A/n WOW!! Thanks to whoever left me that note!! It was really sweet of you!! Yeah, the tortures of exams are over thank you!! This might be off a little, I don't know if they have customs when you fly in from London, and I don't know exactly how long the flight is, so that is a rough estimate ^^.

Disclaimer- I know that I forgot this the last few chapters, but by now you should know that it is not mine and I will not bother to put this up anymore because IT'S NOT MINE!

15

After a very long flight, (6 and ½ hours) they touched down at the Newark airport in New York. It was lightly dusting down snow when they finally made it through customs and were out on the street. "Umm… guys, where are we going to stay?" Ron asked, glancing at them. "Let's talk about this over lunch I'm starving!" She dragged them off to the closest Chili's.  They were all in deep thought thinking about "I think that we should get three apartments or townhouses or something in three different parts of the city." Harry looked at the gold. "That's a good idea, Draco. We do have enough gold and muggle money to get three. Let's see… Ginny and me, Ron and Draco, Hermione and Lavender." "WHAT??? I REFUSE TO LIVE WITH THAT!!" Draco and Ron shouted at the same time, pointing at each other. Several people at the bar turned to stare at them. "Go back to your drink! This isn't any of your business!" "Ron sit down." Lav said through clenched teeth. "Fine, fine. I'll live with Draco. Ron and Lav, ('sorry Lav') you guys can room together. How about three apartments?" the others nodded, and they settled in to eat some muggle food.

"That was nothing compared to Hogwart's food." Lav giggled and danced ahead to a muggle costume shop. "Oooh! Let's go in here!" "No Lav, we have to go get our apartments." Lav sighed and allowed herself to be dragged by Ron to a real estate office. They stopped outside of it and watched the people walking by it. They looked from the men's clothing store on the right to the pet shop on the left. "That's funny, it's a wizard real estate office. Draco and I can't go in, everyone is looking for us!" Harry shrugged. "Well then go somewhere else and meet us here in an hour. Ron, Ginny, Lav and I will take care of this." Hermione's face brightened. Literally. "Thank you Harry!!" she threw her arms around him in a quick hug before going to stand next to Draco again. "Okay, an hour." Draco said, pulling Hermione off down the sidewalk again.

An hour later and 500 galleons later, Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Lav stepped out of the real estate office holding 6 keys. "Where are they?" Ginny asked, looking over at the bench that they were going to meet at. They all sat down and waited. Five minutes later, Draco and Hermione, loaded down with six Verizon Wireless bags, made their way to the others. "We bought cell phones!!! Don't worry, we'll teach you guys how to use them when we get to our apartments." "Um, Mione, they didn't have any apartments, and there was only one wizard area that we could live in." "And?" "So we bou-" "WE BOUGHT 3 TOWN HOUSES!!!" Lav screamed, grabbing Ron and jumping up and down. "That's not all Mione!! They are right in a line, and pre furnished with furniture that will change to match our personalities!" Ginny was obviously thrilled at the fact that she was going to be living with Harry Potter! Draco was obviously getting impatient. "Can we go now?" they all nodded and flagged down a taxi. Squishing together, they drove to the block before their apartments and jumped out.

The wizard-housing development was home/ second home to some of the wealthiest witches and wizards in the wizarding world. They group could obviously see that when they rounded the corner and saw the town houses. They were all made out of marble, and in an array of colors. They kept walking until they reached the town houses 12, 13, and 14. Ron got out all 6 keys and started to hand them out to the appropriate owners.  "Okay, 12, Draco and Hermione, (their house's marble switched to a black color) 13, Harry, Ginny, (a tanish gold color) and me, and Lav NO!! NOT A PURPLE HOUSE! (It was purple. Bright, electric purple.) ANYTHING BUT PURPLE!!" Lav thought about this for a second. "Then you have to take me to dinner tonight and go shopping with me tomorrow!" Ron sighed. Purple was just as bad as shopping with Lavender. "Fine. Make it white." Lav giggled and the house was white again.  Draco, impatient again, nearly had to yell over all the noise that the others made marveling at their own houses. "Meet in our house in 15 minutes and we will sort out the cell phone stuff." Hermione grabbed his hand and dragged him into the house.

Nearly dropping the bags when they entered the house, Hermione let out a small shriek. "Draco!" she whispered, running from the living room to the kitchen and dropping the bags. Draco was just as shocked. The house was not just a town house, but a luxury town house. There was a foyer, living room, bathroom, kitchen with a large island and 3 chairs, black marble stairs, two bedrooms at the top of the stairs, and another bathroom at the top floor. The floors in the bathrooms, kitchen, and foyer were black, and the rest of the rooms were carpeted in a deep blue. "Draco it's so beautiful!" she ran into every room, gasping at what she saw. A bewitched Big screen tv in the living room, black leather couches, all the expensive good stuff. There was even a hot tub just big enough for two in the upstairs bathroom. "I can't believe this!" Draco said, sitting down on the leather couch in the living room. Hermione sat next to him and kissed him. "It's perfect here." She whispered. The doorbell rang and she ran to get it. Harry and Ginny walked in and marveled at the townhouse, Lavender looked overly hyped up about something, and Ron was mumbling, "Our couches and carpets are bright purple!!" Hermione giggled and grabbed the phones. "Okay… Lav, Lav, (omigod Mione, you're the best!!) Ron, orange, Harry, red, Ginny, gold, Draco, black, me, navy. Lav, you go teach Ron how to use it, Harry you show Ginny, Draco don't even bother asking because I know that you know how to use it  (damn)." Everyone else left and Hermione collapsed on the couch, her head in Draco's lap. "This has been on-" Screeech "ugh… friggen owls…" Draco let a professional looking brown owl in before taking the letter from its claws.

Dear Mr. Potter, Malfoy, Weasley and Miss Granger, Brown, and Weasley- your "escape" was accepted at the Ministry of Magic, as Mr. Albus Dumbledor has been put under the name deatheater. He was discovered at Gringotts on November 3rd, knocked out, and the death mark on his shoulder. The remains of Peter Pettigrew's silver hand were seen scattered around the back of the room. Your disappearance will be excused, and remember to be at King's Cross Station on September 1st to receive your Hogwarts diplomas if you do not return by the end of this school year (June 21st). All of your work will be sent through owls on Monday at the beginning of the week and expected to be at the board of education's desk every Friday at 6 PM. You will be allowed to use your magic inside of your homes, but do not use it in sight of muggles. Thank you for your cooperation.

Percy Weasley, Minister of Magic

Draco and Hermione gaped at each other, reading the letter over and over again. "I can't believe it!" Hermione screamed, hugging Draco. "We are not even being punished!!!! This is the life! Living in a luxury town house, being able to do magic, and getting our Hogwarts diplomas!" Draco smiled. "Yeah, it is great huh? We need to have a little chat sometime about the life." Just then Draco's phone rang. "Which one is on again?" Hermione smirked and pointed to the little green button. She could clearly hear Ron's bellowing voice. "I GOT IT! I GOT IT! HI DRACO CAN YOU HEAR ME? AM I TOO QUIET? (In the background Lav's voice was screaming at him 'you don't have to yell! Just talk!!!'') Ahm, sorry about that, Draco. Can you hear me? This is great! All these little buttons… I wonder what this little red teflefon one do-" Draco shrugged and hung it up. A second later Mione's rang. "Hey, Mione, want to go shopping or something? Harry said that he was going to call Draco to talk about some masculine issues. Yeah, right, so waddya say, Miss Madam Taffu's Robes for the Rich are down the road a little ways. The ministry sent us an owl loaded with 600 galleon's worth of… well, galleons to split with each other. 200 galleons each! That's a fucking lot!" Hermione rolled her eyes. Only Ginny could say all of that in one breath. "Sure Ginny, we have a letter that we need to send to you. I'll owl a copy to Lav and Ron. You can read ours while we're out tonight. I'll be over in a few. Bye!" "Draco, Harry wants to talk to you about some masculine issues as Ginny put It." he laughed. "I know… so stressful for us…" Hermione was clearly confused now. "Huh? What? Stressful? What's going on?" "You'll find out in… two days. Yeah. Two days." She shrugged, and kissed him. "Call me at six and we can meet up for dinner." He nodded, kissed her again, and she left.

Draco waited ten minutes before Harry came over. "So what do you need my advice for?" Harry asked, looking interested. "Last year if someone said that we would be having a civil conversation I would have laughed at them and told them yeah right." Draco smiled. "Thirsty?" "Sure, pumpkin juice if you've got it." sipping their cool pumpkin juice, they sat down. "I need help. I want to ask Mione to marry me." Harry dropped the glass. "Marry you?" Draco nodded. "Marry me. She's perfect and I love her an-" Harry shook his head. "Wait a second Draco. You shouldn't rush her into getting married. You guys just shouldn't yet! You have been enemies forever, and then after two months of dating, you're going to get married? Nah, best hang tight until the six monther comes by at least." Draco nodded. "I guess you're right. Yeah, I don't want to rush her into anything." Harry smiled. "I've actually been dating Ginny since the summer before 5th year. We just kept it a secret. We decided to make it public last week but then, well, here we are." Draco thought for a second. "Are you ever going to ask her to marry you?" Harry looked down at the table. "Actually, I want to ask her tomorrow, but I need to buy a ring…" just then Draco burst out laughing. "Whaaat?" Draco kept laughing. Finally getting a hold of himself five minutes later he struggled to say something. "We are two young men, talking about marriage!" Harry started to laugh too. "I feel like a girl laughing like this!" they stopped laughing a few minutes later and decided to go out to the wizard jewelers to look at rings for Ginny.

Ginny and Hermione strolled along the muggle city's sidewalk, looking into shops. "Hermione, how long until you think that we have to go back to ho- school?" Hermione shrugged. "If they do not catch Voldemort, then we get to stay here for as long as we want. We can all get married, have kids, and do whatever we want here! But we would have to get jobs, you see," all the muggles passing gave them strange looks as Hermione said all of this. "Lesbos" some kid muttered, pushing through them. Ginny gripped her wand, but Hermione stopped her. "Allow me." Whispering something at the pigeons with her want aimed at them, they suddenly seemed to have overactive bladder. And they only aimed at one thing. The kid. "AAAGGGHHH! POSSESSED PIGEONS! POSSESSED PIGEONS!" Hermione and Ginny, giggling, ran into a coffee house. Sitting there drinking vanilla mochas and talking about what they were going to do, how long they planned to stay, and their relationships. "I think that Lav and Ron are going to be head over heels in a few days for each other. I wouldn't be surprised if Ron already is after tonight." Ginny sipped more coffee. "My brother in love? That's funny. But Lav is such a nice girl… maybe she isn't cheap but Ron and her would make the cutest couple… Lav already likes him. You can tell." After gossiping for another hour, both phones rang and Draco said to meet him at the Starbucks about two blocks away from the townhouse down 35th. "Draco, Ginny and I are already there." "Oh good. Then I will be there in… never mind I'm standing right outside of it." Hermione smirked and hung up. Ginny had just hung up as well and was getting her bag. "Harry wants me to meet him at home for a romantic dinner. Oh can't you come into the robes store with me and help me grab something nice??" Hermione sighed. "Gin, I'm really sorry, but Draco is standing right outside the window and staring at me so," she slammed her hand against the window, making Draco jump and step back to sit on the bench. "So, just wear that red dress that you wore to the Christmas ball last year." Ginny smiled and hugged her. "Thanks so much Mione!" she ran out and towards her house. Hermione looked out the window at Draco. Some blonde came prancing by in a dress so short it looked like it was made for someone a quarter her size. She stopped in front of Draco who glared at her like she was a bug, and straddled him. She was saying something to him when he shoved her off his lap and continued to stare at Hermione. Hermione smirked and left the shop as the blonde tried to do it again. She ended up on the ground again, and Hermione took this as her chance. She quickly straddled Draco and kissed him. The blonde let out a huff before walking on. Hermione slid off his lap and pulled him to his feet. "Stupid bitch." Draco nodded and took her hand as they walked. "So where are we eating?" Draco pointed down the road to a dark corner. "A dark corner where a rapist would take me? No way." Draco laughed and pulled out his wand. "Two up three over and bam. Here we are in the wizarding world once again." They walked through a tall brick gate and emerged in the an ally that looked like Diagon ally, only wider, a lot more modern, and it was lined with more restaurants than Diagon ally had shops. They stopped outside of a candle lit restaurant. "Ta da!" "Draco, I can't go in like this!" she signaled to her casual jeans and a black hoodie with sneakers. "Ok then…" he waved his wand and muttered something, and she was standing in a black dress that was about knee length and had a square neck. "Thanks Draco, you're the best. Now for you…" he muttered the same spell, and he was in a matching black suit. "Hmm…. Best to keep the standards high I suppose." Hermione muttered, taking his hand and walking in with him.

Their meal had been pleasant, candles on the table and a warm fire roaring next to them. On their walk home, they had only felt warm because their clothes we charmed to stay very warm. When they got to the foyer, Hermione looped her arms around Draco's neck and kissed him. "Draco I love you." With that she headed up to take a bath before bed. As soon as she got into her bed, she realized that someone else was already there. "Though that you were going to bed without saying good night?" Hermione laughed, and she spent most of the night awake with Draco.

A/n- so I lied. I managed to write this one before my exams, but this will be the last for a while. Sorry… I hope that you liked it, even though it was pretty fluffy, mushy, sweet, whatever you want to call it. Most stories end up with Hermione getting pregnant after one go, but I guess you will have to see ^^. Please review; I need a lot of feedback before I take my exams!! Thanks again to whoever left that one review. ^^

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