Year 1 :)
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Hermione sat at the dining table in deep concentration not even looking at the pile of steaming hot bacon served by Brandy, instead her gaze was fixed solely on Draco as he yet again fixed his collar and wiped non-existent fluff of his shoulder. Eventually he felt his cousins calculating grey eyes on him, an uneasy feeling settled into his stomach.
"Um, Hermione?" , His voice only trembled slightly as he feared he could have upset his cousin.
"Yes Draco?", Hermione, seemingly breaking out of her transfixed state, looked into Draco's eyes. By now all the adults looked on, eager to find out what was going on with the Black heir.
"Is everything alright, I mean- it's just that- you've kind of been staring at me for the past ten minutes or so.", Draco voice this time took a more worried tone as he saw his cousins expression of pure contemplation.
"I was just wondering.. Never mind, it's not important."
"Nonsense sweetie, if it wasn't important you wouldn't have been concentrating for so long", gently commented Narcissa as she waved the house elf's away to the kitchen.
"Well I was just thinking..", Hermione trailed of uncertainly as she reached for Draco's hand under the table.
"You can tell us anything", Was what Bellatrix said, 'Isn't eleven too young to come out?' is what she thought, she smiled encouragingly at her daughter anyway.
"I think I should be a boy"
One. Two. Three. Four seconds pass before finally,
"Uh, what makes you say that honey?" Of course it was Narcissa who said this as Bella was just looking at her daughter.. Her son.. Her child with her mouth agape.
"Careful Bella, the flies might think you're inviting them into your mouth!", Lucius, the insensitive bastard, struggled against laughing at the aghast faces his family was making! Hermione's statement made perfect sense to him, for crying out loud Mione was more masculine than Draco!
"It's just.. I've been thinking recently and- look i'm not sure alright! I just thought maybe would could try it?"
Bella looked down at her only child, her child who had for the last eleven years been her daughter.
She saw pure terror in those grey eyes, the same grey as her own eyes, with that look of fear she knew she couldn't deny her child.
"Of course honey!", quickly exclaimed Bella as she sent warning glances to Narcissa and Draco who hesitantly nodded and sent encouraging smiles Hermione's way.
"I think this is a great idea! But what type of a name is Hermione for a young pureblood boy?", This time Lucius was much more supporting and sincere when he spoke.
"He's right", This time it was Draco who spoke up, he gave Mione's hand a squeeze.
"Well I always told cissy that if you were a boy your name would have been Regulus", Suggested Bellatrix as she started thinking about what all of this could mean for Hermione's future in the wizarding world.
"Regulus, Reg for short. I like it!", Whispered Reg as a snowy white owl perched on the window of the Malfoy Manor kitchen.
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