Keep Holding On.
Chapter 7: Forgotten
By: Bridget Black-Malfoy.
Chapter 7: Forgotten.
April, 5 years later.
It was early in the morning of April 22nd, and Draco Malfoy was sitting in his living room along with his mother Narssisa, who was currently flipping through the channels on the wizard television. Draco was looking through a speech that he was to present at his next campaign stop, when his mother said…
"Draco, look who it is!"
Draco looked up and saw the girl that had been running threw his head for almost five years.
Draco looked up and saw the girl to which his heart belonged. "Mother would you please turn that up." He said rather loudly as he got up from his chair and moved closer to the television.
Narssisa compiled.
"Hermione Black was on fire last night as the 22 year old singer made a sweeping victory, winning all the awards she was nominated for including Album of the year for Inert-Wind and Song of the year for Slipped Away. And only our own Lavender Brown got the exclusive interview with her right after the show."
The screen flashed to Hermione who was standing in a beautiful emerald green dress. It was a satin sculpted strapless dress with shirred midriff and Obi knot at the back with a trumpet skirt. Her hair was in ringlets that made her look like an angel that had fallen from the heavens above. By her side was Ginny who was wearing a simple black dress that was also strapless, that landed just below the knee, with a silver belt that showed off her figure.
"So Hermione, major night for you, how are you going to celebrate?" Asked Lavender who was currently off screen.
"I really don't know. I'm just so exited, I've been to the Grammys before and have been fortunate enough to win, but I just have never made a sweep, so right now I'm in a haze that's not lifting." Hermione was smiling from ear to ear, and Draco could tell that she wanted to jump up and down. It made him think of the day of their graduation.
"Mother, why are they calling her Hermione Black?" Draco said as he turned to his mother.
Narssisa turned to her son. "I thought you knew that she had changed her name. After her mother got a divorce from that Granger man, it was revealed that she was Kathrin Black. Sirius Blacks lost wife. She had gone into hiding after Sirius was sent to Azkaban."
"And Hermione was Blacks long lost daughter?"
"Yes." Narssisa said as she turned back to the T.V.
Draco was so wrapped up in his own thoughts of her that he missed the rest of the interview, but was somehow able to catch the very last bit of the piece on her.
"That was a very happy Hermione Black fresh on her sweeping victory at the 2005 Grammys."
Draco looked at his mother. "Mum, do you know anywhere that I can check her out. See what she has been doing for the last five years?"
"You could go to the book of records and see what it has to say about her." Narssisa said as she handed Draco a set of keys. "You know which one it is."
"Of Course." He replied as he left the living room to go to his mothers study. When he arrived he let himself in, and went to the desk that sat in the corner, and sat down. Reaching into the second draw on the left he grabbed the book of records. He laid the book in front of him and spoke clearly. "Hermione Black."
The book flew open, and there was everything he wanted to know. He picked the book up and leaned back in the chair and started to read.
Hermione Christina Granger-Black was born on April 13, 1983 to the parents of Kathrin & Sirius Black. But the birth was unknown to her father who was in Azkaban at the time of the birth. Instead she was raised to believe that her father was Adam Granger. Raised in the muggle world, Hermione was a spirited child who. "Blah Blah Blah…" Draco knew all of this. Skipping to the part about after Hogwarts.
Hermione Black hit the entertainment scene in September of 2000 with her hit single My Happy Ending. The song was a smash hit earning her a Grammy nomination. Even thought she lost that year her album Falling from You hit the charts at #1, and stayed there for 5 weeks, and in the top ten for 27 weeks. A first for any new comer. On February 18, 2001 Black gave birth to her daughter Ashlee Christina Black.
"Hermione has a daughter?" Draco said as he stared at this sentence. "Who the hell is the father?" He asked himself as he started to read again.
Hermione has never released who the father is, but many speculate that it is her ex-boyfriend Victor Krum who she was reported to be dating around the time she would have conceived the baby. Following her public struggle in becoming a mother Hermione released her next three singles My Prerogative, Who knew, and Shadow. All hit the number one spot and made her the number one ticket sale of 2001. After her tour ended in spring of 2002 she went straight to work on her second album I'm still me. The album showed a raw and dark side of the then 19 year old., With the songs Breakaway, Nobody's Home, Forgotten, and Take me Away. It went platinum just 8 weeks after its release. Shortly after this she started her tour Now Watch This. The tour was a hit., With sold out stadiums everywhere she went she eventually had to extend the tour! When Now Watch This wrapped in mid 2003 Black released a statement saying this.
Due to my desire to be a better mother, I have made a decision to hold back on making an album so that I can spend more time with my family. I hope to have a third album out late next year.
Black was silent for a little over a year, when in September of 2004 she released the first single Forgotten, from her new album Inert wind. Latter she released Slipped Away, along with Hurt, and Out of My Head. On April 4, 2005 she won all of the Grammys she was nominated for including Album of the year and song of the year for Slipped Away. It has been an amazing four and half years for this young singer, who has a bright future ahead of her.
Draco closed the book, stood and walked out onto the balcony that over looked the gardens. "I need to talk to her." He said to himself. Then almost running back inside, he went to the fire place, took some flew powder throwing it into the fire. "Pansy Parkinson's." He said in a clear voice.
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Pansy was sitting down reading a book in her living room, when emerald flames erupted from the fire place. Looking up she saw Draco step out of the fire.
"Draco, to what do I owe the pleasure?" Pansy said as she stood to greet one of her oldest friends.
"Did you know that Hermione was a singer now?" Draco said, cutting to the chase.
"Of course… Draco don't tell me that you've never heard any of her music?" She was in shock, Hermione had become one of the most famous singers in the world of wizards, and Draco had never even heard about it!
Draco was silent. He couldn't believe that this was happening. Then he heard a song start to come on. He looked up. Pansy had put a video onto her T.V. It was a room that was black and white, with blue seeping in to give it a somber look of loss. Then in the lower left hand corner there popped up
Forgotten
Hermione Black
B.B.B Records
The TV showed Hermione in a blue floor length gown that had four spaghetti straps, two on both sides; she was lying on a four- poster bed that was in a dark room. A window was open and the curtains that were blue were waving in the wind.
Ah, ah, ah, ah I'm giving up on everything
Ah,
ah, ah, ah
Because you messed
me up
Don't know how much you screwed it up
You never
listened
That's just too bad
Hermione rose from the bed, and went to the window were she walked out onto a balcony. It showed the view which was a grave yard. It had children running through it. They were running from something that this angle did not show.
Because I'm moving
on
I won't forget
You were the one that was wrong
I know I
need to step up and be strong
Don't patronise me
Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah
The screen cut to Hermione sitting in a chair, and then as the chorus came on she got up from it violently and rushed at the camera. Acting as if she was going to punch it. She was wearing a pair of blue jeans, with flips-flops, and… "Is that?" Draco whispered as he noticed her shirt. It was his quidditch shirt that had gone missing right after he left Hogwarts. He had figured that it had been missed placed. But he then realized that he must have left it were he had left Hermione that faithful day.
Have you
forgotten
Everything that I wanted
Do you forget it now
You
never got it
Do you get it now
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Ah,
ah, ah, ah
The screen that followed showed Hermione still in her jeans and shirt packing up everything in her room… It looked a lot like her room when they had been Head Boy and Girl.
Gotta get
away
There's no point in thinking about yesterday
It's too late
now
It won't ever be the same
We're so different now
Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
She was done packing. She slammed the top of her suitcase shut and started to walk out of her room, and onto a landing., Then crossed over to another door, which opened into the room that had the bed that she had been laying on in the beginning of the video. She crossed and picked up a jacket. The room looked very close to how he had kept his bedroom, in the heads tower… and if he was not mistaking, that looked like a jacket that he had owned once.
Have you
forgotten
Everything that I wanted
Do you forget it now
You
never got it
Do you get it now
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hermione put the jacket on, and then exited the room. When the door closed, you saw a mirror that hung from the back of the door. There was a ghost of a blurry man. Hermione picked up her stuff, descended the staircase, and stepped out the front door that lead into a hallway. It then hit Draco like a tone of bricks. Hermione was showing what she had went through the day he had left.
I know I wanna
run away
I know I wanna run away
Run away
If only I could
run away
If only I could run away
Run away
I told you what I
wanted
I told you what I wanted
What I wanted
But I was
forgotten
I won't be forgotten
Never again
Hermione was on the balcony again, in the blue dress, looking into the grave yard. It showed her looking down at herself leaving the castle, and making her way through the grave yard. Then Hermione turned away, and walked back into the bedroom.
Have you
forgotten
Everything that I wanted
Do you forget it now
You
never got it
Do you get it now
Do you get it now
She laid herself onto the bed.
Have you
forgotten
Everything that I wanted
Do you forget it now
You
never got it
Do you get it now
Cut to Hermione on a train, looking out on the view before her. A dead look in her eyes. Draco didn't like this look. It made her look like a ghost.
Have you forgotten
Do you get it now
Cut back to her in the blue dress on the bed. She was looking right into the camera.
Forgotten
Yeah
yeah yeah
Hermione was on the train again looking out the window.
Forgotten
Yeah
yeah yeah
Walking through the graveyard in the blue dress.
Forgotten
Yeah
yeah yeah
She was lying on the bed again.
Forgotten
Yeah
yeah yeah
When the song finished she was laying on the bed, looking straight into the camera. She did not blink. She was still… She was dead in this video. The camera angle started to back up, and went out the window with the blue curtains, blowing in the wind.
This had been the hell that he had put her through.
