Dreamtales

Chapter nine: Of funerals and wedding plans

It was a magnificent funeral. Dumbledore had really done his best. Blaise's parents where both Ministry officials and thus the Ministry had helped arrange the funeral. The Slytherins were all invited, and a few of their fiancé's. So Parvati and Zacharias had joined the Slytherins as well as a few others.

It seemed the Zabini's were quite respectable people. And almost everybody mourned about their deaths. Adam Zabini had been in Slytherin, Regina in Ravenclaw and Danielle would have started at Hogwarts the next year.

Blaise made a wonderful speech about them at the funeral. Even I who hadn't known them, thought I knew them by the end of it and I cried. Maybe it's because they would have been my parents-in-law... maybe because I just didn't like anyone to go through that fate.

I was sorry for them that they couldn't see their son and brother get married, or him becoming a father. They were so proud of him. I knew they wanted to see that... They had written me a letter as soon as Blaise had informed them of my possible pregnancy. That was on the same day they died, the day Blaise proposed to me. Now they were watching, watching us from the heavens above.

Dumbledore would marry all the couples. Parvati wasn't happy with having to marry Crabbe, nor was I happy having him as a brother-in-law. But there was nothing I could do to change it. I on the other hand was happy about getting Blaise as a husband. How was that for interhouse unity: a Gryffindor, a Ravenclaw and a Hufflepuff all marrying a Slytherin.

Still I thanked Merlin that I didn't show yet, I thanked Merlin that I heard Trelawney's prophecy. I knew that I would be in danger as soon as the Death Eaters would find out that I was pregnant. But still they wouldn't know whether it was a boy or a girl I was carrying. I decided that I wanted it to be a surprise, have my life in less danger until the baby was born. Or babies off course.

It was ironic that we had chosen the day after the funeral to go to Diagon Alley to buy my wedding dress. It was a good thing that Blaise was already off age, and I almost. It would have been a disaster otherwise. Blimpy could take care of a lot and back at the Zabini Manor Blaise had ordered the House-Elves to keep the place clean; that was one bit of good fortune. We would spend our honeymoon there.
It would be the first real vacation I would spend without my twin sister. The first vacation Blaise would spend without his family. I still had to comfort him. But I didn't care. In our own little room at Hogwarts he could do everything he pleased, even cry if feelings overwhelmed him. He knew he could always count on me. I loved him and I would stand by his side.