Well...this will be a goodbye for "Your Touch Makes Me Shiver"!
EPILOGUE
It's not a goodbye after all...
It has been four years when Hermione came back to Hogwarts to teach. After receiving her Wizard Diploma upon studying her masters, she decided to went home: to Hogwarts. She mastered Arithmancy and Transfiguration. She got better since she left Hogwarts. She's teaching Arithmancy. She couldn't get Transfiguration since McGonagall hasn't retired yet.
"Good Lord, I miss watching Harry and Ron soaring up here." Hermione gasped and breathed the fresh air. "It has been a long time..."
Harry Potter married Ginny Weasley. Hermione attended the wedding last two years and they are still happily married. Ron's death was still painful but the memories of him still gave her determination.
She suddenly remembered....Draco. "He used to be here too." Hermione said. "I wonder where he is now."
It was an excellent day for her to relax. Students will be coming back to school. It was a week before the start of a new school year and she has prepared for that. But nothing on her list was...
"....Am I imagining or what?"
A blond guy was walking straight to the Hogwarts Main Entrance. He is well-built and wearing probably one of the expensive robes in the Wizarding World. He looked enthusiastic and smiling professionally.
"I can't believe it. He's back." Hermione said upon realizing that it was the man she waited for years.
"Draco...you're back!" Hermione gasped and ran unceasingly to the Main Entrance.
Draco went straight to the Headmaster's Office. "Surely, Dumbledore will be proud."
"Is it really you, Mr. Draco Malfoy?" A smile crossed on Dumbledore's face upon seeing him.
"I myself can't believe it, sir." Draco replied.
"Sit down. You have to tell me what happened to you, Draco." Dumbledore leaned forward to his desk.
"It is my pleasure, professor." Draco responded.
It has been indeed seven years ago when he left Hogwarts in search of his father. After graduation he decided to look for him. Fortunately, after three years of incessant search with the help of Muggle and Wizard police, they found him and it banged the whole wizard world. After that, he decided to look for his self. He went to France and study. He graduated a year ago and he was trying now to teach, surely in Hogwarts.
After telling his story, he decided to ask Dumbledore if he could get the Potions classes.
"I know Professor Snape will be glad, he can teach Defense against the Dark Arts." Draco bargained.
"Let us see. I know and probably you do too that Professor Snape is one of the greatest potions master we had for years but...as you insist...we can try if you will be one too. Let's tell him about it." Dumbledore said.
But as fate sets it, Professor Snape came to his office.
"Oh, and you are back, huh?" Professor Snape gladly said.
"We've been talking about you. Now you are here..." Dumbledore was cut in.
"I know that this day will come. He will be replacing me. They will be replacing us." Professor Snape butted in.
Dumbledore smiled. "You can teach Defense against the Dark Arts now, professor."
"Surely. I will not stay here for long..." Snape added.
Dumbledore laughed. "Of course you will stay here for long, Draco will just handle classes but he can't replace you."
"You have changed, Professor Snape." Draco said.
"I can see that you are still a dunderhead, Mr. Malfoy." Snape said and Draco giggled. "I mastered it, professor."
"Very well, as I was saying, Professor Dumbledore, I will be leaving soon." Snape said.
"What do you mean?" Dumbledore asked.
"I will be getting married." Snape responded and both Draco and Dumbledore smiled as a sign of..."at last!".
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Hermione waited at the Great Hall and drowning herself in drinking carrot juices. She has never been this tensed in her life. After their first kiss in their dormitory in their seventh year, she never experienced the thrill again...just now.
She went outside the Hall and she thought she must wait sometime soon. There will be loads of time waiting for them, she hoped so.
As she walked to the Library, she heard voices and she detected one of the voices pretty sure, it was his.
"I can't believe that you are marrying one of the most beautiful witches, professor. I met her once in my training and she's nice. Professor Admeta is just the right woman for you, sir." Draco said.
"Stop humiliating me, Draco. I know she deserves me." Snape replied and they both laughed.
"I'm quite busy right now. I know you can manage. Just go straight to the dungeons after you have finished whatever you need to do." Snape said and walked away.
"Thank you, sir." Draco responded.
"Remember what I told you, Draco." Snape shouted back.
Draco walked leisurely towards the library, he knew she's there. But...
"Welcome back, I can't believe it's you." Hermione said.
"Yes, I am aware. They also told me that. It's been ages." Draco replied.
"So...are you visiting Hogwarts?" Hermione asked.
"I heard you're teaching Arithmancy. McGonagall will not be delighted if you'll get her job." Draco smiled.
Hermione smiled back.
"I never thought I can make it." Draco said and they became silent.
"Will you tour me around Hogwarts, Ms. Granger?" Draco asked.
"Well maybe I can't resist that offer. Nothing big has changed here." Hermione said and they started walking.
"Really? But I will not believe you for that." Draco said and they went ahead.
As they reached the Astronomy Tower, she told him that they couldn't see anything there since they locked it up.
"This is a nice place, I couldn't understand them why they locked it." Hermione protested.
"Maybe they locked it for purpose..." Draco said. "...or maybe somebody asked for it."
"Who will?" Hermione asked and turned her back.
"Me." Draco responded.
"What?" Hermione faced him.
"I locked it myself." Draco said.
"Why?" Hermione asked.
"You should find out. Let's come inside." Draco said.
He pulled the key out of his pocket and triggered it at the keyhole. The door swung open but it was dark.
"Come in." Draco invited her.
"Is that an orb?" Hermione asked when she saw a ball of light in the middle of the room.
"No, it is my memories...of you." Draco replied.
Hermione didn't talk again but her eyes were filled with questions and she zoomed her vision around the area. He touched the ball of light and it burst more light enough to lit the room. Hermione saw their portrait. The portrait in their Head's Dormitory. It was still the same.
Suddenly, the dark room was filled with flowers, images created by the big ball in the middle of the room. It showed the memories of the past, reflecting it through the walls.
"I made this. My father taught me. My memories were stored here. The memories I need to keep." Draco said.
"It is more efficient than Pensieve, here you can view it anytime you want to." Draco added.
"Why did you come back?" Hermione burst.
"I need to." Draco replied.
"You are free now. You need to see the world and fill the emptiness within you." Hermione said.
"I already did that. The world outside wouldn't satisfy the emptiness within me, Hermione." Draco replied.
"What can you get here? Broken dreams? Memories of the past?" Hermione asked.
"There are lot of things I can only get from here." Draco replied.
Hermione didn't know what to say next.
"I will be teaching potions this year." Draco said.
"Well, good for you." Hermione replied and smiled.
Draco didn't move a bit and stared at her.
"I promised you before, I will come back. If I will build new world from now, I want to add the memories of the past. And if ever I will keep memories, I want the memories with you." Draco said. He came near the ball of light and destroyed it and there was darkness.
After a while, the ball lighted again.
"Do I really need to have this?" Draco asked her. She didn't respond.
"Well, I think I don't." Draco said.
"Why did you destroy it? You can't have anything with you when you leave again." Hermione said.
"Who told you I'm leaving again?" Draco asked and fury in his eyes.
"Maybe...I guess...You might...well..." Hermione replied.
"I will not leave again if you'll...if you'll marry me." Draco said.
"What took you so long to come back?" Hermione shouted.
"I..." Draco didn't know what to answer.
"...I'm bloody waiting for that in ages, Draco!" Hermione shouted and her eyes were filled with tears when she hugged him.
"It's not our fault, sir. Professor Admeta said to us that it's okay with her since she couldn't make it today for she has many things to accomplish." Hermione explained but she could feel Draco burst into little giggles.
"Yes, my wife is right professor. Professor Admeta told us it's ok. And thank you professor for this..." Draco picked out the key inside his wedding robes.
"How did you have the duplicate key in the dungeon? I thought you will stay in your wife's quarters." Snape asked.
"Well, professor, it is not really our fault when we found out that the dungeons is the most romantic place in Hogwarts so even if we didn't ask your fiancee about this...she still gave this key to us." Draco explained.
"HOW DARE YOU STEAL MY WEDDING DATE, MY RECEPTION AND NOW EVEN OUR HONEYMOON SUITE!!! Wait, let me give you my surprise..." Snape pulled out his wand but before he could cast any spell to the couple, they rushed to the dungeons quickly and locked it as fast as they could.
"Thank you, Professor Snape!" the wedded couple shouted.
"Now, we're safe." Hermione said to her husband.
"Not for long, Mrs. Malfoy!" Draco grabbed her wife and pulled her inside the decorated bedroom...Snape's supposed-to-be Honeymoon Suite!
