A/N: Please guys remember to review to let me know what ya think! I really do wanna know! Thanks to the advice some of you guys have given me! I'm trying my best to use it!

Please keep in mind that this is only books 1-5 cause even though I liked the 6th, I still hate that Dumbledore died and Narcissa is a deatheater too! I like that she still wanted the best for Draco – but I still believe his meant to be good, not bad. I hope he changes for the 7th book! And I love Tonks and Lupin together. Tonks just comes across to me as a cute and fun person! I think she's awesome!

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Hermione and Draco were in their common room. Draco was reading a book and Hermione was reading the Daily Prophet that she had started this morning before her fight with Harry. It had been a big day and Hermione was still trying to recover from the shock that her best friend was expecting a baby. Draco seemed pretty calm despite the fact that his 17-year-old mate was about to become a dad.

Hermione came across the page that she had forgotten about until now.

"Hey Draco, have you read the paper today?"

"No, why?"

Hermione passed him the paper. Draco looked at it and frowned. Tears swelled up in his eyes. Hermione could tell that he was trying had to push them back down. She knew from all their years at Hogwarts that Malfoy was someone who would never show any emotion. His eyes were always cold and empty, but lately they had started to show some emotion; happiness? Hermione wasn't sure but all she knew now was that they were empty again but she needed to know what was happening. All she knew now was that he had changed and she wanted to know if this was the reason.

"Is it true?" Hermione asked wearily. She wasn't sure if she should ask. She knew that Draco had a temper and usually didn't like to talk about touchy subjects. And this was definitely a touchy subject. The article read:

HEIR TO MALFOY FORTUNE

Draco Malfoy, 17, has inherited his family's entire estate and fortune. As the Daily Prophet reported yesterday, Lucius Malfoy has received the Dementors Kiss after being found guilty of involvement in deatheater activity and murdering his wife, Narcissa Malfoy.

Malfoy, a student at Hogwarts is believed to have spent the last week of his holidays under the watchful eye of his Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore.

"I don't want to talk about it, okay?" Draco was trying to sound calm and collected but really he wasn't. He knew that it wouldn't be long until the Daily Prophet released an article about his father killing his mother, he just didn't realise it would be this soon. They last article on his family was fine. That one said that there was an investigation into the death of Narcissa Malfoy.

Everyone knew that Lucius was bound to kill her. She always went against what he said; and she was always abused for it. Draco hated his father for what he did. Draco hated everything about him – especially the way he treated Narcissa and the way he worshipped Lord Voldemort like he was some kind of hero.

"Draco, you can trust me."

"I said I don't want to talk about it, okay!" Draco had raised his voice when he said this and he could tell by the look on Hermione's face that he had shocked and frightened her.

"Look, I'm sorry," he knew that if he didn't apologize Hermione would ignore him for a while. He's seen her do it to Harry and Ron a few times.

"Don't worry about it. If you ever want to talk about it, you know where to find me." And with that Hermione stood up and walked up to her room, quietly closing her door just so he knew that she wasn't mad at him.

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He had expected her to slam the door, but she didn't. At least he knew now that she wasn't mad at him.

Draco had so many things on his mind. The hardest by far would be his mothers funeral that was going to be held on the weekend.

What he couldn't understand is that his father always talked about shame. Draco was always told he bought shame to the Malfoy name. Draco couldn't see what he did wrong. He was a good student, he did his work and got high marks for it. He was well within the top 10 of his year. Now he had earned the position of Head Boy at the best school of Witchcraft and Wizardry around and his father never once congratulated him. Draco even especially went to the Azkaban Prison 1 week ago when he had found out and all his father could say was 'Ok Draco. Anyway, how are you coping with the dreadful death of your mother?'

'Did he really think I was that stupid? Did he really think that I didn't know that it was him who murdered her? I saw, for fucks sake.'

Draco had watched the murder but there was nothing he could do. He tried desperately to unlock the door to his fathers study but no spell had worked. He watched through the keyhole as his father, the man he had once admired, beat on his mother and eventually, finish her off with an 'Avada Kedavra.''

Apparently that curse would only be effective if you truly despised the person you used it against.

'He must've have really hated her then,' Draco thought.

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Hermione sat on the edge of the bed. She was worried about things.

She knew that Ginny's parents wouldn't be happy that their 16-year-old daughter was pregnant. She also knew that Blaise's parents would probably hit the roof when they found out. At least Dumbledore was going to accompany them. With him there, all hell couldn't break loose. Ginny had promised to tell Hermione everything that had happened the instant she arrived back at Hogwarts. Hermione checked her alarm clock, she still had another 20 minutes before Ginny should be back. She was nervous for Ginny. And Blaise.

But she was most worried about Draco. It's not healthy to keep your emotions bottled up inside. She wanted him to know that he could trust her. She wasn't going to tell anyone what he had said if he chose to confide in her. If there was no trust in their relationship, there was no relationship. But she didn't want to end something that had only just started. She wanted to give it a chance. She wanted to see if things could work.

Hermione heard a knock on her bedroom door, she thought it was Draco coming to confide in her.

"Come in," she called. It wasn't Draco, it was someone else. Someone she had been worried about.

"Hey Gin! How'd it go?"

"Oh, Mione! Mum was so happy. She was only a little bit disappointed but Dumbledore said that if I still wanted to continue learning, I could have my own room for when the baby comes so I could still go to class. And he said that Madam Pomfrey could look after it during classes because she did with another baby a few years before I started but then mum said that that didn't matter because she'd look after it. She loves babies. She said she can't wait to be a grandma!"

"But what about your dad?"

"Um, dad was a little weird. He just sat there and didn't say anything. Mum just told me to give him some time to think about it. Fleur said that the baby would be cute because she thinks Blaise and I are a very attractive couple."

"And Blaise's parents?"

"Well as I found out, his mum is kinda always out of it. She's a bit trippy. She said congratulations and all that but maybe if she was sober she'd be different. His dad started planning a wedding. Apparently he doesn't want a grandchild that was born out of wedlock."

"So now you're getting married?"

"I guess I have to."

"Jeez, Gin. Slow down!"

Draco appeared in the doorway of Hermione's bedroom.

"I just heard you guys are engaged. Congrats."

"Thanks Mal-, Draco."

"Um Hermione, I just wanted to know if you wanted to have dinner with me later so we could talk, you know, about things?" he was hoping that she'd understand that when he said 'things' he meant what they had not discussed earlier.

"Sure, Draco. That'd be great." Hermione thought she knew what he was getting at.

"Well I gotta go find Blaise! See ya soon!" Ginny left the room and exited their domitory.

Draco bent down to kiss his girl. 'I really do hope she likes what I've bought her,' he thought.

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Tune in to find out what happens over dinner and how Hermione reacts to everything Draco has to say.