A few hours later in the Hospital Wing, Ron held his sobbing daughter in his arms and watched as a distraught Draco Malfoy sat by his son's bedside. The beating that the boy had taken was brutal and completely uncalled for. He was glad that Harry was the one helping Professor McGonagall interrogate Byron Goyle and his little gang about what had happened because he would have bloody killed every last one of them. Especially when he saw the bruises on Rose's arms and legs from where they had restrained her and had thrown her to the ground when Byron was finished beating up Scorpius.

He glanced over and saw Hermione comforting Luna, trying to calm her after the other witch saw just how badly Scorpius had been injured. Then after a few moments, his wife walked over and whispered something to Madam Pomfrey. The mediwitch then came over to the sleeping boy in the bed and took a blood sample from him.

"What is going on, Mione?" Ron asked his wife as she came back over to them and sat down in the chair that was beside the one he was sitting in.

"I'll tell you later when there aren't so many people around," Hermione stated, giving her husband a look that he recognized as being one that indicated when something that was very important needed to be kept as secret as possible.

"Mummy, will Scorpius be okay?" Rose's tear filled eyes nearly broke her heart and she hated Greg Goyle with a passion for the part he had played in his son's actions. He and Daphne Nott needed to suffer for the pain they had caused to the people around them. But her daughter needed her at that moment so she pushed the anger to the side to help Rose.

"I don't know, luv." Hermione could see that Rose was very tired and that the best thing for her would be to get some sleep but had a feeling that this would be a battle to make happen. She glanced over at Ron, silently pleading for him to back her up because Rose had her daddy wrapped around her little finger and knew how to work him to get her way from him. "How about you let your dad take you back to your dorm so you can get some sleep?"

"Mummy..."

"Rose, you need to sleep and you will not be any good to Scorpius if you don't take care of yourself. I will get Madam Pomfrey to give you a Dreamless Sleep Draught that will help you relax." Ron spoke up, trying to prevent an argument between his wife and daughter. At the age of eleven, his little girl was starting to really push the boundaries of what she could get away with, particularly with Hermione, and sometimes that led to disagreements with her mother.

The mediwitch had overheard their conversation and had already grabbed a potion out of her inventory. She walked over to where Ron and Rose were at, handing the vial to him before walking back into her office with Luna, who still had tears falling down her face.

"Come on, I will take you to the room where your mother and I will be staying tonight so you won't have the rest of your classmates asking you questions about what happened."

Ron stood up with Rose in his arms and left the hospital wing, leaving Hermione to walk over to the other side of the bed where Scorpius was lying on. She grimaced at the cuts and bruises that covered his face and throat and despite how much of an asshole and prick Draco Malfoy had been when they were younger, her heart went out to him.

"I'm sorry that your daughter got caught in the middle of this." His voice quietly carried over to her and she glanced up and saw the pain and suffering in his gray eyes as he looked over at where Hermione was standing.

"Thank you. Rose seems to have taken to him and from what Al has told us, he seems to be fascinated with her as well." She smiled at the thought of Ron's reaction to that friendship before a sad look came over her face. "I hope Scorpius wakes up and recovers soon. I don't think Luna will get over this if she loses him so soon after finding out that she could be his mother."

"She told you," Draco stated, not surprised that Luna would confide in either Granger or Ginny Potter. The three of them seemed to be very close friends and there for each other. It really didn't surprise him that much, almost dying at the hands of his psychotic aunt Bella as well as working together with the rest of Dumbledore's Army most and likely went a long way towards that.

"Yes, she did. She was asking my advice on how to get her unborn baby's paternity checked. I told her that she might have to go the muggle route in that situation because nobody in our world has come up with a potion to determine that yet."

"How does that work," Draco asked, not sure if he was going to like her answer. He could also sense that she was unsure of how to explain the procedure to him. A lot of things had changed in the nineteen years since Harry had defeated Voldemort but there was also some lingering mistrust because of how he had treated her while they were in school.

"They would give her medicine to numb the skin on her stomach, before inserting a needle into her where they would extract fluid from around the baby. They would then test it for any defects, the paternity and the gender. If she was in the Muggle world, it would be mandatory for Luna to have one of those being that she is now in her thirties and the risks are greater the older a woman gets. Although she could also get a sonogram where you can get a DVD made of it and possibly see the baby's face. It's pretty amazing."

"Thank you for explaining that to me, Hermione."

"You're welcome, Draco," Hermione said, trying to hide her shock at him calling her by name.

"I apologize for calling you the names I have over the years. You didn't deserve them and I hope you will accept my apology." He sounded sincere so Hermione decided to let go of everything that had happened and put the past behind them. Because if the way Rose was acting about Scorpius was any indication, they just might ended up being related by marriage.

Hermione smiled softly at him and took his hand in hers, gently squeezing it, right at the moment Harry came walking into the room. He stopped short at the sight of his best friend, who had taken the most abuse off of Draco Malfoy than either he or Ron, trying to comfort him. Although it didn't surprise him because Hermione had always been more forgiving than he or Ron had been in regards to their former classmates who had supported Voldemort.

"How is he doing," Harry asked, walking over to stand beside Hermione. He grimaced at the sight of Scorpius and the brutal beating he had endured.

"He's still unconscious and might not wake up until the morning. What did that little shit who hurt my son have to say for himself?" Draco's voice was full of anger and bitterness that reminded Harry of when they had been in school and Draco had been pulled into the middle of the war by his own father's actions.

"Byron admitted that he assaulted Scorpius because he blames your family for his mum kicking his father out of their home after that article in the prophet came out. It seems Goyle is now living with Daphne and ignoring his wife and Byron decided to get revenge by beating up Scorpius, the one member of your family that he knew he could take in a fight."

"I think it is time to teach my son to defend himself when he doesn't have access to his wand. After Father made me pull my head out of my ass and stop moping around the manor, he dragged me and my mother to a muggle martial arts class. It came in handy when about ten years ago Goyle tried to start in on Mum with the same bullshit he is spouting now about Vince's death being my fault. It was funny as hell to see him lying on the ground unsure of whether or not to hold his nose or his balls."

"I bloody remember that!" Harry exclaimed. "He knocked her wand out of her hand and had attacked her before she could use wandless magic on him. If I remember correctly, your Mum elbowed him in the nose and the ribs, then turned around and kneed him in the groin hard enough that St. Mungo's had to operate on him to repair one of his testicles. All of us in the Aurors office were laughing our arses off, in the privacy of our offices of course."

All three of them started to laugh at the thought of a big man like Goyle getting beat up by a woman half his size. They were interrupted by the sight of Luna coming out of Madam Pomfrey's office and walked over where Draco was standing. She had tears in her eyes and nodded her head at Draco, who pulled her gently into his arms.

"So you are his mother?" Hermione asked her friend, ignoring the look of confusion on Harry's face.

"Yes. She also wants the rest of our children down here so we can test them as well. The only one that will have to wait is the one for the baby I am carrying."

"That might not be an issue, Luna. Hermione was telling me about a Muggle procedure that would give the paternity, the gender and if there are any other problems with the baby."

"If it is safe for the baby, I will consider it. His or her safety comes first," Luna stated, sounding very determined.

"What the bloody hell is going on here! Why are the three of you talking like Scorpius is Luna's son!"