Monday the entire Malfoy family went to see the Malfoy lawyer, Mr. Shafiq, who had finish putting together Teddy's adoption papers. They flooed directly into his office, so that the press wouldn't catch them out and about with the babies. The lawyer went over the terms of the adoption, which stated that Teddy would be Draco and Harry's son and have all the rights that that entailed, but that Andy would have visitation rights. Draco and Harry would be financially responsible for Teddy and get only a tiny fraction of Tonks' life insurance money, while Andy would use the majority of that money to repay debts.
It took a few hours to go through all of the details and hammer out a few of the finer points such as changing Teddy's last name to Malfoy, but then they were finished and Andy, Draco, and Harry all signed. In the end, Harry had wanted to leave Teddy's first and middle names as they were given to him by Tonks, without adding in a second middle name. Draco wasn't happy about it, but Harry had spoken so passionately about honoring Tonks and Remus' memory that he'd caved.
Once everyone was in agreement and the documents were signed, Mr. Shafiq promised to file the papers and arrange a court date to have the adoption finalized. It would take another month, even if they had it rushed, but at least the process was started.
The Malfoys went back to the Villa and celebrated, with Lucius breaking out a bottle of champagne and Mipsy bringing Draco, Harry, and the twins grape juice. After the toast, Draco sat down on the sofa and nursed Teddy for the first time. It seemed like the simplest thing in the world, but it also felt so right, because Teddy really was Draco's baby now.
After Draco nursed and burped Teddy, he nursed Scorpius and fed Sev a bottle, while Harry wrote a few owls informing his friends of the good news. In the letters he sent to Hermione and Ginny, he mentioned his desire to have a baby shower for Teddy to celebrate Teddy becoming his son.
After lunch Harry got an owl back from Molly informing him that she, Hermione, and Ginny had agreed to throw Harry a baby shower and they just needed a list of what types of things Teddy needed so they could tell people what to get. And so Draco and Harry sat down with a piece of parchment and made their list. Teddy definitely needed a highchair and bath-seat, as well as blankets and larger sized clothes. Since Sev still used his swing sometimes and it was getting a bit worn out, they asked for a new swing too. And it wouldn't hurt to have more toys.
Then there was a debate over whether or not they needed another stroller and if so, which kind and how many babies it should seat. They already had a twin stroller, so they only needed a single stroller for Teddy. But if one person was alone with all three babies, they couldn't push the twin stroller and a single stroller; for that it'd be better to have a triplet stroller. But then how often did they plan on leaving all three babies with one person? Harry certainly couldn't handle three at a time. Maybe Draco could manage it, but Draco said he'd prefer to put Teddy in a carrier on his chest and push the twins in their stroller if it came to that, so the triplet stroller really wasn't needed. And if Harry was to be pregnant soon, then they might as well get another twin stroller so that their daughter would have a place to sit too. But then their boys would be getting older and Sev might not need a stroller by then.
It wasn't until they pulled out the baby catalogue and came across a stroller designed to accommodate two children of varying ages that they knew what they wanted. There was a typical seat in the front that an infant carrier could be attached to and a second parent-facing seat in the rear. The rear seat could detach to reveal a bench seat for a toddler or a standing platform for an active older child. It looked perfect for their growing family, so they added it to their list and then sent the list off to Mrs. Weasley.
After that Draco and the twins took their nap and Harry went over to the Manor to help Lucius finish setting the place up. He ended up putting together the library on the first floor, unshrinking box after box of books and then levitating the books onto the shelves. He was only halfway through the books when Lucius came in and wanted to work on putting up the last of the wards, which they just barely finished in time for dinner.
Tuesdays morning Harry spent helping Draco with the babies. In the afternoon he once again went to the Manor and this time he finished putting away the books in the library, while Lucius did the china in the dining room. Then it was back to the Villa for dinner.
Wednesday Molly sent Harry an owl informing him that the baby shower would be a week from Saturday. Ron and all of the Weasley men would absolutely not be there for the day, so Draco didn't have anything to worry about. That led to a small argument between Harry and Draco where Draco insisted that the Weasley home was not a safe place to take children, even if all the Weasleys were gone from it and Harry begged Draco to go and let the children go too. They finally settled on the compromise of asking Mrs. Weasley to throw the baby shower at Grimmauld Place. Grimmauld Place was still under the fidelius charm, but most of the people being invited already knew the secret and the rest were trustworthy enough to be told, especially because they weren't living there.
All day Thursday and Friday morning were a blur of activity as they made the final preparations for Remus and Tonks' funeral. They were having it in London at a venue that the Ministry owned and made available for all Ministry personnel. There were so many funerals of Ministry personnel right now that this chapel was exceedingly busy and was booked for two funerals a day on weekdays and four a day on weekends. They had the Friday afternoon timeslot, which was one of the better ones.
The entire Malfoy family went to the chapel to help set up. Teddy was placed in Sev's old bouncer and Sev and Scorp were in their jumpers on the stage while the adults levitated flowers into the vases, put up pictures of Remus and Tonks, and placed tissues and programs by the door. And then there was the music to set up and people who would be speaking to talk to.
The first sign that this funeral was going to be well attended came minutes after they started setting up. It was still an hour before the funeral was to start and people were already walking in the door. Andy greeted the strangers, the first batch having known Tonks from Hogwarts. They were quickly followed by another batch who had been taught by Remus at Hogwarts. Then the following group worked at the Ministry with Tonks and their presence started Scorpius off screaming.
Draco ran to his baby, picking Scorpius up and calming him down, while Andy immediately pushed the Aurors back out the door. Then the other guests were pushed out as well, so that they could finish setting up. After that they kept the doors closed and Andy stayed outside to explain to the Aurors what they had done wrong and greet the new arrivals, who were still arriving in droves. When the Weasleys arrived, Andy let the Hermione, Ginny, and Ron through and asked the other Weasleys to help her guard the door. The Aurors also helped with crowd control and together they kept everyone else outside.
Draco looked up to see Ron Weasley walking towards them. "What is he doing here?" He asked of Harry.
"It's Remus and Tonks' funeral; he knew them," Harry replied.
"Yeah, but I'm here and so are the babies. You said you wouldn't let him near them."
"But Draco, Ron has the right to mourn too. It's a huge chapel; surely it'll be alright if he stays on the other side."
Draco wasn't happy with the arrangement, but Ron backed up and promised to stay away, appeasing Draco somewhat. There was plenty to do on the other side of the chapel to keep Ron well separated from Draco and the kids. The guests kept pouring in and Ron went outside to help Andy and the other Weasleys greet them.
There was a group of mourners that had worked with Remus in Lithuania, another who met him in Croatia, and a third who were werewolves who had met him in Denmark. There were people who had fought alongside Remus and Tonks in the final battle, people who had fought alongside Remus in earlier battles, and people who had fought alongside Tonks before she had been pregnant. There were people Tonks had saved through her work as an Auror, people who knew people who Tonks had save, and people who had witnessed Tonks' acts of heroism. There were people who had gone to school with Remus and Harry's parents. There was the lady who sold coffee to Tonks every morning at the Ministry and there was Remus' old next door neighbor. There were everyone and anyone who was a werewolf, knew a werewolf, or were just vaguely interested in werewolf rights. There was even a group of three vampires, Firenze the Centaur, and a man who was half-troll by the look of him and full troll by the smell.
Fifteen minutes before the funeral was to start, there was a line wrapped around the building of people waiting to get in. Hermione went outside to scope out the crowd and found Ron, before reporting back to Harry, while Harry was busy duplicating programs to hand out to all of the extra guests; they had only planned on a hundred or less attendees and were not prepared for a full house. Draco was by his side multiplying the tissues to go with the programs.
"It looks like word got out that you and the kids would be at this funeral," Hermione said.
"Well it's the first time your kids have been out in public and everyone wants to get a look at them. I've seen dozens of people with their cameras and the people in the very front of the line said they snapped a few pictures of them before the Aurors got them all kicked out," Ron said. It was his first time seeing Harry's twins in person, although they were over twenty feet away, all the way at the back of the stage and he could barely see them. Still, he was in the same room with Draco and Harry's babies and he didn't want to blow it.
"Draco, perhaps you ought to take the boys home; there are too many people for Scorpius for sure. I wanted Teddy to be here, but it's naptime anyway and he's too young to know what's going on. We'll record it for him instead," Harry said.
"I bet this is Weasley's fault. He probably let it slip that you'd be here," Draco said.
"I did not!" Ron protested.
"This funeral was unannounced, so how do you suppose they found out?" Draco asked.
"Probably from the Ministry; Tonks was an Auror after all," Ron replied.
"Speaking of the Ministry, I think that everyone who works for the Ministry, knows someone who works for the Ministry, or has ever even been to the Ministry, is here," Hermione said.
"Yeah, I got it; I'll go," Draco said abandoning his pile of tissues and heading towards the children.
"Can you two handle this for me? I've got to help Draco get the kids home," Harry said.
Ron and Hermione agreed and set to work duplicating the programs and multiplying the tissues, while Draco packed Sev and Scorp into their stroller. Draco shrunk the two jumpers and the bouncer and shoved the three items into the basket of the stroller, while Harry held Teddy. Then they all disappeared through the nearest fireplace. Harry helped Draco and the boys get upstairs, making sure Draco was okay, which he was, before apparating back to the funeral.
While Harry was gone, the doors had been opened and the people started filing in. He could see there was still a swarm of people at the doors waiting to get in, although most of the seats were now taken. The time for the funeral to start came and went with the crowd still filing in, squeezing into every last seat and standing in the aisle ways. Even with the aisles blocked, he could still see a swarm of witches and wizards passed the doors, waiting to get in. They never did get everybody inside, but they left the doors open and the sonorous carried the voices of the speakers outside. Kingsley Shacklebolt, Andy, and Harry all got up and gave eulogies about how wonderful Tonks and Remus were and what a shame it was that they were dead and had left behind their newborn son. Harry knew everyone was there to hear him talk about the war, so he made sure that was one thing he absolutely did not mention. This day was about Tonks and Remus and not the bloody Savior. After the eulogies, there was music and singing of ancient pureblood hymns, and Narcissa even got up and read a poem. Then at the end Harry, Andy, Narcissa, and Lucius stood up at the front next to the two opened caskets and shook hands as people came through the line to pay their last respects to people who were unsung heroes in life and in death were just an excuse to see Harry Malfoy and the elusive Malfoy children.
Harry saw a lot of his friends there and people he knew from the Ministry or from the Order and that pleased him. However, he couldn't help but noticed that most of the people there seemed more interested in shaking his hand than paying their last respects to Remus and Tonks. By the time it was over, he was convinced they should've had a closed funeral and only invited family, close friends, Order members, and the Aurors. He went back to the villa feeling disillusioned and wondering if anyone had even heard his words about two wonderful people who he had loved, or if they had spent the entire time staring at Harry Malfoy, the bloody Boy-Who-Lived. If it weren't for the fact that Narcissa recorded the entire thing in a memory ball for Teddy to watch when he was older, he would've been very mad about the fact that Teddy had been run out of his own parents' funeral by the shear mass of looky loos. At least the actual burial after dinner wasn't open to the public and Teddy and the twins were able to be there to say goodbye.
Author's Note: One more funeral out of the way. What did you think? Please review!