It's me, the author. I talked to Jo Rowling and she wouldn't sell me Harry Potter so I still don't own! Oh well.

The Malfoys were sitting at a small table watching the festivities and mourners. It was the end of Voldemort's reign, and Narcissa Malfoy was glad.

Yes, glad. She was sick of the pretense she had been having to put up while surrounded by Death eaters, She was sick of worrying about her husband and child constantly, and as she looked at the dead lying silent on the floor, something moved her heart. After a moment she realized it was grief.

Draco felt lost. What side were they on? If killing and torturing muggles was supposed to be right, then why did he feel so awful every time he cast an Unforgivable Curse?

They sat for quite awhile. Many people went off to sleep in one of the rooms prepared by the staff. no one took any notice of the Malfoys. Then after the hall was empty, exept for them and the dead, Narcissa got up and stole across the hall. Her husband and son followed silently. She knelt down beside her dead neice and began to weep.

"Narcissa?" Lucius looked shocked. "Are you all right?"

She looked up at him in tear-stained disbelief. "Am I all right? Of course I am! For the first time in my life I am thinking clearly. I am alive, and Dora.. my niece.. is not. So excuse me for having the right to cry! To feel pain! Because if there is one thing I have learned in this war-"

"Darling-"

"Don't you darling me! Do you not understand? He is gone, Lucius. V-Vold-d..." she took a deep breath. "Vold-dem-m-ort," she ignored her son and husband's gasps. "is gone. for good. And we chose the wrong side. Even if the Death Eaters had won, we would have been on the wrong side. These people, they gave thier lives to stop him, and if they were alive they would do it again, I'm sure. And what did we do? Nothing. I think I've known for a long time what side was right. And I was too cowardly to step up. Our neice is dead, and it's partly our fault. Maybe, if had been fighting on this side, we would have been able to save her, and any number of others."

"But-"

"I don't expect you to understand. Not right away. But could you just listen to me." she pleaded with him. "These people were witches and wizards just like us. They were talented, full of hopes and dreams. And we helped take them away."

"I know. I knew just as you knew, before." sighed Lucius. "I was full of cowardice. I thought we were right, and then, when I was in Azkaban... I cannot pretend to understand, but I will try.

"Thank you," Narcissa turned, pulled a ruby brooch off her robes, and pinned it to Dora's robes. "It was supposed to be Andy's, as the second daughter, but when she married Ted.. well.. It just seems fitting."

"Get away from her!" cried an angry voice.

The Malfoys turned to see Andromeda running towards the three of them, her face contorted in anger.

"Andy, I can explain. I-"

Narcissa shrieked as a curse shot past the side of her head. She pulled out Lucius' wand, but this only seemed to make Andromeda angrier. She didn't wan't to hex her own sister. She hesitated, and inthat instant, Andy hit her in the chest with a Reductor curse. She lay there, dazed, and Andy strode over to her. she pointed her wand between Narcissa's eyes. Instinctively, Narcissa reached out and yanked her wand out of her hand, Then jumped up.

"Please, Andy, you have to listen to-"

WHAM.

Andromeda punched her in the jaw with all the force she could muster.

...a few minutes earlier...

The remaining Weasleys, Andromeda, McGonagall, and the Golden Trio were siting in an old classroom.

"Look, Professor, I don't mean to be disrespectful to what has happened here, but i'd really just like to sleep right now." said Harry.

"It is understandable, of course. I'm sure that the past two days have very trying for you, but the Death Eaters that escaped need to be rounded up, and quickly. This meeting is sorely needed."

Andromeda stood up. "I'm going to tell Dora and Remus." Everyone else in the room looked at her like she was crazy.

"Um, andromeda, dear? Are you all right?" said Molly

"You know that they're dead, right?" said Ron loudly. Hermoine kicked him. "Ow!"

"They can understand me. I know it." Andromeda said softly.

"How can they understand-"said Ron. But Ginny cut him off. "...? Are you okay? Do you need anything?"

Andromeda just stared at her as if she was a strange animal, then hurried out of the room.

They akwardly resumed thier meeting, but before they could get anywhere important they heard a scream, looked at each other, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione jumped up with Mrs. Weasley, George, Ginny, and Charlie hurrying after them.

(a/n : ...where were we? oh, yeah, narcissa just got punched, okay moving on.)

Narcissa fell to the ground, and Andromeda was on top of her, kicking and punching and screaming.

"YOU BITCH!"

"ANDY!"

"YOU-TOLD-THEM-AND-DIDN'T CARE, DID YOU? YOU WANTED HER TO DIE! DEATH-EATER-SCUM."

"Andy...please" Narcissa said thickly.

Andromeda continued to hit her, but she didn't fight back. Lucius couldn't take it, and tried to pull her off forcely, but could'nt.

"OY!"

Lucius looked up.

Harry was running towards him.

"You get you hands off her!" he yelled, drawing his wand. "I won't let you hurt her!"

"I'm not going to hurt her! I don't have a wand! I was trying to pull her away from my wife!"

"What?" Harry said, aghast. "Hey! Andromeda, get off her! Ron, help me!"

Ron, George, and Charlie hurried forward and began trying to pull her off.

"Ginny!" Harry called."Calm her down!"

(a/n: sorry about the excessive use of exclamation points.)

With a lot of effort, they managed to pull her off and calm her down. She looked round at all of them, beseeching.

"I-I saw her near Nymphadora and I just panicked. She's one of them, after all. And- and they- the Death Eaters- killed Dora"

"But not me." Narcissa spoke, and her voice was croaklike.

They all turned, shocked. "Um, what?" said Charlie.

" I didn't kill her. Not me. I wasn't even in the battle. And I won't fight you, Andy." she turned to her sister. "You can kick me and punch me for any of the things I have done wrong, but I won't fight back. Not against my sister."

"What? She's your sister?" cried everyone except Harry.

(a/n: e.g. Ginny, George, Charlie, Ron, Hermoine, and Molly)

"Yes." said Andromeda "My maiden name is Black, and so is hers."

"Oh." said Hermione.

Draco cleared his throat. They all looked at him. He looked nervous.

"Well, this is a bit off for.. right now, but..."

He paused, his pale cheeks unusually pink, and mumbled something under his breath.

"What?" asked Harry, irritated.

"Thank you." said Draco.

They looked dumbfounded. "Did you just... thank him?" asked Ron incredulously.

"The question is why?" asked Charlie.

"He saved my life."

They looked more dumbfounded. "You saved his life?" asked Ginny.

"Um..yeah, why?" asked Harry nervously.

"That was my question, why." said Ron.

"Ronald!" snapped Hermione.

"Because he's a good person." said again, surprisingly, Draco. "And.. thank you for saving me. Twice. so, yeah.."

"That's okay." said Harry. "It makes up for last year.. yeah."

He stepped awkwardly from one foot to the other. "Um.. I should take my mum to the hospital wing."

The two male Malfoys carried Narcissa up to the hospital wing. Everyone else stood there in silence.

"Well this has been an interesting night." said George.