Fire burnished golden ties

Title: Fire burnished golden ties

Summary: Dean and Pavarti finalise their marriage with the final rites of a Hindu marriage due to Pavarti's family being Hindu. Due to the closeness of Pavarti and Padma as well as their mutual pregnancies and the family's superstition against having twins married separately they are going share the house Dean inherited from his deceased wizard father Caradoc Dearborn.

A/N: Star-crossed Lovers or not series [Snake and Eagle, I did not sleep with that wizard! and Rise of the Cannonites compatible. I could have skipped this but I found Hindu marriage quite interesting and I had to write it. The title comes from the Hindu belief that married couples are tied together as partners by invisible golden ties.

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Dean is made godfather

August 5, 1996

Colm is born

 

Dean and Neville were in the study at Deerfield where Lady Augusta was tutoring them in their respective estates when an O’Shanesey elf arrived.

Lady Augusta raised an eyebrow, “What?”

“Lord Killian said that Master Colin be taken into surgery. Little master be born soon.”

Augusta sniffed, “Very well, you are dismissed. I expect you to return right after you are introduced to the babe.”

Neville and Dean nodded before heading for the nearest floo.

Dean did send a Dearborn elf to inform Pavarti, he was married now and he didn’t want her to think that he didn’t care enough to keep her from worrying when he left the house.

They arrived quickly and exited the floo in Andromeda’s office where they headed down to the delivery suites.

Killian, Lady Berdina, Gideon, Septimus, Arthur and Lady Cedrella were already there with Dennis.

Colin’s elder brothers didn’t take long to arrive either, with Harry and Draco arriving about the same time.

It didn’t take long comparatively for Seamus to exit the delivery room in a daze with a green-wrapped bundle in his arms.

“I’m a Da!” Seamus said in awe as he entered the corridor.

Before the rest of them could get a good look at Colm, an authoritative but unfamiliar to Dean anyway, voice spoke.

“I want to see the newest Prewett child...”

Dean didn’t recognise the voice but Neville did, it belonged to Draco’s great-grandmother Dowager Lady Muriel Malfoy, formerly of the House of Prewett.

They all parted to let Muriel through and waited with forced patience for the witch to examine Colm only to have her express surprise that it wasn’t a redhead despite being half Irish.

After all of Draco’s past taunts regarding redheads, to learn that his great-grandfather had considered Muriel’s former redhair to be her best feature was a surprise.

Muriel stalked off as imperiously as she had arrived and everyone was glad to see her go, even Lady Cedrella...

After that everyone got a proper look at Colm and they were surprised that Seamus’ son’s drying hair was starting to curl a bit.

Seamus of course formally asked Dean and Harry to be Colm’s godparents on his and Colin’s behalf before Dean and Neville reluctantly had to return to the Hall to resume their lessons.

At least Neville didn’t have to suffer alone even if he were practically heir to two titled pureblood Estates.

If Luna hadn’t insisted that Lysander be a Lovegood-Longbottom, then the boy may have ended up essentially a Pettigrew. He still could be but despite it being Lady Augusta’s former House due to Petrus Pettigrew being stripped of his Order of Merlin and outed as the true betrayer of the Potters, Dean knew that Neville had no desire to give that surname to any child of his. Especially given his friendship with Harry...

Dean wouldn’t either if he were in Neville’s place, but thankfully he only had to wrangle the Dearborn Estate.

Given that he had a daughter on the way and since Dani didn’t seem to be magical unlike Dana, his step dad David had offered to watch Parisa while they were in classes if he would agree to help him find a good Muggle school to send Dani.

Dean would make sure that Dani always went to the best schools, but for now she could stay home with her dad because she wasn’t quite old enough to go to junior school and Dean really wasn’t in the mood to send her to a parochial school.

Dean would have hated to leave Parisa with an elf whenever they in classes and thanks to David, he wouldn’t have to.

Given his step dad’s classes at University in business and accounting, Dean planned to have David help him look after the Dearborn Estate’s finances. In exchange, Dean would arrange for Dana to have a good inheritance in case Mark did propose in the future.

For now, Dean just had to figure out what was what to explain to David...

 

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What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?