Luck to you

by Vennab007

When the war is over, and everything returns to normal, or so they say, people try to cope with the broken families, lost friends and a new life. Normally for the most, if you do bad choices in the past, the future will not be so good. But for me, it was perfect. It may have something to do with a bushy haired girl, or it may be exactly because of her. In the end, I was lucky.

2. Chapter 1

Chapter I

If I remember correctly, and I sure do, it was the beginning of the term. My seventh year, to be precise, or eighth if you remember that Hogwarts was in the middle of the war, and then the term was set aside. I was in the dark side, and for lack of better word to describe, lucky to have done the right thing in the end, and be able to return to the castle.

It´s not that the place was my favorite or anything, but between a house full of the worst memories someone could have, and a place with little of them, I preferred the school. The ground was covered in snow, and amid all the white, the evidence of battles seemed to disappear, but unfortunately the memories are not as simple to cover.

I was alone in my room, back in Slytherin. There was no Crabbe or Goyle, just Blaise had returned. Pansy wasn`t there too. Zabini just glanced at me once, on the other side of the room, when I arrived. No words, just a glance.

To tell the truth, there were not many slytherins in the house that year. I would say that about fifteen or twenty people maximum came back. I didn`t care. After living with so many Death Eaters, the fewer people I found, the better. Potter and Weasley also weren`t there, the Ministry offered them a job, or so I was told.

And that`s why I was surprised when I was going to pick up a book in the library, about potions, and found Granger. She was sitting on the floor, surrounded by a stack of books, furiously reading something about some creature.

With less bushy hair, taller and thinner, but the same Granger. I was not looking for trouble, so I turned where I was, at the beginning of the shelf that she was leaning, and left. Or so tried to go, because at the same moment I turned she decided to speak.

-You know, you can do what you were going to do. I am not some kind of creature with a deadly disease for you to be fleeing.

This was said without her eyes leaving the book. I must be honest and say that I did not know what to do. First of all I did not know she was at Hogwarts; and as Potter and Weasley were not here, I had assumed that she would be with them.

Don`t blame me, these three were annoyingly inseparable. Second of all, I didn`t expect her to talk to me, not now, even after. So I stood, my back to her, wondering what I could do to get out of there as quickly as possible and less cowardly.

-You came here to get a book, right? Just grab it Draco.

And that was the moment that I turned and stared at her. Or I was hearing things, which is very likely and had already happened, or she`d said my name. I must have been like that for some time, because Granger looked up from the book and stared at me, until she smirked.

-That is the first time you don`t have anything to say back, I`m surprised. Furthermore, you should take a little more sun, would do you some good.

That was it.

-Granger, that`s none of your business.

-So you still can speak, I was just beginning to have hope.

-To bad for you.

Then we were silent. I didn`t know how to tell her that, she probably wouldn`t believe. But before I could formulate a phrase, she got up, took the books and passed by my side.

-See you another time.

And she was gone.