"Silim! Dragon!" Harry and Draco looked up as they exited the train, their friends right behind them. Harry had a firm grip on Hermione's hand, so as she would not be separated from him until their guardians had the chance to meet and arrange the summer plans. Blaise was right behind Hermione and Pansy following and Theodore stood close to Harry's Dragon as did Vincent and Gregory. Raven locks fell into emerald eyes as the emeralds' gaze befell one of the few women Harry could ever love to see. Though one would need the keens senses of the Elves to see past Glamour, Harry would know her voice anywhere. The voice of one Bellatrix Lestrange.

She looked not as different as the Glamour could've made. Her hair was still unruly and fell to her mid-back in violet ringlets as did her usual self. Her eyes were dark brown and lacked the bags she normally would have. Her skin was a healthy colour, unlike the real Bellatrix. She had a sane look about her, as if she had not spent years in Azkaban Wizard Prison. Despite the slight change in her, Harry recognized his Auntie Bella anywhere. Harry and Draco pushed their way through the throng of people to reach the woman, Harry keeping a firm hold on Hermione. Reaching Bellatrix was no easy task and left the trio and their companions breathless as they arrived. Harry would have embraced her and begun crying was he not who he was. Hermione peeked at the tall woman with heavily lidded eyes and smiled shyly, clinging still to Harry's hand.

"Auntie Bella," Harry and Draco breathed in unison.

"My boys!" she cooed. "And…" She peered at Hermione, a curious light in her eyes. "Who is this beauty?"

"Hello ma'am. I'm Hermione Granger!"

"So polite, so polite," Bellatrix noted. "I am Bellatrix. You may call me Auntie Bella… Oh, pardon me, where are my other manners? Where are your parents, Hermione?"

Harry nervously cleared his throat. The moment he and Draco had been dreading arrived. Harry had to choose his words carefully. Of course, Bellatrix did not detest the Muggle Borns, more she frowned upon their parents. The right words bubbled to Harry's tongue and he spoke. "Auntie Bella… 'Mione is a Muggle Born." Bellatrix smiled softly.

"I should have known Silim and Dragon would have befriended a Muggle Born." With that, she grinned and clapped her hands. "Well, let us be off to find Mr. and Mrs. Granger then, shall we?" Hermione nodded and she led Harry, Draco, Bellatrix, and the Slytherins off in search of her Muggle parents.

Hermione pointed to a pair of nervous looking figures as they exited the platform. She yelled for them and they grinned at the sight of their daughter. The parents met their group half-way. Harry unwilling let go of Hermione's hand and cautiously glanced around, as if expecting someone of Thys' group to charge out at them and hurt her. Hermione drew her mother in close and placed a kiss on her cheek. The same was presented to her father. Hermione then stepped aside to address her friends. Said friends were now in a line with Auntie Bella behind them, hand conspicuously in her wand pocket.

"Mum, Dad, these are my school friends," chirped Hermione. "This is Draco Malfoy," Draco nodded slightly, "Blaise Zabini," Blaise smiled genially, "Theodore Nott," Theo grinned slightly, "Vincent and Gregory," said boys nodded and grinned, "Pansy Parkinson –she's my best friend," Pansy nodded as she shook Mrs. Granger's hand and curtsied to Mr. Granger, "and of course… Harry Potter." Harry inclined his head slightly and gave a curt nod as he looked around.

Mrs. Granger smiled. "And you are…?" she said to Auntie Bella.

"Ah, yes!" Bella chirped. "I am Harry and Draco's Auntie Bella… Actually, I'm Draco's aunt and Harry's godmother, but I do so love when I am called Auntie Bella. It makes me feel young again!"

"I know how you must feel, Bellatrix. I am Jean, by the way. Jean Granger. And my husband David Granger," said Hermione's mother. "Would you lot," she smiled at the kids and all but Harry smiled back. Harry was peering around anxiously. "Like to join us for tea?"

Bella clapped. "We'd love to, right children?"

"Yep," Blaise said nonchalantly.

"Sure," replied Theo.

Vincent and Gregory just nodded.

"Of course! Anything with Hermione!" said Pansy. Draco nodded and all looked at Harry.

"Where's Uncle Avery?" he asked Bella. "He wrote to me saying he would be with you… Why has he not arrived yet to be with us in this moment of great joy and reuniting?" He blinked innocently at the look he was given. "Tea? Of course. I would dearly love to get to know Mr. and Mrs. Granger if fate would permit me to do so."

Jean blushed and smiled. "You've such polite grammar for someone as young as you, Harry. It is very befitting for young boys to learn to become gentlemen in the prime of their years." David nodded and spoke.

"Well, shall we take our car then to our house?"

Bella and Harry exchanged looks. "Well," Bella murmured, "I do think it's best that we hold the tea at Harry's house… It is, after all, a manor and large enough for all of us with a few additions."

Harry looked over, slight annoyance coursing through his veins. "I do sincerely hope Alecto and Amycus shan't be present."

Bella ruffled his already messy hair. "'Course not love." She stepped briskly over to Jean. "Come, come. We haven't all day. We must be off to the Apparation point while the children Floo." She took the woman's arm and grabbed David's. "Children, go with Harry to the Platform and Floo to his home."

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"So," said Hermione as she climbed into the backseat of the family car, "I'll see you next week then?" Harry and Draco nodded at her, arms linked as they stood back to back.

"We'll be here waiting for you, Hermione," Draco said.

"Always," added the raven haired one.

"And for your birthdays as well, yes?"

Both sighed. "Yes," Draco said, a slightly exasperated tone underlining his words.

"Okay!" chirped the bushy haired witch. "Bye-bye then!" Harry and Draco watched as their friend's family car drove away in the dead of night at the nearly empty train station of King's Cross.