Chapter 35: Wedding Planner Extraordinaire
A/N: Disclaimer in first few chapters!
"Finally, you two are back from you're little rendezvous trip!" Narcissa Malfoy chided as she strode into the kitchen of Malfoy Manor, levitating a big black book behind her. She paid no attention to the curly haired witch who gasped at her entrance and turned around slowly, clutching her dressing gown to her body.
"Morning, Mom!" Draco chirped as he turned over the delicious smelling bacon that was frying in the pan, not minding in
"Is this a normal grand entrance, Cissa?" whispered a mortified Hermione as the young woman transfigured her dressing gown into a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with a wave of her hand.
"You can do wandless magic?!" the aristocratic blonde woman gaped before realising what she must look like and shut her mouth, brushing invisible lilt from her shoulders as she did so.
"Of course she can, Mother!" Draco chimed in, sounding matter of fact while he put a couple of sausages in the pan and left them to cook before wandering over to his fiancee, wrapping an arm around her when he reached the witch. "She is the brightest witch of her age."
"I've actually been practicing wandless magic since my first year at Hogwarts. Professor Flitwick taught me." Hermione told the two blondes as Draco rounded on her wide-eyed and murmured that he "should have known" and Narcissa, getting distracted by the astounding piece of information, let the huge, dusty book behind her fall from her levitation spell with a SLAM! to the ground. The loud noise caused everyone in the room to jump about a foot in the air including a poor house elf that was just bringing in a tray full of pancakes and a teapot full of tea. The whole tray fell to the ground as the little creature leapt into the out of fright but a well aimed spell by Hermione stopped the goodies from hitting the ground. The house elf looked devastated because of what had nearly happened.
"Minty is so sorry! Minty needs to go punish herself!" the house elf wailed, looking just about ready to run. The sniveling creature was almost at the door before Hermione caught her up into a hug, nearly crushing the little house elf to her chest, almost in tears herself.
"It's not your fault, Minty..." she soothed, rubbing her hands across the small of the Minty's back and dropping a kiss to the top of her exposed head. Narcissa's eyes softened as she took in the affection in Draco's posture and the admiration and respect in his gaze. Looking over, she saw the pure desperation to which the witch clutched onto the house elf who gave her the same treatment in return. Walking over, Narcissa felt slightly nervous because she had never comforted one of her servants before.
"It's okay, Minty...it was just an accident...there is no need to punish yourself..." the blonde woman muttered softly as she neared the distraught house elf who was the daughter of her former house elf, Dobby. A pair of big green tennis ball like eyes looked up at her from where the house elf was resting against Hermione's shoulder.
"Really...? Minty does not need to punish herself...?" the creature whimpered, sounding as if she didn't believe the words coming out of her own mouth.
"Yes. That's correct." the blonde woman replied, smiling slightly as a gleeful expression took over her loyal house elf's features. "And, as a bonus, you can have the rest of the day off. You deserve it!"
"Thank you Mistress! Minty is very happy!" the house elf beamed before clicking her fingers and disappearing into thin air from her position within Hermione Granger's arms, leaving the young woman with her arms outstretched, holding onto nothing. Draco strode over to her and filled that empty space by stepping into the circle of her arms that was previously occupied by the house elf.
"You are way too passionate about these things, sweethart," Draco said, wrapping an arm around her waist and drawing her closer to him before dropping a kiss to her forehead. "But that is one of the many reasons why I love you..."
"I love you too, Draco..." the muggleborn whispered lovingly to her pureblood fiancee as she slid her hands into his silky hair, drawing him in for a passionate kiss which he happily reciprocated.
A loud BANG! separated the two and they looked over to find Draco's mother flipping through the big dusty book, muttering to herself all the while.
"Mother...?" Draco questioned, sounding slightly worried as he watched what he thought what was his one sane parent flicking madly through what could easily be a Dark book.
"Oh good! You decided to join me!" Narcissa grinned, showing pearly white teeth. "I've got everything ready for the wedding! We are going to do a winter wedding and it's going to be held on the first of December...we are going to have a relatively small ceremony with only family present but then we will return to Malfoy Manor, where the party of a lifetime will commence, probably lasting till all hours of the night. Everyone will be there...here is the guest list...you can add to it if you like! There are already at least 200 names on there though. I think we should have a Gryffindoor/Slytherin theme with silver table runnings, gold table cloths, red and green plates, silver and gold decorations, etc. I think your first dance should be your choice. I was trying to think of other things. Oh yes! The cake has been ordered and you have chosen your dress, haven't you Hermione?!" When the woman didn't receive any response, she turned around to see that the woman had fainted dead away in Draco's arms.
Hermione Granger had faced Lord Voldemort and was on the run from Snatchers, had faced Bellatrix Lestrange at her worst and had faced depression and anxiety after the war. But she had never faced such a scary thing as Narcissa Malfoy's organised mind.
A/N: Alright lads...I'm not dead and I am sooooo sorry for not updating sooner but I didn't get the chance to...things have been so busy lately with study and family and everything else...I just hope that you guys are still willing to wait for whenever I update next because I am not making anymore promises because I just know that I will break them..so how about it? Will we finish off this roller coaster of a journey together?