A/N: Because of my birthday earlier this week (4th of July) I made this chapter nearly double as long as my usual chapters. It has 1233 word and my normal chapters are around 650 words.
Chapter 7: Catch up time.
Draco and Hermione were friends again and George kept it a secret for the rest of the world. Ron had returned from his walk around the town. In front of his eyes Hermione and Draco were still arch enemies, so did they act like.
Lots of changing were done that same day. Hermione had magically changed the names on the letterbox to Hermione Granger instead of Hermione Johnson & Amy Stuart, the house was also enchanted with a spell that would make people think that only Hermione had lived there. The bedroom where Amy used to sleep was turned into a visitor's room where with some magically added beds all three boys could spend the night.
George had told Hermione that he had to go back to London the next morning to open the shop, Ginny wouldn't be able to handle it by herself and he used the excuse to take Ron with him.
Ron who still hated Draco as a school enemy so refused to sleep with him in the same room. Therefor Ron slept on the couch.
Hermione changed her clothes into comfortable pyjama's and went to bed but didn't fell asleep. She thought of everything that had happened today. On one and the same day she had Draco Malfoy standing on her doorstep Ron and George who stood there as well, she had sent her best friend away.
Draco woke up in a quite small bedroom with George Weasley laying in the other bed in the room. There was sunlight coming through the blinds meaning that it was morning. Then he realized where he was and he put on his clothes and went down the stairs. On a clock he saw it was half past seven and in the only person in the kitchen was Ron in his pyjamas with a cup of hot milk.
"Hermione went to buy us some breakfast, she wasn't expecting so many guests." Ron said.
Draco took the seat on the other side of the table.
"I know you're some sort of ministry officer and that you work on the Wizards and Witches registration department but why are you here then, shouldn't you be at the ministry in London." Ron asked Draco.
"You know the list right." Draco said "You probably do otherwise you wouldn't have found Granger in a place like this. My job is to visit several small towns all around Britain to update the list."
"And that means."
"You're really as stupid as they say aren't you. This town is one of the places that I have to visit and I saw Granger in a pub so I added her to the list."
"I'm not stupid." Yelled Ron who had almost pulled out his wand.
A few second later George came down the stairs still yawning.
"Come on Ron get dressed we leave immediately after breakfast"
George hadn't even finished his sentence when two big paper bags appeared on the kitchen table and everybody expected Hemione to come in every second but it took ten minutes before she arrived.
"I send the bags here because they were too heavy." Hermione said.
After breakfast George and Ron said goodbye to Hermione and left back home. Afterwards Draco wanted to leave as well but Hermione stopped him.
"I forgive you." Hermione said.
"You can't forgive me so easily." Draco said. "Not after all the things I have done. I abandoned you when you were in danger, I never helped you with anything during the war."
"You did in the room of requirement you stopped Crabbe or Goyle from attacking me, Harry and Ron. You had the chance to sell us out to Voldemort all the time because you knew it was us even in our best disguise but you never did."
Hermione gave Draco a hug.
"You can go now if you want to."
"I probably should go I still need to pass a few towns. But you can come with me if you want." Draco said hoping that she would come.
"Draco I would like to ... but I can't leave now all these people they... ."
"Say that you're travelling" Draco interrupted "But please come with me, you can't stay here not now we all know you're here all alone."
"Fine."
Hermione agreed to go with Draco to London and stay in his house until she found a new place in the city. Hermione packed all her belongings in a bag that was bigger on the inside. It was necessary because Hermione took really everything that was not part of the furniture with her.
She packed the furniture as well but in a box and she left it in the living room. Hermione would come to collect the box when she has a new place to stay.
Eventually Hermione did a side along apparition with Draco to a small town. It looked like there was only one street in the little village but there were lots of little alleys from the main road and all with a dead end.
"This shouldn't be too hard." Draco said.
Suddenly they saw a old man coming out of his shop and running towards Draco and Hermione. The man was wearing a strange mix of clothes it seemed like he had attempted wearing muggle clothes in what he had succeeded but on the other hand he was still wearing his wizard robes as a cape.
"I heard you apparating." Said the man. "I never thought that I would ever hear that sound again. It's been a long time since I last saw a wizard."
"I'm from the ministry of magic I'll have to meet every witch and wizard there is in this town by the wizard meeting point in one hour." Draco said.
"I'm sorry young man but there aren't any wizards left. The last wizard left a few years ago."
"And what about you, you knew we were wizards because of the apparition sound."
"I'm a squib, I have the senses of a wizard and I know a lot about wizards but I can't even perform a decent spell."
"Are you all alone here?" Hermione asked the old man.
"Oh no my dear I'm married to a muggle. But she doesn't know anything about my magical family." Said the old man. "I hoped that maybe one of my children or grandchildren would be a witch or a wizard but I've lost hope."
"You shouldn't lose any hope I'm a muggleborn and I've read that muggleborn are descents from wizard families who lost their magical ability through the generation."
"Thank you dear, that makes me happy. And for you young man there really isn't any wizard left."
Draco and Hermione said goodbye to the old man. They left by foot to the next place because Draco hadn't 'pre-visited' the village. It took a whole day to walk because between the two villages were huge fields and the owners didn't allow them to walk through them so they had to walk around.
Hermione and Draco arrived at the village around midnight and got a room in a small hotel. The room was quite small but was big enough to place two single beds and a small bathroom.
Hermione immediately fell asleep but Draco looked to the sleeping Hermione and noticed that he started to smile while looking at her and went to bed as well.
A/N: Because it is double as long as normal there's no sneak peek and if you like (or dislike) the new chapter you can tell me by reviewing (it only takes less than a minute of your life). Keep reading.
PS: I was about to upload my chapter when i noticed that my other chapter are around 800 words long and that this chapter isn't 'longer' than several other chapters. Apologies.
