Chapter 484 - Black Family Reunion Ⅳ (2/2)
Without further ado, Walburga and Orion sit at the head of the table as Lucretia and Ignatius Prewett sat next to their niece via marriage, Molly Weasley. Molly holds the still two-year old squirming little red head boy in her arms. Humming to Charlie, she smooths the two-year-old, who babbles at the two-year-old Dora sitting across from him, who excitedly babbles back.
The room is filled with happy squeals as Arthur Weasley firmly keeps his four-year old, Bill on his lap. Thankfully, Bill is much calmer than his younger brother. Bill softly whispers to dad as he stares around the table. ”They are our family too?”
”Yes, son,” Arthur admitted. ”They are your grandma's family and ours too.”
Septimius sitting at his son's sighs and sniffs as his eldest, Bilius flashes his father a cheerful grin. Ronell merely sighs and mutters under his breath, ”As usual, I'll be stuck making the apologies.”
Before conversations could ensue, delicious food began to appear on the table. Some of it is the usual, but more than half of the food is from new recipes. The elder Black's like Arcturus and Pollux suspiciously eye the new food and gingerly serve themselves a tiny spoonful. To their delight, the food was most excellent and literally made their taste buds dance in delight.
Quickly the dining hall is filled with chatter and the sound of clinking silverware. Thankfully, Charlie is rather happy as Molly feeds her two-year-old tiny bites. In between, Molly does her best to eat until at last Aunt Lucretia takes Charlie away from her. With a grateful smile, Molly happily finishes eating the delicious food making a note to look up said recipes for the meal to later try out herself in her the privacy of her own home.
Once dinner is over the men and youths retire to the study, while the women and children sit in the drawing room though Arthur had taken Bill with him. The women politely chatter over safe subjects like the children. With ill-hidden smiles on their faces, they watch Charlie and Dora babble and play with each other. Charlie especially squeals in delight when he sees Dora turn her hair red to match his. Thinking he had gotten a new sibling; Charlie happily hugs the little girl and clumsily pets her hair.
Keeping one eye on the children, Cassiopeia is the first one to ask the question on everyone one's mind. ”Well, Narcissa are you with child yet?”
Dorea flashes her older sister a chiding look as Cassiopeia easily shrugs it off. She was a spinster. Who else was she supposed to live vicariously through?
Narcissa's lovely face flushes with embarrassment as she says, ”Yes, three months now, I've only just begun to show.” She gently pats her barely rounding stomach. ”But the magic conception spell tells me it will be a girl.”
The Black women gasp in delight and nod in satisfaction. Druella consoles her daughter by saying, ”No matter, it proves that you can bear children. You are still young and have plenty of time to have a son. And the Malfoy's have not had a daughter in centuries. I'm sure that Lucius will be delighted.”
Narcissa bashfully smiles at them as Andromeda beams at her younger sister. ”Have you thought of any names yet?”
”I was thinking of Venus or Cassandra,” Narcissa admitted.
”Venus will only ensure that she ends up as a whore,” Cassiopeia muttered. ”Cassandra is much better.”
”Really, Cassiopeia, hold your tongue!” Dorea said in exasperation.
Cassiopeia sniffs resembling Sirius far too much. But then again, they were related. ”I didn't say anything that isn't true,” Cassiopeia arrogantly huffed not feeling the least bit bad about her rude remark.
Dorea merely sighs in frustration as Molly clears her throat and says, ”But Cassandra is not exactly a cheerful name either. We all can recall the Greek tales and know the seer's tragic ending. Perhaps, something like Titania or Aurora would be for the best.”
The room is sober for a moment as Druella pats her youngest daughter's hand. ”We still have plenty of time to go over other names. And I do rather like the name Aurora.”
Narcissa is a bit in shock clearly not having expected the vehement protest to the name choosing. But she didn't disagree either after thinking about the names really. ”Aurora,” Narcissa privately thought to herself. ”It was not bad sounding at all.”
Glancing over at Molly, Narcissa nods her thanks. The red head women after all was originally a Prewett. There would be nothing wrong with becoming further friends with her.
The topics quickly diverge again as they discuss plans and ongoing at present in the wizarding world. By the end of the evening the women are on much better terms now. But interesting enough, Molly and Andromeda had bonded rather well. As a result, by default Narcissa would become rather close to Molly given that she already had a better impression of her. Much to the utter horror of Lucius, who found that he got on with a WEASLEY. But that is a story for another time.