Trevor sat on the chair in Harry's office and waited quietly for the Lead Auror to come back into the room. As soon as the wizard and the man and woman that were with him saw the welts on Lila's body, she had been taken out of his arms and rushed into another room to get a healer to make sure she was okay. He knew that when the other man got back, Harry was going to want an explanation for why Trevor hadn't taken her away from the abuse quicker than he had. The guilt of his own cowardice was something he was going to have to live with for the rest of his life.

The door opened and Harry stepped back inside, slamming the door to his office hard enough to shake the wall. Trevor knew in his heart the coming confrontation wasn't going to be pretty.

"The healer has her in another room and has stated that Lila will not need to go to St. Mungo's, just rest and loving care. That obviously isn't going to come from you, Mr. Richards." Harry's voice was tight with the anger he was feeling, and it took him back to how the Dursley's had treated him when he was Lila's age.

"I know I have failed that little girl in every way, Mr. Potter and I deserve your anger. It was only after Rolf had given Lila to us and her latent magic started to come out that my wife's more insane view points started to make themselves known. All of them directed towards that innocent little girl. I should have stayed home and prevented the beatings but if I would have hit my wife the way she was doing to Lila, than any and all protection I gave her would have been gone. My wife would have had me arrested for spousal abuse and Lila would be dead right now. The only reason I came here now is that while I was on my last trip, I found out that Rolf was dead. That I could safely give this child back to her mother without putting her back into an even worse situation than anything my wife ever did to her."

"Did Rolf ever tell you why he did this to Luna? Why and how he made her think that her baby was dead?"

"One of the last times that I saw Rolf before he did this, we were meeting for breakfast at a cafe near King's Cross. He came in, the angriest I had ever seen him and was ranting and raving about Luna and what a bitch she was." Trevor saw Harry's fist clench in anger before he continued to speak. "It seems that they were having an intimate moment that morning and in the heat of passion, Luna cried out the wrong name. From the way he was complaining, it wasn't the first time that had happened. He wanted revenge on her for marrying him when she loved another man. "A former bloody, fucking Death Eater!" as he so bluntly put it. So since Rolf couldn't get rid of his two sons, even though he didn't feel an ounce of affection for them, he decided to find a way to take the baby Luna was carrying away from her. He and the woman he was having an affair with, who ironically was married to the wizard Luna was really in love with, came up with this plan to fake Lila's death. Slip Luna a potion that would put Lila to sleep and make the healers think she was dead. Astoria then cast a glamour that made it look like there was a knot in the cord and paid an assistant in the room to replace Lila with a dead baby, before handing her to me to take to the muggle world to raise as my child."

"Wait a minute, Astoria Malfoy was a part of this? Her sister told us that the affair didn't start until after Luna's baby had died and that Lila's death had pushed them together." Harry was confused because of what Daphne had told Draco about her sister's affair.

"You've got to hand it to Tori, she had no problem lying to the people in her life and was just like Rolf. She cared about no one but herself and didn't feel the tiniest amount of affection for her son or the baby girl that I have heard was born four months ago. She and Rolf were just the same, selfish and this superior attitude where they think the world is supposed to revolve around them."

"It sounds like you know more than Daphne Nott about her sister."

"In their eyes, I was a stupid Squib who wouldn't do anything against them. What they never realized is that I have an envelope full of everything they did to take Lila from her mother." Trevor pulled it out of his pocket and handed it over to Harry, who opened it and glanced at what was in there. "There's copies of the receipts from where they bought the potions, the pictures of Lila as a baby and the results of a Muggle DNA test that I had done from one of his hairs and a swab from Lila's cheek. Everything is there to show to the ministry and any muggle authorities that show up just who Lila belongs to. So Luna can take her home as soon as she gets here. I assume that you have sent a message to her and Mr. Malfoy already?"

"How..."

"Did I know that she is living with Mr. Malfoy? From the way Rolf said it when he planned this, if something ever happened to him and Tori, his wife wouldn't be able to stay away from Draco Malfoy. That she would most and likely be sleeping with him before his body was even in the ground and his wife before too long. Am I right?"

"Partly. Luna Scamander it seems has more respect for the fact that Rolf was her husband than he did for her. She is staying at Malfoy Manor in her own room and her boys are there with her until after their father's funeral. According to my wife, they are taking things slow and showing their spouses more respect than they ever did for them." Harry's irritation at Trevor's account of what happened growing by the second.

"I apologize if telling you what happened is making you angry, Mr. Potter. I'm only telling you what Rolf stated to me when he came up with this plan. I personally didn't believe his slurs about Luna because I knew him and his flaws. Is his grandfather still alive?"

"No, he died over a year ago."

"So there is no one who can try to take custody of Luna's children from her to keep her from raising them with Malfoy?"

"No. Now that Rolf, Newt and Xeno Lovegood have all passed away, the only one left to raise them is Luna and whoever she chooses to be with."

"Good because I don't want that little girl in there to be around Rolf or his grandfather because she doesn't deserve it."

The door opened to Harry's office and Healer Nancy Clovis was standing there with a serious look on her face. She stepped inside and closed the door behind her, giving Trevor a look of reproach before sitting down in the chair beside him.

"That little girl is very lucky, Mr. Potter. All it would have taken was one more beating like that and this situation could have been more horrible than what it is now. I did some healing charms on her welts and gave her a pain relieving potion because even though she didn't give me any indication, as swollen as they were, that little angel had to be in agony. The person who did this deserves to be put in Azkaban or in a muggle prison for what they have done to that child." Her voice was so full of fury as she turned to face Trevor that he had to fight not to retreat away from the short but feisty woman. "Why the bloody hell did you let your wife do this to that baby? Are you such a coward that you can't stand up for the child you are raising and stop your wife from almost killing her?"

Trevor didn't have an answer for her, all he felt was shame at the looks that both the healer and Harry Potter were giving him. He knew that they were right and more could have been done on his part to stop the abuse that Lila had been subjected to.

Back at Malfoy Manor, Draco was standing with Scorpius and his father by the fireplace, waited on Luna and her children to come downstairs. Narcissa was staying to help Teensy with Bree while everybody else went to the Ministry for various reasons. Luna and her sons, who had been told what was happening with Lila, were going to see if they had found her, Draco and Scorpius to be there for them and Lucius for a secret reason he wasn't discussing with anybody else.

"Father, do you really think this could be about Lorcan and Lysander's sister, the one they thought was dead?"

"It's a good possibility, son." Draco knelt down in front of him, fixing the collar on his son's robes before looking into the Grey eyes that looked like his. "Next time something happens to you at school, you tell me, I don't care if it's something that you know will make me angry for any reason. What Byron tried to do to you shouldn't have been kept from me, son."

"Professor Longbottom and Headmistress McGonagall took care of it by giving him two months worth of detentions and ordered him and the other Slytherins to stay away from me. I was afraid that you and his dad would start a duel over it and that might have been the reason he did it because of his dad."

"What was said before he made the attempt to hurt you?"

"I was walking up to the tower by myself and he was there with some other seventh years that were in his house with him. He told me that I was a traitor to all purebloods and that his father had told him that you had become a coward. That his father had told him to take care of me and that this was for Vincent. I pulled my wand out to hit him with the leg locker curse that you had taught me. He summoned my wand to him, walked over, picked me up and was dangling me over the side of the rails, when I felt him release me. I would have fallen if James and the others hadn't worked together to pull me back into the tower. When I got back on my feet, I saw Byron and his friends all lying on the ground, victims of various different hexs. The others stayed with me while Rose ran to get some help and that was when I begged that you not be told about this and when I told them, Professor Longbottom and the Headmistress agreed."

"Scorp, I'm proud of you for wanting to protect me from a fight with Byron's father but you are the child and I'm the parent. It is my job to protect you from somebody who wants to hurt you. Not the other way around. It isn't one I take lightly because you and your sister are the most important things in the world to me. I love you both very much and it would kill me if anything happened to either one of you."

"Don't you love Mrs. Scamander that way too? I have seen how you have been with her since she, Lorcan and Lysander have came here."

Draco was saved from answering his son's questions, ignoring his father's smirk, as Luna and her sons came through the door. Lysander, who still looked tired from the night before, was clutching her hand tightly. Lorcan, who seemed to be more a calm child like Luna had been, had a comforting hand on his brother's shoulder. These two boys were slowly working their way into his heart where their mother had been for years.

"We're ready. I told the boys that they needed to be on their best behavior while we are at the Ministry. That if Lila is there, they are to be careful and not scare her," she said, walking over to stand near the fireplace.

Scorpius went over to stand with his grandfather, who was going to take him with him and they both disappeared in the green flames the floo powder made. Lysander had left his mother's side and was holding Draco's hand as they went through, leaving Luna standing there with Lorcan, who glanced up at his mother.

"I like Mr. Malfoy, mum. He treats you better than Father ever did and doesn't ignore us. If you want to be with him, I don't mind, neither does Lysander, he's just having trouble with the fact that he still loves Father but also hates him at the same time. Does that make any sense?"

"Yes, it does, love. If anything happens between Draco and I, it will have to wait until at least after I have the baby. I want to give your father's death the proper respect it deserves because despite the things he has done to all of us, he was still my husband and your father."

"I know, mom. I was just saying that when it happens, I won't mind."

"Thank you."

She hugged her son, who was almost as tall as she was before they followed the others into the floo.

Harry was sitting in the room with Amber, who had Lila in her arms, comforting the crying little girl. She had just been told by Trevor the truth about who her parents are and that he wasn't going to be with her anymore. That he had to go back to where he belonged and she would be safe now.

"Why would my real father be so mean, Miss Amber?" Lila asked, clinging to the woman holding her.

"I don't know, sweetie. Your real mommy will be here soon and I know that you are scared but I have met her. She is a very kind and wonderful woman who, I have heard, took losing you very badly."

"Why didn't she come and find me?"

"Lila, she thought you were dead. The people who took you made sure that she would never suspect that you were alive" Harry spoke up, trying answer the little girl's questions but not sure of what to say to her.

The door to the room opened and Luna stepped through, stopping short at the sight of the little girl in Amber's arms. Lila saw her and the big blue eyes got even wider before she got up and ran over to where Luna was standing, her tiny face lit up with a smile.

"You're the lady from my dreams. The one I named my doll after!"

Luna picked the tiny girl up and held her against her, tears falling down her cheeks. There wasn't a dry eye in the room as they watched the reunion between mother and daughter taking place in front of them.

AN: Mother and daughter have been reunited and in the next chapter, Luna finds out about the abuse that Lila has been through. Let's say her reaction isn't pretty.