Chapter 11 - Engaged to a Malfoy!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and any characters that you might not recognize. The rest belongs to J.K. Rowling and her brilliant mind.
a/n: Sorry about the delay on this chapter but my computer hasn't been working for a while and when I got it to work, the internet didn't work, so I couldn't post the chapter. I got my computer and internet working now, so enjoy the chapter and review when you've finished it.
The day after their engagement, Draco and Hermione awoke in Draco's bed, wrapped peacefully in each other's arms. Hermione smiled at him and mumbled something that sounded a little like "Good morning" before climbing out of bed and putting her robe on. She went into the bathroom and stepped into the shower, letting the warm water overtake her senses. Draco smirked to himself and fell back asleep.
After her shower, Hermione walked into her room and dressed in a red shirt, jeans, and socks before drying her hair and putting her shoes on. She climbed through the portrait in her room that led to the Gryffindor common room and was greeted by Ginny, Harry, and Ron. They all had big smiles on their faces and began talking to her as soon as she got into the room.
"I guess you already know," she said with a smile. They eagerly nodded and Ginny grabbed her left hand.
"Oh my god, Mione, it's gorgeous!" she exclaimed, looking at the ring in the light, "Tell me all the details and don't leave anything out."
Hermione and Ginny walked over to the couch by the fire and sat down, Ron and Harry following them. Ron and Harry sighed as Hermione launched into the story of the previous night.
"I barely saw him all day and then he told me we were going out to dinner and get dressed up, so, you know, I did. He took me to the Astronomy Tower and we ate dinner then went onto the roof of the castle to look at the stars. Then he proposed. Oh, you guys, it was so sweet. I loved it. He made everything so beautiful, I couldn't believe he thought of it all," she briefly told them with a sigh.
"Awww! It sounds like it was perfect, Mione," sighed Ginny before lowering her voice so only Hermione could hear, "You'll give me details later, right?"
Hermione nodded and continued talking to her best friends for a while. As they had started talking about quidditch, she sighed and looked at the ring with a smile on her face. She couldn't believe Draco would do something so sweet for her, and now he was all hers. Nothing could come between them now.
"Um, you guys, I'm gunna head back to my common room now. I haven't eaten anything yet and I wanna see Draco," she told them, going through the portrait hole and walking to her room. She knew that she could just go straight to her common room from the Gryffindor one, but she decided to go for a little walk to the kitchens for some coffee and breakfast.
When she reached the kitchens, she tickled the pear and entered. Dobby immediately appeared and hugged her knees.
"Congratulations on your engagement to Master Draco, Miss Hermione," he said.
"Thank you Dobby," she replied.
"Master Draco is here as well, Miss Hermione," he told her and led her to a table where she found Draco, reading the Daily Prophet and eating his breakfast. She walked up next to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek before sitting down.
"Hey Mione," he greeted her after she told Dobby to bring her some French vanilla cappuccino and a blueberry muffin.
"Hi," she replied, smiling.
He took a sip of his orange juice before throwing his paper onto the table. Dobby brought Hermione's food a minute later and picked up the paper before disappearing with a pop. Draco continued eating his breakfast and Hermione began eating her muffin. They sat in a comfortable silence as they ate. A few minutes later, Hermione ordered a cappuccino to go and left with Draco's hand in her own. Together they walked to their common room and sat down on the couch to watch a movie.
"What do you wanna watch, hunn?" Hermione asked him, standing in front of their large selection of DVDs.
"Um......what haven't we watched in a while?" he asked, joining her in front of the DVDs.
"Here's a good one," stated Hermione, after a few minutes. She grabbed School of Rock off of the shelf and put it into the DVD player. (a/n: I know School of Rock isn't out in America on DVD just yet, but in England, things come out earlier then here. That's why they have that movie.) Draco sat down on the couch and Hermione sat next to him, her head leaning on his chest. His arms wrapped around her, she started the movie and began watching it with him.
When the movie ended two hours and however many minutes later, Draco yawned and said, "Wow, that drummer looks like me, right Mione?"
"Mione?" he said again, looking down to find her asleep. As quietly as he could, Draco detangled himself from Hermione and jumped over the back of the couch, so Hermione wouldn't fall off the front of the couch. He walked to the front of the couch and covered Hermione with a blanket. He then turned off the DVD player and went up to his room to listen to music. He put silencing charms up on his room and blasted his new Blink 182 CD.
Down in the common room, Hermione woke up to a knocking on the portrait hole door. She sat up groggily and went to go see who was there.
"Headmaster, Professors? What're you doing here?" she asked when she saw Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape at the entrance to the portrait hole. They stopped their conversation and turned their attention to her.
"Miss Granger, is Mr. Malfoy inside?" asked Dumbledore, walking into the common room.
"Yes, I'll go upstairs and get him for you," she told them, after she had ushered them inside. The light hit her ring and reflected off of it, catching the eyes of the professors. Snape and McGonagall gasped and kept denying all the thoughts in their heads. Dumbledore, however, smiled while his eyes twinkled and looked at the other two.
A few minutes later, Hermione descended the stairs into the common room, followed closely by Draco.
"Hello, professors," he greeted them, sitting down on the couch and pulling Hermione down next to him.
"Mr. Malfoy, Miss Granger, as you know, the holidays are ending soon and, as the Heads, you must greet them at the train. Be prepared to do this. Also, you'll be planning a return ball and a Valentine's ball. You have a week to plan the returning ball, and a month and a half to plan the Valentine's ball. Oh, and the prefects and heads must go with each other to these balls, which shouldn't be a problem for you two," Headmaster Dumbledore told them, his blue eyes twinkling.
"Ok, Headmaster," they replied in unison. They started to get up, but Dumbledore motioned for them to sit down again.
"Miss Granger," began Professor Snape, "I thought I saw something before. May I see your left hand please?"
She hesitated for a moment, but held it out for all of them to see. Snape took her hand and looked at the ring finger. When he saw the engagement ring on it, he paled and dropped her hand as if he had been burned. She blushed and took her hand back as McGonagall turned incredibly pale at the sight of the ring.
"Miss Granger, do my eyes deceive me?" asked Snape, a few minutes later, his face still pale as a ghost.
"No sir," she said as Draco wrapped his arms around her. She looked up at him and returned her look to Snape.
"Mr. Malfoy, explain yourself," commanded Snape, a little color returning to his cheeks.
Before Draco could open his mouth, Professor McGonagall stepped in, "Severus, calm down."
"No, Minerva, this is insane. Mr. Malfoy and Miss Granger are engaged! I'm outraged."
"Don't jump down their throats like that, Severus. We knew that they were dating this entire time, everyone did, so don't think that this wasn't going to happen."
"Minerva! They've been dating for no more the five or six months. That's not long enough to be engaged," screamed Snape, all of the color now back in his cheeks, "Draco, what would your father say about this?"
"Professor Snape, I personally don't care what my father would say. He's in Azkaban. I don't have to worry about him anymore. I know we've only been together for five months, but I love Hermione, and I always have and always will. She's the best person for me. She helped me become who I am and I wouldn't survive without her," answered Draco. He turned to Hermione and saw tears running down her smiling face. "I meant everything I said, Mione. I love you." She smiled as the tears continued to run down her face. He smiled and kissed her, even in front of the professors.
Dumbledore cleared his throat and the couple pulled away to see McGonagall staring at them in awe, Dumbledore looking at them with the twinkle in his eye, and Snape was looking away, disgusted.
"Are you two quite finished?" Snape asked, glaring at the two of them.
"Yes, sir," they mumbled in unison.
"Ok, well we'll leave you to planning the ball. We'll send in the prefects now," Dumbledore announced, leaving the room with Snape and McGonagall following behind him.
All of a sudden, Snape came walking back into the room. He said, "Draco, if you're father finds out about this, you'll be as good as dead. I heard rumors that he might be getting the Dementor's Kiss in Azkaban but I can't be sure. I'll tell you when I know." With a swish of his robes, he left the two sitting on the couch and headed back to the dungeons.
Hermione and Draco looked at each other, but didn't have a chance to say anything, for the prefects had started walking into the room. Justin and Parvati sat down on one of the couch, with Ginny and Blaise on the couch across from them. Draco and Hermione sat on the couch in the middle of the prefects and sighed.
Hermione began, "Ok, you all know that Dumbledore wanted us to plan a returning ball and a Valentine's ball. We have a week to plan the returning ball so we have to get to work. Any ideas?"
Ginny spoke up, "Why don't we make it a normal ball. Decorations can be for all the houses but we can have one member of each house per table. There can be little tables all around the room, instead of the long tables."
Parvati continued, "Yeah and then we can have gift bags with candy from Honeyduke's. The flowers at each table can be of the domineering color of each of the houses."
Blaise, Justin, and Draco sat back, letting the girls do all the planning. Instead, they talked about quidditch and muggle soccer. About two hours later, the girls had finished all the plans and had gotten started on a large number of them. Justin, Blaise, Parvati, and Ginny left the common room and left for their own common room one corridor down and one floor above. Draco stood up as soon as they left, and snaked his arm around Hermione's waist as they headed upstairs to sleep.
A little less then a week later, Draco and Hermione found themselves, along with the four prefects, standing at the train station in Hogsmeade, waiting for the train to bring everyone back to Hogwarts. Winter Holidays had ended and pretty soon the castle would, once again, be filled with people.
Draco looked around him as he held Hermione close to him to keep her warm. Ginny and Blaise were standing a little ways away from them, talking quietly. Blaise had his arm around Ginny's shoulders and was holding her close to him, keeping her warm as well. A few feet from them stood Parvati and Justin, in the middle of a kiss. Draco turned his head away from them and kissed the top of Hermione's head as the train pulled into the station. Hermione smiled up to him and wrapped her jacket more tightly around her as the students filed off the train.
"Second years and up, to the carriages. Get in quickly and carefully. Come on, let's go. First years, follow Hagrid," Hermione instructed as the prefects and Draco helped her find a carriage for everyone. Once all the students were in a carriage or in a boat with Hagrid, they took off towards the castle. They got there just in time for the welcome back feast.
"Welcome back, students. I hope you all had a great winter break. Tomorrow there will be a returning ball, planned by the heads and prefects. Now, tuck in," Dumbledore greeted them, smiling.
After the feast, Draco and Hermione headed up to their room to listen to music and then sleep. Together, they went into Draco's room, after they changed into their pajamas, and turned on Draco's Blink 182 CD and laid on the bed listening to it. A little while later, they fell asleep together that way.
A/N: another chapter done! yAy! Well review and tell me how you think it is.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and any characters that you might not recognize. The rest belongs to J.K. Rowling and her brilliant mind.
a/n: Sorry about the delay on this chapter but my computer hasn't been working for a while and when I got it to work, the internet didn't work, so I couldn't post the chapter. I got my computer and internet working now, so enjoy the chapter and review when you've finished it.
The day after their engagement, Draco and Hermione awoke in Draco's bed, wrapped peacefully in each other's arms. Hermione smiled at him and mumbled something that sounded a little like "Good morning" before climbing out of bed and putting her robe on. She went into the bathroom and stepped into the shower, letting the warm water overtake her senses. Draco smirked to himself and fell back asleep.
After her shower, Hermione walked into her room and dressed in a red shirt, jeans, and socks before drying her hair and putting her shoes on. She climbed through the portrait in her room that led to the Gryffindor common room and was greeted by Ginny, Harry, and Ron. They all had big smiles on their faces and began talking to her as soon as she got into the room.
"I guess you already know," she said with a smile. They eagerly nodded and Ginny grabbed her left hand.
"Oh my god, Mione, it's gorgeous!" she exclaimed, looking at the ring in the light, "Tell me all the details and don't leave anything out."
Hermione and Ginny walked over to the couch by the fire and sat down, Ron and Harry following them. Ron and Harry sighed as Hermione launched into the story of the previous night.
"I barely saw him all day and then he told me we were going out to dinner and get dressed up, so, you know, I did. He took me to the Astronomy Tower and we ate dinner then went onto the roof of the castle to look at the stars. Then he proposed. Oh, you guys, it was so sweet. I loved it. He made everything so beautiful, I couldn't believe he thought of it all," she briefly told them with a sigh.
"Awww! It sounds like it was perfect, Mione," sighed Ginny before lowering her voice so only Hermione could hear, "You'll give me details later, right?"
Hermione nodded and continued talking to her best friends for a while. As they had started talking about quidditch, she sighed and looked at the ring with a smile on her face. She couldn't believe Draco would do something so sweet for her, and now he was all hers. Nothing could come between them now.
"Um, you guys, I'm gunna head back to my common room now. I haven't eaten anything yet and I wanna see Draco," she told them, going through the portrait hole and walking to her room. She knew that she could just go straight to her common room from the Gryffindor one, but she decided to go for a little walk to the kitchens for some coffee and breakfast.
When she reached the kitchens, she tickled the pear and entered. Dobby immediately appeared and hugged her knees.
"Congratulations on your engagement to Master Draco, Miss Hermione," he said.
"Thank you Dobby," she replied.
"Master Draco is here as well, Miss Hermione," he told her and led her to a table where she found Draco, reading the Daily Prophet and eating his breakfast. She walked up next to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek before sitting down.
"Hey Mione," he greeted her after she told Dobby to bring her some French vanilla cappuccino and a blueberry muffin.
"Hi," she replied, smiling.
He took a sip of his orange juice before throwing his paper onto the table. Dobby brought Hermione's food a minute later and picked up the paper before disappearing with a pop. Draco continued eating his breakfast and Hermione began eating her muffin. They sat in a comfortable silence as they ate. A few minutes later, Hermione ordered a cappuccino to go and left with Draco's hand in her own. Together they walked to their common room and sat down on the couch to watch a movie.
"What do you wanna watch, hunn?" Hermione asked him, standing in front of their large selection of DVDs.
"Um......what haven't we watched in a while?" he asked, joining her in front of the DVDs.
"Here's a good one," stated Hermione, after a few minutes. She grabbed School of Rock off of the shelf and put it into the DVD player. (a/n: I know School of Rock isn't out in America on DVD just yet, but in England, things come out earlier then here. That's why they have that movie.) Draco sat down on the couch and Hermione sat next to him, her head leaning on his chest. His arms wrapped around her, she started the movie and began watching it with him.
When the movie ended two hours and however many minutes later, Draco yawned and said, "Wow, that drummer looks like me, right Mione?"
"Mione?" he said again, looking down to find her asleep. As quietly as he could, Draco detangled himself from Hermione and jumped over the back of the couch, so Hermione wouldn't fall off the front of the couch. He walked to the front of the couch and covered Hermione with a blanket. He then turned off the DVD player and went up to his room to listen to music. He put silencing charms up on his room and blasted his new Blink 182 CD.
Down in the common room, Hermione woke up to a knocking on the portrait hole door. She sat up groggily and went to go see who was there.
"Headmaster, Professors? What're you doing here?" she asked when she saw Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape at the entrance to the portrait hole. They stopped their conversation and turned their attention to her.
"Miss Granger, is Mr. Malfoy inside?" asked Dumbledore, walking into the common room.
"Yes, I'll go upstairs and get him for you," she told them, after she had ushered them inside. The light hit her ring and reflected off of it, catching the eyes of the professors. Snape and McGonagall gasped and kept denying all the thoughts in their heads. Dumbledore, however, smiled while his eyes twinkled and looked at the other two.
A few minutes later, Hermione descended the stairs into the common room, followed closely by Draco.
"Hello, professors," he greeted them, sitting down on the couch and pulling Hermione down next to him.
"Mr. Malfoy, Miss Granger, as you know, the holidays are ending soon and, as the Heads, you must greet them at the train. Be prepared to do this. Also, you'll be planning a return ball and a Valentine's ball. You have a week to plan the returning ball, and a month and a half to plan the Valentine's ball. Oh, and the prefects and heads must go with each other to these balls, which shouldn't be a problem for you two," Headmaster Dumbledore told them, his blue eyes twinkling.
"Ok, Headmaster," they replied in unison. They started to get up, but Dumbledore motioned for them to sit down again.
"Miss Granger," began Professor Snape, "I thought I saw something before. May I see your left hand please?"
She hesitated for a moment, but held it out for all of them to see. Snape took her hand and looked at the ring finger. When he saw the engagement ring on it, he paled and dropped her hand as if he had been burned. She blushed and took her hand back as McGonagall turned incredibly pale at the sight of the ring.
"Miss Granger, do my eyes deceive me?" asked Snape, a few minutes later, his face still pale as a ghost.
"No sir," she said as Draco wrapped his arms around her. She looked up at him and returned her look to Snape.
"Mr. Malfoy, explain yourself," commanded Snape, a little color returning to his cheeks.
Before Draco could open his mouth, Professor McGonagall stepped in, "Severus, calm down."
"No, Minerva, this is insane. Mr. Malfoy and Miss Granger are engaged! I'm outraged."
"Don't jump down their throats like that, Severus. We knew that they were dating this entire time, everyone did, so don't think that this wasn't going to happen."
"Minerva! They've been dating for no more the five or six months. That's not long enough to be engaged," screamed Snape, all of the color now back in his cheeks, "Draco, what would your father say about this?"
"Professor Snape, I personally don't care what my father would say. He's in Azkaban. I don't have to worry about him anymore. I know we've only been together for five months, but I love Hermione, and I always have and always will. She's the best person for me. She helped me become who I am and I wouldn't survive without her," answered Draco. He turned to Hermione and saw tears running down her smiling face. "I meant everything I said, Mione. I love you." She smiled as the tears continued to run down her face. He smiled and kissed her, even in front of the professors.
Dumbledore cleared his throat and the couple pulled away to see McGonagall staring at them in awe, Dumbledore looking at them with the twinkle in his eye, and Snape was looking away, disgusted.
"Are you two quite finished?" Snape asked, glaring at the two of them.
"Yes, sir," they mumbled in unison.
"Ok, well we'll leave you to planning the ball. We'll send in the prefects now," Dumbledore announced, leaving the room with Snape and McGonagall following behind him.
All of a sudden, Snape came walking back into the room. He said, "Draco, if you're father finds out about this, you'll be as good as dead. I heard rumors that he might be getting the Dementor's Kiss in Azkaban but I can't be sure. I'll tell you when I know." With a swish of his robes, he left the two sitting on the couch and headed back to the dungeons.
Hermione and Draco looked at each other, but didn't have a chance to say anything, for the prefects had started walking into the room. Justin and Parvati sat down on one of the couch, with Ginny and Blaise on the couch across from them. Draco and Hermione sat on the couch in the middle of the prefects and sighed.
Hermione began, "Ok, you all know that Dumbledore wanted us to plan a returning ball and a Valentine's ball. We have a week to plan the returning ball so we have to get to work. Any ideas?"
Ginny spoke up, "Why don't we make it a normal ball. Decorations can be for all the houses but we can have one member of each house per table. There can be little tables all around the room, instead of the long tables."
Parvati continued, "Yeah and then we can have gift bags with candy from Honeyduke's. The flowers at each table can be of the domineering color of each of the houses."
Blaise, Justin, and Draco sat back, letting the girls do all the planning. Instead, they talked about quidditch and muggle soccer. About two hours later, the girls had finished all the plans and had gotten started on a large number of them. Justin, Blaise, Parvati, and Ginny left the common room and left for their own common room one corridor down and one floor above. Draco stood up as soon as they left, and snaked his arm around Hermione's waist as they headed upstairs to sleep.
A little less then a week later, Draco and Hermione found themselves, along with the four prefects, standing at the train station in Hogsmeade, waiting for the train to bring everyone back to Hogwarts. Winter Holidays had ended and pretty soon the castle would, once again, be filled with people.
Draco looked around him as he held Hermione close to him to keep her warm. Ginny and Blaise were standing a little ways away from them, talking quietly. Blaise had his arm around Ginny's shoulders and was holding her close to him, keeping her warm as well. A few feet from them stood Parvati and Justin, in the middle of a kiss. Draco turned his head away from them and kissed the top of Hermione's head as the train pulled into the station. Hermione smiled up to him and wrapped her jacket more tightly around her as the students filed off the train.
"Second years and up, to the carriages. Get in quickly and carefully. Come on, let's go. First years, follow Hagrid," Hermione instructed as the prefects and Draco helped her find a carriage for everyone. Once all the students were in a carriage or in a boat with Hagrid, they took off towards the castle. They got there just in time for the welcome back feast.
"Welcome back, students. I hope you all had a great winter break. Tomorrow there will be a returning ball, planned by the heads and prefects. Now, tuck in," Dumbledore greeted them, smiling.
After the feast, Draco and Hermione headed up to their room to listen to music and then sleep. Together, they went into Draco's room, after they changed into their pajamas, and turned on Draco's Blink 182 CD and laid on the bed listening to it. A little while later, they fell asleep together that way.
A/N: another chapter done! yAy! Well review and tell me how you think it is.