Hogwarts Reunion
Chapter 12 - The Malfoy Manor
"Welcome to Malfoy Manor." They were standing in a small huddle each person holding onto the deflated rubber tire that had been their portkey. If Hermione opened her eyes just a little more they would have popped out of her head, the children all had suitable looks of awe on their faces.
The Manor was an impressive stone structure that greatly resembled the Hogwarts castle, though it was smaller, but not by much. Hermione counted up five stories and the house was wide enough to ensure that if you wanted to walk around the entire perimeter you would need to pack a picnic lunch.
"You live in this house all by yourself?" Hermione asked him incredulously.
"Well I have a staff of 30 house elves but apart from that yes I do live here alone." Hermione thought that she has a hint of loneliness in his eyes but the look was gone that quickly that she wasn't sure that she had even seen it at all. "Well there is no point standing out here and just looking at it, come inside and you can explore the Manor." Draco ushered them all into the front entrance, which was a large square area with a marble floor and high arched ceiling with big arches that led off in three different directions.
"Master Malfoy, you are home! Is there anything Blonkers can get you sir?" came the high pitched squeaking of a bright little male house elf.
"Everyone take out your trunks please," Draco addressed the children and Hermione who all obediently took out their trunks put them on the floor and took a couple of steps back. "Engorgio." Draco said with a flick of his wand and all of the trunks returned to their normal size.
"Blonkers can you please take these trunks to the rooms that I had you prepare, we will be taking a tour of the manor." Blonkers nodded and bowed at Draco who smiled and shook his head, in a manner that suggested that the had told the house elf numerous times not to bow but the elf still did it any way.
"Yes sir, anything sir." Hermione couldn't help the slight frown and thoughts of S.P.E.W. that crossed her mind but when she saw the smile on Blonkers face she knew that the little elf was happy.
"Well kids, which way should we go, left, right or straight ahead?" Draco asked.
"Left!" Yelled out Jake, Hermione was happy to see excitement on his face, in the past he had been a sullen and quite child content to only to open himself up around Robbie, Riles and Wills and her sometimes. Hermione was glad that Jake was starting to come out of his shell and warm up to Draco, it would help in getting the other boys to follow his lead.
"Any objections?" Draco looked around at the kids smiling. "No? Good, left it is!"
Hermione was just as excited, if not more than the kids. She had heard quite a bit about the Malfoy Manor when she was in Hogwarts, it was now time to see if the rumors were true.
"Well this is the lower left wing of the Manor, each level above us is a replica of this floor, however each room has its own special qualities. The right side of the house is the same, the middle corridor which we did not follow is the only section of the Manor that is different on every level, except two there is one room that's contents was so great that it took two levels to contain it. But I will leave that room till later."
They walked passed the high arches and down the left corridor, the floors were all marble and their footsteps echoed around the otherwise silent hall. Tate walked over to Hermione and grabbed her hand, the echoing sounds were starting to scare him and Hermione had to admit that it was a little creepy. Draco motioned for them to follow him into the first room on the right side of the hall. The room was a bright sunny open lounge area.
"The left wing of the house was my mothers, and as you can see she decorated it according to her tastes. When we visit the right wing of the house you will notice how different it is from this wing, only because it was decorated with my fathers tastes."
"Where are your mother and father?" Daphne asked. She looked inquiringly up at Draco and again he was struck with how she appeared much older than she really was.
"My father died four years ago and m mother passed away just recently." A look of sadness passed over Draco's face and Immy went over and grabbed his hand.
"I don't have a mummy or a daddy either, none of us do." Immy smiled at him in the way that only young children can and Draco felt something inside of him melt, perhaps some of the ice that surrounded his heart.
"Well that just means that we all have something in common then doesn't it? Anyway on with the exploring!" Draco said trying to levitate the mood in the room that had rapidly turned somber.
"These are pretty flowers," Daphne said as she walked over to a stand that held a vase full of blood red roses, in fact this room was decorated entirely with roses.
"Do you know what type of flower that is?" Hermione asked her.
"Roses," said Jake. "My dad used to buy them for my mum." Hermione smiled at him, taking him to the reunion and then here was probably the best thing that she could have done for him, Jake seemed to be opening up more now than he ever had.
"That's right Jake, my mother loved flowers and each room in this wing is decorated with one flower in mind." Draco showed them around the rest of the wing, Hermione had to say that her favorite room was the day lounge that was decorated with violets.
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"Sir, Miss and little sir's and miss's, lunch is served," said a small house elf, this one obviously female.
"Thank you Phonix, we will be there shortly." Phonix scampered off and Draco turned to look at everyone, Immy's small hand remained enclosed in his and Draco looked quite pleased that Immy trusted him enough to want to hold his hand. "Well I am hungry, are you all?" Hermione was surprised to find that she was hungry now that food had been mentioned, and she looked down at her watch and noticed that it was 1:30 pm, well past the time that she had normally fed the children their lunch. However, they had been busy this morning and they had had fun.
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"It is to nice a day to spend the rest of it inside, how about we look around the grounds and leave the rest of the Manor for tomorrow and later on in the week?" Hermione asked.
"Sounds like a good idea to me, come on everyone outside we go."
They spent the rest of the day running along the sweeping lawns and hiding behind the large shrubs and trees. Hermione ran, played, and laughed with the children, enjoying the feeling of being carefree, Draco however seemed to withdraw into himself at the large display of affection that was unfolding before him, because he had nothing in his past that could relate to scene before him Draco began to feel uncomfortable. As if being able to sense this Hermione was about to call all of the children in so that they could go inside, where she knew that Draco felt more comfortable but before she could open her mouth Robbie ran up to him.
"Draco, do you know where the best place to hide is?"
"Hide?"
"Yeah were playing hide and seek and I want to win!"
"What is hide and seek?" Draco asked confused, when he was young and needed to hide it was because his father was after him to punish him for something that he had done, and as a result he did know the best places to hide.
"It's a muggle game, the person who is it has to close their eyes and count to 40 and everyone else goes to hide and then that person has to find everyone else, the first person who is found is it for the next game. Get it?" Robbie looked up at him his nose scrunched up trying to determine if he understood or not.
"Yes I know the best place to hide, can I hide with you?" Robbie nodded enthusiastically grabbed Draco's hand and waited to be led to the best hiding spot.
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They played outside until it got dark and cold out, Draco couldn't remember having had a better time at the Manor. After eating a light meal Hermione got the kids ready for bed.
"Now guys we are going to start our classes tomorrow, Draco has assured me that there is a room that we can use and he is going to attend the classes to. So you all need to get a good nights sleep tonight."
"But I thought that we were on holidays!" Said Jake indignantly.
"Well you are, sort of think of it as a working holiday." Hermione said with a smile the kids all groaned but shuffled off obediently to bed.
Draco had been surprised that some of the boys requested that he tell them bedtime stories, and after Hermione whispered to him the type of story that he was expected to tell he happily did so, and eventually without to much fuss all of the kids were in bed sound asleep.
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"Thanks for you help with the kids tonight and today for that matter." Hermione and Draco were sitting in one of the sitting rooms in the middle section of the house, the same section where the children were sleeping.
"It was my pleasure." He smiled over at her and then turned to stare into the crackling fire. Even though it was summer the nights were cool, signaling the coming autumn. "I had a great day today, I had never heard of that game, hide and seek."
"It was a game that I used to play with my friends when I was little, besides it is good for the kids to have a break every now and then and being outside is so good for them. Good for me too, helps to clear my head."
"Today was fun." Draco said simply, they were both quite relaxed sitting there listening to the fire.
"Can you show me the school room that you have in mind?" Hermione asked.
"Sure, just follow me." They walked down the hall and up some stairs and round a corner until they were standing in front of a set of large double doors that had beautiful engravings on them, though in the candlelight they were obscured.
"Wow," Hermione breathed, she had walked into a large room that was open over two levels, there were stairs on either side of the room that would take you to the second landing, but that was not what amazed her, each wall was covered in books and there were many isles each filled to bursting with books and in the center of the room there were desks as if waiting for the kids to come and sit at them. "This is amazing Draco!"
Draco smiled as he watched her walk along the isles her hands sunning lightly over the spines of the numerous books. After an hour Draco was forced to halt her wanderings as it was getting late, besides the room would be there tomorrow and she would be free to explore.
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After showing Hermione to her room Draco walked to his own and stripped out of his clothing leaving on only his emerald green boxer shorts, he slid between the cool sheets and waited for sleep to come. When it finally did his sleep was filled with dreams, dreams that showed him and Hermione years from now, with children playing at their feet and laughter and love. It was the latter thing that had him wake covered in a cold sweat and breathing hard. Just what did his dream mean?
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A/N: Hey guys, sorry that this took me longer than normal to update! But it is here, and sorry also that it isn't as long as some but that looked like a good place to end it! :)
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Danika - Ta!! As I said to Angelina, I thought that it was time for Draco to beat Harry, besides it can't be good for Harry's ego to win all of the time! Hehe! I must say though I am a little sad that the reunion is over, but I hope that you like the time at Malfoy Manor.
Br*tney - It wasn't my favorite chapter either, but I had a little trouble writing it so. this one was better I think!
Hallie Walker - Thanks for the inspiring words, they mean so much to me!
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Chapter 12 - The Malfoy Manor
"Welcome to Malfoy Manor." They were standing in a small huddle each person holding onto the deflated rubber tire that had been their portkey. If Hermione opened her eyes just a little more they would have popped out of her head, the children all had suitable looks of awe on their faces.
The Manor was an impressive stone structure that greatly resembled the Hogwarts castle, though it was smaller, but not by much. Hermione counted up five stories and the house was wide enough to ensure that if you wanted to walk around the entire perimeter you would need to pack a picnic lunch.
"You live in this house all by yourself?" Hermione asked him incredulously.
"Well I have a staff of 30 house elves but apart from that yes I do live here alone." Hermione thought that she has a hint of loneliness in his eyes but the look was gone that quickly that she wasn't sure that she had even seen it at all. "Well there is no point standing out here and just looking at it, come inside and you can explore the Manor." Draco ushered them all into the front entrance, which was a large square area with a marble floor and high arched ceiling with big arches that led off in three different directions.
"Master Malfoy, you are home! Is there anything Blonkers can get you sir?" came the high pitched squeaking of a bright little male house elf.
"Everyone take out your trunks please," Draco addressed the children and Hermione who all obediently took out their trunks put them on the floor and took a couple of steps back. "Engorgio." Draco said with a flick of his wand and all of the trunks returned to their normal size.
"Blonkers can you please take these trunks to the rooms that I had you prepare, we will be taking a tour of the manor." Blonkers nodded and bowed at Draco who smiled and shook his head, in a manner that suggested that the had told the house elf numerous times not to bow but the elf still did it any way.
"Yes sir, anything sir." Hermione couldn't help the slight frown and thoughts of S.P.E.W. that crossed her mind but when she saw the smile on Blonkers face she knew that the little elf was happy.
"Well kids, which way should we go, left, right or straight ahead?" Draco asked.
"Left!" Yelled out Jake, Hermione was happy to see excitement on his face, in the past he had been a sullen and quite child content to only to open himself up around Robbie, Riles and Wills and her sometimes. Hermione was glad that Jake was starting to come out of his shell and warm up to Draco, it would help in getting the other boys to follow his lead.
"Any objections?" Draco looked around at the kids smiling. "No? Good, left it is!"
Hermione was just as excited, if not more than the kids. She had heard quite a bit about the Malfoy Manor when she was in Hogwarts, it was now time to see if the rumors were true.
"Well this is the lower left wing of the Manor, each level above us is a replica of this floor, however each room has its own special qualities. The right side of the house is the same, the middle corridor which we did not follow is the only section of the Manor that is different on every level, except two there is one room that's contents was so great that it took two levels to contain it. But I will leave that room till later."
They walked passed the high arches and down the left corridor, the floors were all marble and their footsteps echoed around the otherwise silent hall. Tate walked over to Hermione and grabbed her hand, the echoing sounds were starting to scare him and Hermione had to admit that it was a little creepy. Draco motioned for them to follow him into the first room on the right side of the hall. The room was a bright sunny open lounge area.
"The left wing of the house was my mothers, and as you can see she decorated it according to her tastes. When we visit the right wing of the house you will notice how different it is from this wing, only because it was decorated with my fathers tastes."
"Where are your mother and father?" Daphne asked. She looked inquiringly up at Draco and again he was struck with how she appeared much older than she really was.
"My father died four years ago and m mother passed away just recently." A look of sadness passed over Draco's face and Immy went over and grabbed his hand.
"I don't have a mummy or a daddy either, none of us do." Immy smiled at him in the way that only young children can and Draco felt something inside of him melt, perhaps some of the ice that surrounded his heart.
"Well that just means that we all have something in common then doesn't it? Anyway on with the exploring!" Draco said trying to levitate the mood in the room that had rapidly turned somber.
"These are pretty flowers," Daphne said as she walked over to a stand that held a vase full of blood red roses, in fact this room was decorated entirely with roses.
"Do you know what type of flower that is?" Hermione asked her.
"Roses," said Jake. "My dad used to buy them for my mum." Hermione smiled at him, taking him to the reunion and then here was probably the best thing that she could have done for him, Jake seemed to be opening up more now than he ever had.
"That's right Jake, my mother loved flowers and each room in this wing is decorated with one flower in mind." Draco showed them around the rest of the wing, Hermione had to say that her favorite room was the day lounge that was decorated with violets.
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"Sir, Miss and little sir's and miss's, lunch is served," said a small house elf, this one obviously female.
"Thank you Phonix, we will be there shortly." Phonix scampered off and Draco turned to look at everyone, Immy's small hand remained enclosed in his and Draco looked quite pleased that Immy trusted him enough to want to hold his hand. "Well I am hungry, are you all?" Hermione was surprised to find that she was hungry now that food had been mentioned, and she looked down at her watch and noticed that it was 1:30 pm, well past the time that she had normally fed the children their lunch. However, they had been busy this morning and they had had fun.
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"It is to nice a day to spend the rest of it inside, how about we look around the grounds and leave the rest of the Manor for tomorrow and later on in the week?" Hermione asked.
"Sounds like a good idea to me, come on everyone outside we go."
They spent the rest of the day running along the sweeping lawns and hiding behind the large shrubs and trees. Hermione ran, played, and laughed with the children, enjoying the feeling of being carefree, Draco however seemed to withdraw into himself at the large display of affection that was unfolding before him, because he had nothing in his past that could relate to scene before him Draco began to feel uncomfortable. As if being able to sense this Hermione was about to call all of the children in so that they could go inside, where she knew that Draco felt more comfortable but before she could open her mouth Robbie ran up to him.
"Draco, do you know where the best place to hide is?"
"Hide?"
"Yeah were playing hide and seek and I want to win!"
"What is hide and seek?" Draco asked confused, when he was young and needed to hide it was because his father was after him to punish him for something that he had done, and as a result he did know the best places to hide.
"It's a muggle game, the person who is it has to close their eyes and count to 40 and everyone else goes to hide and then that person has to find everyone else, the first person who is found is it for the next game. Get it?" Robbie looked up at him his nose scrunched up trying to determine if he understood or not.
"Yes I know the best place to hide, can I hide with you?" Robbie nodded enthusiastically grabbed Draco's hand and waited to be led to the best hiding spot.
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They played outside until it got dark and cold out, Draco couldn't remember having had a better time at the Manor. After eating a light meal Hermione got the kids ready for bed.
"Now guys we are going to start our classes tomorrow, Draco has assured me that there is a room that we can use and he is going to attend the classes to. So you all need to get a good nights sleep tonight."
"But I thought that we were on holidays!" Said Jake indignantly.
"Well you are, sort of think of it as a working holiday." Hermione said with a smile the kids all groaned but shuffled off obediently to bed.
Draco had been surprised that some of the boys requested that he tell them bedtime stories, and after Hermione whispered to him the type of story that he was expected to tell he happily did so, and eventually without to much fuss all of the kids were in bed sound asleep.
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"Thanks for you help with the kids tonight and today for that matter." Hermione and Draco were sitting in one of the sitting rooms in the middle section of the house, the same section where the children were sleeping.
"It was my pleasure." He smiled over at her and then turned to stare into the crackling fire. Even though it was summer the nights were cool, signaling the coming autumn. "I had a great day today, I had never heard of that game, hide and seek."
"It was a game that I used to play with my friends when I was little, besides it is good for the kids to have a break every now and then and being outside is so good for them. Good for me too, helps to clear my head."
"Today was fun." Draco said simply, they were both quite relaxed sitting there listening to the fire.
"Can you show me the school room that you have in mind?" Hermione asked.
"Sure, just follow me." They walked down the hall and up some stairs and round a corner until they were standing in front of a set of large double doors that had beautiful engravings on them, though in the candlelight they were obscured.
"Wow," Hermione breathed, she had walked into a large room that was open over two levels, there were stairs on either side of the room that would take you to the second landing, but that was not what amazed her, each wall was covered in books and there were many isles each filled to bursting with books and in the center of the room there were desks as if waiting for the kids to come and sit at them. "This is amazing Draco!"
Draco smiled as he watched her walk along the isles her hands sunning lightly over the spines of the numerous books. After an hour Draco was forced to halt her wanderings as it was getting late, besides the room would be there tomorrow and she would be free to explore.
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After showing Hermione to her room Draco walked to his own and stripped out of his clothing leaving on only his emerald green boxer shorts, he slid between the cool sheets and waited for sleep to come. When it finally did his sleep was filled with dreams, dreams that showed him and Hermione years from now, with children playing at their feet and laughter and love. It was the latter thing that had him wake covered in a cold sweat and breathing hard. Just what did his dream mean?
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A/N: Hey guys, sorry that this took me longer than normal to update! But it is here, and sorry also that it isn't as long as some but that looked like a good place to end it! :)
Hey I really love getting e-mail as those who have sent them to me know, so if you feel like it drop me a line at spaced_out_space_cadet@hotmail.com
This chapter is dedicated to.
Snowbear - Lol! I am a pj forgetter as well! I always end up stealing my friends or my cousin's pj's so that I have something to sleep in! You never realise how important they are until you find that you forgot them.
Gamegirl3 - A few people were having trouble reviewing me, and I don't know why! Thanks for coming back and reviewing this chapter, I really appreciate it!
Captain Oblivious - He is cute isn't he. :)
Scholz03 - Thanks for the review. so when are you going to update your story? Hehe!
Sentimental Butterfly - I love the name, and thank you so much for the review!
Hells Angel - Thanks for the review!
Angelina-Malfoy - I thought that it was time for poor Draco to get a little glory on the Quidditch pitch! Thanks for the review, you know I love them!
Katie - Thanks for the names, I loved them too! :)
Danika - Ta!! As I said to Angelina, I thought that it was time for Draco to beat Harry, besides it can't be good for Harry's ego to win all of the time! Hehe! I must say though I am a little sad that the reunion is over, but I hope that you like the time at Malfoy Manor.
Br*tney - It wasn't my favorite chapter either, but I had a little trouble writing it so. this one was better I think!
Hallie Walker - Thanks for the inspiring words, they mean so much to me!
iLoVeDrAcO15 - Nice name, I must admit I am a fan of his as well (incase you couldn't tell!) thanks for the review.
Chelsea - Thanks! I love getting e-mails!
Meg - As always many thanks to you! I like the idea and I am considering it! Hehehe!
Azn-Sweetie - Awwww! You made me blush, I don't think that I am the best author but I love the encouragement!
Sweet-77-thang - Thanks for the review, I didn't like the last chapter as much as some of the others but I'm glad that you liked it :)
DanceChic0869 - No it isn't over yet! There are still a few things that need to happen, that I have mapped out in my head, don't worry there will be plenty more chapters to come!
Elfgirl - Thank you so much for the review!
Serpena - Glad to know that it isn't just me making you late.
Draco's-Girl 81 - Thanks for the review, I have a good feeling for Hermione and Draco, but time will tell.
Stormy Phoenix - Thanks for the review. my first from India! I hope that you are having a great holiday!
Hermione182 - Draco needed some time to shine. I agree! Hehe!