Okay, so after an edit and being grounded for far too long I have forgotten the details, so here are the new ones and I hope that they are right. Elina and Miles are going into their fourth year and Hermione and Draco are 28…or 29. I'll decide in this or the next chapter.

Chapter Five

Hermione stepped onto the platform and took in the familiar scent around her.

"Firs' years over here!"

"Hagrid!" Hermione ran up to her old friend and embraced him in a friendly hug. "It's been too long!"

"Yeah," he agreed. "Sorry I couldn't make it to Harry's last month. Me 'n Olympe were still in Paris."

"Oh yes, Happy anniversary. How is she?"

"She's fine. OY! You second years, off the boat!" Hagrid turned back to Hermione. "Sorry Hermione. I' have to get back to these ne'er do wells."

Hermione waved good-bye and headed over to the carriages to make sure everyone was in one. She saw Elina with the boy from the plane, which meant the Dray should be somewhere nearby! There he was, twenty yards ahead! She walked quickly to the carriage and stepped in.

"Oh, hi," she said, as though she didn't know he was in there. "Dray, right?"

"Yeah," he said, a large smile coming to his face. "Mye, from the plane, right?"

"Yes. So how have you been?"

"Great. I meant to call you-"

"Me too."

"But my mother came and didn't let me and my brother out of her sight."

"And my friends and sister kept barging into the room every time I got a free moment."

"Well now that we exchanged excuses-" Hermione giggled, "how have you been?"

"I've been great. We went to Diagon Alley a few times, but I didn't see you. How have you been?"

"Great. Miles and I were dragged everywhere by our mom. She gets a little too excited when we come to visit," Draco said.

The two talked the entire carriage ride to the school and continued until they took their seats, which were beside each other and only stopped to listen to the sorting.

"I didn't know that this was the teaching job you were talking about," Draco said as soon as Dumbledore began his speech. "What class are you taking over?"

"Potions," she told him. "Snape was made headmaster of Durmstrang. How about you? I didn't know that there were other positions."

"Well, Flitwick decided to pursue his lifelong dream, whatever that was, so Dumbledore asked me if I wanted to be the new Charms professor, but, wait, does this mean that you're the new head of the Slytherin house?"

"I don't know," Hermione said. "They didn't really tell me anything. How do you know so much about Hogwarts?"

"I graduated from here a few years ago."

"Me too. What house were you in?"

"Now, on a very pleasant note, we have two new additions to our faculty." Hermione and Draco looked up and pretended to pay attention. "Hermione Granger, your new potions professor and head of the Gryffindor house."

"Granger?"

"And Draco Malfoy, your new Charms professor and head of Ravenclaw house."

"Malfoy?"

"Madame Hooch shall be taking over the position of head of the Slytherin house and Professor McGonagall will be stepping down as head of the Gryffindor housel, Now let the feast begin."

Hermione and Draco were staring at each other with shocked expressions until a two paper balls hit each of their faces. They looked out to find where they came from and saw Miles and Elina sitting at the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw tables, next to each other.

"Open them," Elina mouthed.

Hermione opened her paper ball. It said: Stop fighting. You're causing a scene. I didn't know you were the head of the Ravenclaw House!

Hermione looked up without finishing the letter and smiled at her kid…sister. She turned to Draco, who was making a face at Miles. "Draco," he turned to look at her, "we are now colleagues and our siblings are apparently friends."

"So what do you propose Granger?"

"A truce."

They shook hands and wrote on the paper balls, which they each threw back at their kids.

After dessert, Hermione tried to go to with the Ravenclaws to their common room to talk to Elina, but Professor McGonagall stopped her and Draco at the door.

"Welcome back" she greeted them. "How it is so good to see the two of you again. Follow me and I will show you to your quarters."

"Wait, our quarters?" Hermione asked.

"No, do not worry Miss Granger, but they will be connected. Unfortunately we weren't able to fix that, but it might be a good idea because your rooms also connect to each of the houses, as do all of the professor's quarters. Come this way please."

Draco and Hermione silently followed their former teacher down several hallways, up five flights of stairs and through a long corridor until they reached a painting of a field.

"Stroke the third petal clockwise from the top to enter your room Miss Granger," she said. She took a few steps to the left, stopping at a suit of armor. "Compliment his helmet to enter your room Mr. Malfoy. I shall see the two of you bright and early tomorrow morning at breakfast to give you further instructions and your schedules. Good night."

Hermione stroked the petal and Draco said "your helmet looks very shiny tonight" and they stepped into their rooms.

The first thing Hermione did when she entered her room was change into a more casual outfit and go to her new house to meet some of the students and say hi to, oh wait, Elina wasn't in her old house.

Hermione took in a deep breath and inhaled the familiar scent and looked around. It had been over a decade since she was in the Gryffindor common room, yet it was still the same. She looked around and saw a group of students off in the corner playing exploding snap, another group of girls talking and gossiping, and just more cliques scattered around the room. The room was filled with chatter from everyone.

"Hermione!" Hermione turned around and smiled at a tall boy who greeted her with a large hug.

"Hi Darren," Hermione said back. "How are you? How're your uncle and the folks? You are too tall to be a sixth year, you're making me old." She stepped back and took a look at him. He was nearing six-feet with a head of shaggy brown hair and a preppy/rocker look.

"Not bad. Folks are fine in Texas, but Uncle Lupin's taking good care of me. And of course I'm making you old because you are old." Hermione smirked and lifted her hand as if to slap him. "You wouldn't hit a student on your first day ma'am. So how's Elina? I saw that she was sorted into Ravenclaw."

"I was hoping to visit her, but my old brain must have forgotten that she wasn't in my old house."

Darren laughed with Hermione and took her around the common room, introducing her to all of his class and housemates.

"Okay, it's nearing my old-lady bedtime," Hermione said at eleven-thirty. "I'll see you all tomorrow morning and make sure I don't have a reason to give you detention."

Everyone laughed and bid her farewell. As she walked down the hall, though, Hermione realized that she didn't want to go to bed or look over her lesson plans, so she decided to walk around the castle and see where her feet took her.

"Antidisestablishmentarianism."

The portrait to the Ravenclaw common room opened and Draco took a step into the new territory. There were bookworms everywhere, but the place was nothing like he imagined. Groups of students were scattered around the room listening to music, talking, showing off pictures from the summer and playing games. After trying to talk to the students for a few minutes, he decided that it was time to leave the common room, especially since a few students were beginning to flirt with him.

As he walked down the hall, he saw a few shadows disappear around a corner. He quickened his pace and looked around to see who it was. It was Miles and the girl from the plane stepping into the kitchens!

Elina looked at her watch. It was nearing curfew, so she excused herself from the other students she was talking to and ran up the stairs to her dorm. She made sure no one was there and took the gifts from Harry, Ron and her mom out of her trunk and stuffed them into her cloak pocket and sat on her bed.

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She looked up at the window and saw Miles on his broom.

"Right on time," she said with a smile ad she swung her leg over the broom and held on to the handle.

"How did you do that?" Miles said, nodding over at her bed.

There was a lump under the comforter shaped like a small girl.

Elina smirked and looked back at him. "Harry Potter taught me that trick. It give the illusion that I'm asleep in there. What did you do?"

"Wow, you do belong in here. I just threw some pillows under the blankets and bribed another third year to cover for me," Miles said as he began to fly to a lower window towards the east.

"I guess," Elina said, "but Hermione and I kind of expected for me to be put in Gryffindor. Even the hat thought that it would be the best choice for me. Three more windows."

"Then why did it put you in Ravenclaw?" Miles asked as he slowed the broom and pulled over to the window.

Elina leaned over and picked the lock on the window and opened it for them to climb through. "Hermione's head of Gryffindor. Ravenclaw was the next best."

"That sucks. We might have been able to sneak out together instead and I wouldn't be out thirty galleons and a chocolate frog."

"I solemnly swear I am up to no good."

"What's that?"

"Another present from Harry Potter and Ron Weasley," Elina said, pulling out a cloak from her pocket, "along with this. Get under."

Miles pulled the silver fabric over his head and asked, "What is this?"

"An invisibility cloak. Harry and Ron didn't want me to come to Hogwarts unprepared." She looked down at the map with the tip of her wand glowing and began to lead Miles to the kitchens.

"You! Why aren't you in bed?" Hermione called down the hall at the shadow.

"Granger?" the figure called back. It was Draco! "What are you doing here?"

"I'm not allowed to walk around my alma mater? What are you doing out this late?"

Draco turned around and looked down the hall. "Miles and your sister were just here. I saw them. Where did they go?"

"Malfoy, you're seeing things. Go back to the quarters."

"Listen Granger, I know that I saw them."

Hermione rolled her eyes. "Okay, then where did they go?"

"It's a bloody magic school!" Draco sighed, knowing that he was getting nowhere. "Fine Granger, have it your way. I'll see you at breakfast."

Hermione watched as Draco walked down the hall. As soon as she saw the he was out of sight, she turned around and looked down the empty hall. "Okay Elina, take off the cloak or I'll summon it."

Elina and Miles suddenly materialized behind a statue and walked towards her.

Hermione smirked at her daughter. "You spend too much time with my friends. You're out on your first night in a new school past curfew with a boy from another house."

"It was my idea Professor," Miles said. "I wanted to see her so I showed up at her window."

"And you told her to bring her invisibility cloak?" Miles stuttered a bit, but Hermione interrupted him. "Next time you sneak out I want you two to keep a better eye on the map and not get caught. You're just lucky that it wasn't Snape."

"You're Snape, Hermione,"

Hermione laughed. "Just get back to bed you two. And don't forget that I have my own map in case you decide to take the long way."