Two Weeks Later…

"Well, Mr. Weasley has escaped and Miss Granger has gone into stress induced labor." Poppy sighed, "The baby will be here in a few short hours… I don't know if Miss Granger will live through this though."

Severus looked at Poppy, "Miss Granger has given up living. I do not doubt that she will die."

"Why would she give up?"

"The dying know things we do not, they realize what the living should not know so they die. Its an unwritten, but fairly well known, law, and is almost always true." Severus replied, sounding bored, "Harry knows a lot more than he realizes or we think."

"I fear that you may be right in that." Poppy said sadly, "But then he is the one to follow."

"That and he is shrouded, cloaked, in death itself. It kills others around him but cannot kill him." Severus sighed.

"Your theory?"

"No. There is no simple or understandable reason for the future that has been dealt to him. Only that it hurts him to, in turn, help him. It has saved him a couple of times and I believe that it will save him in the end."

"You may not be a wise man or prophet, by name, however your wisdom, what little I understand, helps." Poppy returned to Hermione, Hermione's screams ceased when the door closed.

"We have a solution." Draco proclaimed proudly.

"And what for?" Severus asked, curious.

"As to what is happening to Hermione, if she dies. Remus and Sirius can have the child. They cannot conceive one, and they've been trying so hard." Harry said excitedly (though he was sure his godfather didn't mind as they kept trying, an excuse for a shag), "Its only right."

"For someone who is about to lose a person who was their best friend for almost six years, you seem quite chipper. But, besides that, it seems like a good idea." Severus replied.

"And it could look like Remus a bit, maybe." Draco mused, "Or it could be hideously ugly."

"That latter is more likely, with the parents genetics." Harry replied.

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"How is the baby?" Harry asked Poppy when she came out of the room again, five hours later.

"Alive, and there's a mild surprise. Miss Granger told me that she had an affair with a boy in Hogsmeade, but she didn't know who it was." Poppy said quietly, "Miss Granger has passed away. I will prepare her for her return to Hogwarts. Come see the baby."

The three were led into a room right off of Hermione's; the curtains were pulled around her bed. Harry almost felt sad but shoved it violently from himself, and entered the nursery.

In a baby blue basinet laid a little human with black hair and skin with a healthy little tan.

"He has his mother's hazel eyes." Poppy informed them, "He's perfectly healthy."

"We can definitely work with that… he? It's a boy?" Harry asked excitedly.

"So who's names should I write for the birth parents?" Poppy asked.

"Sirius Black and Remus Lupin." Draco answered before going back to cooing at the small baby.

"They can decide his name later." Harry smiled, picking up the small infant, "Come on, lets go meet your daddy's. By the way, no one is to say a word to him as to who his real parents are."

"Right. Wouldn't want to anyway." Draco replied and they walked from the upper guest bedroom and past the apparation point. They arrived in Hogsmeade.

"Come on, we can't keep him outside too long." Harry said and noticed Poppy following.

"I ought to kill you for doing that with a child!" she shrieked.

"Come on." Draco led his husband up to Hogwarts and to Sirius' and Remus' chambers. They knocked and the door swung open.

"Harry how – what is that?" Sirius asked, looking at the bundle in his godson's arms.

"I'll explain inside." Harry smiled and stepped inside, Draco and Poppy followed him in. Remus looked up from his book.

"What is that?" Remus asked, eyeing the bundle in Harry's arms.

"It's a baby, really, now, I thought the two of you would at least know that." Draco remarked.

"This is your newborn baby boy." Harry said, handing the baby to Remus gently, ignoring his husbands remark, "Hermione died in childbirth, and apparently had an affair. He looks a lot like the two of you so… we're giving him to you. You're his parents on his certificate, but he needs a name though."

"Oriel Rulgh Black." Remus said, "We decided on that name a long time ago."

"Done." Poppy said and signed the certificate before handing it to Sirius, "Birth date: June 13th. Congratulations. By the way Remus is the one I put down for the birth giver. Get over it."

"He bottoms anyway." Sirius smiled causing the nurses face to turn red in the cheeks.