Chapter 12
Reunion…Both Good and Bad
"Zach? Val?" I asked, looking from Zach Dyrdek, to his younger sister, Val.
"Princess!" Zach shouted, hoisting me off my feet into the bear hug I only ever got from him.
"Zach!" I shouted, throwing my arms around him. "How the Skinner did you find me!?"
"Blaise and I are mates, he watched Val a few years ago and got into talking about you. He was in on this place with Narcissa Malfoy so I decided since it's a few days till our school reunion…surprise!"
"Holy fuck!" I said, bending down to hug Val, who was Mel's age.
"Hi!" Val said happily, squeezing me tightly.
"I haven't seen you since you were three!" I said, holding her.
"Zach didn't shut up about you, even after he went to Durmstrang. He wanted to go to Hogwarts, but Karkaroff got to him first."
"But…I've moved back into the country!" Zach said. "I'm transferring to Hogwarts starting in January! Just got the owl from McGonagall, Val and I start with you guys when term comes back."
I screamed, throwing my arms around him. "This is great!" I said before making a face. "Wait…what about The Bitch?"
"You mean Grievance Grenville?" Zach asked. "She graduated Beauxbatons during the war, before Voldemort was defeated, nice work on that, by the way." Zach clapped my shoulder as Val grinned.
I smiled. "Well, don't just stand there like two frozen Cocky Clones, come on in!" I said, opening the door to let them both in.
"Thanks." Zach said, taking his leather jacket off and hanging it up as I took Val's coat.
…
"Alright, let me meet this fiancé of yours." Zach said after I gave him and Val the same tour Narcissa gave Draco and I the previous day.
I nodded, leading Zach into the kitchen, where I found Harry still watching WWE and he was wrestling Draco.
"The Boy Who Lived has Death Eater on the ropes!" Harry shouted, standing on the same recliner that he was sitting in while Draco was groaning on the floor. "Death Jump!" Harry shouted as Draco rolled over, Harry jumping.
"Death Eater gets Boy Who Lived in a choke hold!" Draco shouted, putting his words to action.
I cleared my throat. "Ahem!" I cleared my throat.
Draco looked up. "Uh, Harley Quinn being the beautiful girl that I fell in love with decides not to kick Death Eater's ass?" Draco asked hopefully, eyebrows raised.
"No." I said. "Harley Quinn is embarrassed that her future husband is acting like a first year in front of her friends!"
"Oh, fuck!" Draco shot up and composed himself. "Sorry."
"You owe me." I said. "Zach Dyrdek, this is Draco Malfoy, my fiancé. Draco, this is my old friend Zach and his sister Valerie."
The boys shook hands as Harry hoisted Val up.
"Hey!" Val squealed, hugging my brother.
"Valerie!" Harry said. "Where the hell did your cuteness go!?"
"Val, feel free to punch him in the nose." Draco and I said together.
Val grinned and punched Harry in the stomach. "I am still cute!" Val said, pouting and crossing her arms.
The doorbell rang.
"This time, I'll get it." Draco said, going to answer the door.
"BLAISE AND IVY ARE HERE!" Draco screamed two minutes later.
"INVITE THEM IN, THEN, YOU IDIOT!" I screamed back. "He's a fool sometimes, but I love him to death."
In an instance, Blaise had come in, Ivy in tow. "So help me, Malfoy, I said no strippers!" Blaise was shouting.
"Relax, Zabini, I didn't book a stripper." Draco assured his best mate. "Besides, no man would be aroused by a woman with a fiancée as beautiful as mine."
I grinned, blushing.
"Zach!" Blaise said, slapping Zach across the back. "And how's Val?"
Val beamed and ran to hug Blaise's legs as Ivy stood confused.
"Um, who are they?" Ivy asked Blaise.
"Zach and Valerie Dyrdek." I said. "Old friends of mine and Blaise's. Zach went to Durmstrang before the war and Val was pulled out of Beauxbatons enrollment to start at Hogwarts."
"I already gave Val her first year education, she just needs to write the exam." Zach said, ruffling Val's hair. "A half a year of refresher classes will do her some good."
I grinned hugging the two of them.
"Wait…if you were in Hannah's Muggle school…?" Draco asked.
"We're pure blood. My mother said that we needed some Muggle education before we were carted off to Durmstrang and Beauxbatons."
"Oh, yeah, how is Merissa?" I asked.
"Wonderful, she renewed her vows with my dad and now their expecting a new baby!" Val squealed happily. "I'm getting a baby sister!"
"That's wonderful!" I said excitedly. "I wonder how many bastards Grievance popped out."
"She hasn't, miraculously." Zach rolled his eyes and growled. "She's been fucking every guy in Surrey ever since we were thirteen. She's a fucking slut."
I laughed. "I had a feeling she'd end up like that. She have a baby daddy?" I asked.
Zach shook his head. "Nope!" he said. "She's a whore, she fucks anything with legs. She just works the streets until she finds a new guy to lay."
I rolled my eyes as Val nodded. "She was a mean lady! She had her clones steal my lunch all the time!"
"Honestly, this talking behind others' backs isn't nice." Draco said.
Zach, Val, Harry and I glared at him. "Draco, if you knew how bad she is, you'd be in on this, too." I told him.
"All right, how did you two meet?" Draco asked.
I sighed, reliving that horrendous day.
…
It was a Sunday, and my teacher, Mrs. Richards (who also happened to be related to Kitchener Ranger Mike Richards.) had announced on the Friday that on Monday, we'd be getting a new girl in our class.
I was anxious. This was my chance to have a real friend that wasn't my brother. I could barely contain myself with excitement.
"Harry, what if the new girl doesn't like me?" I asked, biting my lip as I looked frantically for something decent to wear.
"She'll love you, how the school hates you, I wouldn't know." Harry said, patting my shoulder as I cuddled into him, grinning.
"Harry, are you sure she'll like me after she hears my reputation?" I asked.
"The one Dudley gave you?" Harry scoffed. "You're an amazing beautiful girl. The new girl would be honoured to be your friend.
I smiled, falling asleep.
…
The next morning after practicing saying hello and introducing myself in the mirror on the bus, I hopped down and saw a group of people surrounding the new girl.
The new girl was dressed in a pink sundress, blonde hair tied up into pigtails, blue eyes looking pleased at the fact that she had made friends so fast. She even had boys fawning over her.
"I love your dress!" Piers Polkiess, Dudley's friend had said with a sigh. "Where'd you get it?"
"My Daddy got it for me on one of his business trips to New York!" the girl bragged. "He's a vocal coach to the stars, you know! Right now he's in New York telling Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel how to perform better while on Broadway!"
I grinned. Her and I loved music! Maybe we could get on like that!
"Oh, tell that to Potter." Gordon Beuller smirked. "That'd get her hopes up, thinking she'd get to meet Kristen Chenoweth!"
Dudley turned around in the laughing crowd and saw me, smirking. "Speak of the devil, hello, Browner."
I swallowed, looking down. "My name's not Browner!" I shouted, making the new girl look up. "It's Hannah." I added quietly, hoping for some support.
The new girl laughed, stepping forward to look at me. "What rock did you crawl out of?" she asked me.
Everyone laughed as I blushed.
"That's Hannah Potter, she's the biggest loser in school!"
"Where'd those clothes come from, the rubbish bin?" she sneered, looking me up and down and holding my hair. "And look at your hair! Haven't you ever heard of conditioner? God, I can't even stand to look at you! What a pasty face, stay away from me, freak, whatever disease you have, I don't want to catch."
The girls laughed and Dudley roared with laughter. "Good one, Tiffany!"
I looked down as she forced my chin up to meet her eyes. The scent of expensive perfume overwhelmed my senses.
Her face was softened as I stared into her cold blue eyes. "You have very pretty eyes." she said before smirking. "Too bad your face doesn't do them justice." Tiffany's face contorted with a sneer. "Good god, I can't even smell perfume on you! Don't your parents do anything to make you so less…plain! I mean, look at that monstrosity on your neck!" she pointed to the left side of my neck, where my scar was showing underneath my choker. "Is that supposed to be a birthmark? I don't blame you for wanting to hide it! God, your parents need to consider removing that thing!"
I looked down. "It's a scar and I got it when my parents died in a car crash." I said defensively.
"Oh!" Tiffany laughed. "So you're an urchin? That explains the homely appearance…hey, wait! That's it! I have a nickname for you. Homely Hannah!"
I hung my head as everyone laughed, pointing at me and calling me "Homely! Homely! Homely! Homely!"
Tiffany forced my head up and smirked. "No one will ever love you, you know that. No one in their right mind could ever fall in love with a beast." she hissed as tears started to cascade down my cheeks. "Oh, look! Homely can't handle the truth everyone, she's crying! Look at her!"
Everyone laughed harder as clouds rolled in and thunder clapped. I sniffed and ran off in tears.
…
I wiped my eyes and pulled myself together. "So that's how the Bitch and I met."
Draco growled, kissing my temple. "She was wrong." he assured me. "And I swear on my life we'll make her eat those words. She'll be more jealous than she's ever been in her life!"
I grinned and threw my arms around my fiancé.
…
By the night of the reunion, I was starting to get second thoughts about going.
I looked up at the old brick building of my old elementary school and swallowed, shaking my head. "I don't think I can do this." I said.
Draco gripped my shoulder through the cloak he had wrapped around me. "No, you're doing this." he told me.
I bit my lip. "She's going to see right through this act." I muttered.
"No she won't. you can't see through something real." Draco smirked. "Think about it, you're Harley Quinn, you're the one that saved the wizard world, you're the one I chose. She's a common slut."
"The only people who have anything good to say about her are those who she fucked." Zach told me before going in.
"Exactly." Draco said, kissing my temple. "Besides, she's not even dating anyone, let alone engaged." Draco laced his hand through mine. "So just get in there and bring them to their knees."
I grinned up at him, taking a deep breath and starting into the school.
Draco took his cloak off of me and sent it back to the Manor as I checked myself one last time.
I was wearing a midnight blue shirtdress, with silver buttons down to below where my bra was. The skirt went down to my knees to show off the same heels that I had worn at the Malfoy Christmas party when I was on the run. I quickly added a soft reapplication of my blood red lipstick and stood up straight, grinning. "Showtime!"
I took a deep breath and lead Draco into the gymnasium, swallowing as Draco opened the door.
"Ladies first." Draco told me.
I took another deep breath and stepped into the dark gym.
The occasion stopped when I entered the room with a click of my heel.
"Who is that?" Dudley's gang muttered.
"She looks fitter than Tiffany!" one of Tiffany's clones whispered.
"Bloody hell!" Dudley shouted, smirking at me. "Hannah!?"
"Dudley!" I said, running over and hugging him. "It's been so long! How's life?"
"Fine. Mum and me are back on Privet Drive after we got word that you killed this Voldemort bloke. Good on you, by the way." Dudley clapped my shoulder.
"Thanks." I grinned. "What about…" I trailed off.
"Dad?" Dudley asked. "Ditched us a few months after going into hiding. Didn't want to associate with anyone who treated you with respect." Dudley huffed, rolling his eyes. "So, what's new with you? Besides your engagement, of course." Dudley laughed.
I paled. "How'd you know?" I asked.
"You sent your owl to my mum." Dudley chuckled. "You honestly would have thought she'd react and not tell me?"
"Oh, yeah." I laughed. "How is Petunia faring with that?" I asked, biting my lip.
"She's actually thrilled." Dudley smirked. "Never thought it'd happen to you."
I grinned as Draco glared at Dudley. "Oh, right!" I said, stepping back. "Dudley, I don't think you two really got acquainted. Dudley, this is my fiancé, Draco. Draco, that's Dudley, my cousin." I turned to Draco with a "Please don't fuck this up for me." look.
Draco looked at me, nodded and shook hands with Dudley as I heard a familiar giggle.
"Ready for some convincing acting?" I asked, clearing my throat and turning around.
There stood Tiffany Grenville, standing with her wannabe clones, Tia and Mia.
Tia was a Black girl with a bleach blonde strand in front of her eye, the rest of her deep black hair pulled into a fishtail braid. She was wearing a red cocktail dress with matching stiletto heels, her lips cherry red and wearing a smirk.
Mia was the polar opposite of Tia. Mia was alabaster toned like I was, with dark brown hair and eyes as icy as a Malfoy's. She was wearing a black cocktail dress, matching stilettos and an evil smirk.
And then there was Tiffany. Tiffany's hair was in flawless waves as always, her makeup scarcely visible. But her dress sent all that to hell.
Her dress was an evening gown, shimmering and pink to go with her hair. She was looking down at me with cold mirth in her eyes that reminded me eerily of Scarlett Zimmerman.
"Well, well, well." she said with a laugh, pushing me aside and leaning against the wall to stare at Draco. "Don't try anything, girls, this one's mine."
Tia and Mia groaned, looking to each other as I felt a spark through my body and almost allowed a growl to escape my lips.
"Hello, gorgeous." Tiffany giggled. "Why did I never see you around school?"
"Because he didn't go to our school!" I growled, standing up.
"Homely!" Tiffany giggled. "Still have that hideous scar, I see." Tiffany laughed.
I narrowed my eyes.
"Be a love, Homely and get me a dreamboat here some drinks." Tiffany said, waving me away.
"Excuse me?" I asked. "Do I look like a waitress?"
"In that outfit absolutely." Tiffany laughed. "So, go get me a drink, lemonade, no ice. Same for the blonde Adonis here."
"That blonde Adonis is mine!" I said, getting in between Draco and the bitch.
Tiffany laughed. "Oh, she's going to fight for a cute boy. Brava, Homely." Tiffany congratulated as her girlfriends laughed. "But, honey, I saw him first, so do the world a favour and back off!"
I looked down at my left hand. "Back off? And let you shag my man into next week? I don't think so."
"Oh, how sweet, she's deluded!" Tiffany laughed. "Honey, remember when we agreed no one would love you? That's still in place."
I put my left hand on my hip. "That's funny…then…" I started, holding out my hand. "Then why the hell am I engaged?"
Tia and Mia gaped at my hand and Tia took it. "My god!" she gasped. "That looks really expensive."
"Please, T-T." Tiffany snapped. "That ring was most likely found in a gumball machine." Tiffany explained. "They're making cubic zirconia look much more real these days."
I conjured up a glass behind my back and held it out, scratching the diamond in my ring on it.
The glass cracked and frosted. I raised my eyebrows.
"It's the real deal." I growled, crossing my arms.
"Where'd you get it!" Mia asked excitedly, taking my hand.
"Obviously she bought it to make her look better." Tiffany said, faltering after I proved my ring was pure diamond.
"Oh, really?" Draco asked, finding a voice.
Tiffany laughed, shoving me aside again. "Oh, sweetheart, you don't need to waste your time on Homely." Tiffany chuckled. "It's not like she has feelings."
Draco raised his eyebrows, wrapping an arm around me. "If I were you, Beauxbatons girl, I wouldn't talk to my fiancée like that."
Tiffany paled. "YOU!?" she asked me. "What'd you have to do to win him!? Hex him?"
Draco shook his head. "Slap me across the face, more like."
Tiffany went red with rage. "How could you of all people find love!?"
I grinned, looking up at Draco. "What can I say?" I asked Tiffany. "It was love at first sight."
"Congratulations!" Mia and Tia said together.
"Hey!" Tiffany hissed. "You're supposed to be with me on this!"
"Sorry, Grenville." Tia sneered. "We didn't like how you treated Hannah. She was bullied enough in school."
"Yeah." Mia said. "You were a bitch to everyone. And you look like a whore!"
"Correction, M, she is a whore!" Tia sneered, stepping behind me.
Mia followed her and Tiffany glared at me.
"How!?" she asked. "You're the ugliest thing in the world and yet I get ditched for that!?"
"Easy." Draco sneered back. "Hannah's a sweetheart, you're a bitch. Hannah is like a Disney princess, you're like a Disney villainess. I can tell you why you hate her so much…you're jealous."
"Ew!" Tiffany sneered. "Why'd I sleep with a girl so hideously out of my league?"
"Not me and don't call her hideous!" Draco snarled. "You're jealous of her."
Tiffany smirked. "This is still my school. These are still my people. Right, Dudley?" Tiffany asked. "Come on, give Homely a push for old times sake."
"I don't think I can, Grenville." Dudley said, putting a hand on my shoulder. "I'm on her side. Right!" Dudley called to everyone.
Piers, Gordon Beuller and Malcolm Abernathy stepped up, obviously yes men for Dudley still.
"Absolutely." they said together.
No one else was paying attention, so Dudley, Draco, Piers, Gordon, Malcolm, Mia, Tia, Harry and I stared at Tiffany.
"Who's got the better life now?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.
Tiffany looked down. "You." she muttered. "You always did."
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"Think about it, Homely!" Tiffany sneered. "You didn't have any parents or friends besides the Dyrdeks. But you, you always had your brother! My mummy and daddy were always too busy for me."
"You were the only one who had it good!" I said. "Your parents got you everything you wanted."
"I only wanted a weekend with them at home." Tiffany explained. "I got nothing, you were the one who had what I wanted. And you're the one living my dream!"
"You went to a French magic school!" I whispered. "How can you say you don't have anything?"
"Look at you! You're wearing Vera Wang and I just got this at Wal-Mart. And look at you, you're engaged to an amazingly good looking man that really seems to love you."
I scoffed. "Please, seems is an insult for him." I muttered.
"Whatever." Tiffany rolled her eyes. "You have such the perfect life. Look at me, I got nothing."
I smirked at her. "Glad you finally see things my way." I said.
Harry patted my arm. "We'll be right back." Harry said, dragging me to get a drink.
"I never thought I'd see the day that Tiffany Grenville would apologize." I said laughing.
"Yeah, you chose books, she chose looks and now look where you two are. You're getting married, and Tiffany's whoring herself off to a different man every night."
I shrugged. "Who knows?" I asked, taking the drink Harry gave me.
"Hannah, you're gonna wanna see this." Dudley said, patting my shoulder. "It's Tiffany."
I cocked an eyebrow. "What are you talking about? She's being nothing less than -" I started before gasping.
Tiffany was kissing Draco, grinding on him.
"A little slut!" I hissed, reaching for my wand and grabbing it. "I'll rip her fucking hair out!"
"Hannah, no, not in front of the Muggles." Harry muttered, holding me back.
"I don't care, she's got it coming!" I hissed, fighting not to ignite a fireball in front of Muggles as I busted out of Harry's grip. "Get away from my man, sister!" I shouted at her, yanking her back.
Tiffany smirked at me as Tia and Mia gaped at her.
"You shouldn't have done that." Harry and Dudley said together as I had to have Draco hold me back.
"Not here." I assured him, grabbing Tiffany by the throat. "Outside." I growled.
Dudley's gang and the school muttered to themselves.
Tiffany paled at me and I knew my eyes went red.
"Outside!" I ordered, dragging her out.
"Hannah, don't." Draco told me.
"Think, Han, you'll be in so much trouble." Dudley added.
"No." I said strongly as I stood out in the same spot that Tiffany first humiliated me. "It's time she got what was coming to her." I whipped around to her and raised my hand.
Tiffany came flying into the air and I smirked as she paled.
"Never thought I could do that could you, Grenville?" I asked as Draco watched with a smirk in place.
I spun my hand around, taking Tiffany in a with the force I was using.
"Don't like being humiliated, do you, Grenville?" I asked with a laugh.
Tiffany was silent with fear as I dropped her to the ground. She started to settle herself to go back inside.
"Oh, no." I said, shaking my head as I grabbed her arm. "We're not done. You made my life hell from grade two to grade five…and let's just say…Hogwarts students hold grudges! Especially Slytherins!"
I pinned her and grabbed a marker like the time she sat on me and drew a large "L" on my forehead (For loser in case you didn't get it.) and drew a matching "L" on hers.
"Stick around, you're getting payback for everything you did to me that I couldn't give back to you in the past." I growled.
…
By the time I got most of my revenge, there was the last thing that Tiffany did to me. When she smashed my head into the concrete after I won that beauty pageant in fifth grade.
I had only done emotional and mental damage to Tiffany and everyone was laughing at her.
"You know every single thing that you did to me." I growled with a laugh. "You know the one thing that I didn't avenge yet?"
Tiffany paled, cowering before me. All the wizards that night knew who Tiffany had messed with, and they all thought she was as good as dead.
"Well?" I asked. "Go ahead, admit it. Tell everyone what you did to me after the fifth grade pageant when I beat you." I told her softly, grinning.
Tiffany swallowed. "I bashed your head into the concrete until you slipped into a coma!" she shouted.
Dudley gasped. "Even I didn't beat her that badly!"
I laughed, nodding. "Exactly, Tiff." I said. "And you know what I'm going to do to you?"
"Hannah, don't!" Zach said, holding my arm. "She's not worth it."
"Listen to Zach, Han." Harry said, grabbing my other arm.
"Let her go." Draco said, arms crossed and obviously greatly entertained at his Harley beating the shit out of the girl that was trying to get into his pants.
I yanked my arms back. "No!" I said. "She's getting everything that was coming to her since she arrived at this school and made my life miserable! So, Tiff, do you have any inkling what I'll do to you for you almost killing me?"
Tiffany went chalk white. "B-Bash my head into the concrete?" she squeaked.
I laughed, hoisting her up. "Now, Tiffany, why would I do that?" I asked. "I want revenge. Not your blood."
"Then what are you gonna do to me?" Tiffany asked, eyes wide.
I smirked and eyed her perfect nose. I knew exactly what I was gonna do to her.
I raised a fist back and punched her in the face, breaking her nose.
"That was for almost killing me!" I shouted before raising my hand back and bitch slapping her twice across the face. "And that was for trying to whore yourself off to my fiancé!"
Tiffany grabbed her nose and ran down the street, screaming. "DADDY!"
The school stared at me before cheering.
"That was phenomenal!" Malcolm said, clapping my shoulder.
"Remind us never to mess with you again." Gordon added with a laugh.
"I agree." a female voice said behind me with a beautiful laugh. "Tiffany had exactly what was coming to her."
I turned around slowly and gasped.
Standing behind me was a tall willowy woman that reminded me of Glinda the Good from both the Wizard of Oz and Wicked. Her long blonde hair was pulled into an intricate braid and her blue eyes glinted when she locked them with mine.
"Miss T!" I said, throwing my arms around her.
"Hello, Hannah, it's been awhile." Miss Sophia Talerico replied, squeezing her arms around me.
"Uh, who's Miss T?" Draco asked.
"Miss Talerico." I explained. "She was the music teacher I told you so much about!"
Draco went wide eyed. "You mean she's the one?" he asked.
I nodded, beaming.
"Oh, so you told your new school about me?" Miss T said laughing as she clapped my shoulder.
I nodded. "Exactly!" I said as I told Draco how Miss T and I met for about the seventeenth time.
…
It was my first day of kindergarten and the entire class was gathered around for music class.
Harry sat with me as everyone else scrambled away from us. Dudley had single-handedly ruined my first day (socially. Academically it was phenomenal. I spent free time in the library reading.)
Instantly, someone who reminded me of Glinda the Good stepped into the room.
"Good morning, everyone!" Glinda chirped, taking the chalk and writing on the board. "I'm Miss Talerico. But you can call me Miss T."
"Good morning Miss T" the class chorused.
"Here in this room," Miss T started. "You will sing. And as long as you try, you won't fail!"
I looked up at her.
"Now, my little Munchkins, would anyone like to show off their talents?" Miss T. asked.
No one raised their hand. No one…except me.
"Oh, yes, you." Miss T said, pointing to me and motioning for me to stand. "What's your name, sweetie?"
"Hannah Potter." I said quietly.
Miss T looked a little shocked at first but smiled. "Alright, Hannah, what would you like to sing?"
I shrugged. "If I Had You!" I announced.
"Perfect!" Miss T said, putting on the Adam Lambert CD.
I looked around and bust a few moves during the opening bars.
"So I got my boots on got the right amount of leather and I'm doing me up with a black colour liner," I sang as I danced, strutting forward. "and I'm working my strut but I know it don't matter all we need in this world is some love! It's a thin line between the Dark side and the Light side, baby tonight. It's a struggle, gotta rumble tryin' to find it."
I somersaulted and did the splits. "But if I had you, that would be the only thing I'd ever need! Yeah if I had you, than money fame and fortune never could compete! If I had you, life would be a party it'd be ecstasy! Yeah if I had you, you, you, you. Yeah if I had you!"
Everyone rolled their eyes and Miss T looked at me shocked.
"Thank you, Hannah." she said as I sat down.
…
When everyone went off for lunch, Miss T called me.
"Hannah, could I speak to you a moment?" Miss T asked.
I nodded as Harry went outside.
"You wanted to speak to me, Miss T?" I asked, stepping to her sitting at the piano.
Miss T turned around. "Hannah Potter, I have never in all my life…"
I looked down, waiting to hear a put-down.
"heard a voice as unique, bouncy and overall beautiful as yours!" Miss T finished with a grin.
My eyes widened. "Really?" I asked.
"Of course, it's beautiful." Miss T said before taking my tiny hand in hers. "Hannah…you have a gift."
"A gift?" I asked.
"A gift." Miss T said. "You have a wonderful gift. And I want you to let it shine. I want to work with you."
I grinned. "I'd like that very much, Miss T." I announced.
"Excellent." Miss T said, handing me some music and moving over so I could sit with her at the piano. "Take a seat, Han."
…
"And since then I've been Miss T's favourite student." Draco and I said together.
"Hannah, I've heard this story a million times from you!" Draco said, shaking his head and laughing.
"Well, now you're meeting her in the flesh!" I said, gesturing to Miss T, who grinned. "Miss T, this is -"
"Draco Malfoy." Miss T said, shaking his hand. "A pleasure."
I looked to her. "How'd you…?" I started.
Miss T shrugged. "I'm Mrs Figg's niece. And I'm a witch."
"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked.
Miss T gave me an apologetic look. "I'm sorry, Han, but I wasn't allowed to. You know how your uncle was like. By the way, I love that you and your cousin get along now." Miss T patted my shoulder as we went back inside.
"So you know?" I asked.
Miss T gave me a confused look. "Know what?"
I held out my left hand.
Miss T's eyes widened. "I hadn't read the Prophet in a while. Congratulations!" Miss T hoisted me up and squeezed me around the middle.
I grinned and squeezed her back. "Miss T, remember a few weeks into first grade…when we got to talking about boys?" I asked.
Miss T laughed. "Of course I do. I remember every conversation I had with my favourite student, why?"
"Remember when I said that when I got married I wanted you to perform the ceremony?" I asked, looking up at her hopefully.
Miss T gaped. "Yeah…"
"Will you marry us?" I asked.
Miss T almost looked in tears. "Absolutely! If…" Miss T stopped. "If your fiancé's for it."
I looked to Draco and bit my lip.
Draco sighed. "I can't say no to you. I'm on board."
I squealed and hugged Draco. "That's one thing off the wedding checklist!" I said happily.
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At the end of the reunion (Where I had ended up handing out invitations to Dudley, Aunt Petunia, Dudley's gang and Mia and Tia…even Tiffany…just to rub it in her face.) Draco Apparated us back to the Manor.
"That felt good." I said as Draco carried me upstairs to change and watch TV. "Beating Tiffany up."
"Amusing to watch, too." Draco assured as I changed into a pair of track pants and struggled to get my bra off.
"Draco, you mind?" I asked, gesturing to my bra clasps.
"Not at all." Draco smirked, unclasping my bra as I grabbed a sports bra and put it on.
"Thank you." I said.
"And think about it. Tomorrow, you're stuck going to Duff's." Draco said.
I sighed. "I know. A whole night." I pouted. "Sleeping on the cold hard floor of Ivy's bedroom while you party it up with Blaise, Crabbe, Goyle, Ron and Harry."
Draco rubbed my back. "Hey, think about this." Draco muttered as I curled into him. "When Blaise and Duff are gone, we'll be able to come back, wait a couple more days and then…"
"It's our night." I grinned against his chest.
"Introduce you to my family." Draco muttered, stroking my hair.
I looked up at him. "Do you think your grandmother will like me?" I asked.
"Who, Grandmother Athena?" Draco asked, kissing my temple. "She'll absolutely adore you."
I sighed in relief. "Good." I said. "The last thing I need is another Malfoy out for my head."
Draco kissed my forehead. "Believe me, Hannah, the only Malfoy that would be out for your head is locked up. He won't hurt you again."
I smiled, settling down and slowly falling asleep.
