Harry Potter and the Order of the Thunderbird

by scorpionboi

With a wizarding war on, Harry meets his godbrother, falls in love and is a member of a group of wizards that haven't been in existance in many years. A new generation of evil fighters. This is a slash epic., HPDM, VCGG, OC's, Wicked Ginny.

11. Shopping in Muggle London, More surprise...

Shopping in Muggle London

Harry and Draco came down the grand staircase dressed for their trip into muggle London with Adam and Severus. Severus was waiting with Adam who had changed into some paleface muggle clothes that he had picked up in London while at the ministry at daily lunchtimes with Mr. Weasley who was very happy to accompany Adam on these trips. He absolutely loved to ride on the muggle underground and up and down the moving stairs that you didn't have to climb.

Muggles did well without magic, not as well as they could obviously but this was amazing to Arthur. The aurors that were following Adam and Mr. Weasley were not amused because most of them didn't care for anything non magical and that included muggle trains and 'eskeylayters'. Today's trip would be no different for the aurors and it wouldn't matter anyway to Harry or Severus who were resigned to having security details follow them but Adam and Draco had some plans of their own and they didn't included aurors.

Severus greeted the two newly washed arrivals to their little shopping troupe, with warm greetings. Adam was laughing at what Severus was going to wear for muggle clothing for a trip into London. His total distaste for muggles showed in his clothing. He was dressed in short knickers, with long white socks, black loafers that were at least 20 years old, well kept but entirely out of style for any contemporary clothing that they were going to buy, unless it was golfing togs.

'Guys, don't say anything about his clothes. For such a nice guy, he is a total flop when it comes to some things and we're looking at it.'

Adam mentally communicated to Draco and Harry.

"Good morning Severus" Draco greeted the potions master and long time friend of his family.

"You look..." 'like a fool'"...great. First we'll stop at theItalian tailorsstore and get something nice to wear that I'm sure you'll feel more comfortable in. We all have purchased denim trousers at the Levi Strauss store and the durable shoes and sneakers and sporting clothes at Harrods.

The man that owns that store is a wizard and is a source of muggle currency used for wizarding projects. He recognized Adam from his picture in the Prophet, bloody miserable rag and invited him and us to tea. Quite a nice man really, he had a bloody pensieve sitting right on his desk though he said it had a glamour charm on it to make it look like it was a candy dish under glass. We'll introduce you if we meet up with him again"

'blah blah blah, jeez Draco come up for air with the shopping talk and lets go'

Adam mused to Draco and Harry was included in the mental talking but said nothing. He did value keeping Draco happy so he just sniggered out loud a bit.

"Is something funny Harry?" Severus said

"No sir, not really. I was just remembering the first time I was in your classroom. I knew little if nothing about being a wizard and now, I've completed your potions classes and realized, I still don't know that much but it's a start that I wouldn't have had the opportunity at if it hadn't been for you and teachers like you at school. Look at us now, going shopping together for muggle clothes. It looks like I will have to give you tuition about a few muggle things"

Harry quickly covered the reason he was laughing in the first place.

"Thank you Harry. That is very kind of you. You are nothing like your father was and everything good that your mother was. It seems Draco has made a good choice for a special friend." Severus said back to Harry.

Adam and Draco were giggling now.

'Oh go on and tell him Harry, he's going to find out later anyway' Draco thought to his lover.

'OK, here goes'

"Severus, Draco has consented to marry me, he is no longer my special friend but my fiance and that is so much more than special"

Harry was looking at his fiance and almost cried at the thought, but he didn't.

'Great performance you git' Draco mentally drawled

'Leave him alone Draco, he's getting all sappy. This should be good'

Snape blinked a few times at the news Dumbledore had made him aware of already and tried to act surprised at the news.

"Congratulations are in order then, am I the first you've told of this, uh, news?" Snape asked.

"You're the first we've told out loud" Harry said. He knew that Snape was not going to tell them anything that would lead back to Dumbledore.

'Dumbledore told him'

"Shall we get going? I think I heard our transportation coming up the drive just now"

'Good swerve Harry..' Adam mentaled

'Just keeping the lid on for now best I can until later on brother mine.' Harry just smiled and led the four of them to the foyer and to the magical limo outside.

"Severus, how do you know my mother?" Adam asked a startled Snape.

"We were school mates. She and Harry's mother and Narcissa, and oddly myself, were quite close in those days. I was included in thier study sessions on occasion and we all became friends eventually, there's not much to tell. We went on into different fields of study after we left Hogwarts. Little Bird and Lily became aurors, I became a master of potions and Narcissa married Lucius. We were all involved in the Order of the Phoenix in one way or the other. Why do you ask Adam"
Severus finished.

Draco had but Harry had never heard Snape say so many kind things about so many people at one time.

"My ma likes you good enough to have your picture on the mantle over the fireplace Severus" Adam started in on Snape wiggling his eyes at him.

"She does does she? I'll have to investigate as to why when I see her then won't I?" Snape countered.

The trip to London was pretty quick and the men in the limosine chatted idly. The enchanted vehicle brought the four men to the curb outside the Leaky Cauldron where they got out and made their way inside and to the back of the pub to the entrance to Diagon Alley. Adam opened the entrance to Diagon Alley with a wave of his hand, something that wasn't supposed to be able to happen but it did and Snape noticed.

"Adam, where is your wand?" Severus asked quietly to the Navajo Prince walking with him.

"At home. I don't need it really and we're going to where the muggles are so, nothing to worry about and besides, those or-or guys are back behind us and..."

Adam was interrupted by Snape who put a hand to his mouth to shush him. Harry and Draco were instantly concerned.

"There aren't supposed to be aurors behind us. Get moving and run to Gringotts. It's a D.E. squad of hitwizards and we're now targets. GO!" Severus said and the four of them started down the narrow alley way to the wizarding bank and possibly some protection.

A green light shot just behind Harry and Adam noticed that Harry's hair was smoking it was that close. Another spell was shot at the four running wizards then another and another in rapid succession. There were three wizards in masks shooting unforgivable curses at them.

If it weren't for Severus being with them, the Thunderbirds would protect themselves by changing into magical creatures and ripping the wizards that were after them to shreds, but then there would be all the witnesses that would have to have thier memories modified. Damn it all to Merlin.

Adam chose to spring into action when he ducked into a doorway and changed into a regular sized rattlesnake and back slithered to where the curses were being thrown from, un noticed.

'Harry I changed into a rattlesnake keep those guys coming after you and I'll stop 'em'

'Adam, no it isn't safe.' Draco pleaded mentally with his cousin just as Severus noticed that Adam wasn't with them.

"That boy has no wand and needs our protection. He is defenseless. The headmaster will have my head and his mother will have my bollocks if he's harmed in anyway."

Severus said suddenly as he turned back to collect Adam from harms way.

"Sev, I think that Adam has something up his sleeve. We just have to keep the MLE from hitting him with a curse should they get here before it's all over with. Just lets keep those guys busy so he can do whatever it is that's in his idiot brain, then We will kill him." Draco said.

Harry had his wand drawn and was already hurling back curses in rapid fire thus keeping the hit wizards busy. Severus and Draco joined him while Adam slithered back to where the D.E. hitwizards were hiding.

Adam, from his snakes point of view was getting closer to where the hitwizards were hiding from the counter curses that were being lobbed at them.

'Harry, stop shooting, tell the others on a count of three to levitate the whole street and then I'll take 'em out.'

Adam mentalled in parseltongue to his brother. Harry gave Draco and Severus the message that Adam had sent to him and the three of them began to levitate everything that was loose in Diagon Alley, heavy things lumbered into the air. As Draco and Severus and Harry levitated every loose thing that they could, their spells began to pull up the trees that the D.E.'s were hiding behind. When the D.E.'s turned to find other cover, they were confronted by a large coiled rattlesnake that was in midstrike.

Adam as a rattlesnake had hit the three wizards that were assaulting them in broad daylight before they could take second steps, the three D.E. hit wizards were all on the ground and writhing in pain, but not toosoon on their way to paralysis and death.

Adam changed back into his human form and collected thier wands while Draco, Harry and Severus put down the things that they had levitated in thier defense.

When the tree that the hit wizards were hiding behind had been rerooted, Severus had already put on a glamour charm on himself so he could approach the death eaters that were lying on the ground in agony, slowly dying from the poison that was rapidly coursing through their bodies.

"Draco, Harry, go see to Adam and bring me their wands. Have Adam take their masks off and the three of you make sure they don't get away. I'll see to making sure that the MLE doesn't interfere." Severus said in his Snape tone of voice.

"We have to talk soon Sev. There's something I think we ought to know and soon. We'll see to Adam and keep him out of trouble"

"Draco, Adam it seems attracts the same kind of trouble that Harry does. Please do be careful hmm?" Severus said and he was off to find the nearest communications floo.

Draco and Harry approached the three screaming wizards and a menacing looking Adam who was questioning them at the point of three wands. The advancing engaged pair could hear what Adam was saying to the three of them,

"Don't you ever ever throw another curse at a kid again. Who do you think is going to pay for all the damage you caused..."

(When in reality it was Severus, Draco and Harry that had caused most of the damage when they started dropping things to distract the D.E.'s so Adam could position himself.)

"...not me. Who sent you? How did you know where we were? You cannot lie to me so start speaking or I won't save your sorry assed excuse for wizards."

"The dark lord will get you , you bastard child..." one of the D.E.'s started to say.

Adam had had enough of their taunting so he stuffed their mouths with stockings. Thier own stockings. Draco and Harry could hear what the death eaters were saying to Adam and they weren't shocked to hear some of the things that came out of their mouths.

They were however surprised to find out that they had been waiting at Diagon Alley for almost three weeks undercover waiting for one or more of the targets that Voldemort had wanted dead because of the declaration of war by the governments of three magical nations. Adam was well known by sight because of his presense at the ministry, he was being followed daily on his trips into muggle London but was always lost when he went into the underground.

They figured that he would have to come to Gringotts to get muggle money sooner or later and they would try to take him if possible to Voldemort. So Adam was a big target and it seemed that Harry wasn't on the top of the list any more which was comforting to Harry, but bittersweetly. Draco stooped to pull the mask off of one of the D.E.'s. Harry had bound them only because Adam had failed to.

"Why'dja do that Harry?" Adam said to his brother smiling at his trophies.

"I got their wands right here"

"Lets just say, I've had some experience with these people before and they deemed it wise to bind me in the same way. I'm sure they respect that." Harry said to his brother so the D.E.'s could hear.

Harry pulled the hair covering his scar back and looked at the wizards that were bound on the ground just as Draco removed their masks. The faces were familiar to Draco but he couldn't remember their names, they had been to Malfoy Manor several times. The faces of the D.E.'s registered who exactly was talking to the Navajo when the Navajo called him Harry, they knew it was Harry Potter the one that they should have been after but he didn't look like the 16 year old Harry.

'They know who I am, they need to be obliviated'

'Turn em into squibs after'

'After what? After they die from a snake bite?'

'You guys got a point there. Where is Severus? I didn't see what he looked like when he put on the glamour.'

'How did you know he did that?'

'Both of you thought "nice glamour" at the same time thats how. He must have impressed you.'

'There he is coming out of Olivanders just now'

'Hey that is a nice glamour, he should use it more often'

"The MLE should be here any second now. Who are these three?" Severus said looking at the bound D.E.'s who's eye's were kind of rolling back in their heads, their breathing becoming more eratic from the venom, just then their own glamour charms began to wear off due to the weakening of their magic. They were dying.

"These men need a mediwizard. Is there a mediwizard here?" Adam said, not very loud but Severus heard him and the sarcasm that came with it.

"Adam that's not a very nice thing to say. I think we should let the MLE take care of these three when they arrive. They go to St. Mungo's, then to Azkaban. Oh and before I forget, OBLIVIATE" Severus said also in a sarcastic tone before he modified the memories of the three wizards that he did recognize as inner circle members of Voldemorts followers.

This was so not good.

"Imperio" Severus whispered and he gave the three wizards instructions as to what to do when the MLE got there, they were to confess everything that they had done that day, they were to tell the MLE everything that they knew about Voldemorts plans and if they were still alive they were to tell the MLE where Voldemort was and what his defenses were. Adam and Draco and Harry all stood close to Severus as he commanded the three death eaters while they were under the curse to shield him from prying eyes and ears.

"Very clever sir, and very illegal for you isn't it?" Draco said a bit amused at what his head of house had just done, in public no less.

"I'll tell you all a few things later. The MLE is here. Follow my lead.." Severus said to the trio.

"...These are the men that attacked us, here are their masks and wands..."

Draco handed the death eater masks to one of the MLE aurors and Adam handed the three wands to one of the other "or-ors".

"...they seem to wish to confess something but since they need medical attention and their mouths seem to be full of their own footwear, we'll leave them to your charge. Good day." Severus and the three turned and left before the auror could ask any questions.

The auror in charge levitated the three bound death eaters and pulled a portkey from his pocket and as a group the aurors touched the portkey and held on to the death eaters as they were transported to the infirmary at the ministry of magic.

As soon as the stockings were pulled from their mouths they began to confess their crimes and everything that they knew about Voldemort which apparently wasn't much as they haven't been around him since they were dispatched as soon as the declaration of war was announced.

The three wizards all took a few more shuddering breaths after their confessions pulled the rest of their lives out of them and they expired one after the other. Adam's venom clearly having taken it's toll. The information that was extracted under veritaserum before they died was very useful even if it wasn't much.

Gringott's bank 12:30 p.m.

Severus withdrew enough galleons to convert into about 10,000 muggle pounds and Adam had converted another stone that he had brought with him into another pile of galleons that he put into his new vault after he too converted a small pile of gold into muggle pounds. It was his birthday and he was going to buy a few presents for his friends.

He was bound and determined to have a ball doing it too. The goblins were extatic that they had acquired another grand stone that they could sell and make a profit on due to it's immense size and character. It had cost them 135 thousand galleons to purchase but it would fetch much more on the open international market. They had made a good deal and Adam couldn't care less. He was happy, the goblins were happy so, who cares?

"What are you going to do with all that money Adam?" Harry asked his brother.

"Have fun spending it Harry. Thats what money is for and I'll tell you a secret. Those rocks came from a really, really big pile in my bedroom at home." Adam answered without a bit of concern in his voice.

"This, my dear Harry is what ya call um, rich. I could sit around all day for the rest of my life Harry and never have to do a damn thing. That would be boring. I wanna do something with my life brother, and I'm not spending all of this on myself.

I said I wanna have some fun and that includes all of the Thunderbirds or anyone that I want to have fun with. If you don't want your birthday presents just say so and I'll..."

"Stop right there Blackie ol' chum. What's this about birthday presents?" Draco stopped his cousin from talking when it was discovered he could actually not get a present.

"I never said you couldn't spend your money on me Adam. You do as you bloody well please." Draco finished quickly.

Harry was amused, he had a mountain of money that he couldn't spend if he wanted to but he could buy what he wanted for himself any time he wanted. He knew that Draco could do the same and he knew that Adam was in much the same shape financially. Neville was to inherit an estate almost as large that day too. Harry owned the combined estates and assets of the Black family as well as the Potter family and it was an enormous amount of money and property.

An idea came to Harry all at once, he knew what he was going to give his brother and it wasn't money but something his brother proved he deserved. The title of the head of the Black family could be reinstated and he could give Adam 12 Grimauld Place. Harry was sure that Adam wouldn't mind letting the OotP and the OotT keep on using it as they have been since Voldemort had returned. It rightfully belonged to him anyway, the money wouldn't matter at all to him so the house and the title were at a minimum a symbolic gesture, but one from the heart.

"Adam..." Harry started, "If you wish to get me a gift, you're more than welcome to do so, I am going to do the same."

"Me too Thundercloud, I could use some new robes..." Draco offered again still not letting the fact that he did want a birthday present be dropped.

"Ok, Ok you guys, I was only saying, I like to do what I like to do. Today, I'd like to spend some money on my friends and help Severus here..." Adam pointed with his thumb at the dark potions teacher in funny muggle clothes "...look less like a geek than he looks like now." Harry and Draco cracked up into a fit of laughter at what their cousin/brother had just said about Severus. He was right.

"Alright you three, I'll transfigure these into something a bit more stylish if you'll stop that foolishness right now!" Severus said hushed but urgently. He was becoming aware of the looks he was getting dressed as he was. It was good enough for St. Andrews at a social gathering he attended 20 years ago why would it be any different now? Muggles.

"Alright you three, I assume you've been up to something, you always seem to be anyway." Severus had a thought, "It shouldn't be possible, but can you... apparate"

He looked at the faces of the three young men when they all looked down at once, he knew the answer.

"Very well then, I seem to remember that you're all unrestricted as... you-know-what's so it shouldn't be a problem. It might have been a good idea for you to have told someone that you could do this before I had to find out like this you know. Could have saved us all alot of trouble today"

Severus continued, he knew that they were Thunderbirds but he hand never seen them in that form. He witnessed Adam turn into a snake and he began to think a bit deeper about the three young men that were with him.

"Let's go into a pub and have ourselves a little chat before we go shopping." Severus finished finally.

'Does he go on and on like that all the time?' Adam asked silently

'yes' both Draco and Harry said together in their heads.

'Merlin'

'You can say that again Adam' Harry said

'Merlin'

'That was only an expression brother, but it WAS worth saying twice'

'Merlin'

'Shut it you' Draco finished the mental conversation as the four men walked into a muggle pub.

Severus ordered 4 ales and soon they were alone in a booth at the back of the pub. No one cared much what they looked like, strange people walked the streets of London all the time, what were a few more.

"Ah, I forget, thankfully most of the time, how anonymous one can be in the muggle world."

Severus began "It is so... large."

"I lived in the muggle world for ten years and every summer until now, in it. I know how big it really is Severus. I often just want to lose myself in it after I graduate from Hogwarts and get away from magic." Harry said to his new friend. He was still a bit shy but this side of the man who had tormented him for the last five years was refreshing.

"Don't you ever say a thing like that again Harry." Adam and Draco both said at once.

Adam had real concern in his voice when he said to his brother, "Green eyes, you can't leave the magical world, ever, you just can't. I never have been around muggles much until I came here. You are the first palefaces that I've ever made friends with and you're wizards and you're my family. You can do so much good as Harry Potter, wizard than you can as a muggle. Well, you probably could do something good, but what I mean is you belong here and Draco belongs here and I belong here that's what this stupid war is going to be all about in the end. We belong here and Voldy whatsis doesn't and when he's gone, you won't feel that way any more. You guys don't know this but as ..." Adam whispered, "...Thunderbirds, you got ton's of powers you can use for good as well as for war. I think that after we get back from where I live, you'll have a different opionion Harry of what's right and where you should be. I know that Draco will be with you and you'll consider him if you ever have to make that choice. So save that kind of thinking for after we're out of school. Speaking of school, Severus,..."

Adam's gaze went from Harry to the man sitting next to him, "If we've completed all the course work, what is there going to be left for us to do while we're there? I got all twenty three NEWTs already." Adam let a little secret out of the bag about himself. The others assumed that he would be taking classes with them but this revelation got the cogs moving in the mind of Draco and Harry as well.

"You got 23 NEWTs? that's all of them Adam. How did you manage more NEWTs than are currently available?" Draco said a bit shocked.

"I got double NEWTs in Transfiguration, Charms and Potions." Adam said matter of factly.

Draco and Hermione had earned 20 and 21 NEWTs respectively. Harry got 19 as did most of the other Thunderbirds. Neville got double NEWT in Herbology and Potions much to everyones surprise as did Greg and Vince, Luna double NEWT'd in Divination and Arithmancy, Hermione had double NEWT'd in Charms and Transfiguration, Draco had double NEWT'd in Potions, Arithmancy, which irritated Hermione a bit, and Charms as well. Blaise double NEWT'd in DADA and Transfiguration like Harry and the rest of the Thunderbirds did.

"I got an extra one for something you'll be kind of shocked at. I am for the lack of a better description, a necromancer. It's supposed to be a dark magic but I don't use it at all. Kinda makes me sick to my stomach when I do it, I hate to probe the mind of a body before it takes off to where ever it goes after it's dead. That's the worst of it I guess though. Now you know. Ma said it was a NEWT that was discontinued 500 years or so ago but it's apparantly relevant, so they gave it to me anyway."

"Who is they Adam?" Severus asked as he was now just as interested in what the young man was saying. He knew the potential power of the young man and he was just a little bit frightened.

"The Navajo Fire Council. They really, really read that 1815 charter and used it to envoke some magic that allowed them to give me this credential and still live. It is essentially the only way I can succede my mother to protect the Nation when she passes. Grampa was no fool when this was written I suppose. Mother noticed the gift when we found an animal shot and dying while we were walking one day not too long ago. We found the hunter that had shot the poor thing and made him throw his gun away and swear off hunting for the rest of his life but not before we put the fright that the animal was going through before it died. I didn't know that was what I did when ma an' me caught up to the guy. That was the first time I met a muggle. He turned as red as your uncle did Harry. Oops! shit."

Adam had made a blunder of speech when he let out the fact that he had seen Harry's uncle Vernon. It was known that the Dursleys had been terrorized but the terrorists weren't identified as the memories of the Dursleys had been modified somehow, but it was believed to be the work of Voldemort .
"Your secret is safe with me Adam, I think that they got only a fraction of what they deserved for the way they've treated Harry." Severus smiled and took a draw from his mug of ale.

"Thanks Sev, I thought I'd have to wipe your memory too." Adam said to the older man next to him.

"Sev? Well, I've been called worse. Don't make a habit of it please hmmm?"

"Sure. Now you guys wanna finish your drinks and lets get outta here and go shopping. I wanna get back for the party." Adam said to all of them. Adam finished his ale in one pull and he had a foam moustache on his upper lip until he wiped it on the back of his sleeve causing some winces from the three others at his manners.

"Didn't you learn anything while you've been here Prince Thundercloud?" Draco said to his cousin in an attempt to admonish him on his use of his sleeve to wipe his mouth. Manners.

"BUUUURRRRRRPPPP, Nope guess I didn't, what's it to ya snowflake?" Adam said grinning at Draco, the ale had gone to his head pretty quickly. Harry had started to giggle, the alcohol in the muggle ale was affecting him a bit too.

"Honestly, you two. We can't take you out for one little muggle ale before you make fools of yourselves, look at you. buuurrrrpp. Oh Merlin, pardon me." Draco tried to chastise his companions when he embarrassed himself by burping out loud as well. The giggling didn't quite stop though until Severus interrupted.

"If you gentlemen are quite through, we can go shopping and make with the merry later. The muggles in here give me the creeps." Severus said, the boys all just chuckled at the older man and got up to leave with him.

The rest of the shopping went rather smoothly, Severus had good taste in clothing after all once he saw what was available to choose from, he had acquired the denim trousers and suggested shoes for the trip and he had bought several pairs of other stylish shoes and outfits that were equally up to the task of wearing every day under his robes as he taught his potions classes. He had even gone to a muggle hair stylist and his hair was cut into something that complimented him, yet left it long and healthy looking, not greasy and stringy as had been what he'd been wearing all of his life.

Harry, Draco and especially Adam stayed way out of the hair cutters chair, Harry and Draco had become fond of their new long locks, and Adam had never, ever had his hair cut. When Severus was finished with his shopping, and Adam had spent several thousand muggle pounds on gifts, the four wizards marched out to the edge of the street in front of Harrods department store and summoned the Knight Bus for the trip back to Malfoy Manor, much to the relief of the ministry aurors that had done a remarkably good job at staying with the foursome as they went from store to store, often separating the aurors making their jobs just a little more dangerous. They had already been on the carpet for what had happened at Diagon Alley earlier that day being late to witness the arrival of the four very important men to the war effort and failing to protect them from the death eater attack.

Fortunately for them one of the four of them subdued the D.E's and no harm had come to any of the special wizards or they would be looking for other work right now. Adam turned to the aurors and waved good bye as he got on the Knight Bus with the others.

'Damn, next time if there is a next time we have to follow them, we're going to use bloody invisibility cloaks.' the auror in charge thought to himself.

"Who were you waving to Adam?" Harry asked.

"The or-or dudes that have been following us since early this afternoon." Adam said innocently before breaking into a smile.

"We've been followed again? Damn, we were supposed to be on our own. They must know we can take care of ourselves." Harry said.

"Did you ever think that if one of your secrets got out at the wrong time, it could be detrimental to our war effort?" Severus challenged back.

"I'm the biggest target in the whole war..." Harry began."...won't I ever be able to go out alone?"

"I'm afraid your head is a little big this time Harry. Albus Dumbledore is a much greater target than even you think you are. He can't completely do away with Voldemort. The prophecy supercedes what he can do, but what you must do yourself Harry. Dumbledore can do many things but he cannot fulfill what is written into fate to come to pass so he does not... try so much as he has been trying to... ensure your survival until such time as you set the path of fate straight again." Snape said to Harry, but the others were listening with rapt attention.

It was sinking in as to what they had to do. Adam knew about the prophecy as did the other Thunderbirds and soon his mother would if she did not already. They had to come up with a way to rid the wizarding world of the menace that was Voldemort.

Adam wanted to watch Draco and Harry have lots of children. He could see something about Draco and Harry did not. Draco was with child. His aura had changed in the last several hours possibly due to the hours Draco spent in bed with Harry after he accepted Harry's marriage proposal. The soulmate bond was solidifying and Draco would only become incredible as it seems, more powerful, as his pregnancy advanced. His transformation into a Thunderbird would not harm the baby he carried now, but it might cause him some concern. His ma would know just what to do, she always did when Adam had a problem he didn't know how to get out of.

Right now, besides Draco being knocked up, they needed a way to vanquish Voldemort once and for all. They all knew it wasn't going to be an easy thing to do but with a team effort, this war would be over. People were going to die, they knew that, but they didn't speak of it. The only conversation on the bus ride to Malfoy Manor after the deep stuff they were talking about earlier was about what kind of activities they could engage in once the lessons for the day were over.

Adam loved the night time at his home and he was wishing that he could take his friends to some of his favorite places so, he told stories that amused the three Englishmen while they rode home.

The Knight Bus lumbered to a screeching halt in front of the gates of Malfoy Manor and discharged the four wizards who gladly got off the constantly lurching, nauseating monstrosity of magical transportation.

"Next time, we're apparating. I ain't never getting on that damn thing again. Muggles are going to have to get used to there being superior beings on the planet and simply just get over it once this war is over. I'd rather fly anyway." Adam said after he had just been smashed into the window behind Ernie the bus driver with the glasses thick enough to start a fire if held to the sunlight. He was a bit irritated at the suddenness of his stop and subsequent quick discharge from the bus and it showed.

"We're the next generation and we can change some of them stupid non-disclosure laws. I'd really like to fly in the daylight. Nothing like seein' a Thunderbird in the sunshine. You guys'll see. Arizona is looking pretty good now to me."

"Tell us how you feel why don't you Adam? I bet that hat puts you in Slytherin house. Merlin, theres a reason that we don't show ourselves to muggles. The muggles would be after us to do all sorts of things for them and we'd never have a minute's peace." Harry said to his brother, even he understood the reasons for not dealing with muggles as a wizard, the first being that muggles were scared of things that they didn't understand the rest didn't matter, the first reason was enough for concern.

"Well, at least at home, we can go for a hundred miles in any direction in the daylight and be who and what we are, muggles come, but the wards are charmed. When they enter they don't notice us unless we want them to. Hey, that's a good idea! Lets put up a ward over London and we can go about as we wanna." Adam said enthusiastically to his palefaced friends.

"To be honest Adam, I don't believe that it's ever been attempted before. If the theory is sound and it appears it is if it can cover a radius as large as the one at your home, I don't see why it couldn't be done here. I would have to speculate though that perhaps it is the magic that is in your mother that makes that possible. Has there ever been a Thundercloud absent from your homeland?"

"Uh, I don't think so. I know ma is a pretty powerful sorceress. Grampa trained her up pretty good. It says so in his book. The whole history of the Magical Navajo's is in the library at home. It's a lot older than Grampa's book is though, I've never bothered to look at 'em cause it's in old Navajo tongue. It's really kinda hard to translate. I know the secrets of the wards are contained there. Those books are protected by earth spirits and the vault they're in is impregnable I know that much."

"We'll just tuck that away for a conversation with your mother then. Alright Adam?" Severus said.

The four wizards had shrunk their purchases and were unencumbered with their packages as they walked to the manor steps. Harry and Draco were in the rear holding hands and making eyes at each other as they walked, often straying behind a bush for a quick snog before catching up with Severus and Adam, who seemed to be having a good conversation. They weren't really paying attention anyway.

When they had reached the steps of the manor, the ten other Thunderbirds came rushing out of the house to greet them and they were all talking excitedly and none of them could be understood so Severus used his wand and cast a sonorus spell and he said, "Silence" one time then, he uttered the counter spell and he gave the floor to, "Miss Granger, what is it that has all of you blathering on at. one. time?"

"Well professor, a ministry auror was here and he had questions about three death eaters that were killed by a magical snake bite, but not before they had voluntarily offered information important to the war effort. It seems that the military wants to know how to do what you did, I don't think they care much that the death eaters died, the sound of what they were saying was something like it would save them the time and expense of taking care of them for the rest of their lives. He also said they got what they deserved and he was going to make sure that no charges were brought to whom ever or what ever bit them. Did one of you turn into a snake and actually bite three death eaters?"

"I did 'Mione. I didn't know they died. I figured that they could be cured when they got to the hospital before they were questioned. I never knew that they wouldn't be helped first." Adam said kind of dejected.

His faith in humanity was damaged just a little. He knew it was war time and those guys could have been taken out by something much worse, but still rattlesnake venom took an hour or two to kill a human so he knew they suffered way too long. He decided not to tell how he did what he did and he thought to the others, 'No one tells anyone anything about this. Are we clear? That was vicious what those or-or dudes did. I know I bit 'em but they wuz throwing some nasty curses at us and causing all kinds of panic. I did what I had to do. What those oror guys did was bad juju.'

'What the bloody hell is juju?' Ginny asked.

'It's something that can bite you in the ass if you do it wrong Gin, so what ever you do make sure your heart is in the right place before you do it. I caused their deaths, but the or-or guys let it happen, and did nothing when they coulda. That, is bad juju.'

The teens all looked at each other like a light had come on. Severus took that opportunity to leave the young people and go inside the mansion to hear of the consequences of their afternoon "shopping". From the elite of the wizarding world, currently in power. He was after all, Minister of Magic for the government of Hogwart's.

"Severus, you know the need for secrecy about the Thunderbirds powers..." Narcissa had started in on a steady Snape who only raised a hand to stop her.

"Those boys in no way showed anything that a full grown wizard or witch could not be capable of. We defended ourselves only as a last resort when the distance in the open to make it to the bank made it impossible to do so. We used levitation charms to impede the attack while young Mr. Black transformed into a snake and incapacitated them. Draco and Mr. Potter bound them and unmasked them. Draco seems to remember seeing them when his father had visitors, I know them as members of the inner circle. They were very powerful wizards and as such were treated like we were obviously going to be. No more no less." Severus said imperiously.

"The magical autopsy showed that they were under the imperious curse before they died. Care to explain that?" Narcissa countered with a bit of passion in her voice.

"No." was all that Severus said.

"Very well then, we'll leave this until another time. We're not finished with this topic. I will find out what happened." Narcissa softened.

"There is no need. I cursed them and I told them to confess and they would be taken care of. It seems that the aurors that took them into custody while allegedly acting as our security, scratched thier behinds a bit too long before they were seen by an emergency mediwizard. This is wartime Narcissa, they were clearly on the other side and are among the first of what I'm sure will be many more casulties from both sides in the battles to come. Voldemort has many allies and they won't care to show mercy when the final battle is upon us. Put an end to this investigation and move on. This was nothing compared to what we're going to face in the future."

"Perhaps you're right Severus. I was so frightened for the four of you, the aurors that were supposed to be protecting you failed to show on time and this happened. Those men will be reassigned to something a little less strategic straight away. There are others that are just as capable to the task. I never dreamed that running a magical government could be so taxing. I think that after tonight's celebration, that it would be prudent for the 14 of you to go to America and visit Birdy a little early. I'm sure she misses Adam and the others will get to have a bit of holiday while they're learning about themselves."

"What ever you think best Narcissa. I happen to agree with you in this case"
Changing the subject away from aurors nicely, Severus continued, "... I can do some potions ingredients hunting while I am there as well. I am anxious to get my hands on whole Jackalope antler and scorpion stings. There are many exotic ingredients that might come in handy for the effort."

"What ever you think will give you some relaxation Severus, I think you should do it. Your hair looks marvelous by the way. It's about time you did something with it. The look suits you very nicely by the way." Narcissa smiled at her long time friend and often time confidant.

"Go and get those birthday boys for me will you?" Narcissa said and sent Severus to get the Thunderbirds en masse.

Severus' softened looks did not go un-noticed by the group of teens who were chatting wildly outside the front doors of the manor house and was a point of discussion he could hear when he approached the open door. He listened for a moment before he made his presence known.

"Did you see the way ol' Snapey looks? It's about bloody time he did something with that greasy look. He actually looks alive now." a male voice said, Snape couldn't tell who exactly it was because of the laughter but it made him smile anyway. He chose that time to pull the door open a bit farther and show himself.

"Mrs. Malfoy has requested that you join her in the library." Snape said, as he stepped aside for the Thunderbirds to enter.

Adam gave Severus a small smack on the shoulder and a grin with a wink when he went through. Snape smiled back at the Navajo boy and was musing silently shaking his head at this boy's audacity and pure nerve. Just like his father unfortunately. His mind began to wander a bit, he was going to enjoy some time where it was warm every hour of the day.

Boy was he in for a surprise. August 1, tomorrow, the sun was expected to scorch the desert in Arizona and the heat in the shade could reach over 120 degrees F and the sun there was capapble of burning the toughest of skin in a matter of minutes. All of the Thunderbirds were in for a big surprise and it was waiting for them in the library just now.

"Ah there you are. Draco dear, I trust you and Harry are unscathed?" Narcissa said to her son, one of the birthday boys.

"Harry was hit with an A.K. in his hair mother, but other than that, we're just fine. Nothing to worry about really." Draco said to his mother in a voice to soften his news of the hit that Harry had narrowly avoided.

"Avada Kedavra on Harry? Oh, Merlin Severus nor the aurors mentioned that. Are you alright dear?"

"I'm fine Mrs. Malfoy. No harm done really." Harry said.

"If your sure then dear, alright then. I have an announcement for all of you. Can you all hear me?" Narcissa started and looked at everyone there. She saw nodding heads before she continued, "Albus and I have decided that in light of events that will be taking place, it would be wise to send you to America a few weeks early for a longer stay and more tactical training with your new found skills."

"Mother, we were going to take Adam on a tour of the island before we went to America." Draco said almost whining.

"There will be plenty of time for that my dragon, Gregory, Vincent, you are wards of the government and have permission to go tomorrow with the others to America just in case you were wondering. Arthur and Molly are anxious as well for the four of you to go as soon as possible. Miss Lovegood, your father has been behind us from the very beginning and has consented as well so no worries there. Blaise dear your mother has given permission as well, Neville your grandmother will be here shortly and I presume she'll be bringing some of the things that you've forgotten at home so you can be ready for travel tomorrow. Hermione dear, your parents are 100 behind this, I suspect that they cannot notice the change in you when you come back. What concerns that they had will be rested when they see what a magnificent witch that they've raised for their efforts."

"Thank you Mrs. Malfoy, thats very kind of you to speak of my parents that way." Hermione said to the Ministress of Magic, head of a family that formerly hated everything to do with muggles and mudbloods.

"It's the truth dear. Now, as it is right now, you're all going to America tomorrow, leave the fighting to us for a while and enjoy what might be the last carefree days you'll have for a long time. I want the birthday boys front and center. Neville, Adam, Draco and you too Harry, right here. Time for a few presents. Neville, you're first. Here is a greenhouse that you can call your very own, as you can see it is very portable, but it it is expandable and is climate controlled no matter what size it is. Now will that do for a starter greenhouse dear?"

Neville choked back a sob as he accepted the wonderful gift of a lifetime from Mrs. Malfoy. A tear escaped his eye and he said simply, "Thank you very much."

"Adam, we got to your gift earlier didn't we? Hahaha, now, Draco, let me see, where is it? Ah yes, here you go." Narcissa said and she handed Draco a small box with gold and silver wrapping. He unwrapped the small gift and opened it. His eyes as well as Harry's eyes got as big as saucers when they saw the magnificent rings made out of platinum, etched with lions and snakes vanquishing a common enemy. "Mother, I don't know what to say. They're beautiful, thank you very much." Draco said, his eyes only briefly left his hands and what they were holding.

"Harry, ask your question... go on." Draco said to his lover with his big silver grey eyes shining with tears.

"Ahem, ah, uhm, Mrs. Malfoy, I would like to ... that is... with your permission... Oh Merlin, ... " Harry was faultering at his words but his courage was rising,

'Help me guys!' 'Nope you're on your own here mate, hang yourself, don't get us involved.' 'Thanks loads you bloody lot.'

"Mrs. Malfoy..." Harry started again.

"You've already said that Harry dear. Is there something you'd like to tell me or ask me?" Narcissa said, clearly enjoying watching Harry squirm.

The others were enjoying the show as well but they said nothing one way or the other silently or out loud, they just stood there with shit eating grins on thier faces watching him sink deeper into the pit of ever lasting embarrassment and doom.

"Yes there, is. Mrs. Malfoy, I love Draco very much and I realized just recently that I've loved him for as long as I can remember, I would like your permission to marry Draco as soon as possible." Harry finally squeeked out in a barely audible voice.

"What's that dear? You want to marry my son?" Narcissa began trying to see just how red she could make her future son in law and possible father to her grandchildren.

"Uh, uh, yes ma'am I do. Oh, Draco, she isn't going to say yes is she." Harry turned to his fiance looking for comfort and getting it from a very sympathetic Draco.

"Mother you should be ashamed of yourself. Look at what you've done to my fiance." Draco admonished his mother while patting Harry's back.

"I've done nothing at all to him. Nothing at all. If you'd have waited to do this bonding he wouldn't be in the shape he's in now and I think it's adorable, don't you girls? Ha hm hm hm hm." Narcissa stiffled an out right laugh.

The girls present didn't however and they laughed and "aw'd" at the two men hugging each other. The three of the boys that liked females didn't care to watch but the others agreed with Narcissa. It was kind of funny to see Harry turn so red. This must have been harder on him than facing Voldemort.

"Of course Harry you have my permission to ask Draco if he wants to be married at such a young age and perhaps become a parent before he's ready. By all means go ahead, I won't stop you. Was that clear enough Draco darling?" Narcissa said to her son still stiffling a laugh.

The other boys understood yes when they heard it so Harry shouldn't have trouble.

"I alreadydidandhesaidyes." Harry said quickly to a suddenly unamused Narcissa.

"You went behind my back and accepted before you had my permission Draco?"

Narcissa turned on her son, much of it for show, but she got her robes to billow even better than Snape did, and without walking anywhere.

"Yes I did mother and before you go and get angry, it was just this morning and I didn't need your permission to answer him. I thank you that you've seen fit to give your permission. I do hope that it is out of love because when I answered Harry, it too was out of love. Don't worry, we'll be great wizards when we grow up," Draco winked at Harry, "... and after we've been married for a while say for sixteen years when we turn 32, we may have grandchildren of our own and will be just as supportive as you're being right now."

'That should confuse her for a bit the part about grandchildren really got her going. We have years to have children Harry. Don't worry'

'Uh, guys, hate to tell you so soon, but, Draco, you're going to have a baby a whole bunch sooner than you thought'
'What do you mean Thundercloud?' Draco cast a raised Malfoy eye at his cousin.
'What happened last night is clearly evident by your aura. Draco you're pregnant. When I snapped in this morning I was a bit surprised in the amount of ... uh, well, you were covered in... uh. well, it looked like both of you had the best sex of your lives and you were covered in it or didn't you notice?'

Draco had an amazed look on his face when he turned to his mother and said very plainly in a serious tone,

"Mother, I am envoking my rights, I want to be wed tonight at the party, it is my wish that my children be born nine months after the ceremony, a few hours won't matter. I won't have bastard children. No offence, Adam."

"None taken cousin. Who's going to be best man?" Adam said, knowing there could only be one best man. Ron beat anyone to the punch when he said,
"Harry mate, I'd be honored if you'd allow me to be your best man."

"Thank you Ron, I would like that very much."

"Anytime mate, you could do much worse than Malfoy here. Now who's going to be the maid of honor for the bride?" Ron grinned at Draco who had just registered what had gone on.

"I am not going to be a bloody bride!" Draco said haughtily, his mother and the others were getting extreme pleasure at Draco's state as was now evident by their continued laughter.

"Bridal jitters already Drakey-poo?" Blaise decided to add to the laughter by saying that aloud.

"I'll be your brides maid, Draco but you had bloody better call me your 'Best Maid' or I'll shrink your bits!" Ginny said between bits of laughter."Harry won't care for that now will he?"

"Thank you Virginia, I accept your offer, now theres a witch with a brass brassier if I've ever saw one." Draco said back to the red headed witch as he bowed at the waist, his hand behind him as he dipped down.
On his way up he got hold of a handfull of Harry's butt and gave it a squeeze making Harry a bit more than fluffed up in his dark trousers. Harry gave Draco a very wicked look as he stood and was given a private smirk for his eyes only as a response.

"Well then I think that if we're going to have a wedding as well as a birthday celebration we had best get cracking. I have a few notifications to make right now and I would like for all of you to go and change into something you think is appropriate for the occasion. You have an hour and fifteen minutes to get ready, boy's you're going to receive guests so look your best. Harry, Draco, sometime during the party we'll go off and have your ceremony privately. The Quibbler will be here to cover the occasion for the whole of the press. Luna's father will make it clear that the story will be correct and nothing embarrasing will be reported if something should occur. Ronald, Virginia, do you have formal wedding robes?"

"No, ma'am, we have some very nice formal robes though, they're a bit old but they're what we have." Ron said trying to be dignified even though he wasn't a rich wizard like the others.

"Don't worry about a thing. Some of the house elves are very handy when it comes to whipping up something on the spur of the moment. I'm sure they would be happy to do it for you. Toothy!"

The elf that had made friends with Adam popped into the room and he bowed to his mistress and to Adam as well.

"Toothy is hearing you call mistress, what can Toothy do for her?"

"See to it that Mr. and Miss Weasley are fitted for formal wedding gowns, let them choose the color and it needs to be done in an hour. Can you do that Toothy?"

"I is going to try mistress, thank you for such an important assignment, I can't be waiting to tell the others, they will all be wanting to help too! Toothy will measure you in your rooms is that with your liking Mr. and Miss?"

"That will be fine Toothy, why don't you go and do that, first measure Miss Virginia and then master Ronald. That will give you two plenty of time to get ready while your new robes are being made. Now off with the lot of you. Much to do and no time to do it."

Narcissa left the teens and went on her way to make some urgent floo calls if things were to go off without a hitch.

Hermione and Luna started in right away getting ready for the evening's festivities. It's not every day you go to a quadruple birthday party and a wedding to boot, let alone the most private social occasion this century and it was already 1996. They didn't need a new set of dress robes. Luna had charmed Hermoine's hair into a woven masterpiece of hair art and sprinkled in sparkling beads for effect. Her hair was lovely.

Hermione used a spell that she learned in fourth year on Luna's hair and it too was woven into a masterpiece of hair art. The boy's were going to definitely notice them, even the ones that didn't care for girls... in that way. Three of them did and that was fine by them.

When Ginny was finished with the elf she dashed into the room she was sharing with the other girls and began to get undressed telling them how she thought the elf that was measuring her was getting fresh when it wrapped its arms around her and measured her bust size then he squeezed her boobs to see how or if they were being held up artificially. The nerve of the little bugger, he didn't seem to notice it was Ginny's boobs that he was touching which made Ginny's story seem a bit funnier than really was necessary, but it seemed to calm her nerves a bit. Harry was getting married to Draco Malfoy that evening and she wasn't even done with her shower yet.

Ginny dashed into the bathroom and disappeared for almost twenty minutes. When she emerged, she was in some pretty slinky undergarments and she was wearing the most incredible make up. Ginny had charmed her own hair into a woven masterpiece of her own and she was positively beaming she was so happy and excited.

"Ginny, you're going to burst if you don't relax a bit. Your robes should be here any time now. Mrs. Malfoy has great taste in clothing. I bet her elves will do a great job for you. Draco is lucky you are going to be the one to stand for him. Ron is lucky as well. Oooh, ooh, girls hang on, I'm getting another vision." Ginny and Hermoine were getting used to Luna sharing her visions with them and it rather made their divining skills a bit sharper by default.

Luna started in when Ginny and Hermione touched on either side of her head and they closed their eyes they joined Luna's vision hearing only her voice.

"Oi everybody, Draco and I have three babies! three!" The girls could all see a bouncing Harry hugging all of the Thunderbirds. He ran off and was back in an instant,

"we have four babies! Oh Merlin Draco!" and Harry was off once again only to return with a look of complete befuddlement about him and a very sloppy grin.

"We have five babies, three girls and two boys!" Luna tuned out the vision and sat with the two girls with amazed looks on their faces then the three of them started laughing at what they saw and what Luna had said as Harry's words.

"Who's gonna tell 'em?" Ginny said with enthusiastic eyes, her red hair aflame with the dazzling glamour charms she had in it.

"I'm not telling them." Luna said.

"It was your bloody vision Lovegood, you bloody better well tell them! " Hermione said rather sternly then she broke into a peal of laughter totally shattering her cold facade.

"I'll tell them after they're married and after we're back from Arizona and the Navajo Nation." Ginny said.

It was going to be tough to tell them that they were going to be the first male wizards to give live birth to multiples of that size, ever. Narcissa and Molly of course would be all over themselves when the learned of the news and the girls wanted to be around to see the reactions. It would probably prove to be a great show. The three girls wanted to sell tickets to a once in a lifetime event that would be the spectacle of Molly and Narcissa preparing for five babies at one time. The sound of an elf appearing in the room didn't startle the girls as they had been used to it by now spending as much time at Malfoy Manor as they have this summer.

This is the way the rich live, the elves were happy, much to Hermione's pleasure and, at that moment she was eyeing the robes that the elf had brought to Ginny for her approval. The robes were a gorgeous deep maroon that accented Ginny's hair wonderfully, and had gold lions and faint outlines of a Thunderbird around the sleeves. It was simply a wonderful set of robes and Ginny began to cry.

"Oh is mistress upset with the new robes, Toothy must punish himself oh my, oh my."

Toothy said starting to run in circles thinking that Ginny was upset. Ginny stopped the elf when it ran by and said, "They're wonderful Toothy, thank you very much, they're the most beautiful robes I've ever seen."

The elf's shoulders relaxed a bit and it sighed a relieved breath.

"Toothy is pleased he could make mistress so happy. I thought you was being unhappy at Toothy. You is welcome you is welcome!" and the elf disappeared.

"Try 'em on Gin!" Hermione said to her friend of many years.

Ginny put on her new robes and just stood looking at herself in the mirror. She knew now why the elf had touched her boobs. The robes hung perfectly off of her chest.

"I can't wait to see what Ron looks like in his. He has never worn brand new robes before, I hope he likes his as much as I do mine." Ginny said to her girl friends.

"I'm sure he looks just fine Gin. You've never looked better Ginny, after we first finished our growing after the Thunderbird transformation, I thought my clothes would never fit. Mrs. Malfoy taught me a spell to make my clothing fit properly. Come to think of it, I should use the spell on Harry's clothes, he wears such awful ones. I don't think that hand me down's will be suitable for Draco's husband." Hermione said to her friend as she looked at her own reflection.

Hermione was remembering the first time she had met Harry those many years ago on the Hogwarts Express...

Harry was so small, his clothes were so big and tattered, he was wearing broken glasses and he looked like he had been starved. So much has happened since then, war was on the horizon for the last several years, and nothing was as simple as it should have been.

Now Harry was getting married in a few hours to Draco Malfoy no less and he was going to be a father to quintuplets. Things couldn't possibly become more complicated than they were already. Harry deserves to be happy and in the last few weeks, she had decided that Draco should be happy as well. The stories of Draco's summers were shared as well as the other Thunderbirds stories.

Vincent and Gregory and Blaise are children of Death Eaters, or were. Their parents were either in hiding or in Azkaban and were made wards of the government and as such under the supervision of Snape, their families fortunes were put into trust accounts at Gringotts until they reached maturity. If they survived, which could be a reality, they would be well off wizards and never have to work.
Luna was a free spirit, her father was a big supporter of the light and only reported the truth as it came from Dumbledore, nothing was ever added or deleted to embellish the reports just to sell more magazines. The Quibbler was indeed, an off the wall wizarding publication, but it was entirely honest and not prone to promoting hysterics like the Daily Prophet was.
The Weasley's were doing better due to the Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes business being robust and steady. Fred and George were bound and determined to become wealthy on their own by the time they were thirty and they were taking their family with them. Ginny, Ron and their parents would need for very little if the two of them had anything to do with it. The secure floo powder they invented would insure that outcome.

Neville, Merlin bless him, had made the most startling changes in his life, in the years she had known him. After the debacle at the Department of Mysteries, Neville's attitude towards life changed. He was no longer afraid of the things that once had held him back. He wasn't scared of Professor/Minister Snape any longer, and he didn't seem as frightened of his Gran although she still ruled at her house. Frankly, she seemed to scare the shit out of Snape come to think of it. Neville's parents had left him with a few million galleons of his own and his Gran made sure he wasn't in need of anything.

Hermione's own story was pretty much uneventful until she started hanging around Harry and Ron, since that time it has been anything but uneventful, clashes with Voldemort, freeing Sirius and Buckbeak and the baby dragon of Hagrid's fighting duel's with death eaters, no, her life after she found out she was a witch was definitely not boring. And now, the Thunderbirds and the spectre of war. She knew things were going to get worse and very soon. Going to America was going to be an adventure to look forward to, no danger of death eaters or attacks for almost a month was something she would remember the rest of her life. Hopefully for all of them, it would be a very long life, full of what makes life worth living.

"Hermione." Ginny said to her friend who looked like she was a million miles away.

"HERMIONE" Ginny shouted to her friend who was startled enough to drop the brush she was holding.

"Oh, sorry Ginny, I was just thinking."

"I can see. Care to tell me what about?"

"Everything really, from the first time I got on the Hogwarts Express to right here right now. We're the grown ups now Ginny. Sadly, we have a war to fight in our future, but tonight, tonight we have a wedding to go to. I want to believe that there will be weddings for many many years and without a dark wizard about, to ruin whole families simply for being born." Hermione said the last, she had her parents on her mind now.

"You want to know what I believe? I believe that if you don't get yourself dressed soon, the party will start without us. Now, lets go watch Draco and Harry sweat it out until their ceremony. There will be plenty of time for being morose later, right now, let's party!" Ginny said and she pulled Hermione out of her seat and started to whirl her around in a circle.

Luna had finished dressing and was reading a magazine upside down, normal for her, but when the two girls started to twirl around laughing, she put down her magazine and joined them. "What the hell?"

The three girls settled down and Hermione finished dressing. All three of the young women checked each other's make up and accessories and decided that they were not over done and declared themselves ready to turn heads.

The boy's all decided to dress in the same room. Draco was the only one that had ever worn a formal tuxedo before and he had to show the others what went where. Adam thought the cumberbund would make a cool headband until Draco gave him a sneer and a raised eyebrow, he didn't want the others to get ideas.

Fred and George seemed to know what went where and even tied the bowties by hand, not by magic, noting to the others that there were some muggle skills that could come in handy, be it tying a tie... or picking a lock. The twins promised that they would share that information while they were in America and gave the fellows a wink to seal the deal.

Neville was finished dressing first and was sitting quietly by the window watching the other young men get ready for the biggest party of thier lives and it gave him time to do some reflecting too.

What he was thinking was what he wanted to do after the war. He wanted to work to find a potion or cure that would heal his parents and he wanted a family of his own. That's all he wanted. Modest ambitions to say the least.

Greg and Vince finished dressing and joined Neville by the window where it was a bit cooler. The ten guys in the room made it a bit stuffy. Fortunately, it didn't smell like the quidditch locker room.

"Oi, Longbottom. You look pretty good in that monkey suit." Vince said to Neville startling him back from his thoughts.

"You blokes look pretty good too. A lot different than in school robes and uniforms eh?." Neville said with a little smile on his face.

"You trying to grow a moustache there Longbottom?" Greg said, and Neville immediately put his hand to his lip to feel for whiskers. He was indeed growing facial hair. Neville smiled and said, "I guess I am now Greg. How about calling me Neville for a change? I'd like that you know."

"Ok Neville. You know, you're a pretty good bloke. Sorry we couldn't have been friends sooner." Greg said, Vince was just looking on at this new relationship beginning between his boyfriend and Longbottom... Neville.

"So you want to be friends? Even at school?" Neville asked, Vince answered for his mate,

"Might as well start fresh eh, Neville? How do you do, I'm Vincent Crabbe and this is Gregory Goyle." Both boys held out their hands to Neville who shook them without hesitation and said, "I'm Neville Longbottom. Pleased to finally meet you both."

"Oi what's this? A mutual admiration society?" Blaise said to the three men. He had finished dressing as well and joined the new friends.

"Blaise Zabini, this is Neville Longbottom, our new FRIEND." Vincent said to Blaise, hoping he would get the drift.

"I know who he is you git. How do you do Neville? I'm Blaise. Blaise Zabini. I heard what you guys were saying. I recon it's time to put childish behavior away and grow the fuck up. I never did like tormenting the Gryff's. It took away alot of study time."

All of the men stood by the window and chatted about the things that they had done to each other and laughed at the pranks. Some were clever some were downright mean but in the end, no one was ever hurt, well not hurt bad that is.

Fred and George had been in and out of the room full of men checking on what was going on downstairs in the ballroom. They had bought some very nice gifts for the birthday boys and a gag gift for Harry and Draco.

They had been in Draco's room earlier getting the gag gift ready, they knew that Draco wouldn't go in there until it was time to...

Adam had never worn a suit of clothes let alone a tuxedo and he was amazed at how good he looked and how damn bad he felt in the monkey suit.

"Dudes, I feel like a fuckin' penguin in this thing your mom wants me to wear. Jeez it's only a birthday party and a wedding. I think both are occasions for getting pretty dirty having fun if you ask me, an' we'll just ruin these... ball crushers, I just know it. And what's with this sash thingie. It's like a fuckin nametag. I know who I am"
The ten men all laughed at the Americans accurate description of their attire and could only commiserate with him. Ron had finished dressing quietly, he too had something on his mind. He had given up on thinking of talking Harry out of getting married to Draco. He had 'buried the hatchet' so to speak with Draco after he was appologized to. He realized it was Lucius Malfoy that had made Draco perpetuate the ill will towards Weasleys in what ever possible way he could. Ron could tell that Draco was sincere when he appologized, and Harry was witness to the whole thing. Harry was on cloud nine that day.

It seemed that his best friend was truely going to wed his soul mate and he was genuinely happy for them both. He only vaguely thought of war and the battles that he was sure to have to fight in, but tonight it was all about his best friend's happiness and that was enough for him. Maybe he would ask Hermione to dance all the dances with him. He knew that Neville was sweet on his sister and that was alright with him. Neville was a good bloke with a kind heart and came from a pureblood background of powerful witches and wizards. And he had loads of wizarding gold. Ginny could do much much worse.

Blaise had said that after the Thunderbird transformation, that he thought that Luna was looking mighty fine. It looked like the there were going to be at least five couples, Fred and George were an enigma, and one lonely Adam to spend the evening with.

Draco and Harry were fussing over each other, Draco was trying to get Harry's hair to lay smooth and it was irritating his love juuuust an 'ickle bit. Adam noticed the cuteness and decided to join in. Maybe there would be a laugh in it.

"Knock it the fuck off Draco, can't you tell that his hair has a mind of it's own? Hey Neville, hand me my staff won't you?" Adam said to the two boys at one time.

"Language, Black. You think you can do better with this wild hair of Harry's? By all means, you try something." Draco said with an exasperated tone to his voice.

"Of course. Neville why won't you give me my staff?"

"Are you bloody daft? That thing will knock my head off if I touch it." Neville shot back.

"Staff, let Neville touch you. Ok chickenshit, now hand it here, it won't hurt you." Adam said daringly to his friend. He was smiling.

"I don't trust you." Neville said.

"Why for not?"

"You've been hanging around Fred and George too long. Call it self preservation of the highest degree mate. Come get it yourself."

"Neville, you've got yourself a cheeky side. I like it. Now hand Adam that bloody stick won't you?" Harry said, his hair was looking a fright.

"Alright Harry, but if it so much as tingles..." Neville started to sweat a bit but he put his hand on Adam's staff and it didn't do a thing to him. He grinned and brought it to Adam and finished,

"What were you three on about? This staff is harmless." and he turned to return to the guys and the now open window, someone was smoking a cigarette and he wanted a puff.

"Ok, Harry you want this styled or just manageable?" Adam said to Harry like a barber would a client.

"I kind of like the way your hair looks Adam. I think that if it was just smooth, it would look much better. It's always been messy though." Harry said.

Draco was just looking on with a bit of concern on his face. He was also chewing on the tip of his thumb watching the two most important men in his life talk about bloody hairstyles.

"Let's try this, 'Star light, star bright, make this hair behave tonight'" Adam said and waved his staff over the top of Harry's head. The stone on the end of the staff glowed red and showered Harry's hair with magical energy. When the glowing stopped, Harry's hair was not only straight, but feathered back into an incredible shape. It was perfect.

"You're welcome. Now I think we should all go downstairs and dazzle the guests and the ladies. Everyone got their dress monkey robes?" Adam asked everyone.

Ron hadn't put on his new dress robes in front of anyone except the elf. After the others had put on their robes, he went to the wardrobe where the robe was hanging and put it on behind a screen in Adams room. When he had come out from behind the screen, he was met with whistles and cat calls. He was turning redder than usual but he knew he looked good if that was the way the guys were treating him. He said to the others, "Thank you very much, I do look good don't I?"

"Oi, baby brother"
"you look"
"smashing. Hermione had"
"better watch herself tonight." Fred and George said together. Again.

"You look great Ron, I'm proud that you're going to be my best man." Harry said to his best friend.

"Thanks mate. My life wouldn't be the same without you and Draco in it Harry. Draco, I know we've made peace, but I have to tell you this and it will be the only time. If you so much as hurt Harry in anyway, you will live the rest of your day's as a ferret. Now that said, I wish for the two of you only happiness and a long long life. Now, Harry, Draco, put on YOUR robes and let us get a look at YOU."

"They really are elegant you know. Mother had them specially made in Paris of elven cashmere..." Draco began and he opened the wardrobe that held his and Harry's wedding robes.

He got them both out, Harry's was royal blue with the Potter family crest embroidered on the back. His collar was encrusted with small diamonds set in the shape of a Thunderbird. It was very elegant.

Draco's robe was royal purple with the Malfoy family crest on the back of it. His collar too was encrusted with diamonds in the shape of a Thunderbird. The only difference in adornments to the robes were that Draco had five extra stones on his collar. Three emeralds and two rubies in a cluster. He didn't notice the small stones but Adam did. He looked deeply at Draco's aura and it clicked.

His aura was twinkling five pulses and stopping and doing it all again, like a Christmas tree. Adam grinned at his two new family members with a very toothy smile of perfectly white straight teeth, he wasn't going to tell them anything about how many pulses he saw coming off of Draco. Dang, five babies. Boy will they be surprised. Adam didn't think this to anyone but it was pretty close to the surface.

"What is it Adam? You look like the cat that ate the canary." Draco asked his cousin.

"Oh, nothing you won't find out about sooner or later. It's not important."

"Bollocks Black. I know you can't lie to us. You're not telling us something. What is it?"

"I was looking at your aura. It's beautiful. I wish you could see it."

"Well if it looks as good as I feel right now, it must be something." Draco finished. He took Harry by the hand and led him to the door of the huge room. He gave Harry a few quick kisses before the rest of the guys got the hint that it was time to go downstairs and make an entrance. Adam had followed the two to the door and excused himself to get the Lady T-birds to join them and returned in less than sixty seconds with three stunning witches in tow.

"Hey fellas get a load of this..." and Hermione, Ginny and Luna stepped into Adam's room.

"WooooHooo!" the young men all said at once. Blaise, Neville and Ron were the most interested in the new arrivals and made steps towards them.

" Erm, uh, you look like a princess 'Mione." Ron said to his girlfriend.

"Thank you, Ronald. You look quite amazing yourself. Your robes are gorgeous."

"Uh, thanks 'Mione. Ginny looks pretty bloody damn good too, don't you think? Longbottom better keep his hands to himself tonight." Ron whispered.

"I heard that Ronald Weasley. If Neville want's to get fresh tonight, I might just let him and if you get any ideas, I'll hex you into next week brother mine!"

"Oi, little.." "sister, we're not"
"worried about you"
"it's Longbottom that"
"has to look out." Fred and George teased their little sister.

Neville had been gushing at Ginny when her brothers started in on her and he didn't care that they were talking about him.

"Hey you two. Nothing is going to ruin this day for me so shut it. Ginny, you are a beauty. Hermione and Luna are looking very nice as well don't you think?"

"Good show Nev, don't listen to those two poofs. By the way, don't eat or drink anything that they give you either."

"Ginny, you stab" "us through" "the heart." Fred and George tandem talked. A signal that they were up to no good.

"I will, if you try anything funny big brothers. That goes for you too Ron."

"Gin, I've been a victim of your bat bogey hex and your jelly legs jinx and that was when you weren't angry. I don't want to upset you of all people. Besides Charley, you have the worst temper of all of us, don't worry about me."

Luna and Blaise were making quiet talk waiting for the others to finish whatever it was they were saying to each other. They could tell that there was excitement and romance in the air.

"For the first time ever, I wish that Colin Creevy was here with his camera." Harry said looking at all of his friends, dressed to the nines.

"Harry, there's a photographer down stairs. You don't think that my mother would let an occasion such as this pass without pictures do you?"

"No love, I don't suppose she would would she?"

"Well then, everyone shall we let the ball start rolling along?"

"Thats 'get the ball rolling' Draco." Adam said to his cousin.

"Whatever you say Adam, come on Neville, Harry love. We have guests." Draco said to the teens, he winked at Harry and smiled leading his love by the hand, the others followed.

The thirteen Thunderbirds came down the grand staircase in pairs with Adam in the back of the group. Their heads were held high and they were the most elegantly dressed, powerful teens in all of Britain that night. Waiting for them in the foyer were the most powerful adult wizards and witches in Britain, thier experienced counterparts.

The guest list was enormous and the aurors that were providing security for the event were nervous as they could be. There were 30 aurors present from Britain alone and there were 20 more from the continent, escorting their ministers of magic. The British aurors were happy for the extra support.

The four birthday boys and especially Harry and Draco stood in a receiving line to greet their guests and were nearly done when Charley Weasley made it into the line to say hello to his friends. When he got to Adam he smiled a huge smile and told him that those dragons had given them the best flight of their lives and made it to Hogwarts in under an hour which was twice as fast as they usually flew and then he gave him a small box wrapped in silver paper. He said quietly, "Happy birthday Adam."

Adam had not expected Charley to give him anything since he had only just met him that morning, early as it was, but he was silently excited that this good looking man had thought of him on his birthday.

"Should I open it now Charley?" Adam asked his new friend.

"You may want to open it later in private. It's not much, but I think you'll like it well enough." Charley said.

Adam turned away from the receiving line long enough to open the package and look at what was inside before he turned back to face Charley. A lone tear had started to fall from his eye, Charley noticed and offered a handkerchief to Adam.

"Don't you like it Adam? I can get a different one if you want." Charley said, concerned the pendant he bought Adam wasn't to his liking.

"No, Charley, it's beautiful. I will wear it always. Thank you very much. Uh, Charley, would you like to sit with me tonight?"

"I was hoping you'd ask. Thanks mate. I'd like to talk with you for a bit about that bloody thing you did with the dragons... and some other things as well.." Charley said wiggling his eyebrows a bit.

Draco saw Charley's expression and he thought to his cousin 'He's the male version of Ginny cousin, watch out'
'I don't plan on upsetting him Draco'
'Who you guys talking about now? Anything wrong?' came the mental voice of Ron who was in the back of the entrance hall mingling with the guests and visiting with his parents, well, his father anyway, Molly was still installing charms in the ballroom, Neville's Gran was helping by making the work go faster.
'Your brother is here Ron, come on over and say hello.' Harry thought back to his friend.

Since all of the Thunderbirds were privy to the mental conversations, they had come on a plan that worked for them by saying the persons name they wished to communicate with a week ago and it seemed to work nicely. Dumbledore of course could hear what was going on, but he made no attempts at trying to contact any of them mentally and, he didn't try to intrude.

Ron made his way through what was left of the receiving line and stood with his brother talking about Romania and dragons and quidditch while the last of the guests were greeted. The entrance hall of Malfoy Manor hadn't seen this many people in over 200 years unless they were dark witches and wizards, and Narcissa was radiating happiness at the sight of so many people here for such a grand occasion as the sixteenth birthday of not only her son but, Harry, Neville and Adam, all children of her closest friends. She couldn't be happier than she was at that moment.

The wedding of Draco and Harry was going to happen just as the guests were let into the ballroom. It would be quiet, quick and private. The time was now.

"May I have your attention please everyone... dinner is served in the ballroom. Please take your seats." Narcissa had used a modified sonorus spell so she could be heard over the din of the chatter of her guests.

The doors to the ballroom opened and everyones breath was taken away at the beautiful yet masculine decorations. Faeries sat atop crystal candles lighting the tables, the ceiling was enchanted to show the twinkling starlight of the summer night, the walls were covered with waterfalls, there were flowers of every kind all over.

The tables were set with 500 year old bone china, the flat ware was gold and the crystal goblets were everfilling with the beverage choice of the drinker. There were no Hogwarts school colors anywhere save for some red and silver accents. The table cloths were made of the whitest Chinese silk embroidered with dragons.

The seats that Harry, Draco, Neville and Adam were to sit on were enchanted so that if someone wanted to take their pictures they would be in the most flattering light. Narcissa had out done herself with the assistance of Molly and Mrs. Longbottom, it was perfect.

"Harry, Draco, darlings, come with me. Ronald, Virginia would you go and get your parents please? Albus is inside already and judging by his nervousness I'd say that he'd like to get this over with. Harry is there anyone that you'd like especially to witness this? Draco?" Narcissa said to the two young men.

"I'd like for Remus to come in and all of the Weasleys." Harry said to his almost mother in law.

"I'd like all f the Thunderbirds to come mother."

"Very well you two, we'll begin this in five minutes so why don't you go and talk to Albus while we gather everyone." Narcissa said to her two loves.

"Mother, is Severus here? I think I'd like for him to be here as well." Draco said. He received a nod and his mother was off in a billow of robes.

"Lets go and see Dumbledore love, I'm sure he wants to drop some bombshell on us before we do this and try to foul things up."

"He wouldn't do something like that Draco. Lets just go and see him before everyone gets back." Harry said to his love and the two of them walked to the room where their ceremony would take place.

"Ah, there you are, you two look so in love. Such a wonderful thing. I have a few things to ask you before we begin. Don't worry, nothing too personal, just a few forever types of questions. Ahem, Now, would you like me to make this marriage a blood bond? This would mean that together you're magic would be four times as powerful as what it could ever be alone. This is not an easy decision to make boys, it also will make it possible for one of you to become pregnant. Male pregnancy in wizards is very rare and only the most powerful can carry children. In cases of male pregnancy, there usually are always multiple births, twins are the most common. Merlin himself had twins with his life partner."

"Professor Dumbledore, Draco is already with child." Harry said not a bit ashamed of what he had just admitted.

"Ah well then, a blood bond could only help then in childbirth as you Harry can give directly to Draco, the strength that it will require to carry as well as deliver a healthy child. I suspect that the child will have some very impressive powers as well. The both of you are supremely gifted with the magic you wield, but together, you could dominate our world. Do you have any idea of how much wealth the two of you will command once the ceremony is completed? Once you've said 'I do'?

You will have been legally deemed adults and as such have rights and priveledges not usually bestowed until your 17th birthday, as such however, Harry, you're already one of the weathiest wizards in Britain with the combined fortunes of the Potter and the Black estates. Draco you too will immediatel y come into your inheritance which is sizeable according to your mother. Your grandfather saw fit to endow his son's son half of the Malfoy monies and properties, in your case Draco, it's close to six hundred million galleons, Harry, you're estimated assets are approximately eight hundred million galleons, together you're worth over a billion galleons, which is a lot of money.

That much money brings with it more than just power to do as you choose, providing it's legal. Also, political power as well, providing it's legal. I do expect that you will use it wisely. Harry, when you came back to the wizarding world and you opened your vault at Gringotts with Hagrid, you only saw the very smallest tip of the iceburg of the amount of gold you own. I could not tell you of this until now, it was your parents wish. I hope you forgive me."

"There's nothing to forgive Professor, I understand you did what you had to do." Harry hadn't said many words since entering the small room where he was going to be married in. Only true ones.

"Thank you Harry, it means alot to me, I feel that I've stretched your trust more than any child ever should have to endure. Now I do not have to tell either of you that you're already targets of Voldemort, but raising a child until Voldemort is vanquished is very risky. Your pregnancy Draco will have to be kept secret. We can take care of certain... developments with simple concealment charms. I have your rings already but, I would like for you to please draw a drop of blood so I can bind your union with blood. The others don't need to know of this development. I have a book that will help you to understand more fully the things that such a bond will effect you." Dumbledore said and offered the two a small sharp object, accepting it, the two knew what to do.

"Please, only one drop." Dumbledore cautioned the two and he held out the small pillow that held the wedding bands that Adam had made for them.

"ouch." Draco said.

"Did I hurt you love?" Harry said worried for his mate.

"No, you didn't hurt me, I only reacted, it's quite alright. Here you go Professor, one drop of blood." Draco said and he let the drop of blood fall to the rings on the small pillow.

Harry did the same, but without saying a word. He had kept his eyes on Draco.

"That wasn't too bad was it?" Dumbledore asked the two.

Draco's and Harry's blood mixed over the two rings and Dumbledore waved his wand and said an ancient incantation over them. The blood on the rings turned into blood red rubies and settled between the claws of the dragons etched into the gold. A red flash of light shot from them to the tip of Dumbledors wand and back again.

"There now, that's done. I think that the others are ready now to come in."

Dumbledore waved his hand at the door and it opened admitting Narcissa, Molly and Arthur, Mrs. Longbottom and the Thunderbirds. The two men were standing together already at the dias where Dumbledore had enchanted their rings, Ron and Ginny made it to their sides. Ginny gave Draco and Harry both a kiss on the cheek and Ron shook both their hands while the small gathering sat down. The Thunderbirds all stood six on each side. Adam stood in the middle behind Draco and Harry, holding the rings that he had made that day with the help of the Thunderbirds. He noticed the stones in the rings, ones that he hadn't put there, he knew at once that a blood ritual was performed. He gave Dumbledore a wink no one else was looking at.

Dumbledore was speaking to the two men in front of him and to the small group of witnesses when he asked for the rings. Adam started to pay a little more attention at that point and he handed the small pillow with the rings to Dumbledore who gave one to each of the grooms.

"Repeat after me, With this ring, I Harry, take thee Draco, to be my husband, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, to cherish above all others from this day forward, my love I pledge to thee."

Harry repeated the vow's and it was Draco's turn to do the same, but before Dumbledore could tell him what to say, it was already on the way out of his mouth.

"That's lovely Harry. I Draco, take thee Harry, to be my husband, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, to cherish above all others from this day forward, my love I pledge to thee."

Dumbledore asked the gathering if there were any objections and Ginny turned to the gathering and pulled slightly on the butt end of her wand daring anyone to say anything. Words were not necessary.

"Place the rings on your left hand, and repeat after me together please, 'With this ring I thee wed' " Dumbledore said, his eyes were almost tearing up with happiness he hadn't had in many many years.

Draco and Harry both slid the rings on each others fingers and said, "With this ring, I thee wed."

"It is my pleasure to pronounce you betrothed. You may kiss the groom." Dumbledore said to the two smiling, crying wizards and they crushed each others lips.

The gathering applauded wildly, Narcissa and Molly were on at least their 20th hankies each. Adam was smiling the biggest smile of his life. Ron was beaming and Ginny was dabbing at the corners of her eyes trying to keep her make up on her eyes and not her face. Her smile was as big and genuine as it had ever been. Harry and Draco kissed once again and followed Adam out of the room and back into the ballroom where their international guests were already eating and making merry.

'Let's make an entrance' Adam thought to the Thunderbirds and he shot a hand over his shoulder and everyones robes began to billow, their steps were accented by a cleat sound on the marble floors, he waved his hand at the doors to the ballroom and they opened with the sound of blaring trumpets, the 13 teens marched in, in a slight 'V' pattern and took thier seats.

Narcissa and the elder Weasleys made for their table with Dumbledore and McGonnegal and Snape. Charley Weasley was already sitting at the table when the entourage marched in. He declined to go to the ceremony.

Since the attention was still on the thirteen impeccably dressed teens, Adam stood with a crystal goblet in his hand and tapped it lightly with his signet ring. The tone of the goblet resonated across the ballroom and he began with,

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Witches and Wizards, I present to you Harry and Draco Potter-Malfoy. Lets give the newlyweds a big welcome." Applause erupted from the gathering and kept on for a good five full minutes when Adam held his hands out trying to silence them.

'Dang, that was a mistake, sorry boys' the teens all chuckled.

"Please everyone, please, I believe that the Best Man has a toast, Ron Weasley everyone."

More applause started and stopped politely when Ron stood and held his wine goblet aloft.

"Uh, um, Draco, Harry, may all your days together be happy ones, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart." Ron blushed but took a sip from his glass and returned to his seat next to Harry.

Ginny was the next to stand and she made her way to the center of the table in front of the grooms. She uttered a modified sonorus spell so she could be heard above the rattling of the gold flatware on the China.

"I only have one bit of advice for the newlyweds it is this, 'Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.' " Ginny took a sip of her wine and returned to her seat. Her toast was still getting a few giggles from the guests.

This was a birthday party as well as a wedding reception. Harry and Draco didn't want gifts from every wizard that attended their party, and neither did Adam or Neville and it was clearly indicated on the invitations that were sent out magically by Molly and Narcissa. This did not however include the ones closest to the birthday boys. Harry had discussed his planned gift to Adam with Dumbledore and Narcissa, who pulled a few strings at the ministry to facilitate what Harry had in mind for his brother.

Draco was privy to what Harry had in mind and he was excited for his cousin but he didn't let the secret slip. Harry stood and made his way to the center of the room. The tables had been cleared and made smaller so there would be dancing room and seating for the guests around the perimeter of the spacious ballroom. Harry had asked the band to stop playing while he had his turn at speaking to a lot of people he didn't know but were necessary for his gift to have any meaning.

"Witches and Wizards of the Continent and Britain, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my husband and myself, I welcome you to this wonderful party. Is everyone enjoying themselves?..." Harry looked to the faces of the party goers and heard a few whistles and 'good show old man's', the concensus was that it was a successful party.

"... it is not only my wedding day, but it is my birthday as well. Today, Neville Longbottom, Draco my new husband, and myself share a birthday with an amazing young American whom I'm proud to call my brother, Prince Adam Thundercloud. Adam would you come over here to receive your gift"
Adam looked at Harry puzzled at just what Harry could give him that he couldn't get for himself. He rose from his seat where he was having a very private conversation with Charley Weasley and made for the center of the ballroom where Harry was standing. All eyes were on Adam and it made him a little nervous but he kept on smiling that huge white smile. Adams robes still flowed and billowed and his hair was especially light in the air that night, he was wearing the robes of the Empire of the House of Thundercloud.

"Professor Dumbledore, would you kindly bring the cepter, Mrs. Weasley, the box if you please, and mother, would you please bring the proclaimation? Keep your shirt on Adam, nothing that you can't handle brother."

Adam whispered to Harry, his face full of puzzlement and worry "What's going on brother? Don't embarrass me please."

Harry whispered back, "You'll see."

Narcissa, Dumbledore and Molly Weasley all stepped forward to the center of the room handing the things requested by Harry to him.

"Adam, you're the brother I never knew I had. You're the son your father never knew. I am Harry James Potter, and I am sole heir to the Black family estate and titles by bequest of your father at the time of his death. You are Adam Black and as such, I give you the title of Scion of the Black family. I have a proclaimation from the Wizengamot here in Britain, it says

"Be it known from this day forward, the Black family established in 990 a.d., is hereby re established, all titles and properties now belong to Adam Black Thundercloud, Prince of the House of Thundercloud, Magical Navajo Nation, North America. by unanimous order from the Wizengamot, special bloodlines court."

"And Adam, I have this for you. I hope you like it." Harry handed Adam the box that Molly had brought to him, wrapped in black with glowing blue ribbons.

"Go on, open it Adam."

Adam opened the big box very carefully trying not to rip the pretty paper and make an ass out of himself at the same time, Prince mode, he really hated it but this was a special occasion so he did as he was asked. So far, Harry hadn't embarrassed him too much, shocked him yes, his gift was very generous, totally unnecessary but still. Adam got to the box that had no markings on it, lifted the cover and gave it to Harry. Adam took out the robes that Harry had made specially for him.

The Black family crest was embroidered in gold and silver on a silk and velvet set of robes. They were the most wonderful thing that Adam had ever owned. he took off his own formal robes and put on the new ones that Harry had given him. He was about to cry when Dumbledore stepped up and gave Adam the scepter that was in the Black vault at Gringotts. There was a giant pearl on the end of the bejeweled golden object. Dumbledore used his telepathy for the first time and told Adam to chant his last name four times, once each time facing a different direction, north, east, south and west. Adam did so, but out loud for every one to hear.

"Black, Black, Black, Black." When Adam said Black for the fourth time, the pearl began to glow. The incantation was complete and Adam now could claim Sirius as his father openly. More importantly, he could do Black family magic. Something in which only a full blooded Black could manage. Harry knew what could happen when he gave Adam his things back. He was going to keep the money, he knew that Adam didn't need it and it would be bad form to give it back.

"Thank you Harry, this is very kind of you. It was not necessary to give me all that property either."

"Wait till you see it Black Thundercloud!"

"Oh very funny Harry, like I've never heard that one before and that was from my mom."

Adam made to find something in the pocket of his tuxedo but he decided to wait to give this particular gift to his brother. He had one for Neville and Draco too so it could wait.

"Is there anything else Harry? I'd like to get back to Charley before someone asks him to dance first. I have something for you and Draco for later so don't go running off with your new hubby before I have a chance to give it to you." Adam said to his brother.

Adam said his thank you's to Molly, Narcissa and Dumbledore and returned to the table he had left the red headed dragon handler. It was early still and he really wanted to talk to Charley. Harry thanked his co-conspirator gift givers for their participation in the gift that Harry gave to Adam, then returned to where his new husband was sitting.

Draco had not taken his eyes off of his raven haired lover the entire time he had been away from his side despite the efforts of his friends to engage him in coversation. He politely nodded when he was asked a question or if someone made a comment, but his attention was clearly on Harry.

He was excited for his cousin to receive the titles and properties of the Black family. Harry had discussed with Draco, Dumbledore and Narcissa whether or not to give Adam the money that was now in his vault. Narcissa had told Harry and Draco that while in good taste to give back the titles, Sirius wanted Harry to do good with it and spend it as he saw fit, but Adam Thundercloud did not need the money and would probably feel bad by accepting it.

At that moment, Draco was a lot of things he had never dreamed he would be just a month ago. He was living now, actually living and that was the most amazing thing to him. Before tonight, he was simply existing. Draco began to count his blessings and the counting was difficult where before it would have been easy since he thought his blessings were few. Now, he was a husband, a parent to be, a bloody scary bird, and he was going to fight to make sure he had made it safe for his children to exist and he was going to do it by Harry's side.

He thought of the other Thunderbirds as individuals and he couldn't have chosen better friends. They were truly friends and he trusted every one of them, even the Weasleys. He was going on a honeymoon of sorts with his new husband just tomorrow for what could be the only peace that they would have until the war was over and he was glad that it could be spent with friends. Friends that he would be bound to for life, not just childhood acquaintances but people that would die for each other, including him. That was a lot of loyalty.

Draco's gaze into his wine glass began to blur and then it cleared and he could see five children running around a Christmas tree, two were blond and three were raven haired, they all appeared to be about five or six years old. He could see himself looking at the running children and Oh, Merlin, he was pregnant again. He could see Harry and he was holding two small children, one boy and one girl, one blond one raven haired as well. 'Thank Merlin their hair is combed and neat'. Just then Harry sat down next to Draco and the vision was gone with the wine because Harry picked it up and swallowed it.

"I'll have you know, you just drank our family in one gulp Potter." Draco sneered at Harry.

"Oh and I suppose there were seven already and more on the way and you were still the most handsome man I have ever laid eyes on." Harry said sniggering but half serious.

"Harry, I was scrying that glass of wine when you drank it. There were seven children, five year old quintuplets and 2 year old twins and yes there were more on the way. Are you satisfied Mr. Hornypants?" Draco said very seriously. Luna and Hermione and Ginny all heard what Draco said very clearly the three of them laughed at their newlywed friends.

"Are we fighting?" Harry asked Draco while still smiling, pushing a lock of hair out of Draco's eyes.

"Yes, I suppose we are. What are you going to do to make it up to me?"

"Well, how about we have some great make up sex after this party is over. Tomorrow is going to be a big day too you know." Harry said to his husband, making big emerald green puppy dog eyes without his glasses on, he was not to be denied.

"The party is over right now as far as I'm concerned." Draco said.

Adam heard the conversation while he and Charley were talking about all kinds of things that they both liked. Adam found out that Charley played the piano and he asked him if he would like to accompany him while he played his guitar for Draco and Harry's first dance. When Draco thought the party was over, his cousin, Merlin love him, was about to just get the party started! Adam and Charley chose that moment to get up and go to the where the orchestra was. After a quick explaination, the orchestra leader was happy to let Adam and Charley play for the newlyweds.

"Can I have everyones attention?" Adam said with a modified sonorus charm so he could be heard over the voices of the witches and wizards in the ballroom. He wanted for Harry and Draco especially to pay attention.

"Would the Potter-Malfoy's please come to the center of the ballroom for their first dance as married people."

Adam continued, determined to make his point, he thought extra hard at the two lovers and he said, 'I'll tell everyone what Blaise said you were if you don't come over here and dance' 'And just what was it that the late Mr. Zabini said I was'
'I wasn't late Draco, I was here all the time'
'I think he means you're dead meat if you chose the wrong phrase for his condition'
'I am not in any condition! What in the world did Blaise say I was? Hmmm'
'he said... uh... duffed up'
'Oi, that's up the duff mate'
'Thanks, yeah, up the duff'
'you wouldn't'
'I would. Now, you two gonna dance or are we going to turn this into a baby shower too'
'You're pure evil Thundercloud'
'Thank you. Get yer butts out on the dancefloor. I'll charm your robes, it'll be a kick.'

'Oh, bugger off. Alright' Draco finished and he rose to go to the dancefloor.

He was still holding Harry's hand and Harry wasn't budging. Draco looked at him and he was smiling kind of funny. If Draco didn't know better, Harry had a devilish side in him and thats what he looked like at that second.
'I never said I wanted to dance brother'
'Oh for the love of Merlin, come on Harry, Charley is playing with me'
'what now, or later cousin'
'Touche cuz. now come on out and listen. You might like it and decide to dance'
'Bloody hell Harry, get off your arse and dance with your better half' Ron pitched into the conversation.
'We'll all dance with you after you start won't we Thunderbirds?' Hermione added her thoughts and they all quickly agreed. They couldn't back out of it now, they had said they would do something and they would.

"Lets go dance Draco, Adam is waiting." Harry quickly shifted gears on Draco and made to seem he was not wanting to dance.

When Molly and Narcissa noticed their young adults getting up to go to the dance floor, Molly nudged Neville's grandmother to get ready with her wand for the surprise they had been planning all day long. Narcissa had summoned the house elves to surround the newlyweds for their part in the surprise, they were disguised in clothing which Narcissa had to ensure was only to conceal themselves and not to be taken as being given clothes so they relented seeing as how it was for master Draco and his mate.

'Lucius, if you were dead, you'd be rolling in your grave' Narcissa thought when she saw the elves take their places in the shadows, in clothes no less. She looked at Hermione who raised her eyebrows, nodded her head and lifted her goblet of wine in a salutatory gesture. 'I take that back Lucius, you'd drop dead'

Charley let Adam begin the introduction and joined in the playing, seamlessly.
Harry and Draco held hands aloft and began to sway to the music that Adam and Charley were making. It was sweet and soft, Adams guitar and Charley's piano took turns with the melody. It was a muggle tune, but it was a sweet one and easy to dance to. Draco switched to take the lead in the dance with Harry.

It was a good thing too because Harry sucked at the lead. After the three witches were satisfied that Harry and Draco would be dancing for a while in this position, they began to cast their spells over the two of them, the elves began their spell work as well. Molly and Narcissa and Neville's Gran took locations behind the elves and began to enchant the ceiling. Half of the elves shot elven magic to the ceiling and opened a portal into the elven realm. The other half of the elves enchanted Harry and Draco themselves and they began to levitate the two of them while they danced and the music played, slowly raising them to where their heads were bathed in elven light, little stars bursting off of their heads. Harry and Draco were twirling in a waltz, Harry was grateful that Draco knew what he was doing and he was happy to follow along. He was dancing well and Draco seemed happy.

The two wizards did not notice when Elven crown's of golden stars started to wind around their heads and settling down on them, their eyes were only on each other. The robes that Harry and Draco wore were billowing, showing off their tuxedos nicely.

Charley had taken over the melody of the song for a minute while Adam summoned his staff. Adam strummed his guitar with one hand while he held his staff aloft and a beam of light shot from the stone on the end of it, changing their robes in both color and the crests that were sewn into them. The robes were now a sky blue with a thin ermine trim all around the sleeves, up the collar, down the front and round the back, the stones that were on Draco's lapel were quite noticable. The people that were watching the two wizards dance in magical elven light in a cloud, stopped being party goers and became an audience and they became silent. There was some very powerful magic at work and it was impressive to watch.

The two most in love men in all of Britain were making magic of their own. Dumbledore and perhaps not more than 15 other witches and wizards could see the auras mingle and change color. Draco's aura was pulsing rapidly, almost impercepably fast, but it was clear to Dumbledore that two of the most powerful wizards in the world were going to have more than one child and that of course made them although right now perhaps the most beautiful of wizards, and perhaps, the most deadly as well.

Draco was spinning Harry round and round, smiling at his new husband when he spun him into an embrace with a kiss and spun him back. This caused quite a reaction by the 300 or so people watching. Sparks were now racing along the bottom of Harry and Draco's robes and when they contacted each other since they were above the ground, there was lightening and thunder underneath the cloud that they were dancing on.

This was no ordinary magic and Narcissa and Molly and Neville's Gran knew it. They were somehow compelled to keep up their spell work as long as Adam and Charley played. Adam and Charley were also compelled to play for as long as Draco and Harry wanted them to.

Magic showed that it was alive.

When the elven light began to fade and the stars stopped falling, the elves that were holding the two men aloft on a cloud began to gently let them down to the floor once again. The enchanted portal that had opened up for them closed returning the ceiling to its previously enchanted self. Harry and Draco came out of whatever trance they were in when the house elves disappeared and the three witches ended their spell.

Adam and Charley finished their duet and the whole room thundered with applause. Harry and Draco turned to applaud Charley and Adam who were now standing and bowing low at the waist. They had no idea that they were making magic. The first things that they noticed about each other after their gazes left each others eyes, were the crown of golden stars on their heads and then the color change of their robes and then the new family crest which stunned the two of them.

'Who did this'
'Mr. Black'
'That depends. Do you like it'
'Harry, Draco they're bloody gorgeous' Ginny decided to get in on this one.

"These are the most beautiful set of robes I've ever worn. Who ever is responsible for this should be applauded for their splendid taste. Men do look good in fur." Draco said out loud so his cousin wouldn't be worried that he would be hexed for changing his wedding clothes for him without his permission. Good thing for Adam he had taste.

He hadn't noticed that there were several cameras taking portrait shots while they were dancing. Many would probably be in Daily Prophet tomorrow. His mother would see to it that they would be proper photographs.

"You're welcome Draco and Harry. Did you like the instrumental?" Adam asked his cousin and brother while Charley joined Adam's side.

"It was beautiful you two. Now, shall we let the rest of our guests dance and have a good time too?" Harry said to the three wizards.

'This good manners business is getting bloody tough to keep up'

'Oi, Harry keep it in your pants a little while longer. I think that theres a cake to cut' Ginny thought to the newlyweds nodding to the massive seven tier cake with two brooms atop the cake.

Adam with a wave of his hand added 5 lightening bolts behind the brooms. He kept his head up to the ceiling like he wasn't doing a thing.

Draco and Harry cut the cake and smooshed it into each others faces, laughing and having a good time. Harry kissed a lot of frosting off of Draco's lips and a hundred flash bulbs went off trying to capture each kiss as it happened. This time when the cameras went off, Draco and Harry did notice. They mugged for the camera a bit more and the guests all applauded and laughed at the pair's expense.

Draco was an incredible sport which really impressed the Thunderbirds and most especially his mother who would have bet half of her fortune that Draco would have thrown a fit when he had cake shoved into his beautiful face by Harry Potter no less.

'Do you think you could help us sneak out of here Thunderbirds? I'd kind of like to take Draco upstairs and ... uh, clean him up a bit.' Harry inquired mentally of his friends.
He looked at Ron and he mouthed, 'Friends always help friends get laid, no matter what.'

Ron instantly knew what Harry had meant. He had been saying that to him for the last two years anyway, the two Gryffindors stuck to that mantra up until now anyway and there is no way he would go against this.

'Right Harry. I think that Neville's Gran had something she wanted to give to him before we go to America and this has been a pretty big night for the four of you birthday boys. Bloody good show letting Adam bring back the House of Black by the way' Ron thought back to his friend, reminding him there was one more birthday boy to celebrate with.

Right on cue, Neville's Gran, not big on ceremony herself, walked to where the Thunderbirds were sitting and she held out a package and an envelope. Nev's Gran was crying and smiling at the same time. She couldn't get over how much like her son Frank, Neville looked. She was happy to give him the gift his father had had made for him when he was one year old to give him when he turned sixteen.

"Neville Longbottom, sit up straight." Neville's Gran said to the tall good looking man sitting before her.

"And give your grandma a kiss." Neville did as Gran commanded with conditioned response and he grinned at his Gran and stood up towering over her. He was a full head and shoulders higher than she was now, but she still scared the holy shit out of him. Tonight he wasn't scared of his Gran at all.

"I love you Gran. I'll make you and Mum and Dad proud of me you'll see." Neville said, looking down at his grandmother and smiling.

"Thank you dear, I love you too, but Neville, we've always been proud of you. Do not doubt that for one second. Now open your gift. Your father bought this when you were one year old. He no doubt wanted you to have this so it's yours to do with as you see fit. You don't have to open the envelope. It is the first part of your inheritance. I trust that you'll let me live at your house until it is no longer convenient for me to live there."

"Oh, Gran, you're the best. Of course you can live in the house. It was yours a long time before it was mine. I know just where I'm going to put my greenhouses too."

"You have more than one greenhouse?"

"Harry and I gave him one Mrs. Longbottom." Draco said to the grey haired old witch looking lovingly at her grandson. He was getting anxious to leave the party and get to the wedding night festivities. Only the private birthday gifts from now on. His anniversaries would be forever extra special and he wanted to remember this night above all others.

"I kinda gave him a couple too Mrs. Longbottom." Adam said. He was indeed like his father. If one was good, two was better. Marauder mentality.

"I see, well then. If it's what you want Neville, then so be it. Alright now, open the gift from your father. I would like to see it as well."

Neville opened the box carefully. It was pretty heavy and he could tell there were several things inside. He set the lid of the box down and pulled on the tie that was around the bundle inside. Neville put in his hands and lifted out dragon hide gloves and an invisibility cloak. He was so touched that he had a gift from his father he began to cry. He knew that he would never, ever get to tell his father thank you and have it mean anything. St. Mungo's was taking very good care of his parents, but they were only existing and it hurt his feelings.

"Thank you Gran. This was very thoughtful of Dad wasn't it?"

"Yes my darling it was. It was. Now, I think I would like a dance with my grandson and also with some of his friends as well.

Blaise and Luna decided to follow Neville and his Gran out to the dance floor. Fred and George asked their mother and Mrs. Malfoy to dance and were surprised that their offers were accepted. Ron and Hermione walked to the center of the ballroom and began dancing as well. Everyone but Vince and Greg and Ginny were dancing. Ginny was passing a bottle of firewhiskey to the two big young men under the table so she was content to stay where she was.

"Draco, Harry, if you don't get out of here now, it will be too late for you to stay up late if you know what I mean..." Ginny said.

Adam and Charley were waiting for Draco and Harry to go before they gave the dance floor a whirl. They would make a spectacle of themselves and give the two lovebirds cover to make their escape.

"You two better get up and go. You've a bloody long ride on the back of that bird I keep hearing about. Pipsqueak it's called." Charley said laughing to his friends.

"It's an enormous bloody scary huge bird Charley, makes your dragon look like a turtle racing a bloody hare. And you should know Charley, as Thunderbirds, we cannot lie." Harry said, taking his husbands hand and starting for the door of the ballroom, destination bedroom.

Draco grinned a huge smile and waved to his remaining non dancing friends. He was off for the night of his dreams with the man of his dreams.

Narcissa and Molly were ready for the two escaping grooms when rice came down on them from out of no where. Everyone applauded, Fred and George were amazed at just how tricky these two special mums really were and applauded the ladies. Harry and Draco wouldn't be up to anything that they wouldn't be up to that night anyway and they always had time to appreciate great magic when they saw it. Narcissa and Molly and Dumbledore approached the retreating newlyweds.

"Draco darling, Harry love, wait just a moment won't you? Albus has something to tell you."

"Congratulations once again my boys, enjoy what is left of the rest of your evening together why don't you hm.? You'll be leaving in the morning at two. The house elves have packed for all of your Thunderbird comrades so there will be little to do until that time. You will be flying and not portkeying to the Window Rock entrance to the Magical Navajo Nation. This will be the safest way for you to travel and you will gain eight hours so, your day will be six hours longer and your tomorrow 2 more. That gives you eight hours longer in which to celebrate, both the birthdays and your wedding day as well you two. I think you should be ready to travel by no later than one forty-five in the morning. I'm sure getting the lot of you together by two a.m. will be nothing short of a miracle. Now off with you and... Good luck on your new life together. Your fathers would be very proud. Very proud indeed."

Harry and Draco shook Dumbledores hand and gave the two witches with him a kiss on the cheek each as they left their company and headed for their wedding bed.

"Ladies, to see true love in it's most raw form and at it's begining, is truely a priveledge. Now, which one of you would like to dance with an old fool?"

There were still three hundred guests eating, drinking and dancing and they would be there for another hour or so. "Albus, I'd be charmed." Narcissa said to the happy old wizard, and danced until almost the very end of the party.