TA-DA! I"m done! All that's left is the epilogue! okay so u know but i'm sayin it! i don't own the people just the plot!
The weekend came quickly and Draco and I headed out to Hogsmeade. We were to meet Ron and Harry for lunch at noon so we had a few hours to shop before we needed to meet them. We walked around the shops laughing and talking arm in arm. As we walked I began to look at the other students around us. Dumbledore was right, before the houses mainly stayed together but there was a mixture of students all around, laughing and talking just like Draco and I were.
Finally noon rolled around and Draco and I met Harry and Ron at The Three Broomsticks. We all sat down at a table Ron and Harry across from Draco and I. "Now, we" Harry indicated Ron and himself sounding as if he meant to interrogate us. "Asked you to come here today so we could ask you both a few questions." Apparently he didn't just 'sound like he was going to interrogate us, he actually was. "Malfoy, we'll start with you." Draco nodded looking slightly bemused.
Ron started, "Malfoy, what are your intentions for our Hermione here?" I gaped at Ron and Harry in shock but Draco just smiled.
"That's an easy question. I will stay with her as long as she'll have me." He squeezed my hand under the table, I closed my mouth and gave him a smile.
"Do you promise not to compromise her?"
"Ron!" I gasped swinging my head away from Draco to stare at him.
"I promise." again swinging my head back around to look at Draco, who had answered immediately. He just gave a smile and a wink.
"Do you promise to always be kind to her, never abuse her, and never to go back to the dark side?" I gave up trying to stop any of this it was going to happen anyway.
"I will always be kind to Hermione, I would never harshly lay a finger on her, and I would never go back to the dark side. There is too much happiness on the good side." He looked in my eyes as he said the last sentence and I kissed him on the cheek.
"Ew, okay Harry I'm done, your turn."
"Thanks. Since you've already answered all of those questions I only have one to ask you. Do you love her?"
"With all my heart." He said again looking only at me. Suddenly I realized that no one had said anything. I looked over and Harry and Ron were talking in whispers to each other. Apparently satisfied they turned to me.
"Okay Hermione your turn," Harry started, "Hermione, what are your intentions for Malfoy?"
"What? Harry it's me are you serious?"
"Yes, Malfoy has become a friend in the past eight months you've been dating so we're concerned for him too, now answer the question."
"My intentions for Draco are use him and then just cast him aside as fling." I said sarcastically, Ron and Harry looked shocked but Draco chuckled beside me. "I was just kidding. My intentions for Draco are the same as his, to stay with him as long as he'll have me. I will not comprise or abuse him. I will always be kind to him and I will never turn to the dark side. Oh, and I love him more than anyone in the world."
"Well yeah that about takes care of it." Harry and Ron looked at each other and nodded.
Together they said, "Okay you have our blessing."
"Go on and stay together," Harry continued, "At first we thought it was a phase, but apparently we were wrong."
"Yeah, but Malfoy if you get her pregnant you sure as hell better marry her or we will come after you!"
"Ron!" I said startled.
"Thank you." said Draco simply. Ron and Harry nodded at him and looked satisfied. We ordered lunch and talked for the rest of the meal before going our separate ways. Once Draco and I had begun to walk down the street I looked at the ring on my hand and noticed that the circle had grown again, take up about 2/3 of the ring.
"Draco, look! What happened?"
"Acceptance. I always worried about if one day Harry and Ron would try to convince you that I wasn't good enough for you. Now that they've accepted me I don't have to worry about them anymore." I laughed and leaned into Draco as we walked down the street towards the path leading to Hogwarts.
The weeks passed by as time always does when one is enjoying themselves and I soon found that it was my birthday. "Ugh" I woke with a start as something large landed on my stomach. "Oh, Hi Crookshanks." I looked down at the cat he was looking from me to my dresser and then to the door. He kept doing this repeatedly. Worried, I got up, got changed, and brushed my hair. I walked out into the common room was taken aback.
"SURPRISE!" I looked around all of my friends were there and a few teachers. Even Dobby and Dumbledore were there.
"Happy Birthday!" they shouted in unison. I laughed and Draco who standing close by came forward and deposited a birthday hat on my head and a kiss on my cheek. "Happy Birthday my lioness." he whispered in my ear.
"Thanks." I whispered back. The party was fantastic, many people came to wish a happy birthday. Dobby gave me a pair of mismatched socks, one was green with open books on them and the other was red with little cartoon lionesses on them. Harry and Ron together gave me a book I'd been debating wether to buy or not. Professor McGonagall gave me a spare key to her room along with book, A Guide to Teaching. She told me in a choked voice how much it had helped her and how she proud she was train me to be a teacher. She gave me large hug and I was amazed at how much emotion she was showing, she usually tried to appear stern and uncaring.
Ginny gave me a bewitched journal that I could write and she would see whatever I'd written in another journal and vice-versa. So we could keep in touch after I'd graduated. I reminded her that I was coming back to teach but she said it would come in handy anyway. I received a box of things from Fred and George who couldn't make it. I got a lot of other presents from other people I'd gotten to know throughout the years. Dumbledore himself had given me a necklace, it contained a phoenix feather, a unicorn hair, and a four leaf clover. For "Health, beauty, and a little bit of luck" he had said when I'd opened the box, I'd never figured Dumbledore for a lucky charm person but then I never though I'd see Professor McGonagall cry.
Later that night when I was alone with Draco he gave me my present. "I couldn't give this to you in front of everybody because this something that means the world to me and it's very private." He sat me down on the couch then took one knee.
"Oh Draco." I said recognizing the position.
"Hermione. You've filled my life with a joy that I've never experienced before. You are my second half, my whole. I can guarantee things won't always be easy and that we'll fight, even been down right miserable at sometime. But I know that if I don't have you by side that I will be miserable forever. So, Hermione Granger, would you my wife?" He pulled a scarlet velvet box out of his pocket and opened it. Inside nestled against a bed of blue velvet was a beautifully cut engagement ring. It was a circular cut with two smaller diamonds on either side.
I gasped and my heart and my head screamed "Yes!" and I felt obliged to indulge them. "Draco Malfoy, you are second half and I love you. Yes, I will be your wife." I grinned at Draco and he grinned back. He took the ring out of the box and slipped it on my finger.
"A perfect fit, just like you and me." I looked at the other ring he had given me and it was almost completely red. He hugged me and kissed me for the rest of the night. Together we wrote a letter to my parents explaining. I knew they'd understand, I'd been keeping them informed all the while. Tomorrow, well technically tonight now, was graduation and we'd be seeing my parents then but I wanted to warn them first. The rest of the day we spent together and at lunch he sat at the Gryffindor table and we told everybody. Ginny pounced on me in a hug and Harry and Ron grinned and shook hands with Draco.
Later that night, after the ceremony Draco and I were talking to my parents, and Dumbledore. He agreed to let us live in the castle so I could do my training still. After awhile of talking to everyone Draco pulled me aside so he could to my privately.
"Hermione there was another thing I wanted to tell you tonight. First there was your heart ring, the engagement ring, and now...this isn't a ring but it's just something I wanted to tell you. You know how now that we've graduated we get out familiars?" I nodded. "Well Gidea and I were talking and we figured it out." What he said next had my jumping in his arms and he twirled me around before soundly kissing me. He said, "Hermione, you are my familiar."