Hadrian and Sirius spent all of Saturday writing down their past interactions with Dumbledore, Hermione and the Weasleys. Sirius wrote about the first wizarding war, how the Potters went into hiding and the betrayal of Peter Petigrew. Hadrian wrote about how he first met the Weasleys and his subsequent years at Hogwarts. He also included a copy of his Inheritance test, his marriage contract with Ginny and the letters he had received. Once they had managed to compile everything that they could remember Hadrian sent it off to Jacob Brown with Hedwig.

Theo spent his Saturday the same way he spent every Saturday, with Draco and Blaize. Today they met at Blaize's house. They were in the middle of a game of exploding snaps with Draco and Blaize lounging on a couch while Theo sat across from them in a chair.

"I have something to tell you, '' Theo announced. Both Draco and Blaize sat up and looked at him.

"Well, go on, tell us," said Draco.

Theo gathered his courage "I have a betrothed and we're probably getting married sometime in the middle of August."

"What" exclaimed Blaize "is your father making you marry someone?"

"You're still underage. Why would you get married so soon?" asked Draco.

Theo put his head in his hands "there's a marriage contract, it's from the 16th century. We both meet the criteria for the contract so there's no choice."

"Oh well tell us who it is" demanded Draco.

"First you need to promise you won't freak out or do anything crazy." begged Theo. After extracting both of their promises Theo told them "Potter, I'm marrying Potter."

"P-p-potter" Sputtered Draco "are you all right with this, you'll let us know if he mistreats you won't you?"

Theo blushed "he's not what we thought at all guys. He's actually really sweet. We already went out on a date and it was amazing."

"What do you mean he's not what we thought?" pressed Blaize.

"Oh well he was emancipated by the triwizard tournament and had to get an inheritance test. It turns out that he had a bunch of spells, potions and blocks on him, all done by Dumbledore, the Weasley's and Granger. Also not only did they put spells and blocks on him they were also stealing from him and the Weasley girl had an illegal marriage contract with him."

Draco and Blaize sat there stunned. Draco recovered first "I take it he had a cleansing ritual done, and he's different without the spells and blocks?"

Theo shook his head yes "loads different, I can really see myself falling for him."

Sunday morning Hadrian got up and went down to breakfast with Sirius.

"Good morning pup" greeted Sirius, "are you ready for your date?"

"Good morning Sirius" yawned Hadrian "I'm looking forward to our date."

As they were finishing up an owl flew in and landed in front of Hadrian. Hadrian took the letter and opened it. After skimming the letter he announced "it's from Jacob Brown, he got you a trial on August 12th."

Sirius gaped at him "Already, that was faster than expected."

Hadrian nodded "he said it's because the lack of records made it easy to prove that you never had a trial in the first place."

Sirius jumped up with a loud whoop. He rounded the table and scooped Hadrian up in a hug. "Thank you so much Hadrian. I'd never have this chance without you."

Hadrian returned the hug "I'm so happy for you Sirius."

When it was time for Hadrian to leave for his date he dressed in simple wizarding attire and flooed to the leaky cauldron to meet Theo. When he arrived at the leaky cauldron he had to wait a few minutes for Theo to arrive.

When Theo found him he was carrying a basket with him. "Hello Hadrian, I thought we could go to the park for a picnic, is that ok with you."

Hadrian smiled "that sounds lovely Theo. Shall we go now?"

Theo nodded and grabbed his hand as they walked through the entrance to Diagon Alley. They walked down the Alley and Hadrian hesitated when they got to the entrance of Knockturn Alley.

Theo stopped and asked "what's wrong?"

Hadrian stuttered "oh um i-i-isn't Knockturn dangerous I heard it's full of dark wizards."

Theo gave him a flat look "and who did you hear that from?"

Hadrian groaned "The Weasley's, they lied about that, didn't they?"

Theo nodded "It's just a poor neighborhood, with a lot of second hand shops, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if the Weasley's do some of their shopping there."

Hadrian gave Theo a sad smile "I'm sorry Theo, I guess even though I know the Weasley's lied about things there are still some things that I need to unlearn, I'll try to keep an open mind in the future."

Theo grinned "good, that's all I ask, let's go there's a great park at the end of Knockturn.

Hadrian looked around as they entered the park. It seemed like any other park he had been to, people walking around, admiring the flowers and resting on benches. And then they passed the quidditch pitch, or rather the mini quidditch pitch. Hadrian pulled Theo to a stop as he stared. There were several children flying no more than a foot off the ground playing a game of quidditch.

"I used to come here to play with Draco and Blaize when we were little," said Theo.

Hadrian had a look of absolute delight on his face, "this is great, maybe someday we'll bring our own children here."

Theo ducked his head shyly "yeah I'd like that, come on I know a good spot for our picnic over here."

Theo led Hadrian to a grove of willow trees surrounding a pond. The trees were in bloom with tiny bright purple flowers, while the pond was like nothing he had ever seen before. It was floating, a large ball of water floating in the center of a grove of willow trees. As Hadrian looked up at the pond he noticed that there were plants floating near the top and brightly colored fish swimming among the plants. As Hadrian gaped at the pond Theo was busy setting up their picnic.

"Hadrian" Theo called, "are you ready to eat?"

Hadrian jumped at Theo's call and hurried over to their picnic blanket.

"Theo" Hadrian breathed "this place is amazing."

Theo grinned "I know, I thought you would like it."

As they ate they talked about their future and what they wanted. Hadrian asked Theo to accompany him to Sirius's trial.

"I'd love to come to the trial with you, but you know that Dumbledore is likely to be there. If I go he'll find out about us," Theo mentioned.

Hadrian frowned "I know, but he's going to find out eventually."

"You're right" agreed Theo "we do need to be married two weeks after your birthday, what if we got married the next day, that way Sirius can be there?"

Hadrian beamed "that's a brilliant idea. Do you mind if I invite Miss Elizabeth also? She's my social worker and I wouldn't have found out about Dumbledore and the others without her."

Theo bobbed his head in agreement "is it ok if I invite Draco and Blaze?"

"Of course, they are your friends after all," said Hadrian.

They spent the rest of the day lounging beneath the willow trees and watching the fish in the pond above them.

As they were packing up to leave Theo pulled out a book, "Hadrian, I got you a gift." He handed the book over. "It's about lordships. I know it's not as special as the book you got me, but most Heirs to noble families have read it, and I know you weren't raised to be a lord so I thought that this might be helpful."

Hadrian leaned forward and hugged him, kissing the top of his head he murmured into his hair "thank you Theo, it means so much to me that you would think of this, so thank you so much."

Theo grinned at Hadrian "you're welcome, lets head back."

They held hands all the way back to the leaky cauldron where they both flooed home for the night. Over the rest of July they had many more dates, where they got closer and closer, until they spent most of their time together.

Until July 31st, Hadrian's birthday when Theo flooed directly into Grimmauld Place. They had breakfast together before Theo gave Hadrian his birthday present. Hadrian pulled the paper off to reveal a small glass tank. Looking into the tank he saw a very tiny snake barely an inch long that had beautiful gold scales.

"Hello" he hissed "whatsss your name?"

The snake picked its head up and stared at him "a sssspeaker, never sssseen one before. Ssssnakess have no need for a name, but sssspeaker may give one."

Hadrian thought for a minute "I will call you aurum.''

Aurum nodded his head "that is acceptable, ssspeaker."

Hadrian looked up at Theo, "he's brilliant Theo, I love him"

Theo grinned, I thought you might, he won't get much bigger than he is, so I thought if you wanted you could carry him with you on your finger, his coloring would make people think he's a ring."

Hadrian pulled Theo to him and kissed him "you are the best fiance ever."

Theo blushed and looked away "you're pretty great too, I think Sirius has a gift for you."

Hadrian turned to Sirius and took his gift from him. Opening the gift revealed a book with squiggles on the cover, as he studied the cover the squiggles became clearer until he could read the title as parselmagic for the new parseltongue.

Hadrian looked to Sirius "Thank you Sirius, where did you even find this?"

Sirius chuckled "It was in our attic. I guess someone in the family thought that they could learn parselmagic without being a parselmouth."

Hadrian hugged Sirius "Thank you so much Sirius for everything."

Hadrian, Theo and Sirius spent the rest of the day together, playing games, eating good food and celebrating Hadrian.

At the end of the day after Theo had gone home Sirius gave Hadrian a potion. "This is dreamless sleep, you're going to go through your creature inheritance tonight and this will make sure you sleep through it."

Hadrian nodded and took the potion,"it's getting late so I think I'll just head up to bed now. Good night Sirius, see you in the morning."

Sirius hugged Hadrian goodnight "goodnight pup, sleep well."