end. When Mia gasped at the Black family crest engraved on it, Draco flipped the pendant
to show the Potter family crest on the opposite side. When touched, the chain and pendant
turned from silver to gold.
"It's beautiful, Draco, thank you." She pulled her hair to one side of her neck as the
Slytherin slipped the necklace around her. As he clasped it, she looked at Ron with a grin.
"Are you old, then?"
"I uh... didn't know what to give you, really, but Mum found this," he said, pulling
a long, red ribbon from his pockets. At the end of it was a simply stitched letter "G". Mia's
breath caught in her throat at the sight of it. "When we went on the hunt, you left behind
a bunch of books at the Burrow. Mum found this in one of them. I told her I remembered
you used to use it as a bookmark way back in―"
"First year," Mia whispered as she reached out to touch it. "This... It belonged to
my mum. My Muggle mother. She gave me about twenty of them when I went off to
Hogwarts. Said that I'd be reading so many books I would need to keep track. I thought
I'd lost them all over the years," she admitted, pulling Ron into a tight hug. "Thank you."
Sirius watched as Harry, Draco, and Ron made their way across the grounds to join
the circle beneath the orchards. He smiled at them all, glad when they jumped right into
place rather than dawdled.
Ron made his way to Daphne's side with a smile, cagily avoiding Hyperion's gaze as
he stood beside his daughter with Laurel on his arm. Astoria, standing next to her mother,
smiled sweetly as Draco approached to kiss her cheeks in greeting before doing the same
to his mother as he stepped between them.
Andromeda and Tonks were next to Narcissa, both witches were being entertained
as Luna explained to Theo Nott how she would like to follow in her mother's family
tradition by wedding in the nude. The Slytherin did not even bat an eye at the suggestion
of his future bride, though he did manage to contain his grin to something somewhat
appropriate. Next to Luna, Neville and Hannah were discussing their own future, both
quite adamant about the idea of getting married while fully clothed, which seemed to please