A/N: Hey guys! Yes, it is the next chapter in the story! I love everyone who has reviewed and added my to Arthur Alerts and Story Alerts and whatever. It makes me feel so happy that people actually like my story! I love you all.
There is something else I have to mention too. On my last chapter, or the one before or something, it was talking about when Ginny and Hermione were takling about Ginny and Blaise and Hermione's comment about her not being able to say much because of her and Draco, well, thankyou to everyone who picked up the mistake I made, Hermione lost herself to Krum, who I happen to dislike, NOT Draco. Keep that in mind if you reread this story. I tried changing it, but I don't know if it worked or not. So, just to let you know, I did try!
Disclaimer: I don't own the story or the characters, anyone or anything you recognise from the books belongs to JK Rowling.
The Ride Home
The end of term came up upon everyone very fast. Before they knew it, the whole of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were sitting at their house tables and talking excitedly about what was to happen over the school holidays.
Suddenly, after everyone had eaten their fill at the feast, Dumbledore had stood up and ordered silence. Everyone quietened down at once and waited for Dumbledore to announce this year's winner of the House Cup.
The Headmaster smiled at everyone and took in their happy, smiling faces.
'Another year has passed us by yet again! With good times and bad under our belts, we head back home to our loved ones and family, friends and people who are dear to us. Let us have the most wonderful holidays we have had yet!
'But now; I have the results of the House Cup! In 4th place, Hufflepuff, with 290 points.' Dumbledore called through the hall. Everyone gave a polite applause for the constantly losing house. Even the Slytherins decided to be polite and give them a little applause.
'3rd place, Ravenclaw, with 320 points.' Again, polite applause sounded throughout the hall.
'In 2nd place, Slytherin, with 400 points.' Dumbledore cried and everyone in Gryffindor held their breath, ready to explode as soon as they were called out.
'And, our winners of this years House Cup, Gryffindor House, with 412 points!' Dumbledore yelled and the whole of Gryffindor house exploded with noise. Everyone, even the Slytherins, were polite and clapped for their victors.
Hermione caught Draco's eye and smiled at him evilly. Draco glared playfully back at his beautiful girlfriend and stuck his tongue out at her to show her he was joking. Hermione stuck her tongue back out at him and started giggling manically. Draco just smiled and shook his head at her. Hermione turned back around to celebrate with her friends.
Later, on the train back to London, Pansy and Ron were snogging each other senseless, Harry and Sierra were in a deep discussion about something and Hermione was about to fall asleep on Draco. She had her eyes closed and was leaning against his chest with his arm around her waist protectively.
After an hour of relative silence, someone opened the compartment door slowly and peeked their head through. The perpetrator that decided to interrupt the silence was Blaise.
'Have any of you seen Ginny? I want to talk to her.' He asked quietly after taking in the scene in the compartment. Draco shook his head and held a finger to his lips and pointed to Ron and Pansy. Blaise blanched slightly and nodded. He slowly closed the door and took off down the corridor outside.
Draco laughed lightly at him and he felt Hermione stir. He instinctively held her tighter against him and kissed the top of her head. Hermione snuggled deeper into him and he wrapped his other arm around her and fell asleep himself, with his head resting against hers.
Half way through the ride, they got rudely interrupted of their quiet sleep by the sound of a bark of laughter coming out from the corridor outside the compartment door.
Draco groaned and rubbed his eyes. Why did Sirius have to annoy me now? I am so tired! Draco thought spitefully.
He felt Hermione stir beside him again and she sat up and rubbed her own eyes.
'What the hell was that?' She asked, leaning against Draco again and rubbing her head into his shoulder.
'Sirius has decided to walk down our corridor.' He answered, wrapping his arms around the tired girl as he had just before he had fallen asleep.
'Bastard.' He heard her mutter. Draco laughed.
'True.' He agreed. She's so cute when she's tired. I love her so much. He thought, looking down at her.
Just as he finished that thought, Lupin and Sirius walked through the compartment door in absolute hysterics.
'Why are you here? We were almost all asleep.' Draco asked. Sirius just shot him a wicked look and sat down opposite them, shooting weird looks at Ron and Pansy and Lupin sat next to him.
'What are you still doing at Hogwarts anyway? Aren't you supposed to be staying at home and making sure that a certain person doesn't completely spazz out with boredom?' Harry asked. Sirius shrugged.
'Nah, he told me to come back so that nothing looked too suspicious. And Dumbledore said that it was a good idea because ever since I came the students were taking a very good approach to school, considering I travelled around the different classes and caused havoc. It turns out that I'm a huge hit.' Sirius said looking very pleased with himself.
Harry rolled his eyes and sat back against the seat. Sierra cuddled close to him and closed her eyes.
'Sierra, you aren't going to be able to get any sleep with the King of Havoc here, you do know that?' Draco asked. Sierra didn't even look up or open her eyes.
'I shall try.' She replied. It was now Draco's turn to roll his eyes.
'But you shall fail!' Sirius answered excitedly. Everyone now rolled their eyes at the eccentric man. Blaise entered soon after, talking with Ginny enthusiastically about something to do with this seasons Quidditch World Cup and about who would win. Pansy and Ron had pulled apart for some air at exactly the wrong time and Ron sent a scornful glare at Blaise, thankfully he hadn't noticed, his conversation was too interesting.
Hermione found her jumper on the ground from when she had taken it off, and threw it at Ron's head. It was a perfect shot. Draco, Harry, Sierra, Sirius and Remus all laughed at Ron's red-faced humiliation and Hermione smirked at him.
'What was that for?' He asked.
'For being an insufferable prat. Leave them alone.' She instructed. Ron just shot her another glare and got himself tangled in Pansy again.
'What was that about?' Ginny asked the room at large, but Hermione only shrugged, with the rest following suit. Ginny shot them all suspicious glances and Ron a glare before returning to her conversation with Blaise.
'So, what's everyone planning for the summer holidays?' Remus asked. Draco and Hermione looked thoughtful.
'What about going to the pool in London? It's supposed to be really hot this summer, just like the last one, except not as bad. And Harry, I just remembered, you don't have to go back to the Dursley's! With J-ah, him at home, you don't have to go back!' Hermione announced excitedly. Harry suddenly snapped alert at that.
'Hey, that's true! Ha! No more Dursley's! That damn protection charm or whatever didn't work anyway. I still got hurt.' Harry admonished. Hermione rolled her eyes.
'But you weren't attacked by Voldemort were you?' She asked.
'True, I wasn't.' He agreed.
'That was all it was supposed to do, you know, keep out Voldemort.' She told him.
'I knew that. But I was just making a point that it didn't stop the Dursley's from hurting me.' Harry said. Hermione looked thoughtful.
'Yeah, they should have done something about that. I mean, shouldn't Dumbledore have known that Lily and Petunia hated each other and that Petunia wouldn't have been very happy about looking after her son?' Hermione thought aloud.
'That was where I was supposed to come in, but, after being thrown in Azkaban, that became rather impossible.' Sirius put in.
'You were supposed to take Harry in?' Hermione asked.
'Yep, part of being his godfather. But I went after Pettigrew instead, so that landed me in a loony cell in prison. You really can't call that a fair trade.' Sirius said.
'You mean that you chose to go after something that would inevitably land you in jail, instead of taking me in?' Harry asked. He looked very annoyed. Sirius looked rather guilty.
'Look, I was young, I thought more about going after my best friends murderer because then it was natural instinct, he had been around longer than you had and I was very, very angry. So, I acted without thinking.' Sirius said apologetically. Harry glared at the man for a few minutes before smiling at him.
'I probably would have done the same thing. My friends mean the world to me and I would want the stupid man who killed them dead and buried, or at least in a cell in Azkaban.' Harry said. Sirius smiled brightly at the boy and gave him a nugie. Harry started laughing like crazy and tried to get Sirius off of him.
'Get off!' Harry yelled.
'Nope, nothing doing!' Sirius yelled back. Everyone was laughing at the pair as Sirius tackled Harry to the ground and tried wrestling with him.
Of course, Sirius, being the 35 year old man, was winning by a long shot.
Harry was finally able to get out from underneath him and he scrambled back up onto the seat, exhausted and laughing his head off.
'Ha. I've never done that before. The only exercise I usually get is running away from Dudley and Quidditch. That was fun!' Harry said, sitting back against the seat and breathing deeply. Sirius also sat back up his seat and laughed exhaustedly.
'I used to wrestle all around the dorm room with James. He'd usually beat me though, because of his bloody Quidditch trained body. He was incredibly strong. We'd both usually end up puffing like mad afterwards. It was the best.' Sirius finished. Everyone was laughing along with them; even Ron and Pansy had surfaced to watch the wrestling match taking place between godfather and godson. Most of them were laughing for ages afterwards, talking about all sorts of stuff, though, of course, much to most of the girls dislike, the conversation ended on Quidditch; the training, the game, practice and such.
'So, where do you think you'll be first Hermione? Are you going home to your parents for a while, or staying with us the entire time?' Remus asked. Hermione bit her bottom lip in thought.
'Mum and dad are really keen on seeing me again. I might spend a week there before coming back into London. We live on the outskirts. Just to the North of the main city. It's quieter out there, and it doesn't have the inner-city hustle and bustle that other places have.' She explained. Draco looked a little downcast that she wouldn't immediately be coming to Grimmauld Place, but soon perked up at her next question.
'Draco, do you want to come and stay at my house? I'm sure my parents wouldn't mind and your father doesn't know where I live, none of the Death Eaters do, so it would be safe. Then you could come back into London with me after a week.' Hermione suggested. Draco looked hopefully at Sirius. The man rolled his eyes and stared at him in defeat.
'Who am I to break up you two? Of course you can go. You better send a letter now Hermione, they might not get it later.' Sirius advised.
Hermione quickly wrote a letter and used Hedwig to send it. A reply came soon after the letter was sent that she was able to bring Draco along, even at such short notice.
'Yes! You can come!' Hermione squealed. She hugged him tightly and sent a thank you reply to her parents.
They kept up talk through the ride and once they neared the station, Pansy and Ron pulled apart.
'I want to see you this holidays Ronnie.' She wined.
'Awww, Ronnie, you can't deprive the girl of two months without you now, can you?' Fred and George asked. They had met the twins when they had come onto the station and waited for Mr. and Mrs. Weasley to come and find them.
Ron glared at the twins' horrible joke and turned back to Pansy.
'Of course I'll see you over the holidays. I'll try whatever I can to do so.' Ron promised. Pansy smiled brightly at him, kissed him once more and disappeared into the crowd. Ron smiled blissfully after her and turned back to the twins' with a scowl.
'Must you two do that? I love her; can't you lay off me for ten minutes?' He asked. The twins looked at each other and smiled evilly back at their little brother.
'Nope.' They answered in unison. Ron scowled even more at them as they ran off, looking back every so often to laugh at him.
Meanwhile, Hermione and Draco walked off the train and out of the barrier to await Mr. and Mrs. Weasley out there. Sirius, Harry, Sierra and Ginny had followed them.
Draco and Hermione were just standing around talking when Hermione spotted something over Draco's shoulder. Something that wasn't good in the slightest.
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