On June 5th, Narcissa and Lucius Malfoy had a son, whom they named Draco as planned. The named their best friends, Mei-Hua Huang (Yun's sister) and Travis Grayson as godparents. Two weeks after that, on June 23rd, Petunia and Tau Okoro had their first child, a daughter they named Juniper, June for short, following the Evans tradition of naming girls after flowers or plants. A few days after her birth, her pacifier flew to her hand. A very surprised Petunia then picked up the pacifier and stuck it in her daughter's mouth. She then wrote two notes describing the incident and sent it to Lily and Makena.
The next day, Makena dropped by for a visit, since Lily couldn't because of the fact that she was due in three weeks. "Hello, Petunia. Has June done anything else since the incident you notified me about yesterday?"
Petunia shook her head. "That was the only odd thing she's done so far. So do you think June might be a witch?"
"After I got your letter, I contacted Headmistress Nakamura and she kindly looked in the book the school has that records the births of all magical children. June's name was in it, so that means she is a witch and will get an acceptance letter to Nightwind School one day. And one to Hogwarts too, of course, since she was born in Britain."
"Well, Tau and I said last night that if June did turn out to be a witch, we were sending her to Nightwind School. Er, since we know about the wizarding world, do you think it'd be all right if we had her attend the primary school that's in Windmere once she's old enough to start school? That way June would get more exposure to the wizarding world instead of suddenly being dropped into it when she's eleven. Yes, she'd have prior knowledge about it like Lily did, but it's still not same as being raised at least partially in it."
Makena looked surprised. "Well, June would be the first Muggleborn to attend Windmere Primary School, since normally Muggleborn students find out when they're old enough to attend a magical school. But I'm sure there would be no problems with her attending. I can help you make the arrangements once she's old enough to start; five or six years old, I believe is the usual age."
"Thank you, Makena," said Petunia. "How is Lily? Her last letter to me said she and James have to go into hiding, because Lord Moldywart or whatever his name is apparently wants to target them and their soon-to-be-born child."
Makena snickered. "Lord Moldywart. That's quite funny. I'll have to remember to tell the others that, since they'll get a good laugh out of it. Anyway, Lily is fine, other than the fact that she can't wait to get her pregnancy over with. She's not too thrilled about having to go into hiding, either, but she understands that it's necessary. I told her about Headmistress Nakamura confirming that June is a witch. Lily of course is quite thrilled with that, and says that she's going to be planning playdates with her child and niece once the war's over. And see to it that June becomes friends with the others born in the same year."
"Oh good," Petunia said with a smile. "That means June will have her own group of friends by the time she starts Nightwind School. More tea, Makena?"
Makena shook her head. "Thank you, but I've got an Order meeting to attend. And I also have to talk Nomusa out of joining. Since she just graduated, she wants to fight in the war, but I'd rather she just focus on attaining her Healer certification. What was the point of taking all those Healing classes in sixth and seventh year if she's not going to become a certified Healer, or at least a Mediwitch? And if she does have to be part of the Order, I'd rather she do what Nicole does, which is primarily heal the other members after battles and dangerous missions and not take part in fighting."
"Musa is her own person," Petunia pointed out. "No matter how much we want to, we can't protect our little sisters forever."
"I know," Makena said with a sigh. "Well, it was lovely visiting you and getting to see June. Tell Tau that I said hello and I hope to you soon."
Petunia said she would and saw her sister-in-law out the door.
On July 29th, at twenty-three minutes past ten, Katya gave birth to a baby girl that she and Regulus named Stella Isabelle. Though they didn't exactly follow the Black tradition, they still hinted at it, since Stella meant 'star'. Several hours later, Alice Longbottom went into labor and shortly after noon on July 30th, gave birth to a son that she and Frank named Neville Frank. Hours after that, Lily Potter went into labor and at six in the morning on July 31st gave birth to a son named Harry James. Finally, later that day, at five minutes to midnight, Claire had a daughter named Eileen Hua-Xing, after both grandmothers.
Katya and Regulus named Nicole and Kurt and Chris and Adriana (the latter two having just recently gotten married) as the joint godparents. Lily and James chose Severus and Claire and Fiona and Sirius to be godparents to Harry. Severus and Claire, after some deliberation, decided on Amina and Remus and Dylan and Yuki (who had recently gotten engaged) to be godparents to Eileen.
Two weeks after Neville's birth, the Longbottoms moved to Windmere, since it was probably the safest place for them to be. Frank and Alice had quit the Auror force, and were planning alternate careers. In Frank's case, he was going to become the fifth-year Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. The previous one, Professor Elise Hardwood-Dumas, was over a hundred and planned to retire after the next school year. Therefore, per the usual practice at Nightwind School, Frank was going to act as a student teacher with Professor Hardwood overseeing him for the 1980 to 1981 school year and then take over as the regular teacher after that. Alice planned to spend the next couple of years being a homemaker and then go on to teach at the primary school.
Claire and Severus ended up doing the exact same thing. In Severus's case, he was going to take over as the fifth-year Potions teacher once Professor Erik Hardwood (husband of Professor Hardwood-Dumas) retired. Claire intended to take on the post as a school Healer in a few years, once Eileen was older, since she had taken Healing classes during school and had recently been certified.
Meanwhile, the Potters put their house in Godric's Hollow under the Fidelius Charm, and Regulus and Katya did the same with their house, which was down the street. For the time being, the two couples decided that the safest thing to do was have each other be the Secret-Keeper. At first, both of them had wanted to have Sirius and Fiona be the Secret-Keepers, but then realized that it would put them and their daughter Arista in more danger.
At the end of August, Dylan and Yuki got married. Due to their mutual love of science fiction, they had decided to go with that theme for their wedding. Since the Star Wars movie had been released in 1977 and the sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, had been released earlier that year, the two decided to dress up as Princess Leia and Han Solo. The chapel they had decorated to look like the bridge of the starship Enterprise from the television show Star Trek, and got their friends to dress up as characters from Doctor Who, complete with all four Doctors and his companions.
"Do you really have to mash up three different science fiction universes?" James asked.
"We love the whole science fiction genre," Dylan responded, "so we want to incorporate our favorite series in our wedding. You should be thankful that we're only including three for the ceremony. We could have added something to represent the Witch World series by Andre Norton or the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey."
At the conclusion of the ceremony (the two had said their vows in Klingon, followed by an English translation for the benefit of the guests that didn't understand the language), after the kiss, Yuki said, "I love you, Dylan."
Dylan, a mischievous grin on his face, replied, "I know," like Han Solo had done in Empire Strikes Back after Leia had confessed her love to him.
Since their friends had gone to see the movie with them, they understood the reference and laughed over that as Yuki kissed Dylan again. The guests and wedding party then went to the Windmere Inn for the reception, which had been decorated as how the dining hall of a weyr was described in the Dragonriders of Pern series. The only thing traditional was the cutting of the cake and the throwing of the bouquet, which Nicole ended up catching.
Author's Note: Since both Dylan and Yuki have Muggle grandparents and love science fiction, I decided that they would have a rather nerdy/geeky kind of wedding, and include the sci-fi universes that they enjoy. I know that there are more than four Doctors (I am a Whovian, in addition to being a Potterhead), but at the time of wedding, which took place in 1980, there were only four. I would have included the wedding vows, but while I love Star Trek, I unfortunately am not the kind of Trekker/Trekkie that happens to speak Klingon.