Author's Note: Sadly, this is the last chapter in my story, but I AM
considering writing a sequel. It really depends on how many people want me
to write one. I'm really sorry that it has taken me so long to get this
chapter finished and up, but I've had a lot of schoolwork lately. I hope
you enjoy this chappie and PLEASE review! (I made the graduation like a
regular one, because I'm not cool enough to come up with a wizard version
and I didn't go into much detail at all)
**Remember when
Remember when we said when we turned gray
When the children grow up and move away
We won't be sad, we'll be glad
For all the life we've had
And we'll remember when
Remember when
Remember when**
** Ginny rushed over to her husband and straightened the collar of his dark green dress robes. He slightly scowled at her.
"What? What is that face for?" She walked over to her dresser and sprayed some perfume on herself.
Draco just stared blankly after her as she briskly sallied past him many times to get one thing or another. After a few more minutes Ginny couldn't stand it anymore.
"Honestly Draco! What is wrong with you? Aren't you planning on getting ready for the graduation?"
He continued to sit lethargic on the bed, but lifted his eyes to her face.
"Honey," Ginny cupped her hands on his cheeks, "You need to get up and stop acting like some tortured man. Zavie's graduating today. You should be happy. Now get up, we're leaving whether you're ready or not."
Draco looked a trifle startled and replied, "I am happy."
"Well then act that way." Ginny pulled outstretched her hand to him and he took it willingly.
** Zavie flew around her room, preparing for the big day. She had her Hogwarts' Robe, had straightened her curly hair, and finished applying her make-up.
'All set,' she thought to herself before emerging from her room and heading to the common room below.
Upon arriving in the common room she spotted her wacky best friend talking with Caelan.
"Zoe!" The black head turned to show a beautiful face with startling green eyes. She raised an arm in response.
She wandered over to her best friend and fiancé, studying every piece of furniture and recalling all the fond memories (and even the not so fond ones) made there.
"Hey, I'm going to go ahead and look for my parents downstairs. You two up for it?" Her eyes rested on Calean for a moment, then flitted away. She wanted to avoid telling her parents knowing how her father would probably take it. Zavie knew that he was getting scared of losing his children, her mostly, as her mother had informed her in her last letter. She had also mentioned something about her father thinking about buying cats which made absolutely no sense at all since everyone knew that he hated cats.
"Sure!" Zoe bounded out the portrait hole with Zavie and Caelan on her tails.
'I think someone drank more coffee than she needed to,' Zavie snickered to herself while watching her best friend hurdle down the hall.
A few more thoughts similar to this crossed her mind and she was startled out of her playful thinking by someone's hand on her shoulder.
It was Caelan. "We have to tell your parents today." He must have seen her open her mouth to reply wittily to that statement because he added, "And don't you skirt the issue anymore."
She pushed a small amount of air from her lungs, resulting in an almost sigh-like sound. Her fiancé just knew her too well.
"I know, I know. I just don't want my dad to freak out. Can we at least wait until after the graduation?"
Caelan looked a little uneasy about this proposition. Zavie then did what girls do best; she pouted.
Jutting her bottom lip out a touch, a talent she had perfected over the years, and said, "Please? Pretty pretty please?"
When Caelan appeared unfazed by this she took it up a notch and used the one line that guys hate most. Mainly because they just can't say no after it's used.
Actually, she nearly said it. Caelan, of course saw it coming and before she could begin to utter the words he spoke. "Fine. I'll do it for you. But if you try to stall me anymore I swear on Merlin's beard that I will tell them myself."
"Alright. Sounds fair enough to me." She stood on tip-toe and pecked him on the cheek.
With that Zavie rushed down the hall nearly the same way her friend had moments before.
Caelan stood staring after a tad puzzled.
"How do they do that?" Caelan asked the vacant hallway.
"Do what mate?" Nathan Wood had walked up behind him just in time to hear him ask a question to the wall.
"Oh, nothing. It's just that Zavie always persuades me to do things or sometimes not do things and barely says a thing. And all the while I'm standing here arguing my case. Then before I know it she's batting those eyelashes and pouting. Of course that's not all. They always save the clincher for last." Caelan looked over at Nathan to see if he was even beginning to understand what he was saying.
"What? You mean when they say," Nathan increased the pitch of his voice, " Do it for me?"
"Yep. That exactly."
"I know the feeling." Nathan grinned and the two young blokes continued on their way to the Great Hall.
**
Ginny hugged her little girl one last time before she had to join the rest of her graduating class. As Draco and Ginny's daughter hurried away they found seats with the Weasley's—all of them.
After a few more minutes of chatter, music filled the room. All became silent as they watched expectantly for the graduates to enter and file into their seats.
The young men and women began walking down the aisle in pairs as the music played on. Soon some few hundred graduates were all seated and attentive.
Dumbledore took the stage, delivered a speech that wasn't all that odd, and then names were being called.
All of this passed in a blur to Zavie until her row stood and then her name was called. She proudly followed a tiny Hufflepuff girl and received her diploma. Then she was shaking her teachers' hands' which began to bring about the reality of it all. She knew she wouldn't cry, but it was beginning to set in that she really wouldn't be returning to Hogwarts in the fall. In fact, she would probably be in America.
The thought of America brought a smile to her face as she glided back to her seat. After about another half hour or so she had watched the remainder of graduates receive their diplomas from Professor Dumbledore. She felt an odd sense of pride as she realized that the next year or seventh years would be handed their diplomas by the new headmaster.
Yes, Dumbledore was choosing now to resign and was passing his position along to the trusted Head of Gryffindor, Professor McGonagall.
Then, Zoe, the valedictorian, finished her speech and in a flurry of motion all the young witches and wizards launched their caps into the air. It was really official now.
**
One hour later Caelan and Zavie decided to "corner" her parents and tell them about the recent development in their relationship—that is to say that they got engaged.
Zavie laced her fingers through Caelan's and scanned the crowd for her parents. She spotted them talking with Zoe across the room. Dragging Caelan along, Zavie made her way toward her parents.
When they reached Ginny and Draco Zavie announced, "We have something to tell you. Privately."
Ginny exchanged an interested look with her husband and they followed their daughter out to the lake.
Zavie stopped abruptly, turned around and said, "Caelan got a job as a teacher in America."
"Good for you." Draco clapped the wizard on the shoulder.
"Thanks." Caelan flashed a smile at the two who would be his parents-in- law soon enough.
"Anyway, we...well, we got engaged." ***
~Finis~
I'm sorry to leave you hanging like that, but I feel like that is the best place for me to leave this story. Now you can imagine what happens. That way, everyone is happy with the outcome. Hope you don't hate me. Don't forget to review. Bye bye all! I had a wonderful time writing this story; I hope you enjoyed it too. If you want more (a sequel or something) then you'll have to beg. (
**Remember when
Remember when we said when we turned gray
When the children grow up and move away
We won't be sad, we'll be glad
For all the life we've had
And we'll remember when
Remember when
Remember when**
** Ginny rushed over to her husband and straightened the collar of his dark green dress robes. He slightly scowled at her.
"What? What is that face for?" She walked over to her dresser and sprayed some perfume on herself.
Draco just stared blankly after her as she briskly sallied past him many times to get one thing or another. After a few more minutes Ginny couldn't stand it anymore.
"Honestly Draco! What is wrong with you? Aren't you planning on getting ready for the graduation?"
He continued to sit lethargic on the bed, but lifted his eyes to her face.
"Honey," Ginny cupped her hands on his cheeks, "You need to get up and stop acting like some tortured man. Zavie's graduating today. You should be happy. Now get up, we're leaving whether you're ready or not."
Draco looked a trifle startled and replied, "I am happy."
"Well then act that way." Ginny pulled outstretched her hand to him and he took it willingly.
** Zavie flew around her room, preparing for the big day. She had her Hogwarts' Robe, had straightened her curly hair, and finished applying her make-up.
'All set,' she thought to herself before emerging from her room and heading to the common room below.
Upon arriving in the common room she spotted her wacky best friend talking with Caelan.
"Zoe!" The black head turned to show a beautiful face with startling green eyes. She raised an arm in response.
She wandered over to her best friend and fiancé, studying every piece of furniture and recalling all the fond memories (and even the not so fond ones) made there.
"Hey, I'm going to go ahead and look for my parents downstairs. You two up for it?" Her eyes rested on Calean for a moment, then flitted away. She wanted to avoid telling her parents knowing how her father would probably take it. Zavie knew that he was getting scared of losing his children, her mostly, as her mother had informed her in her last letter. She had also mentioned something about her father thinking about buying cats which made absolutely no sense at all since everyone knew that he hated cats.
"Sure!" Zoe bounded out the portrait hole with Zavie and Caelan on her tails.
'I think someone drank more coffee than she needed to,' Zavie snickered to herself while watching her best friend hurdle down the hall.
A few more thoughts similar to this crossed her mind and she was startled out of her playful thinking by someone's hand on her shoulder.
It was Caelan. "We have to tell your parents today." He must have seen her open her mouth to reply wittily to that statement because he added, "And don't you skirt the issue anymore."
She pushed a small amount of air from her lungs, resulting in an almost sigh-like sound. Her fiancé just knew her too well.
"I know, I know. I just don't want my dad to freak out. Can we at least wait until after the graduation?"
Caelan looked a little uneasy about this proposition. Zavie then did what girls do best; she pouted.
Jutting her bottom lip out a touch, a talent she had perfected over the years, and said, "Please? Pretty pretty please?"
When Caelan appeared unfazed by this she took it up a notch and used the one line that guys hate most. Mainly because they just can't say no after it's used.
Actually, she nearly said it. Caelan, of course saw it coming and before she could begin to utter the words he spoke. "Fine. I'll do it for you. But if you try to stall me anymore I swear on Merlin's beard that I will tell them myself."
"Alright. Sounds fair enough to me." She stood on tip-toe and pecked him on the cheek.
With that Zavie rushed down the hall nearly the same way her friend had moments before.
Caelan stood staring after a tad puzzled.
"How do they do that?" Caelan asked the vacant hallway.
"Do what mate?" Nathan Wood had walked up behind him just in time to hear him ask a question to the wall.
"Oh, nothing. It's just that Zavie always persuades me to do things or sometimes not do things and barely says a thing. And all the while I'm standing here arguing my case. Then before I know it she's batting those eyelashes and pouting. Of course that's not all. They always save the clincher for last." Caelan looked over at Nathan to see if he was even beginning to understand what he was saying.
"What? You mean when they say," Nathan increased the pitch of his voice, " Do it for me?"
"Yep. That exactly."
"I know the feeling." Nathan grinned and the two young blokes continued on their way to the Great Hall.
**
Ginny hugged her little girl one last time before she had to join the rest of her graduating class. As Draco and Ginny's daughter hurried away they found seats with the Weasley's—all of them.
After a few more minutes of chatter, music filled the room. All became silent as they watched expectantly for the graduates to enter and file into their seats.
The young men and women began walking down the aisle in pairs as the music played on. Soon some few hundred graduates were all seated and attentive.
Dumbledore took the stage, delivered a speech that wasn't all that odd, and then names were being called.
All of this passed in a blur to Zavie until her row stood and then her name was called. She proudly followed a tiny Hufflepuff girl and received her diploma. Then she was shaking her teachers' hands' which began to bring about the reality of it all. She knew she wouldn't cry, but it was beginning to set in that she really wouldn't be returning to Hogwarts in the fall. In fact, she would probably be in America.
The thought of America brought a smile to her face as she glided back to her seat. After about another half hour or so she had watched the remainder of graduates receive their diplomas from Professor Dumbledore. She felt an odd sense of pride as she realized that the next year or seventh years would be handed their diplomas by the new headmaster.
Yes, Dumbledore was choosing now to resign and was passing his position along to the trusted Head of Gryffindor, Professor McGonagall.
Then, Zoe, the valedictorian, finished her speech and in a flurry of motion all the young witches and wizards launched their caps into the air. It was really official now.
**
One hour later Caelan and Zavie decided to "corner" her parents and tell them about the recent development in their relationship—that is to say that they got engaged.
Zavie laced her fingers through Caelan's and scanned the crowd for her parents. She spotted them talking with Zoe across the room. Dragging Caelan along, Zavie made her way toward her parents.
When they reached Ginny and Draco Zavie announced, "We have something to tell you. Privately."
Ginny exchanged an interested look with her husband and they followed their daughter out to the lake.
Zavie stopped abruptly, turned around and said, "Caelan got a job as a teacher in America."
"Good for you." Draco clapped the wizard on the shoulder.
"Thanks." Caelan flashed a smile at the two who would be his parents-in- law soon enough.
"Anyway, we...well, we got engaged." ***
~Finis~
I'm sorry to leave you hanging like that, but I feel like that is the best place for me to leave this story. Now you can imagine what happens. That way, everyone is happy with the outcome. Hope you don't hate me. Don't forget to review. Bye bye all! I had a wonderful time writing this story; I hope you enjoyed it too. If you want more (a sequel or something) then you'll have to beg. (