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Disclaimer: The plot and the characters that you don't recognize belong to me. The rest belongs to the talented Ms J.K Rowling.
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Draco walked to his mother's grave, which was a few feet away where he and Hermione were sitting. Her body was so warm. So comfortable. And her face was so beautiful under the moonlight. Make's her look like an angel. Oh shit!!! What the hell am I saying??? She's a mudblood. A mudblood I have been hating since what? Forever? he wondered. But she's so loving. So passionate. So sensitive. Damn! Why didn't noticed these qualities before?
He snapped out of his thoughts when he reached the grave. Instantly, he felt a twinge of regret. He kneeled down in front of his mother's grave. Tears were clouding his eyes. This time, he wouldn't hold back his tears. He would make it up to his mother. He let his tears fall down his pale cheeks.
"I miss you Mom. I miss you so much. I want you back, Mommy!!!" he shouted to the tombstone like it was his mother. His words echoed in the silent night.
"Draco…Draco…I'm here my baby…"said a soft and calm voice.
"Mom? Mommy? Where are you?" Draco said as he stood up and searched for the owner of the voice. He felt as if, as if he was still a little boy, when his mother would play hide-and-seek with him.
"Draco…I'm here, my darling…Come here baby. I missed you so much,"
Then, Narcissa Malfoy emerged from behind a willow tree, dressed in a long white dress. Her golden blond hair was shining in the moonlight. She really looked so beautiful, like an angel. But then again, who knows?
Draco saw her and ran as fast as he could to her. Narcissa greeted him with opened arms and embraced him warmly. Draco, for the first time in weeks, felt like home at last.
" Mommy…don't leave me again. Please, Mommy. I love you, Mommy. Please don't leave me," Draco whispered.
"No I can't baby. We are in two different worlds now. I can't go back, Draco. But just remember, I will right here," She brought Draco' s hand to his heart. "…watching over you, making sure you're safe and sound,"
Draco could see silvery tears running down his mother rosy cheeks. He wiped the tears away with his shaking hand.
"Don't cry Mommy. Don't cry," he said softly with tears filling his own eyes.
"Baby I got to now. I love you Draco. I love you so much," Narcissa said in a voice filled with sadness and sorrow. "Good bye my baby…"
"Goodbye Mommy. I love you,"
Slowly, Narcissa Malfoy faded away. Draco fell to the ground on his knees. He brought his hands to his face and buried his face in his hands. He cried and cried till he could cry no more.
Hermione walked back to the funeral slowly. Draco Malfoy. Of all people. I can't believe it. But I feel quite sorry for him for his mother's death. Oh my god! I can't believe I am saying this. I, Hermione Granger, feel sorry for slimy git Malfoy? Oh, puh-leeese, she thought. But he's so kind. So different from his usual 'I am the king of this world' self. I think, I think I like him…Oh no!!!
She reached back to the funeral, lost in her thoughts. She snapped back to the real world, she went to the first coffin. And there she was, her mother, lying peacefully in the coffin. Draco Malfoy was right. It wasn't her parents' fault. She was just being selfish.
She looked down at her mother and ran her hand through her mother's wavy auburn hair. She bent down and kissed her mother's soft cheeks.
"I love you Mommy," she whispered into her mother's ear. By that time, tears were streaming down her cheeks. She sobbed and wiped her cheeks.
She moved on to the next coffin. Her father's coffin. She did the same thing she did to her mother. Fresh tears were now falling down her cheeks as she turned away from the coffins.
Hermione felt a hand on her shoulder so she turned around and found that it was her Uncle Jesse, her mother's only brother. She could see dark rings under her uncle's eyes. Poor Uncle Jesse. He spent so much time planning this funeral that he never got much sleep, she thought.
"It's time, Hermione. It's time to let them go," he whispered into her ears. Hermione nodded and he gave the signal.
Slowly, they lowered the coffins into the ground one by one. Hermione stood by Harry, Ron and Uncle Jesse, watching the bodies of her most loved ones being lowered into the ground.
Hermione leaned over and took a last look at her parents for the very last time and then, they buried the coffins. Harry wrapped one of his arms around her and she buried her face into his chest, sobbing.
"Come on, Hermione. Let's go back home. You need rest. In a few days you'll be returning to Hogwarts. I don't want you to miss your first day of your seventh year there, and furthermore as the Head Girl," said Sirius Black who had volunteered to become Hermione's godfather, since she didn't have one.
The ministry caught Sirius again the year before and Harry killed Lord Voldemort with the aid of Professor Dumbledore. Peter Pettigrew admitted that he was the one who did the crimes that Sirius was framed for so Sirius was freed. Peter was sentenced to a dementor's kiss, which had left him worse than dead.
They reached the Lupin Mansion, the mansion where Remus Lupin, Sirius, Hermione and Harry live in. Hermione went straight to her room and changed to her pyjamas. She flung herself onto her bed. She felt better after talking to Draco. She wondered how Draco was doing right now.
"WHERE WERE YOU???" boomed his father as Draco entered the mansion through the back entrance. He thought he could make it without being seen but he had thought wrong.
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO GO OUT DURING THE NIGHT!!! WHAT IF YOU WERE SEEN??? PEOPLE WOULD THINK I DIDN'T TEACH MY SON PROPERLY!!! SERIOUSLY DRACO, I THOUGHT AFTER THE DEATH OF YOUR MOTHER, YOU WOULD CHANGE, BUT OBVIOUSLY, I WAS WRONG!!!" he continued.
With that, Lucius Malfoy pulled Draco by his shirt to his room. He took out a metal rod, the one he always used to beat Draco, threw Draco on his bed. He swung the metal rod to Draco's now bare back. Draco howled with pain but that didn't stop the cruelness of Lucius. He beat Draco again and again.
Draco's butler, Dimitri, and a few house elves woke up at the sound of Draco's howls. They all rushed to Lucius's room. Dimitri tried stopping Lucius but unfortunately, Lucius was much stronger and pushed him away. The elves were calling the ministers at the fireplace. This time, Lucius had gone too far for Dimitri and the elves to cope with him anymore.
Just as Lucius was about to swing the rod to beat Draco again, an "Expelliarmus!" could be heard. The room filled with a flash of scarlet light and he was blasted off his feet, and was smashed against the wall. He was very startled and bruised. Two wizards in the ministry uniform were standing beside the elves with their wands raised.
"We have been summoned here by your house elves as they have claimed you have been beating your son badly. As you should know, child abuse is a serious offence under chapter 7 of Improper Treating of the Wizardry Kind. You shall be brought with us to the headquarters for further interrogation," one of them told Lucius sternly while the other was attending to Draco, who was bleeding profusely.
"NO!!! NO!!! I WILL NOT FOLLOW YOU!!!" Lucius shouted as he staggered to the door. Quickly, the wizard performed the binding spell to Lucius and instantly, his whole body was binded by an invisible force.
"This boy needs intensive care. He's losing a lot of blood," said the wizard attending to Draco to the other wizard. "Quick! He's turning very white. Let's send him to the nearest hospital, or we can lose him,"
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Muwahahaha!!! I am soooo evil!!! I just love cliffhangers!!!! Ok, this chapter's a little long cause for the next 3 days, I will camping so I cannot post a chapter so panic if there's no next chapter for the next few days, ok? And oh, by the way, please review!!! I juz love those little messages… ~Elisa