Neither a Mudblood nor lonely anymore
A/N: Hi guys, I've decided to sacrifice an hour of my studies to type this chapter. I hope you all enjoy it. This chapter may be a bit surprising. It contains some surprising things, according to the plot. I certainly hope, you enjoy it and leave a review at the end. Please do not ignore it. Whether you liked it or hated it, please review.
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Chapter4. The Ball-Part II and To Diagon Alley.
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*FLASHBACK*
"Good evening to you all, dears, we'll see you later at the party," said Andromeda, "we've got to meet 'Cissy." Saying this they left.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
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The eight of them entered the main ballroom where the party was to be held.
"This is so cool!" said Ron, awestruck.
"Oh yes it is, Weasel- oops Ronald," said Draco, who was given a poke by the red-head.
"Welcome everyone," announced Anastasia Zabini, "We welcome you to our house for the seventeenth birthday of Harry Potter and my children, Hermione and Blaise. Kindly join us in wishing them a very happy seventeenth. After that, there'll be an announcement after which, the ball begins."
All the people in the room wished the trio, especially their close friends who sang louder.
Then Narcissa Malfoy announced, "Ok, ladies and gentlemen, the announcement which I am going to make is a very happy one. At the end of his seventh year at Hogwarts, my son, Draco, will be marrying the lovely Ms. Zabini, Hermione. My godson, Harry Potter, will be marrying the charming Ms. Parkinson. So all of you will be invited to their wedding at the end of their schooling at Hogwarts. Thank you."
As soon as she finished her last word, Draco, suddenly, grabbed Hermione by her wrist and dragged her to where his mother was standing.
Then he bent on one knee and pulled out a small, palm-sized gold box. He opened it and presented it to a red-faced Hermione and said, "Hermione, my lovely intelligent…uhm…well…friend, will you accept my proposal to live happily ever after and all that muggle fairytale crap by marrying me?"
Hermione, who was taken aback by the sudden proposal, felt tears of happiness pouring out from her eyes. She asked Draco, "How do you know that I've always wanted to be proposed in this way?"
Draco gave her the trademark Malfoy smirk and then after winking at Blaise, he said, "With a little help from your red-head friend. Now, what is your answer, though I know it anyway. No one can resist m-", but was cut off by Hermione's glare, which turned into a smile when he turned silent, and Hermione nodded.
Draco then, suddenly pulled her towards him, by grabbing her waist, then took his right palm to her face, pulled it close to his face and kissed her in front of everybody. It was a short but a sweet kiss, like as if it were shared between two innocent angels.
After a few moments, they broke up and heard wolf whistles from Blaise, Harry and Ron. Ginny and Pansy were grinning mischievously and identically and Luna just had a wide smile on her face. Then everyone cheered.
Except a certain Slytherin girl, with blonde hair and green eyes, whose name was Astoria Greengrass.
She went towards the happy duo and screeched loudly, "How dare you steal my Draco, you filthy mudblood? How dare-"
"Excuse me, Greengrass? Go hang out with someone else who can stand you. You are not worthy of my attention. And Hermione is not muggleborn or never was," hissed Draco, dangerously.
Astoria glared at Hermione and said, "You will pay for this one, Mudblood."
Draco turned in a position that only Astoria and Hermione could see his face. Then he made a rude gesture towards Astoria, which he would never do in front of adults, especially his mother. Hermione's eyes widened and Astoria burst into tears and left the Manor.
"You shouldn't have done that, Draco," said Hermione, quietly after taking him aside.
"I can't stand that-" began Draco, but was cut off by Blaise and Ginny, who came towards them.
Blaise said, "That was bloody brilliant, mate. I'll do something similar to this lovely red-haired lioness here," indicating to Ginny, who suddenly turned the color of her hair.
Then dance began. Draco grabbed Hermione and said, "Come, dance with me." Hermione said, "Sure." And the duo went to the dance floor. Draco put his one arm around Hermione's waist and the other overlapping one of her hands while her other hand found its way on his shoulders.
Blaise danced with Ginny and Harry with Pansy while Luna preffered to dance alone, swaying to the music, and Ron went to the food counter to have some butter beer, and watched Luna, amused at her behaviour.
Later, everyone went home, thinking happily about what had happened at the ball.
Hermione and Ginny went to their rooms, giggling about their dates. They quickly changed in to their night gowns, Hermione wearing a rose silk one while Ginny wore a lacy white one.
Ginny looked at Hermione, eyes full of michief, and asked her, "So Hermione, was Draco a good kisser?"
Hermione blushed but then snapped at her, "Shut up, Gin. I think you were having a perfectly cosy time with my brother, weren't you? Oh, and don't deny it. It's useless."
Ginny's flush was her clear reply.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Hermione said, "Come in."
The door opened revealing Draco, Blaise and Harry, who looked tired and were in their night suits. Harry was wearing a black silk one while Blaise wore his favourite green colored, silk one. Draco, on the contrary, wore only silky grey pyjamas.
"D'you wear just that?" asked Hermione, disgustedly.
"Why yes, love. Is there any problem with that?" asked Draco, innocently.
"No, not at all," replied Hermione, sarcastically, while Harry, Blaise and Ginny grinned.
"Where's Ron?" asked Ginny.
"Oh, he's sleeping and already snoring," said Harry.
"It sounds like a pig's grunt to me," said Blaise.
"Oh yeah, my brother does grunt. Didn't you know?" asked Ginny.
"Forget all this, why did you three come here, in the middle of the night?" asked Hermione, bored.
"We wanted to tell you that tomorrow we're all going to Diagon Alley to get our school stuff. D'you want to come, or shall we get your stuff for you?" asked Harry.
"We'll come," said Ginny, "where's Pansy, by the way?"
"Oh, she went back home with her parents. She'll come here tomorrow morning after breakfast," said Blaise.
"Yeah, fine then. Is Draco sleeping with you?" asked Hermione, without thinking.
Draco looked outraged while Blaise growled at her, "How dare you say that I, Blaise Zabini, sleep with my best mate? How could you say that I am a bi?"
Harry and Ginny burst out laughing, while Hermione quickly said, "Sorry I didn't mean by that. I meant whether you two are sleeping in the same room?"
"Yeah," said Draco, "not TOGETHER. Not even on the same bed."
"FINE, now leave us alone! We're sleepy!" yelled Hermione.
"Right, goodnight, girls," said the three boys, closing the door after them.
"Goodnight," called back Hermione and Ginny and slept on the queen sized bed, dreaming about their dates.
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The next day it was just a week before Harry and the others had to go to Hogwarts. They quickly got ready to go to Diagon Alley and went there by Floo Powder.
"I really hate going this way," said Harry.
"Me too," said Hermione, Ginny and Pansy together.
"Me three," said Draco, Blaise and Ron together.
"Well, look's like we all hate travelling by Floo Powder," said Harry, grinning.
At Diagon Alley, they met many of their schoolmates. They saw Neville Longbottom with his grandmother, buying a new owl. The Gryffindors stopped by to have a chat with him.
Neville saw Hermione first and asked, "Hey Hermione, you look so different. You've never had green eyes before."
"Actually Neville, I'll tell you the whole thing at Hogwarts itself. Now it's not the right place to tell you," said Hermione.
Then Neville left with his grandmother after buying a brown owl. Hermione then purchased a new white and grey colored owl and named him, Wulfric, since his eyes were a surprising shade of grey.
Then they went to Madam Malkin's to get their new robes. After that, they got their new books from Florish and Blotts after which their money almost got over. So they went to Gringotts, where they met Draco, Blaise and Pansy.
"Hey Blaise! Over here!" called out Hermione, waving at her brother.
"Hello sis, didn't I tell you that you have to now use our account and not your old 'Granger' one?" said Blaise, casually.
"Oh, well, I'll use that account as my pocket money then," said Hermione, "but I need to make a dash and so does Harry. So could you take us to our account?"
"Sure," replied Blaise and along with a goblin, they all went to the Zabini's vault, seven hundred and ten. It was strongly protected. When they opened the vault, only Ron and Ginny gasped seeing the amount of gold galleons, silver sickles and bronze Knuts. Draco was surprised.
He asked Hermione, "How come you didn't get surprised, Hermione? I thought even you weren't...well, you know, wealthy?"
Hermione's eyes narrowed.
"Just because I was living as a muggleborn, didn't mean that, as a muggleborn, I didn't have gold, Malfoy," she said, icily. "I see that your attitude towards muggleborns hasn't changed, yet. In that case you do not deserve my words at all. C'mon Ginny, Harry, Ron, let's go. I don't want to be near an aristocratic ferret, who thinks too much of himself," she said and left with her best friends.
Draco stared at her retreating figure, mouth hung low at her sudden outburst.
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A/N: Ok guys,thats it for now, got to go.
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Toodles,
Athena Black Malfoy.
