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"Be home with your boyfriend in an hour, Lily, I mean it," Harry warned, much to the amusement of Ginny, who was snickering whilst managing the dozen or so items she'd been cooking; Molly had taught her well, but Merlin, nobody could do it like her.

Lily smiled sweetly at him, ever his good-mannered little girl before she went in for a hug and peck on the cheek. When she withdrew and batted her eyelashes at him before saying "I will, daddy," it was then he reckoned she was laying it on a little thick.

That was something she only ever did if she'd gotten into trouble with Ginny, or when she wanted something very badly.

When no pleading came one way or another, his daughter looking at him expectantly, he blinked. "Oh, right," he handed her a small pouch filled with galleons; her month's allowance. "Good?"

"Perfect, thank you!" she kissed him on the cheek again, and then she skipped away. He was left dumbfounded, and when he turned to Ginny, curious if she knew what was up with their Lily, she simply shook her head with a grin on her face.

Merlin, he thought to himself as he watched one of his sons — James Sirius — run up the stairs with one of the Greengrass girls. They're really growing up.

He exhaled. He hoped he liked the bloke Lily brought back. It'd be a horrible Christmas if Harry had to expel his daughter's boyfriend.


It was nearly an hour later when Harry finally found himself outside of the kitchen, and in the parlour room with Ginny. There was a lul in cooking now that they'd just about finished everything, and from the room they'd picked, they could keep an eye out for all of their children. That included Lily as well, since she was due soon to return.

"Gin?" Harry asked, his eyes tracing Albus and James as they raced past them, one of Daphne's girls and one of Katie's each not far behind. "Who do you reckon Lily's dating?"

Ginny snorted. "You think a mum wouldn't know her daughter's first boyfriend?"

"Who is he?" Harry leaned forward, pulling Ginny closer by her feet gently whereupon settling them in his lap, he began rubbing them; it was a surefire way to pry information out of his lovely wife.

She let loose a soft moan and wiggled on the couch, further pushing her feet into his lap. "You know," she said, her eyes struggling to stay open. "I'm almost tempted to tell you, b- right there- but I'd rather see how shocked you are."

For a moment, he stopped rubbing her feet, but he resumed again when she wiggled them in his lap. Still, he was left wondering what that meant; it certainly didn't sound like a good thing. Maybe it was Romilda Vane's son, but he didn't recall her getting married. Other than her, there wasn't really anybody he minded all that much off the top of his head.

And thus, he was left wondering for another ten minutes, when finally, his daughter returned with her boyfriend in tow.

One thing was certain; Ginny had been right. Even shocked couldn't begin to explain the feelings he went through upon seeing the boy. What, with his silver-blonde hair, sharp features and paler-than-death skin. Lily, his lovely daughter, was dating a Malfoy. Astoria was a kind woman, sure enough, and Draco had 'reformed' by and large, but even then, despite all of that progress.

A Malfoy.

Harry could scarcely believe it. He'd fought Voldemort many a time, survived two killing curses, went through the Battle of Hogwarts, defeated a Basilisk… and all for his daughter to bring home a Malfoy during Christmas.

It could only get wor—

Lily, who was silently peering at him as she led Scorpius away from the Floo, doubled her speed upon the Floo activating a second time, and shortly thereafter, a third. In muted silence — and later horror — Harry could but watch as Malfoy after Malfoy appeared. First Astoria, then Draco.

My Christmas is ruined, he moaned internally.

"Potter."

Harry held in a sigh. "Malfoy," he gestured around the place, "Welcome to Potter Manor."

Draco raised his nose as he looked around the place, a mixture of Pureblood wealth and Weasley decorations. If he found it distasteful, he didn't voice such an opinion. "Thank you," he instead said, giving a curt nod. "May we?"

"Of course, please," Ginny said with a wide, dimpled smile as she gestured to the couch nearest to them. "Scorpius, Lily, run along — the others are just outside."

Lily and Scorpius, who were still eyeing their parents warily, did as Ginny bid them, moving between the two couples and making for the rear exit. Thanks to Ginny's suggestion, he'd be able to watch his daughter with Malfoy's boy from where they were seated through the many large, bay windows.

He'd be sure to thank her for that later.

"You have a lovely home. It's much more welcoming than most." Astoria's comment was said as the woman, pristinely dressed, adorned in expensive jewellery and with a high-society hairstyle, looked around their homely place with just as lovely a smile as Ginny had. "Here I was thinking you boys wouldn't get along."

"Astoria," Draco practically whined, his tone not at all what Harry'd have expected after so long a time apart from one another. He straightened his posture and deepened his voice when next he spoke to Harry. "I'm assuming you've only just found out as well then, Potter?"

"About our kids dating?"

"What else?" Draco scoffed.

Harry wanted to retort, but Ginny narrowed her eyes and Astoria pinched his side; when Draco winced, Harry grinned. "Yes. Only just," he turned to give a suspicious glance to Ginny, but mysteriously enough, she was looking anywhere but his way.

He suspected there was far more to the story, but when he saw Scorpius and Lily walking, hand-in-hand with smiles on their faces as the snow began to fall, he supposed having the Malfoys over could be tolerated for at least an hour.

So long as Draco wasn't a git.