Disclaimer: I'm not JK so therefore these characters and settings are not mine, Things you recognize are not mine, some of the things you may not recognize are not mine either, just depends on how well you know your Harry Potter world. All the extra students and people in this chapter do all belong to JK, none of them are mine. She made them so they belong to her, by rights.
This is my new fic called Old faces. At the end of the chapter please review.
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Chapter – Graduation
"So Miss Granger, what do you plan doing after you leave school?" Dumbledore asked Hermione, July 29th. The day of graduation.
"I'm going to study to be a muggle nurse" Hermione said smiling at her now ex-headmaster.
"Always studious, keep it up Miss Granger" he said leaving her
"I will sir, I will" Hermione said as she decided to join her friends. Ron was sat eating with his brothers and Ginny was with Harry, like they always were.
"Nice speech Hermione, dear" Molly Weasley said to Hermione was she approached them. Hermione had been head girl for her final year so she had to give a speech. She had loved been head girl, especially having her secret boyfriend was head boy, with who she shared a common room with and bathroom. Draco Malfoy.
"Thank you Molly" Hermione said as she hugged her second mother, noticing Draco as she looked over Molly's shoulder, giving a little smile at him she turned her attention back to the Weasley's.
"Ron, you going to make your self ill, eating chocolate like there's no tomorrow" Molly fussed over a very greedy Ronald. Hermione laughed as Ron's response.
"There wont be any tomorrow, Aurora training starts next week, do you really think they are going to let me eat as much chocolate as I want" he said shoveling more into his mouth.
Harry and Ron were starting training to be Aurora's the following week. Hermione decided not to since her heart lie in medicine and with a certain blond Slytherin.
Thinking of how much she loved Draco, and he her. She thought of all her friends and how she lied to them over the last 8 months, since December when she and Draco started dating. She couldn't tell them, not with the history between Harry, Ron and Draco. She didn't forgive him that easily but she did in the end but they wouldn't be able to so.
"The train will be leaving in a hour and half, from Hogsmede, could all 7th years please make their way to their dorm rooms and collect their things" Dumbledore said to everyone.
"Ill see you guys on the train" Hermione said waving
"What, Hermione we have about 2 hours before we leave and never have to come back and you want to spend all of it in your room" Harry said
"I have to see if ive packed all my things, like you said, we wont be coming back" she said leaving the great hall. Draco saw Hermione exit and made his excuses to his friends and left the hall too, after Hermione.
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"Draco, put me down, this instant" Hermione screamed as Draco entered the common room picked her up.
"No" was his answer
"Draco, please" she begged, Draco put her down and kissed her tenderly.
"I cannot believe this is it. Were no longer Hogwarts students" Hermione said sadly looking round the now empty common room.
"I know, but be thankful you were"
"I am, very thankful" Hermione said kissing Draco one more time. "Also very thankful for you moving in with me" she said, referring to Draco who said he would move in with her, in to her new flat that her parents had bought for her in London. Muggle London.
"Muggle London, wonder what father would make of that. A Malfoy living as a muggle" Draco said looking out of the window.
"Don't worry, there's nothing he can do" Hermione said thinking of Lucius and how he died 2 years ago when he was in Azkaban. Unfortunately Voldermort wasn't dead, he was very much alive.
"I love you" Draco told her
"I love you more" Hermione said kissing him before taking her wand and levitating her things out of the room "Ill meet you on the train, Heads compartment" she called after him.
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"Where you going Hermione?" Ginny asked after Hermione had been sat on the train with them for an hour.
"Ive got to go see if everyone is behaving, Head duties"
"Still?"
"Yeah, just because were no longer students, im still head girl"
"How come Dumbledore is making you patrol the train?" Ron asked looking up from the chess game he was winning against Harry.
"Because were no longer students, and we cannot get in trouble so many people will see this as a opportunity to miss behave" she said walking to the door "Ill see you guys later"
"Hermione, wait" Ron called, Hermione turned to him "When will we see you again?"
"Ill write, soon"
"Come to the burrow with us" Harry said quitting his loosing battle against Ron's chess pieces
"Id love too, but ive got to see my parents and settle into my new place. Ill write, and text when your in the muggle world Harry" she said, talking about Harry's new mobile phone. Not exactly a new phone, it was a hand me down of Dudley's that his Aunt and Uncle gave him as a leaving their home present. "Bye Guys" she said giving each of them a last hug and leaving.
She walked along the train, calling in to many compartments of the 7th years to say bye to them. She said bye to Seamus, Neville, Dean, Pavait and Padma, Lavender and Colin from her house. Next lot where the Ravenclaws, Terry Boot and Mandy Brocklehurst. Hufflepuffs Justin Flinch-Fletchley, Kevin Whitby and Sally-Anne Perks. She wisely decided to leave the Slytherins.
She walked into the heads compartment, she was alone. She sat down and decided to wait for Draco, to pass the time she got out her book on Dilys Derwent, a St. Mungos healer and former headmaster of Hogwarts.
"Still the same" Drawled the voice of Draco from the compartment door, Hermione looked up to see him smiling at her. She nodded shyly and put her book down. Draco went and kissed her and sat next to her. Locking the door with the powerful locking spell that only his wand could break.
"I missed you" he said
"It's been a hour or so Draco"
"You're a very infectious person, you know people could miss you seconds after you have gone"
"Your too kind Draco" Hermione said sarcastically while resting her head on his shoulder and closing her eyes.
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"Come on bushy" Draco said shaking his shoulder, making Hermione wake up and look around
"Hey" she said hoarsely "Do that again, ill hex you so hard you kids will feel it" she said joked
"Better not, they wouldn't forgive their mother for that" he said
"What?" came a shocked reply "Do you know something I don't?" she said shakily. But Draco ignored her and continued
"Hermione, I cant picture you not by my side for the rest of my life, you're the one and only in my life and will be forever more" Draco fell to the floor and produced a small red velvet rose shaped box from his pocked "Make me even happier than when im with you and agree to be my wife" he said opening the small box. The ring was white gold and had a rose bud carved out of a huge diamond. Hermione felt Draco grab her hand and place the ring on her finger, she just looked at the exquisite ring now on her finger "Now would be the time to saw something Hermione" Draco mumbled to himself.
"Im not ready Draco, I love you and want to marry you, but were 18 years old" Draco stood up and looked into her eyes
"We can get married later, 10 years time, 20 years, you name the date and we shall marry on that day"
"Yes, ill marry you" she cried, fingering the diamond before jumping into Draco's open arms kissing his neck and cheek.
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Well this chapter certainly is long. Wow, everything just kept rolling from my brain to my fingers.
Please review, all of you, please, please. You know you want to, even if it's to flame about something.
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