When the war ended I decided it was best to relax and have some form of normalcy in my life. My parents memories were restored and they scolded me for doing that to them but in the end they understood why I did it. My Aunt Carina let us stay at her summer home in Italy for a while and she even came to visit us. One thing that I learned from my parents was the big family secret that I had only known existed since third year. It must have been two weeks since the fall of Voldemort and the end of the war when my parents and my Aunt Carina sat me down and told me all about my mother and fathers families. As it turns out my birth name is Harmony Mira de Clare, daughter of Altair Fairfax and Gemma de Clare. My parents said that they weren't even engaged when my mother became pregnant, so she left the wizarding world and hid in the muggle world to escape from a group known as the Agrona. They were targeting pregnant women who were carrying girls, why you might ask, well because of the dying pureblood population this group took it upon themselves to breed more and more purebloods. The group was said to be twenty strong and all of the members were pureblood males. My father couldn't leave with her because it would be way to suspicious so they agreed to meet in the muggle world once he could escape. Over a year passed before he could leave safely and without detection. My mother had given birth to me at the Royal London Hospital and she had already had started a life living as a muggle. My mother and father married as soon as he came from the wizarding world and my birth last name was never changed to Fairfax. The news that I was actually a pureblood took me all of a week to get used to. My Aunt Carina was so excited that I knew because she hated not being able to use magic when I was around even though I am a witch. My parents own a huge multi-million dollar dental company that they couldn't run when I erased their memories so they decided they better head to the main office in France to catch up on work. I had decided that I wanted to go back to Hogwarts for the year that I missed so they said that I was going to stay with my Aunt at her house in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. I love my Aunt for many reasons, the main ones being that she is my moms kid sister, she acts like a teenager but not around proper people, she's not very strict unless my parents are around then she acts like she is, and she loves a good party. I called my Aunt yesterday and she said that she was going to be having an old friend from the wizarding world staying with us for a little while. Who knows who her friend is, she did mention that her friend had a son my age. I hope its no one that I hate. Theres only one way to find out.

I walked into my Aunt Carina's home from the floo and sat my purse on her sofa. Her house was large and open to the ocean breeze. She always kept it clean and organized. I noticed a glass of wine sitting on the end table on the patio and a book with a book mark in it.

"Aunt Carina, I'm here!" I yelled while looking around. I noticed she had bought some new movies and had gotten some video games as well. They were probably for her friends son.

"Hermione!" I heard my aunt yell as I turned towards the hallway she was running out of.

"Its so good to see you Aunt Carina!" She hugged me tight and took a step back to admire me.

"You look so much like your mother when she was your age. Minus the size, you must have gotten that from me." She said with a laugh and a smile. It was true, my aunt and I were among the shortest in the family. She was slightly taller than me though but not by much.

"You look good too. You look carefree." I said with a curious look. Why did she look so carefree? Even her outfit screamed 'carefree and comfy'. She was wearing a thin loose white blouse and jean shorts with tan gladiator sandals and she had almost no make up on except for some mascara. Her hair was cute, she had her bangs in a braid and then her hair was in a messy bun.

"Of course I do! I get to see my niece and best friend all in one day! I hear her son is one handsome young man." She said with a wink. Her and my mother always did this! Okay maybe not with wizarding families but still muggle or magic they are still the same thing! They keep trying to set me up with their friends sons.

"And I heard Voldemort loved country music." I said with a grin. She burst out laughing and patted my shoulder.

"Lets get you settled in." I was going to say that I pretty much was but she cut me off. "I know your stuff got her yesterday but you still need to see where I've placed things."

I was in my room, laying on my bed, on my laptop watching funny videos of animals when my aunt knocked on my door.

"Mione? Our guests are here." She said with a smile before leaving. I got up and checked myself over in the mirror. My hair was down past my chest now in loose soft curls and I had only mascara on. My outfit was like my aunts but slightly different. I had distressed jean shorts, a baggy tank top with a bandeau top under it. My sandals where brown gladiators and my tank was pink and white striped, and the bandeau top was white. I walked to the living room and saw my aunt talking to a blonde haired woman. My aunt heard me walk in.

"Hermione, this is my good friend Narcissa." Narcissa, as in Narcissa Malfoy. That means her son is...

"And this is her son.." I cut her off.

"Draco." I looked at him and didn't know what to do. He looked like he felt the same with his hands in his pockets.

"I take it you two know each other." My aunt said when she saw the look on my face. I nodded and she said that her and Narcissa were going out by the pool to talk and catch up. They left Malfoy and I in the living room, neither of use knew what to say. The last time I saw him he was walking towards the deatheaters side at Hogwarts. I walked into the kitchen and grabbed a handful of m & m's from the bowl on the bar. Malfoy was leaning on the wall watching me. It was so awkward, I had a feeling he had questions for me and I have no idea what his mother told him. Just when the silence became almost unbearable Malfoy spoke.

"You should know that I don't hate you. And that I'm glad Voldemort is gone." I sighed.

"If you're so glad, then why did you side with him?" I had a hand on my hip and one had m & m's in it.

"I didn't. Granger, I wanted to be with my mother. I wasn't planning on helping him. Wouldn't you have gone to your parents?" He had a point, I would have done what he did.

"Look, I know we have been enemies since first year. But you have to understand, I was raised to believe that muggleborns were beneath me. It was practically drilled in my head. I realized in sixth year that what I believed, what I was taught growing up, was all wrong. I'm sorry I didn't realize it sooner." He looked down at his shoes before looking up at me and slightly smiling.

"What made you change your mind?" I asked curiously. At first glance you wouldn't think he has changed. But the thing that really convinced me that he changed was the fact that he just said the word 'sorry' and didn't have to force it out.

"Well none of us Slytherin's liked Voldemort but the thing that made me realize how pathetic my fathers views really were was my little cousin." I motioned for him to sit down on the stool in front of me across the bar. He sat down and I offered m & m's to him, which he took a large handful of. 'He has big hands!' I thought to myself.

"How'd she convince you? If you don't mind my asking." He sighed and smiled. He seemed to smile when he talked about his little cousin.

"Well, Bianca was at the Manor because her parents went to Italy. Her Grandmother on her fathers side had passed away. She was playing and Voldemort had stopped by. She over heard him talking to some of his followers before running back to her room. I had gone to check on her and while we were playing she asked me why Uncle was letting that bad man in the house. She proceeded to tell me how there was no difference between muggle, muggleborn and pureblood's blood. That we all bled the same no matter where we came from. I began to really think about it and realized she was right. Bianca told me that no matter what happened, she hoped that all the people who followed him would realize just how much alike we all really are. Whether we grew up in the wizarding world or the muggle world, we were all still people." My heart melted watching him talk about his little cousin. You could see so many emotions in his eyes, he was proud of her, he loved her, he was thankful and happy all at once. I wasn't really sure what to say, I mean his little cousin seemed to be pretty smart and he was just so different.

"I would really like to be friends with you, Granger. I may not like Potter or Weasley but I like you. You have spine, you're smart, you're talented, you're funny and you are genuinely a good person. I respect you." I felt like I was going to fall off the stool. I think my mouth was gaping wide too. Draco Malfoy just said he wanted to be my friend and that he respected me! I smiled and looked at my hands.

"It'd be nice not to hate you Malfoy." He laughed and it sounded genuine.

"I'd like it if you didn't hate me Granger." I smiled and he smiled back. We spent the rest of the day talking and laughing. I told him all about things Harry, Ron, and I did at Hogwarts. He told me things he and his friends did. We had a great time. I showed him to his room and we stayed up late watching some of the movies my Aunt had bought. I was surprised at how much he knew about muggle technologies. He even had a mobile phone and laptop. We watched about three movies before we said goodnight. I laid down and started thinking about him. His perfect features, gorgeous blonde hair, beautiful steel grey eyes. I loved his outfit today. He wore a light blue t-shirt that was tight across his chest and arms, you could tell that it was all muscle, he had on distressed slightly baggy jeans and white basketball shoes. His hair was done in that just-got-out-of-bed look and he looked great. I fell asleep with him on my mind and a smile on my face.