A/N: Okay guys, this is the last chapter! Hope you liked the whole story! Just want to say thank you to everyone who reviewed and helped with the progress of this story, couldn't have done it without you all! One more thing, I've posted a one shot so check it out! Love you all x

Chapter 25

Running through the corridors, Hermione flung open the door and let the sun overwhelm her. It had been days since she'd been outside and today nothing could stop her.

Skipping down the stairs and onto the field, she scanned her eyes until she found what she needed. Darting towards the little group of seventh years, she flung herself in the middle and screamed from the top of her lungs.

"I'm freeee!"

The other's laughed at her immaturity. Hermione being the person she was had a few extra exams than anyone else, which was why she finished later than expected.

"No more exams! Can you believe it, we are our own person from no on, on our own." The smile on her face soon dropped. The others noticed this.

"Don't worry Hermione, we'll always be there with you." Harry said, concerned, thinking that that was the reason for the dropped smile.

Hermione's eyes welled up and she sniffed. Looking around the grounds, she finally spoke, her voice quavering.

"N-no more exams, do you know what that means?" Hermione said frantically looking at each of them who held exact confused looks.

"It means that…we have no more exams?" Ron said, unsure if it was a trick question.

"Exactly!" Hermione shouted hysterically.

Draco looked at Blaise, who looked at Ginny, who looked at Harry, who looked at Ron who stared at Hermione, mouth wide open.

"It means no more studying, o-or staying up late to do last minute editing to essays and…and…"

"Hermione, that's a good thing!" Ginny said, taking hold of Hermione by the shoulders and gently shaking her.

"It is?" Hermione looked at all of them one by one, surprised at how they were all nodding in unison.

But before Hermione could relent on the matter further, a second-year walked up to Draco, a frightened look on his face.

"A-are you Draco Malfoy?" he whispered.

"Yeah." surprised at Draco's gentle tone the boy relaxed.

"I have a note from Professor Dumbledore." He handed Draco a rolled up parchment before scurrying off.

"I wonder what he wants." Taking the ribbon off and letting the parchment unroll, he began reading in his minds, his eyes scanning the letter from left to right.

Ginny who was sitting next to Draco leaned forward and scanned the letter before letting out a squeal.

"That's great Malfoy!"

"What is?" everyone chimed in.

"Wait, can I talk to you first?" Ginny asked Draco as she stood up, holding out her hand for him to take.

"Sure." He took her hand and she pulled him away from the others, quite a distance away.

As she stared at their retreating backs, Hermione felt a twinge in her heart, something she had never felt before and she had to admit it, she didn't like it. Maybe that's what it was called, jealousy, such a horrible word and such a horrible feeling to go with it.

They were talking avidly, she was touching his arm and he had a concerned look on his face. Even though they were far, she could see their actions. However hard she tried, she couldn't take her eyes away from them.

"They look so serious, I wonder what they're talking about?" she heard a voice, not quite registering whose it was and smiled, not her usual one.

"Yeah, I wonder." She turned away from them; putting on a brave smile she faced the others. The voice belonged to Blaise, but it wasn't a knowing look, more of an enquiring look. Ignoring the feeling inside her, she joined in with the conversation.

"So Hermione, written your graduation speech?"

"Mhm?" She wasn't really listening, her mind somewhere else.

"You're Head Girl, you must have written a speech?"

"Er…yeah. I finished it the other day." Distractedly Hermione looked over to where Draco and Ginny were.

The twinge came back as more of a stab to the heart when Draco put his arms around Ginny and hugged her tightly, whispering something in her ear that cased her to laugh.

Willing the tears not to fall, Hermione stood up and picked up her belongings.

"I've just remembered something I've got to do. See you later." Before waiting for a reply Hermione sped off inside, into the sanctuary of her common room.

"I think she's still upset over the 'no studying' thing." Ron said smirking.

Moments later Draco and Ginny returned with huge smiles on their faces. Ginny plopped down next to Harry whilst Draco picked his stuff up.

"Where's Mione?"

"She went in a hurry saying she had to do something."

"Oh," finding it odd, Draco decided to tell her his news later.

"Anyway, I'm off. Got a speech to right." Flashing them a grin, he walked off without any further explanation.

"What speech?" Ginny sniggered as if she didn't know anything but internally she snickered. They can find out later anyway, better not to ruin the surprise for Ron!

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"Hello, where did you run off to?"

Hermione didn't look up from her lengthy parchment not because she was busy, just that she didn't want to look at Ginny and let the feeling of just tearing Ginny's red hair out to make herself feel better.

To be honest, she felt disgusted with herself for feeling the way she was, for letting nothing important take over her. What was this feeling, something she had never experienced before?

Ginny was her best friend, she wouldn't do anything hurtful to Hermione, then why did she feel that way?

"I had to finish off my speech." She said simply, hoping the bitter tone wasn't noticeable.

"Oh yeah, for the graduation assembly. So how's it coming along?" Ginny said, jumping onto Hermione's bed and lying down casually much to Hermione's discomfort.

"Fine." Hermione bit back.

"Mione, what's wrong?" Ginny had obviously noticed the bitter tone and felt it as her duty as a friend to ask.

"Nothing." Hermione cynically replied, hopping off the bed and moving over to her school bag.

"Mione, tell me." Ginny insisted.

Hermione didn't speak, trying to calm herself down in case she said something that she would regret later.

"Okay, I'll guess. Is it about Harry?" Ginny carefully watched Hermione's posture hoping to get some sort of clue.

She was sitting cross-legged on the floor, her back facing Ginny. At the sound of Harry's name, her posture didn't change.

"Ron?" No reaction.

"Me?" finally, a reaction, even it was a small one. She watched as Hermione's back stiffened.

"What have I done?"

"Nothing." Hermione tried avoiding the topic.

"If it's not about me then it must be about Malfoy." Once again she stiffened and to avoid any further question Hermione began unpacking her school bag.

"Hermione, you need to tell me otherwise I can't help you." Hermione didn't say anything as she continued sorting out her school books.

"Okay lets get to the point then, you stiffened when I mentioned mine and Malfoys name so it's obviously got something to do with us. Do you want to continue?"

"Fine, I want to know why you and Draco were all touchy with each other when all you ever do is throw insults at each other."

"Hermione, I don't know what you're talking about?"

"Yes you do, today when we were all outside and Draco received a letter, which by the way he let you read before me, you both went away secretly and…"

"Firstly, I took the letter off him, he didn't give it to me and secondly I had something to talk about privately with him, it was important." Ginny said, cutting Hermione off.

"What was so important that you couldn't share with it everyone else?" Hermione shouted incredulously.

"I can't say." Ginny muttered, looking Hermione straight in the eye and Hermione uncomfortably noticed a strange glint in her eyes that she couldn't place.

"Look Hermione, I don't know what's brought this on but jealousy doesn't bode well with you," Ginny shouted back at her equally before storming out of their shared bedroom.

Sooner or later she'll find out.

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"Good morning students. For some, today is the end of another year and for some it is the end of their life here at Hogwarts. For all those who have experienced seven years at this school, are now off in the outside world to do their own thing, to recognise themselves throughout the Wizarding World."

It was the next morning and the entire population of the school were excitedly seated in their respective House tables, just having finished breakfast. It was the last day and in an hour, everyone would be leaving, some to return next term and for some to never return.

"I would like to call up our Head Girl, Miss Hermione Granger. Due to some unfortunate reasons, our Head Boy has returned home early, so on his behalf I would like to call upon our Head Prefect, Mr Draco Malfoy."

Hermione, who had already reached the stage before his name was called out, looked at the approaching boy, who had the trademark smirk on his face.

Why hadn't she known about this? Was this what was on the letter yesterday? But she had no time to question because Dumbledore had sat back down in his chair and Draco was standing behind the speaker podium.

Hermione moved to her podium and looked over at the students. She looked over at Draco who gave her an encouraging smile. Looking back over, she cleared her throat and let her strong voice flow.

"Seven year's we have made Hogwarts our home, for seven years we have lived as a family and have been through a fair amount of ups and downs.

Possessed teachers, obnoxious teachers, werewolves, the list goes on. But the prevalent event that has changed all our lives in many ways is the Rise and Fall of Lord Voldemort.

During that period, we have lost people close to our hearts but in a way we have gained a new perspective of how the world should be." She whispered, letting her heart do the talking. She paused, taking a breath and reminiscing. Taking this moment Draco spoke.

"We are an example, an example to world of how it should be, a big family where blood, sex, race, anything doesn't matter. And we should feel proud of who we have become, some more than others."

The whole room was quiet, except the few shuffles and sniffles that echoed around the room. Draco glanced at Hermione and winked at her, a way of letting her know that he was there and that what he meant was from the heart.

"So today we stand here, hand in hand," Hermione moved over to Draco's side and he did the same as they clasped hands together, 'Ready to face whatever the world throws at us."

And with that the room erupted with applause and whistles. The teachers alongside stood and congratulated the two students for being such inspirations.

It was chaos, but even through the whole crowd, Draco couldn't ignore the mass of red hair that belonged to a pretty face. And the same pretty face was glaring at him; he couldn't put it off any longer.

Letting go of Hermione's hand, Draco walked back to the podium and cleared his throat.

"Can I have everyone's attention?" obviously his voice wasn't loud enough because there was still disorder around the room.

So he tried again, but with much more force. And it worked; everyone stopped what they were doing. The few Slytherin's removed themselves from the Ravenclaw table and sat down on their own, the Gryffindors got off the table and seated themselves along with the Huffelpuffs.

"If everyone could sit please," he addressed the few people that were still standing and when they did he continued.

"Everything I said was what I truly felt. And I can say that if it wasn't for that, I probably wouldn't have had the courage to fall for someone, someone who is so much more worthy than me even though we don't have the same bloodline.

I wouldn't even be doing if I hadn't of had a right bollocking from a certain somebody, but I'm glad I did. So here I am, standing in front of you all, to tell you that I love someone," he paused as he looked right at Hermione, who was in a state of shock.

The room once again was silent, ready for a pin to drop and break it. He walked towards her so that he was only mere inches away.

"I love you Hermione Granger, I love you with my life."

There were gasps, thuds, even a few sobs but none came from Hermione. The audience stared at, willing for her to say something, anything. But she didn't.

"Say something." Someone screamed from the crowd, and then another until the whole crowd was chanting for her to say something.

She walked closer, leaving hardly any gap between the two and whispered, "I love you too Draco Malfoy." And then she kissed him.

The whole room erupted again, with screams and shouts of thoughts. Even the teachers were surprised, Professor Dumbledore with his usual twinkle, though it was much brighter.

Professor McGonagall with watery eyes and Snape with a horrified look on his face, but round on all, it was a very ecstatic audience. Hermione scanned the hall for the pretty face, and when it was located, hermione mouthed the words perfectly clear. You are so dead! the pretty face just winked back.

"A perfect ending to the perfect day," Dumbledore shouted, loud enough for everyone to hear, before removing his spectacles and wiping away a tear that was formed at the corner of his eyes.

Truly a perfect ending.

A/N: Finished! Another story that has come to an end! Hope it was worthy enough. So, I have a story in mind so I shall hopefully be back with another fanfic for you guys.

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