"Now Tom, me and Jason's manager will be back right after you have your interview with him. After lunch, you are scheduled for a press conference. And oh, Jade called, she wants to speak to you so I invited her for lunch so you two can talk." said Robert just as the pair walked inside the building. Draco internally groaned with the thought, dealing with press is hard, how much more dealing with Tom's girlfriend again.
Robert continued talking about his plans and schedule but the Malfoy heir didn't pay him much attention. If only he could use magic, he'll cast a silencio at him right here, right now. His hand was itching for his wand, or maybe he'll hex this muggle next to him. Oh the thought of feeling magic again is teasing him so much. "Oh merlin, He's bloody annoying! Is this a punishment?" He thought to himself, scoffing. "I should've payed attention to Granger when she attempted me to teach wandless magic."
The thought of it made him smirk, the night when Hermione tried to teach him wandless magic was memorable. Instead of learning from her, he almost got a hex from her instead because of annoying her. Well every night with Granger was always memorable, they had this habit that every friday they would meet at the astronomy tower and just talk nonsense things, they had that routine ever since they were in third year.
"Okay Malfoy, wandless magic is tricky, it takes full concentration especially that this is quite an advance magic." said Hermione as she faced him.
The two of them were seated on the floor, indian style, and faced each other. "Observe." she said as Malfoy watched her intently. Hermione closed her eyes and held up her hand, soon after she opened her eyes and stared her hand - after a few seconds a flame appeared on her hand, much to Malfoy's surprise, yet he was impressed at the same time.
With a smirk, he looked at her. "Wow Granger that was impressive. But a fire, really? I think that was too simple." he crossed his arms, Hermione eyed him incredulous, "Did you just heard yourself? Simple?! That was not bloody simple Malfoy! That took me weeks to practice you know." She scoffed and crossed her arms.
Draco shrugged and smirked again, "Well, ofcourse, you do awfully need a lot of practice Granger. I think you really do not possess the skills." he tutted and wagged his finger at her, Hermione rolled her eyes and swatted his finger away, feeling annoyed.
Malfoy was containing himself not to laugh, the brunette's annoyed face was priceless. Even though Draco didn't admit it, Hermione really is the Brightest Witch in their age, performing a wandless magic is very tricky and she was more advance than any of them, including him, which is a pureblood. If this was an alternate universe were there were still blood prejudice, Malfoy would hate her to the guts. Being felt more superior, a muggle born! That'll be ridiculous.
But here he is, feeling rather proud at his muggle born bestfriend. Even though instead of telling her that, he teased her. Annoying her, Merlin help him not to get hexed into oblivion. Hermione looked annoyed at the blond and just stared at him, "Woaw Granger, are you having your period right now?" he chuckled but felt slightly nervous.
Last time she had that look, Hermione hexed Malfoy's beloved hair turning it from platinum blond to firey red, resembling the Weasley's hair. Malfoy was angry, the spell hadn't faded till dinner and he was teased by his classmates, they hadn't talk for a whole day but later Draco apologized, not being able to talk to his bestfriend was a torture to him, so he lowered down his Malfoy pride just for her, well it was his fault in the first place.
Malfoy held up his beloved hair, scared to be turned red again. So he cupped Hermione's cheeks to calm her down, a habit Malfoy do whenever Hermione is angry or pissed. "You know that I was joking right." He chuckled and exhaled a relieving sigh as he noticed Hermione's face soften.
"Oh Malfoy you're so insufferable!" she exclaimed. The Malfoy heir laughed, "Yeah yeah but you still love me though." he smirked as he crossed his arms. "Yes." Hermione sad as she swatted Draco's hands away from her cheeks and crossed her arms, turning away from Draco, "And I regret that." She said, slightly smirking.
Draco, who was now facing Hermione's back let out a fake pained sound and clutched his heart dramatically, "Oh Hermione you pained me. You don't really mean that" he said. The brunette rolled her eyes and face him, "I do." she said, but her eyes were playing teasingly at him, attempting to smile.
Draco rolled his eyes and hugged the brunette from behind, "Yeah sure you do Granger, sure you do." as Hermione felt Draco's two strong arms around her waist, she blushed. Draco on the other hand, pulled them both to the floor thus making them faced the dark sky outside.
"The stars are beautiful tonight." Hermione said in awe, as her eyes darted at the stars above. And with just that, her mood turned from pissed off to relaxed. Draco was the only who can switch her mood that fast. "They sure are." he said softly, but wasn't really looking at the stars above, but instead he stared adoringly at his bestfriend. The pair were just lying there, Draco's arms are still wrapped at the brunette protectively as Hermione recited every constellation she saw, Malfoy just closed his eyes and listened.
Nights like these were one of his favorites. They would talk, annoy her, make her pissed then make her smile right after.
"Tom, over here!" Draco snapped out of his thoughts as he heard his own father's voice. He looked at the direction where the voice was coming from, he felt a bit of disappointment when he saw Jason Isaacs. "I always mistaken him as father." He mentally slapped himself. Ofcourse it was Jason, how can he be so stupid. He's in the muggle world for crying out loud.
"Hey Tom," he said as the pair shook hands and hugged, it was a foreign gesture to the Slytherin, imagining him and his own father do such thing. But then again, this man was not Lucius. "Hey." the wizard answered casually.
He decided to play the part of Tom, whilst Tom was playing Draco very well, and to be fair, he should also do the same in return. "So, no more hangovers?" the actor asked, chuckling. "Yeah, I'm good. The coffee helped." He answered.
"Good, now let's go. It's time for the interview." And the two left, walking side by side towards the direction where an interviewer was smiling at the pair.
And hour and a half passed, the interview was quite calming, for Draco. He was bombarded with question that he answered by his opinion, he silently prayed to Merlin that Tom Felton would forgive him for those incorrect answers. He may not know the muggle world, but he do know that everyone will believe everything the press tells them. Luckily for him, it was like having a conversation with the help of Jason Isaacs of course, and fortunately the man hadn't asked Draco some personal questions for Tom. All in all, it went well.
When Draco and Jason said their good byes, he was met by Robert down the lobby, Draco mentally groaned as he spotted a charming lady right next to Tom Felton's manager. "Hey love." said Olivia Jade Gordon as she walked towards the Slytherin, greeting him with a quick kiss on the lips.
Draco just let out a small smile and said, "Hello", and was starttled when he felt Jade's hands slipped on his. "Let's go? I'm quite hungry." she said. The wizard nodded in response, as Robert led them towards the car, opening the car door for them.
"So Emma, how are things in school?" asked Alan as he took a bite on his buttered chicken. It was an hour since the conference ended, and the Gryffindor had her lunch with Matt, Alan and Helena. "Uhm . . . " she thought for a while and stared blankly on her plate, she heard Matt mumbled, 'Brown University' and understood that it was probably the school, Emma Watson had currently attending.
"It's fine, a bit busy and school works bombarding me because of work, but it's tolerable, totally managable." she answered casually, Matt nodded, impressed at the witch's capability to understand. Hermione smirked, a smirk which Matt had grew familiar of, it was Malfoy kind of smirk.
"Oooh Draco Malfoy will be proud of her." he thought to himself. "You know, I'm really impressed by you Emma. For a girl aged 21, one of the famous actress in the world, got tons of awards from working and still balanced her time for education." Helen McCrorry said, a smile plastering her adoring face. Alan Rickman agreed, "I agree." he said, making Hermione smile.
She too agrees, she didn't quite expected Emma to be just like her. And the love of education and knowledge that both of them shared made her think that if both of them would meet personally, they would become the best of friends because of that particular personality they have in common. "Well, nothing can be more satisfying than learning. Books have always been my bestfriend ever since I was young, learning is my passion. People can take anything from me, my fame, my fortune, but they can never take away my knowledge. That's why education will always be important to me." the brunette said with a satisfying smile on her face.
Matthew Lewis smirked, this was the Hermione Granger she knew, and the thought of her and his friend Emma, well, they are really similar. Hermione on the other hand, thought the same thing. As she said those words, she haven't thought of her being on Emma's body and saying those for Emma's sake, but it was her. The Hermione Granger that she is.
When Helen McCrorry and Alan Rickman left, Matthew and Hermione settled in Rupert's flat. The redhead had done with his interview with Bonnie and the twins. They were waiting for Evanna to come, but she will arrive in three more hours, because of her schedule.
Dan was still busy with the conference, as so is Draco, so as they were having tea, Rupert suddenly asked, "Hey Hermione, tell us something about Hogwarts. You know, since your life their is different from the books."
Bonnie nodded in agreement, "Yeah, I'm curious. What's it like just being an ordinary student in Hogwarts?" she asked.
Hermione smiled, remembering their lives in Hogwarts was always pleasant to share, so she began by saying, "I was appointed as Head Girl, Draco is the Head Boy. Since I am the top of our year and Malfoy is second, next to me, so we had perks. Our friends had this amazing idea so we confirmed and made it into a reality. We gathered everyone in our year, all in every house, in the Room of Requirements once, without telling the teachers or anybody including the headmaster, and thus had a meeting. "
"What did you guys planned?" Asked Bonnie.
"Well, we have this routine. Every Saturday night, all of us, in our year, would sneak out of our dormitories. Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Ravenclaw students would go and meet up at the Quidditch Pitch. Sometimes they would force me to be their referee," she rolled her eyes playfully, remembering, "We had this plan when we are in our current seventh year. No teachers nor staffs knew about our secret, Well except for the Hogwarts ghosts and portraits, who keeps a look out if ever there'll be a teacher passing by, and Peeves too. And also Hagrid you know, he always come to the pitch and cheers every single one of the players. Gryffindor and Hufflepuff would team up against Slytherin and Ravenclaw, and they would play in their pajamas. It was really fun." She laughed.
Bonnie, Rupert and Matthew were listening quietly at Hermione as she continued with a giggle, "House elves from the Kitchen of Hogwarts would bring us hot choco, cookies and other snacks. There was one time when Draco almost slipped from his broomstick because of that silky pajamas he has, such an idiot." The muggle actors laughed with that, "Harry even try to let me play. He made me a seeker once, oh the look on Draco's face when I caught the snitch before him. Priceless!"
"Wow, you played Quidditch? Bloody Amazing" said Rupert excitedly, "Yeah Hermione, you can do anything." followed Bonnie, "Pretty amazing!" said Matt.
The brunette blushed on their words, "Well,it was only one time. I am not really much of a fan of heights you know."
The muggles laughed, "Well, who would've thought Hermione Granger, bends some rules." Smirked Matt, "Well, it was for the greater good. You know, House Unity and all." She laughed at her own excuse. It was for pure fun and all, considering it'll be their last remaining year in Hogwarts, and now in their current state, she had wasted a few amount of days with it. That made her sad.