Hogwarts Reunion
Chapter 6 - Day One of the Reunion
Hermione was woken up by twelve small people jumping on her bed. Looking over at her clock she saw that it was 7:30, and normally she was getting up now and trying to wake the kids up, but not this morning, they were far too excited, and to tell you the truth Hermione was just as excited as they were!
By 8:00 am the children were dressed and ready and waiting for Hermione, this was a world record for them and Hermione was surprised and a little embarrassed at holding them all up! While they were on their way to the Great Hall to eat breakfast, Hermione decided to give them a tour of Hogwarts by daylight, because the night before they had been far to sleepy to really take anything in.
"That is where Peeve's the poltergeist threw dungbombs at us in our sixth year, that is where Fred and George turned the entire corridor into a swamp so that Professor Umbridge would have a difficult time while she was the Headmistress of Hogwarts. They left straight after that, they summoned their brooms and flew right out that window over there, and it was amazing! I bet the students are still talking about it to this day!" Hermione had the children fascinated and she could not help but smile at all the good memories that were flooding back to her. She was not even feeling sad about Ron because she was to busy remembering his as a carefree teenager having the time of his life at Hogwarts.
"Are you telling stories about us Mione?" Said Fred.
"And all this time, we thought that you didn't approve of us!" Said George, they had their arms around their girlfriends and had identical evil grins on their faces.
"I approved of everything that was done in order to get rid of that evil woman!" Even after all of these years the mere mention of Umbridge still had the ability to make her blood boil!
"Fred! George!" The kids called the twins especially! While Jake, Riles, Wills and Robby were defiantly the biggest troublemakers of the lot, the twins reminded her the most of Fred and George, for their inventiveness of the pranks that they managed to pull, and they were only four! There was a serious case of hero worship towards the Weasley twins, they supplied the children with all of their toys and pranks, so to them they were gods!
"Hey Hermione, remember this is where Ginny and I caught you kissing Ron, in our seventh year!" Said Pravati, pointing to an old statue of Gregory the Smarmy. Hermione blushed and a hint of sadness crossed her face before quickly disappearing.
"Oh yeah, and over there is where Professor McGonagall caught Seamus and Lavender getting up to no good!"
"You are quite right Ms Granger." Came a voice from behind the slowly progressing group.
"Good morning Professor, how are you?"
"I am quite well, nice family that you have there."
"Thank you Professor," Hermione beamed at her old teacher.
"I shall be seeing you all in the Great Hall soon, no doubt." With that the Professor swept down the hall and disappeared around the corner.
"Hey Hermione! That's the stair that moved and took us to the forbidden third floor corridor."
"Hey Harry, Ginny! We could have been killed by that three headed dog, what was his name?"
"Hey Mione" came Ginny's reply before Harry began to talk over her.
"Fluffy, Hagrid's pride and joy, next to Norbert of course!" Harry laughed.
"Mione, there was a three headed dog?"
"The staircases move?"
"You went somewhere that is forbidden?" The last question was asked by Daphne and Hermione couldn't help but be embarrassed, and dully reprimanded by the six year old.
The questions were coming quick and fast and Hermione held up her hands to stop them.
"I promise over the week I will answer as many of your questions about Hogwarts as possible, but now I think that it is time to go and eat some breakfast, because we don't want to miss out do we?"
This had the desired effect and they quickly hurried the rest of the way to the Great Hall. The small tables had been removed and the long house tables had returned.
"This is what the Great Hall normally looks like, that table over there is for the Slytherin House, that one is the Ravenclaw, this one here is the Hufflepuff and that one right there is the best of them all! Gryffindor!" Hermione headed straight for her old table and sat down with the children following her lead. Hermione couldn't help but look around for the blonde head of Draco but the platinum blonde hair was nowhere to been seen, Hermione frowned but quickly forgot about him as her attention was captured by the youngsters asking a million questions and of course eating! Only when she heard Blaise call out his name did Hermione remember about Draco she smiled at him as he walked over to where Blaise sat at the Hufflepuff table.
Hermione was so busy answering questions and having a good time that she didn't notice the time creep closer and closer to 10:00 am until the unmistakable sounds of Professor Dumbledore clearing his throat and standing to address the crowd.
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On the other side of the Great Hall at the Slytherin table that was undoubtedly emptier than usual Draco sat watching the wavy haired (A/N: I thought it was about time for Hermione to learn how to style her hair with stuff to make it wavy instead of bushy, sorry if you have a problem with this!) witch laugh and smile her way through breakfast.
Draco was not paying attention to his surroundings at all and was surprised when Blaise called his name from the Hufflepuff table.
"Draco! Come and sit over here!" Draco stood up and smiled and walked over to his friend. Hannah was sitting by his side and again Draco smiled but did not say anything to Blaise. He looked over again at the Gryffindor table noticed Hermione looking at him, smiled at her and sat down facing Blaise and Hannah.
"Morning to you both. Did you have a good night sleeping back in the castle?" Hannah blushed and there was a pink tinge to Blaise's cheeks and Draco made a mental note to talk to his friend when they had a free moment.
"It was nice," squeaked Hannah before taking a big gulp of pumpkin juice.
"I ah. I wonder what we will be doing today?"
"I assume we are about to find out," and he pointed to the teacher's table where Dumbledore had stood up to make his announcement.
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Professor Dumbledore looked over the crowded Great Hall, his baby blue eyes twinkling behind his half moon glasses. It was nice to see so many people from different houses mingling, though even he had to admit he never thought that he would see two of the most Slytherin Slytherins sitting at the Hufflepuff table, but it went to show you that even the wisest of wizards do not know everything. His wizened old face creased into a smile and as soon as he stood up the entire hall quieted down to listen to what he had to say.
"Good Morning to you all, I trust that you all had a good night's sleep and are ready for everything that we have planned?" There was cheering from all the people in the Great Hall and the smile on Dumbledore's face grew wider.
"Yes, yes! Today all underage wizards will have a special day away from their parents, your day will include a tour of Hogwarts and a taste of what to expect for when you yourselves attend Hogwarts as students," the younger members all looked excitedly at one another and clapped. "While you are all doing this the ex-students will go outside and enjoy some of the lovely summer weather we have been having, and what better way to enjoy the sunshine than by flying? You will get into small groups and during the course of the week you will be put into Quidditch teams and there will be a week long competitions until we have the final for the Quidditch cup on Saturday afternoon!" There were cheers from most of the Great Hall, however there were a few that did not look excited at the prospect of having to fly again, Hermione Granger being one of them, Neville Longbottom another.
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Dumbledore dismissed the group and before Hermione left her children she hugged them all, "you all behave yourselves ok? Don't let Filch catch you doing anything bad other wise you will be in big trouble!" As the kids all got up to go over to the Ravenclaw table where all the children were meeting Professor McGonagall she pulled Trav aside. "Take care of Tate for me will you?"
"Of Course I will Mione," with that he grabbed Tate by the hand and they walked off together.
"Ready for a flying lesson?" Draco drawled behind her, Hermione jumped slightly but turned around with a smile on her face.
"Yeah, do you think that Harry will give me lessons if I ask him?" At this Draco looked slightly put out.
"You can ask Potter if you wish." The old sneer came back to his face at the mention of Harry and Hermione laughed at him.
"I'm joking Draco, I know if I ask him he would say yes!" Hermione managed to break through the tough exterior that Draco still maintained around himself and a look of shock appeared on his face. "I'm joking Draco, would you please give me some tips on flying, it was the only thing, besides Wizards Chess that I wasn't any good at!"
Draco laughed, "I think it is fantastic that there are two things that you are unable to do well, it is healthy for you!" He placed and arm around her shoulders and led her outside and into the bright sunshine.
Harry, Ginny, Fred, George, Pravati, Seamus and Dean saw Hermione and Draco walking ahead of them, Draco with his arm around Hermione and she was actually laughing. While Harry was happy that Hermione was finally over coming her grief he was not happy that she had chosen Draco to help her heal.
Once they were all outside they made a slow progression towards the Quidditch pitch, talking and laughing and just enjoying themselves. Harry soon forgot about Hermione, as Ginny caught his attention. They hadn't had a holiday together before so they were making the most of their time together.
Madame Hooch stood in front of the assembled group and told them get into groups for each of the four positions, they were going to have try outs for teams and then certain members, picked by the sorting hat would be the captains of each team and then the captain would be able to choose the members of that team. It was up to each team to come up with a name to compete under.
Draco walked straight to the seeker line and Hermione stood to the side, unsure of what group to go in. Harry also walked straight for the seeker line, Ginny went to the chaser line, Fred and George went to the beater line, Seamus and Dean went to the keep line but Hermione just stood back undecided. When Draco saw her standing off to the side by herself he ran over to her.
"Hermione, what's wrong?"
"Draco I told you that I can't fly well, I have no idea where to go! I am going to make a fool of myself!"
"You won't make a fool of yourself! There are plenty of people here that aren't good at flying, look at Longbottom! Now lets see, are you good at hitting things? I seem to remember that you are!" Hermione blushed as she remembered the incident in their fourth year, when Draco had aggravated her so much that she slapped him.
"Draco, I don't think that I would make a good beater!"
"You know I think that you would do a great job as a keeper, they don't have to do much flying, and you only have to guard the three hoops, do you think that you could handle that?"
"Oh, I don't know, but I'll give it a try I guess!"
With that Hermione trotted off towards the keepers line praying that she didn't fall off of her broom and kill herself!
Draco sauntered over to his place in the seeker line once again but he couldn't help but feel a tinge of nervousness for Hermione, tonight he would take her out and help her with her flying, if she wanted to that was.
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The day passed quickly and Hermione found that she had a fantastic time, while her flying was not up to scratch when she had managed to stay upright on her broom, she had managed to catch the quaffle every time. After they had finished for the afternoon, with the sun sinking low into the horizon Hermione caught up with her kids and they told her all about their day, which had consisted of them taking classes, but at a very basic level so that when they came to Hogwarts they would know what to expect. After washing up they headed down to the Great Hall for their dinner everyone was smiling and laughing and Hermione could not remember the last time she was as happy and as carefree as she was now. The only thing that would make her life perfect at that very moment was if she really was the mother of the twelve fantastic children that she had grown to love.
As they were walking to the Great Hall and the children were yelling over each other to tell her about their day and Tate took a firm hold of her hand, Draco caught up with them and escorted them the rest of the way.
"Hermione, after you have put the kids to bed I was wondering if you wanted to take some flying lessons with me, that way when we have to pick teams tomorrow you will feel more confident?" Draco asked.
"That sounds like a great idea Draco, thank you for your help with the lessons and everything."
"Don't mention it. Besides I have an ulterior motive. I have a proposition for you and I want to tell you about it tonight."
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A/N: I have been really good lately and keeping these things short, well shorter than normal!
How do you all like my attempt at a cliffhanger?? Did it work? Are you intrigued? Hehehe!
Sorry that it took me longer than normal to update, have had mountains of homework, if you read in the newspaper about a girl in Melbourne buried alive under a pile of homework, don't worry they are just talking about me! Hehehe!
Also people, if you have any good ideas for team names for me they would be greatly appreciated! If you don't send me suggestions via the review system then you can send them to me via e-mail at spaced_out_space_cadet@hotmail.com thank you!
Anyway! Thank you for reading my story, I hope that you are enjoying it!
This chapter is dedicated to those who did review!
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Just wanted to say thank you again! You all made my day! I hope that this chapter lives up to expectation!
Chapter 6 - Day One of the Reunion
Hermione was woken up by twelve small people jumping on her bed. Looking over at her clock she saw that it was 7:30, and normally she was getting up now and trying to wake the kids up, but not this morning, they were far too excited, and to tell you the truth Hermione was just as excited as they were!
By 8:00 am the children were dressed and ready and waiting for Hermione, this was a world record for them and Hermione was surprised and a little embarrassed at holding them all up! While they were on their way to the Great Hall to eat breakfast, Hermione decided to give them a tour of Hogwarts by daylight, because the night before they had been far to sleepy to really take anything in.
"That is where Peeve's the poltergeist threw dungbombs at us in our sixth year, that is where Fred and George turned the entire corridor into a swamp so that Professor Umbridge would have a difficult time while she was the Headmistress of Hogwarts. They left straight after that, they summoned their brooms and flew right out that window over there, and it was amazing! I bet the students are still talking about it to this day!" Hermione had the children fascinated and she could not help but smile at all the good memories that were flooding back to her. She was not even feeling sad about Ron because she was to busy remembering his as a carefree teenager having the time of his life at Hogwarts.
"Are you telling stories about us Mione?" Said Fred.
"And all this time, we thought that you didn't approve of us!" Said George, they had their arms around their girlfriends and had identical evil grins on their faces.
"I approved of everything that was done in order to get rid of that evil woman!" Even after all of these years the mere mention of Umbridge still had the ability to make her blood boil!
"Fred! George!" The kids called the twins especially! While Jake, Riles, Wills and Robby were defiantly the biggest troublemakers of the lot, the twins reminded her the most of Fred and George, for their inventiveness of the pranks that they managed to pull, and they were only four! There was a serious case of hero worship towards the Weasley twins, they supplied the children with all of their toys and pranks, so to them they were gods!
"Hey Hermione, remember this is where Ginny and I caught you kissing Ron, in our seventh year!" Said Pravati, pointing to an old statue of Gregory the Smarmy. Hermione blushed and a hint of sadness crossed her face before quickly disappearing.
"Oh yeah, and over there is where Professor McGonagall caught Seamus and Lavender getting up to no good!"
"You are quite right Ms Granger." Came a voice from behind the slowly progressing group.
"Good morning Professor, how are you?"
"I am quite well, nice family that you have there."
"Thank you Professor," Hermione beamed at her old teacher.
"I shall be seeing you all in the Great Hall soon, no doubt." With that the Professor swept down the hall and disappeared around the corner.
"Hey Hermione! That's the stair that moved and took us to the forbidden third floor corridor."
"Hey Harry, Ginny! We could have been killed by that three headed dog, what was his name?"
"Hey Mione" came Ginny's reply before Harry began to talk over her.
"Fluffy, Hagrid's pride and joy, next to Norbert of course!" Harry laughed.
"Mione, there was a three headed dog?"
"The staircases move?"
"You went somewhere that is forbidden?" The last question was asked by Daphne and Hermione couldn't help but be embarrassed, and dully reprimanded by the six year old.
The questions were coming quick and fast and Hermione held up her hands to stop them.
"I promise over the week I will answer as many of your questions about Hogwarts as possible, but now I think that it is time to go and eat some breakfast, because we don't want to miss out do we?"
This had the desired effect and they quickly hurried the rest of the way to the Great Hall. The small tables had been removed and the long house tables had returned.
"This is what the Great Hall normally looks like, that table over there is for the Slytherin House, that one is the Ravenclaw, this one here is the Hufflepuff and that one right there is the best of them all! Gryffindor!" Hermione headed straight for her old table and sat down with the children following her lead. Hermione couldn't help but look around for the blonde head of Draco but the platinum blonde hair was nowhere to been seen, Hermione frowned but quickly forgot about him as her attention was captured by the youngsters asking a million questions and of course eating! Only when she heard Blaise call out his name did Hermione remember about Draco she smiled at him as he walked over to where Blaise sat at the Hufflepuff table.
Hermione was so busy answering questions and having a good time that she didn't notice the time creep closer and closer to 10:00 am until the unmistakable sounds of Professor Dumbledore clearing his throat and standing to address the crowd.
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On the other side of the Great Hall at the Slytherin table that was undoubtedly emptier than usual Draco sat watching the wavy haired (A/N: I thought it was about time for Hermione to learn how to style her hair with stuff to make it wavy instead of bushy, sorry if you have a problem with this!) witch laugh and smile her way through breakfast.
Draco was not paying attention to his surroundings at all and was surprised when Blaise called his name from the Hufflepuff table.
"Draco! Come and sit over here!" Draco stood up and smiled and walked over to his friend. Hannah was sitting by his side and again Draco smiled but did not say anything to Blaise. He looked over again at the Gryffindor table noticed Hermione looking at him, smiled at her and sat down facing Blaise and Hannah.
"Morning to you both. Did you have a good night sleeping back in the castle?" Hannah blushed and there was a pink tinge to Blaise's cheeks and Draco made a mental note to talk to his friend when they had a free moment.
"It was nice," squeaked Hannah before taking a big gulp of pumpkin juice.
"I ah. I wonder what we will be doing today?"
"I assume we are about to find out," and he pointed to the teacher's table where Dumbledore had stood up to make his announcement.
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Professor Dumbledore looked over the crowded Great Hall, his baby blue eyes twinkling behind his half moon glasses. It was nice to see so many people from different houses mingling, though even he had to admit he never thought that he would see two of the most Slytherin Slytherins sitting at the Hufflepuff table, but it went to show you that even the wisest of wizards do not know everything. His wizened old face creased into a smile and as soon as he stood up the entire hall quieted down to listen to what he had to say.
"Good Morning to you all, I trust that you all had a good night's sleep and are ready for everything that we have planned?" There was cheering from all the people in the Great Hall and the smile on Dumbledore's face grew wider.
"Yes, yes! Today all underage wizards will have a special day away from their parents, your day will include a tour of Hogwarts and a taste of what to expect for when you yourselves attend Hogwarts as students," the younger members all looked excitedly at one another and clapped. "While you are all doing this the ex-students will go outside and enjoy some of the lovely summer weather we have been having, and what better way to enjoy the sunshine than by flying? You will get into small groups and during the course of the week you will be put into Quidditch teams and there will be a week long competitions until we have the final for the Quidditch cup on Saturday afternoon!" There were cheers from most of the Great Hall, however there were a few that did not look excited at the prospect of having to fly again, Hermione Granger being one of them, Neville Longbottom another.
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Dumbledore dismissed the group and before Hermione left her children she hugged them all, "you all behave yourselves ok? Don't let Filch catch you doing anything bad other wise you will be in big trouble!" As the kids all got up to go over to the Ravenclaw table where all the children were meeting Professor McGonagall she pulled Trav aside. "Take care of Tate for me will you?"
"Of Course I will Mione," with that he grabbed Tate by the hand and they walked off together.
"Ready for a flying lesson?" Draco drawled behind her, Hermione jumped slightly but turned around with a smile on her face.
"Yeah, do you think that Harry will give me lessons if I ask him?" At this Draco looked slightly put out.
"You can ask Potter if you wish." The old sneer came back to his face at the mention of Harry and Hermione laughed at him.
"I'm joking Draco, I know if I ask him he would say yes!" Hermione managed to break through the tough exterior that Draco still maintained around himself and a look of shock appeared on his face. "I'm joking Draco, would you please give me some tips on flying, it was the only thing, besides Wizards Chess that I wasn't any good at!"
Draco laughed, "I think it is fantastic that there are two things that you are unable to do well, it is healthy for you!" He placed and arm around her shoulders and led her outside and into the bright sunshine.
Harry, Ginny, Fred, George, Pravati, Seamus and Dean saw Hermione and Draco walking ahead of them, Draco with his arm around Hermione and she was actually laughing. While Harry was happy that Hermione was finally over coming her grief he was not happy that she had chosen Draco to help her heal.
Once they were all outside they made a slow progression towards the Quidditch pitch, talking and laughing and just enjoying themselves. Harry soon forgot about Hermione, as Ginny caught his attention. They hadn't had a holiday together before so they were making the most of their time together.
Madame Hooch stood in front of the assembled group and told them get into groups for each of the four positions, they were going to have try outs for teams and then certain members, picked by the sorting hat would be the captains of each team and then the captain would be able to choose the members of that team. It was up to each team to come up with a name to compete under.
Draco walked straight to the seeker line and Hermione stood to the side, unsure of what group to go in. Harry also walked straight for the seeker line, Ginny went to the chaser line, Fred and George went to the beater line, Seamus and Dean went to the keep line but Hermione just stood back undecided. When Draco saw her standing off to the side by herself he ran over to her.
"Hermione, what's wrong?"
"Draco I told you that I can't fly well, I have no idea where to go! I am going to make a fool of myself!"
"You won't make a fool of yourself! There are plenty of people here that aren't good at flying, look at Longbottom! Now lets see, are you good at hitting things? I seem to remember that you are!" Hermione blushed as she remembered the incident in their fourth year, when Draco had aggravated her so much that she slapped him.
"Draco, I don't think that I would make a good beater!"
"You know I think that you would do a great job as a keeper, they don't have to do much flying, and you only have to guard the three hoops, do you think that you could handle that?"
"Oh, I don't know, but I'll give it a try I guess!"
With that Hermione trotted off towards the keepers line praying that she didn't fall off of her broom and kill herself!
Draco sauntered over to his place in the seeker line once again but he couldn't help but feel a tinge of nervousness for Hermione, tonight he would take her out and help her with her flying, if she wanted to that was.
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The day passed quickly and Hermione found that she had a fantastic time, while her flying was not up to scratch when she had managed to stay upright on her broom, she had managed to catch the quaffle every time. After they had finished for the afternoon, with the sun sinking low into the horizon Hermione caught up with her kids and they told her all about their day, which had consisted of them taking classes, but at a very basic level so that when they came to Hogwarts they would know what to expect. After washing up they headed down to the Great Hall for their dinner everyone was smiling and laughing and Hermione could not remember the last time she was as happy and as carefree as she was now. The only thing that would make her life perfect at that very moment was if she really was the mother of the twelve fantastic children that she had grown to love.
As they were walking to the Great Hall and the children were yelling over each other to tell her about their day and Tate took a firm hold of her hand, Draco caught up with them and escorted them the rest of the way.
"Hermione, after you have put the kids to bed I was wondering if you wanted to take some flying lessons with me, that way when we have to pick teams tomorrow you will feel more confident?" Draco asked.
"That sounds like a great idea Draco, thank you for your help with the lessons and everything."
"Don't mention it. Besides I have an ulterior motive. I have a proposition for you and I want to tell you about it tonight."
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A/N: I have been really good lately and keeping these things short, well shorter than normal!
How do you all like my attempt at a cliffhanger?? Did it work? Are you intrigued? Hehehe!
Sorry that it took me longer than normal to update, have had mountains of homework, if you read in the newspaper about a girl in Melbourne buried alive under a pile of homework, don't worry they are just talking about me! Hehehe!
Also people, if you have any good ideas for team names for me they would be greatly appreciated! If you don't send me suggestions via the review system then you can send them to me via e-mail at spaced_out_space_cadet@hotmail.com thank you!
Anyway! Thank you for reading my story, I hope that you are enjoying it!
This chapter is dedicated to those who did review!
DanceChic0869 - hope you like this chapter too!
Smmergurl (cailin) - Am going to read your stories now! So look out for a review!
Angelina-Malfoy - Hey! Thank you, you made me blush! I'm glad you like it!
Stormy Phoenix
Lady-Draco79
Cookie-Fr3ako
Islandgirl4
Meg
And
Free 2 Rhyme
Just wanted to say thank you again! You all made my day! I hope that this chapter lives up to expectation!