22nd June 2003
After having the reports filed by Kingsley, Draco went back to the apartment he shared with his mother and explained to her the situation over breakfast. Draco and Narcissa then traveled to Grimmauld place. Harry wasn't in the kitchen, but Sirius and James were.
"Draco, I think we have the wrong house," Narcissa watched the two boys as they stared at the strange woman, Sirius ran up the stairs, just as another boy came down, he looked about six with dark emerald hair and silver eyes.
"Oh, hello Malfoy, Mrs Malfoy," Harry walked in behind the green haired boy, Sirius held in his arms. "What can I do for you?"
"We can find Bellatrix," Draco said, Narcissa was still staring wide eyed at the twins and the other boy. Harry looked at Narcissa for a while then it seemed to dawn on him.
"Blood magic? A tracking spell," He looked at Narcissa again.
"Yes, I was never particularly close to Aunt Bella, but Mother is her sister, and they were close," Draco told him.
"We were close as children," Narcissa said to Harry, as if justifying liking Bellatrix Lesteange. "We can try," she said softly, "If she even is alive. Harry, I didn't know you had children," Narcissa then said, waving to Sirius who smiled shyly at her and waved back. Harry looked at the boys.
"The little ones are Sirius and James, they're three, The one with-" Harry glanced over his shoulder "-green hair is Teddy Lupin, I'm his godfather, He is five." Even as Harry said it, Teddy's hair had changed to a dark purple, Harry looked at him again and rolled his eyes.
"Oh, then I'm his great Aunt," Mother looked at Teddy again, who was now paying attention. "I'm Aunt Cissa," she introduced herself.
Teddy looked lost for words, so Harry added; "Teddy, That's Nanna's sister." Teddy smiled and ran over to give Narcissa a hug; she froze, unsure of what to do. Harry was smiling fondly at the little boy.
"I'm a met-a-mof-ee-gis! Like my mum, but she's dead, she died fighting Voddy-mort, so did my real dad, and now dad-Harry is lookin after me!"
Draco looked at Harry with a raised eyebrow.
"I grew up without parents, I'm doing my best," Harry shrugged, he then turned to the boys again, "Teddy, take your brothers upstairs with Kreature, I need to talk to Draco and Aunt Cissa for a while. Aunt Luna might have to come and watch you for a bit too."
"Will Uncle Blaise come too?" Sirius asked softly.
"Maybe," Harry put Sirius down and Teddy grabbed both Sirius and James' hand and led them upstairs. Harry then called Kreature and told him to keep an eye on the kids.
"Now about Bellatrix, I just want to focus on if she's still alive. I think its likely that she knew about Horcruxes and-" Harry was cut of by a gasp from Narcissa.
"You think Bellatrix was using that, why?"
"Bellatrix was unnaturally obsessed with the Dark Lord-" Draco cut Potter off this time.
"The cup the Dark Lord made her keep in her vault was his third Horcrux, I think."
"How many were there?" Narcissa asked, shocked.
"Seven," Harry then began to count on his fingers, "Nagini, the snake, Slytherin's Locket, the diary your father gave to Ginny Weasley in 2nd year" –Narcissa gasped in horror- "Ravenclaws Diadem, the Gaunt ring, and Huffelpuff's cup, which was hidden in Bellatrix's vault, and that's why I suspect she has come back. Even though Malfoy-, Lucius, sorry, didn't know that the diary was a Horcrux, I think Bellatrix did know Voldemort had at least one, as someone would have had to know if he ever needed to be resurrected, and he was unable to tell them what to do."
"That does make sense," Narcissa looked very pale.
"Come on, we'll go upstairs to do this spell," Harry led the way up to the 'evidence room' and began the ritual by sweeping the floor. Then Narcissa slit her wrist open to draw a pentagram while Draco got the candles. It was cliché, but ancient blood magic always was. Harry wordlessly handed Narcissa some blood replenishing Potion when she was done and a salve to heal her cut without a scar.
Potter did the wand movement and said the incantation, which in this case was 'a sister find her sister' said in a magical variation of Latin, like most spells. From where Potter and Narcissa's hands were joined, a honey coloured light shot to the North east, and a deep purple light went to the south.
"She's alive," Narcissa was shaking now.
"I'll be able to track her with this spell though, Thankyou for your help Narcissa, If you need to your welcome to stay here in case Lestrange comes looking for you, Draco too, but for now I need to floo Luna and try to find Lestrange." Harry left.
"Mother?" Draco asked carefully, Narcissa was still shaking.
"Mother, are you alright?" Draco put his hand on her shoulder, only to have her collapse onto the floor, which luckily Potter had cleaned before he left. Narcissa was fully sobbing now, and Draco picked her up and carried her down the stairs intending to go home.
"Aunt Cissa what's wrong?"
Draco was on the first floor landing and spun around to face, not Teddy, as he expected but one of the twins, most likely James, the more outgoing of the two.
"Come on Aunt Cissa, you can lie down on Daddy's bed, he won't care.
James grabbed Narcissa's hand and dragged her up stairs, Draco, still carrying her following obediently.
James led them to a room on the third floor, very plain, except for the photos on the walls, all of which looked to be of people Harry had lost, there were clothes on the floor the bed was unmade and the dresser was cluttered with bits of rubbish and trinkets. James pushed Draco toward the bed and told him to put Aunt Cissa on the bed.
James then climbed onto the mattress and wiped Narcissa's hair from her face, he pulled a clean hanky from the bedside drawer and wiped the tears off her face, only to have them replaced by new ones.
"Aunt Cissa, what's wrong?" James said, he patted her hair again and gave her the hanky. Narcissa sat up and blew her nose.
"I'm alright, just a little shocked and scared," She took a deep breath and tried to calm herself in vain.
"Are you scared of Daddy? Daddy won't ever hurt you, well unless you're a reporter, but he only yells at them and hexes them with some spells Uncle Moony and Uncle Padfoot told him.
"No I'm not scared of your father, Sirius, I, well" Narcissa battled with herself for a while, "Lets just say that there's a, nightmare I had, and it went away, but now its come true, in real life. Does that make sense?"
So this twin was Sirius, Draco thought. Oops.
"Yes, kinda, my daddy sing's to me when I have nightmares, it makes me feel better, do you want me to get him Aunt Cissa?" Narcissa smiled at the little boy and gave him a hug, "No sweetie, I'll be fine, thank you."
"Sirius?" the door burst open to have Potter fall through, right on his face. Draco snickered.
"Oomph, Sirius what are you doing in here? Malfoy?"
"Aunt Cissa was scared, so I brought her to your room, 'cause that's were I like to go when I have nightmares, will you sing to her to make her feel better?" Harry smiled at his son.
"Only if she wants me to," He looked at Narcissa, who shook her head, no. "Well I think that Aunt Cissa and Draco should stay here until Cissa's nightmares go away, don't you?" Sirius smiled widely.
"Yes Aunt Cissa, you can stay here! And when you have nightmares dad will sing you back to sleep like he does for me!" Narcissa laughed at the little boy sitting in her lap.
"Potter, we're not staying," Draco said.
"You live in a muggle apartment in London, which I know isn't heavily warded. I also know what happened to Narcissa at the hands of Bellatrix, Draco, I was at Greyback and the Lestranges' trials. She would be safer here, I've already re-warded this place so strong against any reporters and crazed fans, let alone escaped or uncaught Death Eaters.
"Is it alright with you, Potter? Why are you even doing all this for us?" Draco frowned at the floor, uncomfortable all of a sudden.
"Because it's the right thing to do, Draco."
"You're such a bloody Gryffindor," Draco huffed in exasperation, Harry gave him a goofy grin.
"And I'm bloody proud of it, come on let them sleep," Harry cocked his head to the now sleeping Narcissa and Sirius and headed back down stairs
"You can have two of the rooms on the second floor." Harry said, "If you want to go home and get your things." Draco nodded, glancing into the room and nodding.
"Sure," He said, heading towards the kitchen.
"Thank you," Harry added, "For your help. Both of you. I cant wait to be done with this case."
Draco only managed to nod before reaching for the floo powder. But he paused, and turned back to Harry.
"Potter-" He began and paused again.
"Harry." Harry said.
"Only if you call me Draco."
"Deal."