Prompt/Title: Hat
Character(s): Ara and Aries Malfoy, Scorpius Malfoy, Cassiopeia Malfoy, Hermione Granger; Draco Malfoy is mentioned.
Summary: Draco's little girls are playing dress up when they come across something they've never seen before, and they start asking questions.
Rating: T
Word count: 676 according to wordcounter . net
Author's notes: This actually gave me some trouble but then I had this cute idea and thought it would work. Here is my third entry to "20 Prompts, 20 Drabbles". I'm also submitting this to Favorite Character Boot Camp Challenge for Children.
Thanks to slumber and MrsBates93 for being my beta's on this.
All drabbles are part of the same timeline.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize, and maybe even some of the stuff you don't.

Ara and Aries loved to play dress up. They were five – of course they loved to play dress up. They would dress up as princesses, fairies, veela, witches. Sometimes, they could even get their older brother to dress up as a dragon. Well, he wouldn't dress up per se, but he'd roar at them, and chase them all around the Manor until their father asked them to quieten down.

On this particular day, both the twins were going through their grandparents' closet looking for new outfits. Their mother had always said that Nana Cissy was one of the most beautiful people she knew, and she knew Aunt Fleur!

When Scorpius and Cassie found them, they were knee-deep in a pile of clothes discussing a silver object, trying to figure out what it was.

"What do you have there, Aries?" Cassie couldn't help but wonder what they were holding.

Ara, looking puzzled, replied, "We're not sure. We think it's meant to be on your head? Like a hat? Aries, try to put it on."

When Aries held it against her face, Scorpius' eyes widened and he quickly grabbed it out of his sister's hands, to the surprise of everyone in the room. Ara and Aries started to cry at what just happened, while Cassie pondered the change in her brother. "Why'd you do that, Scor?"

Before he could answer, their mother, attracted by the sound of her children's tears, walked into the room; there were clothes and shoes thrown all over the floor. Hermione knew that her in-laws would not be happy. When she realized what her son was holding, she really knew her in-laws, and her husband, would not be happy.

Cassie looked to her mother for an explanation. The twins ran to her for comfort. Scorpius just wanted her to take care of the situation he had gotten himself into.

While she soothed her young daughters, Scorpius handed the mask to his mother. "This, Cassie, is something from your father's and grandfather's past. Girls, where did you find this?"

"Well, we were looking in the drawers first," Ara started.

"Yeah, that's where Nana Cissy puts all the pretties," Aries interjected.

"Yes, the pretties. And this was hidden waaaaay in the back under all of Grandfather's things," Ara finished.

Cassie asked the question that was on all the girls' minds. "What is it, mama?"

"Well, you see, it's hidden for a reason. Your father, he has one too, but I think he buried it somewhere in the yard –"

"Buried it? Like we buried Crookshanks?" Aries interrupted.

"Yes, just like that. You see, this represents something that both of them really want to forget. So don't mention that you found this around them, alright?"

"Yes, mama." All the children nodded.

"Why do they want to forget it? It's an important part of history and part of the Malfoy legacy and if they're ashamed of their –"

"Enough, Scorpius! Yes, this is an important part of history. A bad history. Yes, it's part of the Malfoy legacy, but your father has changed that legacy. Just look at me. I'm the first Muggleborn Lady Malfoy, ever. You all are the first Half-blood Malfoys. One of you may even be the first Gryffindor Malfoy. They hide these masks because they don't want to be reminded of what they once were. They already have to live with the memories. Let's not make it harder for them. Alright, children?"

Again, they all nodded.

"And you all know you shouldn't be in your grandparents' bedroom without them. So you best clean this all up before Bubbles gets here."

"But I didn't make this mess."

"We just walked in here!"

Hermione's two oldest children protested, rather profusely, while the young girls started putting things back where they belonged, starting with the Death Eater's mask.

"Mama, I want a mask. A good one though. One that won't make Papa or Grandfather sad. May I go buy one?" Ara asked.

Aries added while grabbing her mother's hand, "I want one too! Please mama, please!"

Hermione just smiled.

The twins (Aries and Ara) are 5.
Cassie is 8.
Scorpius is 9.
Bubbles is the Malfoy house elf.