Child and Family Development
Chapter 1:
Hermione walked down the hall in silence. She was on her way to the new seventh year class, Child and Family Development. The class was new to the school and a requirement for all seventh years. Hermione didn't see why she needed to take the class, but Dumbledore said it was important, so she wasn't going to argue. As head girl Hermione had extra patrolling on top of all her work. So she wasn't too pleased about an extra class on top of her already full class load.
As she turned the corner she ran straight into a solid wall of "rock". Before she had a chance to apologize she the wall spoke. "Watch where you're going mudblood," spat Malfoy shoving her aside.
"Shut up Ferret, you ran in to me."
Before he had a chance to reply to her remark Lavender Brown walked by. "Hermione hurry or we'll be late." As Hermione walked by Malfoy he gave her an icy glare with those silver eyes that would have froze over hell.
Once everyone was seated and quiet in the class room Professors Snape and McGonagall walked to the front of the class room. Snape just glared at the class as McGonagall began to talk.
"This is a class that will meet only once a month, but it has a year long project, which is most of your grade. You will work in partners, and no you don't get to choose them I already have. You must work with this partner or you will fail the class. Am I understood?"
The whole class murmured acknowledgement and agreement.
"Okay. You will each be paired with someone from the opposite sex. You will live together in a dormitory for the rest of the year. Each girl will take a potion tonight; tomorrow she will wake up about nine months pregnant. The baby will be a mix of both her and her partner's gene so the baby will actually look like the child you and your partner would have if you had a child. You will go in to labor with in the next week or two. When you do you must get to the hospital wing right away, if you wait too long you will have to give birth the normal way instead of magically. You and your partner will raise the child for the next year; we will cover more about what will happen to the child at the end of the year later. You will also choose of whether or not you will breast feed the child in the hospital wing, the decision is completely up to you. Tomorrow you can all go to the hospital wing to learn the gender of your baby, if you don't want to know the gender doesn't go. Do you all understand me?"
The entire class nodded, everyone was in a daze so shocked at what she had just said.
"Okay. Professor Snape will read off the list of partners, after your name is read please come up to the desk to get your potion and password to your dormitory. All your stuff has already been placed in your dormitory."
"Brown, Zabini."
"Weasley, Parkinson."
"Parvarti, Crabbe."
"Longbottom, Bulstrode."
"Abott, Goyle."
"Potter, Moon."
"Bones, Boot."
"Brocklehurst, Finch-Flentchly."
"Finnigan, Padma."
"Perks, Thomas."
"MacDougal, Turpin."
Hermione watched as everyone walked up to the desk, everyone but one person.
"Granger, Malfoy."
"I can not believe I have to live with you, the mudblood for the entire year."
"I can't believe I have to be pregnant with your child for two weeks, you arrogant prick." Hermione was back him up against the wall of their sitting room, drilling her finger harder into his chest with each step.
"Stop touching me, I'm going to look around." With that he walked away, going to explore the apartment. As he looked around he found they had a fully equipped kitchen, a very spacious bathroom with a large tub and a large glass shower, they had a sitting room that had a library in a side alcove, and it seemed like a perfect apartment. There seemed to only be one problem they only had one bedroom. When Draco walked into the bedroom he saw Hermione unpacking all her stuff, on to a queen size bed, which happened to be the only bed he saw.
"What do you think your doing?"
"I'm unpacking."
"Where do you expect me put all my stuff?"
"In that dresser and that closet."
"And where am I supposed to sleep?"
"On the couch, of course."
"I'm not sleeping on the couch. Why don't you sleep on the couch instead?"
"Because I'm going to wake up pregnant tomorrow so the couch would be very uncomfortable."
"Fine you can sleep in the bed…but so am I. You just stay on your half I'll stay on mine."
Because she was so tired she agreed and slammed back her potion. He crawled into the bed as she went to the bathroom to change into an oversized men's t-shirt. After brushing her teeth and hair she crawled into bed beside him, being sure to stay on her side so there was no chance of them touching.