The Gift From Death

Chapter 14: First year Part 6

6th, August, Friday, 1998...

The next morning at 9am, once everyone had had breakfast and were seated around the living room waiting on Minerva, Bill and Fleur had arrived a few minutes earlier, a large eagle owl swooped in through the window and landed on Cissy's knee holding out its leg which had a letter attached to it.

"Hmm... I wonder what that is. I wasn't expecting any mail." she explained while untying the letter. She eventually got it off and the owl went back out the window. She cautiously opened the envelope and pulled out two letter's, one for her and the other addressed to Draco who took the letter for him. They both started to read them in silence.

Once they finished they looked up.

"That's my divorce to Lucius been finalised. I am a Black again not a Malfoy." Cissy said happily while Andy hugged her.

"And this is the finalization on my name as well." Draco added. "I am now Draco Regulus Black." he announced prompting Andy and Cissy to hug him.

"Wooohooo." Sirius cheered happily. "You hear that Reg? Were not the last males with the second name Black anymore!"

"I'd noticed." Regulus said laughing at his big brothers actions. "Congratulations Draco." he added to his little cousin who nodded at him.

Just then Minerva came through the Floo, "Good morning everyone." she greeted, "What have I missed."

"Both Draco's and my own name's have been changed to Black as of today, we got the finalization letters about two minutes ago." Cissy said.

"Congratulations." Minerva said to both of them, they nodded.

"Alright everyone we will continue the memories from the morning after we found Fluffy." Harry said, once everyone was seated he put a few strands of memory in the Pensive.

Malfoy couldn't believe his eyes when he saw that Harry and Ron were still at Hogwarts next day,

"Shocking isn't it?" Sirius asked.

"Oh yes, stunning. Never would have thought." said James. Draco rolled his eyes.

looking tired but perfectly cheerful. Indeed, by next morning Harry and Ron thought that meeting the three-headed dog had been an excellent adventure and they were quite keen to have another one

Lily muttered something to Dora that sounded to most of the room like, "Just like his father!" making some of them chuckle and James glare at his wife.

In the meantime, Harry filled Ron in about the package that seemed to have been moved from Gringotts to Hogwarts, and they spent a lot of time wondering what could possibly need such heavy protection.

"It's either really valuable or really dangerous," said Ron.

"Or both." said James.

"Or both," said Harry.

"Harry agrees!" James cheered as Harry grinned at his father.

But as all they knew for sure about the mysterious object was that it was about two inches long, they didn't have much chance of guessing what it was without further clues.