby on the floor and cast the strongest cleansing spell she knew. It was meant to cast spirits out of people who had been possessed.
A high pitch scream echoed around the room as black smoke erupted from the baby's head. The baby screamed and passed out, unconscious. The smoke hissed at Narcissa and tried to fly at her but she cast a shield charm quickly around the baby and herself. The smoke screamed again and dissipated.
Narcissa let the shield charm go and picked up the baby. She cast a healing spell on his forehead again. This time the wound healed easily. She cast another diagnostic spell on the baby and saw he was fast asleep and healthy as could be, considering the circumstances.
Narcissa thought hard about what to do next. Her decision made, she called for the little elf again.
"Please, go to the Manor and bring baby Draco here."
"Yes, Mistress," Dobby said before popping away.
Narcissa righted the crib and laid baby Harry inside. Dobby arrived with Draco just a moment later. Narcissa cast a gentle sleeping charm over both babies. She lay Draco in the crib beside Harry. She gently posed their heads together and their hands clasped.
"Dobby, I need you to get the folder titled "Ministry Family Paperwork" from Lucius' study. It's in his desk, third draw down on the right. Bring the bright yellow quill from the vault, as well. Please also bring me three clean vials," Narcissa politely ordered the elf.
Dobby had tears in his eyes. He had never been spoken to so kindly before. He popped away to do her bidding. Narcissa waited and tried not to look at the body of Lily Potter. Narcissa barely knew the woman. She had been a first year during Narcissa's sixth. Narcissa only knew of her because of the scandal James Potter had stirred up by marrying a muggleborn. Not that Narcissa cared about such things, but Lucius certainly did.
Dobby arrived with the things Narciss had asked for.
She quickly riffled through the paperwork and found what she was looking for - the official ministry paperwork to name a godparent. Narcissa hurried to fill out the paperwork naming herself the Potter children's godmother and guardian. She put the yellow quill in Lily's hand and cast a dark spell to cause the dead to sign their signature in blood and magic.
Narcissa cast another spell on Lily when she was done. This one removed a healthy, viable egg from her ovary. Narcissa captured the tissue in one of the vials Dobby had brought with her.
She called the little elf again. "Dobby, make yourself invisible and watch over the children. Follow wherever Harry is taken. Let me know as soon as soon as they leave him."
"Yes, Mistress," the elf replied. In a moment, he was invisible, sitting atop the wardrobe, watching the babies.
Narcissa ran down the stairs and had James Potter sign the forms naming her godmother and guardian of his children. She cast the spell to capture the still viable seed from the man. She did the same to her husband.
She went to the study, behind the sitting room, and riffed through the drawers of the desk. In the bottom draw, she found what she was looking for. The Potters' wills. She took the originals and left copies behind, along with copies of the documents naming herself godmother and guardian of the Potter children. The wills' left physical and magical custody to the godmother. It was easy for Narcissa to cast a spell that changed the name Alice Longbottom to Narcissa Malfoy. Once the deed was done, she apparated home.
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