"Mum! Wake up! Wake up!"

"Hmph." Hermione let out a whoosh of air as her adorable little five year old girl jumped on her stomach.

"You know what day it is!"

"No, I don't. Tell me Abby?" Hermione asked in a joking tone

"Mummy!" Abbigal Granger giggled.

In Hermione's opinion Abby was the most gorgeous thing in the world. She had piercing blue eyes and brown curly hair. Hermione got alot of comments about how cute Abby was. Abby was of course starting her first day at school and was overjoyed about it.

"Drive me to school and then tonight we're having a party just for me! School! Mummy, school!" Abby replied bouncing a bit on Hermione's stomach.

"Calm down Abby!" Hermione smiled. She remembered that she was just as excited as Abby is on her first day of school.

Regretfully Hermione got up and performed the motherly duties. Get Abby dressed, fed and packed so she was completely prepared. Hermione had a quick shower and got dressed herself while Abby was reading a wizarding children's picture book. Abby was able to read at the age of four. It was an amazing attempt but she missed most of the story out. Now she was able to read many muggle books with ease and likes to look at Hermione's wizarding books and pretends to read them.

"Mum! Hurry up!"

"Coming you little minx!" Hermione scooped Abby up and carried her out to the 4x4. Hermione buckled Abby in and jumped in herself. They took off down the road to Wigram Point Primary School.

"Abbigal Granger?"

"Abby." Hermione muttered in the ear of her child.

"Hmm?"

"Hannah Fisher?"

"What did you want mummy?" Abby hissed to her mother "I'm waiting for my name."

"Your name's already been called sweetie." Hermione smiled at her child's amazed face.

"Grace Zabini?" Hermione froze at the name.

"Yes, Ms Halloper?" Hermione looked for the kid from which the voice issued from. 'Don't be Blaise Zabini's child, please don't his child.' Hermione thought pleadingly. The girl had jet black straight hair and almost as dark eyes. Her skin was pale with a few freckles here and there on her face. 'How many people had the last name Zabini?' There he was looking directly at her with a smile tugging at the edges of his mouth. 'Oh, no.' Hermione thought despairingly. The group of parents started to get up and left their children on the mat and were walking around talking to each other. Hermione put Abby down and walked towards the teacher, Ms Halloper.

"Hi, I'm Hermione Granger." Hermione said extending a hand.

"Hello, Mrs Granger. I'm Jenny Halloper, the teacher here."

"Oh about names, I'm actually Miss Granger."

"Abbigal's your sister?"

"No my daughter."

"Oh. What did you want to talk to me about?" Ms. Halloper said in honeyed tones, clearly disapproving.

"Abbigal prefers to be called Abby. If she's not called that she won't respond." Hermione answered flashing smile.

"I'll take note of that then." was all Ms. Halloper replied before walking off.

"I trust you've been well Hermione." a voice said in her ear as she watched Abby and Grace playing together happily. "Haven't heard much from you at all for five years."

"Yeah well you wouldn't."

"And why's that?"

"Because I turned away from Hogwarts after I was 18."

"Why, Mya?" calling her the nickname he favoured for her in their heads common room.

"Because I've changed."

"You can't say you don't use magic anymore." Blaise asked sounding horrified.

"Of course I use magic! It's the things that went on in the common room."

"That's how bad they were for you?"

"No! It's just that things have come out it that I'd rather hadn't."

"Who's is she?"

"Who?"

"Abby."

"Not yours."

"Phew, one five year old is enough thanks."

"Whose is yours?"

"Elizabeth Rollins's."

"The Pansy followerer?"

"The one and only."

"When did you get her pregnant?"
"On rebound. But we were in love and it's stayed that way so we're fine with Grace."

"How's," she took a breath "how's Draco?"

"Fine. Running Malfoy Inc. amazingly well considering he didn't want it at all."

"Draco didn't want to be head huncho of Malfoy Inc.? And pigs fly."

"He didn't want anything to do with his father after Voldemort was dead."

"Of course he didn't but he could have been placed at the head of a department in, I don't know, maybe New Zealand?"

"New Zealand?"

"Ok, stupid thought, I am entitled to them though."

"Got to go. Have a meeting in twenty minutes. Talk later okay Mya?"

"Whatever." and turned to face him. Five years had done Blaise some good. He had a great body and she was still at his shoulders, but his face had a maturity that wasn't there five years ago. It made him look like he had experienced the lot.

"Ginny I don't know. I'm fine where I am."

"But you don't have a lot of opportunities do you?"

"Working for him won't necessarily give me those opportunity's though."

Ginny gave her a look that said: You're-being-stupid-get-over-whatever-it-is-now.

"Ok, fine. I'll go to the meeting. But there's no guarantee I'll get the job though."

"Pfft. You're the best. He knows it. You know it. Stop looking for excuses."

They finished their coffee in silence and Ginny handed Hermione her time for the interview.

"You already set it up?"
"Duh."

Abby always felt proud she was born almost on midnight. Until now. Grace Zabini brought a new light to being a midnight child. She was snooty and acted like she always got her way. She also didn't like the way Grace's dad looked at her mummy. It was like she was lunch. It rather freaked Abby out quite a bit. By the end of her first day at WPPS she found that: Simon was really shy and kept to himself. Meg was like clone and did everything Grace did. Grace always wanted attention and screamed when she didn't have it. Hannah was really nice and outgoing. Greg loved to kick things, anything. Ricky ruined everything because he was a bully. And Sam made his way through the day like a dreamer. All in all Abby liked Hannah the best and hung out with her after lunch, because Grace's voice was getting to annoy her.

"So you want to go down the slide Abby?" Hannah's excited voice came from beside her.

"Yeah!" So they made their way to the top of the slide and slid down 'train style' so many times that they thought they wanted to try the big kids slide. Soon the bell rung which meant that the day was over and their parents would pick them up.

At three thirty Abby was still sitting at the gate.

"Mummy!" Abby exclaimed when she saw the green 4x4 come down the road.

"Oh my gosh! Baby I'm soo sorry! I got caught up in traffic. Work is on the other side of town." Hermione said as she hurried round to help Abby into the truck. 'Until next week hopefully.' Hermione thought to herself.