Chapter 31
From Loving You
After they all took their last look around everyone boarded the Hogwarts Express. The compartments filled up quickly and Harry, Ginny, Ron, Kiara and Hermione found one to themselves.
They all looked out the window and watched as the train pulled away leaving Hogwarts off in the distance.
After a while Seamus, Neville and Dean came into the compartment and said that they had gotten a compartment with Lavender, Parvati, and some of Ginny's friends from 6th year. They played games for a bit then Ginny went to visit her friends when Kiara went to do the same.
A couple of hours went by with games and laughter everyone was getting tired so they all went back to their compartment.
"Ah, once again the three of us are left." Harry piped up.
"Like always mate, like always!" added Ron.
"It'll always be that way, the three of us together right?" Hermione asked.
"Hermione! How dare you insinuate it be any other way!" Ron joked.
"Just making sure. When I say us three I am of course not excluding Kiara and Ginny," Hermione said partly shocked at Ron's use of a big word, well for him anyway. "Gee Ron, I didn't know you used such language!" She continued.
"Oh sure, I know loads of other snooty words as well, but I didn't want you to feel inferior and all so I just don't use them is all." He shot back.
Hermione just rolled her eyes while Harry laughed.
"Of course. Hey whether you guys like it or not we are stuck together forever." Harry said as he stuck his hand out, palm down.
"Together forever mates!" Ron said as he put his hand on top of Harry's.
"Together forever!" Hermione said but not before a chuckle with the corniness of it, and put her hand on top of theirs. They lowered their hands as in to seal the deal and then threw them into the air.
Not long after that Kiara and Ginny came into the compartment and sat with Harry and Ron across from Hermione. Hermione noticed that the girls had already changed into their normal clothes so she figured it was time for her to do the same.
Hermione was about to leave the girls loo, but before she left she looked at the folded robes that lay in her hands. A sad sense of closure came over her as she took a deep breath and headed back to her compartment. She kept looking over her shoulder in hopes of seeing Draco peering at her from some hidden place, but was disappointed to find he wasn't. She finally reached her destination and put her things into her carry on bag and sat where she had been before she departed.
"So Hermione, what is the plan?" Kiara asked.
"Well I am leaving as soon as we get to the station. My parents are going to met me there to say a quick hello then goodbye for another two weeks then I am off to an area not to far from here, about an hour or so, located in the middle of a muggle area so I will drive there the good old fashioned muggle way. I will begin my training then head home after two weeks for your wedding and a bit of a break for a few days then head back with Harry and Ron." Hermione replied.
"How come you just don't apparate there, since you are able to? By the way good job on you apparating test, sorry I haven't said it sooner." Ginny asked.
"Thank you. Well that would be the faster way, but my father bought me a car for my birthday slash Christmas present and I don't want to break his heart by not taking it with me and besides he is going through the trouble of bringing it to the station for me. Not to mention all the trouble he went through to get it." Hermione answered laughing as she shook her head.
"Oh I see, parents do seem to get their feelings hurt easily." Ginny noted.
"So I guess after Ron and I marry, you and Harry will be next?" Kiara asked Ginny.
"Probably next summer, but we'll see." Ginny replied. Harry and Ginny had been discussing marriage and he kind of wanted to hold it off until Voldemort was gone.
"Aren't you guys waiting until marriage to well… well you know?" Kiara asked.
"Yup." Was all Harry was able to say trying to put up a smile.
"That's at least year from now, boy that's a long time. Well good for you it takes really strong people who love each other the way that you two do to be able do that. That is admirable." Kiara said.
"Thank you. We think so too don't we Harry?" Said Ginny.
"Oh, yes… absolutely!" Harry tried to say convincingly. Ginny and Kiara smiled as they were convinced however Hermione and Ron knew better. Both raised an eyebrow and looked at each other then to Harry.
Soon a comfortable silence over came the compartment as Ginny and Kiara lay their heads against their others and closed their eyes. Hermione now found herself feeling a little alone and felt it to be a perfect time to pull out her cd player that she had been unable to use for quite some time. She hoped that the batteries still worked since it had been months since she last used it. Much to her relief it did.
She flipped through the songs on her Mandy Moore cd. It was the last cd that she had put in there many months ago. She had felt herself drawn to it the summer before. Soon she found a song that fit how she felt, 'From loving you'.
She started to sing it out loud quietly at first but then noticed that the other occupants were smiling at her and asking her to sing louder so they could hear better. She was a little reluctant but surprisingly she felt comfortable. Normally before she would be nervous but she has found a new confidence. Her friends moved closer to the ones they loved as a tear steamed down Ginny's cheek.
Draco was on his way back to his compartment when he found that the whole section of the train went silent except for a voice singing. He knew whose voice it belonged to. He moved in closer to the compartment and leaned against the wall beside the door. When he made out the lyrics he knew it was about him, about them. Draco felt a rush of warmth and happiness of the memories that flowed through him and sad because it was all over.
He moved into the next compartment over where his group was sitting when others started to stick their heads out of their compartments to find out who was singing, to hear it better and to see where it was coming from.
Soon they arrive at platform 9 ¾. They all file out trying to make they way through the mad crowd of people trying to reach their families. There were cheers of happiness from students from the lower years that were excited for the summer holidays to begin before they go off in the fall to return to Hogwarts once again. However many of the seventh years felt a sad wave of a deeper consciousness that they were done and that was their final ride on the Hogwarts Express as students. Hermione, Harry, and Ron being a few of them. Although they were looking forward to their future it was still a pang of sadness that it was the end of an era.
They made their way over to the Weasley bunch that was impatiently waiting for them. Finally they found their way to them and followed them out of the secret barrier that separated their world to the muggle world.
Hermione tried her best to try so see if she could see Draco anywhere, but failed. She sighed and looked for her parents, which hadn't taken long.
They ran over to her and greeted her with a warm hug. No matter how old Hermione was she loved the feeling of that. How her parents loved her so much they didn't care how old she was, she was getting a hug. Sometimes it could be embarrassing but not today she missed them and she was only going to see them briefly then wouldn't see them for another two weeks after that. That also was going to be a short time.
They all moved outside of Kings Crossing. Kiara was the first to part from them and headed off with her parents after a brief talking between the parents. Hermione's dad ran off to pull Hermione's car around.
When her father returned Mr. Weasley instantly ran over to it. Funny enough he knew what kind of car it was. After a quick goodbye with her parents, Hermione watched them walk down the parking lot with the older Weasleys who had also a bid her farewell. Hermione leaded up against the front of her car after retrieving her sunglasses from the car and placed the in her hair.
"So well I guess this is it then." Harry said as he, Ron, Ginny, Fred and George stood around her car.
"Oh Harry it's not like your never going to see each other again." Said George.
"Yeah mate, it's only a couple of weeks." Fred added.
"Yeah well it may seem like that to you but for me a couple of weeks at the Dursley's feels like an eternity!" Harry said.
"Hey Fred, George if you both are here who is at your shop?" Ron asked.
"Percy." Fred and George answered. They all started to laugh at this.
"Have you two gone mad?" Ginny said in between giggles.
"Could you imagine, Percy in a joke shop, he has to be the most uptight person there is, besides Hermione that is!" Ron said as he tried to keep himself from bursting into another laughing fit.
"Hey! I take offense to that!" Hermione laughed as she punched Ron playfully on the arm.
"Hey, only joking! You know you really hit like Hagrid!" Ron laughed as he rubbed his arm.
"Well I suppose I should get going before they ask me to move my car." Hermione said with a smile.
They all said goodbye and gave her hugs as Dudley pulled madly up to them. Making a few pedestrians jump out of the way and gave him dirty looks as they walked past. Obviously he had yet to learn to properly drive. Harry bid them ado as he jumped into the vehicle and braced himself for the ride.
After he drove off Hermione got into her convertible car and gave the group a wave as they walked towards their parents. She then pulled her glasses down and put them over her eyes. Right before she drove off she felt as if someone was watching her she looked around but disappointingly found no one. At that she put the car into drive as the song 'breakaway' by Kelly Clarkson came onto the radio.
Hermione pulled out of the parking lot and turned right. She lifted her arm extended it out of the car. Her hand flew thought the air as she drove away. As the song played it seemed to fit how it was with her leaving him in her past as she moved forward to her future.
Meanwhile….
Draco rushed through the crowd of students heading to their families. Once again no one was there to meet him. Draco was left to find his own way home, it was a good thing that he was of age now and had taken the test so he could apparate home. Instead of going home he went to the roof of Kings Cross to a familiar place that he had gone to a year before.
He sat on the rampart and leaned against the wall of the higher level. He looked down and saw Hermione come out with her family, Harry and the Weasley bunch. He watched her wait for her father to come back and admired how she looked in her black cami top and blue jean A-line skirt that went to her knees. With a pair of black sandaled heals. He loved her mid back brown wavy hair and how it played in the breeze as it always did as if it were it's favorite pastime.
He watched as she talked, laughed and said goodbye to everyone as Harry left. He felt a surge of electricity as she looked around in her knowing she felt him. Then felt disappointed that she didn't look up as she gave up looking around and drove off. Draco watched painfully as Hermione drove away and off to the rest of her life with out him. Out of all the things his parents had given him there was one thing he couldn't have. When she was out of sight he leaned him head against the wall and looked up to the sky as tears flowed silently down his cheek.
A/N: Only one more chapter of sadness! And only 3 chapters left! One of those chapters belonging to the epilogue. Also chapter 33 (the chapter many of you have been longing for) is very long over 12000 words but I love this chapter personally. I put this up sooner one because you guys are being so great about reviewing and second others have gone through the story and reviewed every chapter, thank you so much! On with Q&A:
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