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CHAPTER 35

"This is not happening! This is soooo not happening!" Ron pulled his hair in frustration and Hermione rolled her eyes with a big sigh and folded her arms across the chest. "Tell me I'm dreaming flower." He looked at Pansy and pleaded.

Pansy rolled her eyes. "Don't be ridicules Ronald!" She said sternly then looked at the young couple in each other's arms and gave them a gentle motherly smile. "That's a wonderful news darling. We are very happy for both you."

"REALLY? You must be joking!" Ron yelled in disbelieve. "He is a Malfoy flower, A. MALFOY!"

"SO!" Pansy hissed dangerously, and Hermione sighed again in exasperation.

"He must have used a love potion darling. Otherwise, there is no chance our little Rose would end up getting engaged to a Malfoy." He added spitefully.

"Seriously Weasley! Do you think this society has a shortage of young witches? My son is not that desperate to use a love potion on a Weasley. I presume it might be the other way around. Your daughter might have done something to trap the Malfoy heir in this mess." Draco spat.

"Take that back you Moron! My baby has no reason to use anything on your son!" Ron barked.

"Then why the hell you think my son has used something on your redhead!" Draco howled.

"RONALD!"

"DRACO!"

"DADDY"

"FATHER!"

Pansy, Hemione, Rose and Scorpius shouted together. Harry looked at Daphne worriedly and raised his brows to know whether they should leave, but she shook her head.

"If you two can't stop bickering, you may leave!" Hermione ordered. "And Draco, you can ask Pinky to prepare the guest room for you tonight." She added savagely.

"Same goes with you too, Ronald. Either you stay and help us with planning or leave and ask Poppy to prepare the guest room for you." Pansy added with a scowl.

"Planning what?" Ron asked sheepishly.

"The wedding of course." Pansy said beaming with happiness. "Both of them are twenty-four years, and there is no need to wait any longer."

"I don't think it's necessary to rush. Twenty-four is still young, and they have plenty time." Draco added quickly.

"When we were twenty-four we already had Ety. So this is definitely not rushing." Hermione replied firmly.

"Never thought in a million years I would tell something like this, but I do agree with Malfoy here." Ron said gesturing Draco. "Twenty-four is too young. We shouldn't rush into planning a wedding. Don't you think we should wait a bit longer? Who knows, they might come to their senses and call off the engagement." He added hopefully and earned scowls from both his wife and daughter.

"We are not going to break up Uncle Ron." Scorpius said timidly. Ron frowned at the young man who had his arms wrapped around his baby, his only daughter. Scorpius was the exact replica of his father when he was twenty-four, and Ron grunted in displease. They were not related, but Potter children and Malfoy children called Weasleys and Goyles uncles and aunts as they all grew up together with Molly and Arthur's grandchildren. If Ron had ever suspected this might going to happen, he would never let his little Rose hang with Malfoys ever. He sighed.

"It's Mr Weasley to you, young Man." He grumbled in anger.

"Ron, this is my last warning!" Pansy hissed.

"How can I make up my mind flower, she is my only daughter, and she is going to be a Malfoy." He wailed.

"It's not our problem that you decided to have only one daughter. You should have had more." Draco snapped.

"It was not our decision you idiot! But one beautiful princess, an heir and a spare are enough for us because we don't breed like rabbits or in the newest case like Malfoys" Ron sneered.

Apart from the children they adopted, over the years Ron and Pansy became proud parents of three beautiful children, Rose, who was twenty-four, twenty-two years old Hugo and nineteen years old Edward. Hermione and Draco became parents of two girls and four boys. Etamin, who was nearly thirty years old, Scorpius and his twin Perdita, who were twenty-four years old, then twenty-two years old Sagittarius followed by eighteen years old Tisamenus, who was freshly out from Hogwarts and looking forward to becoming a hit wizard much to his parents worry. When they thought Tisa was the youngest of the family, they were shocked by another pleasant surprise. When Etamin was in her final year at Hogwarts and Hermione was forty years old, they welcomed their last family member, Rigel into the world. Since his birth, with his father's features and mother's eyes, Rigel became everybody's favourite in the family. They all shocked when he got sorted into Hufflepuff but supported him when he told them he deliberately asked the hat to put him in that house because he wanted to prove the Hufflepuff was not a house of poor performing and less talented wizards. Though Draco was extremely proud of his youngest son's decision, he just blamed Harry for filling his child's head with nonsense.

Due to Hector Jr's influence and the age gap, Alexander and Mathew started to call Pricilla and Hector their parents and Pansy their sister. When they became of age, they inherited their family wealth and moved out from The Parkinson Manor. Whenever they visited the Manor, they always held up in Parents wing for most of the time. Even the present day they were at the manor most probably listening to Pricilla's lecture for the thousandth time on the importance of getting married and producing the next heir to continue their bloodline. Doubtlessly, she would remind them how fortunate they were because the Marriage law had completely abolished before they turned thirty.

Selwyn twins moved out from Malfoy Manor when they came of the age. Elder brother started his duty as the heir, and younger brother joined The Department of International Magical Cooperation. Both of them were not married yet, and Draco had threatened them, if they were not married before they reached age forty, he would find both of them suitable partners through betrothed contracts as he didn't want Selwyn blood line to die off with them.

Being the first born son, Scorpius Malfoy didn't have a choice other than joining his father and learning to become the next head of Malfoys. Sagittarius or Tisamenus didn't show any interest in joining the family business or learning the Wizengomot duties. They insisted on following their own dreams, and one became a successful potioneer, and the other joined the Magical Law Enforcement Squad to become a hit wizard.

"No matter how many daughters one can have, they all end up marrying sons of archenemies." Draco said looking dejected. "Do you think I was overjoyed when one became a Potter, and the other one became a Weasley? I'm pretty sure if I had another, she would end up being a Longbottom" He added spitefully.

No one surprised when Perdita Malfoy and Albus Potter fell in love with each other. They were childhood friends and meant to be soul mates. Scorpius and Perdita were inseparable since their birth, but he had sorted to Slytherin along with Albus, and she became a Gryffindor with Rose. Twins spent most of their time together, and they tagged along their best friends with them. Much to Draco's dismay, Perdita fell in love with her sibling's best friend and got married soon after they finished schooling and welcomed Hermione's and Draco's first grandchild, a beautiful girl named Ivy after two years of their union. Since her birth, Ivy Potter had her grandfather Draco wrapped around her finger.

The story of Etamin Malfoy and Fred Weasley was an entirely different one to her sister's. Ety became a bright Ravenclaw and surpassed her mother's talents and achievements and became the brightest witch of her generation. Currently, she was the Junior Undersecretary to the Ministry of Magic and known to be the most intelligent in the whole wizarding community. She never dated when she was at school and never known to be in a relationship. Every wizard was intimidated by her reputation, intelligence and her personality. Hermione and Draco firmly believed she would end up being an old maid until the day Fred Weasley proposed to her. Fred Weasley was a born prankster, inventor and a happy-go-lucky wizard just like his late uncle. He didn't even want to complete his education. Without completing his seventh year, he tried to join his father in business, but his mother was furious and threatened both of them that she would leave them and never return. George Weasley, who never took his wife's threats as jokes, encouraged Fred to complete his education. Unwillingly he returned to Hogwarts and took his NEWT exam and just passed everything without any flying colours. Then he joined their family business and became a successful business person like his father. Everyone was shocked and left speechless when Fred Knelt and proposed to Etamin on a Weasley Christmas dinner. Everyone including Draco expected Etamin to hex him to oblivion but to their surprise, she accepted him reluctantly.

Mischievous James Potter was the best friend of Fred Weasley. When they were together both of them were known as partners in crime. They started to play truth or dare games since their childhood and never stopped playing it even they became adults. James expecting Ety would hex his best friend, asked Fred to propose to her as a penalty to an incomplete dare. Everyone in their right mind knew that only a wizard with a death wish would cross the line with Etamin. Ety, who got to know about the penalty from Lily, was determined not to give either prankster the pleasure of victory and accepted the proposal. Her reaction astounded Fred, and he left with no choice other than dating her. Fred started dating Ety thinking she would break the engagement, but she didn't break up with him, or he didn't with her. Weasleys placed bets as usual. They had given the couple maximum of six months and predicted, either she would be ended up driven insane by him, or he would be Avada by her before even six months. No one thought their relationship would last, but they were happily married for five years and expecting their first child in a couple of months. They did great together. Etamin was the only person who could keep the prankster in line and he set her free from her boring serious lifestyle and made her days much more pleasant and enjoyable.

As soon as he left Hogwarts, Scorpius joined his father and became extremely busy with the family business and his new Wizengamot duties. He lost contact with his old friends who were also busy chasing their dreams. Similarly, Rose joined St Mungo's to become a healer just after her NEWTs and became very busy with her training and totally cut herself off from the social life. Two years ago they met again when Scorpius visited his grandmother Narcissa, who had admitted to St Mungo's with mumblemumps. Rose was working as a junior healer in the same ward Narcissa was, and they had an opportunity to have a brief chat before she left to attend another patient. As he promised her on that day, he met her again for coffee then for dinner. With time their relationship grew stronger and stronger, and he realised she was the one and proposed to her neglecting their fathers' hostility towards each other.

"I still can't... I can't-." Ron mumbled in frustration.

"Ronald, stop this right now!" Pansy took his both hands into hers. "You promised me. You promised me on the day she was born that you will never let her go through anything we went through. You promised to fight for her rights and let her chose her partner. You told me even if it was a muggle, you would not go against her decision." She said looking into his eyes.

Ron sighed and wrapped his arms around her. "A muggle is fine, but this is-." He said painfully.

"You have nothing to worry Weasley. I'm the one who should be worried. How unfortunate if the next Malfoy heir would end up having red hair." Draco grumbled eyeing Rose's red curls.

"You git, Malfoys always have blond hair. So there's nothing for you to worry." Ron blasted.

"Not always unc- Mr Wealey, Dita and Tisa got mumma's hair." Scorpius answered nervously.

"That's why they were named as Perdita and Tisamenus. Otherwise, those two would have ended up being a constellation or a star." Ron said shooting daggers at the young man through his gaze.

Scorpius averted his eyes from Ron's death stare and looked at his father uncomfortably. "Father, if the hair colour of next the heir is crucial, you can make Sagittarius your successor. I have no objection. I'm happy to hand over my duties to him." He said courteously.

"Nonsense!"Hermione huffed. "You are going to be your father's successor no matter what, that won't change even if you were married to a Muggle." She said glaring at her husband who sheepishly avoided his wife's eyes.

"And our 'Sagittarius A star' won't accept the family burden. Sorry big brother, you are stuck with that horrible commitment." Tisamenus walked into the room with a smirk. "And even if he accepted it, someone had to put him under a permanent sonorous charm otherwise no one would hear him."

"Tisa, stop teasing your brother and don't ever use that ridiculous name." Hermione warned her young son.

"Well, he is just like a black hole, very mysterious, confusing and no fun at all." He shrugged.

Saggitarius was the second son and the fourth child of Draco and Hermione. He was entirely different from his siblings. Since his childhood, he was quite and very reserved. He rarely talked and when he did his voice was barely audible. He was never up to mischief like others and always had a book in his hand and spent most of his time at his mother's retreat or his maternal grandparents' place. Once, Hermione's parents heard a faint noise of someone moving in their home in a very early morning and came downstairs with a club thinking it might be a thief. Instead of a burglar, they found Sagittarius was curled up in a beanbag reading a book. He raised his head and smiled at them but didn't say a word. That day he was there for all three meals and spent his night in his mother's childhood room. Since then if he was not at Hogwarts, he spent most of his time in his Muggle grandparents' house as it was more peaceful than his home and no one objected him.

Draco was thinking of drawing an old fashion betrothal contract for Sagittarius when he was ready to start a family because his son hadn't shown any interest in finding a wife for himself. Draco had Theo Nott's second daughter in mind as a possible bride for him. Just like Sagittarius, Arlie Nott was also a silent and reserved Ravenclaw and their personalities and traits matched excellently. He hadn't told Hermione his plan yet. He knew she would never agree with him without a huge convincement, but he was not ready to give up. He would never ever let his son end up like Alphard Black.

"Tisa, stop making your mother angry. She is right. You shouldn't tease your brother like that." Draco said in a very stern voice. "-and keep in mind, unlike others Sagittarius never refuse anything that your mother and I ask, even if he didn't like it he would do it for us." He further added

"Really father? Where is your obedient son now? Here we all discussing a family matter and he is nowhere to be seen. Is he not family enough to be here?" Tisamenus grinned.

Harry looked at Daphne. "Where is Lily?" He mouthed looking stressed.

Daphne shrugged. "A couple of minutes ago, I saw she went out with Hugo." She replied him in a hushed voice. Harry was relaxed and smiled. Hugo was Lily's best friend, and together they were worse than Weasley twins. Lily was very active, and a bubbly witch with a loud, cheerful voice and Draco distasted her with a passion and often called her 'the little banshee'. Her maternal grandparents were very disappointed because she never acted like a little lady according to them. Though Daphne was worried about her behaviour and tried to discipline her, Harry, however, loved her regardless and never strict with her. That was maybe because Lily looked very much alike her paternal grandmother with her green eyes and red hair.

"Sagittarius never avoids family purposely."Draco said firmly, scowling at his young son. "He must be in the library, and there is no doubt if we called him, he would be here within a second." He added proudly then looked at Scorpius. "Son, just because you are marrying Pansy's daughter, I'm not going to disown you or strip your responsibilities. You are going to be my successor regardless of anything" He said in a gentle but a firm voice.

"Pansy's daughter, huh." Ron quirked his lip.

"Yes, Pansy's daughter. Do you have a problem with that!" Draco asked in a dangerous tone.

"In fact yes, I do have a problem, you moron. "Ron gritted his teeth. "She is my daughter too, you idiot, and I still can't believe she lost her mind and fell in love with your spawn." He barked.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Rose yelled stomping her feet just like her mother. "Why are you doing this daddy? You and mother from two very different backgrounds but both of you are deeply in love with each other. You can't live without seeing her. You gave up Quidditch, you passion, to spend more time with her and how many times you come home during the day just to see her. You two are inseparable. Same goes with you, Uncle Draco. You are married to Aunt Hermione regardless of her blood status, and you practically worship the ground she walks on. So why can't Scorpius here or I can marry the people we love?" She demanded, looking at her parents and her fiancé's parents.

Hermione avoided Rose's eyes and bit her bottom lip awkwardly. Feeling his wife's distress, Draco put his arms around her and held her close to him. Ron's arms tightened around Pansy, and she buried her face in his chest without looking at her daughter. Harry and Daphne looked at each other nervously. Rose was surprised to see elders in the room looked very uncomfortable.

"Well, well. This shows our little Rosie never attended her post second war history lessons at school. What were you doing Skipping it? Don't tell me you spent your time with Scor here without attending your lessons." A man in his late twenties strode in with a smirk.

"We didn't date at school." Scorpius mumbled uneasily.

"Uncle Hecs, what are you doing here!"Rose glared. "We are discussing an important family matter, and you shouldn't be here." She yelled.

"Last time when I checked, I am more family to you than Mr Potter here." Hector Jr said grinning at his niece. "I just dropped in to check whether The Third Wizarding War has already started." He moved his eyes from Ron to Draco.

"There is no war here today uncle Hecs, but there will be one on the day you are going to tell grandfather about your secret engagement." Rose hissed venomously.

"What? What's that Hector? What secret engagement Rose is talking about?" Pansy demanded, looking at her brother, who tried to slip away from the room quickly.

"I don't know I have no idea." He quickly mumbled and headed to the door.

"Stop there right now or else I'll put you under full body-bind curse!" Pansy shouted, and Hector Jr stopped immediately but refused to look at his sister's face. "Now tell me what's going on?" She demanded.

"He is secretly engaged to a daughter of a Muggle." Rose snapped.

"Rose why can't you keep a secret?" Hector Jr snapped back.

"I never promised to keep it a secret plus you came and told my mother that I didn't attend Professor Binn's class." She shouted in rage.

'I didn't tell her directly as you did a moment ago." He shouted back.

"Now stop you two!" Pansy shouted louder that other two. "-and tell me what's going on." She looked at Hector Jr. "Is that true?" She asked, and he averted his gaze uncomfortably. "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR SENSES HECTOR! FATHER IS GOING TO KILL YOU. How could you do something like that!. Engaged to a Muggle!"Pansy yelled pointing her wand at her brother, and Ron tried to restrain her from hexing her brother

"Her father is a Muggle, but the mother is a witch." He mumbled frowning at Rose.

"So she is a half-blood?" Pansy demanded.

"Better than that, she is a squib." Rose sneered and earned another scowl from her uncle

"WHAT?" YOU ARE INSANE! FATHER IS DEFINITELY GOING TO KILL YOU! I have no intention to be around here the day you are going to reveal the engagement to him. Who is she?"

Hector Jr mumbled something in a barely audible voice.

"Sorry, I didn't hear that." Pansy grumbled.

"It's Amelia Dursley, mother." Rose said quickly, and Harry sighed.

"Argh! I don't know what to say." Pansy said in frustration. "Why didn't you choose her twin sister, Petunia? At least she is a half-blood witch, and she exactly looks like her sister."

"I didn't fall for her looks, Pansy. I love her for who she is. She doesn't have magic, but that doesn't matter to me." Hector Jr said stubbornly.

"But it matters to your father."

"It's me who is getting married to her, not my father."

"Try saying that to your father. He'll disown you at that instant."

"I don't care. Hugo or Ed can take my position as the heir, but I'll never break up with her." He replied determinedly.

"Ronald, please tell this fool to reconsider." With teary eyes, Pansy turned to her husband in mere desperation.

"Now, now little flower, please relax." He kissed her temple softly. "Her mother is a Bones, and a well respected Wizengamot member and her father is the only cousin of Harry Potter, so Hector is not that unfortunate."

"But-but she is a squib."

"We don't have to tell that to your father." He winked at his brother-in-law, who returned a relieved smile thankfully.

"But what if-."

"Shhhh. Don't worry flower, she doesn't have to do magic in front of him. Your father is a very busy wizard, so I don't think they'll see each other very often." Ron said her with a gentle smile.

"But the binding ceremony? I assume she doesn't have a wand."

Ron shook his head and clicked his tongue slightly. "They can marry at The Ministry first, then have a ceremony somewhere. So don't worry too much love." He nuzzled her hair gently then turned to his young brother-in-law. "Young man, when you are going to tell your parents, Harry, and I will come with you. We'll hope for the best," he said with an encouraging smile. "I don't think we need to keep Priscilla in dark. It's up to you to find a way to break the news." He further added. Knowing how much his mother-in-law loved her son, Ron had no doubt that she would even let her son marry a Muggle if he wanted to.

"Thank you very much, Ron and Mr Potter. I very much appreciate your help." Hector said in relief.

"I still can't believe you kept it a secret from me." Pansy glared.

"Because I don't want you to have a panic attack." He replied calmly.

Pansy smacked back of his head. "Idiot!" She hissed. "I'm not very convinced that the plan is going to work, but let's hope for the best baby brother." She sighed. "Now can you please get out of here, we need to discuss Rose and Scor's wedding. I don't want you to hang around and drive her nuts, and please take Tisa with you." She said gesturing the young Malfoy, who was watching the drama very enthusiastically.

"Alright, we are out."Hector said signalling Tisamenus to follow him. "And Rosie, no matter what your mother loves me more than you." He turned and smirked at her, and she stuck her tongue out angrily.

"GET OUT NOW!" Pansy yelled.

"Okay, okay but before that, little Rose you should get a NEWT level history book and have a good read, then you'll understand these couples got married because of a stupid arrange marriage law and not because they fell in love with each other." He quickly added pointing his sister and her friends.

"OUT OUT OUT BEFORE I HEX YOU!" Pansy barked drawing her wand.

"When you have done with this discussion or whatever, come to the field for a Quidditch match. Others are there waiting for two of you." He said to Rose and Scorpius then hurried out after dodging his sister's spell.

Scorpius broke uncomfortable silence that spread after the young men left. "Aunt Pansy, Rose and Al didn't purposely skip the history lessons. They did that for Dita and me. We didn't want to continue lessons after the chapter-." He looked at Rose uncomfortably, who wrapped her arms around him and looked at him with a gentle but nervous smile. "A-After the chapter about Professor Dumbledore's death." He completed nervously.

Hermione felt Draco's body stiffen next to her. The Same way Rose did she put her arms around Draco and smiled at him giving assurance.

"That's not a crime Scorpius, Even Ron and I didn't attend most of the history lessons. I think Pans fell asleep most of the time and only person paid attention to Professor Binns was your mother. So no harm was done." Harry tried to sound relaxed and unconcerned.

"Yes, young man. It's just history. No one really pays attention ever and who cares what happened in past? Ron added in unnatural cheerfulness.

"So it's true." Rose muttered. "It's true that you got married because of a law not because of love?" She asked looking sad. She wanted to change the topic from history lessons as she knew Malfoys, especially Draco would feel uncomfortable if they continued and more than that she was dying to know the truth about her parents' marriage.

"Well love, let's put it in this way." Ron said gently. "Yes, we got married because of a law, but we fell in love with each other, and everyone here including myself thinks our marriages are the best thing happened to us. As you told before, I can't even think of staying away from your mother. She is my everything. My heartbeat, my breath and my soul." He looked into his wife's eyes and gently placed a kiss on her forehead. "There is no regret, absolutely none." He smiled at his daughter. "Not only your mother and I, Everyone else here deeply in love with their partners, so you have nothing to worry. All of you are product of love, not a product of some stupid law."

With tear filled eyes Rose rushed passed others and leapt into her father's arms. Ron held both his teary girls tightly and pressed his lips gently to their temples. He loved his boys, Hugo and Edward very much but there was always a very special place in his heart for his girls. That moment Scorpius realised no matter how much Ron tried to show others that he was against their union, he would never stop Rose from following her heart. Knowing the truth, Scorpius felt extremely relieved.

Hermione cleared her throat. "I-I hate to interrupt the loving family moment, but could we, please hurry up and get on with the discussion before someone else decides to barge in. I have a meeting with The Minter in two hours and would like to know the plans of these two before that. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to concentrate. I'm very excited! Another wedding so soon!" She squealed.

"Excuse me, Hermione, they are just engaged. Give them some time. We don't have to plan a wedding right now." Ron muttered with a frown.

"Yes, love. It's not like she is pregnant and we need to hurry up. Let them be engaged for another year. Then we can plan the wedding if they want to continue." Draco said looking at his wife hopefully.

Rose bit his lips nervously and glanced at her mother seeking her protection. Scorpius squirmed uncomfortably and averted his eyes from others.

Ron looked at his daughter carefully, then at his wife. "YOU ARE PREGNANT!" Ron shouted glaring at his daughter who was desperately trying to avoid her father's eyes. "HOW DARE YOU!" He gritted his teeth looking at Scorpius. "You got her pregnant! How dare you!" He yelled at the young man.

"Tell me this is not true." Draco said looking desperate, but Scorpius remained silent. "YOU GOT HER PREGNANT OUT OF WEDLOCK!" He barked. "You are the rightful heir of Malfoy's, and I never expect such an irresponsible behaviour from you! If it was Tisa, I could understand but you, Never!" He started to pace frantically. "Do you know the child who is growing inside her womb is going to be your heir? Knowing all the ancient magic involve in the protection of the rightful heir, you are placing Rose's life and your unborn child's life in danger. How could you do something like that, she is my best friend's daughter?" He pulled his hair gritting his teeth violently.

"BLOODY HELL! I have totally forgotten about the crazy barbaric magic involved in Malfoy marriages! You are going to kill my baby girl and our grandchild!" Ron screamed at Scorpius, who was desperately looking at his mother for help.

"If you two don't stop yelling I'll put you under the silencing charm to continue this uninterrupted." Pansy said in anger.

"Nothing's going to happen to Rose or the baby. She is already wearing a Malfoy Engagement ring." Hermione assured.

"Of course, any Malfoy engagement ring will accept her because according to old laws, her blood is purer than our Scorpius'. My question is, from where did you get the ring?" Draco asked his son in a very serious tone.

"It's grandmother Narcissa's engagement ring. I didn't steal it father, she gave it to me." Scorpius answered timidly.

"I take it, she knows what's going on between you two?"

"Yes, she was the first one to know." Scorpius replied. "In fact, she was one who encouraged me to date Rose."

"Traitor." Draco hissed in a low voice. "Anyway, with Rose's condition I think they need blood bonding, but I don't know whether it affect the baby."

"You don't have to worry about that, love. Nothing bad will happen. Their blood had already bonded by their child. I read many, many books related to their situation and according to them all three are safe." Hermione replied smiling.

"Well, then do more reading my love and get that blasted blood bonding ritual out from the Malfoy marriage ceremonies. Although back in our time we had married virgins, I highly doubt it in future even the darkest wizard in Knockturn alley would be able to find a virgin in a proper age to obtain heart blood because the new generation is sleeping around even before they come of age." Draco said in disgust.

Pansy turned scarlet with embracement, and Ron glared at Draco while Harry tried to turn his laughter into a cough.

"Watch your mouth in front of children, Draco." Hermione scowled.

Draco continued ignoring his wife's words. "Next important thing is consummation of the marriage within twenty-four hours of the binding. Though we had issues with that part my love, Rose's current condition proves these two won't have a problem with the deadline." Draco shrugged casually.

"DRACO!" Hermione yelled turning red with anger and embracement. Scorpius looked like he wanted to disappear into thin air and Rose tried hard to hide her giggles. "Not in front of children!" She said in a dangerous tone.

"Ouch! Who hexed me!" Draco yelled when a very mild stinging hex hit him. "Did you hex me just now?" he asked Hermione in surprise.

"Yes, actually I did." She said in anger. "Because you didn't watch your mouth."

"B-but-but how come? You can't attack me magically or physically."

"Those days have come to an end, love. I found the way to get rid of ancient charms." She replied triumphantly.

"When did you do that?"

"I was working on that long time ago and gave up when I was halfway through, but when I got to know about Scor and Rose, I started my work again and got rid of them. " She answered proudly.

"So now you and our little Rose can hex your partners whenever you two want? That's absolutely fantastic!" Ron exclaimed.

"Yes, if we wanted to." Hermione shrugged.

"That's domestic violence woman." Draco scrunched his face

"Then don't cross the line." She smiled at him sweetly.

"Wait a second!" Ron shouted realising something. "This means you and Pans knew their engagement and baby news before us." He asked Hermione

"Yes, of course, Ronald. They told us." Pansy answered with a pleasant smile.

"When are you planning to tell us?" Draco asked in irritation.

"Exactly today." Hermione replied with twinkling eyes.

"I assume, Potters knew that before too." Draco said narrowing his eyes.

"No! That can't be!" Ron yelled looking at his best friend who sheepishly smiled at him.

"So everyone else aware of the recent development except myself and Weasley and I believe you have already picked a date for the wedding too." Draco said in slight annoyance.

"Not yet but we thought of having it in a month time before Rose shows off. I can't believe we are going to have another grandchild soon." Hermione squealed in happiness.

"And it's going to be our first grandchild!" Pansy squealed in equal happiness.

Ron and Draco looked at each other helplessly and sighed together. They accepted the truth. With or without their permission, they liked it or not, the union of Scorpius Malfoy and Rose Weasley was unstoppable. The way of the eyes of Hermione and Pansy gleamed in triumph, Ron and Draco understood that no matter what, the wedding was going to happen very soon.

Shaking his head, Ron walked toward the door.

"Ronald where are you going?" Pansy asked in a worry.

"Well, flower, you hide a significant news from me, and you hurt my feelings." He answered

"I-I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, Ron." Pansy looked at him with eyes pleading his understanding.

Ron chose to ignore her pain. "It's done. So I'm going back to my study, and you can plan the wedding without my involvement. Use the money from my bank vault, and I'll walk her down the aisle. Other than that I'm not going to involve in this wedding planning." He said in a cold tone and reached the door then turned around. "Malfoy, do you really want to hang around and plan this thing after all what they did or do you like to join me? I have one of the rear bottle of Bilshen's firewhisky, the newest edition of 'Which Broomstick' and next week's 'Seeker Weekly' are waiting for us."

Being Ronald Weasley, he had the privilege of getting all the sports magazines and catalogues before they were available to the public and he knew a wizard in any age would give up anything to read them before anyone else, and Draco Malfoy was not any different. Draco looked at Ron successfully hiding his eagerness and walked to the door.

"Draco!" Hermione said in disbelieve. "Are you going to team up with him now?"

"Sorry love, Weasley is right. You all plan this behind our backs so you can do the rest without our help." Draco said pretending to be angry with his wife

Harry looked at everybody in the room and got up from his chair then walked towards Ron and Draco without saying a word.

"Where are you going traitor?" Ron huffed.

"Come on Ron, you know it was not my place to tell." Harry threw his arms in the air.

"Alright Potter, you can join us, but as the punishment, you can't go through the magazine or the catalogue before me." Draco sneered devilishly, and Harry groaned in frustration and agreed nodding his head.

Draco looked at Scorpius. "Young man, once you have children, you'll understand that it is going to break the heart of the parent when they found out a child is hiding something very important from them." Then he quickly left the room behind the other two wizards.

Rose looked at the door hurtfully. "Mother." She sobbed hugging Pansy who was looking at the doorway in shock.

"Come on darling." Hermione said gently. " "They are not angry love, they are simply pretending just like the way they are pretending they hate each other. I'm hundred precent sure, they are over the moon by the baby news but acting like hurt and furious because they absolutely hate event planning and using your news as an excuse to get away from the wedding planning."

"Really?" Rose asked looking at her future mother-in-law.

"Of course yes. I know three of them very well since I'm eleven years old." Hermione answered with a huge smile.

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Harry sauntered toward Daphne's herb garden. He took a day off from his work to be at home and relax. Although Ron and Draco didn't end up hexing each other, the incident happened in the Parkinson Manor left him with exhaustion. Harry stood at the entrance of the garden and checked whether his wife was there. A huge smile worked its way across his face when he saw Daphne was not alone. Five-year-old Sophia was having a little tea party with her cousin Ivy while her nine months old baby brother Harry was watching them enthusiastically from his grandmother's protective arms. Harry, who had totally forgotten, they were having grandkids that day, smiled broadly when girls noticed him and ran towards him squealing with delight. He bent down and scooped both of them into his arms and planted kisses on both of them.

"Grandpa! Grandpa, come to our tea party." Sophia invited him happy. "I made cupcakes to eat." She added proudly.

"And I made cookies." Ivy didn't want to be second.

"Then I shouldn't miss it." Harry said looking at both of his dotting granddaughters with fondness.

He slowly carried them towards his wife who was smiling at him in affection and gently put them down and kissed his devoted wife tenderly. Little Harry gave him a gummy smile and eagerly jumped into his hands. He sat next to Daphne and wrapped his free arm around her encouraging her to rest her head on his shoulder. Without a fuss, she accepted his offer and buried her face in his warmth.

"He is dribbling." Harry said nuzzling the little one's hair and making him giggle.

"Yes, I know. His first tooth is going to cut through soon." Daphne replied smiling.

"Ouch! He must be in pain."

"He was, but I applied a numbing paste so he is much better now."

"Grandpa, grandpa have some cupcakes." Sophia came back with a plastic try and offered him. "And you too grandma." She added looking at Daphne.

"Please have my cookies too." Ivy joined her. "Not you Harry, you are too small to eat big children's food.' She said firmly when little Harry tried to grab her tray.

"What is this?" He asked his wife in a very low voice.

"It's called playdoh. Pretend play only; it's not edible." She answered in an equally low voice.

Both of them pretended to eat and praised girls for their cooking. Both girls looked at each other proudly and headed back to bring them some tea.

James Sirius Potter followed his paternal grandfather's footsteps and got married to a Muggleborn witch who was two years of his junior. His children had a lot of exposure to Muggle culture than most of the magical children in their age group. Ivy loved her cousins very much but never wanted to be second to them. She used her privilege as Hermione and Draco's first grandchild to get things she needed from others. Apart from Hermione and Draco, Ivy always received beautiful Muggle toys from her Muggle great grandparents and Magical toys from Narcissa and Lucius, which she always loved to share with her cousins.

Albus and Perdita were expecting their second child, and Dita was experiencing severe morning sickness so Hermione had divided her free time between her pregnant daughters and helping them as much as she can. Once a month Ivy spent a weekend at Malfoy Manor with her grandparent and Harry and Daphne had her on the following weekend. Not only her, but Potters also had their other grandchildren on the same weekend to give both young couples some childfree time.

"I can't believe Pansy didn't know you helped Hector." Daphne said.

"Well, he asked me not tell anyone." Harry mumbled. Before proposing to Amelia Dursley, Hector Jr visited Harry at work and informed him he was going to ask Amelia's hand from Dudley. Harry wished him good luck and promised to be there if he needed any help.

"Ron looked like he knew it too." Daphne knitted his brows in suspicion.

"Yes, he did. But kept his promise and didn't tell Pansy. Most probably because he knew she would be upset."

"Do you think you can help him?"

"Yes love, Hector is just like our old Slughorn. He loves to connect with famous people. So I think Amelia being Susan's and my cousin's daughter is good enough for him to accept her as the daughter-in-law." He shrugged. "Plus he is nearly ninety years old, and he won't go and check every marriage ritual by himself. They can hold their hand during the binding. I heard it is effective as joining the wands." He replied then shut his eyes and sighed. Every time he was talking about someone else's wedding, his only unmarried daughter coming into his mind. Just thinking of her wedding gave him severe headaches.

"Harry." Daphne gently touched his face. "Is something bothering you?" She asked softly.

Harry sighed again. "Where's Lily?" He asked trying to sound normal as possible. Daphne cleared her throat uncomfortably.

Harry let another sigh after his wife's reaction. "Malfoy will have a cardiac arrest." He mumbled.

"Why? What's wrong with our Lily?" Daphne demanded narrowing her eyes.

"Nothing." Harry simply replied. "That man loves his children, Daphne. I know it would break his heart if his fourth child also follows the other three and joining a family of his archenemies."

"You are not his archenemy, Harry. It's just a silly school rivalry. Two of you are not children anymore, and both of you have grown up to look past that." Daphne said firmly.

One day, Daphne took Hermione to Black family library at Grimmauld Place, as she wanted to find a book on old marriage rituals. They never expected to see anyone else there and froze at the entrance of the Library in embarrassment. Lily Potter was there with a young wizard. She was sitting on his lap with her arms around his neck and fingers hungrily running through his blond hair. His one hand was around her waist holding her firmly, and other was at the back of her head, fingers combing through her curls. They were heavily snogging and didn't notice the presence of their mothers at all. Daphne felt her heart stopped beating when she realised Hermione saw the young couple over her shoulders. She stood mortified without knowing what to do. She didn't know what was worst, catching her only daughter steamily making out with a young man when she had a friend with her, or the friend happened to be the young man's mother who was standing a couple of feet behind her and watching the same scene along with her. Daphne couldn't look at Hermione and awkwardly focused her eyes on a nearby book shelf. When she felt Hermione's hand gently on her shoulder, she turned and glanced at her worriedly. Hermione smiled at her timidly and gestured her nearest fire place outside the library. They flooed back to Potter Manor in a hurry without saying a word. Both of them purposely avoid the topic and never discussed it again, but Daphne told Harry what was going on with Lily and Sagittarius, and he almost fell off his chair with surprise.

"Don't lose your sleep over that matter yet, Harry. Their relationship might not work. They might break up." Daphne said calmly. "We'll worry about them in future if we really had to."

Harry sighed. 'I think you are right love, it's out of our hands anyway." He gave her a weak smile. "I think this little man is ready for his nap." He added looking at his grandson who was drowsily sucking his little thumb.

"Give him to me. I'll go and tuck him in."

"No, we'll ask Didi to do that."

"Harry, you know I never send my children to bed with an elf. I always tuck them in, bid them good night and kissed them." She said knitting her brows. "I always said I love them even if they were sleeping. I want to do same for my grandchildren."

"I know you are a wonderful mother and a grandma." He placed a soft kiss on her lips. "I'm very comfortable and relaxed when you are in my arms and hate to be away from your even if it for a little time. " He confessed.

Daphne giggled. "Then I have a solution." She transfigured a bench near them into a cradle and her handkerchief into a warm blanket. Then she tucked the baby in and placed a soft kiss on his forehead then returned to Harry's warm arms.

"So, now what's bothering you?" She asked after carefully watching his facial expressions.

"Nothing, nothing at all. Just thinking how lucky I am to have a wife like you." He said emotionally. "I know life with me is not easy for you. I'm always busy with my work at The Ministry and the other social work that people expect my attendance and participation. I'm hardly at home, but you never complain. Daph, you are an amazing wife." He pressed his lips to her temples. "..And you are also an excellent mother and a grandmother. You looked after my children very well. I-I feel like I didn't involve in bringing them up in the way a good hand on dad should do." He added sadly.

Daphne quickly pressed her finger on to his lips. "Shhh love, don't ever say something like that, please don't blame yourself. Being a father, The Head Auror and the 'Chosen One' is not easy, but you did and still doing really well. You never sacrifice the family time for anything. Your other responsibilities may have kept you away from children's bed time routine, but you indeed worked hard to balance your work and family time. Don't worry, you spent quality time with our kids when they were small and you were a hands on father, Harry. Our children love you, especially Lily and they are very proud of you. It's not because you are 'The Chosen one' but because they appreciate the way you work hard to help others and improve their lives."

"You know what Daphne, no matter how hard and stressful the day was the best part of the day is coming home to you." He said looking at Daphne affectionately. 'No one needs a calming draught if they had a wife like you, darling.

She glanced at him through her happy tears. "You know what Harry, I love you more than anything, and I can't imagine my life without you."

"I can't imagine my life without you too. You gave a meaning to my lost soul, and you know, it's your love that keeping me alive today."

"Before you, I didn't know anything about love. You are the one who taught me what real love is. I'm glad and very lucky to have a husband like you." She wiped her tears and buried her face deep in his chest

Harry rested his cheek on her head. "I was sceptical when I first got to know I had paired with you, but today I'm very glad that happened. Who thought that a person could find true love after getting married to a total stranger?"

"I didn't. I was sceptical too, but paring with you is the best thing that happened to me."

Harry didn't attempt to reply her. He simply buried his face in her sweet, fragrant hair and inhaled the scent deeply. Both of them closed their eyes and drowned in each other's warmth. Harry only opened his eyes when he heard girls' happy squeals again. Lily was already sitting with them at their small table, and Harry was surprised that he didn't even notice the arrival of his daughter. A gentle smile lit up his face when he realised all three were looking at the entrance of the garden and waving madly at James and Albus. Both his sons knelt down with huge grins and scooped their girls into their protective arms when little ones ran towards them squealing madly.

His family, his beloved family. Harry thought happily. He never thought a stupid little law that they tried hard to get rid of would bring his life peace and happiness. Today he was deeply grateful and indebted to the same law for making his life complete with a loving, caring and understanding wife, three beautiful children, two wonderful daughters-in-law and three adorable grandkids. He knew in future more people would add to his beautiful family. Harry's smile broadened and lit up his whole face when he saw his children and granddaughters started to stroll towards him and Daphne with equally beaming faces. Yes, indeed the law made him the happiest man on earth ever. He sighed in a great relief and relaxed comfortably against his wife's warm body.

THE END

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