The pressure of exams was looming over their heads as the weeks passed by. Draco had been glad that the school had changed the date for the Hogsmeade to the week before the anniversary of the Dark Lord's defeat. It had been mainly due to the fact that the school was holding a ceremony for it. After all the battle had happened on the castle grounds. Draco, however, was not worried about the upcoming event no. He was too busy talking to his mother trying to find out what possessed her to reveal the endearments she liked to use. Draco had just asked his mother why she had told his fiancée them.

'I know you have feelings for her,' his mother sent him a knowing look. 'Feelings that go well beyond an obsession.'

'I wasn't obsessed.'

His mother raises her eyebrows at him. 'Draco all we would hear all summer from you once you returned from Hogwarts was Potter this or Potter that. How was your father and I to think otherwise?'

Draco didn't have an answer to that after all his mother had a point. 'I suppose I was a little infatuated by Harianna.'

'And now those feelings have turned into something much deeper. So tell me why I shouldn't be getting along with my daughter in law to be? You're not going to just let her go now are you?'

'No I'm not. But did you really have to tell her your endearments for me though mother.'

'I'm fond of the girl I can't help if it slipped out in conversation Draco.'

Draco doubted that it just slipped out in conversation or otherwise Pansy would have using the nicknames for him a long time ago. How did his fiancée manage to do things like this? She had won over his friends without even trying and now his own mother.

'Has she spoken to you about what is troubling her?'

He had forgotten that he had written to his mother for advice. Harianna had been quiet, a little too quiet even for his fiancée. Draco wasn't sure how to get her to speak to him. He had hoped that she would talk to him of her own accord.

'No and I don't think it's the speech that the Minister wants her to give either.'

'The exams are soon. She could be quiet due to that. Stress changes a person.'

'Not Harianna mother. She handles stress rather well.'

Draco knew her remedy after being on the receiving end of how she had dealt with stress in the past. Which had been mainly hexing him.

'Then what do you think the cause is?'

Draco thought for a minute unsure what to tell his mother. He didn't want to betray Harianna. 'Her family.'

'Oh,' his mother paused. 'Well, I'm sure whatever the problem is, Molly will have it sorted out.'

'First name bases with the Weasley's mother?'

'They mean something to your fiancée who as I said earlier Draco, I am quite fond of her. So yes we are on first name bases with each other.'

'Good I'm glad. I want Harianna to feel welcome and that she can talk to them. However, I wasn't talking about the Weasley's mother. I was talking about the Muggles.'

'What about the Muggles?' his mother sneered.

Draco blinked he had not expected that sort of reaction from his mother. Not unless.

'You know about Harianna's family? How they treated her I mean?'

His mother sighed. 'We were concerned your father and I her behavior was puzzling when we first had lunch. We thought it was something we had done. Until Teddy was mentioned Harianna had been so quiet. Nothing like the girl we saw fighting the Dark Lord. Not the girl who went into the forest willing to give her life for everyone. Then Andromeda mentioned her family in a way I have never heard her talk about Muggles before. So we spoke with my sister. Andromeda didn't tell us much but your father and I came to our own,' she paused as though she was searching for the right word, 'conclusions.'

'I can't tell you what I know. I wish I could mother but I don't want to betray Harianna. I can tell you they were awful to her.'

'Oh, your father and I know the facts now. Molly kindly told us. After all, unlike my sister, she isn't a Slytherin. So Molly thought she was doing the right thing. Harianna was staying with us while you healed. She didn't want us walking on eggshells or Harianna to be more upset than she already was.'

'Weasley. Ronald,' Draco clarified. 'told me after we called a truce that he wasn't the only one in the doghouse. Said I shouldn't mention her family to her. So I haven't but now I think I really should.'

'Yes, you should. Did he tell you what happened?'

Draco shook his head, 'No just not to mention them.'

'Very well it falls to me to tell you then,' his mother sighed, 'Harianna snapped at her aunt after the attack. Brought up her childhood which revealed things she hadn't told anyone before. Like ourselves, the Weasleys had drawn their own conclusions. I'm sure her best friends knew the information Molly indicated that they were not surprised by it. Like you, however, they did not wish to betray their friend.'

'I understand that. So Harianna brought up how they didn't really feed her or want her.'

'Along with the second-hand clothes that were too large for her and the very fact that her bedroom was a cupboard until she was eleven. Being treated like a house elf. Yes, she did,' his mother snapped, taking a breath. 'I'm sorry I'm just so angry at them. She deserves better.'

'She hadn't told me about the clothes, treatment or cupboard. I'm surprised she snapped at her aunt though. When she first told me what I know. I was so full anger like you are now. She told me that it was in the past. That she didn't want to fight anymore just live her life. She's a very forgiving person.'

'Yes, she is. Enough so that she willingly gave you a second chance. Do not screw it up Draco.'

'I won't. If you don't mind me, mother, I have a fiancée to find.'

'Your father and I will see you in on the second for the ceremony.'