Hello everyone. This is my first Harry Potter fanfiction so it's a new experience. This is a very short first chapter (even for me) but I don't know where this story is going yet. Suggestions are welcome and if I owned Harry Potter, I don't think I would be on fanfiction. Haha Enjoy!
Summary- A couple of weeks can change many things, people, and beliefs. After all, spring marks change and new beginnings. So when the old bell of Flourish and Blott's rang for the umpteenth time, the story of Draco and Hermione began to unravel.
The witches and wizards were just beginning to forget the fact that just five months prior to the New Year the Dark Lord had unleashed the most powerful attack of the Second Wizarding War. The Battle at Hogwarts took place in just outside the enchanting school. The face-off between Voldermort and Harry Potter was the talk of magical London for months after. The most important fact was that for five months England was in shambles. Families mourned the loss of loved ones and the Ministry was all but destroyed. But now it is May, the time for new beginnings and new starts. And this is the story of two particular people, who represented the epitome of trying to forget the past and living the future…
Entering Diagon Alley was like entering a new realm. Well technically it is. However, for the nineteen years Hermione Granger has entered Diagon Alley, she has always felt a new excitement that exhilarated her to the very end. Ting a ling went the bells when she stepped into Flourish and Blott's. Hermione breathed in the instinct smell of dusty books ready to be purchased a read. She was in no hurry so Hermione spent hours skimming through the binds of the books looking for an interesting read.
Ting a ling. Hermione looked up surprised. She didn't expect people to enter a bookstore on a day like today. For once, London wasn't raining and under a dark cloud. Instead, the sun was shining brightly and many children were playing Quidditch outside. What she saw shocked her even more. Draco Malfoy entered the store; head held high, wearing his infamous black dress robes with the sleeves rode up. He walked, or rather swaggered, to the Potions sections of the store.
Draco Malfoy hadn't been seen after the end of the war. After Draco refused to kill Dumbledore, his whole family lived under the Order's protection after hours of convincing from Snape. Draco had help fight in the war for the light side. But after the last spell was said (by Harry Potter, of course), no one has spotted Draco. His parents were both shaken but after some time, Lucius had restored the Malfoy name and Malfoy Industries flourished. Rumors had said that Draco went to France to clear his head but spent most of his time picking up girls in local clubs and drinking vast amounts of Firewhiskey. Finally, rumor has it, Lucius had enough of his son's non-caring ways and forced him to come back home thus leading Draco to be sweating in Flourish and Blott's looking for a relaxing read.
Hermione hurriedly grabbed a random book off the shelf and followed Malfoy deeper in the store. Hermione was generally a curious being and Malfoy coming back to London, to Flourish and Blott's no less, was a mystery just waiting to be solved.
Draco weaved through Potions and Other Healing Methods, Transfiguration: What You Need to Transfigure to Survive Being Stranded, and All Things Herbology and stopped right in front of Muggle Studies. Hermione thought this was odd. Wasn't this the same man that despised all things Muggle even after he switched sides? He walked to the very back of the store and stopped right before the unsorted pile of books. Hermione pretended to be interested in Muggle electronics, one aisle behind him. Draco turned around.
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