Chapter 1: Hogwarts bound.
She was tired.
No, she was beyond tired. She was exhausted.
Last night wasn't a very good night for her. Dreaming old dreams and half nightmares coming to life had crept into her mind.
In doing so, not getting that much sleep to go on, Hermione forced herself out of her nice warm comfortable soft bed. Stumbling into the bathroom, barely knowing her way blindly around the cupboard and sink, she brushed her teeth, did a spell to fix her tangled frizzy hair and hoped that today wouldn't be so bad.
Even though she was just in her PJ's shirt and shorts, her heart gave a mighty squeeze.
'Today I have to let her go,' she bitter sweetly thought to herself.
For elven years, Hermione has been there for her only daughter: Kodi Lusine Malfoy. After the largest legal battle within the Great Britain Wizarding World, Hermione had claimed Malfoy Manor as Kodi being the last surviving living Malfoy.
Shaking her head, knowing that she did not want to relive old memories, Hermione quickly got through brushing her teeth, washing her mouth out and grabbing her cotton bathrobe.
Her feet lead her to her daughter's bedroom door as within her mind's eye, she saw him. She breathed heavily in and slowly out as she twisted her wrist upside down and pushed the door open.
In the spacious grand room that was her daughter's, Hermione silently walked over to the sleeping elven year old.
Bright platinum blonde hair fanned around her daughter's head. In so many ways, Kodi looked a near spitting image of her father. The only thing that differentiated her from her father was her warm brown eyes. Other than that, she looked nearly like him.
However, when it comes to her knowledge of things, she takes after her mother. Thankfully, Hermione had homed schooled Kodi before going to Hogwarts.
"Kodi," she softly said, lightly shaking her shoulder.
Her daughter gave a light snore in return. Of course, she had to sleep deeply this morning.
"Kodi, honey, wake up," Hermione tried again, shaking her shoulder a bit more.
Kodi popped opened her eyes and said loudly while swiftly sitting up "Polyjuice potion!"
Hermione chuckled low to herself and said "Not at Hogwarts just yet, but you are needed to be downstairs,"
"Uhg! Mum!" her daughter groaned and rolled over.
Clenching her jaw tightly, Hermione breathed deeply.
"Come on. We need to get everything in order for you to board the train at 11," she forced herself to say.
"5 more minutes please?" Kodi asked sweetly.
"No, come on," Hermione said back, turning around and walking out of her daughter's bedroom "Or do you want Peddy to-"
"NO! No! I'm up!" Kodi cut her off and flew out of her bed.
Peddy was one of the last eagle owls that were hatched in the hatchery of Malfoy Manor. Kodi had named one of them Peddle or Peddy for short.
Lately though, Hermione has been seeing Peddy fly into Kodi's bedroom and screech high next to Kodi's ear. Or getting a bucket of water from somewhere, flying in and setting it up to the point of Peddy just pushing it with his leg and the bucket with the ice cold water goes down, down, down.
The manor was completely different now. When Hermione had taken it, she ordered it to be burned down and rebuilt. To her, the original Malfoy Manor was like that of a prison. She wasn't going to raise her daughter in that horrid building that was once called "home".
A lot of the house elves didn't come back to work for her after she tore the manor down. She was fine with that; she learned to do things on her own anyway.
Starting from scratch, Hermione put up a beautiful French country house. There were four levels to it: the main, the upstairs, the attic and the basement. 5 bedrooms instead of 12 and 4 bathrooms instead of 8.
It wasn't that bad on the eyes either. Welcoming and warmth when you looked upon it. Plus, not only did it have brick but, a tower too that reminded you of Hogwarts. Mostly if you were a Gryffindor.
Hermione looked around her kitchen and wondered how she got here. Shaking her head, she got the kettle going and waited to make breakfast. Lately Kodi has been starting to get picky on what she ate and Hermione just let it happen.
"….Hermione," she heard the soft whisper.
Looking around with her heart pounding in her throat, she knew that her memory was playing tricks on her. Again.
Kodi walked into the kitchen and looked upon her mother.
For the longest time, she only knew of her father from the articles, pictures and stories that her mother, god father Harry and Ron and god mother Ginny told.
"Mum?" she asked her.
"Oh, hi honey. What would you like to eat?" Hermione asked her in return.
"Uh…eggs, sliced up potatoes, sausages and toast," Kodi replied back, getting her cup of milk.
Hermione nodded and started to get that cooked up.
"Mum?" Kodi asked a little while later.
"Mm?" Hermione replied, making sure that the eggs were cooked.
"Can you tell me what to expect upon arriving to Hogwarts?" her daughter asked.
Hermione smiled and said "A friend of mine, Hagrid, will call for you first years to him. He will then lead you to the shores of the lake where the boats are at and you will ride across the lake and into the under belly of Hogwarts. From there you will be told to wait outside of the wooden double doors. Hopefully a professor will come out and greet you. When you walk into the Great Hall, there will be four long wooden tables full of previous students that are already sorted. When you gather around a stood and old worn out leather hat, it will start to recite a poem that it had thought of for a whole year. Listen to it carefully as it will explain the houses that you will be interacting and sorted into,"
"What house were you sorted in?" She asked her, gently taking her plate with a grateful smile.
"Gryffindor," Hermione told her, refilling her glass of milk.
"And Dad?" Kodi asked her unsure.
Hermione softly sighed to herself and whispered "Slytherin,"
Kodi ate her breakfast in silence after that.
Hermione was thankful that her daughter didn't ask anymore on Draco. She ate her breakfast trying not to let the memories of the past over take her.
After all of this time, she still loved him. Harry and Ron did their very best to look for Draco or his body after the war had ended, but it was never found.
"I know that you can dress yourself," Hermione began trying her hardest to think clearly "but, could you put your mum's nerves at ease that you wear your coat?"
Kodi stared at her mother and replied "Sure mummy,"
"Thank you honey. Now, want to see some magic?" she said, smiling.
"Yes!" Kodi replied happily.
So they both got up and walked back to Kodi's bedroom. Hermione pulled out her wand and winked at her daughter.
Kodi stared as she followed her mother's wand "Winggardium Leviosa,"
The trunk, that Hermione had bought months ago on a discount sale in the muggle part of London, suddenly lifted up and floated in the middle of the room.
Kodi gasped and looked wide eyed at her mother.
"They will be teaching you this within Charms class. Make the gar part of the Winggardium nice and long. And remember to swish and flick," Hermione said, smiling at the fond childhood memory of her own.
"Okay and what do I really need?" Kodi asked her.
"Clothes mostly. You will be wearing skirts with knee high socks." Hermione told her as she groaned "I know, I know, you are use to your jeans, but during the day you will not fit in while class is going,"
"Okay fine," Kodi huffed, wrinkling her nose.
For a split second, she saw Draco Malfoy at elven years old again. But thankfully Kodi walked over to her dresser drawer and pulled it open.
Hermione heavily sighed and knew that today was going to be extremely hard.
"Remember, you will be going through the seasons. So pack very lightly on the summer and heavier on the fall, winter and spring clothes," she said, trying to distract herself.
"Will Uncle Harry be at the Train station, mum?" Kodi asked, trying to help distract her mother too.
"Yes, along with your aunt Ginny and Uncle Ron," Hermione replied, knowing this within a letter that she written a couple of weeks ago.
"What are the houses again? Hugglyduff? Eagleray?" Kodi purposely said, smiling.
A chuckle escaped Hermione's mouth and said "No, no. Though those are good nicknames for Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw,"
"What if I'm sorted into either of them?" Kodi asked her seriously.
"Then I will be proud of you no matter what. The sorting hat almost sorted me into Ravenclaw but I wanted Gryffindor instead. Also, your uncle Harry was almost sorted into Slytherin and said that the hat was wrong and he too was place into Gryffindor," Hermione stated, gently putting some jumpers into the trunk.
"Really? Uncle Harry? Slytherin?" Kodi exclaimed in shock.
"Yeah, so if you want to be in one of the houses, that is fine by me or the professors. No one will say anything bad about it," Hermione softly encouraged her daughter.
Kodi nodded and picked out more of her clothes.
They both left the house by Floo powder. They were at the Kings Cross Train Station a block away and hurried to get a trolley.
"Mum….will I have friends?" Kodi worried.
"I am sure you will make some friends. But remember to accept their differences," Hermione replied, softly stroking her daughter's hair.
"But…People know that dad helped win the war…." Kodi whispered the truth.
Hermione inhaled deeply and held her breath.
It was true; Draco did help turn the tides of the war. After he died of course, though no one had found his body within the Forbidden Forest. Narcissa and Lucius searched for Draco and were killed in the final battle, but also taking down a lot of the death eaters too.
"If it makes you uncomfortable about talking of him, you can tell them that and if they still want a reaction out of you: walk away. I know that a lot of people will be talking about you, James and Shane," Hermione told her daughter.
Kodi nodded and softly whispered "I wish dad was here, mum. At least you wouldn't be sad,"
Hot stingy cooling tears swelled up in Hermione's eyes and she just wrapped her arms around Kodi.
It was very difficult not to break down crying in a public place. But also it felt so out of place for the war heroine. The muggles that passed by them didn't have a clue as to what happened. They didn't go to battle to defend what they loved and hold most near and dear to their hearts. The last major war that was like that was World War II and that ended in the late year of 1945.
"Come on," Hermione said to them both, forcing her emotions down.
They walked into the Kings Cross Train Station building and walked to where it was an arch between 9 and 10.
Kodi did a running start when she got her trolley positioned. She disappeared onto the other side. Hermione quickly followed after her.
There, just only a single black and red train stood, steaming and the platform of platform 9 ¾ wasn't busy yet.
"Come on, let's get you onto the train itself," Hermione said looking around at her old classmates.
Some, like Luna, Seamus, Oliver and Neville were all there with their own families.
"Mum…" Kodi panicked from seeing all of the people.
"It's okay. They won't do any harm," Hermione reassured her, softly pushing her forward.
"Hermione," Luna and Neville said at once.
"Hi, Luna and Neville. How are you guys?" she asked when she and her daughter were closer to them.
Neville gave her a big hug and smiled. Luna hugged her too.
"We're doing great. Let me introduce to you my son, Michael and daughter Millie," Neville said, smiling at his shy children.
"Hello, I'm Hermione," Hermione softly said, smiling down at them.
"Hello," they said back, not sure of what else to say.
"Are they going to Hogwarts this year?" Hermione asked Neville.
"Michael is, Millie will be in a few years," Neville replied.
"Who is this, Hermione?" Luna asked her in that soft voice of hers.
"Luna, Neville, Michael and Millie. This is my daughter, Kodi Malfoy," Hermione introduced them to her.
Neville looked at Hermione for a long time.
"I thought that the rumors were false," he muttered low.
"No, they are not false. This is Draco's only daughter," she told him, swallowing thickly.
Neville nodded, looking upon Kodi with a distance memory remembering gaze.
"I'm not like my dad, Mr. Neville," Kodi said politely to him.
"You look almost like him, Miss Kodi and I hope you don't ever become like him," Neville truthfully said to her, hoping that he wasn't crossing an invisible line here.
Hermione said nothing on this. She knew that Kodi would get this a lot.
"If I remember correctly," Luna said "Draco helped destroy a horcrux within the Forbidden Forest,"
Kodi looked at Luna with big round eyes of shock.
"Luna…" Hermione warned her softly.
Luna looked at Hermione and said "Oh I am sorry,"
Nodding, Hermione then said "Come on, Kodi,"
It was then that Harry and Ron had showed up. Hermione saw Ginny first as they walked over to each other.
"Hermione!" Ginny said happily, hugging her.
"Hi," she said back, hugging her too.
"Uncle Harry and Ron!" Kodi exclaimed happily, running up to Harry and hugging him.
"Hello Kodi," Harry replied, returning the hug.
"How's our favorite goddaughter?" Ron teased her, smiling.
"Nervous," she said, looking up at him.
Ron had grown taller in the last year when searching for the horcurxes and had a very nasty scar on his left cheek from Greyback in the battle at Hogwarts.
"Ah, you'll be fine," Ron brushed it off.
"Mum isn't doing well," Kodi whispered to them both.
Harry gently walked her over and knelt down "You know that she loves your father very much. I know that it is terrible for you to grow up without him, but…Draco…wasn't always that kind to her in the beginning. He was really mean, but I do believe that he grew up over the time that I had to take down Lord Voldemort,"
"I wish he was here, Uncle Harry," Kodi sniffled.
Gently, he wrapped her up in his arms and hugged her tightly as she sobbed silently into his shoulder.
"So do I," he whispered, knowing exactly what it felt like.
Harry looked over at Ginny who was talking to Neville but, Hermione wasn't there. He scanned around and saw her standing off with that of Pansy Zabini.
"Uh oh," Harry had said.
Uh oh was right.
Pansy and Hermione were exchanging some words of some sort as then Hermione punched Pansy in the face! Kodi gasped when she saw this as this was a side she never saw of her mother.
"Good punch," Harry stated, smirking.
"Mum!" Kodi said, quickly running towards her mother.
Harry reacted fast; he ran after her and in a few strides, snatched her up into his arms.
"Merlin's beard, you will never be a pure as us, you fifthly little mudblood!" Pansy spat at her and walked away with a bloody nose.
Blaise Zabini just looked at Hermione and walked away from them.
"Uncle harry, let me go!" Kodi hissed as she kicked and wiggled to get free.
"Alright, alright," Harry said and put her back down on her feet.
"Mum! Mum!" Kodi exclaimed and hugged her mother fearfully.
Hermione's courage was shattered to dust. Those exact same words were also flung at her when she was in her 2nd year of Hogwarts. By none other than Draco Malfoy.
Blindly, she doesn't remember hugging her daughter nor Harry gently taking her to the side, away from the curious looks and stares.
"I promised a long time ago, Hermione," Harry began to whisper as Hermione buried her face into his shoulder "That I would do everything within my power to look for Draco. I haven't given up nor have I broken this promise. I am doing everything that I can to find him,"
Ginny had put up a spell for them to not be overheard by the other families as she had snarled at Blaise for not keeping his family under control. He drawled back that they had every right to speak, but that was quickly squashed with Ginny growling out that everyone knew that Hermione was still grieving for Draco. It was no sacred secret to keep.
"Mum?" Kodi softly whispered to her.
"I can't do this anymore, Harry, I just can't!" Hermione sobbed into his shoulder; her hands had fisted his coat as she felt her whole world was shattering once more.
"Yes you can. I know it's hard, I know it's difficult, but you've got to live on… for Kodi," Harry barely murmured in her ear so that Kodi didn't hear most of it.
Hermione had to once more, pick up the busted crushed pieces of her courage, nodding.
"Yes, honey," Hermione said to Kodi, wiping away her tears as best she could.
"What's a mudblood?" Kodi asked her with that confused curious expression that all kids have about something.
Hermione looked at Harry for help.
"A mudblood, Kodi," Harry began in a very serious no joking tone "Is a term that pureblood witches and wizards a like use for those who come from Muggle families but are gifted to be a witch or wizard. I do not, for the rest of your life, want you to use that term to anyone who is muggleborn. Your mother is that, muggleborn and she is the greatest witch of our age. Mind you, what I'm about to tell you will paint a completely different story of your father,"
"He used it on her," she said, catching on pretty quickly.
"Yes, at every chance that he got up until the last school year for your mother and I. When we were running around, trying to find the rest of the horcurxes to bring Voldemort to an end for good. As I said to you earlier, he really grew up in that short span of months. He was the one who helped turned the tides of the war or else you wouldn't be here," Harry continued with a very serious face on.
Kodi nodded and said "But why was he so horrible towards mum? She's really nice and caring. Plus she makes the best homemade lasagna,"
Both adults couldn't help the smiling and chuckling of a child's honesty.
"I hate to intrude on this, but Kodi is going to miss the train," Ginny softly reminded them all.
That sprung Hermione, Kodi and Harry into action. Kodi's entire luggage was put on the back of the train.
"Remember to send me letters whenever you want. I won't ignore them, I promise Kodi," Hermione said to her.
"Okay mum," Kodi replied, hugging and kissing her mother on the cheek.
"I love you honey and I know you will do great," Hermione said, hugging and kissing her back.
"Just remember, James is going to Hogwarts too for the first time. He will help you, if you need it," Harry said smiling at her.
"Thank you Uncle Harry," Kodi told him, hugging him swiftly before getting onto the train.
At exactly on 11AM, the massive black and red train pulled slowly out of Kings Cross.
Hermione was holding onto Harry as Ginny didn't mind it. Her best friend was hurting and needed all the comfort that she could get.
"Please be safe, my angel," Hermione whispered with hot tears streaking down her face.
Author's note:
Hello everyone!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Harry Potter or the characters within it. And I do not make any money from this story.
Full summary:
When Hermione's only daughter, Kodi Malfoy, is sent to learn from the professors of Hogwarts, things don't come into focus. Kodi just wishes that her father, Draco Malfoy, was there (for her mother's sake).
Kodi learns that relying on one's self isn't always the case. So why is there so much talk about her father anyway?
Discover what Kodi goes through of her first school year at Hogwarts. And maybe, just maybe, not everything needs to be in the dark.
It's kind of weird when you do a full circle. That's how I started out, just writing HP Dramione fics way back in the early, mid and late 2000's.
I don't know where this is going. I just had a thought and ran with it. The time line is also AU because of what this fic is going to be about. I won't spoil anything for you, but please bear with me on this fic. I also want to point out that I'm not from England at all. The words and such will be new to me since I'm not from England.
Also I want to thank my best friend, Ket for helping me get back into this fandom and relearning a lot of things too.
Anyway, reviews are welcome. I don't honestly care for the people who dislike this fic, it's just that: Fanatical fictional writing. If you leave a review on it, I won't respond. I don't have time for it.
Hope you've enjoyed the first chapter. When the next one will be, well…you will just have to wait and read!
Alonia143.