Hogwarts Reunion
Chapter 10 - Day Four & Five - Peace at Last!
*** Guys, please read my authors note at the bottom of the chapter, it is important this time! Hehehe! ***
Hermione woke bright and early the next morning, still in awe of Tate, finally he had spoken his first words to her, and they were such important ones.
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"We have decided that." Hermione gasped, "we have decided that we don't mind if you two get married, but we will see if we can all live together once we are at Malfoy Manor." Hermione jumped out of her chair and picked Tate up of the floor and swung him up into her arms.
"Oh honey, I am so proud of you!" Hermione wiped a tear from her eye and smiled brightly at her children.
"You know I think that this calls for a celebration! What do you all say we sneak down to the kitchens and ask the house elves for a little dessert?" The kids all yelled and cheered and Draco led them down to the kitchens were they were inundated with sweet food and drink.
***End Flash back***
Hermione was still smiling as she got everyone ready for their day. The fact that the kids agreed to her getting married to Draco was a blessing, she just hoped that everything went well when they stayed at the Manor. Because Hermione had enough sense to know that if that didn't go well then the kids would object to them getting married, and Hermione realised that she was actually looking forward to marrying Draco Malfoy, something that she had never even thought about.
The day passed quickly and they watched the next two Quidditch matches, The Birds of Prey defeated Drooble's Best Bubble Gum by 100 points and the Eagles lost by only 10 points to the Seeker's and Snitch's team. The Dragon's were going to play against the Eagles and Blaise, Draco, Bob and Dean were discussing tactics to beat them, while Hannah, Susan and Hermione tried as best as they could to get involved in the discussion but to be quite honest they weren't interested at all!
Draco spent as much time with the kids as possible, he wanted them to be used to him so that they didn't get shocked when they stayed at his home. And if Draco was honest with himself he wanted to spend as much time with these kids because he wanted to prove to himself that he was going to be a better father than Lucius had been to him.
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Draco decided that the night before the match the team were all going to get together to have a chat about strategies for their first game the next day.
"Well we may as well go to my rooms because I have to put the kids to bed, if that is ok with the rest of you?" Hermione offered and after everyone agreed Hermione put all the kids to bed and cast a silencing charm on the room so that their voices wouldn't wake up the kids.
While they were all sitting there the men once again launched into detailed descriptions of flight patterns and goal scoring techniques, and the females soon lost interest, the games of Quidditch were supposed to be friendly but Quidditch was Quidditch and the women just let the men chat about it together.
"So Susan, what happened to you after we graduated?" Hannah asked.
"Well there isn't much to tell really, my aunt is a muggle and I went to live with her, well my parents sent me to live with her because of all that was happening here, they thought that it would be safer for me. I went to a muggle university and I met Chris, the most wonderful man in the world. He's a muggle of course so I couldn't bring him here for the week. Haven't told him I'm a witch yet," she laughed, "I might if the lazy sod gets up off him bum and asks me to marry him!" This time they all laughed. "What about you girls then? I've been out of the loop these past couple of years, I almost had a heart attack when that owl flew threw my window until I remembered what they were for!" Susan laughed at herself. Hermione motioned for Hannah to fill them in on what she had been doing since they graduated.
"Well I got a job with the Daily Prophet and I work with them as a field reporter, I covered most of what went on with the war and I did that series of interviews with witches and wizards who had fought for the light side." Hannah glanced over at Blaise as she said this, which Hermione noticed.
"I remember reading those, is that where you met Blaise again? I remember reading a profile on him." Hannah blushed bright red and both Mione and Susan laughed at her.
"Oh all right, yeah that is where we met, we've been going out ever since." Hannah smiled brightly and all of the girls continued to giggle loudly which disrupted the men and their Quidditch talk. The looked over at the women who were giggling much like they had when they were school girls and Hannah looked meaningfully at Blaise who flushed slightly, cleared his throat and tried to draw the attention of the men back to Quidditch.
"So that is about it really, I still work for the Prophet, though I don't do any field reporting now, I am one of the editors now so I get a squishy office and I love it!" she said gleefully.
"Well Hermione what about you, I think that you will probably have the most interesting story to tell." Susan said in such a way as to inspire others to gossip with her, Hermione just smiled at her.
"Well I doubt that mine is the most interesting but here goes! As soon as we graduated I spent a week at home with my parents, and then I came straight back to Hogwarts I spent the next few months training as a medi- witch as well as doing some specialised defense against the dark arts training. Harry and Ron were here as well as a select few others. Dumbledore thought that it was most important that I have medi training because he knew that with the war coming that they would be needed the most. I continued my training even after the war started because as it turned out I had a natural aptitude for it. However once the war had been going for a month I went out into the field to fight. After a week I was set up in a small ramshackle old hut out past the dark forest, not the one here on the Hogwarts grounds, but the one near to the battlefield. Late one night there was a knock on my door but I didn't think that that was as strange occurrence, in fact most of my visitors came at night. What was odd was that this particular visitor was a person that I had not seen in months and the last time I had seen him I had sworn that at our next meeting I would curse him into another lifetime, how I hate eating my mown words!" As Hermione spoke, the men ceased all their talk of Quidditch and they listened to her tale, Draco knew where this particular part was leading. "Draco collapsed onto the floor in front of me and when I realised who he was there was defiantly a small part of me that wanted to kick him in the ribs and close the door on him, but I thought better of it and I healed his wounds." Hermione looked over at Draco and smiled.
"You saved my life." Draco murmured, the tone in the room instantly became serious, to serious for Hermione.
"And there are will always be times when I regret it," she said dryly and everyone laughed. "I also tried to convince Malfoy here that he was fighting for the wrong side but nothing that I said seemed to convince him. I had in a fully body cast for over 2 weeks, and I put the silencing charm on him more than once, you were the worst patient that I ever had!" Hermione declared and she once again made everyone laugh. "Dumbledore came to visit and I don't know what he said but by the time he left Draco had changed his mind and he decided to fight along side us. I had other patients to heal over those couple of weeks but the war was coming to a head and then we had the final battle. Harry very nearly lost his life that night and many good witches and wizards did. I was fighting beside Ron and Harry and I saw a Deatheater turn and point his wand at Ron but before I had a chance to do anything he killed Ron." Hermione paused for a moment reliving the scene in her head, trying desperately to blink back the tears that were threatening to spill over. She took a deep breath and continued, "while I tried to help Ron even though I knew it was helpless Harry was finally getting ready for his showdown with Voldemort. I finally realised that I couldn't help Ron and I fought off as many Deatheaters as I could." Hermione absently rubbed her shoulder that was still scared from that night. "I got hit by a curse that I have never heard of before, and I can tell you it leaves a mark, and it makes you lose a fair bit of blood, if I didn't have my training then I probably would have died that night as well."
"Did you ever find out who got Ron?" Hannah asked quietly.
"Yes, it was Bellatrix Lestrange. She killed Sirius Black as well, as many other horrible things. She was the only person that I killed. I remember once when Harry faced Voldemort Lestrange said that to do one of the unforgivable curses you have to mean it, and to be honest with you I didn't really think that I had it in me, but as it turns out, I do." Hermione paused again, she had promised herself that when she was at this reunion she would not think about that night, or Ron or the war at all, but then again maybe this is exactly what she needed, to talk about it and maybe she would finally be able to have some peace. "I was never tried for her killing, in fact I probably did her a favour, she would have been given the Dementors kiss anyway. After the final battle I received an owl from the Magical Law Enforcement Squad, my parents had been killed by group of Deatheaters who had been attacking muggles. I don't really remember anything much of the next few months, but Dumbledore let me stay here, the school had been closed for that year anyway so I was able to stay here. Then I used the money that my parents left me in their will and opened Granger House and I looked after the children orphaned by the war. And that is about it really. Draco and I kept in contact after the war via owl and I pretty much looked after my kids and everything was going along normally until I got my letter from Dumbledore asking me to come here for the reunion." Hermione looked up for the last part of her story she had been looking down at her hands.
"Wow" Hannah breathed. She knew that Hermione had been through a lot and she had been someone that she wanted to interview after the war, but she couldn't find her.
"Hannah I would.um, can you please not use what I have just told you for a story in the Prophet, I don't really want people out there to know about me, like. that."
"Of course Hermione, I wouldn't dream of it, besides I'm not a reporter anymore." Hermione smiled at her gratefully.
"Well I didn't mean for it to get so. depressing in here! What are we going to do in our Quidditch game tomorrow?" Hermione asked in a not so subtle attempt to change the subject.
So they spent the rest of the evening talking about Quidditch, until Draco declared that it was time for everyone to go to bed so that they would be well rested for tomorrows match.
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Hermione stayed up most of the night going over in her head the events of the past couple of years and of course, going over Ron's death. At first she had felt guilty because if she had only turned quicker she may have been able to send a curse towards Belatrix that would have prevented her from killing Ron but she had come to realise that that kind of thinking was pointless, and there was nothing that she could do that would have changed the outcome. Finally at dawn Hermione fell into a deep sleep, finally at peace with herself after all that time. She knew tha she would always miss Ron and a small part of her heart would always belong to him, but it was time to move on, and even though she wasn't marrying Draco because she loved him she would be able to have a new life when they married and, she hoped, a happy and safe life together.
Mione was finally woken up by Tate who ran in her room and jumped on top of her. "Wake up Mione! It's morning!" Now that he had finally decided that it was time to talk there was nothing anyone could do to shut him up!
"I'm up, I'm up," she mumbled dragging her head up from underneath her pillow. For the first time in a long time she woke with a smile on her face and she felt well rested even though she had only had a couple of hours sleep. "Go make sure everyone is up and I'll get changed, I'm playing Quidditch today!" Tate cheered and ran out of the room to wake the others. Hermione laughed and quickly dressed so that she could go down and eat some breakfast.
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"Ok team, remember this is just a bit of fun so no pressure, though I have to admit that I want to win! So go out there and do your best!" Draco said while they were in the change rooms. As they made a move to walk out onto the pitch Draco grabbed Hermione's arm and held her back just slightly. "You'll be great today, just like in our practice, ok?" Hermione smiled at him and nodded and they quickly caught up with the rest of the team and walked out onto the pitch. The kids were sitting with Harry and Ginny and Hermione waved to them and they clapped as she flew past them on her way to the three hoops that she was defending.
The Eagles who were captained by Lavender Brown took their positions in the air and after a quick blast from Madame Hooch's whistle the game began. Hermione kept her eyes trained on the quaffle silently praying that it wouldn't come flying towards her. While she had been good in practice with Draco she knew that it was pure luck that she had managed to save all of those shots, but Draco was right, this was just a game and she was going to have fun!
Dumbledore was commentating the game once again but Hermione was to busy watching the quaffle to pay any attention to him. She didn't know how Harry and Draco managed to do this when they were at school it was nerve racking! She watched as Ginny scored a goal and then as Susan scored one as well, she had to quickly duck out of the way of a bludger and Dean came flying past her chasing after it. Blaise managed to score a goal before Hermione was put on her guard watching Lavender streak towards her the quaffle in hand. Lav managed to duck past a bludger and was heading straight for Hermione, soon there was nothing between Lav and the goal posts but Hermione, shaking slightly Hermione didn't take her eyes of the quaffle as Lav released it, heading for the left hand goal post, Hermione dived and. missed, the quaffle sailed through, the score was 30-10. Hermione was disappointed with herself, and she looked up at Draco who was circling high above her, he saw her looking at gave her the thumbs up, she just laughed and got back to concentrating on the quaffle.
The game was a long one; Hermione managed to save more goals than she let in! Draco managed to catch the snitch in a spectacular dive, the final scores were 300 to 200.
Because there were an uneven number of teams and the Dragons had played the last game of the round, they were given a bye for the next round. The next round would be The Lightening Bolt's v's The Seekers and Snitch's and the Fire Ball's v's The Birds of Prey. The next round would be announced after the two matches had been played.
The team decided to celebrate and after another trip to the kitchens sweets of every kind were found in Hermione's room and she had much trouble trying to convince the kids to go to bed. Hermione had had the best day of her life, the peace that she felt with in was reflected on the outside and many people noticed the change in Hermione, especially her friends and some of her old teachers.
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A/N: It seems that everyone is happy that Tate has finally spoken I thought it was about time for him to do it, and of course they have to be important words! Sorry that this wasn't as long as the previous chapter but I wasn't really happy with this chapter, so I hope that you all like it, hopefully the next chapter will be better! :)
Now guys, because it is a condition of Draco's mother's will Draco and Hermione, if they marry, will have to have a child. Now I am asking for suggestions for both girls and boys names, for if they have a child! I can't guarantee that any name that you give me will be used but any suggestions are welcome! Thanks, you guys!
And also I am the Beta-reader for a FANTASTIC story that you should all really go and check out! Hehehe! It is called 'A New Threat' and it is by Angelina-Malfoy. So do yourselves a favour guys and go and read it! :)
This chapter is dedicated to.
The-Rouge-Thorn - Glad that you liked that chappie, Tate and the kids will get a larger role in the next few chapters.
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Chapter 10 - Day Four & Five - Peace at Last!
*** Guys, please read my authors note at the bottom of the chapter, it is important this time! Hehehe! ***
Hermione woke bright and early the next morning, still in awe of Tate, finally he had spoken his first words to her, and they were such important ones.
***Flashback***
"We have decided that." Hermione gasped, "we have decided that we don't mind if you two get married, but we will see if we can all live together once we are at Malfoy Manor." Hermione jumped out of her chair and picked Tate up of the floor and swung him up into her arms.
"Oh honey, I am so proud of you!" Hermione wiped a tear from her eye and smiled brightly at her children.
"You know I think that this calls for a celebration! What do you all say we sneak down to the kitchens and ask the house elves for a little dessert?" The kids all yelled and cheered and Draco led them down to the kitchens were they were inundated with sweet food and drink.
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Hermione was still smiling as she got everyone ready for their day. The fact that the kids agreed to her getting married to Draco was a blessing, she just hoped that everything went well when they stayed at the Manor. Because Hermione had enough sense to know that if that didn't go well then the kids would object to them getting married, and Hermione realised that she was actually looking forward to marrying Draco Malfoy, something that she had never even thought about.
The day passed quickly and they watched the next two Quidditch matches, The Birds of Prey defeated Drooble's Best Bubble Gum by 100 points and the Eagles lost by only 10 points to the Seeker's and Snitch's team. The Dragon's were going to play against the Eagles and Blaise, Draco, Bob and Dean were discussing tactics to beat them, while Hannah, Susan and Hermione tried as best as they could to get involved in the discussion but to be quite honest they weren't interested at all!
Draco spent as much time with the kids as possible, he wanted them to be used to him so that they didn't get shocked when they stayed at his home. And if Draco was honest with himself he wanted to spend as much time with these kids because he wanted to prove to himself that he was going to be a better father than Lucius had been to him.
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Draco decided that the night before the match the team were all going to get together to have a chat about strategies for their first game the next day.
"Well we may as well go to my rooms because I have to put the kids to bed, if that is ok with the rest of you?" Hermione offered and after everyone agreed Hermione put all the kids to bed and cast a silencing charm on the room so that their voices wouldn't wake up the kids.
While they were all sitting there the men once again launched into detailed descriptions of flight patterns and goal scoring techniques, and the females soon lost interest, the games of Quidditch were supposed to be friendly but Quidditch was Quidditch and the women just let the men chat about it together.
"So Susan, what happened to you after we graduated?" Hannah asked.
"Well there isn't much to tell really, my aunt is a muggle and I went to live with her, well my parents sent me to live with her because of all that was happening here, they thought that it would be safer for me. I went to a muggle university and I met Chris, the most wonderful man in the world. He's a muggle of course so I couldn't bring him here for the week. Haven't told him I'm a witch yet," she laughed, "I might if the lazy sod gets up off him bum and asks me to marry him!" This time they all laughed. "What about you girls then? I've been out of the loop these past couple of years, I almost had a heart attack when that owl flew threw my window until I remembered what they were for!" Susan laughed at herself. Hermione motioned for Hannah to fill them in on what she had been doing since they graduated.
"Well I got a job with the Daily Prophet and I work with them as a field reporter, I covered most of what went on with the war and I did that series of interviews with witches and wizards who had fought for the light side." Hannah glanced over at Blaise as she said this, which Hermione noticed.
"I remember reading those, is that where you met Blaise again? I remember reading a profile on him." Hannah blushed bright red and both Mione and Susan laughed at her.
"Oh all right, yeah that is where we met, we've been going out ever since." Hannah smiled brightly and all of the girls continued to giggle loudly which disrupted the men and their Quidditch talk. The looked over at the women who were giggling much like they had when they were school girls and Hannah looked meaningfully at Blaise who flushed slightly, cleared his throat and tried to draw the attention of the men back to Quidditch.
"So that is about it really, I still work for the Prophet, though I don't do any field reporting now, I am one of the editors now so I get a squishy office and I love it!" she said gleefully.
"Well Hermione what about you, I think that you will probably have the most interesting story to tell." Susan said in such a way as to inspire others to gossip with her, Hermione just smiled at her.
"Well I doubt that mine is the most interesting but here goes! As soon as we graduated I spent a week at home with my parents, and then I came straight back to Hogwarts I spent the next few months training as a medi- witch as well as doing some specialised defense against the dark arts training. Harry and Ron were here as well as a select few others. Dumbledore thought that it was most important that I have medi training because he knew that with the war coming that they would be needed the most. I continued my training even after the war started because as it turned out I had a natural aptitude for it. However once the war had been going for a month I went out into the field to fight. After a week I was set up in a small ramshackle old hut out past the dark forest, not the one here on the Hogwarts grounds, but the one near to the battlefield. Late one night there was a knock on my door but I didn't think that that was as strange occurrence, in fact most of my visitors came at night. What was odd was that this particular visitor was a person that I had not seen in months and the last time I had seen him I had sworn that at our next meeting I would curse him into another lifetime, how I hate eating my mown words!" As Hermione spoke, the men ceased all their talk of Quidditch and they listened to her tale, Draco knew where this particular part was leading. "Draco collapsed onto the floor in front of me and when I realised who he was there was defiantly a small part of me that wanted to kick him in the ribs and close the door on him, but I thought better of it and I healed his wounds." Hermione looked over at Draco and smiled.
"You saved my life." Draco murmured, the tone in the room instantly became serious, to serious for Hermione.
"And there are will always be times when I regret it," she said dryly and everyone laughed. "I also tried to convince Malfoy here that he was fighting for the wrong side but nothing that I said seemed to convince him. I had in a fully body cast for over 2 weeks, and I put the silencing charm on him more than once, you were the worst patient that I ever had!" Hermione declared and she once again made everyone laugh. "Dumbledore came to visit and I don't know what he said but by the time he left Draco had changed his mind and he decided to fight along side us. I had other patients to heal over those couple of weeks but the war was coming to a head and then we had the final battle. Harry very nearly lost his life that night and many good witches and wizards did. I was fighting beside Ron and Harry and I saw a Deatheater turn and point his wand at Ron but before I had a chance to do anything he killed Ron." Hermione paused for a moment reliving the scene in her head, trying desperately to blink back the tears that were threatening to spill over. She took a deep breath and continued, "while I tried to help Ron even though I knew it was helpless Harry was finally getting ready for his showdown with Voldemort. I finally realised that I couldn't help Ron and I fought off as many Deatheaters as I could." Hermione absently rubbed her shoulder that was still scared from that night. "I got hit by a curse that I have never heard of before, and I can tell you it leaves a mark, and it makes you lose a fair bit of blood, if I didn't have my training then I probably would have died that night as well."
"Did you ever find out who got Ron?" Hannah asked quietly.
"Yes, it was Bellatrix Lestrange. She killed Sirius Black as well, as many other horrible things. She was the only person that I killed. I remember once when Harry faced Voldemort Lestrange said that to do one of the unforgivable curses you have to mean it, and to be honest with you I didn't really think that I had it in me, but as it turns out, I do." Hermione paused again, she had promised herself that when she was at this reunion she would not think about that night, or Ron or the war at all, but then again maybe this is exactly what she needed, to talk about it and maybe she would finally be able to have some peace. "I was never tried for her killing, in fact I probably did her a favour, she would have been given the Dementors kiss anyway. After the final battle I received an owl from the Magical Law Enforcement Squad, my parents had been killed by group of Deatheaters who had been attacking muggles. I don't really remember anything much of the next few months, but Dumbledore let me stay here, the school had been closed for that year anyway so I was able to stay here. Then I used the money that my parents left me in their will and opened Granger House and I looked after the children orphaned by the war. And that is about it really. Draco and I kept in contact after the war via owl and I pretty much looked after my kids and everything was going along normally until I got my letter from Dumbledore asking me to come here for the reunion." Hermione looked up for the last part of her story she had been looking down at her hands.
"Wow" Hannah breathed. She knew that Hermione had been through a lot and she had been someone that she wanted to interview after the war, but she couldn't find her.
"Hannah I would.um, can you please not use what I have just told you for a story in the Prophet, I don't really want people out there to know about me, like. that."
"Of course Hermione, I wouldn't dream of it, besides I'm not a reporter anymore." Hermione smiled at her gratefully.
"Well I didn't mean for it to get so. depressing in here! What are we going to do in our Quidditch game tomorrow?" Hermione asked in a not so subtle attempt to change the subject.
So they spent the rest of the evening talking about Quidditch, until Draco declared that it was time for everyone to go to bed so that they would be well rested for tomorrows match.
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Hermione stayed up most of the night going over in her head the events of the past couple of years and of course, going over Ron's death. At first she had felt guilty because if she had only turned quicker she may have been able to send a curse towards Belatrix that would have prevented her from killing Ron but she had come to realise that that kind of thinking was pointless, and there was nothing that she could do that would have changed the outcome. Finally at dawn Hermione fell into a deep sleep, finally at peace with herself after all that time. She knew tha she would always miss Ron and a small part of her heart would always belong to him, but it was time to move on, and even though she wasn't marrying Draco because she loved him she would be able to have a new life when they married and, she hoped, a happy and safe life together.
Mione was finally woken up by Tate who ran in her room and jumped on top of her. "Wake up Mione! It's morning!" Now that he had finally decided that it was time to talk there was nothing anyone could do to shut him up!
"I'm up, I'm up," she mumbled dragging her head up from underneath her pillow. For the first time in a long time she woke with a smile on her face and she felt well rested even though she had only had a couple of hours sleep. "Go make sure everyone is up and I'll get changed, I'm playing Quidditch today!" Tate cheered and ran out of the room to wake the others. Hermione laughed and quickly dressed so that she could go down and eat some breakfast.
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"Ok team, remember this is just a bit of fun so no pressure, though I have to admit that I want to win! So go out there and do your best!" Draco said while they were in the change rooms. As they made a move to walk out onto the pitch Draco grabbed Hermione's arm and held her back just slightly. "You'll be great today, just like in our practice, ok?" Hermione smiled at him and nodded and they quickly caught up with the rest of the team and walked out onto the pitch. The kids were sitting with Harry and Ginny and Hermione waved to them and they clapped as she flew past them on her way to the three hoops that she was defending.
The Eagles who were captained by Lavender Brown took their positions in the air and after a quick blast from Madame Hooch's whistle the game began. Hermione kept her eyes trained on the quaffle silently praying that it wouldn't come flying towards her. While she had been good in practice with Draco she knew that it was pure luck that she had managed to save all of those shots, but Draco was right, this was just a game and she was going to have fun!
Dumbledore was commentating the game once again but Hermione was to busy watching the quaffle to pay any attention to him. She didn't know how Harry and Draco managed to do this when they were at school it was nerve racking! She watched as Ginny scored a goal and then as Susan scored one as well, she had to quickly duck out of the way of a bludger and Dean came flying past her chasing after it. Blaise managed to score a goal before Hermione was put on her guard watching Lavender streak towards her the quaffle in hand. Lav managed to duck past a bludger and was heading straight for Hermione, soon there was nothing between Lav and the goal posts but Hermione, shaking slightly Hermione didn't take her eyes of the quaffle as Lav released it, heading for the left hand goal post, Hermione dived and. missed, the quaffle sailed through, the score was 30-10. Hermione was disappointed with herself, and she looked up at Draco who was circling high above her, he saw her looking at gave her the thumbs up, she just laughed and got back to concentrating on the quaffle.
The game was a long one; Hermione managed to save more goals than she let in! Draco managed to catch the snitch in a spectacular dive, the final scores were 300 to 200.
Because there were an uneven number of teams and the Dragons had played the last game of the round, they were given a bye for the next round. The next round would be The Lightening Bolt's v's The Seekers and Snitch's and the Fire Ball's v's The Birds of Prey. The next round would be announced after the two matches had been played.
The team decided to celebrate and after another trip to the kitchens sweets of every kind were found in Hermione's room and she had much trouble trying to convince the kids to go to bed. Hermione had had the best day of her life, the peace that she felt with in was reflected on the outside and many people noticed the change in Hermione, especially her friends and some of her old teachers.
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A/N: It seems that everyone is happy that Tate has finally spoken I thought it was about time for him to do it, and of course they have to be important words! Sorry that this wasn't as long as the previous chapter but I wasn't really happy with this chapter, so I hope that you all like it, hopefully the next chapter will be better! :)
Now guys, because it is a condition of Draco's mother's will Draco and Hermione, if they marry, will have to have a child. Now I am asking for suggestions for both girls and boys names, for if they have a child! I can't guarantee that any name that you give me will be used but any suggestions are welcome! Thanks, you guys!
And also I am the Beta-reader for a FANTASTIC story that you should all really go and check out! Hehehe! It is called 'A New Threat' and it is by Angelina-Malfoy. So do yourselves a favour guys and go and read it! :)
This chapter is dedicated to.
The-Rouge-Thorn - Glad that you liked that chappie, Tate and the kids will get a larger role in the next few chapters.
Hallie Walker - Thanks for the review!
Lady Scarlett1 - I thought that the story was dragging on a little bit so I thought that I should speed things up a little bit, sorry if you didn't like that. Thanks for complementing my evil side by the way! Ta for both reviews!
I give it all to Mr. Black - Hehehe! I'm glad that you liked it and that you didn't think my attempt at humor was pathetic. I made myself laugh when I was reading that part about Pansy because I could picture it in my head, lol! Little Tate couldn't be mute forever so I thought it was about time for him to have a chat with Hermione!
Gamegirl3 - Happy Birthday for the 8th! I hope that you had a great day, and that you got heaps of pressies!
Merimeet - I think that I am honored to have written the evilest cliffie! So thanks for the compliment!
Azn-Sweetie - Aw! Shucks! Glad that you like it!
Blue-Dreamz - I thought that last chappie was the best yet as well, though hopefully this one is just as good!
Sherrafina - Thank you so much for reviewing my other story! It was my first one so it was very special to me, so big hugs to you for reviewing it!
Moonkeeper - I thought that I would give Hermione a little break and let her have some peace and fun for a little bit!
Sweet-77-thang - Sorry to do that to you, but come on cliffies are good for you, or they keep you interested anyway!
Stormy Phoenix - Thanks for the review, I was proud of myself for getting that chapter out quite quickly!
Snowbear - I'm sorry for being evil, but I hope that this chapter makes up for it!
Scholz03 - Glad that you like it :)
Meg - Thank you as usual! You never fail to make me smile with your reviews!
Danika - I thought that the Idea of Pansy in lycra would make most people loose their appetites!
Br*tney - Your right I did make them both a little OOC, but I thought that it would be good for a laugh if Dumbledore was the announcer, and I have always wanted Draco to loose his cool, so that is why I made him run, but I did put him back into his normal character by having him face her later on.
DanceChic0869 - Thanks for the review!
Weirdo-loser-freak - There will be more Quidditch, the final is going to have a better description because that is the most important game!
Hermione182 - Thanks for reviewing! I read you bio, I am a big fan of romance novels as well, the trashier the better! Lol! When you read my fic you will probably be able to tell!
Jenny - Hey Jenny, thanks for the review, glad that you liked the last chapter, and I hope that you like this one!
Smmergurl - Hey Cailin, glad that you liked it and I will e-mail you!