Author's note: This is an explanation of the Malfoys and their work… and how Malfoy got the Broom. Figured some explanation was needed. Keep reading! Next one will be very interesting….
The snake on his finger slithered as though to remind him it was still there. He stared at it for as long as he could until he memorised every corner of it like he did every time. He was so engrossed in the marriage ring that he didn't notice his wife walking in through the lavish double doors that led into the room he was currently sitting in.
The room was a large spacious office like hall decorated in gold and silver; the interiors lavish; the furniture as comfortable as it can get.
It had as many partitions as the number of adult Malfoy males who together took care of Malfoy Enterprises. The part of the room that belonged to the male transferred to wherever they wanted it to be. Draco Malfoy's part of the room has recently shifted back to Malfoy Manor and he shared it with Hermione who was the financial head of the company.
Lucius Malfoy was still the head of the company and Draco Malfoy was the deputy head. Narcissa Malfoy was the marketing head.
Draco and Hermione worked from overseas until now and so Malfoy Industries was now all over the world in almost all wizarding countries. They had shares in a wide range of companies ranging from broomsticks to wizarding fashion to wedding planning.
So though the wonderful blackmail of retracting their investments, Draco had gotten the Broomstick(s). HE got one for Potter and one for himself (How could Draco Malfoy get something for The-Boy-Who-Lived and not for himself? Not happening)
Even the Ministry of Magic of Britain, America, Japan, Australia, India and more countries gave them contracts for their Auror requirements, Ministry robes and so on.
No one knew who worked for the company other than the fact that Malfoys owned it.
In fact, after Hermione and Draco got married, all this growth and progress happened. Lucius always remarked that Hermione was a good luck charm for the Malfoys.
It might be surprising but it was Lucius who convinced Hermione and Draco to not go public as their marriage might be negative for Hermione's image. He told them they needed privacy to come to terms with how they should announce it to the world. It did them and their kids a lot of good and the two came to thank the older Malfoys for their advice.
Also, they spent a lot of time with both sets of parents because of it and they were grateful for the bonding time.
In spite of how they looked to everyone and how they passed themselves off as cold, Lucius and Narcissa were amiable and warm to the family (only on the inside).
Anyway, as Hermione walked in, she noticed Draco looking at the ring. She sat near him and looked at her own wedding ring. It was a moving lion who walked around the ring as though reacting to the close proximity of its other half.
Hermione and Draco had charmed each others rings themselves placing all the ones they knew—protection charms, location danger charms, mood charms, beauty charms, glamour charms and so on.
Draco always stared at the ring when he was thinking deeply. Hermione always joked that Draco probably hoped her brains could be borrowed through the ring. She knew he looked at it for solace, comfort, something it gave them when they weren't with each other. It helped her that way too.
As Hermione got lost in her own thread of thoughts, Draco finally noticed her and gave her a small smile ending her train of memories.
This was one of those times they didn't bicker, they just revelled in the feeling that they had one another, a moment of perfect silence, of solitude; they didn't need to talk to let the other know what they were thinking. It was a rare moment; one that seldom came along, when both of them smiled at each other, when no one else existed.
"So, any ideas, my dear wife?" Asked Draco snapping Hermione out of her reverie.
"No, but your friends or mine first?"
"Mine. Slytherins have less of a tendency to overreact and go around telling everyone."
"Hmmm…Ok. So tomorrow?"
"Yeah. I'll send them letters. They won't be hard. You'll love them as you love this wonderful husband of yours. Though I think Weasel bee will have a hard time comprehending it." He said with a world class Malfoy smirk Hermione had come to love as they lapsed into silence with her doing the day's work for the company and him writing the letters.
How badly Draco had underestimated Ron's wonderful ability to NOT think and then act?
Coming up: Sneaky Slytherins and New friends made… Before that, Draco to Slytherin letters… You'll see which Slytherins support and which don't… Don't stop reading! Reviews!