Other babies came along. Rose. Hugo. Lily. Lyra.

Cassie was more interested in them than any of Draco's other children.

But she what she felt for any of them didn't hold a candle to her relationship with Albus Severus.

The summer before she left for Hogwarts, Cassie was reading a book to Lyra as their father watched.

"You'll be a wonderful mother someday, Cassie." he told her.

"Do you think so?" she asked him, tilting her head. "Because when I dream about the future, I always see myself with just Albus Severus and a cat."