Chapter Eight

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Six years had passed since the night of the Battle, and the twins had flourished during this time, growing to become equally brilliant children, both in magical ability and in their utterly different personalities.

Teddy had grown to become quite like his mother, often changing his hair colour and facial features to attract the attention of his family members, having done so on so many occasions that no member of the family could quite remember what his natural colouring was. He was a loud and boisterous child, always making a nuisance of himself, and leading his adoptive cousin, Victoire, astray, despite the fact that she was only four years old. He also attempted to lead his own younger sister astray, but she would not have it.

Selena was almost precisely the opposite of her twin, as she chose to remain most often in her natural appearance, with light brown hair and hazel eyes, though Ginny knew for a fact that she was as much a Metamorphmagus as her brother, just a little less attention seeking than him. She was a rather quiet and shy child, preferring to sit in the corner of the room with a story book than go out and play pranks with Teddy, though she was still friendly and kind with the people she knew. She seemed to have shown a little more magical potential than her brother, though that may only have been a result of her tutoring by Hermione, the lessons which Teddy had never once shown his face at, for fear that the other children would think he was swotting up for Hogwarts, as his twin sister was doing, a dent in his pride that he could not afford to allow.

Over this time, half a dozen years, though they could not believe it had been so long, Harry and Ginny had come to see the twins as being as good as their own children, though they had never allowed the pair to think of them as being such, not wanting to disrespect the memory of Remus and Nymphadora. But, that one day, all of their opinions may be about to change, with a revelation to the two of them which may well change the family forever.

"Teddy, Selena, can you come here please?" the redhead had called, determined to get it over with as quickly as she could do, so as to give the children a better chance of coming to terms with the fact, because of the extended time they would have to do so. When they arrived to the room, Selena as immaculate as ever and Teddy unsurprisingly covered with much, the woman beckoned them to sit on the sofa beside her and her husband, who had agreed to remain with her, so that she would not have to deal with the two alone, should they not approve of what she was about to tell them.

"What is it?" the elder boy asked, wrapping a protective arm around his sister, as he always did. Despite the appearance he presented to the world, he had always had a soft spot when it came to Selena, and she for him, though she did not present that same outlook on life as he did so.

"You're alright, aren't you, Ginny?" the younger questioned, the worry clear in her voice. Of the two, it had always been the brunette who had been closer to her parental figures, while Teddy preferred to be more independent, or at least, as independent as a six year old could be.

"I'm fine, Lena. There's no need to worry about that." the woman had responded immediately, laying a hand on the girl's shoulder, to reassure her that she was being truthful. Selena had been born with the rare ability to determine lies merely from touch. If someone lied to her while she held their touch, she would know, and as she felt no inkling of any such pretence, she knew that Ginny spoke nothing but the truth. "We wanted to tell you about something, something important."

"What is it?" Teddy asked, a tint of fear creeping into even his voice, though he tried so hard not to allow it to do so. "What do you want to tell us? Is it bad?"

"No, Teddy, it isn't bad." Harry assured him, with a slight smile, which served the same basic purpose as his wife's hand on the girl's shoulder, to comfort him. "It's really good news, actually, or at least we think it is."

A moment of silence followed, in which the couple shared a glance, as if they wondered whether or not they should go through with what they wished to tell the pair, but after that moment, Ginny spoke the phrase that changed the family. "Harry and I are going to have a baby."

Silence fell once more at the revelation, but for the shocked gasps of Teddy and Selena. Whatever they had expected to be revealed for them, it had been nothing in the nature of their guardians having a child of their own. They did not quite know how they should react.

"So, when are we moving out then?" the elder twin asked, more than a hint of bitterness in his tone as he did so.

"What do you mean?" Harry questioned in return, taking his turn to be confused, as the twins' had passed with their explanation.

"If you're having your own baby, you won't want to have us anymore." Selena answered him, a tear falling from her right eye, as the clouds of mist in Potter's mind faded away.

"Selena…" Ginny began, speaking a little quieter than she would have wished to do, as she wrapped both arms around the girl she spoke to and pulling her into her lap, while her husband laid a palm on the shoulder of the child's brother. "You and Teddy aren't our children, we all know that. But we love you, and you are a part of our family. You will always be allowed to stay here, and you'll be welcome here forever. Having a baby won't change that."

That evening, the two sat in the attic of the Burrow, watching the stars as the shone upon the house, led by the light of the moon. In the celestial bodies of the night, Teddy and Selena could find comfort, as they looked upon the symbols of their own parents, and wondered what it would have been like had their parents not fallen in the War.

A/N: A little bit depressing in the end, but hey. Please review!