Harry collapsed against the pillows totally exhausted, but his eyes opened when he heard the most beautiful sound in the world, his daughter crying. The baby was handed off to a nurse to examine, while the healer cleaned him up, ensuring he would soon be holding her. All of the fear, and the pain, was gone, or worth it at least. He lay there, waiting for the baby to be brought to him, wanting to hold her in his arms, and look at her.
There was some question when the healer asked who would cut the cord, it was usually the dad, but of course Ron was not there. Bill looked towards his niece, and wanted to be her dad one day, but he would not over step his place.
Harry looked at Severus as he was not ready to ask Bill. "Maybe her Grandpa...I'm sorry maybe you........."
Severus kissed Harry on the head. "I would be honoured Harry, both to cut her cord, and to be called Grandpa by her."
They had both felt like it, Severus considering both Harry and Draco to be sons to him, but they had never put it into words. When he went over to the baby with Bill to cut her cord, and watched her bundled, he thought about Lily, and how happy she would have been. The baby was definitely a Potter in features, but she did have a few of the Weasley freckles, and the red hair. It was not fiery red like Ron, but Lily's dark copperish auburn, similar to Bill even. As Bill picked up the baby to carry her to Harry, Severus hoped she would have her grandmother's eyes, and knew Harry was hoping as well.
Harry's entire face changed when his daughter was nestled into his arms, never imagining he could ever be this happy, before. He didn't care how she came to be, she was his, and being her daddy was suddenly the most important thing in the world.
Severus kissed Harry and the baby when the healer said it was time for a nurse. "We will give you some time, and go tell the others."
Harry looked up from her. "Thank you guys for being here for me, it means so much."
Draco came and hugged him, as best as he could, and told Harry that he and his daughter could always count on Uncle Draco. Bill was about to go with them but Harry stopped him and asked him to stay, and Bill was happy too. Harry had said he wanted to nurse so he had been given a potion to start milk, and as soon as his beautiful baby latched on for the first time, he understood what people had been telling him about the bond. Bill watched them together, and when Harry worried, he assured him he wasn't upset he didn't cut the cord, he understood. He was not her father yet, but he had every intention of earning that name one day.
Harry was delighted by the time she was nursed and burped, ready for visitors, she had shown she had the famous green eyes. Severus and Draco led the Tonks and Weasley families into the room, as well as Hermione, anxious to see the baby for the first time.
Molly was in tears when she claimed her granddaughter for the first time."She is so beautiful Harry."
Hermione looked down at the baby. "She looks so much like you."
For a few moments a few people thought about Ron but they shook away the thought, Ron was not her father, and he had no place here in her life. She had one daddy, hopefully a second in the form of Bill one day, and a large extended family, who loved her so much. The sweet little baby would never long for anything. Harry had made her a promise when he was first pregnant, she would never feel unwanted, and there were plenty to help him.
He had trouble deciding on godparents, considering Bill or the twins, but they were already Uncles. He knew Severus would understand, he was Grandpa, so his choice fell with his best friend since he was eleven, and the other person he could never have made this through without.
Draco was touched. "I hope you don't think this will change my mind, I'm not settling for godfather I will be insisting on Uncle Draco."
Hermione smiled as she was handed the baby."You know I am happy to. I promised when you told me, I would be there."
Harry had been worried, since the baby was her former fiancé's, but he never doubted her word. His little girl was lucky, she had not only her godparents, but all the Weasleys, Andromeda and Ted, and Severus, five people she'd call grandparents. Andromeda never got to hold Tonks' baby, but this was her grandchild too.
Fred finally needed to know "What name have you chosen for her?"
Harry looked down at her. "I wanted a way to honour my dad, but not Remusora as Bill suggested. So I have decided on Remy Melissa Potter."
He had wanted to include his dad, and since Remusora was out, his nickname Remy was chosen. It was also an honour in part to Severus, for it meant remedy, for the fact he was a medic, as well as made potions. He had wanted a nature name for his mom, and Melissa not only meant honey bee, but was a type or flower. He considered a name from Arthurian legend for the Weasleys, but the family like Draco and Andromeda, were all Blacks, so it honoured them as well as Lily.
Arthur put the baby back in Harry's arms for a photo. "That is a perfect name for our beautiful granddaughter."
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Hermione returned to the UK a few days after her goddaughter was born, needing to return for school, but promising to come back soon. Harry planned to come home for a while that summer, when Remy was a bit older so it would be easy for travel, to see the family. Remy was only four days old, but she was already the sweetheart of two families, and with her looks, was sure to be a little heart breaker. Hermione had never seen Harry so happy, as when he held Remy, already his life.
She was in Diagon to pick up some food, Fleur was still in France, and there was none in the house. She was in a good mood until she was run into, not the action upsetting her, but who she had run into. She was one who had thought of Ron when she had first seen Remy, but she shook that off.
Ron sneered at her."I would have thought you'd be in hiding. Isn't the little whore due with his bastard some time soon? I'd be embarrassed."
Hermione rounded on him. "The only one who should be ashamed is you. Harry was your best friend and you used him."
Screaming mad, Ron was so sick and tired of everyone standing up for the brat, his own family and his former fiancé. She seemed to forget Harry had lied to her as well, no matter how noble he tried to pass it off as, and make people think he was no whore.
Ron moved to go around her. "Maybe the Gods have a sense of justice, and the brat lost the child."
Hermione stopped him. "Harry gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Remy Melissa, my goddaughter. Your family is down there right now, to see her."
With that she thrust a copy of one of the dozens of pictures she took while there, at him, and took off. He stared down at a picture of a newborn little girl all in pink, who looked like Harry save for her red hair, and a few freckles on her nose.
Ron sneered. "He better not bring her to the UK or he will be sorry." But even after saying it, he pocketed the picture of the baby.
Author note: so the one thing suggestions had in common was a floral name for Lily, and a few suggested honouring Remus, I hope you approve
Remy (French) means remedy, often seen as nickname for Remus beyond Moony, but for meaning, it also draws in medic Severus and Draco as well. Melissa (Greek) honey bee. It was suggested and I thought it drew in a lot of them. Melissa is a type of herb whose flowers draw a lot of bees, an honour to Lily. But a nymph named Melissa, fostered Zeus as an infant. Honour not only Sirius, but Andromeda and Tonks (someone said Nymphadora, chose a nymph instead), and the Weasleys, who are all members of the Black family