Lucius, Narcissa, and Druella left first thing Saturday morning to prepare for Bellatrix's funeral. Sure they had announced that it would be yesterday, but they knew Harry would have a problem with it, so they decided the best time to have the funeral was when Harry was away attending the Weasley boy's funeral. They had lied to Draco, leading him to believe that the funeral was canceled. Draco passed the message along to Harry and hopefully Harry wouldn't bother them today.
Harry had breakfast with Draco and Andy and then went to get dressed for Fred's funeral. He was staring at his clothes that the elves had all neatly folded in the dresser and realized that he didn't have anything appropriate for a funeral. He had his dress robes hanging up in the closet; both his robes from the Yule Ball and from when he married Draco, but neither set seemed appropriate for a funeral. The ones from the Yule Ball were at least black, but they just weren't somber enough.
Harry went next door to the nursery, where Draco was sorting through old clothes of Sev and Scorp's. A new dresser had arrived for Teddy that morning and it needed clothes to fill it. All Teddy had come with was one nappy bag full of clothes and a package of disposable nappies. It wasn't nearly enough and had only lasted this long because the house elves did laundry every day. But now that they were adopting Teddy and he was to be living with them, Narcissa had ordered another dresser and Draco was filling it with Sev and Scorp's hand-me-downs. Malfoys didn't normally wear hand-me-downs, but Teddy was so close in age that Draco still had all the twins' old clothes and there were plenty of said clothes, because there were two babies. Some of the clothes were stained or ratty, but there were enough that were in good condition that Teddy would have an entire wardrobe of practically new hand-me-downs.
"Draco, I don't have anything to wear for the funeral today," Harry said.
"You can borrow one of my dress robes. I assume you want something somber and black?" Draco asked.
"Yes, please. Do you have anything like that?"
"Yeah, I have robes from both of my grandfathers' and from my grandmother's funerals, but I was younger then and you'd have to adjust them. Although, I think the robes I wore when my father was sentenced to life in Azkaban should work," Draco said getting up off of the floor. "Just let me put the boys into their stationary entertainers so they don't get into trouble."
Harry saw Sev crawling towards him and the door, so he bent down and picked his son up, depositing him in the blue stationary entertainer while Draco put Scorp in the green one. Teddy was in the blue bouncer and all three boys were accounted for. They left the doors open so that they would be able to hear and went back to Draco's room. Draco pulled a plain but classy set of black dress robes out of his closet and Harry tried them on. They were just a tad too long, barely hitting the floor, but once Harry had his dress shoes on, the robes no longer dragged.
"Perfect, but we really must take you shopping soon," Draco said.
"What about you? You wear the same plain robes every day," Harry replied.
"These are my paternity robes you troll; they're the only ones I can wear while I'm breast feeding."
"Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean…"
"It's okay, I know. Now get dressed; I'm going back to the nursery."
Harry just had to tie his shoes and cast a grooming charm on his hair and he was done. Harry, Andy, and Teddy left through the floo to the Burrow and joined the crowd of arriving guests. To Harry, it seemed to be a very morbid version of the arrangements the Weasley had made for Bill and Fleur's wedding. All the same red headed people were there, just wearing black instead of bright colors. And the same chairs, tables, and tents were up in the yard, just black instead of white.
Hermione noticed Harry and led Ron, Neville, Ginny, and Luna over to them. They exchanged greeting and hugs and the girls were all over Teddy. While Ginny and Luna took turns holding Teddy, Andy saw someone she knew and went off to talk to her old acquaintance.
Ginny went to pass Teddy to Ron, but Harry stopped her saying, "Um, Ron's not supposed to be holding Teddy; Draco's orders." That wasn't entirely true, because Harry had suggested the Ron-ban to placate Draco, but he didn't want to get into that and preferred to put the blame on his husband.
"Since when does the slimy git get to say I can't hold Lupin's baby?" Ron asked indignantly as Harry took Teddy from Ginny and handed the baby over to Neville.
"Since Draco and I are adopting Teddy. Draco will be Teddy's father soon and he'd rather not have another crippled child. We were just at St. Mungo's with Scorpius Thursday," Harry replied.
"Oh what's wrong with him?" Luna asked.
"How did it go?" Hermione asked.
"Scorpius has a malformed leg, thanks to Ron. The healer was able to straighten it out, but it's still thin and weak and he wasn't too optimistic about being able to fix it," Harry answered.
"That's awful," Neville said.
"I'll keep my eyes peeled for a swimmering fairy; they're good luck in repairing sever physical injuries," Luna said.
"Wait, is this Ron's fault, because of that time he hit Draco in the stomach and Draco was injured really bad?" Ginny asked. "That would make sense if Draco was already pregnant back then, but according to the papers, he wasn't pregnant until your wedding night, which was the night before Dumbledore's death. That would mean that Draco wasn't pregnant when Ron hit him."
Harry knew that Draco wanted everyone to think that they hadn't gotten pregnant until their wedding night, but he also found it hard to lie to his friends, especially because they knew so much of the truth. "Listen, you can't tell anyone what you suspect and I can't confirm anything. Ron caused Scorpius' injury; can we just leave it at that?" Harry asked pleadingly.
"Of course, Harry," Luna answered.
"Yeah, sure," Neville agreed, passing Teddy back to Harry.
"I guess, but I can't believe my oaf of a brother was stupid enough to hit a pregnant man in the stomach," Ginny said.
"Oi, I didn't know!" Ron defended himself.
"Can we all just drop it?" Harry asked.
"Yes, let's drop it. We are all here to celebrate Fred's life," Hermione said.
"Harry, can I get Teddy? I want to show my grandson off a bit," Andy said, coming back over.
"Sure Andy," Harry said, passing Teddy over to Andy.
"I need to go help set off the Peruvian Instant Darkness powder; you'll want to take your seats beforehand, especially with the baby and all," Ron said.
"Oh, did Dad call us over? I must've missed it," Ginny said.
"Will do. Thank you Ronald," Andy said.
Ron and Ginny left and the rest of them made their way over to the black chairs. It wasn't long before the Weasley released the Instant Darkness powder, signaling the start of the show. And it was a show, because it was filled with whiz-bangs, explosions, loud rock music, and everything else Fred had loved in his life. The Weasley children even took to broom and flew over the heads of the audience doing various stunts. None of the stunts were worthy of the Quidditch World Cup, but still, Fred would've loved it.
Teddy started crying when the explosions went off. Andy got him to quiet down for a bit, but when Teddy started fussing again, she pulled out a bottle. She fed and burped Teddy while she listened to the speeches.
Molly and Arthur each got up and said a few words about their son, but it was George who gave the most heart wrenching speech. You could just tell that he was missing the other half of himself. He would go on with the joke shop and continue to play pranks on his family, but he was broken.
After the eulogies and stories about Fred from the various people who knew him, the Weasleys invited everyone to stay for a late lunch and a celebration of Fred's life. Harry, Hermione, Andy, and Teddy made their way over to the covered tables and found a nice shaded spot to sit.
"I wish we had one of those travel seats to put Teddy in, so we could set him down now that he's asleep," Harry said.
"Like the muggles use in a car?" Andy asked.
"Yeah," Harry replied.
"I thought for sure Draco would have two of them for the twins; we had them back in the room of requirement," Hermione said.
"Yeah, he must have two, but I didn't even think to ask. The twins might still be using them; perhaps we should get Teddy his own," Harry replied.
"It is best to have one for each; you never know when you'll need them," Hermione replied.
"Yeah," Harry agreed. "But for now I think I'll apparate home and get a bouncer. He can sleep and play in a bouncer."
"Good idea," Andy replied.
Harry apparated back to the Villa. Draco and the twins must've already gone upstairs for their nap, because they weren't in the drawing room. Harry, feeling paranoid, went upstairs to check and sure enough the twins were in their cribs and Draco was in his bed. Satisfied, Harry took the blue bouncer and apparated back to the Weasleys. He set the bouncer down in the shade for Teddy. Then they ate lunch and mingled with the other guests.
Harry didn't get much mingling done before he realized that everyone wanted to talk to him about the war, his secret life with Draco, and everything else under the sun, except about Fred. Right about when the line of people started forming to talk to him, he decided to go home early. And Teddy was up from his nap, so Andy agreed to go home too.
Once back at the Villa, Harry took Teddy upstairs to change his nappy in the nursery. Sev and Scorp were still napping in their cribs, so he went back downstairs and talked to Andy.
Andy seemed to have an endless supply of stories about Tonks and Ted, but eventually the subject changed and she told Harry that she was planning on going back to her house this week to pack up her things. Narcissa had invited her to stay in Druella's room now that the old woman had gone back to her house. Eventually Andy would move into the guesthouse at the Manor, but according to Lucius, the Manor's guesthouse sustained the most damage and wouldn't be livable for quite some time. But at least Lucius and Narcissa were nice enough to offer to rent her their guesthouse at a reasonable price.
"That's great that you'll be close by," Harry replied and then tried to figure a good way to bring up the subject of changing Teddy's name. He finally decided he just had to come out with it already, so when Andy finished telling him about what a wonderful town Wiltshire was, he decided to go for it. "Um, Draco and I were considered changing Teddy's name when we adopt him. I wanted to know how you feel about that."
"Well that depends on what you change it to. Are we just talking about changing his last name to Malfoy?" Andy asked.
"That and he wanted to add a second middle name; Cygnus, after your father. He wants Teddy to have at least one celestial name to fit in with the twins and he said your father was a wonderful man. He said that Cygnus tried to keep your mum from tossing you out of the family and still maintained contact with you after everyone else refused." Harry was still on the ropes about changing Teddy's name, but he'd promised Draco he'd at least ask Andy about it. And if Andy put her foot down, then Harry wouldn't have to stand up to Draco.
"That's true; my father was a good man and he still loved me right up until the end. Ted and I struggled a lot when we first got married, since we didn't have the money or the resources I would've been given if I'd married a pureblood. Don't tell my mother, but my father used to secretly give me money. He never gave me much at once, but it was at least a galleon every month and that little bit really helped us get by."
"That's great. Did he ever get to meet Tonks?"
"Oh yes, he loved Dora. When I had Dora, he smuggled the Black family nursery furniture to me. No one else had a baby at the time, so they didn't notice that it was missing."
"That's great. So what do you think of changing Teddy's name?"
"I don't know. Dora always liked my father; he always gave her candies when he saw her."
Andy told Harry a few stories about Cygnus Black and Tonks, but never said anything firm on whether or not she would be alright with adding a second middle name. Then Draco and the twins woke up from their naps and came downstairs. Lucius and Narcissa came home just in time for dinner. And in accordance with their ruse, they left Druella at her own house after the funeral.
Bellatrix's funeral contained very few Death Eaters, because there were so few left. Most of them were dead or had already been captured by the Aurors, but there were plenty of Death Eater supporters and family members of Death Eaters. Narcissa had gotten up and given a beautiful speech about how it wasn't just her sister Bella they were here to mourn, but rather all of their fallen Death Eater loved ones. Every one of them had lost someone and since they had lost the war, it wasn't politically prudent to be seen throwing elaborate funerals for each and every lost loved one, so they were having just this one funeral in secret for all of them.
And it was also a funeral to mourn the passing of their pureblooded ideals, because in this new post-war era, they would have to blend in and be seen accepting muggleborns or they would never regain their lost standing. When they had recovered and had a firm foothold in the Ministry, they would regroup and try again to push the impure out, but for now it was important for them to go along with the flow.
But neither Lucius nor Narcissa mentioned any of this at dinner, instead telling of how Druella's doxies had attacked them. Harry and Andy remained none the wiser. Draco suspected, but had learned a long time ago not to question his parents about things he didn't want to know.
Author's Note: One more twist. You didn't think the Slytherins didn't have something up their sleeves, did you?