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"I am not naming my child Septimus."
"Just as a middle name!"
"No."
"But, Moll-"
"No. I refuse to call my child a name that will no-doubt get him teased relentlessly."
"You said we could include family names."
"Yes, of course. His middle name will be Arthur. Inias Arthur Weasley."
"Hang on, how come we get to name him after your father?"
"Because my father is dead. It's a sign of respect."
"And naming him after mine would be what, exactly?"
"Sucking up."
"Molly!"
"If I may put in a suggestion?" Cedrella interceded from her chair by the fire. "Septimus is such a ... mouthful. Perhaps name the baby after my father, Arcturus?"
Arthur sighed. "Mother, the family disowned you for marrying Dad. Why do you keep trying to please them?"
"Only the cousins. Your aunts have never stopped conversing with me."
"What if it's a girl, then?" Molly went on, flipping idly through a baby naming book Cedrella had bought for them.
"Oh, I wouldn't count on that, dear," her mother-in-law told her sadly.
"Why not?"
"It's just a silly superstition," Arthur assured her.
"Nonsense! A girl hasn't been born into the Weasley family in almost sixty years, ever since Septimus' sister, Muriel, was born."
"Mum, it's nothing!"
"It's a curse, Arthur!" Cedrella said gravely. "I thought it was silly too. Then I had three sons. Septimus' brother, his cousins – they all had boys as well. It's hopeless."
Molly rolled her eyes. "So, what do you think of Annabeth?"