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she said as she watched the children scatter away from them, save for Pandora, who was
back at a small table in the corner with glitter and glue already all over her hands. Mia kissed
Sirius and smiled. "Morning, love. Did you deal with them?"
Sirius nodded. "Absolutely. Properly scolded. Rotten boys. Where are all the bloody
adults around here?" he asked when he heard Hope and Lily giggling down the hallway.
"Ginny will be here for lunch. Harry said there was a dispute at the Burrow during
a friendly family game of Quidditch, and she stuck around to make sure Ronald knew his
place," Mia said with a chuckle. "Remus and Tonks went over to Shell Cottage to help Bill
with something."
"Shell Cottage?" Teddy rushed back around the corner, looking eager and red-faced.
"Can I go?"
Mia rolled her eyes. "Straight there?"
"Yeah. Thanks, Aunt Mia!" He grinned and rushed to the fireplace, abandoning
Regulus and Jamie.
From her little table, Pandora hissed, "I hate Victoire."
Mia quirked her lips at Sirius and folded her arms across her chest.
"Ask your daughter what she's been making this morning."
Sirius cringed. Specifying which children belonged to whom like that always meant
trouble. Regulus was his son when he broke things or letters were sent home from
Hogwarts. Carina was Mia's daughter when she convinced the boys to do something
horrible. Pandora usually could go either way.
He knelt down next to his youngest and smiled at the pile of glitter and glue. "Got
something to show me, teeny, tiny kitten?"
Pandora grinned proudly and pulled out a piece of cardboard that had been broken
and glued back together, looking like two misshapen funnels hooked together by the
narrow ends, then filled with glitter. "Look, Daddy. It's a Time-Turner."
"That it is. And a beautiful Time-Turner," he said with wide eyes, smiling at her and
trying to avoid Mia's stare.
"Ask her why she's making a Time-Turner," his wife insisted.
"Pandora?"
"So I can flip it like this," Pandora said, turning the creation upside-down and
sending glitter all over the table and floor. "And then I'll go back in time and, before Teddy