Chapter 71

Christmas with the Malfoys

A/N: I know I left you with a cliffhanger last chapter, but you will not find out who they are until chapter 73, and also you will find out how the Longbottoms came back to their sense in that chapter. This is a season of miracles people, so please enjoy.

Pansy and Draco were met by Lucious and Narcissa Malfoy at the train station. When they came off of the train, they found them chatting with the Weasley's friendly, and having an interesting chat about what was going on in the ministry now that Fudge was gone. "Ah Draco, Ms. Parkinson, are you two ready for the holidays now?" Lucious still had a bit of snobishness in his voice, but that was the way he was raised.

"Yes father, we are ready to go. We will see you guys on the 26th, Merry Christmas to you all." Draco shook hands with everyone wishing them happy holidays, and then he and Pansy followed his parents off to their Luxury car and to Malfoy Mansion.

"Pansy, your family is going to be joining us for Christmas dinner, but you two will have the rest of the time to yourselves to go shopping and whatever. We have a few family traditions that we have been following again since we have sided with the light side again. You will find that we like going and getting toys and clothes and stuff for a couple of the Orphanages around London and England. My family usually picked one Muggle and one Wizardring Orphanage, and we have decided to do this again for this year. This year we will be helping the Wizardring one in Manchester, and the main muggle one in London itself. You will find that it is a fulfilling thing to do. We will be going shopping for them this weekend, and we will be having fun with the shopping in London proper for the Muggle Orphanage. Now we should be home any minute now, and you two can take your stuff to your rooms. Oh and please remember, no sharing a bed or room until your fourth year. Remember even Slytherin's have morales, and third years are just to young to do that yet." Lucious slapped Draco on the back with a laugh. He might be with the light side now, but he was still a Slytherin true and true, and he still has his ideas on sex and love in which he has instilled into his son.

"Yes father, we understand the standing rules of the Slytherin house completely. In fact we have helped enforce these rules, and were glad to be on Professor Snape's good side for our whole time there. Now do we have all our decorations up now, have Dobby and the other House elves been working good and hard on the holiday decor?" Draco was excited, he always loved the way that the House Elves have decorated Malfoy Manor for Christmas Holidays.

"Yes, it's all been taken care of. You will love what our elves are capable of with their decorations Pansy, they are great." Lucious was just as happy as his son for the same reason.

The rest of the ride went smoothly, with Draco and Pansy doing some Snogging while riding in the back. They found that the lights and sounds of London were very decorative and pleasing for the holidays. "Ain't it beautiful Draco, I always have loved the holiday lights in this town." She was practically jumping up and down in her seat as she saw the lights.

"I agree Pansy, they are great. Wouldn't some of the people at Hogwart's think differently if they saw us now. I mean, we Slytherins put on an air of superiority with the others, besides our friends that is, but we can still be excited teenagers over little things." He smiled and kissed her again, as they sat back and watched the scenery.

The next couple of days were spent shopping and doing little things around the house to their own rooms. Pansy found that her room was next to Draco's, in fact their room were connected by a adjoining door. They did their shopping all over London, both Wizardring and Muggle parts. They went to the Orphanages playing Santa Clause, helping out with both toys and clothes. They spent Christmas Eve Caroling with some of the other families in their neighborhood, and then coming back for hot chocolate with Marshmallows. Of course the House Elves weren't to be seen anywhere in the area when the Muggle Neighbors were around afterwords, but otherwise it looked like a well off family in a affluent neighborhood of London.

Christmas found them all getting up early and going down to the Christmas Tree, and opening presents. Lucious got the biggest surprise of his life from Harry and the rest of the Weasleys. He and the rest of the family got not only Weasley sweaters, but he also got an appointment to the undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, Arthur Weasley. "My of my, I didn't think that they had made that decision yet. It looks like I got a raise at work guys, I'm the new udnersecretary to the Minister of Magic." He smiled as he sat there and watched everyone else open up their presents.

"That's great dad. It looks like we are truly being trusted by the Wizardring world again. I'm happy for this, for it shows that even people thought to be evil before, can change their stripes, and people will trust them again." Draco was smiling.

"Let me tell you something Draco, a story about what our family was like back before your Great Grandfather took up with Grinwauld during WWII. Our family was fighters for the light side, and was a well trusted family. This shows that some people still remember what the Malfoy family was like back then. It took a lot to do, but we are slowly bringing our family name back into the light side. So are you all done with your unwrapping? If so, let's get all these wrappings taken care of, then we can go have some breakfast, and have the rest of the day to yourselves before your parents come Pansy." He looked out over everyone, and then clapped his hands, and Dobby came in and took care of the wrapping paper, along with making sure that whatever they wanted to be taken up to their rooms was done.

They then went into the dining room for breakfast, and then spent the rest of the day enjoying themselves talking and reminiscing about the past.

Dinner that night went well, with the adults chatting about what they had done, and the kids running off and going flying in the back yard after dinner. The conversation between the adults was mostly on Lucious's appointment to the undersecretary to the minister, and how proud Narcissa was of her husband. After dinner there was a commotion near one of the fireplaces as there was a floo call made from it to Narcissa. She went in to check on who was calling her on Christmas night, and was quite surprised to see who it was.

Sticking their head through the fireplace was none other than Sirius Black asking permission for coming over with another member of the family to see them for a little bit. When Narcissa went back to ask Lucious if it was ok, he nodded, and went in to wait for them with her.

Sirius Black, Nymphadora and Andromeda Tonks popped into the living room and gave Narcissa Black-Malfoy a hug and wished her and her family Merry Christmas. "It is great to see you well Cissy. Thank you for allowing us to come over to wish you and yours Merry Christmas." Tonks said with enthusiasm. She was glad to be able to come here without any problems coming from them being on the dark side. She remembered that the Malfoy family used to be on the light side a long time ago. The Blacks haven't always been with the good side, but Sirius, Nymphadora and Andromeda were ones that were happy to be there. Now they were thinking that there was only one more to bring to the light side. They were all thinking that if she ever did come over, it might help her out.

"So Tonks, have you heard from my other sister any time in the past? I mean she hasn't shown her face around since Lucious has come to the light side, and I am getting a bit worried about her and her husband. Do you think that they might someday join us on this side of the law?" Even tho she didn't mention her name, everyone knew that she was talking about Beatrice Lestrange-Black, and her husband Aldolphus.

"No we haven't heard anything about her or her family in almost 4 years, I am beginning to get a bit worried also." She was about to say something else when Draco came in at that time and rushed her.

"Tonks, it is great to see you. How long have you guys been here? Merry Christmas. He hugged her and his Aunt Andromeda, then looked at the man that was with them. "Good evening Professor, how has your holiday been?" He was serious now, even tho he liked his DADA professor's, and new that this one was related to him, he was still thinking of him as his professor right now.

"I am doing great Draco, while we aren't at school, you can call me Sirius." He smiled down at the younger man, and shook his hand. He gave a small laugh at the look of relief on Draco's face. "That goes for you to Ms. Parkinson, I don't want you to think of me as a Professor when we aren't at school." He gave out a small laugh again, for the look on her face was priceless.

"Thank you Pro... Sirius, thank you for allowing us to address you by your first name. It is a privilege to do so." Draco and Pansy said this pretty much at the same time, being the proper young people that they were raised to be. They smiled at each other, and hugged Sirius around the waist, forgetting that they weren't usually allowed to do such things to the male population of the family.

Sirius was a bit surprised at this action, but soon was hugging them back. He was smiling over at the other adults as they were chuckling at Sirius's plight.

They spent the rest of the night catching up with the others, and getting packed up for the trip to the Burrow the next day. Sirius stayed the night for he was also going to the Burrow the next day, and decided to take the teenagers with him. What he didn't know was that he was going to be in for a big surprise when he showed up at the Burrow the next day.

They flooed over as soon as they had breakfast. They came out into the kitchen at the burrow, and heard noises coming from the living room. Thinking that everyone was up already, and in there, they made their way to the door to the kitchen when Sirius stopped dead in his tracks.

"What's wrong Sirius? What did you hear?" Draco was worried now, for all he heard was what sounded like a man and a woman talking in the living room with the other Weasley's. he didn'tk know who they were, but it sounded like the other Weasley's knew them.

"No it can't be, it can't be them can it. Draco, do me a favor and look in there and tell me what those two people look like please. Hurry up and be quick about it." Sirius looked as white as a sheet, so Draco did what he was asked and came back in.

"There is a man and a woman in there. They looked like they were in their mid twenty's, the man was tall with black hair, and the woman looked like she could have been another Weasley with her red hair. I couldn't tell anything else about them at that point, for they had their backs to me. What is it Sirius, do you know them?" Draco was getting a bit nervous now, not wanting the Weasley's to be in trouble if these people were the enemy.

Sirius took a deep breath, and looked out the door quickly to see what he could see about these people. He saw exactly what Draco saw, and then went to floo Remus to get him there quickly. As soon as Remus had come through the floo, Sirius asked him to look and make sure that it was who he thought it was. Remus looked out the door with a strange look at Sirius saying "what is up with you Sirius, I mean I was just sitting down to a late breakfast when you called me over. I mean they can't be anyone dangerous, so why ..." With this Remus pulled his head out and nodded to Sirius, at which time they both fainted.

A/N: Ok, I think you can figure out who the two visitor's to the Weasley's are. You will find out for sure in two chapters, I swear. I have one more couple to go through in their Christmas doings. Please read and review. —Donald