Chapter 1

The Meeting

Harry Potter got up out of bed, put on some muggle clothing and went to his car. He took the short drive into London's town centre and parked. It was a bright Tuesday morning and he was on a week's holiday from his job at the ministry. Soon he was walking around all of the stores admiring things to put in his bachelor pad. Then he saw a familiar face, sat under locks of bushy brown hair, Hermione Granger. He silently walked up behind her and in her ear he whispered the word 'Voldermort'. Instantly she spun round pointing her wand straight at him, he replied by drawing his wand very quickly.

"Harry Potter, don't ever scare me like that again." said Hermione as she hit him over the back of the head.

"It's nice to see you too Hermione, I'm fine thanks for asking." replied Harry brining her into a hug. "So what have you been up to since Hogwarts, because we've sorta lost contact."

"Well, I actually teach at Hogwarts, I'm the Ancient Runes professor, but as you know we've broken up for the summer, and yet again we need a new DADA teacher, as the last one got fired for gross incompetence. Hey why don't you apply, that was your best subject and I'm guessing you're an Auror too so that makes you well suited to the job." explained Hermione

"Well firstly congratulations on getting the job, and I might just ask Dumbledore for it, I'd love to see the castle again. Have you heard from Ron at all?" queried Harry

"Last I heard he was working in the Ministry in the Muggle relations department." replied Hermione.

The two of them spent the rest of the day walking around London, then going to Diagon Alley for the final part of the day. Harry couldn't help but keep notice Hermione's stunning looks, and her perfect smile, this had been the girl he had known but not noticed for seven years, now he could see her in a new light. Soon every other though was about Hermione, no matter what it was, be it Hogwarts or how he'd ever managed without her for the past 3 years. Then all of a sudden things got very interesting.

"Uh Hermione, I was wondering, if you y'know sorta had like a um boyfriend." asked Harry excessively nervously, right now he'd happily go another round with the Dark Lord himself.

"Oh, gosh, Harry this was so unexpected, I mean no I don't, but I though you were spoken for, but you've been running through my mind like crazy, but I've been too shy to ask." she replied sounding surprised and relieved at the same time.

"Well it's the same for me, because I thought you'd say yes, which is what I hope you'll say to my next question, so here it comes…Hermione Granger will you do me the honour of being my girlfriend?" he asked with a lot of courage in his voice.

"Oh Harry, I've been hoping you'd ask all day, and now it's got stuck in my throat, but yes, yes and yes again, it'd be my pleasure to be your girlfriend." she replied, with a tone of pure happiness.

The two of them kissed each other with 10 years of passion behind them, it was like being stuck in the perfect moment, never wanting it to end, they continued to kiss for the next 10 minutes, until Harry's pocket began to ring.

"Potter" he answered after taking out his flash new mobile phone "Hey Tonks, how's that case going with Draco Malfoy, I really want him to go down, he's a slimy git, we just need the evidence that he's still at large, but he's not been seen since our duel in Hogsmeade. Well carry on trying to locate him, and I'll catch up with you next week, hopefully I'll have some very good news by then."

"I forgot to mention that me Tonks and Kingsly have been put together as a team, our specialty is hunting down rogue wizards who have exceeded a certain level of danger to the public, and I'm sure as you well know there have been a lot of attacks on muggles recently, well Draco and his cronies have begun to finish Voldermort's work off and we all know that means trouble. The problem with Malfoy is that he knows who's after him and he'll go to any lengths to get at us, so I'm just even gladder that you're okay, which is why I asked about Ron earlier." explained Harry

"Well, I'm glad that you're on the case, I know you'll find him, he never managed to outsmart you at school and he certainly won't be able to do it now." said Hermione in her matter-of-fact voice.

"Hey I've got an idea, let's go see Fred and George, see how Weasly's Wizard Wheezes is doing, it's been a good 6 years since they started up." piped up Harry looking to change the subject.

"That's a brilliant idea, I'd love to see how they're doing, we haven't seen them in ages, and what with it so near to Christmas, we'll be able to get down to the burrow too, I miss Molly's cooking." replied Hermione quite happy to move the subject of Malfoy to one side.

The two of them walked down the street hand in hand, quite clearly in love.