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The new minister of magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, who joined the interview half way through, finally spoke up.
"So are you telling us that somebody else killed he-who-must-not-be-named, besides the three of you?"
Not that they knew it but Amanda and Draco both answered the same, "yes."
"So it must have been one of the Death Eaters?"
Amanda and Draco both shrugged at this question.
"Very well, I have a few things to do then you'll be able to leave. Tonks please escort the three of them to the first aid room, and don't leave them unsupervised, if there are any Death Eaters out there they'll be after them."
Tonks nodded showing that she understood the order and got Amanda to follow her into another interviewing room, where Draco was.
"You two and Bradley, have to come with me and get looked at by our Healers," Tonks told them.
They followed Tonks through the Ministry Headquarters and eventually came to the First Aid Room, where half a dozen Healers were. One of the Healers was giving many potions to a middle age wizard, who seemed to be laying eggs.
"Nymphadora is it true, is he really dead?" An elderly healer asked while fidgeting with her long grey hair.
"Yasmine you know I can't confirm or deny anything, but I do need you to take a look at these three," Tonks told the woman who was now ushering the teenagers off to get medical care not that they needed it.
"He's absolutely gorgeous, may I hold him?" A younger female healer with really dark hair asked, Amanda hesitated before handing over her son.
The grey haired witch told the dark haired witch to check the baby over and to make sure everything is recorded. After many healers fussed over a few cuts and bruises, a wizard brought over a handful of files.
"I'm afraid I can only find two files, one for a Mr Draco Malfoy and one for a Miss Amanda Torque, their doesn't seem to be one for the young child."
"My parents died soon after he was born, I assumed he was already registered but obviously not. Can you fix it?"
"It'll take a week but I should be able to, I just have to check up on a few things."
"Thank you," Amanda told the wizard, who nodded once before leaving.
After all their cuts had been healed and Bradley had been returned safely, Tonks led them back to the Auror department where she left them for a few minutes with an Auror, Kingsley Shacklebolt.
When Tonks returned she told Amanda, who was again holding Bradley, Draco and Shacklebolt, "Shacklebolt here is going to accompany us back to where I'm currently staying, you'll find it's very safe."
Shacklebolt looked at Tonks who nodded, "now have either of you done side-along apparition?"
Both Amanda and Draco nodded their heads, held onto Shacklebolt and Tonks' arms and they instantly felt themselves squeeze through what seemed to be a narrow pipe. They reappeared seconds later in a dark street, which according to the sign was Grimmauld Place.
They four of them and Bradley, who was now being carried by Draco, walked past a few houses before they stopped outside number eleven and number thirteen. Suddenly an old house appeared between the two, with number twelve written on the front fence.
"Where are we?" Draco asked unable to remain quiet.
Tonks quietly told them not to talk until they got inside, then they could talk all they wanted. They knocked on the front door, which was opened by a short plump witch with red hair, Draco recognised her as Molly Weasley. Molly ushered everybody into the house, before closing the door.
Nymphadora quickly filled Molly in before introducing Draco and Amanda to her.
As Molly shook Amanda's hand she told her, "Harry and Ron have told me so much about you, and you," she added in a slightly colder voice to Lucius Malfoy's son.
"We'll I guess you'll be glad that because of me my father is going to suffer the rest of his life in that horrible place," Draco told her dully his eyes glistening with tears that weren't going to fall.
"I apologise, I didn't know," Molly told him sincerely before adding, "now you two can go into the kitchen I've just made some nice onion soup, help yourselves while we have a meeting."
The three adults directed them through a door before turning around and moving into a room half full of people. Before they went to find the kitchen, Draco gave Amanda a sleeping Bradley and a kiss on the cheek. Amanda, who was being careful not to drop Bradley, gave him a kiss and told him,
"I told you I wouldn't let anything happen to us."
"I believed you," he told her in all honesty.
"Let's go get some soup, I haven't eaten since lunch on the train and that was several hours ago!" She grabbed his hand and led him to the kitchen, which wasn't as empty as she had expected. Instead there were Hogwarts students and ex-students sitting around the table, Harry, Ron, Fred and George.
Harry and Ron jumped up in excitement when they saw Amanda come into the room holding an armful of material, but then they saw Draco Malfoy enter behind her.
"What are you doing in Siriu… My house?" Harry demanded with anger in his voice.
"First of all if I knew you were here, do you honestly think I would have come? And secondly I'm not here by choice, I've got to stay with Tonks," Draco responded calmly.
"Yeah right," he paused to sneeze, "why would Tonks want to spend any time with a spoilt brat like you?" Ron spoke up defending Harry's point. He had had a terrible cold, ever since he had arrived at Grimmauld Place.
"Yeah, why don't you just go home and spent some time with your Death Eater dad," the twins agreed, knowing full well what the Malfoy boy was like.
Draco grabbed his wand and went to hex the twins, but Amanda grabbed his arm before he could do something foolish.
"Don't," she whispered in his ear in a calming voice, before turning back to the three Weasley boys and Harry.
"For the record there is nothing more, the Death Eaters including Lucius, want more then to see Draco and I dead. But the good news for us is they're all in Akzaban, Lucius and Snape included," Amanda explained purposely not mentioning Voldemort name.
"Yeah, and why would Death Eaters want to kill you two? And what are you holding?" Ron asked rudely.
"You could say we're special," Amanda told Ron as she touched his nose with her index finger, instantly erasing his cold and making his big red puffy nose go back to its normal size and colour.
"That's pretty special," Harry admitted in a quiet shocked voice.
"I know, she's a very special person," Draco hissed in Parceltongue.
"You are a Parcelmouth?" Harry asked in Parceltongue.
"Wicked," the twins said in unison. Ron remained silent as he was in shock.
Draco simply nodded, while Amanda lowered the bundle of rags so the four of them could see inside.
"He's my baby brother," Amanda lied in a soft but convincing voice.
"Wait a second, did you say before that Snape's in Azkaban?" Ron asked excitedly coming back into reality.
"Yes," Draco and Amanda replied in unison.
"How?" Ron asked, but he didn't get an answer because his mother had comeback into the room, evidentially the meeting had finished or was taking a break.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you," Molly cried with happiness as she hugged Amanda and Draco, "Tonks told us what happened, and even if we don't know what you did. We know you did something, so thank you."
Molly gave Amanda and Draco more big hugs, before magicking some onion soup into bowls for them, and telling them to take a seat.
"I'll take the baby, Bradley isn't it?"
Amanda nodded and handed her Bradley, while helping herself to some soup, she knew everybody's eyes were on her and Draco.
When nobody said anything, Harry build up the nerve to ask, "Mrs Weasley, what exactly did they do?"
"Didn't they tell you what happened?" Mrs Weasley asked horrified.
"No," Harry, Ron, Fred and George replied together.
Mrs Weasley looked surprised, "well we're having a meeting about it right now, I guess it'll only take a minute to tell you. Unless either of you want to?" She asked Amanda and Draco.
When both of them shook their heads, she conjured a bottle and feed Bradley while telling the story.
"Miss Torque and Mr Malfoy here arrived at Malfoy Manor after leaving Kings Cross Station, to find He-Who-Must-Not-be-Named there. They all went outside, Voldemort's snake somehow exploded, when Voldemort tried to force Miss Torque here to help him by holding her brother hostage, then he died. We don't know how but we think someone cursed him, because it wasn't either of these two as they didn't have their wands. Well any way, once he died they grabbed their wands and stunned all the Death Eaters."
"Including Snape?" Ron asked abruptly.
"Yes including Professor Snape, dear," Mrs Weasley answered dully before continuing, "now I'd better get back to the meeting, Dumbledore's expecting me."
She handed Amanda back the twenty-two week old baby and left the room, leaving the room completely silent. The silence was broken when Ginny came bouncing down the stairs.
"What are you doing here?" She asked Amanda who was once again holding Bradley, in the silent room, before she realised Draco was there.
"And why is there a Malfoy in the Orders Headquarters?"
The silence still remained, "whose baby she asked?"
Harry tried to respond but he couldn't move, after all these years Voldemort was finally dead.
"Why is everybody so quiet?" She asked loudly.
Ron sat there speechless; everybody could now live a life with out fear of Voldemort.
"You guys are creeping me out, stop it," Ginny ordered.
This was the first time ever the Weasley twins were speechless; they just sat there staring at each other wondering what the other was thinking.
Amanda was thinking and hoping that Dumbledore wouldn't put the pieces together, and find a loophole in their collaborated story, while Draco decided to answer Ginny who was heading back up the stairs.
"Weasley," he yelled at her back.
She turned around and came back down stairs, "yes Malfoy?"
"He's dead," he told her quickly.
"Who's dead?"
"Voldemort," he said bravely, as the Weasley boys gasped.
Ginny just laughed loudly, "Yeah right a if he's dead, please."
Everybody stared at her.
"Crap, you're not kidding are you?"
Everybody shook his or her head.
"Oh God, he's seriously dead! How do you know?"
"We were there," Draco told her, gesturing to himself, his girlfriend and his son.
"That's pretty cool," Ginny told him, obviously embarrassed.
"That's one way to describe it," he told her, forcing a smile.
The four Weasleys, Harry, Amanda, Draco and Bradley, sat in the kitchen having small talk for the next two hours, until all the adults came into the room, following Dumbledore.
"Miss Torque and Mr Malfoy," Dumbledore introduced them to the crowd who awed, "and this is The Order Of The Phoenix."
Amanda and Draco shyly waved at the Orders members.
"Now Molly I think these children should get to bed," Dumbledore suggested.
"Yes of course Albus," Molly agreed, "come along children."
"Why can't we be in the order?" Fred and George whined, "we're seventeen already."
"I don't think you're ready," Dumbledore told them calmly, "You two haven't seen enough of the world yet."
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