Hermione Granger

As I waited for Ginny and Luna to get to the bed and breakfast that had been my home for the past twenty years, I decided to fix the sink that was broken. As I did, I thought about what a wonderful life Beatrix and I had here. I knew escaping to muggle London probably wasn't the best idea, but it had turned out well. I had gotten a job at this bed and breakfast helping the elderly owner when I first got here. Once I found out I was pregnant she had allowed me to stay. Mrs. Braverman had given me everything. She was a good person inside and out. She treated us well and had even left the bed and breakfast to me when she died five years ago. I hadn't planned to stay in London forever, but once I left I got caught up in life here.

It had been twenty years with no magic. I had allowed Beatrix to go to Hogwarts when her letter came, and soon she'd be leaving me to join the magical world forever. I was so scared at first that she would discover all my secrets but, if she did she never questioned me. She never asked about her father or who he might be. To tell the truth I wasn't sure. It had been a dark time in my life. I'd been searching for a place where I belonged, and I had done some things out of character for me. I had been trying to lose the good girl image, and all I had done was confuse myself more. I knew there was a simple potion to find out who Beatrix's father was, but I had to have the men here to try it and that was never going to happen. Viktor Krum, George Weasley, and Harry Potter had no reason to come to the muggle world, and I was never going back to the magical world.

"You know a simple wave of my wand would fix that right?"" I heard Ginny say from the doorway.

"Yeah I still don't understand why you chose to live without magic," I looked up to see Luna in the doorway beside Ginny,

These women were the only two people in the magical world who knew where I was, and they had been sworn to secrecy by an unbreakable vow. They could never tell anyone. It had been the last magic I had ever done. Over the years they had visited me as often as they could. I did feel bad sometimes making them keep my secret, but they had agreed willingly to do it.

I got up from under the sink and hugged them. It had been almost two years since I had seen them. I had promised to let them use magic to help me get the yard ready for the wedding. Since there would be a lot of wizards and witches coming to this wedding, I knew the first thing they did when they got here was put a magical border around the place so no muggles saw what was going on. I was nervous about having all the people from my past here at the place I had escaped, and I was unsure how that would go. I had a funny feeling this was all going to blow up in my face, and to say I was nervous was an extreme understatement. I was way beyond that point. Now that Ginny and Luna where here though I felt a little better.

"So tell me what's going on in your lives?" I asked as we sat down on the couch in the room we were in.

"Well, my book is a best seller, and I met with a muggle publisher to publish it here in the muggle world," Luna announced.

"Luna that's great," I told her. I was proud of Luna. She had written a book about her travels through the world of magic and all the things she'd seen. Sometimes it made me question what I was doing with my life. Was I doing what I was supposed to be doing?

"I don't know though. She thinks its all fiction and is amazed how I made up such wonderful creatures. When we all know its true," Luna said.

I had to laugh at that. She was so passionate about the book and her adventures. To most of us she would always be Loony Lovegood, but she had become and amazing woman over the past twenty years.

"I left Draco," Ginny announced.

Luna and I both rolled our eyes. Draco was husband number three. Ginny of course had more money than she knew with to do with from her first two husbands. In addition to being a successful Quidditch player and now a manager to Puddlemere United. She had been married to the Bulgarian Quidditch player Alexei Levski, Cormac McLaggen and now Draco Malfoy.

"So who will be husband number four?" I teased her.

"There will be no more husbands," Ginny said, but she had said that before. So we knew she would replace Draco with someone soon.

"So where is Bea?" Ginny asked trying to change the subject because she knew it was a lie.

"I expect her any minute. She went to get Shannon and Laken," I answered.

"I still can't believe she's chosen the magical world," Luna said.

Me either, I thought to myself. If I had my way I would force her to stay here. But she was an adult now and I had to let her live her own life. She had made the choice and I had to stand by her. I was just afraid. I was afraid of returning to the pull of the magic world to visit her, of the people there, and of the way I would feel once I was there. Would I want it all back? This was going to be the longest weekend of my life.

A/N: So do you think Hermione regrets leaving the magical world? Next, I'll introduce Beatrix's friends Shannon Finnigan and Laken Zabini. Please vote on the poll to see who Hermione ends up with. I will say only 8 people have voted and right now Harry and Viktor I tied. Come break the tie now sure how long I'll leave it up!