Hey I wanna say thanks to thouse of you who have supported me, Sweetkitty
thatnks for being there from the start. Makotochi I chose Mandy because she
was a character mentioned at the sorting in book one that we never ever
hear about. And I figured why not include her. I'm not good with names and
now she already belongs there so why not give her a history. Midnight at
noon I'm sorry you didn't like chapter three this one should be better. I'm
sorry you were disturbed by the dream but stuff like that'll happen. I
think you will be pleased with this one. Until the end at least. To tell
the truth I'm not even sure how it is going to happen. This is a long one I
hope you like cause it might be a while till I get more up.
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Chapter four: The Decision
Ron walked into the library around half an hour later. He found Hermione behind a large stack of books. He picked up one of the books and looked at the cover. Deciphering Your Dreams, Volume 4: Disasters and Devastation.
"Um, Hermione?" Hermione jumped, she hadn't noticed him. She put down her book, Devastating Dreams: What to Make of Them. "I didn't think you believed in any of this stuff."
"Oh, I don't. Um, it's, er, not for me. It's, uh, for, hmm, a friend of mine. He had this dream, where some, err, stuff, um, happened. Yeah, he asked me to, uh, look things up for him."
"Oh, is that it?" Hermione was slightly confused. It was more his tone of voice that confused her than the question. He acted sad and subdued but resolved. "So there's another guy then? That's why you won't marry me. You did a really good job of hiding it. I had no idea. You acted so happy when I purposed. You told every one we know. Now that I think about you've been acting really weird since that night we woke you up. It's like you've been avoiding me. Hermione what's going on? Who is this other guy? Do I know him? Is it Harry!?!?!"
"No." Hermione said in a small voice.
"Ok, so it's not Harry! WHO is it?"
"No, it's no one." She said in the same small voice.
"Well there has to be some one! Why would you just dump me like that? Is there something wrong with me? Do you not love me anymore? Did you EVER love me...?"
"Of course I did! I still do! There is NO ONE else! You're the only one for me! It isn't any thing you did! I just can't marry you! It's for your own good! You should go find a normal girl, a girl whose presence won't bring around your death!"
"HOW? WHY? There is no point in living if I can't be with you! How is being around you going to kill me?"
"Well, you know that dream? The one the other night I said it was about the night at the ministry. I lied I really saw our wedding, and He was there. He... he killed everyone. And he killed you and he was about to kill me when you woke me up. And then Harry said that He was after large groups of people, like at weddings, and our wedding would have lots of Muggles and wizards too. And of course your family would be there and we both know that they aren't a favorite family among the pure bloods, and..."
"Hermione, slow down." Hermione took a breath and listened to Ron. "Now I don't care if we have a big wedding or anything. I don't care if we get married at all. I just want to be with you."
"But I WANT to marry you! But I don't want you to die!"
"Hermione, shhhhhh! We can have a small thing. It can be just you and me for all I care. We could go do it tonight if you want! No one needs to know, I promise I won't die!" He pulled her into a tight hug. "I will never EVER let anything happen to you!" He looked into her eyes and they met in a long passionate kiss.
"Ah-hem, the library will be closing now. Miss Granger, Mr. Weasley if you plan on doing that in my library again, you've got another think coming!"
"Yes, Madam Pince. We'll try to remember next time." Ron laughed and Hermione giggled as they put all of Hermione's books on the cart and left.
They walked arm in arm on the way back to the common room. Every once in a while Ron would whisper a sweet nothings in her ear. Hermione was just thinking how much bliss this was when she heard something.
"What was that?"
"What?" Ron asked startled at how stiff and alert Hermione had become. Then she heard it again.
"That! That muffled moaning sound! I think it's coming from up there!" She hurried up the stairs and saw something move behind the statue of Guenivere the Great. When she looked around the statue she saw two people very much engrossed with each other. The red hair all but gave it away. "Oh! My goodness!"
"VIRGINA VERONICA WEASLEY! WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!"
"Ron... Please!" Ginny was near tears and her face was reaching the same shade as her hair.
"PLEASE? PLEASE WHAT? LEAVE YOU HERE TO DO WHO KNOWS WHAT WITH THIS, THIS MISCREANT?"
"SIMON!" Hermione interjected.
"What?"
"His name is Simon! Ginny, 10 points from Gryfindor. Simon 10 from Ravenclaw. Now go back to your common rooms." Once they were gone Hermione spoke to Ron. "Now that was unnecessary yelling. You hardly know anything about Ginny anymore."
"Well, she still is my little sister!"
"So? That gives you no right to go all parent on her! Especially for something you and I have done before! HODGE PODGE!"
"You two aren't fighting again are you? Tut tut!"
"Just let us in!"
"Fine, fine no need to yell." The portrait swung forward, and Ron and Hermione continued to argue.
"Well our case is different!"
"HOW? Tell me Ron how is it different? Snogging in the corners whenever we get the chance to be together! Spending all our free time together! How is what we do any different from what they do? Oh so we're getting married, that makes it much different? Well maybe you're not ready to get married!"
"I'm the one not ready to get married? You're the one afraid Voldemort is going to show up at our wedding and kill us all! Maybe it's you who isn't ready to get married!"
"FINE!" There was a collective gasp throughout the room and Hermione stormed up to her room.
"Where are you going? You can't just leave!"
"I think I am! I need to write some letters telling people that the wedding is of!"
"What are all you looking at?" Immediately the whole room went back to what they were doing before Ron and Hermione arrived. Ron walked over to Harry, "You don't think she is serious do you? I mean she wasn't serious
"I'm not sure mate. I seemed like a big fight to me. She seemed pretty serious too. Hey did you know Sirius had a daughter?"
"No! Of course he didn't! He would have told us if he did." before, why would she be now? It was only a little fight." Ron seemed very worried. "What if he didn't know? I mean what if he went to Azkaban before he found out?"
"This is nonsense! I have real problems. Do you think she broke up with me? I mean we've had fights before we haven't broken up though. Why is she being so, so, so obstinate."
"Well, I think you should give her the night to cool down, she needs it. I haven't seen her this worked up for a while." Harry laughed, "Hey, I didn't even know that you knew big words like obstinate, maybe you've been spending too much time with her. Now I have real problems to deal with too. So I'm going to bed."
"Great everyone leave me why don't you?" He walked over to where he saw Ginny talking to the third year Tracy. "Hey Ginny..."
"Sorry, Tracy, I have to go to bed now."
Hermione looked out of her balcony to see a lonely Ron heading up to his dorm.
Ron's world was falling apart. The only girl he ever loved had threatened to leave him twice in one night. His best friend was talking about some nonsense, probably trying to bring back his dead godfather some how. And his sister hated him. What was he going to do? He had almost reached his dorm when someone tugged on the back of his robes. It was Hermione.
"We need to talk. A lot."
"Yeah we do." They walked back down the stairs to the fireside. They settled themselves and Ron made some hot cocoa. He took a sip of his and began. "So what exactly's been going on? You had a nightmare and started acting funny. Twice today you've said you won't marry me. We had one of the biggest fights we've had in a while, and I'm not sure what is going on."
"Well my dream scared me, a lot. It was so real. Then we found out that Voldemort is attacking events exactly like our wedding. I really don't want to give Voldemort more reason to come near Harry or us. I really really want to marry you! As soon as I can! But the only way we can get married is if we wait till Voldemort is gone, or... I suppose we could... no, we'd have to talk to Dumbledore. How's a Valentine's Day wedding sound?"
"What are you talking about? How would we get married on Valentines Day? We can't just leave school. Where would we go?"
"London of course. We can apparate!"
"You of all people know we can't apparate from the school. Maybe you need to go to bed and we can talk about this on the morning." "No! This is perfect! Of course we can't apparate from Hogwarts, but we won't be in Hogwarts will we? That is our next Hogsmeade weekend! We can apparate to London, go to that little chapel in Diagon Alley get married and apparate back to Hogsmeade and we would be back to school by the end of the day."
"Are you sure that will work? I mean even though we are of age we aren't supposed to leave Hogsmeade, I know we've all had a good bit of rule breaking in our time, but this could go horribly wrong. You've only apparated a few times. Not that I doubt you ability it just that it is different when you aren't in controlled situations. Even I haven't apparated that much. Mostly around the house. And I did make a big mess of dinner when I was trying to apparate down stairs and landed myself on top of the table... ouch that one hurt."
"Well if you are saying you don't want to get married, fine, I guess we won't," Hermione had no intention of not marrying Ron, she just knew that if she said this he would go along with her plan. "I could write back to Victor, he's written lately wondering if I had left you yet. He does have that brooding thing going for him..."
"You wouldn't! Valentines Day, London, Wedding. Sounds good."
"That's what I thought. So I will talk to Dumbledore about going to London. I'm sure he will understand. It will have to be small; we can have a larger ceremony when it is safe. I think we should only invite Harry to this. I would like Ginny to be there but she isn't of age yet and she wouldn't be able to apparate."
"Sounds good to me. So, now time for bed?"
"I had a different idea." The common room was now empty. "We haven't been this alone for a long time." She moved over into his lap and slowly started to kiss his earlobe. He slowly moved her cheek and gently kissed her soft lips. They continued kissing; Hermione felt Ron's hand slip into her robes and underneath her shirt. He continued to advance in this direction. Hermione let go of her inhibitions and let him continue. She slipped of her robes and he pulled of his own. She began to unbutton his shirt but stopped abruptly when they were interrupted.
"Oh god. Wow I didn't see that. I saw the back of Ron's head and that was it. I thought we should talk, Ron, but I will come back later." Ginny stood before them a brilliant shade of red. She seemed quite embarrassed to have walked in on the intimate moment Ron and Hermione were sharing. "I'm gonna go back up stairs now. Yeah. Really sorry please continue."
"No, that's ok. We should go to bed, too." Hermione stood up and began pulling her robe back on.
"Damn! Are you sure?"
"Yes we shouldn't have been doing that out here anyway. Who know how far we could of gone of Ginny hadn't walked in. Good night my love." She gently kissed him and walked up the stairs.
The water rippled around the small boat. The sun was high in the sky. Hermione lay out on the deck. She let the warmth envelope her. There was a small spray coming up from the boat, just enough to keep her from getting too warm. There were sea birds flying overhead. She gazed up at them thinking how wonderful it would be to be flying. How she could just fly away whenever she felt like it. "You know I can always teach you how to fly." Hermione smiled sweetly at Malfoy. "I'm sure you could." He held out his hand. "Take my hand." She took it. They slowly turned into birds and began to fly. They soared above the ocean. Hermione felt as if she had left every care in the world back on that little boat. They landed on a small peaceful island. "Hermione, will you sit by me and watch the sunset?" She sat herself on the beach beside Draco and they watched the sunset. "It is so beautiful. I've never seen it over the ocean like this before." Draco looked at her then put his arm around her shoulders. She rested her head on his chest. "I do this all the time. Hermione I love you." She looked up into his eyes and he kissed her.
That morning Hermione woke up in an oddly good mood. She wasn't sure why she was so happy. She must have had a good dream or something she couldn't remember. What ever it was she was in a very good mood. Maybe it was the fact she knew she and Ron could get married and nothing bad would happen. She dresses quickly but felt more beautiful then she ever had. Her plan was perfect. Nothing would ruin it. She hurried down to the common room where Ron greeted her.
"Morning love. You look extraordinary. There is something different about you. It is like you are glowing."
She smiled at him, "I don't have a worry in the world. My life is PERFECT. I'm marrying you, my grades are excellent, and I have nothing to worry about. What in the world could trouble me today?" She spun around in a ballet fashion and gently kissed Ron.
"Not an idea." Ron replied, not having the heart to tell her something was wrong with Harry. He put his arm around her, "Let's go down to breakfast." She smiled at him and they walked out with her head on his shoulder.
The water rippled around the small boat. The sun was high in the sky. He watched her as she lay there sunbathing on the deck. She looked wonderful as always. There was a small spray coming up from the boat, just enough to keep him from getting too warm. There were sea birds flying overhead. He saw her watching them with a longing he once had as well. One to fly away and leave all his problems on earth. That is why he choose the hawk as his animagus. "You know," He said, "I can always teach you how to fly." Hermione smiled sweetly at Draco and he got an odd but pleasant feeling inside. He was use to it though he always got that feeling when she was around. "I'm sure you could." He held out his hand for her wishing against fate that she wouldn't push it away. "Take my hand." She took it and the feeling intensified and he got butterflies in his stomach. They slowly turned into birds and began to fly. They soared above the ocean. It was as if Draco could feel Hermione relax as they flew away. They landed on a small peaceful island. "Hermione, will you sit by me and watch the sunset?" Draco felt he could be no luckier when she took that spot behind him. "It is so beautiful. I've never seen it over the ocean like this before." Draco looked at her then slowly put his arm around her shoulders. His heart jumped when she not only let him but she also rested her head on his chest. "I do this all the time." He paused afraid to say what came next, "Hermione I love you." She looked up at him their eyes met and he slowly moved down to kiss her.
Down in the dungeons, Draco woke up. He opened up the curtains to his bed to find every one had left the room. He moved down to his trunk and reached to the very bottom. He pulled out a piece of a picture. He looked at the face on the picture and his heart fluttered. There was Hermione as beautiful as ever smiling back at him. He had taken this picture from her book bag, just as a way to always have her with him. It had originally been a picture with Ron and Harry to either side of Hermione. Draco tore them from her sides so it would just be her. There was only one little bit of Ron left. It was his arm around her shoulder. This served as Draco's reminder that he couldn't have her. But still he loved her.
He had had dreams like this before but they had never gotten that far. Draco knew this was significant. He knew he had lost her forever. That was the only way he could have finished the dream. It was that or that she was now his, but unless Ron had died over night that was not possible. But Draco did remember the fight they had had at the DA meeting, maybe it was possible that it was over between them. Draco hurried to get dressed and practically ran p to the entrance hall. There! There she was! Walking all by herself! That hadn't happened in a while, maybe if he caught her he could talk to her! He ran up to her and tapped her shoulder.
"Hermione!" He said somewhat winded, "Hermione we need to talk."
A third year Ravenclaw turned around looking quite confused. "Oh sorry." he said and he looked around again. He saw Hermione, the real Hermione, and his heart fell. She was walking with her head on Ron's shoulder. That was it. She would never be his. He walked into the Great Hall and sat by himself again.
He had been sitting alone for almost a year and a half now. Ever since his mother died at least. He was use to it. He still had friends but Crabbe and Goyle were gone now. The left school after not passing enough O.W.L.s to do any thing, they joined the family biz of serving the "Dark Lord" therefore severing ties with Draco. He looked over at the Gryffindor table. Something was wrong with Potter he looked upset and confused. Draco would have to remember to ask him about that. Just then Hermione walked in. Damn she looked even more radiant then normal, like she was glowing. He shook the thought from his mind. It just wasn't going to happen he would have to get over it.
Hermione's day was going excellent. She was in the entrance hall with Ron when she saw Draco talking to a third year. She was a little confused about this but didn't let it ruin her good mood. They walked into the Great Hall. That is when she saw Harry.
"Harry! What's wrong?" she asked as she ran over. She was quite startled by his response.
"You knew didn't you? You knew she was HIS daughter! And you didn't tell me! HOW? How could you hold something like that from me? How?"
"It's just... I just... I didn't think..."
"I don't care you should have told me anyway!" He stood up and stormed away. Ron walked up to Hermione seeing she was very distraught.
"What was all that about? He acted as if you had kept something important from him."
"Well, you remember how Harry was going to meet up with Mandy last night? Well that was so she could tell him that Sirius was her father. I guess he took it somewhat hard. I should talk to him about it." She looked over her shoulder to the doorway. Ron put a hand on her shoulder.
"No I should talk to him. I think I could handle it better. He isn't mad at me. Ok let me go find him." He bent over her and kissed her head. "I will see you later love." He walked away to find Harry while she finished her breakfast.
Draco watched Ron leave the Great Hall. He stood up and walked over to where Hermione was seated. He was almost there when he stopped. What was he going to say? He was about to walk away when she turned around.
"Oh Draco! You want to know something funny? I had this dream the other night and it was you and I. We were on this boat and then...and well I don't really remember what happened after that." She lied. She didn't want to make Draco uncomfortable by telling him about the kiss. It didn't really mean anything anyway. Did it?
"Really? That is funny. Why would you be dreaming about me when you have Ron?" Draco was relived to hear she had had the same dream. Maybe all wasn't hopeless. Maybe he still had a chance with her. "Congratulations about the whole wedding thing too!" "Oh thank you. Did you see my ring?" She held up her hand. The stone wasn't that big, Draco thought, I could of done better. I suppose she is happy though.
"It is really nice. So I have to go now. Got some work to do with Snape. See you."
"Later." Draco walked away. Maybe his chance was really gone with her. She seemed very happy that is what really counted. Draco couldn't do anything that would hurt her just to make himself happy. He would have to let her go. He walked his way down to the dungeons.
Hermione watched Draco leave and wondered why she hadn't noticed how clear and beautiful Draco's eyes were. She shook the thought from her head. She had Ron now that is all that mattered. She stood up and went up to her room and took a nap. When she woke up, she found Ron in the common room.
"Where's Harry?" she asked as she approached him.
"Oh, hey! He's, uh, out flying. Hey we talked for a bit, and if I were you, I would give him some space. You know how he gets about Sirius, he's not mad at you, he just was shocked by the news. It'll be fine. Hey we have to get to class soon. Transfiguration's first. I'm gonna go get Harry."
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Chapter four: The Decision
Ron walked into the library around half an hour later. He found Hermione behind a large stack of books. He picked up one of the books and looked at the cover. Deciphering Your Dreams, Volume 4: Disasters and Devastation.
"Um, Hermione?" Hermione jumped, she hadn't noticed him. She put down her book, Devastating Dreams: What to Make of Them. "I didn't think you believed in any of this stuff."
"Oh, I don't. Um, it's, er, not for me. It's, uh, for, hmm, a friend of mine. He had this dream, where some, err, stuff, um, happened. Yeah, he asked me to, uh, look things up for him."
"Oh, is that it?" Hermione was slightly confused. It was more his tone of voice that confused her than the question. He acted sad and subdued but resolved. "So there's another guy then? That's why you won't marry me. You did a really good job of hiding it. I had no idea. You acted so happy when I purposed. You told every one we know. Now that I think about you've been acting really weird since that night we woke you up. It's like you've been avoiding me. Hermione what's going on? Who is this other guy? Do I know him? Is it Harry!?!?!"
"No." Hermione said in a small voice.
"Ok, so it's not Harry! WHO is it?"
"No, it's no one." She said in the same small voice.
"Well there has to be some one! Why would you just dump me like that? Is there something wrong with me? Do you not love me anymore? Did you EVER love me...?"
"Of course I did! I still do! There is NO ONE else! You're the only one for me! It isn't any thing you did! I just can't marry you! It's for your own good! You should go find a normal girl, a girl whose presence won't bring around your death!"
"HOW? WHY? There is no point in living if I can't be with you! How is being around you going to kill me?"
"Well, you know that dream? The one the other night I said it was about the night at the ministry. I lied I really saw our wedding, and He was there. He... he killed everyone. And he killed you and he was about to kill me when you woke me up. And then Harry said that He was after large groups of people, like at weddings, and our wedding would have lots of Muggles and wizards too. And of course your family would be there and we both know that they aren't a favorite family among the pure bloods, and..."
"Hermione, slow down." Hermione took a breath and listened to Ron. "Now I don't care if we have a big wedding or anything. I don't care if we get married at all. I just want to be with you."
"But I WANT to marry you! But I don't want you to die!"
"Hermione, shhhhhh! We can have a small thing. It can be just you and me for all I care. We could go do it tonight if you want! No one needs to know, I promise I won't die!" He pulled her into a tight hug. "I will never EVER let anything happen to you!" He looked into her eyes and they met in a long passionate kiss.
"Ah-hem, the library will be closing now. Miss Granger, Mr. Weasley if you plan on doing that in my library again, you've got another think coming!"
"Yes, Madam Pince. We'll try to remember next time." Ron laughed and Hermione giggled as they put all of Hermione's books on the cart and left.
They walked arm in arm on the way back to the common room. Every once in a while Ron would whisper a sweet nothings in her ear. Hermione was just thinking how much bliss this was when she heard something.
"What was that?"
"What?" Ron asked startled at how stiff and alert Hermione had become. Then she heard it again.
"That! That muffled moaning sound! I think it's coming from up there!" She hurried up the stairs and saw something move behind the statue of Guenivere the Great. When she looked around the statue she saw two people very much engrossed with each other. The red hair all but gave it away. "Oh! My goodness!"
"VIRGINA VERONICA WEASLEY! WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!"
"Ron... Please!" Ginny was near tears and her face was reaching the same shade as her hair.
"PLEASE? PLEASE WHAT? LEAVE YOU HERE TO DO WHO KNOWS WHAT WITH THIS, THIS MISCREANT?"
"SIMON!" Hermione interjected.
"What?"
"His name is Simon! Ginny, 10 points from Gryfindor. Simon 10 from Ravenclaw. Now go back to your common rooms." Once they were gone Hermione spoke to Ron. "Now that was unnecessary yelling. You hardly know anything about Ginny anymore."
"Well, she still is my little sister!"
"So? That gives you no right to go all parent on her! Especially for something you and I have done before! HODGE PODGE!"
"You two aren't fighting again are you? Tut tut!"
"Just let us in!"
"Fine, fine no need to yell." The portrait swung forward, and Ron and Hermione continued to argue.
"Well our case is different!"
"HOW? Tell me Ron how is it different? Snogging in the corners whenever we get the chance to be together! Spending all our free time together! How is what we do any different from what they do? Oh so we're getting married, that makes it much different? Well maybe you're not ready to get married!"
"I'm the one not ready to get married? You're the one afraid Voldemort is going to show up at our wedding and kill us all! Maybe it's you who isn't ready to get married!"
"FINE!" There was a collective gasp throughout the room and Hermione stormed up to her room.
"Where are you going? You can't just leave!"
"I think I am! I need to write some letters telling people that the wedding is of!"
"What are all you looking at?" Immediately the whole room went back to what they were doing before Ron and Hermione arrived. Ron walked over to Harry, "You don't think she is serious do you? I mean she wasn't serious
"I'm not sure mate. I seemed like a big fight to me. She seemed pretty serious too. Hey did you know Sirius had a daughter?"
"No! Of course he didn't! He would have told us if he did." before, why would she be now? It was only a little fight." Ron seemed very worried. "What if he didn't know? I mean what if he went to Azkaban before he found out?"
"This is nonsense! I have real problems. Do you think she broke up with me? I mean we've had fights before we haven't broken up though. Why is she being so, so, so obstinate."
"Well, I think you should give her the night to cool down, she needs it. I haven't seen her this worked up for a while." Harry laughed, "Hey, I didn't even know that you knew big words like obstinate, maybe you've been spending too much time with her. Now I have real problems to deal with too. So I'm going to bed."
"Great everyone leave me why don't you?" He walked over to where he saw Ginny talking to the third year Tracy. "Hey Ginny..."
"Sorry, Tracy, I have to go to bed now."
Hermione looked out of her balcony to see a lonely Ron heading up to his dorm.
Ron's world was falling apart. The only girl he ever loved had threatened to leave him twice in one night. His best friend was talking about some nonsense, probably trying to bring back his dead godfather some how. And his sister hated him. What was he going to do? He had almost reached his dorm when someone tugged on the back of his robes. It was Hermione.
"We need to talk. A lot."
"Yeah we do." They walked back down the stairs to the fireside. They settled themselves and Ron made some hot cocoa. He took a sip of his and began. "So what exactly's been going on? You had a nightmare and started acting funny. Twice today you've said you won't marry me. We had one of the biggest fights we've had in a while, and I'm not sure what is going on."
"Well my dream scared me, a lot. It was so real. Then we found out that Voldemort is attacking events exactly like our wedding. I really don't want to give Voldemort more reason to come near Harry or us. I really really want to marry you! As soon as I can! But the only way we can get married is if we wait till Voldemort is gone, or... I suppose we could... no, we'd have to talk to Dumbledore. How's a Valentine's Day wedding sound?"
"What are you talking about? How would we get married on Valentines Day? We can't just leave school. Where would we go?"
"London of course. We can apparate!"
"You of all people know we can't apparate from the school. Maybe you need to go to bed and we can talk about this on the morning." "No! This is perfect! Of course we can't apparate from Hogwarts, but we won't be in Hogwarts will we? That is our next Hogsmeade weekend! We can apparate to London, go to that little chapel in Diagon Alley get married and apparate back to Hogsmeade and we would be back to school by the end of the day."
"Are you sure that will work? I mean even though we are of age we aren't supposed to leave Hogsmeade, I know we've all had a good bit of rule breaking in our time, but this could go horribly wrong. You've only apparated a few times. Not that I doubt you ability it just that it is different when you aren't in controlled situations. Even I haven't apparated that much. Mostly around the house. And I did make a big mess of dinner when I was trying to apparate down stairs and landed myself on top of the table... ouch that one hurt."
"Well if you are saying you don't want to get married, fine, I guess we won't," Hermione had no intention of not marrying Ron, she just knew that if she said this he would go along with her plan. "I could write back to Victor, he's written lately wondering if I had left you yet. He does have that brooding thing going for him..."
"You wouldn't! Valentines Day, London, Wedding. Sounds good."
"That's what I thought. So I will talk to Dumbledore about going to London. I'm sure he will understand. It will have to be small; we can have a larger ceremony when it is safe. I think we should only invite Harry to this. I would like Ginny to be there but she isn't of age yet and she wouldn't be able to apparate."
"Sounds good to me. So, now time for bed?"
"I had a different idea." The common room was now empty. "We haven't been this alone for a long time." She moved over into his lap and slowly started to kiss his earlobe. He slowly moved her cheek and gently kissed her soft lips. They continued kissing; Hermione felt Ron's hand slip into her robes and underneath her shirt. He continued to advance in this direction. Hermione let go of her inhibitions and let him continue. She slipped of her robes and he pulled of his own. She began to unbutton his shirt but stopped abruptly when they were interrupted.
"Oh god. Wow I didn't see that. I saw the back of Ron's head and that was it. I thought we should talk, Ron, but I will come back later." Ginny stood before them a brilliant shade of red. She seemed quite embarrassed to have walked in on the intimate moment Ron and Hermione were sharing. "I'm gonna go back up stairs now. Yeah. Really sorry please continue."
"No, that's ok. We should go to bed, too." Hermione stood up and began pulling her robe back on.
"Damn! Are you sure?"
"Yes we shouldn't have been doing that out here anyway. Who know how far we could of gone of Ginny hadn't walked in. Good night my love." She gently kissed him and walked up the stairs.
The water rippled around the small boat. The sun was high in the sky. Hermione lay out on the deck. She let the warmth envelope her. There was a small spray coming up from the boat, just enough to keep her from getting too warm. There were sea birds flying overhead. She gazed up at them thinking how wonderful it would be to be flying. How she could just fly away whenever she felt like it. "You know I can always teach you how to fly." Hermione smiled sweetly at Malfoy. "I'm sure you could." He held out his hand. "Take my hand." She took it. They slowly turned into birds and began to fly. They soared above the ocean. Hermione felt as if she had left every care in the world back on that little boat. They landed on a small peaceful island. "Hermione, will you sit by me and watch the sunset?" She sat herself on the beach beside Draco and they watched the sunset. "It is so beautiful. I've never seen it over the ocean like this before." Draco looked at her then put his arm around her shoulders. She rested her head on his chest. "I do this all the time. Hermione I love you." She looked up into his eyes and he kissed her.
That morning Hermione woke up in an oddly good mood. She wasn't sure why she was so happy. She must have had a good dream or something she couldn't remember. What ever it was she was in a very good mood. Maybe it was the fact she knew she and Ron could get married and nothing bad would happen. She dresses quickly but felt more beautiful then she ever had. Her plan was perfect. Nothing would ruin it. She hurried down to the common room where Ron greeted her.
"Morning love. You look extraordinary. There is something different about you. It is like you are glowing."
She smiled at him, "I don't have a worry in the world. My life is PERFECT. I'm marrying you, my grades are excellent, and I have nothing to worry about. What in the world could trouble me today?" She spun around in a ballet fashion and gently kissed Ron.
"Not an idea." Ron replied, not having the heart to tell her something was wrong with Harry. He put his arm around her, "Let's go down to breakfast." She smiled at him and they walked out with her head on his shoulder.
The water rippled around the small boat. The sun was high in the sky. He watched her as she lay there sunbathing on the deck. She looked wonderful as always. There was a small spray coming up from the boat, just enough to keep him from getting too warm. There were sea birds flying overhead. He saw her watching them with a longing he once had as well. One to fly away and leave all his problems on earth. That is why he choose the hawk as his animagus. "You know," He said, "I can always teach you how to fly." Hermione smiled sweetly at Draco and he got an odd but pleasant feeling inside. He was use to it though he always got that feeling when she was around. "I'm sure you could." He held out his hand for her wishing against fate that she wouldn't push it away. "Take my hand." She took it and the feeling intensified and he got butterflies in his stomach. They slowly turned into birds and began to fly. They soared above the ocean. It was as if Draco could feel Hermione relax as they flew away. They landed on a small peaceful island. "Hermione, will you sit by me and watch the sunset?" Draco felt he could be no luckier when she took that spot behind him. "It is so beautiful. I've never seen it over the ocean like this before." Draco looked at her then slowly put his arm around her shoulders. His heart jumped when she not only let him but she also rested her head on his chest. "I do this all the time." He paused afraid to say what came next, "Hermione I love you." She looked up at him their eyes met and he slowly moved down to kiss her.
Down in the dungeons, Draco woke up. He opened up the curtains to his bed to find every one had left the room. He moved down to his trunk and reached to the very bottom. He pulled out a piece of a picture. He looked at the face on the picture and his heart fluttered. There was Hermione as beautiful as ever smiling back at him. He had taken this picture from her book bag, just as a way to always have her with him. It had originally been a picture with Ron and Harry to either side of Hermione. Draco tore them from her sides so it would just be her. There was only one little bit of Ron left. It was his arm around her shoulder. This served as Draco's reminder that he couldn't have her. But still he loved her.
He had had dreams like this before but they had never gotten that far. Draco knew this was significant. He knew he had lost her forever. That was the only way he could have finished the dream. It was that or that she was now his, but unless Ron had died over night that was not possible. But Draco did remember the fight they had had at the DA meeting, maybe it was possible that it was over between them. Draco hurried to get dressed and practically ran p to the entrance hall. There! There she was! Walking all by herself! That hadn't happened in a while, maybe if he caught her he could talk to her! He ran up to her and tapped her shoulder.
"Hermione!" He said somewhat winded, "Hermione we need to talk."
A third year Ravenclaw turned around looking quite confused. "Oh sorry." he said and he looked around again. He saw Hermione, the real Hermione, and his heart fell. She was walking with her head on Ron's shoulder. That was it. She would never be his. He walked into the Great Hall and sat by himself again.
He had been sitting alone for almost a year and a half now. Ever since his mother died at least. He was use to it. He still had friends but Crabbe and Goyle were gone now. The left school after not passing enough O.W.L.s to do any thing, they joined the family biz of serving the "Dark Lord" therefore severing ties with Draco. He looked over at the Gryffindor table. Something was wrong with Potter he looked upset and confused. Draco would have to remember to ask him about that. Just then Hermione walked in. Damn she looked even more radiant then normal, like she was glowing. He shook the thought from his mind. It just wasn't going to happen he would have to get over it.
Hermione's day was going excellent. She was in the entrance hall with Ron when she saw Draco talking to a third year. She was a little confused about this but didn't let it ruin her good mood. They walked into the Great Hall. That is when she saw Harry.
"Harry! What's wrong?" she asked as she ran over. She was quite startled by his response.
"You knew didn't you? You knew she was HIS daughter! And you didn't tell me! HOW? How could you hold something like that from me? How?"
"It's just... I just... I didn't think..."
"I don't care you should have told me anyway!" He stood up and stormed away. Ron walked up to Hermione seeing she was very distraught.
"What was all that about? He acted as if you had kept something important from him."
"Well, you remember how Harry was going to meet up with Mandy last night? Well that was so she could tell him that Sirius was her father. I guess he took it somewhat hard. I should talk to him about it." She looked over her shoulder to the doorway. Ron put a hand on her shoulder.
"No I should talk to him. I think I could handle it better. He isn't mad at me. Ok let me go find him." He bent over her and kissed her head. "I will see you later love." He walked away to find Harry while she finished her breakfast.
Draco watched Ron leave the Great Hall. He stood up and walked over to where Hermione was seated. He was almost there when he stopped. What was he going to say? He was about to walk away when she turned around.
"Oh Draco! You want to know something funny? I had this dream the other night and it was you and I. We were on this boat and then...and well I don't really remember what happened after that." She lied. She didn't want to make Draco uncomfortable by telling him about the kiss. It didn't really mean anything anyway. Did it?
"Really? That is funny. Why would you be dreaming about me when you have Ron?" Draco was relived to hear she had had the same dream. Maybe all wasn't hopeless. Maybe he still had a chance with her. "Congratulations about the whole wedding thing too!" "Oh thank you. Did you see my ring?" She held up her hand. The stone wasn't that big, Draco thought, I could of done better. I suppose she is happy though.
"It is really nice. So I have to go now. Got some work to do with Snape. See you."
"Later." Draco walked away. Maybe his chance was really gone with her. She seemed very happy that is what really counted. Draco couldn't do anything that would hurt her just to make himself happy. He would have to let her go. He walked his way down to the dungeons.
Hermione watched Draco leave and wondered why she hadn't noticed how clear and beautiful Draco's eyes were. She shook the thought from her head. She had Ron now that is all that mattered. She stood up and went up to her room and took a nap. When she woke up, she found Ron in the common room.
"Where's Harry?" she asked as she approached him.
"Oh, hey! He's, uh, out flying. Hey we talked for a bit, and if I were you, I would give him some space. You know how he gets about Sirius, he's not mad at you, he just was shocked by the news. It'll be fine. Hey we have to get to class soon. Transfiguration's first. I'm gonna go get Harry."