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As the wind picked up its pace, scattering the crispy red leaves in all directions, a skinny brunette lightly jogged also the dusty pathway, as the strong currents of breeze whipped her curly locks across her rosy cheeks. Glancing down at her watch, she paused for a breath. 5 minutes she told herself, and began her fast pace down the path again. Stopping at the barrier between platform nine and ten, she stepped toward the brick pillar, and as the muggles wondered past obliviously, she vanished from sight.
Sighing with relief, she glanced over the sea of multicoloured heads until she found a congregation of red haired witches and wizards. Rushing over to a plump woman, who was swaddled in many knitted layers of clothing, she shouted a hello.
"Hermione!" cried molly, holding out her arms, as Hermione practically jumped into them. "It's been far too long" she gasped. "I know, I'm sorry" Hermione replied enthusiastically, "I've been on holiday in Portugal". After many more hellos and good to see yous, Hermione stepped through the door of the Hogwarts express. Quickly claiming a compartment near the back, Harry, Ron, Luna, Ginny, Neville and Hermione took their seats.
The journey to Hogwarts was a long one and took almost the whole day however the teenagers amused themselves in many different ways as Luna Lovegood was almost predictable as she shared her journey with her favourite magazine, The Quibbler, whilst Ron and Harry started a game of exploding snap. Hermione settled down, looking forward to the year ahead of her. Although the legendary wizarding war had left a path of destruction trailing behind it and many holes in the wizarding community, these holes were slowly starting to heal and things were starting to look brightly at the future now.
Eventually they arrived at Hogwarts and as they settled at their house tables, Hermione started to really feel like she was home again. She had changed a lot over the summer holidays, and people defiantly noticed. Her once bushy dull hair was now in loose curls that dangled down by her waist and appeared sleek and shiny at the colour of a rich chestnut, she had developed her curves and figure over the three month break. She wore a light foundation, had outlined her eyes in black eyeliner and mascara so that her eyes looked bigger and prominent and applied a pale pink lip gloss so that her lips looked full.
As Dumbledore rose out of his chair at the head table, the crowd of chattering teenagers fell silent.
"Thank you, now first we must welcome back our older students whilst warmly greeting the new family members in our presence. We hope you enjoy your time at Hogwarts and feel at home. Now mister flinch has asked me to once again tell you all that the forbidden forest is out of bounds, hence the name 'forbidden' forest. We will be running a new programme this year for the students in the 7th year, would you all please remain in your seat once I dismiss the other students, all will become clear then. Now enjoy your meals, tuck in". Dumbledore sat back down again and as the students turned round the bowls and platters immediately began to fill with roast chicken, golden potatoes and all the different food you could imagine.
Once everyone was full to the brim, as normal Ron was last, Dumbledore rose once again.
"I hope you are all full and satisfied and you have your beds awaiting you as warm and comftable as you could wish for, now could the 7th years please remain in their seats and to the rest of you, pip pip" he exclaimed, and with a clap of his hands, the students rose from their seats and ambled of to bed.
Once the hall was empty, besides the teachers and the 7th years, Dumbledore began to speak once more, addressing the remaining students.
"Now, as I mentioned earlier, you will be undergoing a new class. This will go by the name of 'parenting class'.
There were many gasps from the rows of students and most turned to look at their neighbours in horror. Dumbledore continued calmly.
"You will be undergoing this class for the first 4 months of you school term and you will be off of your time table for the first week. After that you will be attending classes regularly but you will have more free periods than normal. To complete this class, we will be pairing you up with students, if possible from different houses. And yes, these will be male and female pairs. For the first 5 days the female of the pair will become 'pregnant' as such".
Again more gasping could be heard from the majority of females from in the hall while the boys looked confused.
" You are to know that you will not actually be giving births the normal way, instead you will gradually grow 2 months pregnant to every one day, so that tomorrow you will find yourself 2 months pregnant and then on Tuesday you will become 4 months and so on, until you become nine months pregnant. Once you have reached nine months, this should be on the 5th day around noon, you will take a potion that will take two hours to work and then your baby will appear in the crib next to you as if by magic (he gave a twinkle of his eye as he winked) and then you will have a little under 4 months to take care of your child. The magical spell we will be using will actually combine you and your partners DNA and genes to create a lookalike to the child that, if you were to actually reproduce, (again a twinkle in his eye gleamed) would come out like. After the four months is up, your child will be bought to me where she or he will be simply converted back to nothing more than what they are now. You child will gain 2 months for every week they live with you so you can teach them to walk and talk as well. You and your partner will be sharing a 'home' inside the castle, which you will be living in for the 4 months that you are 'together'. I will now hand you over to professor McGonagall..."
Once he had finished his speech, Dumbledore crossed the hall and disappeared into another room, swinging the door closed behind him. McGonagall rose from her seat and walked into the centre in front of the main table.
"I will now read out your pairings and I will enforce it now, that there will be no swapping with any exceptions." As she said this she glanced over at a huddled group of Sliverins, and bored her eyes into the smirking face of Draco Malfoy. She continued to gaze across the students faces as she continued.
"Once I have announced who you will be partnered with, you will silently rise and go to the back of the room with your partner... do I make myself clear?" the room was full of mumbling yes's.
"Good" she said. "Now, Hannah Abbott and Vincent Crabbe." The first pair glared at each other as they crossed the hall as took their place at the back.
"Ronald Weasley and lavender brown." Lavender gave Ron a beaming smile as they stood up and followed in pursuit.
"Susan Bones and Balise Zabini... Harry Potter and Pansy Parkinson..." It continued like this until Draco Malfoy head his name being spoken.
"Draco Malfoy and ... Hermione Granger." The hall fell silent; each student gazed frantically between Hermione and Draco. Draco opened his mouth to speak but Hermione cut across him.
"What's the matter Malfoy... too chicken to even attempt to be in my partner (hoping he would say yes) ... to childish to even try?" He knew she was gloating at him but Hermione felt like he deserved it. He glared at her before striding to the back of the hall and edging as far away from her a possible.
When everyone was in their pairs, McGonagall asked them to form a queue in front of her with their chosen partner.
Dumbledore returned with several goblets and a flask of potion. As each pair stepped forward, he asked for a single hair from each of them and pricked the tip of their fingers with a pin to produce a single bead of blood. He took both the hair and blood from each of the pair and combined it with a mixture, which to begin with was plain white but when the ingredience from the students was added, it violently changed to a different colour for each pair. When Hermione and Draco's hairs and blood droplets had been added it turned to a magnificent gold. As Hermione drank down the small shot of the strange mixture, it tasted rather pleasant and made her whole body feel warm and happy.
Shortly after they were handed a map and a piece of parchment with their location on, then they were told to go to their new homes where they would find their luggage had already been put.
A little while later Hermione and Draco found themselves in front of a wooden oak door with a picture of a small, baby faced girl.
"Hello" she greeted them, "what would you like your password to be?"
Hermione went to speak but Draco got there before her.
"Sliverin rules!" he muttered with a smirk slowly spreading along his face.
Hermione tried to protest but it was no use.
"Sliverin rules it is then." chimed the little girl. "By the way, I'm Leila." She smiled and gave a nod as she swung the door open.