4. Holidays
The last week of term was quiet until George Weasley arrived. He came alone and Darcy told her George was coming every year since Hogwarts had been open for students again. Every last day of term George had a surprise for the students and remembered his twin the same time.
The explosion first scared her and he hugged Darcy who was her great protector. Together they watched George's firework and saw students running around and enjoying the sensation and play of colours. Lights and faces, names and other objects were on the sky before the students finally had to say goodbye and left Hogwarts for the next months.
Teachers and the headmaster left some hours later and George Weasley left too. Every teacher had to make sure their classrooms were closed and tight up. She was just leaving her room when Darcy came running with a list in his hand after he had closed the library.
"Hazel, wait. I like to take you home"
"I don't live far from here" She didn't have much luggage and walked by his side away from school. She led him over the fields to a small cottage. "Before the war the giant Hagrid lived in a cabin where my cottage now stands"
She was eight years older than Harry Potter and had never met him personally. The most time she had been traveling like most future teachers do to learn more than in school. She came back for the battle but didn't stay. She traveled more until Hogwarts was reopened again and she applied to be a teacher.
"I had no home but it's forbidden to stay all time at Hogwarts. Lydia allowed me to live here and sometimes I come here reading and sleep here. In the school I have nightmares of the war but not here" She opened the door of her cottage and invited Darcy inside. Magical feathers flew from all corners to welcome her come and tickled him.
"You have a nice home. Was this our home from your dream?"
He was curious and started looking around when her wand sent all feathers back to a box by the window. "Yes, this was our home"
She smiled when he found a radio and used his own wand to play music. After he put his list on her table Darcy bowed and asked her to dance. The next two months they danced everyday and get to know each other better and what the other liked.
She didn't have to ask her teacup if they would always be happy. They both felt they would be and when school started again they often came back to spend their nights at home in their little cottage where they lived in peace and love.
Their wedding had been small and just the two of them gave each other a promise.
Without own children every student in Hogwarts was like family. A few students even came to visit them at their cottage whenever they felt like talking. All knew Darcy and his wife would always help and cheer someone up.
Like in her dreams she spent the evenings sitting next to her husband and her feathers wrote poems of their love with Darcy turned into a book and it's now his favourite book in the library which he reads while his wife works with teacups.