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"I'd love to! I always wondered what happened to that necklace." Aidan said, happy that Tom was accepting him as his son fully. "Now about that gift for Draco..."

Tom opened his drawer and pulled out-

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Tom opened his drawer and pulled out a small black box.

"What's in the box?" Lucius questioned, already having a small idea of the mystery inside it. Or more correctly, the jewelry inside it.

Harry cleared his throat and held his hand out for the box, since he couldn't grab it. When Tom handed him the box, he slowly moved towards his betrothed's father. He kept a lookout for any objects that he might have missed, his familiars helping a lot with this task.

When he reached where Lucius was sitting he cleared his throat again and began speaking.

"I now I've only been betrothed to Draco for a little time now, but I want to make sure that everyone in the world knows about it. So I am asking for your permission to ask for Draco's hand in marriage?" Harry was slightly shaking as he opened the box and gave it to Lucius for his approval.

Lucius gasped as he took a good look at the ring Harry was going to use.

It was a Hungarian Horntail in rose gold with a fiery gold flame that wrapped around two sparkling gems; a glistening sapphire and a blazing emerald. It was majestically beautiful. It completely symbolized Draco, the dragon was strong, like he had had to be for years in Slytherin, and delicate to show his actual personality and how he was with those he loved.

"How did you find this?" Lucius asked breathless.

Harry blushed and looked down as he answered, "I knew what I wanted in a ring for Draco so I had Father ask the goblins to search for a ring like this. The closest I got was a rose gold snake, but that didn't perfectly symbolize my Dragon. So instead I had father write down everything that I wanted for Dragon's ring and commissioned the goblins to melt down the rose gold ring and make this one. I added the stones to remind him that our love would burn brighter and hotter than even dragon flame."

Even Tom was shocked at the thought that Harry had put behind the creating of the ring.

"You have my permission to ask for his hand. I would say that I wish you luck, but I know that you will not need it Aidan. Welcome to our family." Lucius finished with a smile.

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The next morning, when breakfast had ended and the Malfoy's, Tom and Aidan, and Severus, plus all of Draco and Aidan's familiars, had adjourned to the sitting room, Harry got up clearing his throat. Draco, who was slightly snuggling into Aidan, looked up with a small pout wondering what he was up to.

After Aidan got everyone's attention, he turned towards Draco and began.

"Draco Lucius Malfoy, I've been fascinated by you since I first saw you in Madam Malkins'. Although I didn't know it was love at the time, I knew even then there was something special about you. You, who hides behind a mask. You are the sweetest soul I've ever had the fortune of meeting. Even when I wrote to you and asked for help, you set aside what you thought was a huge rivalry and raced to help save me. And then you showed that you loved me, not necessarily in words, but in the way you act and the way that you help me function without my eyes."

Aidan slowly went on one knee in front of Draco, who had both of his hands over his mouth in shock and had tears glistening in his eyes.

"I want no one else but you to be by my side for the rest of my life and I want to shout it from the mountain tops. I know that we have already signed the betrothal contract, but I want no one to doubt my love for you. So I am asking you, Draco Lucius Malfoy, my Dragon, the love of my life, and holder of my heart and soul. Will you do me the honour of becoming my fiancé?" Aidan asked as he pulled out the small box and opened it, showing him the ring that he had made.

Draco gasped looking at the ring. It was beautiful. The dragon looked so lifelike, it was amazing.

"Is that-?" he started before Aidan started nodding already picking up on the thought.

"That is a miniature form of the dragon that I faced in our fourth year, the Hungarian Horntail. As you can see, the dragon flame is surrounding two gems. The gems symbolize our eyes and the flame symbolizes the fact that my love for you shall always burn brighter and hotter than a dragon's flame. I shall also always protect you more fiercely than even a mother dragon protecting her nestlings and this ring shows that. Please say yes."

"Of course!!" Draco yelled throwing himself at Aidan. Aidan, not expecting it, fell on his butt, but thankfully he managed to catch Draco and make sure the box that held the ring didn't fallout of his hand.

When Draco finally stopped covering his face in kisses, Aidan put the ring on Draco's finger and smiled.

"Today, you have made me one of the happiest people in the world. I vow to always show you the love and affection you deserve."

"And I too vow to show you the love and affection YOU deserve as well." Draco said still on Aidan's lap with his face as close as possible to Aidan's without kissing.

"Yay!" The outburst startled the couple into remembering that there were other people in the room. The newly engaged couple jerked their heads away from each other and looked at the other occupants in the room.

Narcissa, whom had been the one to shout, was bouncing up and down in barely restrained joy. Lucius and Tom smiled proudly, while Severus still sat in his chair, not really knowing how to respond.

Before anything else could be said, Narcissa started.

"Great!! Now we should let the Prophet know about this new engagement before Dumbledore tries anything new. We should also start planning the wedding now that Draco's wearing a ring. When do you two want the wedding to be? We could do winter? That's always a good time, what with the winter solstice. And then the actual wedding. What flowers do you two want? What arrangements? Who do you want to-"

She was cut off by an amused Severus because both Tom and Lucius couldn't stop laughing at the horrified expressions on both of the boys' faces at how fast Narcissa was speaking and what she was talking about.

"Cissy please. They just got engaged wait a week before you start planning a wedding." Severus placated.

"Fine." Narcissa pouted, looking putout that she couldn't immediately start planning the wedding.

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(This is a time lapse back to Chapter 19 after Neville and Luna talk to Aidan and Draco.)

"Come on Neville. We must leave Draco and Aidan alone." Luna said leading Neville away before anyone could speak.

"Where are we headed Luna?" Neville asked, letting Luna drag him along.

"Why, we are going to get the Nargles cleared from your head and to see if the Crumpled-Horned Snorkak gave you any gifts as well." She said still pulling him along; she was surprisingly strong for a small girl.

That made Neville go quiet and pensive, thinking about what she had just said.

When they walked into Gringotts, Luna headed to the first available teller and requested to talk to the Longbottom account manager.

A little bit later, they got escorted into an office that had a sign saying Bloodhook, Longbottom account manager.

"I see you have finally come to claim your inheritance Heir Longbottom." Bloodhook said from behind his desk with a small disapproving look on his face.

"What do you mean 'finally come to claim your inheritance'? I thought I couldn't claim it because my father was still alive and Grandmother would never give it to me early." Neville said confused.

Bloodhook didn't say anything for a minute just processing what was said before he started to speak rapidly in Gobbledygook.

When he calmed down, he started to speak to the two people in the room.
"Heir Longbottom, you have been eligible to claim the Longbottom Lordship since you were eleven. Because you father is permanently in capable of taking it, it would go to you. As your grandmother is not a blood Longbottom she cannot prevent you from becoming Lord Longbottom.

"She actually should have been asking your permission to make any changes to the Longbottom vaults when you turned eleven. Since by your expression I'm guessing she didn't we shall audit all of the Longbottom vaults to makes sure funds were going to where they were supposed to. We wish for you to go through an inheritance ritual to make sure that nothing else is glaringly wrong."

Neville looked shocked to be asked to do an inheritance ritual, but after some thought and a glance to Luna, he agreed. After they waited the necessary amount of time, they looked at the parchment and gasped.

"I c-c-can't believe it." Neville said voice shaking.

AN: Hey all my readers!!! I know that you all have been waiting and begging for the next chapter, so here it is!!! This is my birthday present to all of you since today is my birthday!! I can't believe it's already been two years since I started this fanfic. I hope that I will be able to finish this fanfic. I hope everyone is enjoying their summer. I don't know how long it'll take me to write the next chapter but hopefully it won't be terribly long.