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"Oh, are you a prefect Percy? You should have said something, we had no idea."
"Hang on I think I remember him saying something about it, once..."
"Or twice–"
"A minute–"
"All summer–"

"We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us."

–George and Fred Weasley

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Chapter 24

The others slowly walked off to leave Draco alone with his dead wife, a single tear fell from his eye and landed on her cheek, he used his thumb to wipe it away, when he felt something moving underneath him, his eyes were closed but when he opened them, he saw that her eyes flicked open a little, until they was fully open, she was awake, obviously alive.

"... and I love you" she said in the smallest whisper she could muster. Draco double took, he couldn't believe his eyes, and she was alive and looking at him.

"SHE'S ALIVE" he shouted, his voice echoing off the walls of the empty room. As threw him self on her kissing her at every available part of her face that wasn't stitched up.

"MUM, LIBBY, SHES ALIVE" he shouted again, running towards to office, which was obviously sound proof, he burst in

"SHES ALIVE" he said running back to her bedside

"That's not possible…" Poppy said running after him, when she arrived at her bed, she saw that Hermione was alive and awake "Oh my, its a miracle" she said to everyone who had followed.

"Draco I love you" Hermione said in front of all her family, friends, and the professors. Hermione was now sat up on the bed and Draco had climbed in next to her because she was so small and the beds were roomy. Libby and Narcissa sat to one side of the bed and Charles and Lucius at the other, Harry Ron, Ginny and the professors were at the bottom of the bed. They all looked at Draco after Hermione said she loved him.

"I love you too," he said as she leaned for a kiss. Libby and Narcissa looked at each other out of the corner of their eyes and smiled, they knew that their children would love each other in time.

"Hermione, dear we need to talk" Poppy said spoiling the moment, then the realization hit Draco, Hermione had no idea she lost the baby.

"What's wrong?"

"First, you need to know what happened to you" Dumbledore said "It appears that Bore, the beater for Slytherin purposely hit a bludger in your direction. Now I cannot do anything until I spoke to you"

"I want to see him" she said quietly "I want to know why he did, it, god I even want to know who he his" she said, she didn't even know that lad.

"That's fine, I will leave it to your capable hands but come see me if there is any problems" Dumbledore said

"You're not going to see him" Draco said

"Draco, please its ok" Hermione said holding his hand.

"I want him off the team"

"Let me see him first" she reasoned and Draco nodded "I can look after myself" he really wasn't sure though. He knew Hermione was a very strong woman, but she had just come round from her coma and she wasn't strong enough to be gallivanting around the school seeking answers as to why she was a target of cruel vendetta.

"Hermione, the bludger hit you in your stomach and due to the seriousness of the blow, you fell over the stands, now the fall just knocked you unconscious, but the blow to your stomach was much more serious" Poppy said looking at Hermione's confused face she continued "Hermione you were about 2 months pregnant" Hermione stared at her for a few seconds, not believing her at first

"I was?"

"Yes, because of the blow and the fall and you been unconscious, you lost the baby, I'm ever so sorry"

"I was having a baby?" she cried in to Draco's shoulder

"Yes, we were having a son" Draco said and Hermione cried harder

"Maybe we should go" Ginny said getting up with Harry and Ron following. They looked back and Draco nodded at them.

"We will leave you two alone" Narcissa said as all the others left, leaving Hermione and Draco alone.

Hermione and Draco talked for a while until Hermione cried herself to sleep in Draco's arms, they had agreed to a remembrance ceremony for the baby. Hermione even chose a name for him, a name that Draco liked very much. Alexander Draco Malfoy.

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Hermione and Draco stood in black robes upon a hill side, behind them were Narcissa and Lucius, Libby and Charles, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Dumbledore, McGonagall and even Snape. It was a week after Hermione woke up and she wanted to hold the ceremony, it was now the first week of the New Year and not how everyone would have liked it to be.

Dumbledore stepped forward in front of Hermione and Draco "We are gathered here today to remember the short life Alexander Draco Malfoy son of Draco and Hermione. Although we never met Alexander he will always be thought of and remembered by his parents and family." Dumbledore said "Hermione, Draco" They moved forwards to the end of the hill, Hermione was holding a while balloon in her hands, which she raised and released into the wind, which took the balloon high into the sky. At this Hermione cried even more and walked back to the castle followed by everyone else.

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"Mr. Bore, you are needed" Snape said that every same day as he located Bore in the common room. Bore got up and followed Snape to Dumbeldore's office. Where Hermione was waiting, still in her funeral robes. Bore entered and Snape left the two alone

"You look like hell" he said

"Yeah, I feel like it too" she said dryly

"Why is that, Draco not giving it you" he smirked

"No, actually I've just been to a funeral"

"Shame it wasn't your own, I heard about your little recantation" he sat on the table next to Hermione "Not scared of me are you mudblood"

"I'm pureblooded, if you must know"

"Yeah I know and that's why Draco married you, it was you or Parkinson at the top of the league and well you are much better looking" he said as he touched her thigh, at which she jumped away from him

"Don't you ever touch me, I'm married and love Draco"

"Yeah and I suppose he loves you, at least that's what he told you"

"He does love me, I know it, I can feel it"

"Whatever, we didn't come to discuss your love life, what do you want?"

"I want to know why you did it, why you nearly killed me?"

"Because I hate you, all of Slytherin hates you and Parkinson gave me a very tidy sum of money"

"Pansy Parkinson?" Hermione questioned

"Yeah, she paid me to do it, gave me a hundred galleons, killing you was just a bonus for me to have the satisfaction"

"Why?" Hermione was trying to stop herself from killing him there and then

"Because Slytherin girls hate you for taking their sex god away from them"

"So that's why?"

"That and Pansy thought she was going to marry Draco and get all his money, once a wizard is married the only thing that can make him marry again is the death of his wife, so she wanted you dead."

"So you nearly killed me and killed Alexander for money, is that it?"

"Yes...who's Alexander?" he asked confused

"Oh he was mine and Draco's son, we've just had a remembrance ceremony today, about 2 hours ago" she said as she cried at the thought of her baby.

"So I did get my bonus after all, and this is just going to the bonus of all bonuses" he said walking to Hermione and grabbing her hair tightly

"What do you think your doing?" she screamed as he pushed her against the wall causing her head to hit the stone cold wall

"This" he said as he pulled out his wand and pointed it at her face

"I wouldn't do that if I was you" a voice said from the back of him, Bore turned to see Draco stood with Lucius and Charles and Dumbledore. Bore immediately let go of Hermione and she fell to the floor

"Me and the bitch were just having fun, Draco you should learn to share things," he said laughing "What you going to do about it?" he asked Dumbledore

"This" Dumbledore replied and hit him with a stunning spell, Bore fell to the ground "I'll take him" Snape said as he walked into the room

"We'll come too" Charles said as they apparated out to the ministry.

Draco rushed to Hermione "Are you ok?" he asked

"Can we just go back to our room?"

"Of course, come here" Draco picked her up and carried her back to their room, Hermione was too tired to walk back and too tired to argue with him because she hated been picked up.

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