Christmas At Hogwarts
Draco P.O.V
Today me and Ava are going to Hogwarts to spend the day with Snape and the kids. Ava told Harry what we were doing for Christmas and he thought that it was a lovely idea, so he sent an owl to McGonagall asking if he and Ginny could come too, and before we knew it, everyone else was coming to Hogwarts for Christmas.
McGonagall was more than happy to let us spend the day at Hogwarts. She said it would be nice seeing everyone. None of us have been to Hogwarts since the battle, so it's going to be upsetting considering what happened on that day but it's also going to be nice.
I'm just in the living at the minute, reading the newspaper when I hear a noise behind me. I turn around and see Ava walking into the living room. I look at her up and down and smirk. She looks beautiful. She's wearing tight black jeans and a white off the shoulder top. She's also wearing a little bit of make-up. She smiles at me and sits on the arm of the chair.
"Get off the arm of the chair" I say, throwing the newspaper on the coffee table. She frowns at me and stands up. "Good, now sit on my lap instead" I smirk.
"Tut. I thought you were in a mood with me for a second there."
I laugh. "No, I just wanted you on my lap" she smiles and sits on my lap. I look at her and tuck her hair behind her ear. "You're so beautiful" I whisper, which makes her blush a little. I kiss her before she could say anything. I feel her smile and kiss me back.
I grab the bottom of her top and go to take it off but stop when I hear the front door opening. I groan. That's got to be Potter. He's the only person I know that lets himself in, other than Snape, but he's at Hogwarts. Ava sighs and gets off my lap.
"Dude" she says, as Harry and Ginny walk into the living room. "We gave you that key for emergences only - wait, there isn't an emergence, is there?"
"No, we were just seeing if you were ready to go, but clearly you weren't."
"We are ready but we didn't expect you to let yourself in, and why didn't you just knock?"
"We did knock" Ginny says, "but no one answered."
"I didn't hear the door" I frown.
"Maybe because you were too busy kissing to listen" Harry huffs.
"We wasn't kissing" Ava huffs back.
"Oh really? So Draco normally wear lipstick, does he?" he smirks. Ava looks at me and sniggers.
"Red suits you" I playfully glare at her and wipe the lipstick off. Just then the house phone rings. "I'll get it" Ava says, walking out of the living room and into the hallway. I stand up and sort out my suit, whilst Harry glares at me. I know exactly why he's glaring at me for. I swear he still sees Ava as some sweet innocent little 14 year old who hasn't done it before, when in reality, she's a 37 woman with two children.
Ava walks back into the room and looks at me. "That was your mom asking where we were. Everyone is already at her house."
"We better get a move on then" Ginny says. We nod and grab our things. We already sent the kids their Christmas presents since it was easier than carrying them with us. Plus, that means they had something to open this morning. Ava locks the door behind us and we get into the back of Harry's car.
We are taking the Floo Network to get into Hogwarts since the train isn't running. We are all meeting at my parents manor since it's the only house that's connected to the school. It's not the same manor that I grew up in, that place held too many bad memories, so they sold it and moved into a smaller and nicer manor that's now filled with so many good memories of laugher, parties, grandchildren and friends.
It's sill weird watching everyone get along with each other, I mean, if someone told me that I would be friends with Harry, Ron and Hermione, or that my father and Mr Weasley actually get on and have long conversions about anything and everything, or that my mother gets on well with Hermione and Ginny and go out shopping together, I probably would have laughed until I fell over, but now, we wouldn't have it any other way.
Ginny pulls into the driveway and we get out of the car. I look at Ava and see her stood there with her hand over her mouth, she only does that if she feels sick. She's been doing that a lot lately. I walk over to her and kiss her forehead which makes her smile.
Harry knocks on the front door and wait for someone to answer. We wasn't waiting long when the door opened. I look and see my mother stood there smiling with Annabel in her arms.
"I think I'm going to be sick" Ava says, rushing into the house.
"Is she ok?" my mother frowns.
"Yeah, I think so" I shrug.
"Has she been sick before?" Ginny asks me.
"No, but she's been feeling sick off and on for the past few weeks, why?"
"No reason, I was just asking" she says, walking into the house, with a confused Harry following her. He's not the only one who's confused.
"Should I be worried?" I ask my mother, she laughs a little.
"No dear. Come in, everyone is in the living room" I nod and walk into the house and head to the living room. "Here, Draco, can you hold Annie for me whilst I have quick word with Ava."
"Yeah, sure" I take Annabel out of my mother's arm and she just stares at me. I never know what to do when they are this age. I like when they can interact with me instead of just staring at me with judging eyes. I look at her and smile and she deadass rolled her tiny little eyes at me.
"Jeez, little lady, I only smiled at you" I scoff, which makes someone giggle. I look up and see Hermione stood there.
"She's already got the Malfoy eye roll" I automatically roll my eyes. "See?" she snorts.
I look at Annabel again and stroke her hair, which makes her close her eyes. I had always wanted a little brother or sister growing up, but I'd never thought that I would be a big brother at 37 years old. I miss Danielle and Jayden being this small though. They have gone from babies to teenagers in an blink of an eye.
"Draco" my mother says, walking over to me. "Ava would like to talk to you."
"Is she ok?"
"Yes dear, she's fine. She's waiting for you in the guest bedroom."
"Ok, I'll go and see her now" I say, handing Annabel to my mother and walking off upstairs. I open the bedroom and see Ava pacing back and forth. "Ava."
She jumps 5 feet in the air. "Draco" she gasps. "I need to talk to you" I frown when I see that she's gone pale.
"Is everything ok?"
"Maybe you should sit down" she says, pointing to the bed. I nod and sit down on the bed. Ava takes a deep breath in and looks at me. "I'm pregnant."
"What?" she hands me the pregnancy test and I see that's it's positive. "I don't understand, I mean, I understand, but we were safe."
"Not always, there were a few times that we forgot" she says, sitting next to me. "How do you feel about this?"
"I'm a little shocked since we didn't plan this like we did with Danielle and Jayden but I'm happy" I look at her and see that she's still pale. "How do you feel about this?"
"I'm in shock. I thought I was just coming down with a bug or something but your mom told me to take one just to rule it out, but I didn't think it would come back positive though."
"Everything will be ok" I say, putting my arm around her. "We've done it twice before and we can do it again."
"I know we can, it was just a shock seeing that it was positive. I didn't think I would be seeing those two little red lines again after Jayden."
"Same, to be honest.
"Your mom told me to go to the hospital wing when we get to Hogwarts, so that the nurse can make sure that everything is ok, and to check how far along I am since I don't know."
"That's a good idea, maybe you could sneak off whilst everyone is eating dinner or something."
"That's what I was thinking" she smiles. "Shit, Draco, we've pregnant."
"You only just realised that?" I laugh.
"No, but I think it's only just sunk in that I have a baby in me" she looks at me. "I can't wait to see my dad's reaction when we tell him."
"You know when you tell him, I'm running off to hide somewhere."
She laughs a little. "Honestly, he's wasn't angry the time first or second time I was pregnant, so why would he start now?"
"I dunno, but he's more scarier when he's calm."
"That's true" she nods. "You never know what he's thinking when he's calm."
"Come on, we better get downstairs before everyone leaves without us."
Ava nods and we walk out of the room, down the stairs and into the living room. My mother looks at us but I put my finger to my lips telling her not to say anything. She nods and smiles.
"Is everyone ready to go?" my father asks.
"Yes" everybody answers.
Me and Ava are going first because she really wants to see her father. We step into the fireplace and I pick up some floo power. "Severus Snape office, Hogwarts" I drop the power and we disappear in gone harmful green flames. I grab Ava's arm when I feel her stumble on her feet.
We get out of the fireplace and I see Snape stood in front of his desk. "Dad" Ava says, rushing over to him and hugging his tight. "I've missed you."
"I've missed you too, sweetheart" Snape pulls away from Ava and turns to me. "Draco" he says, holding out his hand.
"Sir" I say, shaking it as Sirius, Kimberly and Mia land in the fireplace.
"Grandad" Mia shouts, giving Snape a hug. He smiles and hugs her back.
Once everyone was here we all headed to the Great Hall. We walk in and see that nothing has changed, the four house tables are all lined up like they always are and the teachers is still at the front of the hall. The hall is decorated in Christmas decorations and there are two massive trees either side of the doors.
"Wow" Mia whispers, looking around the hall. "Mommy, daddy look, floating candles" she gasped, pointing up at the ceiling. "Look mommy, I'm nearly as big as this tree" she says, standing in front of the Christmas tree that makes her look like an ant compare to the tree.
"Yes you are baby" Kimberly says, smiling fondly at her daughter.
"Oh my goodness" McGonagall gasps, walking into the Great Hall and looking at us all. "Look at you all, so grown up. Your children will be joining us shortly, but first, let's have a caught up."
We all sit around the Gryffindor table and Sirius introduced Kimberly and Mia to McGonagall, who couldn't stop smiling at the little girl.
I see Ava look around then look at me. "This is the best time to go to the hospital wing" she whispers. I nod and we stand up which makes everyone look at us.
"Where are you two going?" Harry asks, looking at us suspiciously.
"Nowhere" Ava says. He rises his eyebrow at her. She sighs "There's just something we've got to do."
"What do you need to do?" Hermione asks.
"We will tell you soon, come on, A" I say, grabbing Ava's hand and walking us out of the Great Hall. We make it to the hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey comes walking over to us with a little frown on her face.
"Hello, Mr Malfoy, Miss Malfoy, I didn't think I'd be seeing you two again. How can I help you today?"
"I just found out I'm pregnant again, and we just wanted to make sure that everything was ok with the baby" Ava says.
"Oh, that's wonderful news" she smiles. "Lie down on bed 4 and I'll get everything ready."
Ava lies down on bed 4 and I stand next to her and hold her hand. I love this part, getting to see our baby for the first is just amazing. The nurse comes back over with the machine and told Ava to lit up her top, which she does. I look at her stomach and see the scares that she got when Harry used that spell on her.
Madam Pomfrey pick up the gel and looked at Ava's stomach. "Oh yes, I remember that day. They have healed up lovely."
She put a little blob of gel on her stomach, then uses the convex probe to check on the baby. She moves it around over Ava's stomach and gasps.
"Oh my …" she trails off, pushing a few buttons on the machine.
"Oh my what? Is everything ok with the baby?" I panic.
"Yes dear, everything is fine, but there's not just one baby, there's two."
"Fuck off" Ava blurts out, which makes me snigger when I see the look on Madam Pomfrey. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to say that, but are you sure?"
She nods and turns the screens to us. "Baby one" she says, pointing to one of them. "Baby two" she says, pointing to the other one.
"Holy shit" I say slowly. "Two babies, there's two babies. Oh shit, Ava" I look at her and she's just staring at the screens with shock written all over her face. "Ava, you ok?" I ask, but she doesn't answer me. I click my fingers in front of her face and she blinks and looks at me.
"What?"
"I asked if you were ok."
"Yeah - yeah, just in a little shock that's all."
"I know, me too" I hold her hand as Madam Pomfrey starts taking measurements.
"You're measuring around 4 months."
"What?" Ava gasps. "How could I not know I was pregnant for 4 months?" she looks down at her stomach. "I don't even look 4 months pregnant."
"Have you had any period in the last 4 months?"
"I dunno, maybe a few days spotting here and there but that was weeks ago."
"That can happen during the early stages of pregnancy, and it's normal not to be showing around this time."
"I know that, it's just that with our other two I starts showing around this time, and I thought with it being twins, I would be showing sooner."
"That's not always the case" Madam Pomfrey says, moving the convex probe to the right side of Ava's stomach, then presses a button on the machine and we hear a heart beat. Ava looks at me and smiles. I smile back and kiss the top of her head.
"That's baby one" she says, before moving convex probe to the middle of Ava's stomach. "And here's baby two" she presses the button again and we hear another heart beat. "Two strong heart beats."
"I could listen to this all day" Ava mumbles.
"You know" Madam Pomfrey says, wiping the gel off Ava's stomach "I got to see the sex of the babies when I was doing the measurements, if you like, I could tell you."
"Yes please" Ava says, before looking at me. "I mean, that's if you want to know."
"Of course I do" I smile.
Madam Pomfrey smiles at us. "You are having a little boy and girl."
Me and Ava grin at each other. One of each. Danielle and Jayden are going to be excited, Mia too. She's always asking us to have another baby, I never thought it would actually come true though.
"I will just go and get you the scan picture and then you can go and tell everyone the good news" Madam Pomfrey says, before walking off.
Ava looks at me. "Holy shit, Draco. Two babies. Another son and daughter."
"I know, it's amazing" I say, kissing the top of her head. "We get to do it all over again. Picking out their name, buying clothes, the sleepless nights, all of it."
"I can't wait" Ava smiles, putting her hand on her stomach. I put my hand on top of hers.
Madam Pomfry came back with a picture of the twins in her hand. "Congratulation again you two" she smiles, handing me the picture. "You will have to sent me a photo of them when they are born."
"We will" I say, smiling.
We say our goodbyes and head back to the Great Hall. When we walk in the kids are already there. "Mom, dad" they says, rushing over to us and hugging us tight. We smiles and hug them back.
"Where have you been?" Danielle asks, pulling away from us. "Uncle Harry said you snuck off 20 minutes ago."
"We went to the hospital wing" Ava says.
"Are you ok, mom?" Jayden asks. "Are you ill?"
"No, I'm not ill, but we do have something to tell you" the kids look at her with a questioning look. Ava smiles. "You're going to be a big brother and sister."
"We are?" they both gasps. I take the scan photo out of my pocket and hand it to them. "Two babies?" they shout in shock, which makes everyone look at us.
"What's this about two babies?" Harry frowns.
"Ava is pregnant with twins" I grin.
"I knew it" Ginny says. "Well, I didn't know it for sure, but I had a feeling when you mention about Ava feeling sick. Congratulations though" she says, giving us a hug. She pulls away and everyone else starts congratulating us.
"How far along are you?" Hermione asks.
"4 months" Ava smiles.
"Do you know what you're having?" my father asks.
"Yes, a little boy and girl" I say.
"Oh, how lovely. One of each" Mr Weasley squeals, clapping her hand together.
"Two babies" Mia cheers, putting her little hands on Ava's stomach. "Two new friends."
Snape walks over to us and gives Ava a hug. "Congratulations, sweetheart. I'm happy for the both of you."
"Thanks, dad. How do you feel about being a grandad again?"
"I'm a little shocked that you're having twins, but I'm happy and can't wait to meet the little ones."
"It was a shock for us too" Ava says, pulling away from her father. "Oh wait, I've just remember about your present, wait here, I'll be right back" she says, before rushing over to her bag.
Snape turns to face me and I tense up. "Congratulations, Draco" he says, holding out his hand.
"Thank you, sir" I say, shaking it. I don't know if it was my mind playing tricks on me, but I swear he tightened his grip a little. I quickly remove my hand and I see him smirk. It definitely wasn't my mind playing tricks on me, he gripped my hand on purpose.
I jump when I feel an hand on my shoulder. I turn around and see my mother and father stood there smiling. They congratulate me on the twins and told me how excited they are to be having another granddaughter and grandson, and that we can have some of Annabel's clothes that don't fit her anymore since most of her clothes are neutral colours.
Ava comes walking back over to us and hands Snape something. "Merry Christmas, dad" she smiles. "I hope you like it."
Snape opens it and I see that it's a photo of him and Jane on their wedding day. It's a moving photo of them dancing and smiling at each other. "Push the left button" Ava says. Snape pushes the left button that's on the bottom of the frame. He inhales sharply when we hear Jane's voice.
"I love you, Severus. Forever and always, my love."
"There's one more thing that it does. Push the right button."
"You're going to make me cry, Ava" Snape mumbled, pushing the right button that also on the bottom of the frame. The photo and Snape and Jane dancing melts away to reveal a photo of Snape and Jane as children sitting in front of a tree. They are laughing together.
"Where did you get this?" Snape asks.
Ava goes to answer him but Sirius got in there first. "I was cleaning out my loft a few weeks ago and I found an video tape. I watch it because I didn't know what it was and this on was there. Lily must have recoded you together, and with a little bit of handy dandy magic, I manage to cut it down to just you and Jane and Ava did the rest" he smiled.
Then Snape did something I never thought he would do, he hugged Sirius. "I always knew you loved me, Snape" Sirius mumbled, hugging him back.
"Shut it, Black" Snape hissed, pulling away from him.
"Aww man" Ava huffs, throwing her hands in the air. "Where's a camera when you need one?" she says, before smiling at the photo in Snape's hand.
"This was the day after she got her letter" Snape says, when he sees Ava looking at the photo. "We were laughing because Jane said she couldn't wait to found a spell that would turn Petunia into a toad."
Ava sniggered. "I like this photo, but I like this one more" she says, pushing the left button which made the photo of Snape and Jane dancing at there wedding appear. "So beautiful" she whispered.
Snape nodded, then cleared his throat. "I'm just going to put this in my office."
Ava looks at him and frowns when she sees tears in his eyes. "Are you ok? I haven't upset you, have I?"
"No, sweetheart. I just need a few minute on my own that's all. I'll be back in a minute" Snape kisses the top of her head and leave the Great Hall. Ava stood there and watched him leave. Danielle and Jayden see Ava stood there and walk over to her and hug her. Ava smiles and kisses the top of their head.
"I love you both, my not so little babies" she says.
"Love you too, mom" they say back.
"Woah" Ava gasps, holding her stomach.
"What's wrong?" I panic, walking over to her.
"Nothing, the babies are moving for the first time. Here, feel" she grabs my hand and placed it on the side of her stomach, then puts the kids hands on the middle of her stomach. We stand there for a few seconds but they don't move. Ava gently pushes our hands down and we feel the babies kick our hands. Danielle and Jayden gasp.
"Woah" Daniella whispered. "This is weird and amazing at the same time" she says, making Jayden nod in agreement.
"Can I feel?" Mia asks sweetly. Ava nods and hold her tiny hand and placed it on her stomach. She gently pushes her hand down, which makes Mia gasps and grins. "I felt them. I felt them. Mommy, daddy, I felt them move" she says excitedly. Sirius and Kimberly smiled at their daughter.
After we ate dinner, me, Ava, Blaise and Goyle went to see the Slytherin common room with Jayden, Albus and John. The three of them have become a lot closer since they are all in the same house as each other.
Harry and Ron tagged along too. They said they wanted to see if the common room had changed, which confused me, Blaise and Goyle since they have never been in our common room before. Well, turns out I was wrong. They told us all about how they took Polyjuice Potion in our second year so that they could look like Crabbe and Goyle.
They thought I was the heir of Slytherin and wanted answers. I've honestly never heard of anything more ridiculous than that. I mean, I know I hated Muggle-Borns back then, but I would never do anything to hurt them, or anyone else for that matter. Now I see what Ava meant about Harry going off on one when he has one tiny bit of information without knowing all the facts. He puts two and two together and comes up with five.
The first thing I notices when we walked into the common room was that nothing had changed. The decor was still the same. The chairs were still in the same place as they were when we were at school, and it's still cold down here.
"I can't believe nothing has changed" Ava says, looking around.
"I know" Harry agrees. "I thought that they would have at last got some heating down there. It's frezzing."
"You get used to it after a while" Blaise shrugged.
"It helps that there's a massive fireplace" Goyle added.
Jayden, Albus and John showed us around the common room as if we've never been here before. They showed us their bedroom and we saw that all three of them had pushed their beds next to each other. I asked why they did that and they said that it was easier to talk at night without waking anyone up.
After we were finished looking around the Slytherin common room. We headed to the Gryffindor common room and Danielle showed us around. It's a lot nicer than I thought it was going to be. It had a very homely feeling to it, but there was way too much red. I prefer green. Danielle really wanted to show me her bedroom but I couldn't get up the stairs, so Ava went up there instead.
We all spend the rest of the day together. We talked and laughed like one big happy family, which I guess we are. We sang and danced to Christmas songs and just enjoyed ourselves. Before we knew it, it was time to go home.
"Thanks for having us" I say to McGonagall, as everyone says goodbye to each other.
"You welcome" she smiles. "It's been lovely having everyone here, and it's nice to see you all finally getting along."
"It's thanks to Ava, I guess. We wouldn't be like this if it wasn't for her" I say, smiling at Ava, as I watch her dancing with Lily and Mia, whilst Danielle and Jayden cover their faces, clearly embarrassment by their mother.
"She's a special girl, Draco, and she definitely brings out the best in you, young man" she goes to hug me, which makes me tense up. "Oh, come on, you're never too old for an hug."
I smile and give her a hug, which was weird. I mean, I never hugged a teacher before. "Congratulations again on the babies, you will have to send me a picture when they are born."
"I will" I say, pulling away from her. She smiles at me then walks off to say goodbye to everyone else. I look around and see Ava talking to her father. I let them talk and walk over to Danielle and Jayden.
"Hi, my beautiful babies" I smirk, knowing that it would embarrass them.
"Dad" they both groan.
"We're not babies anymore" Jayden says.
"Yeah, we are young adults" Danielle added.
"You will always be my babies, no matter how old you get" I say, pulling them both into a hug. "I love you both so much."
"Love you too, dad" they say together, hugging me tighter. I could stay like this forever, but sadly, I can't.
I pull away from them. "Be good and don't forget to send us an owl whenever you want, and me and your mother will see you soon, ok?" they nods. I kiss the top of their heads as Ava walks over to us. She smiles at the kids before pulling them into a hug.
"We will keep you updated on the babies and when they are born, you can come to see them."
"We would like that" Danielle smiles.
"Yeah" Jayden nods. "I can't wait to meet them."
"And they can't wait to meet you, both of you. You're going to be amazing big siblings."
"Thanks, mom."
Ava smiles and kisses the top of their head. "I love you both."
"Love you too, mom" they says, pulling away from her and walking out of the Great Hall with the others kids. I kind of wish that we were staying too. I was unsure about coming here today, but now I don't want to leave. We say one last goodbye to McGonagall before making our way to Snape's office.
We are using his Floo Network to get back to my mother and fathers house. Ava walks over to her father and hugs him tight. "I love you dad."
"I love you too, my Ava."
Ava smiles as she pulls away from him. She kisses his cheek then walks into the fireplace and holds my hand. She waves to her father as I drop the power.
"Malfoy Manor."
I see Snape waving back as we disappear in green flames.
The End :)
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