Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the character's. Though i do wish that i could own one or two of them but i know that'll only happen when dinosaurs come back and hell freezes over, sadly :(
It was the first day of their seventh year at Hogwarts and all the seventh years were excited or at least the female half was, for this was the year that they were allowed to take the class on parenting that was mandatory. They'd heard rumors from the older students that it was a great class (again for the girl's) and they couldn't wait.
"Eek, I can wait to start this new class. Can't you guys?" Lavender Brown squealed in Ron's ear. They'd been dating for a year now and they were almost always together.
"Yes, I can wait," Ron muttered unhappily. He and the rest of the guys were dreading this class; well except for Harry who actually wanted a kid. "God, save us all."
"Ronald Weasley, do you have a problem with the miracles of childbirth and parenting?" Hermione hissed at him. Ron flinched away from the girl who would've easily been in Slytherin if she wasn't a muggle born.
"No, Hermione, I have no problems at all," Ron quickly said then muttered under his breath," but I'd rather wait a while."
Ginny chuckled at her brother. "So what exactly happens in this class, Hermione? I've never really heard anything about it."
"Well the teacher's put everyone into pairs and us girls go through a simulated pregnancy that last's 3 weeks and then we take care of simulated children that look like both 'parent's' for the rest of the year," Hermione said and Lavender sighed. "The Parents are chosen by a magical hat that sort's all the students in the class by compatibility and around 89% of those parent's go on to actually get married after school. It's quite interesting really."
"Oh, I can't wait to be a seventh year!" Ginny squealed.
"How in Merlin's name did you learn all that Hermione?" Ron asked. Hermione just raised an eyebrow. "Oh, right, you read everything."
They all started laughing.
When they were all seated at their house tables and the first years had been sorted, Dumbledore stood up and made his usual announcements: Forbidden Forest being forbidden, No student's in the halls after ten, yadda, yadda, yadda… He introduced the new DADA teacher (again) and said a few other trivial things and then waved his hands and all the food appeared.
After dinner everyone went to their dormitories to turn in early so as to have an early start in the morning to find their classes. Hermione had been made Head Girl so she walked to the Head's dormitories and ignored Draco Malfoy, who'd ended up as Head Boy, in favor of reading a quick book (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Auston) before going to bed.
The next morning Hermione found all her classes easily and found them all to be quite easy so far even though they were all advanced classes. When it was time for the class on Parenting and being a family, she ended up being the first one there because she ran so as to get a good seat in the front leaving Harry and Ron to trail after her. They saw her bouncing in her seat waiting for the class to begin when they finally arrived minutes after her.
"Good evening class. My name is Professor Ramirez and this is my husband, Professor Ramirez," the female teacher said walking in with a male teacher following her. "We will be your teacher's for this Parenting and Family Life Class that is mandatory for graduation. It is a full year course and you are to be graded as a family: how well you raise your child, how you support each other through the pregnancy, the like.
"In a few short minutes we will announce who you are to be partnered with. For now does anyone have any questions?" Professor Ramirez asked while her husband was drawing names out of a hat and writing them down.
"Yeah, Professor, are there going to be any single parents?" Hermione asked. She'd noticed that there were two more girls in the class than boys.
"Nope. There is going to be one female couple since there is an uneven ratio of girls to boys," Mr. Ramirez said as he drew out another two names from the hat and wrote them down.
"Any other questions?" Ms. Ramirez asked.
"What if you hate who you're partnered with?" that was Lavender.
"Then you will just have to deal with it," Ms. Ramirez said. "Anything else? Nothing? Good, let's begin. Brown, Weasley. Potter, Parkinson…"
The Professor kept calling out pairs and most of the people groaned when they heard their partners. Like who in their right mind would pair that slut Parkinson with Harry Potter?
"Malfoy, Granger," Ms. Ramirez said the last pair of names on the list. Total chaos erupted. The Slytherin's over why the Pureblood Malfoy was partnered with the inferior Mudblood and the rest over why Hermione had to deal with the bastard Malfoy; it was bad enough that they were both Head's.
"Silence," Mr. Ramirez called for order. "The groups are final and shall not be changed no matter how much you all protest to it. Now go to your partner's and line up so we can cast the charm for the simulated pregnancy."
People muttered under their breath but they complied. Ron 'accidentally' pushed Malfoy while they were lining up making him fall face first onto the floor. The end result was a quick trip to the hospital wing for Ron with the Slytherin's all chuckling under their breath. Twenty points were deducted from Slytherin as well.
"After the charm is cast those of you it's been cast on, go into the other room to wait," Ms. Ramirez said. "I suggest you take that time to get to know your partner."
It took half the time in the period for the charm to be cast on everyone. Draco and Hermione were the last ones to have the charm cast on them. It was as if a gold and silver light engulfed them and then entered Hermione through her navel. They stood there in shock just looking at her stomach were the light disappeared.
They were still standing like that when Mr. Ramirez brought the other students back into the main classroom. They were shocked out of their shock by Ron who came and dragged Hermione away from Draco and over to where Harry and the rest of the Gryffindor's were sitting.
"Now class, we've added a little to this project this year," Ms. Ramirez said smiling in a way that made shivers run up the students' spines. "This year we have been granted permission by Professor Dumbledore to use the Forbidden Forest and make a village that is protected by spells for housing by those in this class so that the parents and children can have as much contact with each other as possible."
"The village was made over the summer and there are different types of houses and the house that you have been assigned is already pre-determined by your grade average overall in all of your years here at Hogwarts and then averaged in with your partner's as well," Mr. Ramirez continued. "The better the average the better and more comfortable a house you have. But they are all still pretty small having two bedrooms, a nursery, a kitchen, and a dining room as the basic frame working and then depending on your GPA there may also be a study, a living room, a playroom and a couple more things."
"You will also get the basics for caring for the child: Diaper's, bottles, clothes, formula, baby wipes, etc. But don't expect too much in that area, also the ammount of that stuff you get in that area is also determind by you GPA," Ms. Ramirez carried on. "All extra stuffs will be supplied by the parents. Every couple months we will add a year of age to the child with the child being around five, six, or seven when the class ends."
"The child will then be asked a series of questions and their answers will be your final exam," Mr. Ramirez finished.
"Now let's go assign housing," both Professors' grinned at the students who all grimaced except for Hermione, who was too busy taking notes.
The path leading into the forest for the village was situated right next to Hagrid's cabin so that if they needed anything they could get his help quickly. The path was warded by spells so that they would be safe as long as they didn't stray off it. When they saw the village the students sucked in an awed gasp as one.
All the houses were nice looking; even the smallest one. They were made of wood and some of them were two story. There were streets running through the whole thing and there was a big billboard at the entrance to the village where notices for the class could be placed. All the houses had yards of varying sizes with a picnic table and a shed.
"Now your names have already been placed on the houses courtesy of Hagrid, whom Mr. Ramirez messaged before we headed down here," Ms. Ramirez said as Hagrid walked toward them from one of the side streets. "Go find your houses and then report back for some last minute details. The House Elves will bring you things here shortly."
"Oh, and Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Granger," Mr. Ramirez said. "You are still Head Boy and Girl and just because you two are living here instead of those dormitories doesn't mean you can shark those duties."
Draco and Hermione nodded in acknowledgement as they followed everyone else to look for their house ignoring each other until Hermione said "There," and pointed to the biggest house that had both of their names on a plaque on the front door.
Draco grunted and walked up to the house and opened the door. He let Hermione in first because he didn't want points taken off if he went in first and just left her out there alone. Who knew if the Professors were watching and grading them on that sort of stuff?
"Thank you, Malfoy," Hermione said curtly and walked in to what seemed to be an entryway that was connected to a long hallway. There were multiple doorways along the hallway, each opening into a different room. There was a closet for coat's and outside shoes right by the front door and opposite was a door to a living room. Next to the closet was a bathroom and then a staircase leading upstairs the under the staircase was another closet. Opposite those was a study. Next to the study was a dining room which had an archway leading into a kitchen that was at the end of the hall.
The kitchen was fully stocked and there was a nice set of fine china in a glass china cabinet in the dining room along with a table that could easily fit eight people. The study had numerous bookshelves filled with all the book's you could possibly imagine, a fireplace, a mahogany desk set, and a sofa and coffee table set in front of the fireplace. The living room had a piano in one corner, two sofas, a loveseat in front of a fireplace, paintings of scenery on the walls, a goldfish tank, a television, a chandelier, a stereo system and a bookshelf filled with movies and music.
After exploring the downstairs they went upstairs and found two master bedroom's (with walk in closet's and bathrooms), a nursery with a bathroom connected, a guest bedroom, a music room, a playroom, and stairs going up into the attic where there was decorations for the different holiday's stored.
Draco had to whistle in appreciation. Even he had to admit that this was a pretty fancy house even though Malfoy Manor still made this place look like a cabin made of mud. Hermione was in heaven. She'd never lived in a house this grand ever.
She squealed when she saw the nursery, which surprised Draco because she didn't even give half that reaction to the Study filled with books. She took the whole thing in: the neutral creams and gold's and browns. The crib was a beautiful soft but hard maple and the changing table was also made with maple. The crib had soft satin sheets that were a chocolate brown with golden and cream colored flowers all over them. The changing table had the same designed mat on it. The rocking chair was made of Maple and had cream cushions on it. The dresser's had golden lace doilies on top of them and the mirror had little painted golden and cream flowers in the corners. The curtains were a nice golden color while the walls were cream and the trim a lovely shade of brown. The carpet was a swirl of different shades of all three color's.
"The baby will love this," Hermione said, completely forgetting who she was standing with. "He or she will absolutely be in love with this."
Draco just nodded in affirmation even though Hermione probably didn't notice. She was opening the drawers of one of the dressers to see if the clothes would give her any hint to the baby's gender. All the clothes could be used for both boys and girls.
Hermione sighed and looked up at Draco smiling. Then she realized that she was with Draco and she stopped smiling.
"Uh, I guess we should get back to the rest of the class," She said quickly blushing.
"Yeah," He smirked at her and led the way back to where the class was gathering near the billboard.
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From: MercyDragon264