Hogwarts Reunion
Chapter 9 - Day Three - Peace and Quidditch
Hermione woke to someone tugging on her arm, she looked down and saw Tate but she was disorientated, her pillow was a lot harder than normal and the last time she checked her bed didn't have arms. She looked up into the sleeping face of Draco and the events of last night came crashing back, she must have fallen asleep in Draco's arms after coming back from Harry and Ginny's room.
"Good morning sweetheart, is it time to get up?" Hermione asked him. Tate nodded at her but there was a frown on his little face. "What's wrong darling? I need you to tell me what its wrong, because how can I help you if you don't tell me?" Hermione could feel old frustrations building up inside her again. When Tate was upset she felt it more because she was never sure of what she was supposed to do to fix things for him. Hermione gently pried Draco's arms from around her and she got up off of the sofa. Draco shifted but remained asleep.
"Tate will you tell me what I wrong?" Hermione tried again. He shook his head and went into his bedroom to change out of his pajamas and into day clothes.
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"Harry, I think that we need to talk to Hermione," Ginny looked at her husband.
"Yeah, we need to tell her again what a bad idea it is for her to marry Malfoy! I still don't understand how she could do that to Ron." Harry said vehemently.
"No Harry I think that we need to talk to Hermione and tell her that we support her no matter what." Ginny said quietly. She did not want to anger Harry but she had been up all night thinking about Hermione and Ron and Malfoy and then she thought of herself and Harry and how she would have felt if someone had told her that she could not marry Harry.
"Have you gone mad as well?" Harry demanded looking at her as if she had sprouted another head.
"Of course I haven't gone mad! But think about it Harry, Hermione must see something good in Malfoy if she says that she loves him and wants to marry him, who am I to stand in the way of love. Hermione has had it tough since Ron died and with her parents dying soon after she has had a bad few years, and again I will ask you Harry who am I to stand in the way of her happiness?"
"Ron was your brother! Are you going to let her betray him like that?"
"Ron was my brother and I love him very deeply! Hermione did to and I am sure there will be a part of her that always will. She isn't betraying Ron, Harry. Admit it you feel betrayed because she is going to marry the one person beside Voldemort that is your enemy!" Ginny's face was red and her hair glowed around her face and for a moment Harry was awestruck, he always thought that Ginny was the most beautiful when she was angry because it meant that she truly felt passionate about something. Harry also knew that when Ginny was like this he didn't have the heart to say no to her.
"Ginny, what if she is making a big mistake?"
"If she is Harry then we will be there for her if things don't work out. I know that Ron would want Hermione to be happy and if Malfoy makes her happy then. well you know we have to support her."
"Well said Ginny!" Came the voice of George Weasley. Fred along with Pravati and Padma were all standing just inside Harry and Ginny's common room.
"We had a chat between the four of us last night and the girls here convinced us that we were being far too hard on Hermione." Padma grinned evilly.
"Yeah we badgered them so much last night that they finny saw our point of view." The girls all laughed and the twins got slightly red around the ears.
"I think that we need to talk with Hermione again today. I think that Ron would be more upset with us than with Hermione, we were horrible to her last night and it was not deserved!" said Ginny.
They all walked away from their common room and headed down to the Great Hall for a little breakfast and a little peace making.
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"Draco, wake up, it's morning! Draco?"
Draco turned and buried his head deeper into the sofa's cushions, he was dreaming, he had to be. Hw as following a little girl who was running ahead of him laughing, looking back at him every so often just to make sure that he was still following and she would laugh at him because no matter how fast he ran he could never catch up, now when she looked back she would call his name, "Draco, Draco." That's funny, he thought, the little girl sounds just like Hermione. Finally, Hermione had had enough! "Draco Malfoy if you don't wake up this instant I'll let the twins put frog spawn all over your precious hair!" it worked like a charm and Draco instantly woke up his hands moved to check his hair and it was then that he noticed that he was surrounded by laughing faces. He shook his head ruefully and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.
"Good morning," he said groggily.
"It's about time that you woke up, go to your room and get changed, other wise you will be late for breakfast, and remember it is our first Quidditch match today so you better hurry!" Hermione almost shoved him out of the room and she and the kids all went down to breakfast not bothering to wait for Draco to arrive before they dug into the scrumptious breakfast that was on the table before them. Looking down at her watch Hermione noticed that it was 9:30 am and Draco had still not come down to eat breakfast. Hermione waved good-bye to the kids as they went off for their classes; they would e able to attend the matches that were to be played later that day. Draco still had not come down and Hermione was starting to get worried, though why she was worried she did not know.
"Hermione. um I was wondering if we could have a word?" Harry asked tentatively. Surprised, Hermione looked up into the faces of her six friends, she nodded and they took the seats that the kids had occupied.
"What do you want to talk to me about?"
"Look Hermione, were sorry for last night, we shouldn't have yelled at you, you're a grown woman and you can make your own decisions. besides we all know that Ron would have wanted you to be happy, and we wouldn't deny you the chance to be happy." Harry hung his head waiting for Hermione to yell at him for being such a prat last night but nothing happened. He cautiously looked up, just in time to see Hermione launch herself at him and give him a big hug. She knew what it had cost him to say that to her and she couldn't be happier.
"Thanks, you guys! You don't know how happy it makes me that you are all willing to support me in my decisions!" Hermione beamed at them all and as they began to eat their breakfast Hermione almost forgot about the missing Draco.
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"What the.?" Draco was lunged at from behind. Drawing his wand he quickly turned and came face to face with the most horrific sight, Pansy was standing in front of him in the most hideous outfit known to man, he assumed that this is what she thought was appropriate Quidditch wear. She was wearing skin tight lime green lycra, that left nothing to the imagination and Draco could not repress the shudder of revulsion that over came him!
"What the heel do you want?" he demanded, slowly backing away from the offending sight of Pansy.
"Oh Dracy-poosie! Why have you been ignoring me this week?" She said is falsely sweet hurt tones. As he was backing away from her she was slowly advancing on him, however to get to the Great Hall he needed to be on the other side of Pansy, the way he was going now was leading him to the dungeons.
"What is wrong with you? I thought that I told you on the train never to talk to me again or to call me that, that. name," he said disdainfully. The look of distaste and anger would have made most people run for their lives but not Pansy, Draco believed her to be part troll, because apart from her looks she seemed to have an unnaturally thick hide.
"Oh I know that you didn't mean that Dracy," she fluttered her eyelashes at him, "I know that you are only being the way that you are because you don't want anyone to know how much like me, but that's ok Dracy, you don't have to hide your feelings, I love you." At that Draco really did recoil, turn and run away from her. "Dracy, Dracy? Don't run, don't be ashamed of your feelings!" Pansy said breathlessly as she followed him down the halls.
Half way to the old potions room Draco realised what he was doing, he was running away from someone like a scared little boy and while Pansy was made of the stuff nightmares were made of he was a Malfoy and they didn't run away from anything. With that thought Draco stopped abruptly and Pansy not expecting that crashed into the back of him sending them both sprawling to the floor. Draco pushed her off of him and got up, his wand drawn ready to use.
"Pansy I am going to say this once, and once only. You are going to go away and never talk to me again, I do not love you, hell I never even liked you! Stay away from me and never call me any of those sickening names again, on second thoughts never say my name again. I am getting married to Hermione Granger, and if you so much as go near her you will regret it, understood?" Pansy looked up at him with big eyes, shock evident on her face. "I said, is that understood?" Draco said imperiously. Pansy gave nothing more than a small nod of her head and Draco turned and walked away from the lime green lump on the floor, towards the Great Hall and to Hermione.
***************************************************************** Draco finally made his way to the Great Hall and when he opened the doors he was happy to see Hermione surrounded by her friends, they were laughing and talking and Draco knew that they had made peace. While a part of him was repulsed at thought of him going over to sit with Harry Potter and co, another part of him was happy because Hermione was happy again.
"Good morning." Draco drawled behind Hermione, she jumped and turned around to see him.
"What took you so long?" Hermione demanded, her eyebrow raised in question.
"I had a run in with," Draco turned and saw Pansy entering the Great Hall and gave another shudder, "her." Hermione was quite alarmed when she saw Pansy and Fred choked on his porridge.
"What is that?" George asked.
"Now that isn't nice," said Ginny though when she turned to look at Pansy she almost fell off her chair with surprise. "My Merlin, those clothes should be outlawed, it is down right indecent to be walking around in clothes like that, there are children here for Merlin's sake!"
"Let's just pray that we are given Quidditch robes to play in today!" Padma said.
"Well that's done it, I can't even finish my breakfast now," said Harry and he dropped a piece of bacon back onto his plate.
"Draco you better eat something before we go out to practice." Hermione said, the mother in her coming out to make an appearance.
"No, I think that this is the first and probably last time that I am going to agree with Potter, I can't eat after seeing that!" Harry choked on his pumpkin juice.
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They spent the morning training as teams, there was to be one match played that afternoon, and depending on the length of that game possibly another one after that. Draco wanted the team to sit together so that they could study their future opponents. When a team won they would advance to the next round, the team that lost by the least amount of points would be given a second chance. The first match was The Lightening Bolts v's The Serpents. After they had eaten lunch Hermione and the kids all made their way to the Quidditch pitch where they would be meeting the rest of the team. Hermione had explained the rules of Quidditch to the kids a long time ago and the older ones had been informed about it by their parents, but this was the first match that they had been too and they were quite excited.
"Hey Mione, we have seats up here!" Yelled down Hannah, Hermione spotted her and waved and they made their way up to their seats. Tate sat down beside her and Jake surprisingly took the other seat. Draco looked a little put out about the seating arrangement and Blaise didn't bother to contain his chuckles at Draco's expense. Draco glared at him but Blaise continued to laugh, even when they were at Hogwarts Blaise was the only person that got away with laughing at Draco. Draco looked over at the kids surrounding Hermione and he couldn't help but notice that they had all gathered around her protectively, as if protecting her from him. He made a mental note to point it out to Hermione later to see what she wanted to do about it. Little did Draco know that Hermione had also noticed and she was already planing to have a chat with them before they went to bed.
Madame Hooch started the game with a blast from her whistle and Professor Dumbledore was doing the honors of being the announcer for the match.
"Aaaaaaaand they're off! Ginny Weasley with the quaffle easily fly's around Miss Parkinson and ohhhhhhhhhhh, watch out for those bludgers Miss Weasley! Miss Parkinson with the quaffle but oh no, it is beautifully taken off her by Miss Patil, I'm actually not sure which on who passes to Miss Weasley who scores! 10 points to the Lightening Bolts!" The crowd cheered and the game resumed play. "Mr. Weasley good hit of that bludger! Watch out Mr. Smith! Ohhhhhh, nasty one that one! Foul!!! Miss Patil to take a penalty shot for Mr. Smith deliberately hitting her with his elbow. She lines up and. scores! 20 to nothing in favour of the Lightening Bolts. I'm afraid that the Serpents aren't having a good game!" The crowd continued to cheer and with the help of Blaise and Draco Hermione was explaining to the kids what was happening. "Wait a minute Mr. Potter has seen the snitch!" Harry went into a spectacular dive on his trusty old Firebolt, Norman Splat, the seeker for the Serpents was to busy picking his nose to look for the snitch and by the time he realised what was going on Harry already had the snitch and was flying loop-the-loops in the air. Hermione jumped up and screamed wildly, she was reminded of the many games that she had attended as a student and as old habits die hard she almost turned expecting to see Ron beside her so that she could give him a hug, but that was not possible anymore, and a sadness overcame Hermione for a moment before she brushed it off and pasted a bright smile on her face.
"The Lightening Bolts win! 170 points to nil! Great game everyone!" Professor Dumbledore smiled at the people surrounding him; the twinkle in his bright blue eyes was almost blinding. Once the crowd had quieted down he announced that, "the next game to be played today will be The Owl's v's The Fire Balls. That game will start in an hour." Hermione went down to congratulate her friends and waited for them all to change so that they could come and sit with her to watch the next match.
The next match was more competitive with The Owl's losing by only 40 points. Dumbledore announced the rest of the draw it would be, Drooble's Best Bubble Gum v's The Birds of Prey, The Eagles v's the Seeker's and Snitch's. The Dragon's were to play the team that earned the wild card.
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At the Gryffindor table there was loud celebrations, as well as the Hufflepuff table. At the teacher's table Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall looked at each other and shared a knowing smile. Having this reunion was one of their better ideas, it ranked right up their with his idea for the Philosophers Stone back when they were all first year students.
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"Draco will you come up to my room again tonight, I want to have a word with you and the kids. I think that they may have more questions and there are some things that I want to explain to them, that is of course if it is alright with you?" Hermione asked.
"Actually I was going to suggest that we do that, you know what they say, great minds think alike." Draco quipped.
"I'm not sure if I like my mind being compared to yours Draco! I mean look at its history!" Hermione smiled cheekily and stuck her tongue out at him. Draco felt a pang of something that he wasn't quite sure of, in his chest region. He enjoyed it when Hermione spared with him verbally, it was this trait in her, the fact that she wasn't afraid to stand up to him that made him instinctively know that she would make a good wife for him. However when they had previously made fun of each other he was never left with this feeling that he was unable to describe. Draco shook his head and followed Hermione up to her common room.
"Ok kids, I want to have another chat with you today, I noticed that you were a bit upset today Tate and I know that some of you have some more questions that you didn't get to ask last night, so I'm giving you another chance to ask the both of us anything that you want! And remember you can ask the both of us questions at any time, ok?" They all nodded and Hermione waited patiently for one of the kids to talk.
"Where are we going to live?" Will demanded. She knew that he had had a hard transition when he first moved to Granger House. Hermione looked at Draco they had not discussed this and Hermione was also curious as to where they would live.
"Well I was thinking that on Sunday after we leave Hogwarts, that the thirteen of you could come and visit me at my home, the Malfoy Manor and we can see if you all like it there. If you don't then I guess that we will see what we want to do then, does that sound ok to you?" He asked Wills directly but looked around to see the reaction of the rest of the kids. Wills gave a nod of his head and Draco smiled inwardly at the very grown up attitude that the five-year-old had.
"Will we still be able to play together?" asked Immy innocently.
"Of course sweet heart, if Draco and I get married nothing much is going to change except for the fact that we will all get to spend time with Draco as well as each other."
"Are you going to teach us things still?" Lilly asked.
"Yes, I will still stay at home with you all and teach you things. You know that I think that your education is the most important thing, besides how are you going to learn all about the muggle world if I send you all of to a wizards school?" Hermione asked and a few of the younger ones giggled.
"I wouldn't want to change the lifestyle that you have all become accustomed to, I want you all and Mione to be happy. You will all get to have your special time with her, I know that you all have special time with her and I would do nothing to change that." Draco looked at Hermione and they both thought that they had done the best that they could to convince the kids. The decision was now theirs to make. All of the kids looked to Jake for his response, he was the unofficial leader of their group.
"Were gonna go in the bedroom and talk about it, k?" Hermione nodded and all of the kids got up and silently followed Jake into the boy's bedroom, where they shut the door firmly behind them.
"Well I think that we did the best that we could." Draco said and Hermione nodded. A small part of her brain couldn't help but ask why they were going to so much trouble for a business agreement. Hermione was smart enough to know that she didn't want to know the answer to that question at the moment. Half an hour later the bedroom door swung open and the kids all trooped out single file and sat on the floor in front of Draco and Hermione who were sitting on the same sofa that they had fallen asleep on the night before.
"We have decided that." Hermione gasped, Tate had spoken his first words!
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Chapter 9 - Day Three - Peace and Quidditch
Hermione woke to someone tugging on her arm, she looked down and saw Tate but she was disorientated, her pillow was a lot harder than normal and the last time she checked her bed didn't have arms. She looked up into the sleeping face of Draco and the events of last night came crashing back, she must have fallen asleep in Draco's arms after coming back from Harry and Ginny's room.
"Good morning sweetheart, is it time to get up?" Hermione asked him. Tate nodded at her but there was a frown on his little face. "What's wrong darling? I need you to tell me what its wrong, because how can I help you if you don't tell me?" Hermione could feel old frustrations building up inside her again. When Tate was upset she felt it more because she was never sure of what she was supposed to do to fix things for him. Hermione gently pried Draco's arms from around her and she got up off of the sofa. Draco shifted but remained asleep.
"Tate will you tell me what I wrong?" Hermione tried again. He shook his head and went into his bedroom to change out of his pajamas and into day clothes.
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"Harry, I think that we need to talk to Hermione," Ginny looked at her husband.
"Yeah, we need to tell her again what a bad idea it is for her to marry Malfoy! I still don't understand how she could do that to Ron." Harry said vehemently.
"No Harry I think that we need to talk to Hermione and tell her that we support her no matter what." Ginny said quietly. She did not want to anger Harry but she had been up all night thinking about Hermione and Ron and Malfoy and then she thought of herself and Harry and how she would have felt if someone had told her that she could not marry Harry.
"Have you gone mad as well?" Harry demanded looking at her as if she had sprouted another head.
"Of course I haven't gone mad! But think about it Harry, Hermione must see something good in Malfoy if she says that she loves him and wants to marry him, who am I to stand in the way of love. Hermione has had it tough since Ron died and with her parents dying soon after she has had a bad few years, and again I will ask you Harry who am I to stand in the way of her happiness?"
"Ron was your brother! Are you going to let her betray him like that?"
"Ron was my brother and I love him very deeply! Hermione did to and I am sure there will be a part of her that always will. She isn't betraying Ron, Harry. Admit it you feel betrayed because she is going to marry the one person beside Voldemort that is your enemy!" Ginny's face was red and her hair glowed around her face and for a moment Harry was awestruck, he always thought that Ginny was the most beautiful when she was angry because it meant that she truly felt passionate about something. Harry also knew that when Ginny was like this he didn't have the heart to say no to her.
"Ginny, what if she is making a big mistake?"
"If she is Harry then we will be there for her if things don't work out. I know that Ron would want Hermione to be happy and if Malfoy makes her happy then. well you know we have to support her."
"Well said Ginny!" Came the voice of George Weasley. Fred along with Pravati and Padma were all standing just inside Harry and Ginny's common room.
"We had a chat between the four of us last night and the girls here convinced us that we were being far too hard on Hermione." Padma grinned evilly.
"Yeah we badgered them so much last night that they finny saw our point of view." The girls all laughed and the twins got slightly red around the ears.
"I think that we need to talk with Hermione again today. I think that Ron would be more upset with us than with Hermione, we were horrible to her last night and it was not deserved!" said Ginny.
They all walked away from their common room and headed down to the Great Hall for a little breakfast and a little peace making.
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"Draco, wake up, it's morning! Draco?"
Draco turned and buried his head deeper into the sofa's cushions, he was dreaming, he had to be. Hw as following a little girl who was running ahead of him laughing, looking back at him every so often just to make sure that he was still following and she would laugh at him because no matter how fast he ran he could never catch up, now when she looked back she would call his name, "Draco, Draco." That's funny, he thought, the little girl sounds just like Hermione. Finally, Hermione had had enough! "Draco Malfoy if you don't wake up this instant I'll let the twins put frog spawn all over your precious hair!" it worked like a charm and Draco instantly woke up his hands moved to check his hair and it was then that he noticed that he was surrounded by laughing faces. He shook his head ruefully and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.
"Good morning," he said groggily.
"It's about time that you woke up, go to your room and get changed, other wise you will be late for breakfast, and remember it is our first Quidditch match today so you better hurry!" Hermione almost shoved him out of the room and she and the kids all went down to breakfast not bothering to wait for Draco to arrive before they dug into the scrumptious breakfast that was on the table before them. Looking down at her watch Hermione noticed that it was 9:30 am and Draco had still not come down to eat breakfast. Hermione waved good-bye to the kids as they went off for their classes; they would e able to attend the matches that were to be played later that day. Draco still had not come down and Hermione was starting to get worried, though why she was worried she did not know.
"Hermione. um I was wondering if we could have a word?" Harry asked tentatively. Surprised, Hermione looked up into the faces of her six friends, she nodded and they took the seats that the kids had occupied.
"What do you want to talk to me about?"
"Look Hermione, were sorry for last night, we shouldn't have yelled at you, you're a grown woman and you can make your own decisions. besides we all know that Ron would have wanted you to be happy, and we wouldn't deny you the chance to be happy." Harry hung his head waiting for Hermione to yell at him for being such a prat last night but nothing happened. He cautiously looked up, just in time to see Hermione launch herself at him and give him a big hug. She knew what it had cost him to say that to her and she couldn't be happier.
"Thanks, you guys! You don't know how happy it makes me that you are all willing to support me in my decisions!" Hermione beamed at them all and as they began to eat their breakfast Hermione almost forgot about the missing Draco.
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"What the.?" Draco was lunged at from behind. Drawing his wand he quickly turned and came face to face with the most horrific sight, Pansy was standing in front of him in the most hideous outfit known to man, he assumed that this is what she thought was appropriate Quidditch wear. She was wearing skin tight lime green lycra, that left nothing to the imagination and Draco could not repress the shudder of revulsion that over came him!
"What the heel do you want?" he demanded, slowly backing away from the offending sight of Pansy.
"Oh Dracy-poosie! Why have you been ignoring me this week?" She said is falsely sweet hurt tones. As he was backing away from her she was slowly advancing on him, however to get to the Great Hall he needed to be on the other side of Pansy, the way he was going now was leading him to the dungeons.
"What is wrong with you? I thought that I told you on the train never to talk to me again or to call me that, that. name," he said disdainfully. The look of distaste and anger would have made most people run for their lives but not Pansy, Draco believed her to be part troll, because apart from her looks she seemed to have an unnaturally thick hide.
"Oh I know that you didn't mean that Dracy," she fluttered her eyelashes at him, "I know that you are only being the way that you are because you don't want anyone to know how much like me, but that's ok Dracy, you don't have to hide your feelings, I love you." At that Draco really did recoil, turn and run away from her. "Dracy, Dracy? Don't run, don't be ashamed of your feelings!" Pansy said breathlessly as she followed him down the halls.
Half way to the old potions room Draco realised what he was doing, he was running away from someone like a scared little boy and while Pansy was made of the stuff nightmares were made of he was a Malfoy and they didn't run away from anything. With that thought Draco stopped abruptly and Pansy not expecting that crashed into the back of him sending them both sprawling to the floor. Draco pushed her off of him and got up, his wand drawn ready to use.
"Pansy I am going to say this once, and once only. You are going to go away and never talk to me again, I do not love you, hell I never even liked you! Stay away from me and never call me any of those sickening names again, on second thoughts never say my name again. I am getting married to Hermione Granger, and if you so much as go near her you will regret it, understood?" Pansy looked up at him with big eyes, shock evident on her face. "I said, is that understood?" Draco said imperiously. Pansy gave nothing more than a small nod of her head and Draco turned and walked away from the lime green lump on the floor, towards the Great Hall and to Hermione.
***************************************************************** Draco finally made his way to the Great Hall and when he opened the doors he was happy to see Hermione surrounded by her friends, they were laughing and talking and Draco knew that they had made peace. While a part of him was repulsed at thought of him going over to sit with Harry Potter and co, another part of him was happy because Hermione was happy again.
"Good morning." Draco drawled behind Hermione, she jumped and turned around to see him.
"What took you so long?" Hermione demanded, her eyebrow raised in question.
"I had a run in with," Draco turned and saw Pansy entering the Great Hall and gave another shudder, "her." Hermione was quite alarmed when she saw Pansy and Fred choked on his porridge.
"What is that?" George asked.
"Now that isn't nice," said Ginny though when she turned to look at Pansy she almost fell off her chair with surprise. "My Merlin, those clothes should be outlawed, it is down right indecent to be walking around in clothes like that, there are children here for Merlin's sake!"
"Let's just pray that we are given Quidditch robes to play in today!" Padma said.
"Well that's done it, I can't even finish my breakfast now," said Harry and he dropped a piece of bacon back onto his plate.
"Draco you better eat something before we go out to practice." Hermione said, the mother in her coming out to make an appearance.
"No, I think that this is the first and probably last time that I am going to agree with Potter, I can't eat after seeing that!" Harry choked on his pumpkin juice.
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They spent the morning training as teams, there was to be one match played that afternoon, and depending on the length of that game possibly another one after that. Draco wanted the team to sit together so that they could study their future opponents. When a team won they would advance to the next round, the team that lost by the least amount of points would be given a second chance. The first match was The Lightening Bolts v's The Serpents. After they had eaten lunch Hermione and the kids all made their way to the Quidditch pitch where they would be meeting the rest of the team. Hermione had explained the rules of Quidditch to the kids a long time ago and the older ones had been informed about it by their parents, but this was the first match that they had been too and they were quite excited.
"Hey Mione, we have seats up here!" Yelled down Hannah, Hermione spotted her and waved and they made their way up to their seats. Tate sat down beside her and Jake surprisingly took the other seat. Draco looked a little put out about the seating arrangement and Blaise didn't bother to contain his chuckles at Draco's expense. Draco glared at him but Blaise continued to laugh, even when they were at Hogwarts Blaise was the only person that got away with laughing at Draco. Draco looked over at the kids surrounding Hermione and he couldn't help but notice that they had all gathered around her protectively, as if protecting her from him. He made a mental note to point it out to Hermione later to see what she wanted to do about it. Little did Draco know that Hermione had also noticed and she was already planing to have a chat with them before they went to bed.
Madame Hooch started the game with a blast from her whistle and Professor Dumbledore was doing the honors of being the announcer for the match.
"Aaaaaaaand they're off! Ginny Weasley with the quaffle easily fly's around Miss Parkinson and ohhhhhhhhhhh, watch out for those bludgers Miss Weasley! Miss Parkinson with the quaffle but oh no, it is beautifully taken off her by Miss Patil, I'm actually not sure which on who passes to Miss Weasley who scores! 10 points to the Lightening Bolts!" The crowd cheered and the game resumed play. "Mr. Weasley good hit of that bludger! Watch out Mr. Smith! Ohhhhhh, nasty one that one! Foul!!! Miss Patil to take a penalty shot for Mr. Smith deliberately hitting her with his elbow. She lines up and. scores! 20 to nothing in favour of the Lightening Bolts. I'm afraid that the Serpents aren't having a good game!" The crowd continued to cheer and with the help of Blaise and Draco Hermione was explaining to the kids what was happening. "Wait a minute Mr. Potter has seen the snitch!" Harry went into a spectacular dive on his trusty old Firebolt, Norman Splat, the seeker for the Serpents was to busy picking his nose to look for the snitch and by the time he realised what was going on Harry already had the snitch and was flying loop-the-loops in the air. Hermione jumped up and screamed wildly, she was reminded of the many games that she had attended as a student and as old habits die hard she almost turned expecting to see Ron beside her so that she could give him a hug, but that was not possible anymore, and a sadness overcame Hermione for a moment before she brushed it off and pasted a bright smile on her face.
"The Lightening Bolts win! 170 points to nil! Great game everyone!" Professor Dumbledore smiled at the people surrounding him; the twinkle in his bright blue eyes was almost blinding. Once the crowd had quieted down he announced that, "the next game to be played today will be The Owl's v's The Fire Balls. That game will start in an hour." Hermione went down to congratulate her friends and waited for them all to change so that they could come and sit with her to watch the next match.
The next match was more competitive with The Owl's losing by only 40 points. Dumbledore announced the rest of the draw it would be, Drooble's Best Bubble Gum v's The Birds of Prey, The Eagles v's the Seeker's and Snitch's. The Dragon's were to play the team that earned the wild card.
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At the Gryffindor table there was loud celebrations, as well as the Hufflepuff table. At the teacher's table Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall looked at each other and shared a knowing smile. Having this reunion was one of their better ideas, it ranked right up their with his idea for the Philosophers Stone back when they were all first year students.
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"Draco will you come up to my room again tonight, I want to have a word with you and the kids. I think that they may have more questions and there are some things that I want to explain to them, that is of course if it is alright with you?" Hermione asked.
"Actually I was going to suggest that we do that, you know what they say, great minds think alike." Draco quipped.
"I'm not sure if I like my mind being compared to yours Draco! I mean look at its history!" Hermione smiled cheekily and stuck her tongue out at him. Draco felt a pang of something that he wasn't quite sure of, in his chest region. He enjoyed it when Hermione spared with him verbally, it was this trait in her, the fact that she wasn't afraid to stand up to him that made him instinctively know that she would make a good wife for him. However when they had previously made fun of each other he was never left with this feeling that he was unable to describe. Draco shook his head and followed Hermione up to her common room.
"Ok kids, I want to have another chat with you today, I noticed that you were a bit upset today Tate and I know that some of you have some more questions that you didn't get to ask last night, so I'm giving you another chance to ask the both of us anything that you want! And remember you can ask the both of us questions at any time, ok?" They all nodded and Hermione waited patiently for one of the kids to talk.
"Where are we going to live?" Will demanded. She knew that he had had a hard transition when he first moved to Granger House. Hermione looked at Draco they had not discussed this and Hermione was also curious as to where they would live.
"Well I was thinking that on Sunday after we leave Hogwarts, that the thirteen of you could come and visit me at my home, the Malfoy Manor and we can see if you all like it there. If you don't then I guess that we will see what we want to do then, does that sound ok to you?" He asked Wills directly but looked around to see the reaction of the rest of the kids. Wills gave a nod of his head and Draco smiled inwardly at the very grown up attitude that the five-year-old had.
"Will we still be able to play together?" asked Immy innocently.
"Of course sweet heart, if Draco and I get married nothing much is going to change except for the fact that we will all get to spend time with Draco as well as each other."
"Are you going to teach us things still?" Lilly asked.
"Yes, I will still stay at home with you all and teach you things. You know that I think that your education is the most important thing, besides how are you going to learn all about the muggle world if I send you all of to a wizards school?" Hermione asked and a few of the younger ones giggled.
"I wouldn't want to change the lifestyle that you have all become accustomed to, I want you all and Mione to be happy. You will all get to have your special time with her, I know that you all have special time with her and I would do nothing to change that." Draco looked at Hermione and they both thought that they had done the best that they could to convince the kids. The decision was now theirs to make. All of the kids looked to Jake for his response, he was the unofficial leader of their group.
"Were gonna go in the bedroom and talk about it, k?" Hermione nodded and all of the kids got up and silently followed Jake into the boy's bedroom, where they shut the door firmly behind them.
"Well I think that we did the best that we could." Draco said and Hermione nodded. A small part of her brain couldn't help but ask why they were going to so much trouble for a business agreement. Hermione was smart enough to know that she didn't want to know the answer to that question at the moment. Half an hour later the bedroom door swung open and the kids all trooped out single file and sat on the floor in front of Draco and Hermione who were sitting on the same sofa that they had fallen asleep on the night before.
"We have decided that." Hermione gasped, Tate had spoken his first words!
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A/N: So what do you all think of my pathetic attempt at humor in this chapter? I know most of you will be sitting there wondering where exactly I put humor in this chapter and that it quite alright, I know it was pathetic and I shall refrain from putting in anymore! Well intentionally putting in humor that is! Sorry about not putting more detail into the Quidditch match but I don't think that I have the flair for writing such scenes so sorry if you wanted more detail, if you did then I am afraid that you are just going to have to use those wonderful imaginations of yours!
What do you think of my evil cliffie? Hehehe! At least my chappies are longer!
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