A/N – SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT!! This chapter isn't extremely long but its one of my longer ones =) Actually it could be my longest…. I was going to make it longer… but I needta know something… which I'm asking all of y'all – read about it at the end =) its all in bold!
Disclaimer – I do not own Harry Potter. lol JK Rowling does and I suppose WB does too… but y'all all know that =)
CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS tO ClArA oN bEiNg ThE 400tH rEvIeWeR
((haha I was bored))
ENJOY! ((Planning on having 20 chapters.. so things will start speeding up soon)
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CHAPTER 17!!
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"Voldemort is located in… the old Viking settlement on the east England coast, Scarborough, the Yorkshire coast." Harry finished looking at each of the people standing there.
Hermione's mouth formed a small 'o' as she pulled away from Harry's grasp and looked up at him, "That's way North of here. I though he was near the town of Exeter? How did he manage to get to Scarborough without us noticing? Are you sure that this is not some random reading? Maybe someone is setting us up."
"There are many ways he could have tricked us while he was heading up North, he could have figured out a way to go unnoticed." Harry rationalized.
"Well if he could have tricked us while heading up North, then he could have tricked us to come here or he could be tricking us to go there. How can we trust this information?" Ron questioned speaking up from where he stood with Adalia.
"It's the best lead we've had in awhile. The one about Exeter was nearly 2 months ago, and that was not certain and we didn't hear anything else. Also, this system is much more trustworthy than the one we were using then. We have to try it while we can. If we wait too much longer then Voldemort will just continue to gain more strength." Harry replied slightly annoyed.
Hermione and Ron both quieted down as Harry explained their course of action. They would travel up north into a new base in a deserted area a little ways away from the castle that Voldemort was suppose to be located in. They would leave the day after Christmas and hopefully they could catch and kill him before too long. Hermione silently wondered how they would kill him; it did not make much sense to her how this time would be any different.
Sighing softly to herself, Hermione stood up with Harry, 'so much for this Christmas being relaxing' she thought. He smiled at her and took her hand to lead her into their bedroom. Harry collapsed on the bed but sat up when Hermione did not lie down next to him.
" What's wrong Hermione?"
"I just don't get how this time will be any different." She replied honestly as she finally sat down on the edge of Harry's double bed.
"What do you- oh. I guess none of us really do, but we can't give up hope; just because we weren't able to kill him last time doesn't mean we won't be able to this time… it was a fluke that he got away the way he did last time."
"But what if he kills you?" Hermione responded; her eyes started to water with the mere thought of loosing him.
"He won't." He answered softly, wrapping his arms around her.
"You can't say that! You don't know for sure…" she said pulling away from his grasp slightly.
"No, I can't honestly say that but… if we both believe enough then I'm sure we will be able to make this happen and for us to come up on top."
Hermione sighed and allowed Harry to tighten his hold on her and gently move them so that they were lying down.
"Come on, lets get some sleep, tomorrow is Christmas" Harry said soothingly, "and besides, I have so much to come home for now, you can trust that I'll try my best to make it home to you."
Hermione smiled slightly and said, "I know, Good Night, I love you."
"I love you too, Good Night Hermione."
After a couple of minutes Hermione spoke again, "Harry?"
"Hmm?" he replied sleepily.
"Remember when I said I needed to talk to you?"
Harry sat up in bed yawning and helped Hermione up as well. "Yes. What is it?"
"I fell asleep in Ginny's room earlier…"
"I'm sure Ginny doesn't mind"
Hermione rolled her eyes but continued her story, "That's not it. When I woke up I heard Lavender and Tim come into my room… I quickly pretended that I was sleeping… they were going to start talking but Tim said that he didn't trust that I was asleep… then before they left Lavender came and touched my hair and said 'And it was nice to know you. Too bad you'll never see your children.' Then they both left."
Harry stiffened slightly, "Are you sure this wasn't a dream? Maybe you just have suspicions about Lavender and Tim… and dreams can seem true."
"I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a dream. But don't confront them about this or anything…"
"I won't. There is nothing to worry about, just don't go wondering off by yourself and we will leave them behind when we leave to go to the new base. They won't know where it is… just to be safe."
Hermione grinned, "Thanks Harry"
He smiled back at her and kissed her softly, "I don't want to take any chances to loose you."
Hermione blushed slightly causing Harry to laugh, "Come on, let's go to bed. We have a long day tomorrow." He said finally.
Hermione agreed and slid down into bed again. Harry wrapped his arms around her, gripping her close to him. With that the two wizards fell into an uneasy sleep.
Hermione's Dream
"Mummy! Daddy! Wake up its Christmas!" two little children said pulling on their parents covers, "Don't you want to see what Santa brought?"
The father groaned and rolled over towards his wife, "Why did you have to introduce Santa to them?" he mumbled into her ear, "most wizarding families don't have Santa for it looses its magical appeal since they can all do magic"'
She rolled her eyes. "I know, but we decided to introduce them to the muggle world as well as our world. We wanted well-rounded children, to know of all cultures."
The two children had yet to leave their parents alone and thankfully had not heard their conversation. The wife sat up and stretched slightly as she lifted the two little kids on bed, they couldn't be more than three years old*. They promptly attacked their father and he laughed as he sat up in bed. Looking at his watch he groaned, it was only five in the morning.
Getting out of bed the wife pulled her brown hair into a ponytail and waited patiently as her husband got out of bed holding the young boy and girl. She quickly grabbed a camera and gave her husband a kiss.
"I love you Hermione." He said when they broke apart.
"I love you too Harry."
The two parents walked down a hallway that led into the living room. Harry placed the twins down, but held on to them for a second. Hermione continued into the large room and quickly did a spell to lift the enchantment they had on the toys so that the children would not cheat and peak early.
Harry released his hold on the children and they raced clumsily into the room with Harry just behind them. Their eyes lit up and the little girl giggled as her brother ran to the small pile of toys, which he assumed to be his.
"Harry! Hermione! Wake up!" Ron called barging into their room. Harry groaned and rolled over to glare at his best friend.
"What? Its Christmas Harry! We're all getting together to open presents" Ron said grinning when he saw the look on Harry's face.
"Okay hang on a min would ya?" Harry replied gloomily and stumbled out of bed after grabbing his glasses. After rubbing the sleep out of his eyes he saw that Hermione was also out of bed and had placed a robe over her nightgown. He smiled at her and grabbed her hand as they shakily followed Ron into the bright hallway.
Shielding their eyes, Harry and Hermione finally got use to the light as they were led into a large room the held a huge Christmas tree. Hermione gasped slightly as she took in the beauty of the decorated room. The lights were dimmed, which was a nice change from the blinding hallway. The main source of light was coming from the fireplace (which was bewitched to evaporate smoke so there was not a line of traceable smoke to give up the hideout) and the colorful Christmas Tree. Most everyone was there, Mad Eye Moody, which most had yet to see, was leaning against a wall with a couple other Aurors. Adalia wore a large robe and was sleepily handing out coffee, hot chocolate or orange juice to everyone, before sitting down on the fireplace ledge. Fred and George had their arms lazily around their wives who were promptly asleep on their shoulder while the twins were talking softly. Ron joined Adalia by the fireplace as Lavender and Tim sulked quietly in. Ginny and Draco were no where to be seen.
"Ron, may I ask why we are all up so early? Its only 5:30 in the morning…" Hermione asked as Harry and her sat down next to the twins and their wives on a large couch that wrapped around the corner of the room.
"Actually I can answer that." Mad Eye Moody said stepping in the middle of the room, "As you all know we have finally found the location of Voldemort in the ruins of the old Scarborough castle. Although Harry told you that we would be leaving tomorrow we want to push on and leave before nightfall tonight. Therefore you were waken up early to enjoy Christmas before we leave."
"When will we leave?"
"We want to leave by mid afternoon, but as I said any time before nightfall."
"Okay." Hermione said frowning slightly before whispering softly to Harry, "Where is Ginny and Draco?"
"Hmmm? Oh. I dunno, probably still asleep." Harry said yawning.
"Ron? Where is Ginny and Draco?" Hermione asked.
"I woke them up this morning, let me go check to see where they are." He replied lightly as he left the large room.
Hermione smiled slightly as she leaned against Harry, who was fighting the urge to fall back asleep. Next Christmas hopefully all of this would be over and they would be able to share this holiday with their twins.
"What should we call them?" she asked suddenly.
"Call who?" Harry muttered half asleep.
"Our children, what should their names be?"
"Harry and Hermione Junior."
Hermione laughed; "We're not naming our children after us!" she chided gently.
Harry pouted, "Who wouldn't want to be named after me?" he replied jokingly.
Hermione just giggled and hit his arm, when Ron came rushing into the room.
"I can't find them anywhere!"
"Whoa, Ron calm down." Hermione said and with help from Harry she was able to stand, "Are you sure you looked everywhere?"
"Well not everywhere, but everywhere logical for them to be! At least in the hideout."
"Maybe they left the hideout…" Hermione reasoned.
"Can they do that? Doesn't that thing say their name or whatever once they walk through?" Ron pointed out.
"You did remember to turn the sound back on once we arrived didn't you Harry?"
"Of course I did Hermione... when I left after you guys got here it said my name. And yes it should say their name… hmm… unless they turned it off…but that would be dangerous… they should know better than that! What if someone came…"
"I doubt anyone from Voldemort would just walk calmly in." Ron said laughing slightly as they walked to the large archway.
Harry rolled his eyes at his friend and when they finally reached the familiar entrance he quickly strolled over to the machine. Groaning slightly he typed some things into the computer and turned the sound back on.
"Well this does show that they have left." Harry replied evenly.
"At what time?" Hermione asked softly.
"5:03am. I'm assuming right after Ron woke them up."
"Oh. Well its past 6 now… where would they have gone?" Ron asked.
"They probably couldn't take it anymore. Ran off together." Lavender said coldly, "Neither of them were brave anyway, don't see how Ginny could have been placed in Gryffindor."
Harry had to hold Ron back from physically attacking Lavender at that point; "I don't see how you could have been in Gryffindor either. You should've been in Slytherin. Deep down you're just a snake anyway." Ron retorted angrily.
After a couple of minutes the tension finally died down and Ron roughly pulled from Harry's grasp.
"What are we going to do?" He asked, "What if Draco did something to her!"
"Ron! Calm down… Draco is on our side now! And he loves her. He won't do anything to her." Hermione said forcefully, "Why don't we go and eat breakfast or something, that'll do us all some good."
"Not all of us are feeding three people Herm, we're not all starving" Ron said with a halfhearted grin.
Hermione beamed slightly, "Yes, none of you are as lucky."
"But what about Draco and Ginny? We can't just leave them… what if something happens?" Adalia mentioned solemnly.
"I think they are old enough to handle themselves… if it gets to be more than 3 hrs of them missing we'll search for them. We can always develop a search party early so we can leave immediately if it is necessary. But I think they'll be fine. But I do agree with Hermione, I'm starving" Harry said lightly.
Hermione grinned up at him, "We can talk about Ginny and Draco while we eat and I'm almost certain they'll be back before long**."
"You act as though you know something we don't." Ron pointed out.
"Nah, I just have a speculation about something, I'm sure you will see in time." Hermione said with a soft smile, "But I'm starving and we haven't had Christmas yet."
Harry chuckled and wrapped an arm around her shoulders as they went off to eat breakfast that Adalia had previously cooked.
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Hermione graciously helped herself to multiple servings of bacon, pancakes and eggs, as well as a couple glasses of orange juice. Ron and Harry both laughed at her actions but stopped when she glared at them, "You try feeding three stomachs." She joked.
"Why are you in a good mood all of a sudden?" Ron asked out of curiosity.
"Its Christmas. It may be our last." She replied quietly.
"Hermione…"
"I know Harry. Its okay."
They quickly changed the topic and started enjoying their time together when suddenly over the loud speakers
"DRACO MALFOY. DATA CHANGED. Wife changed from dating Virginia Weasley to Wife: Virginia Malfoy"
A sudden silence filled the once noisy lunch area as they heard a similar message for Ginny.
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Meanwhile… (Before they walk through the archway)
"Draco! I can't believe we eloped… what if everyone finds out…" Ginny whispered urgently.
"That's why we turned off the speakers before we left… hopefully they were too busy and won't notice"
"You know that's not true… we're lucky they didn't send a search party. I'm scared… my mom always wanted me to have a big wedding…"
"Gin, we've been over this… we'll have a proper wedding after all of this is over. I just want die a married man if the worse happens… I love you. I never thought I'd fall in love ever, especially not to a Weasley." He said with a small laugh, "You're not having regrets are you, Mrs. Malfoy?"
"No." she said beaming at him while wrapping her arms around his neck, "I love you too Mr. Malfoy"
She stood up slightly on her tiptoes and Draco kissed her gently bringing his arms around her. Deepening their kiss caused a slight gasp from Ginny; after continuing for a moment longer, Draco drew away slowly.
"Good, now lets see if we can join their festivities and break the news"
"We should probably step in one at a time… so that the machine doesn't break with confusion." Ginny rationalized as she released her arms from her husband's neck and regained her balance.
"I doubt Potter would be that dumb to make the machine break so simply. But better safe than sorry, it is Potter after all. I'll go first."
He stepped forward and his smile faded fast once the hideout was filled with the loud voice of the machine talking again.
"DRACO MALFOY. DATA CHANGED. Wife changed from dating Virginia Weasley to Wife: Virginia Malfoy"
Ginny gasped and quickly walked through as well.
"VIRGINIA WEASLEY. DATA CHANGED. Name changed from Virginia Weasley to Virginia Malfoy. DATA CHANGED. Husband changed from dating Draco Malfoy to Husband Draco Malfoy."
Despite the circumstance Draco started laughing, "So much for breaking the news to them gently."
Ginny punched him in the arm but couldn't help but laugh as well.
"Well come on Mrs. Malfoy, let's go face the music." Draco said hugging her once more. She simply nodded and they headed off to find their friends.
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Author's Note Section!
(Since people don't like being interrupted during the story)
* (Dream) - Just making sure no one will say the kids are only 3…they wouldn't do all of this…. lol even if no one thought that just making sure – I'm basing this off of something my 3 yr old cousin has done =)
** (Hermione's knowledge of Draco and Ginny) - if curious… Hermione has finally figured out where Ginny and Draco are… she just doesn't want to spoil their surprise by telling everyone =)
-- Okay… I ended this chapter ONLY because I'm not sure where to go… I'm more or less over my writer's block… now about to have no time again.. but I will TRY to not wait 5 months again – haha have any of y'all noticed that my update time is like every 5 months now? =( -- sorry!
-- WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS HOW SHOULD RON REACT? lol well how should all of them react.. but I want to know how y'all want Ron… Fred and George to react to Ginny's new marriage =) I'm probably going to make Hermione accepting... and possibly Harry… just need ideas on their reaction =)
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