Hogwarts Reunion
Chapter 11 - Day Six & Seven, the end of the Reunion
The sixth and second last day of the reunion flew past and Hermione was surprised that she felt as sad as she did. She hadn't really wanted to come at all and now she was going to regret leaving. She had had some of the best times of her life had been had on these grounds. She went on her first date, with Viktor Krum, she found her first love, with Ron, she had received her first marriage proposal, from Draco, and she had made friends with people that she knew would be friends for life. She had also managed to make new friends during this week, though she and Hannah had spoken while they were at school, playing on the same Quidditch team this week had made them become real friends.
The Quidditch games had been played and tomorrow, before the goodbye feast, the final was gong to be played, it was the Dragons v's the Lightening Bolts. Hermione couldn't help but think to herself that it wasn't going to help things along with Harry and Ginny and the rest if they beat them, though Draco had never beaten Harry in a Quidditch match when they played against each other so the match was going to prove to be interesting.
After eating an enjoyable dinner with the rest of the team Hermione left them early to put the kids to bed. An owl floated in the open window of her bedroom and Hermione walked over to the familiar while owl and took the piece of parchment from her leg, "Hello Hedwig, its been a while." Hermione lightly scratched her head before fishing out an owl treat from her trunk, with a grateful hoot Hedwig soared out of the window while Hermione unraveled the old piece of parchment. Hermione smiled when she realised what it was. Picking up her wand from where it lay on her bed side table she taped the parchment with it lightly and recited the familiar phrase, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good," and she smile as line crisscrossed on the pages and finally the map of Hogwarts was visible. She quickly scanned the parchment looking for the small dot that read Harry Potter. He was in the library and Hermione chuckled softly to herself. She quickly glanced at the children who were all supposed to be sleeping and when she realised what the twins were up to she ran into the girls bedroom.
"If so much as a drop of that water lands on Daphne I swear the two of you will have to squeeze bubotubers for their pus for my potions for a whole year!" Taylah and Kayla sprang back form the sleeping form of Daphne and realised that it was no use trying to hide the pitcher of water in their hands. "Honestly girls, you two should know better! To bed with you now and if I catch you doing something like that again, you will be in trouble faster than you can say Quidditch!" Hermione kept her voice low so as not to wake the other sleeping girls.
"Sorry Mione," the both mumbled as they walked back to their beds and pulled the covers around themselves. After Hermione shut the door behind her they turned to look at each other. "I don't know how she does it sometimes!" Taylah declared.
"You'd think that she was using magic," said Kayla and both girls dissolved into giggles before they finally went to sleep.
Hermione tucked the map into her robes and walked the familiar path to the library, she had made the journey so many times in the past that she could have done it now with her eyes closed, but she could hear the evil cackles of Peeves in the distance and didn't trust him enough to be walking down the halls blind.
She paused out the front of the bathroom in which she had been attacked by a 12-foot troll in her first year and had been saved by Harry and Ron. The castle walls held many memories for her, both happy and some sad ones. She consulted her map once again and took the slightly longer route to the library in order to miss talking to Professor Snape, while he had proved his worth to her by fight along side her in the war there was a small part of her that remembered the vindictive teacher that he had been and as such she wanted to avoid him at all costs.
"Good evening Harry," she said as she walked silently into the library. Harry was looking in at the books in the restricted section, there was a low mummer of whispers coming from the books as if they could sense someone watching them.
"Hey Mione, I see you got my. map."
"What's up Harry is there something wrong?"
"I just wanted to talk a little bit. We used to be so close and now we owl each other every now and then and now I don't know anything about you. I didn't even know that you and Malfoy had kept in contact over the years let alone were close enough to want to get married." Harry looked at her imploringly and Hermione went over and gave him a hug.
"Oh Harry, how did we drift so far apart? I know that it was my fault, after Ron died I didn't want any reminders of him, and you and Ginny were the biggest reminders of all, so to save myself and my sanity I guess I let myself drift away from you because I didn't want to hurt anymore."
"Now don't you take all of the blame on yourself Mione, its my fault as well. Ginny made me so happy after the war, I think that I felt that I had someone in my life who wanted to be with me and now that most of the danger had passed she wouldn't leave me, like I felt that everyone else had. In a way I guess I forgot about what you meant to me, so when you distanced yourself I let you go because. well I guess it was selfish of me I wanted Ginny to myself I suppose and I finally had a proper family with the Weasleys."
"I understand Harry, you know if anyone had of asked me what I thought was going to happen in my life and to all of us I would never had guess this. I really am glad that this reunion came when it did, I am finally ready to move on with my life, and I want you and Ginny to be a big part of it." Hermione looked at Harry with big eyes, silently pleading with him to accept Draco properly. Harry laughed quietly.
"To be honest with you Mione, I don't think that Malfoy and I will ever be best friends but I think that I owe it to you to give him a chance, even if the effort may very well kill me." He said dryly and they laughed together. Hermione was glad, something inside of her healed a little more, she finally had her best friend back.
"Thanks for this Harry, I really needed it." Hermione said as they made their way from the library to their rooms.
"You know what so did I," Harry smiled at her and gave her a hug before they parted ways at the old charms classroom.
"Well I guess I will see you tomorrow at breakfast, good luck in the game tomorrow Harry, though I have to say this will be the first time that I wont be cheering for you to win!" Hermione said lightly.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that! It will be a good game, best of luck to you Mione, I will hand you a tissue when you're crying over your loss!"
"Keep dreaming Potter!" They laughed together and Hermione couldn't help but feel younger, there really was magic in this castle, and not only the kind that you need a wand for.
"Night Mione!"
"Goodnight Harry."
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There was nothing planed for the morning so Hermione took the children around the castle and the grounds and told them more stories from her days at Hogwarts and all of the trouble that she had got into, that wasn't her fault of course!
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"Welcome to the final match of the Reunion Cup! Today we have The Dragon's v's The Lightning Bolts!" The crowd cheered as Dumbledore made his announcement. "And coming out onto the pitch we have The Lightening Bolts, with Finnigan, Patil, Patil, Weasley, Weasley, Potter and Potter! I think they need another Finnigan in their team to make things even!" The crowed chuckled and cheered and waited for The Dragon's to make their appearance. "And now we have The Dragon's with Moon, Bones, Zambini, Thomas, Abbot, Granger and Malfoy!" There were cheers, especially from the twelve youngsters sitting with Professor McGonagall.
"Madame Hooch steps out onto the field, the golden snitch is released and the bludgers and finally the quaffle and the game is on!" There were more cheers and shouts from the fans, the game was by far the best of the week and the players were moving so fast that the spectators could hardly keep up!
"A nice hit of the bludger from George Weasley, narrowly missing Blaise Zambini, Ginny Potter with the quaffle throws and it is intercepted by Hannah Abbot who weaves nicely between both Patil twins, she shoots annnnnnnnnnd scores! Scores are 10-0" There were cheers and boos from the crowds below, each team seemed to have an equal number of followers. (A/N: am going to use first names now because it is easier, k?)
"They're off again, and Padma with the quaffle passes to Parvati, who passes to Padma who passes to Parvati, and I am getting dizzy now! Padma passes to Ginny who shoots and. scores! Scores are 10 all!"
The game followed on in that same vein each team scoring and then the other team catching up, there was no sign of the snitch and both Harry and Draco were circling the game from above, trying to keep an eye on the game and an eye out for the snitch, they both realised that the only way to win the game was to catch the snitch.
Suddenly Draco did a vertical dive heading straight down, he wove through bludgers, chasers and beaters keeping his eye trained on the golden snitch. Harry who had been looking at another part of the field when Draco spotted the snitch went into a dive of his own trying to catch up with Draco. Most of the crowd were on their feet trying to get a better look at Draco, and many thought that he was going to crash spectacularly with the pitch. Without warning the snitch changed its direction and Draco managed to pull up his broom and fly straight up into the air with out losing control of his broom, Harry who was also an excellent flyer also kept control of his broom and the change in direction from the snitch allowed Harry and Draco to be neck and neck with each other. Each man was urging his broom to give just a tiny extra spurt of speed that would him the edge that was needed to catch the snitch and therefore win the game. They both were on Firebolts so neither had to worry about the other having a superior broom. Suddenly they both pitched forward, their arms outstretched and at last the snitch was caught.
There was a deafening roar from the crowds, this was by far the best game of the week and it had lasted almost four hours. When the teams were standing on the pitch Draco and Harry walked towards each other.
"Good game," Draco muttered.
"You know it was about time you finally beat me at catching the snitch." Harry smiled ruefully and stuck out his hand, Draco looked at it for a moment before extending his hand and the two boys who had been enemies shook hands and finally realised that they were now both men who hod out grown petty childhood squabbles, but then again that didn't mean that they were friends. Because that was something that was not going to be happening anytime soon!
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"That was the best game ever!" Neville said, the Great Hall seemed more crowded than usual with people talking loudly about the game that had been played that day, they were still excited.
"Yeah, even if we did lose I must admit that it was pretty good." Harry said, the Gryffindor table was filled with people to the point where some were standing at the ends because there wasn't enough room for everybody. Both teams sat facing each other talking and laughing, though Hermione noticed that Draco seemed to be the only one not getting into the surrounding conversations.
"Are you ok Draco?" Hermione questioned him quietly, not wanting to draw the attention of those around them.
"Yeah, a little tired I guess." Draco looked at her sideways his head still facing the plate of barley touched food in front if him.
"You're worried about tomorrow aren't you?" Hermione asked wisely.
"Am I that obvious?"
"Of course not, I just know you very well, and don't worry things will go great I have a good feeling about it." Draco smiled at her, feeling some what comforted by her words and he finally joined in the conversations, and Hermione was pleased to notice that Harry and the rest as well as Draco were polite to each other, if a little formal but that was better than them dueling to the death.
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The next day they would be taking the train back to Platform 9 and ¾'s and then take a portkey to the Malfoy Manor. Hermione was asked many questions from the kids that night before they went to bed, about the Manor but Hermione for once didn't have the answers because Draco had failed to mention anything about the Manor to her, and in her excitement over the week she hadn't thought to ask.
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"Have you packed everything? I want you all to double check everything because I don't want to have you suddenly remember something when we are on the train!" Hermione was nervous about staying with Draco, though she wasn't going to admit it to him because he was nervous enough as it was!
Finally after over an hour of packing and repacking and finding forgotten items they were ready.
"Come on there are a few people who I want to say good bye to before we leave!" Hermione ushered the kids down the hall after reducing all of the trunks and making sure that each child had their belongings.
"Professor McGonagall, thank you so much for making me come, this week has been fantastic."
"I'm glad that you enjoyed it Miss Granger, Albus and I thought that it was the perfect idea, besides it was about time that we all had a little fun." Hermione laughed with her old teacher, and a small part of her brain whispered that she never thought that Professor McGonagall would approve of fun.
"Are you ready Hermione? I have gotten up a carriage." Hermione smiled up at Draco.
"Will you take the kids there, there are a couple of good byes that I want to say before we go." Draco nodded and he led the children to a large carriage that he had chosen.
"Hannah!"
"Yes Hermione?"
"I just wanted to say good bye, and for the next week I will be staying with Draco at the Manor, and I was wondering if you and Blaise would like to come and visit?" Hermione smiled at her new friend.
"Oh, I would love that, I'll send you an owl." They hugged and Hermione waved good bye to Blaise before going to look for Harry and Ginny and the rest of the Weasleys.
"Bye guys!" Hermione hugged Ginny and the Patil twins and then the boys before making promises to write and get together soon, something that they all promised would happen.
Hermione continued to wave and smile at her friends before finally returning to the carriage.
"Have you had a good time Hermione?" Draco asked her.
"Yes, though I do have to say there is a small part of me that is sad to leave, Hogwarts will always be home to me, but I will get to visit again, when these little ones get their letters, and for that I can't wait!"
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Chapter 11 - Day Six & Seven, the end of the Reunion
The sixth and second last day of the reunion flew past and Hermione was surprised that she felt as sad as she did. She hadn't really wanted to come at all and now she was going to regret leaving. She had had some of the best times of her life had been had on these grounds. She went on her first date, with Viktor Krum, she found her first love, with Ron, she had received her first marriage proposal, from Draco, and she had made friends with people that she knew would be friends for life. She had also managed to make new friends during this week, though she and Hannah had spoken while they were at school, playing on the same Quidditch team this week had made them become real friends.
The Quidditch games had been played and tomorrow, before the goodbye feast, the final was gong to be played, it was the Dragons v's the Lightening Bolts. Hermione couldn't help but think to herself that it wasn't going to help things along with Harry and Ginny and the rest if they beat them, though Draco had never beaten Harry in a Quidditch match when they played against each other so the match was going to prove to be interesting.
After eating an enjoyable dinner with the rest of the team Hermione left them early to put the kids to bed. An owl floated in the open window of her bedroom and Hermione walked over to the familiar while owl and took the piece of parchment from her leg, "Hello Hedwig, its been a while." Hermione lightly scratched her head before fishing out an owl treat from her trunk, with a grateful hoot Hedwig soared out of the window while Hermione unraveled the old piece of parchment. Hermione smiled when she realised what it was. Picking up her wand from where it lay on her bed side table she taped the parchment with it lightly and recited the familiar phrase, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good," and she smile as line crisscrossed on the pages and finally the map of Hogwarts was visible. She quickly scanned the parchment looking for the small dot that read Harry Potter. He was in the library and Hermione chuckled softly to herself. She quickly glanced at the children who were all supposed to be sleeping and when she realised what the twins were up to she ran into the girls bedroom.
"If so much as a drop of that water lands on Daphne I swear the two of you will have to squeeze bubotubers for their pus for my potions for a whole year!" Taylah and Kayla sprang back form the sleeping form of Daphne and realised that it was no use trying to hide the pitcher of water in their hands. "Honestly girls, you two should know better! To bed with you now and if I catch you doing something like that again, you will be in trouble faster than you can say Quidditch!" Hermione kept her voice low so as not to wake the other sleeping girls.
"Sorry Mione," the both mumbled as they walked back to their beds and pulled the covers around themselves. After Hermione shut the door behind her they turned to look at each other. "I don't know how she does it sometimes!" Taylah declared.
"You'd think that she was using magic," said Kayla and both girls dissolved into giggles before they finally went to sleep.
Hermione tucked the map into her robes and walked the familiar path to the library, she had made the journey so many times in the past that she could have done it now with her eyes closed, but she could hear the evil cackles of Peeves in the distance and didn't trust him enough to be walking down the halls blind.
She paused out the front of the bathroom in which she had been attacked by a 12-foot troll in her first year and had been saved by Harry and Ron. The castle walls held many memories for her, both happy and some sad ones. She consulted her map once again and took the slightly longer route to the library in order to miss talking to Professor Snape, while he had proved his worth to her by fight along side her in the war there was a small part of her that remembered the vindictive teacher that he had been and as such she wanted to avoid him at all costs.
"Good evening Harry," she said as she walked silently into the library. Harry was looking in at the books in the restricted section, there was a low mummer of whispers coming from the books as if they could sense someone watching them.
"Hey Mione, I see you got my. map."
"What's up Harry is there something wrong?"
"I just wanted to talk a little bit. We used to be so close and now we owl each other every now and then and now I don't know anything about you. I didn't even know that you and Malfoy had kept in contact over the years let alone were close enough to want to get married." Harry looked at her imploringly and Hermione went over and gave him a hug.
"Oh Harry, how did we drift so far apart? I know that it was my fault, after Ron died I didn't want any reminders of him, and you and Ginny were the biggest reminders of all, so to save myself and my sanity I guess I let myself drift away from you because I didn't want to hurt anymore."
"Now don't you take all of the blame on yourself Mione, its my fault as well. Ginny made me so happy after the war, I think that I felt that I had someone in my life who wanted to be with me and now that most of the danger had passed she wouldn't leave me, like I felt that everyone else had. In a way I guess I forgot about what you meant to me, so when you distanced yourself I let you go because. well I guess it was selfish of me I wanted Ginny to myself I suppose and I finally had a proper family with the Weasleys."
"I understand Harry, you know if anyone had of asked me what I thought was going to happen in my life and to all of us I would never had guess this. I really am glad that this reunion came when it did, I am finally ready to move on with my life, and I want you and Ginny to be a big part of it." Hermione looked at Harry with big eyes, silently pleading with him to accept Draco properly. Harry laughed quietly.
"To be honest with you Mione, I don't think that Malfoy and I will ever be best friends but I think that I owe it to you to give him a chance, even if the effort may very well kill me." He said dryly and they laughed together. Hermione was glad, something inside of her healed a little more, she finally had her best friend back.
"Thanks for this Harry, I really needed it." Hermione said as they made their way from the library to their rooms.
"You know what so did I," Harry smiled at her and gave her a hug before they parted ways at the old charms classroom.
"Well I guess I will see you tomorrow at breakfast, good luck in the game tomorrow Harry, though I have to say this will be the first time that I wont be cheering for you to win!" Hermione said lightly.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that! It will be a good game, best of luck to you Mione, I will hand you a tissue when you're crying over your loss!"
"Keep dreaming Potter!" They laughed together and Hermione couldn't help but feel younger, there really was magic in this castle, and not only the kind that you need a wand for.
"Night Mione!"
"Goodnight Harry."
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There was nothing planed for the morning so Hermione took the children around the castle and the grounds and told them more stories from her days at Hogwarts and all of the trouble that she had got into, that wasn't her fault of course!
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"Welcome to the final match of the Reunion Cup! Today we have The Dragon's v's The Lightning Bolts!" The crowd cheered as Dumbledore made his announcement. "And coming out onto the pitch we have The Lightening Bolts, with Finnigan, Patil, Patil, Weasley, Weasley, Potter and Potter! I think they need another Finnigan in their team to make things even!" The crowed chuckled and cheered and waited for The Dragon's to make their appearance. "And now we have The Dragon's with Moon, Bones, Zambini, Thomas, Abbot, Granger and Malfoy!" There were cheers, especially from the twelve youngsters sitting with Professor McGonagall.
"Madame Hooch steps out onto the field, the golden snitch is released and the bludgers and finally the quaffle and the game is on!" There were more cheers and shouts from the fans, the game was by far the best of the week and the players were moving so fast that the spectators could hardly keep up!
"A nice hit of the bludger from George Weasley, narrowly missing Blaise Zambini, Ginny Potter with the quaffle throws and it is intercepted by Hannah Abbot who weaves nicely between both Patil twins, she shoots annnnnnnnnnd scores! Scores are 10-0" There were cheers and boos from the crowds below, each team seemed to have an equal number of followers. (A/N: am going to use first names now because it is easier, k?)
"They're off again, and Padma with the quaffle passes to Parvati, who passes to Padma who passes to Parvati, and I am getting dizzy now! Padma passes to Ginny who shoots and. scores! Scores are 10 all!"
The game followed on in that same vein each team scoring and then the other team catching up, there was no sign of the snitch and both Harry and Draco were circling the game from above, trying to keep an eye on the game and an eye out for the snitch, they both realised that the only way to win the game was to catch the snitch.
Suddenly Draco did a vertical dive heading straight down, he wove through bludgers, chasers and beaters keeping his eye trained on the golden snitch. Harry who had been looking at another part of the field when Draco spotted the snitch went into a dive of his own trying to catch up with Draco. Most of the crowd were on their feet trying to get a better look at Draco, and many thought that he was going to crash spectacularly with the pitch. Without warning the snitch changed its direction and Draco managed to pull up his broom and fly straight up into the air with out losing control of his broom, Harry who was also an excellent flyer also kept control of his broom and the change in direction from the snitch allowed Harry and Draco to be neck and neck with each other. Each man was urging his broom to give just a tiny extra spurt of speed that would him the edge that was needed to catch the snitch and therefore win the game. They both were on Firebolts so neither had to worry about the other having a superior broom. Suddenly they both pitched forward, their arms outstretched and at last the snitch was caught.
There was a deafening roar from the crowds, this was by far the best game of the week and it had lasted almost four hours. When the teams were standing on the pitch Draco and Harry walked towards each other.
"Good game," Draco muttered.
"You know it was about time you finally beat me at catching the snitch." Harry smiled ruefully and stuck out his hand, Draco looked at it for a moment before extending his hand and the two boys who had been enemies shook hands and finally realised that they were now both men who hod out grown petty childhood squabbles, but then again that didn't mean that they were friends. Because that was something that was not going to be happening anytime soon!
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"That was the best game ever!" Neville said, the Great Hall seemed more crowded than usual with people talking loudly about the game that had been played that day, they were still excited.
"Yeah, even if we did lose I must admit that it was pretty good." Harry said, the Gryffindor table was filled with people to the point where some were standing at the ends because there wasn't enough room for everybody. Both teams sat facing each other talking and laughing, though Hermione noticed that Draco seemed to be the only one not getting into the surrounding conversations.
"Are you ok Draco?" Hermione questioned him quietly, not wanting to draw the attention of those around them.
"Yeah, a little tired I guess." Draco looked at her sideways his head still facing the plate of barley touched food in front if him.
"You're worried about tomorrow aren't you?" Hermione asked wisely.
"Am I that obvious?"
"Of course not, I just know you very well, and don't worry things will go great I have a good feeling about it." Draco smiled at her, feeling some what comforted by her words and he finally joined in the conversations, and Hermione was pleased to notice that Harry and the rest as well as Draco were polite to each other, if a little formal but that was better than them dueling to the death.
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The next day they would be taking the train back to Platform 9 and ¾'s and then take a portkey to the Malfoy Manor. Hermione was asked many questions from the kids that night before they went to bed, about the Manor but Hermione for once didn't have the answers because Draco had failed to mention anything about the Manor to her, and in her excitement over the week she hadn't thought to ask.
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"Have you packed everything? I want you all to double check everything because I don't want to have you suddenly remember something when we are on the train!" Hermione was nervous about staying with Draco, though she wasn't going to admit it to him because he was nervous enough as it was!
Finally after over an hour of packing and repacking and finding forgotten items they were ready.
"Come on there are a few people who I want to say good bye to before we leave!" Hermione ushered the kids down the hall after reducing all of the trunks and making sure that each child had their belongings.
"Professor McGonagall, thank you so much for making me come, this week has been fantastic."
"I'm glad that you enjoyed it Miss Granger, Albus and I thought that it was the perfect idea, besides it was about time that we all had a little fun." Hermione laughed with her old teacher, and a small part of her brain whispered that she never thought that Professor McGonagall would approve of fun.
"Are you ready Hermione? I have gotten up a carriage." Hermione smiled up at Draco.
"Will you take the kids there, there are a couple of good byes that I want to say before we go." Draco nodded and he led the children to a large carriage that he had chosen.
"Hannah!"
"Yes Hermione?"
"I just wanted to say good bye, and for the next week I will be staying with Draco at the Manor, and I was wondering if you and Blaise would like to come and visit?" Hermione smiled at her new friend.
"Oh, I would love that, I'll send you an owl." They hugged and Hermione waved good bye to Blaise before going to look for Harry and Ginny and the rest of the Weasleys.
"Bye guys!" Hermione hugged Ginny and the Patil twins and then the boys before making promises to write and get together soon, something that they all promised would happen.
Hermione continued to wave and smile at her friends before finally returning to the carriage.
"Have you had a good time Hermione?" Draco asked her.
"Yes, though I do have to say there is a small part of me that is sad to leave, Hogwarts will always be home to me, but I will get to visit again, when these little ones get their letters, and for that I can't wait!"
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A/N: I thought that that was a good place to stop, next chappie we finally get to see the Manor and I still haven't thought about what that is going to look like, but I'll write it soon! Hope that you like this chapter! :)
Thank you all so much for the names for the kids, I have already chose some to appear in my story, sorry that I can't use them all and as for the name of the Malfoy child.well that is just going to have to wait! But never fear you will not be waiting as long as you think! While I would love to use all of the names that were sent to me, I think that it is a little impossible but I will feature as many as I can! I promise.
Hey, I am so sorry if you have reviewed previous chapters and I haven't written anything to you, I only just realised that not all of my reviews are sent to my e-mail, so I am sorry guys if I appeared rude, I am going to make a better effort to make sure that I put everyone in when I say my thank-yous!
Just a thought guys, does anyone have any ideas for when I should end my story? If you read the summary and the conditions of the will you will have so ideas for where this is headed but when do you think I should end it? Let me know you thoughts! Ta! :) Besides I don't want you to be reading this and asking yourself, 'is this story ever going to end?!?!'
This chappie is dedicated to.
Draco's-Girl81 - Thank you for the review!
Chel - Thanks for the e-mail! I am happy that you like both of my stories! :) I love getting reviews for my other story because as I have mentioned before I have a soft spot for it because it was my first!
Krazymelmo5385 - Thank you so much for the review!
Chelsea - Thanks for the review! I love getting e-mails! :)
Desera' - I'm glad that you think I'm funny, I do try but it doesn't always work! Thanks for the review!
Hermione M. Malfoy - Thanks for the review, consider yourself e-mailed! Lol!
Azn-Sweetie - Glad that you still like it! Thanx for the review!
I give it all to Mr. Black - Thank you so much for the suggestions! I am definitely going to use one of them. but not for what you would expect! So Ta muchly! :)
Summergurl - Thanks for the name suggestions! I very much appreciate it!
Danika - Once again many thanks! I loved all of the names and I am going to pinch one! Lol!
Blue-Dreamz - Hey, the wedding will be soon enough, I have to get through a few things before that can happen. but soon!
Hells Angel - I loved the names that you sent me, thank you so much, if I can use on I will!
Polei - I must say I am glad that I am inspiring you to become a Hermione/Draco fan!
Snowbear - I love the names sooooo much! I am definitely going to use one. but your going to have to wait to find out! Thanks for the long review!
Ashley023 - The wedding will happen. eventually! Lol!
Quello Bello - The names that you sent me were so gorgeous! Thank you so much!
RE16 - Thank you for the names! They are lovely!
Moonkeeper - I love the names that you sent as well.Destiny!
Meg - Thank you once again!! Your reviews mean so much and thank you big time for all of the names!
Br*tney - Harry and the others will make an appearance soon
DanceChic0869 - I thought that it was about time you were filled in on some of the gaps of her past!
Jenny - I love those names as well! I know that at least one is going to make an appearance, thank you so much!
Hufflepuff1324 - I hope that you like this chapter too!
Serpena - I hope that reading my chapter didn't make you to late!! Thanks for the review!
Captain Oblivious - I love the name change!!! Love it, Love it, Love it!
Hermione182 - I love the names that you sent me! They were so nice, I especially love one.Great job on the names!