CHAPTER 44-DEATH IN VAIN AND THE BEST NIGHT EVER
HERMIONE'S POV
Everything seemed back to normal, well as normal as things could have been after all that had happened. I was at Hogwarts once and again, and released out of the hospital after 3 days, as I began to grow restless and tired of just lying there when I knew other things had to be done.
It was the evening before the Funerals of all those who had died by the crawling and cold hands of Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
I was eating an early supper with both my parents in the Great Hall. I could not of been happier to be with them right now. My mother had been in the hospital wing for 2 weeks. Maddam Pomfrey and Professor Dumbledore thought it would be better for my Muggle Mother to get Wizard medicine. Which would help her and cure her of the pain of the miscarriage she had during her torture and kidnapping by the Death Eaters. I never had the courage to ask her what exaclty had happened, maybe I myself was too scared to even talk about it, there is nothing more scary in the world then talking about your mother being tortured. All she told me was that they took her in the middle of the night when she was sleeping, and that was all I simply needed to known.
Although she was depressed for loosing the baby, both my mom and dad tried to stay strong, both for me and for them. I appreciated that more then anything in the world.
"Oh here he is!" I said happily smiling at my parents to where Draco came walking throught he Great Hall doors.
As he approached my parents and I stood up and my mom whispered in my ear, "Your right he is very handsome" she giggled and of course that whisper was loud enough for the whole hall to hear.
Draco blushed slightly at this comment, which I never had seen him do.
"Daddy, Mommy, I'd like to introduce you to Draco Malfoy." I told them, as Draco handshook my dad and my mom.
Then the 4 of us sat down. And my dad began the questioning as he always did when he met one of my boyfriends.
"Well then Draco, my daughter has certainly told us all about you and the family you come from." he started.
I looked at him pleadinly hoping he wouldn't say anything rude.
".And I just like to say that you are definitely a great guy, and worthy of my daughter's trust and love." He surprised the three of us, and Draco let out a sigh.
"Thank you sir!" Draco smiled thankfully.
"Daddy? You feeling alright?" I asked him razing my eyebrow.
"Sure honey, I just remember how that Lucius Malfoy spoke of us in Diagon Alley that day when you were in Second Year, and I can tell he is nothing like his dad. For one he is very good looking hahaha, Im sure Draco and I will get along fine!" he answered laughing heavily as he sipped some wine.
"Oh I would say so sir!" Draco answering and giving me a short wink.
And I laughed. I laughed! I could not believe that I was laughing, a week ago, I thought that I would never again do such a thing. But here I was laughing and enjoying myself and surrounded by the people I love.
RON'S POV
There was no bone in my body that was happy at all. I felt sad, lost and incomplete. Percy was dead; Fred and George mysteriously vanished so no one really knows what happened to them. And then my other two brothers and my mother were dead, the only one they found alive was my father in Azkaban which I was soo thankful for. But I now dreaded the summer more then anything, where Ginny and I would have to work to make money as my father regained his strenght.
But worst of all things, how anything could be worse then my whole family's death, I couldn't understand, but Pansy, I missed her sooo much. I missed our fighting and our bickering and I missed the fact that I never had a chance to pronounce my love for her. There was a huge void in my heart that I never though possible and I did not know how I would be able to face that funeral and her parents tommorow, what was I supposed to say to anyone anymore.
I was waiting outside of Professor Dumbledore's office, he wanted to speak to me and to someone else, because Snape during the battle with Voldemort killed two people, Pansy, and he also had killed some other guy.
Soon I noticed beside the one chair that was beside mine, someone had sat down. I looked up and it was no other then that girl that Malfoy had went out with originally to the great winter ball.
"Hello" she said as I looked at her. I always thought she seemed very nice. And she always seemed that she didn't want all the attention people said she craved. She was wearing a high neck white cut off shirt, and a black fitted skirt that went down to her knees, and black chunky heels. And a little balck purse. And beside the chair was a big bag of luggage.
"Hey" I said to her. "How come your at Hogwarts?"
She looked at me dimly and looked to the side to see if anyone was watching.
"Im the new Professor here." She answered.
"What? But you're like my age." I told her very surpisingly.
"I know, but I am a gifted student, you know, like your friend Hermione. In Hogwarts A History it says that one can teach here after 5th year. And I just finished." She answered me.
"Whoah you and Hermione would get along better then you know." I answered in disbelief.
We sat in silence for about 3 minutes then I asked her.
"What are you teaching?"
"Potions" she answered simply in her silvery like voice.
"Huh?" I asked totally confused, knowing that we already had one, and that I hated him more than anything, and just then someone appeared claimming to be the new teacher.
But before I could say anything else the doors to Dumbledore's office opened and McGonagall appeared at the entrance.
"Ronald Weasley and Thamara Marie Romeo VI, Professor Dumbledore awaits you both." And then she walked down the hallway as if she had something very important to do.
I did not hessitate to think much about why we were sent in together, but I reached down and picked up her luggage bag for her and carried it inside and she gratefully thanked me.
There were two chairs set in front of the Headmasters Desk. And he waited patiently for us to sit.
"Now I suppose either of you don't know why you are here, but I will tell you" he began. "You both lost a very loved one and dear one a week ago at the hands of what we all thought was a trusting Professor."
I was speechless and felt ignorant, I thought that Marie was only here on buisness I had no idea that she was here also because someone that she also loved died.
"Ron, I know you lost Pansy and I am terribly sorry, since she was killed in vain. Severus was after Marie unfortuantely, and somehow Severus had mistaken Pansy for Marie." He explained not making any sense at all.
I did not understand, Pansy and Marie looked nothing at all alike, one had black hair the other was blonde, how could anyone get that mixed up.
"Snape had made a deal with Voldemort to kill the last of the Royalty of the Wizard World, which is Marie. But mistankly drunk and pathetic over Sirius winning over Elloyha's heart he mistankly hit Pansy and Marie's ex in the heart at the same time, thinking in his head that Marie was passing by. Voldemort had promised him Elloyha if he had killed Marie, but he did not succeed. So when Marie escaped before the battle between Harry and Voldemort, Voldemort sent the word to have Snape killed. And so he was." And finally Dumbledore finished his story and I was more enraged then ever.
"So Pansy was killed because of a misunderstand?" I realized I was yelling.
"Im sorry Ron, I really am." He told me getting up and putting an arm on my shoulder. I just looked away.
I had forgotten about Marie who sat silent the whole time who had lost some one who she loved deeply too, I looked at her angel like face, and it was stricken with tears, and a deep pity sweeped over me and I said,
"Come Marie, why don't I take you to your room?" and she looked at me surprisingly and nodded. And we both thanked Dumbledore and left.
We began talking down the hallway about other things, and it seemed as though we got along well, and just walking along side her I could tell that we might be good friends too.
DRACO'S POV
Next week I was gonna look for a condo in Muggle England, with the money that I would be receiving from my new job at the Ministry of Magic as their new Head of Finance Director. Hermione didn't like the idea of me working with a bunch of "egotistic self centered people". But I told her it was only for the summer, to make some extra money that I needed.
Right now I layed on my bed waiting for her to come, because now we slept in bed together, even though sleep was all we did, I still thought she must be waiting for marriage to actually make love.
I was just lieing there shirtless and in my black satin boxers underneath one set of sheets, when the lights grew dim and a soft honey sweet music was airing. At first I didn't understand what was happeneing, but when I looked at the door, I saw Hermione.
She was wearing her hair down and messy and curly as I liked it, a pale pink lip-gloss over her lipes that match the silk pink robe she wore tied tightly to her waist. Her arm was up against the door as in a seductive position. Something that she rarely did as she thought it was so degrading to do such things.
A smily rept on to my lips as she she sauntered towards the bed swinging her hips as she walked. Neither of us said anything.
She twisted the sash on her robe and tugged it off still clutching her robe to herself. I then got up and sat in front of her on the bed putting my hands on her hips trying to bring towards me.
"Shhh, not so fast." She whispered in my ear. She grabbed my hands and slipped them off her hips while cupping my face and pressing her lips against mine. I reached for her body to pull her in but she took a hold of my hands to make sure I wouldn't.
Then she backed away for awhile and turned around and slipped out of the robe. She was wearing a satin-laced bra, and satin laced thong pantie aswell. Attatched to the panties were pink-laced nylons as well. She then turned around exposing her small full breasts covered in a sheer fabric, and her tight stomach looked adorned with a beautiful jewel above her belly button.
Finally she came close to me as I reached for her hips and pulling her closer whily I put my head on her chest and she played with my hair.
"Do you love me?" she whispered in my ear.
I looked up at her rapidly and stood up against her and took her into a long deep kiss, parting her lips with my tongue and swarming her mouth with warmth, then we both broke free panting and I said.
"I rather live one life with one kiss, one touch, one word, then an eternity with out you." She smiled at me and then jokinly said.
"Are you trying to seduce me or something?" and she giggled.
"Well I think it's you trying to seduce me!" I defended myself looking her up and down.
"I guess I just wanted to try something a bit more romantic today." She answered showing me those golden chocalate eyes. "I love you."
"Well I was gonna wait until another dinner with your parents but I think this is the perfect moment." I surprised her by putting myself on one knee and reaching for my wand which was under the bed. "I put in safe keeping air so nothing would happen to it."
I twisted my wand and said "Topscreatium!" and then I flinged my wand under the bed again and trapped my hand around what just formed in the air before Hermione could say a thing.
"Draco what are you doing, get up!" she told me laughing.
But I took a hold of her hand and she soon fell silent.
"Hermione, baby, my world, I wish I could say I loved you from the first day I layed my eyes upon you, but it would be nothing more than a lie, since I hated you with a passion." She eyed me with a very awkard and hateful look, as if she was expecting me to start of more romantics but got something else. Yet I continued.
"I hated you, and your friends and your whole world and never appreaciated you. But that all changed. That day at the train station when I saw you dragging that big trunk I saw what my Father was oh so very wrong about you. You wern't stuck up and perfect and mean. You were normal, a teenage girl who needs help just like any other person. And the more I began to talk to you, the more I wanted to hear you voice, the more I wanted to smell you and feel you against me. I know now that it will be impossible for me to live without such a thing. And now when I look at you I realize that you aren't normal. Your beyond normal, your gorgeous and beautiful and smart and delicate and I want you in every way. Please Hermione do me the honour of being with me and loving me forever." I ended, there wasn't anymore I could say to pronounce my love to her.
She looked at me strangely for a second or to and I thought she was gonna say no. As I showed her the beatiful Saphirre and Diamond ring, I knew that I couldn't even entice her with a ring, she was never into material things.
"But we are only 19 Draco!" she told me laughing and second-guessing things again.
"I know, but it doesn't mean we have to marry tommorow, it could be 5 years from now I don't care, just say yes before I burst!" I told her smiling.
"Yes, YES! Now give me that ring! Haha!" she slipped the ring on and looked at it. "Whoah it's beautiful! I love it! I mean, oh Draco I love you soo much!" and after that she hugged and kissed me and we fell onto the bed, and well that night turned to be the best night of my life.
HERMIONE'S POV
Everything seemed back to normal, well as normal as things could have been after all that had happened. I was at Hogwarts once and again, and released out of the hospital after 3 days, as I began to grow restless and tired of just lying there when I knew other things had to be done.
It was the evening before the Funerals of all those who had died by the crawling and cold hands of Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
I was eating an early supper with both my parents in the Great Hall. I could not of been happier to be with them right now. My mother had been in the hospital wing for 2 weeks. Maddam Pomfrey and Professor Dumbledore thought it would be better for my Muggle Mother to get Wizard medicine. Which would help her and cure her of the pain of the miscarriage she had during her torture and kidnapping by the Death Eaters. I never had the courage to ask her what exaclty had happened, maybe I myself was too scared to even talk about it, there is nothing more scary in the world then talking about your mother being tortured. All she told me was that they took her in the middle of the night when she was sleeping, and that was all I simply needed to known.
Although she was depressed for loosing the baby, both my mom and dad tried to stay strong, both for me and for them. I appreciated that more then anything in the world.
"Oh here he is!" I said happily smiling at my parents to where Draco came walking throught he Great Hall doors.
As he approached my parents and I stood up and my mom whispered in my ear, "Your right he is very handsome" she giggled and of course that whisper was loud enough for the whole hall to hear.
Draco blushed slightly at this comment, which I never had seen him do.
"Daddy, Mommy, I'd like to introduce you to Draco Malfoy." I told them, as Draco handshook my dad and my mom.
Then the 4 of us sat down. And my dad began the questioning as he always did when he met one of my boyfriends.
"Well then Draco, my daughter has certainly told us all about you and the family you come from." he started.
I looked at him pleadinly hoping he wouldn't say anything rude.
".And I just like to say that you are definitely a great guy, and worthy of my daughter's trust and love." He surprised the three of us, and Draco let out a sigh.
"Thank you sir!" Draco smiled thankfully.
"Daddy? You feeling alright?" I asked him razing my eyebrow.
"Sure honey, I just remember how that Lucius Malfoy spoke of us in Diagon Alley that day when you were in Second Year, and I can tell he is nothing like his dad. For one he is very good looking hahaha, Im sure Draco and I will get along fine!" he answered laughing heavily as he sipped some wine.
"Oh I would say so sir!" Draco answering and giving me a short wink.
And I laughed. I laughed! I could not believe that I was laughing, a week ago, I thought that I would never again do such a thing. But here I was laughing and enjoying myself and surrounded by the people I love.
RON'S POV
There was no bone in my body that was happy at all. I felt sad, lost and incomplete. Percy was dead; Fred and George mysteriously vanished so no one really knows what happened to them. And then my other two brothers and my mother were dead, the only one they found alive was my father in Azkaban which I was soo thankful for. But I now dreaded the summer more then anything, where Ginny and I would have to work to make money as my father regained his strenght.
But worst of all things, how anything could be worse then my whole family's death, I couldn't understand, but Pansy, I missed her sooo much. I missed our fighting and our bickering and I missed the fact that I never had a chance to pronounce my love for her. There was a huge void in my heart that I never though possible and I did not know how I would be able to face that funeral and her parents tommorow, what was I supposed to say to anyone anymore.
I was waiting outside of Professor Dumbledore's office, he wanted to speak to me and to someone else, because Snape during the battle with Voldemort killed two people, Pansy, and he also had killed some other guy.
Soon I noticed beside the one chair that was beside mine, someone had sat down. I looked up and it was no other then that girl that Malfoy had went out with originally to the great winter ball.
"Hello" she said as I looked at her. I always thought she seemed very nice. And she always seemed that she didn't want all the attention people said she craved. She was wearing a high neck white cut off shirt, and a black fitted skirt that went down to her knees, and black chunky heels. And a little balck purse. And beside the chair was a big bag of luggage.
"Hey" I said to her. "How come your at Hogwarts?"
She looked at me dimly and looked to the side to see if anyone was watching.
"Im the new Professor here." She answered.
"What? But you're like my age." I told her very surpisingly.
"I know, but I am a gifted student, you know, like your friend Hermione. In Hogwarts A History it says that one can teach here after 5th year. And I just finished." She answered me.
"Whoah you and Hermione would get along better then you know." I answered in disbelief.
We sat in silence for about 3 minutes then I asked her.
"What are you teaching?"
"Potions" she answered simply in her silvery like voice.
"Huh?" I asked totally confused, knowing that we already had one, and that I hated him more than anything, and just then someone appeared claimming to be the new teacher.
But before I could say anything else the doors to Dumbledore's office opened and McGonagall appeared at the entrance.
"Ronald Weasley and Thamara Marie Romeo VI, Professor Dumbledore awaits you both." And then she walked down the hallway as if she had something very important to do.
I did not hessitate to think much about why we were sent in together, but I reached down and picked up her luggage bag for her and carried it inside and she gratefully thanked me.
There were two chairs set in front of the Headmasters Desk. And he waited patiently for us to sit.
"Now I suppose either of you don't know why you are here, but I will tell you" he began. "You both lost a very loved one and dear one a week ago at the hands of what we all thought was a trusting Professor."
I was speechless and felt ignorant, I thought that Marie was only here on buisness I had no idea that she was here also because someone that she also loved died.
"Ron, I know you lost Pansy and I am terribly sorry, since she was killed in vain. Severus was after Marie unfortuantely, and somehow Severus had mistaken Pansy for Marie." He explained not making any sense at all.
I did not understand, Pansy and Marie looked nothing at all alike, one had black hair the other was blonde, how could anyone get that mixed up.
"Snape had made a deal with Voldemort to kill the last of the Royalty of the Wizard World, which is Marie. But mistankly drunk and pathetic over Sirius winning over Elloyha's heart he mistankly hit Pansy and Marie's ex in the heart at the same time, thinking in his head that Marie was passing by. Voldemort had promised him Elloyha if he had killed Marie, but he did not succeed. So when Marie escaped before the battle between Harry and Voldemort, Voldemort sent the word to have Snape killed. And so he was." And finally Dumbledore finished his story and I was more enraged then ever.
"So Pansy was killed because of a misunderstand?" I realized I was yelling.
"Im sorry Ron, I really am." He told me getting up and putting an arm on my shoulder. I just looked away.
I had forgotten about Marie who sat silent the whole time who had lost some one who she loved deeply too, I looked at her angel like face, and it was stricken with tears, and a deep pity sweeped over me and I said,
"Come Marie, why don't I take you to your room?" and she looked at me surprisingly and nodded. And we both thanked Dumbledore and left.
We began talking down the hallway about other things, and it seemed as though we got along well, and just walking along side her I could tell that we might be good friends too.
DRACO'S POV
Next week I was gonna look for a condo in Muggle England, with the money that I would be receiving from my new job at the Ministry of Magic as their new Head of Finance Director. Hermione didn't like the idea of me working with a bunch of "egotistic self centered people". But I told her it was only for the summer, to make some extra money that I needed.
Right now I layed on my bed waiting for her to come, because now we slept in bed together, even though sleep was all we did, I still thought she must be waiting for marriage to actually make love.
I was just lieing there shirtless and in my black satin boxers underneath one set of sheets, when the lights grew dim and a soft honey sweet music was airing. At first I didn't understand what was happeneing, but when I looked at the door, I saw Hermione.
She was wearing her hair down and messy and curly as I liked it, a pale pink lip-gloss over her lipes that match the silk pink robe she wore tied tightly to her waist. Her arm was up against the door as in a seductive position. Something that she rarely did as she thought it was so degrading to do such things.
A smily rept on to my lips as she she sauntered towards the bed swinging her hips as she walked. Neither of us said anything.
She twisted the sash on her robe and tugged it off still clutching her robe to herself. I then got up and sat in front of her on the bed putting my hands on her hips trying to bring towards me.
"Shhh, not so fast." She whispered in my ear. She grabbed my hands and slipped them off her hips while cupping my face and pressing her lips against mine. I reached for her body to pull her in but she took a hold of my hands to make sure I wouldn't.
Then she backed away for awhile and turned around and slipped out of the robe. She was wearing a satin-laced bra, and satin laced thong pantie aswell. Attatched to the panties were pink-laced nylons as well. She then turned around exposing her small full breasts covered in a sheer fabric, and her tight stomach looked adorned with a beautiful jewel above her belly button.
Finally she came close to me as I reached for her hips and pulling her closer whily I put my head on her chest and she played with my hair.
"Do you love me?" she whispered in my ear.
I looked up at her rapidly and stood up against her and took her into a long deep kiss, parting her lips with my tongue and swarming her mouth with warmth, then we both broke free panting and I said.
"I rather live one life with one kiss, one touch, one word, then an eternity with out you." She smiled at me and then jokinly said.
"Are you trying to seduce me or something?" and she giggled.
"Well I think it's you trying to seduce me!" I defended myself looking her up and down.
"I guess I just wanted to try something a bit more romantic today." She answered showing me those golden chocalate eyes. "I love you."
"Well I was gonna wait until another dinner with your parents but I think this is the perfect moment." I surprised her by putting myself on one knee and reaching for my wand which was under the bed. "I put in safe keeping air so nothing would happen to it."
I twisted my wand and said "Topscreatium!" and then I flinged my wand under the bed again and trapped my hand around what just formed in the air before Hermione could say a thing.
"Draco what are you doing, get up!" she told me laughing.
But I took a hold of her hand and she soon fell silent.
"Hermione, baby, my world, I wish I could say I loved you from the first day I layed my eyes upon you, but it would be nothing more than a lie, since I hated you with a passion." She eyed me with a very awkard and hateful look, as if she was expecting me to start of more romantics but got something else. Yet I continued.
"I hated you, and your friends and your whole world and never appreaciated you. But that all changed. That day at the train station when I saw you dragging that big trunk I saw what my Father was oh so very wrong about you. You wern't stuck up and perfect and mean. You were normal, a teenage girl who needs help just like any other person. And the more I began to talk to you, the more I wanted to hear you voice, the more I wanted to smell you and feel you against me. I know now that it will be impossible for me to live without such a thing. And now when I look at you I realize that you aren't normal. Your beyond normal, your gorgeous and beautiful and smart and delicate and I want you in every way. Please Hermione do me the honour of being with me and loving me forever." I ended, there wasn't anymore I could say to pronounce my love to her.
She looked at me strangely for a second or to and I thought she was gonna say no. As I showed her the beatiful Saphirre and Diamond ring, I knew that I couldn't even entice her with a ring, she was never into material things.
"But we are only 19 Draco!" she told me laughing and second-guessing things again.
"I know, but it doesn't mean we have to marry tommorow, it could be 5 years from now I don't care, just say yes before I burst!" I told her smiling.
"Yes, YES! Now give me that ring! Haha!" she slipped the ring on and looked at it. "Whoah it's beautiful! I love it! I mean, oh Draco I love you soo much!" and after that she hugged and kissed me and we fell onto the bed, and well that night turned to be the best night of my life.