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Forgive and Forget

Summary: Draco and Hermione bump into each other, but soon those meetings aren't so coincidental anymore. But don't they have better things to do than talk to each other?

The Twenty-Second of December - Hermione

It was the last day of school. The very last day of Hogwarts for all of them. For Harry, Hermione, Draco, Daphne, Astoria, Blaise, Ginny, Ron, all the other seventh and eighth years. They'd done it.

It was somehow a good feeling, Hermione thought. She'd finished school with flying colours. They all did. But on the other hand that meant they wouldn't ever be coming back to Hogwarts. At least not as students. Maybe as teachers, maybe as Headmaster or Headmistress. But one thing was clear, they wouldn't ever complain about too much homework and too many exams. They would never complain about any type of schoolwork again, except if it was to grade them.

Hermione's eyes because teary as she thought about never getting an Outstanding again, never having to worry about Harry and Ron doing their homework or studying for exams, never having to worry about if anyone would ever ask you out. It was good, she had Draco, Ron had Lavender, Blaise had Ginny and Harry had Daphne (yes, they had finally admitted their feelings to each other and started going out a week ago).

But as the class of 1999 stood in front of the teacher's tables with their pointed hats and uniforms on, all the younger students of all houses sat around them, excited about who would get what award.

Professor Flitwick, the new Deputy Headmaster, walked past them and handed each of them their report cards. Hermione looked at hers and noticed with pride that she got all O's. She asked around her friends and boyfriend, who all got great marks as well. Draco got all O's as well, which wasn't that surprising, considering they'd been competing against each other since they were tiny little firsties. Daphne and Ginny had 7 O's, while Harry, Blaise and Astoria all got 5 O's.

"Now, for who got the most Outstandings. Tied in first place are Draco Malfoy of Slytherin and Hermione Granger of Gryffindor!"

The hall clapped as they got awarded.

"The highest percentage in their exams was Hermione Granger with 147% in Ancient Runes! Congratulations, Miss Granger."

That went on until all of them got at least one award for achieving something or another.

Hufflepuff ended up winning the House Cup and everything was perfect.

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They were now all sitting in boats again, slowly setting more distance between themselves and Hogwarts.

Hermione, Draco, Daphne and Harry were sat in one boat, while Blaise, Ginny and Astoria were in the one next to them. All of them had tears in their eyes, Daphne and Hermione even having burst into tears.

It was simply beautiful to look at the castle on last time like this, but so extremely sad that they weren't students anymore.

Hermione knew that, had she stayed in the muggle world, she'd never have found awesome friends like she did and she probably would've died from the sadness of being finished with University, and even then she would've continues studying.

But she was happy she accepted her place at Hogwarts, she didn't know how she'd ever managed to cope without magic.

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