Hogwarts Reunion
Chapter 4 - The Reunion, Part 2
At precisely 10:45 am sharp Draco Malfoy, with a resounding crack, apparated for his manor and instantly reappeared on to platform 9 and ¾'s facing the sparkling crimson steam engine that was the Hogwarts Express. A ghost of a smile was seen on his face as long forgotten memories came back to him, mostly they were memories of him teasing Hermione, Potter and Weasley. Though thoughts of them brought a scowl to his face as he remembered their train ride home after their fourth year, after a curious mix of hex's sent his way he ended up with tentacles growing from his face and boils on his body. Draco shook his head to remove the memories, handed the old wizard his trunk and walked over to the very small group of ex- Slytherins. As he approached Blaise Zambini turned around and looked at him, as Draco drew near Blaise extended his hand and he and Draco shook hands. Blaise, like Draco, had changed greatly after the war, he also worked at the Ministry but Blaise was in the Magical Law Enforcement Department. (A/N: I am making Blaise a boy in this fic, because I can't remember if JK mentions it anywhere! If you don't it sorry, but he is a boy! At lease I think so anyway! Hehe!)
"Hello Draco, did you receive an invitation practically forcing you to attend as well?" Blaise had a smirk on his face, and while it didn't hold up to the Malfoy smirk, it was still pretty impressive.
"Of course, Dumbledore always did have a very persuasive air about him. How is law enforcement treating you?" Draco was listening to what Blaise was saying but a small part of his concentration was wandering, wondering where Hermione and her herd of children were. He was starting to get nervous, and he didn't like it.
"The amount of hex's I get thrown at me is unbelievable! But all jobs come with certain dangers, it was the reason I took the job in the first place!" They both chuckled a bit and turned to walk onto the train to find a compartment. As he was walking down the corridor to find an empty compartment, he was severely manhandled by a witch in overly tight robes of the most putrid green and was instantly overcome by a cloud of perfume that the owner had decided to marinade in. (A/N: Does that sound bad? I hope it does! Lol!)
"ARGH! GET OFF OF ME!" Draco was alarmed and grabbed the arms that were like vines, off of his neck and shoved the offending witch away.
"Dracy-poo, it's me, Pansy! Haven't you missed me?" She fluttered her eyelashes at him, and Draco took a horrified step backwards, and bumped into Blaise who was struggling to keep his laughter contained!
"Get away from me! Pansy, you make my skin crawl! Do not touch me ever, ever, again. If you do, you will regret it! Never call me. Dracy-poo again, if you wish to live. Now leave me alone!" Draco scowled and looked down his nose at her. Pansy was quite taken aback, she was sure that Draco would be all over her, once he saw how good she looked now. It was ok she would try again later, she had the whole week to pursue him. Turning around she stalked off to find her won compartment and Blaise could no longer keep his laughter in.
"Well that was something that I never thought that I would see again!" He finally said, Draco just glared at him and continued down the corridor, finally coming across and empty compartment.
"How many of the Slytherin members are left?" Draco asked, his face drawn. Many of his classmates had joined the war against the Dark Lord, Crabbe and Goyle had both gotten themselves killed in the final battle as had Millicent Bulstrode. The Slytherin's were now a pathetically small group, the only ones left had either changed sides, like himself and Blaise had, or like Pansy had managed to stay neutral and then 'joining' the 'winning' side after the war had been fought.
"Not many, there are you and I and of course who could forget the frightful Pansy. Nott and a few others are in Azkaban and there are a few others that I never spoke to while were at Hogwarts and I don't plan on starting now!" Blaise said as he looked out the window. The Slytherin members of Hogwarts were not the only ones to join the Dark Lord in the war, there were a few from Ravenclaw and a couple from Hufflepuff, though the most surprising was a Gryffindor, who was in his fourth year at Hogwarts when the war began.
Draco just nodded, his concentration was limited and his thoughts kept straying to Hermione.
"Blaise I am going for a walk." Blaise nodded silently and looked out the window. Draco stood up and brushed his robes of invisible dust and walked out of the compartment. Ahead of him the old witch that pushed the food cart was making her slow progress down the middle of the train so Draco ducked into the bathrooms to try and compose himself. Looking in the small mirror Draco noticed that he was as pale as usual, but he now had blue smudges under his eyes as a result from not sleeping. His hair was hanging down over his forehead, having run out of gel it had taken on a floppy appearance and he wasn't sure that he didn't like it.
"Well, I'm not going to get any better looking than I am, so I may as well go find her."
"Yes you tell yourself that dear. Though I must say you are a handsome fellow, and this young lady of yours should be quite pleased." Draco jumped back and then realised it was just the mirror talking to him.
"Ah. yeah. thanks." Draco quickly turned and left the bathroom very quickly.
Walking past many of the compartments he heard the unmistakable voice of Potter, he paused and stuck his head in the compartment. Inside was Potter, his wife Weasley, her older twin brothers, the Patill twins, Dean, Lavender and Seamus. Hermione and her brood were no where to be seen.
"And so I say. Can we help you Malfoy?" Harry said, even though Draco had fought along side them towards the end of the war there was no love lost between himself and Draco. Everyone in the compartment turned to look at him, while Lavender viewed him with obvious interest the others all looked down their noses at him and Draco couldn't help but feel slightly uncomfortable.
"I was looking for Hermione, I thought that she would be sitting with you all, but I guess I was wrong. If you could please tell me what carriage she is in I will leave you all to get back to talking about what ever it was you were talking about. Harry looked quite taken aback. While he knew that Draco had changed since their school days he had never expected him to talk to him politely.
"Um, she is three carriages down, she is with all of her kids." Draco nodded turned around and left. The ex-Gryffindor's all turned to look at each other with puzzled looks on their faces, but the moment passed and they returned to doing what it was that they were doing before they had been interrupted.
Finally Draco reached her compartment, but before he walked in, he took a moment to compose himself. He silently opened the door and quietly took in all of the children talking and reading and Hermione sitting there with Tate, Hermione had sent him many pictures of her children, trying in vain to unstick a lollypop from the front of his shirt.
Draco knocked on the frame of the compartment door and without looking up Hermione called out "Come in." All of the children were looking at him with interest.
"Hello Hermione, its been a while," Hermione's head snapped up and her chocolate brown eyes collided with his icy blue eyes.
"Hello Draco." She said breathlessly.
"You look like your having a little trouble there, do you mind if I help?"
"Not at all." Draco pulled out his wand and now all of the other children moved in closer, while they often saw Hermione use her wand to do bits of magic while they were at home, for most of them it was the first time that they were going to see a fully grown wizard do some. Draco muttered a few words and with a flick of his wrist the lollypop came unstuck and there were no traces of the candy on his shirt.
"Thank you Draco." Hermione looked up at him and Tate scampered off of her lap. Draco reached down and gave Hermione a big hug, which she gladly returned.
"There is so much I want to talk to you about." Draco said and Hermione looked up at him slightly confused, but then she smiled.
"We have a whole week to catch up." Draco returned her smile and gave her another hug. Hermione pulled Draco down onto the chair beside her and almost instantly the children all began to squeal excitedly.
Outside the Hogsmeade station pulled into view and all of the children ran to look out the window. But they were all disappointed when they realised that they could not see the castle yet.
"I told you all that you wouldn't be able to see the castle yet, but you will soon." Daphne smiled delicately, she was quite prim for a five-year- old and didn't like to look as if she was acting like a child. She got up from her seat and walked to the compartment door waiting for Hermione and Draco to lead them off of the train. None of the other children were as delicate and they pushed each other out of the way to be at the door first.
"HALT!" Hermione bellowed. This had the instant effect of all the children freezing in position and even Draco paused. Hermione gave a small laugh and organised the children into two lines. She led them off the train and saw Hagrid towering over everyone else on the platform.
"Hello all! Right then everyone on a boat, no need ta push, thars room 'nuogh for evryone." (A/N: ok, pathetic Hagrid voice and all but you guys get the picture!)
Hermione smiled and waved at Hagrid who returned the wave and got Hermione a special boat so that she could travel with all of her children.
"Draco, you can fit in this boat as well if you would like." Hermione was quite shy around him for some reason. They hadn't seen each other in years, yet they were so close.
"Thank you." Draco stepped into the boat and all of the children began to look at him curiously. Draco looked at little Imogen and the thought that if Hermione agreed to marry him and have a child with him, it would look much like little Imogen. The thought brought a smile to his face, but to deter the children from looking at him too much he said, "look, here's the castle now." All the children turned and let out excited shouts of glee, which were echoed from many other boats.
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A/N: Hey guys! This chapter was written in my theology class, waiting for the rest of the class to finish the mini exam we had in class, so if it isn't up to usual standards I apologise! I wrote the chapter like this because I wanted to explain them both getting on the train and arriving at Hogwarts separately, but the rest of the story (at this stage) will be written as it is happening, get me??? If not just go with it, am tired and can't be bothered explaining myself!
Does anyone think that I was overly mean to Pansy? Are there any people that you really want me to put in this story? Have I forgotten any important people? You will notice that I have killed off or will be killing off in future chapters, because remember in wars people from both sides get killed. So please don't get mad if I kill of your fave character, JK killed off one of my fave characters and I am dealing with it! *Bawls like a baby* ok maybe not, but you get the picture!
Remember guys, suggestions are welcomed, as well as reviews! I must say I am getting more reviews for this story than I thought that I would, so please keep them coming, they make me want to update faster to keep you guys happy! So you know how to make me happy! Press that lovely little button that says go, and make my day! :) lol!
Dedicated to:
Cailin (Thank you again!! I will put some flashbacks in later chappies, I want to work out what happened properly then I will add them! And especially a big Thanx for being my most loyal reviewer!)
Windwalker22 (a lemon? As in you want someone to eat one or what? I will put it in if you explain it to me! Sorry if I am being a bit slow! Lol!)
Jenny (not a problem, consider yourself e-mailed! Lol!)
Wildchartermage (Thanx! I'm glad you are enjoying, and also big hugs and kisses for the fave listing! Makes ya all warm and fuzzy on the inside!)
Befuzzled (did you review my other story? Lol, can't be bothered going and having a look! I am sooooooo lazy!)
Islandgirl4 (formal words? I write how I speak, and I love talking so I usually use more words than I should! Anyway, am glad you like it so much! :) The fact that I like to talk is reflected in my notes at the end of each chapter, I can't seem to shut up even when I'm not physically talking! I think that I need to seek help for it, lol!)
Meg (You rock!! Thank you so much for your suggestions! I will defiantly use them, your right different teams are needed, especially since there aren't to many of those naughty Slytherins left! Many hugs to you! :) And I hope that I didn't make you wait to long! And also another big thank you for reviewing twice, it is so nice when the same person reviews more than once because then I know that you still like what I am writing!)
Moween (Ta muchly! I don't want to give to much of my plot [which isn't all that much] away, so you are just going to have to keep reading to find out what happens between Hermione and Draco!)
And last but not least.
XsesenX (thank you for the fave listing! You made me smile! And you also receive a special thank you for reviewing twice!! :) :) :) )
Chapter 4 - The Reunion, Part 2
At precisely 10:45 am sharp Draco Malfoy, with a resounding crack, apparated for his manor and instantly reappeared on to platform 9 and ¾'s facing the sparkling crimson steam engine that was the Hogwarts Express. A ghost of a smile was seen on his face as long forgotten memories came back to him, mostly they were memories of him teasing Hermione, Potter and Weasley. Though thoughts of them brought a scowl to his face as he remembered their train ride home after their fourth year, after a curious mix of hex's sent his way he ended up with tentacles growing from his face and boils on his body. Draco shook his head to remove the memories, handed the old wizard his trunk and walked over to the very small group of ex- Slytherins. As he approached Blaise Zambini turned around and looked at him, as Draco drew near Blaise extended his hand and he and Draco shook hands. Blaise, like Draco, had changed greatly after the war, he also worked at the Ministry but Blaise was in the Magical Law Enforcement Department. (A/N: I am making Blaise a boy in this fic, because I can't remember if JK mentions it anywhere! If you don't it sorry, but he is a boy! At lease I think so anyway! Hehe!)
"Hello Draco, did you receive an invitation practically forcing you to attend as well?" Blaise had a smirk on his face, and while it didn't hold up to the Malfoy smirk, it was still pretty impressive.
"Of course, Dumbledore always did have a very persuasive air about him. How is law enforcement treating you?" Draco was listening to what Blaise was saying but a small part of his concentration was wandering, wondering where Hermione and her herd of children were. He was starting to get nervous, and he didn't like it.
"The amount of hex's I get thrown at me is unbelievable! But all jobs come with certain dangers, it was the reason I took the job in the first place!" They both chuckled a bit and turned to walk onto the train to find a compartment. As he was walking down the corridor to find an empty compartment, he was severely manhandled by a witch in overly tight robes of the most putrid green and was instantly overcome by a cloud of perfume that the owner had decided to marinade in. (A/N: Does that sound bad? I hope it does! Lol!)
"ARGH! GET OFF OF ME!" Draco was alarmed and grabbed the arms that were like vines, off of his neck and shoved the offending witch away.
"Dracy-poo, it's me, Pansy! Haven't you missed me?" She fluttered her eyelashes at him, and Draco took a horrified step backwards, and bumped into Blaise who was struggling to keep his laughter contained!
"Get away from me! Pansy, you make my skin crawl! Do not touch me ever, ever, again. If you do, you will regret it! Never call me. Dracy-poo again, if you wish to live. Now leave me alone!" Draco scowled and looked down his nose at her. Pansy was quite taken aback, she was sure that Draco would be all over her, once he saw how good she looked now. It was ok she would try again later, she had the whole week to pursue him. Turning around she stalked off to find her won compartment and Blaise could no longer keep his laughter in.
"Well that was something that I never thought that I would see again!" He finally said, Draco just glared at him and continued down the corridor, finally coming across and empty compartment.
"How many of the Slytherin members are left?" Draco asked, his face drawn. Many of his classmates had joined the war against the Dark Lord, Crabbe and Goyle had both gotten themselves killed in the final battle as had Millicent Bulstrode. The Slytherin's were now a pathetically small group, the only ones left had either changed sides, like himself and Blaise had, or like Pansy had managed to stay neutral and then 'joining' the 'winning' side after the war had been fought.
"Not many, there are you and I and of course who could forget the frightful Pansy. Nott and a few others are in Azkaban and there are a few others that I never spoke to while were at Hogwarts and I don't plan on starting now!" Blaise said as he looked out the window. The Slytherin members of Hogwarts were not the only ones to join the Dark Lord in the war, there were a few from Ravenclaw and a couple from Hufflepuff, though the most surprising was a Gryffindor, who was in his fourth year at Hogwarts when the war began.
Draco just nodded, his concentration was limited and his thoughts kept straying to Hermione.
"Blaise I am going for a walk." Blaise nodded silently and looked out the window. Draco stood up and brushed his robes of invisible dust and walked out of the compartment. Ahead of him the old witch that pushed the food cart was making her slow progress down the middle of the train so Draco ducked into the bathrooms to try and compose himself. Looking in the small mirror Draco noticed that he was as pale as usual, but he now had blue smudges under his eyes as a result from not sleeping. His hair was hanging down over his forehead, having run out of gel it had taken on a floppy appearance and he wasn't sure that he didn't like it.
"Well, I'm not going to get any better looking than I am, so I may as well go find her."
"Yes you tell yourself that dear. Though I must say you are a handsome fellow, and this young lady of yours should be quite pleased." Draco jumped back and then realised it was just the mirror talking to him.
"Ah. yeah. thanks." Draco quickly turned and left the bathroom very quickly.
Walking past many of the compartments he heard the unmistakable voice of Potter, he paused and stuck his head in the compartment. Inside was Potter, his wife Weasley, her older twin brothers, the Patill twins, Dean, Lavender and Seamus. Hermione and her brood were no where to be seen.
"And so I say. Can we help you Malfoy?" Harry said, even though Draco had fought along side them towards the end of the war there was no love lost between himself and Draco. Everyone in the compartment turned to look at him, while Lavender viewed him with obvious interest the others all looked down their noses at him and Draco couldn't help but feel slightly uncomfortable.
"I was looking for Hermione, I thought that she would be sitting with you all, but I guess I was wrong. If you could please tell me what carriage she is in I will leave you all to get back to talking about what ever it was you were talking about. Harry looked quite taken aback. While he knew that Draco had changed since their school days he had never expected him to talk to him politely.
"Um, she is three carriages down, she is with all of her kids." Draco nodded turned around and left. The ex-Gryffindor's all turned to look at each other with puzzled looks on their faces, but the moment passed and they returned to doing what it was that they were doing before they had been interrupted.
Finally Draco reached her compartment, but before he walked in, he took a moment to compose himself. He silently opened the door and quietly took in all of the children talking and reading and Hermione sitting there with Tate, Hermione had sent him many pictures of her children, trying in vain to unstick a lollypop from the front of his shirt.
Draco knocked on the frame of the compartment door and without looking up Hermione called out "Come in." All of the children were looking at him with interest.
"Hello Hermione, its been a while," Hermione's head snapped up and her chocolate brown eyes collided with his icy blue eyes.
"Hello Draco." She said breathlessly.
"You look like your having a little trouble there, do you mind if I help?"
"Not at all." Draco pulled out his wand and now all of the other children moved in closer, while they often saw Hermione use her wand to do bits of magic while they were at home, for most of them it was the first time that they were going to see a fully grown wizard do some. Draco muttered a few words and with a flick of his wrist the lollypop came unstuck and there were no traces of the candy on his shirt.
"Thank you Draco." Hermione looked up at him and Tate scampered off of her lap. Draco reached down and gave Hermione a big hug, which she gladly returned.
"There is so much I want to talk to you about." Draco said and Hermione looked up at him slightly confused, but then she smiled.
"We have a whole week to catch up." Draco returned her smile and gave her another hug. Hermione pulled Draco down onto the chair beside her and almost instantly the children all began to squeal excitedly.
Outside the Hogsmeade station pulled into view and all of the children ran to look out the window. But they were all disappointed when they realised that they could not see the castle yet.
"I told you all that you wouldn't be able to see the castle yet, but you will soon." Daphne smiled delicately, she was quite prim for a five-year- old and didn't like to look as if she was acting like a child. She got up from her seat and walked to the compartment door waiting for Hermione and Draco to lead them off of the train. None of the other children were as delicate and they pushed each other out of the way to be at the door first.
"HALT!" Hermione bellowed. This had the instant effect of all the children freezing in position and even Draco paused. Hermione gave a small laugh and organised the children into two lines. She led them off the train and saw Hagrid towering over everyone else on the platform.
"Hello all! Right then everyone on a boat, no need ta push, thars room 'nuogh for evryone." (A/N: ok, pathetic Hagrid voice and all but you guys get the picture!)
Hermione smiled and waved at Hagrid who returned the wave and got Hermione a special boat so that she could travel with all of her children.
"Draco, you can fit in this boat as well if you would like." Hermione was quite shy around him for some reason. They hadn't seen each other in years, yet they were so close.
"Thank you." Draco stepped into the boat and all of the children began to look at him curiously. Draco looked at little Imogen and the thought that if Hermione agreed to marry him and have a child with him, it would look much like little Imogen. The thought brought a smile to his face, but to deter the children from looking at him too much he said, "look, here's the castle now." All the children turned and let out excited shouts of glee, which were echoed from many other boats.
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A/N: Hey guys! This chapter was written in my theology class, waiting for the rest of the class to finish the mini exam we had in class, so if it isn't up to usual standards I apologise! I wrote the chapter like this because I wanted to explain them both getting on the train and arriving at Hogwarts separately, but the rest of the story (at this stage) will be written as it is happening, get me??? If not just go with it, am tired and can't be bothered explaining myself!
Does anyone think that I was overly mean to Pansy? Are there any people that you really want me to put in this story? Have I forgotten any important people? You will notice that I have killed off or will be killing off in future chapters, because remember in wars people from both sides get killed. So please don't get mad if I kill of your fave character, JK killed off one of my fave characters and I am dealing with it! *Bawls like a baby* ok maybe not, but you get the picture!
Remember guys, suggestions are welcomed, as well as reviews! I must say I am getting more reviews for this story than I thought that I would, so please keep them coming, they make me want to update faster to keep you guys happy! So you know how to make me happy! Press that lovely little button that says go, and make my day! :) lol!
Dedicated to:
Cailin (Thank you again!! I will put some flashbacks in later chappies, I want to work out what happened properly then I will add them! And especially a big Thanx for being my most loyal reviewer!)
Windwalker22 (a lemon? As in you want someone to eat one or what? I will put it in if you explain it to me! Sorry if I am being a bit slow! Lol!)
Jenny (not a problem, consider yourself e-mailed! Lol!)
Wildchartermage (Thanx! I'm glad you are enjoying, and also big hugs and kisses for the fave listing! Makes ya all warm and fuzzy on the inside!)
Befuzzled (did you review my other story? Lol, can't be bothered going and having a look! I am sooooooo lazy!)
Islandgirl4 (formal words? I write how I speak, and I love talking so I usually use more words than I should! Anyway, am glad you like it so much! :) The fact that I like to talk is reflected in my notes at the end of each chapter, I can't seem to shut up even when I'm not physically talking! I think that I need to seek help for it, lol!)
Meg (You rock!! Thank you so much for your suggestions! I will defiantly use them, your right different teams are needed, especially since there aren't to many of those naughty Slytherins left! Many hugs to you! :) And I hope that I didn't make you wait to long! And also another big thank you for reviewing twice, it is so nice when the same person reviews more than once because then I know that you still like what I am writing!)
Moween (Ta muchly! I don't want to give to much of my plot [which isn't all that much] away, so you are just going to have to keep reading to find out what happens between Hermione and Draco!)
And last but not least.
XsesenX (thank you for the fave listing! You made me smile! And you also receive a special thank you for reviewing twice!! :) :) :) )