a/n thanks to r.k.malfoy, amigops, Aerocat3989, mizz 2 hyper, and Zarroc for their reviews.

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"Okay so I'm Maria Wood."

"Wood?" Hermione questioned.

"Yes."

"Any relations to Oliver Wood?" she asked.

The woman laughed, "Actually he's my younger brother."

"How much older are you?"

"I'm two years older than him."

"So you would have been in seventh year when we started."

"Okay which house were you in?"

"Gryffindor," Hermione answered.

"Sorry but I don't remember you and I thought I knew everyone in Gryffindor."

Hermione glanced at Draco and he shot her a glance. Hermione pulled out her flicked it, "Now do you recognize me?"

"Hermione Granger?" the woman gasped.

"Yup."

"Never thought I'd see the day."

"Well it's come. One thing though that you have to do for us is as far as anyone's concerned I'm not who I really am."

Maria looked confused.

"Draco's Aunt is after me so I can't go out of hiding that easily with out being careful."

"Okay of course."

Hermione cleared that up with Maria and then they went back to business.

"So I'll need you to fill out this form," she handed it to Hermione who started to fill it in. Once she was done she handed it back to the woman.

"Great. So first off I'm going to say congratulations."

"Thank you."

"Okay so when do you want the wedding to be?"

"We're thinking December 27."

"A year."

"Well we kinda want everything to be planned before the babies born in August."

"You're pregnant," she gasped.

"Yes," Hermione admitted.

"Well congrats."

"Thanks."

"Well let's get started then."

2 hours later exhausted Hermione changed back her hair colour to blond and walked out the door and apparated back to Grimmauld Place.

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The week passed and everyone was back at Hogwarts. Ginny had, had her birthday and passed her apparation test on the same day and was absolutely thrilled that she was no longer the only one in the Order who was not of age.

Back at Hogwarts the group was assembled in the Head's Common Room.

"What are you going to do Hermione?" Ginny asked kindly.

"I don't know," moaned Hermione.

"Well would you rather spread the rumor and have it be true or have somebody put pieces together and come up with the completely wrong conclusion?"

"Thanks Harry," she snorted, "that was a purely inspirational speech."

"You're welcome," he said because he was getting used to Hermione's outbursts that Ginny had told him she couldn't help, it was all hormones.

They continued to talk into the night even thought everybody said they should get to bed because classes started the next morning. Every time somebody started to get up to leave the person beside them started to reminiscence about something that had happened to them or somebody else. At 2:00 in the morning when Ginny had fallen asleep on the couch and started to snore everybody decided it was finally time to go to bed. Harry picked Ginny up and not having the heart to wake her.

"Harry," Hermione said.

"Yes?"

"You don't have to carry her back she can stay here," Hermione summoned a pillow and some blankets and made a bed on the couch.

"Thanks Hermione," Harry said as he tucked Ginny in.

"No problem."

Hermione walked up the stairs and with Draco following her. She heard the portrait close of the portrait hole as Harry and Ron walked back to Gryffindor Tower hidden under the Invisibility Cloak.

"Well goodnight," Hermione said and she leaned over and gave Draco a good night kiss.

"Goodnight."

Hermione walked into her room and closed the door. She sat down at the vanity and looked in the mirror and sighed, "What am I going to do?" she muttered.

"She stood up and walked over to her trunk. She reached into the very bottom and pulled out her oversized t-shirt that she used to wear to sleep in and pulled it over her head after she had undressed. As always she looked in the mirror. In hopes that the dreadful day of 'of the bump' arriving hadn't come. Satisfied that her stomach was still flat she crawled into bed and extinguished the lights. Her bed felt so big after sharing the small guest bed with Draco. She spread out and pulled the covers up. She was just drifting off to sleep when the door creaked open and light flooded in. She put her hand up to shield her eyes and called, "What do you want?"

Draco padded over to her bed and lifted the covers and slid in next to her.

"What happened?"

"I couldn't sleep without you beside me," he admitted.

"Aww," she cooed.

He wrapped his arms around her and rested his hands just below her belly button where in a few weeks there would be a bump.

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The next morning at breakfast everyone came over to her spot at Gryffindor Table to look at her ring. News had spread quickly that the Head Girl and the Head Boy were engaged and that they had for years been sworn enemies as well as one was a the model Slytherin and the other was the model Gryffindor.

"Oh my god it's beautiful," Padma Patil said.

"Thanks," Hermione said admiring her ring.

Draco had his one arm around her and the other holding his fork which had a large piece of egg on it.

"Charming," she muttered but he just laughed after he put it in his mouth.

All morning between classes girls came up to her to admire her ring. Draco stood beside her and Harry and Ron watched on from a safe distance but still close enough to protect Hermione if something should happen.

They made it to class every time but just barely. Their first class of the day was Defense. Hermione walked in the room and Lupin said greeted her, "How are you doing Hermione?" Your finger must be killing you with the size of that stone on it and how many holes must be in your finger from people staring at it."

"Good morning to you to," she laughed.

The four went and found seats at the back of the classroom and waited for the class to begin.

By the next evening it seemed that everyone had seen Hermione's ring so she was finally able to walk freely. She was doing her patrolling with Draco when she heard somebody behind them. She spun around and pulled out her wand, "Whose there?' she demanded.

There was no answer. Hermione used to patrolling on her own forgot that Draco was standing beside her and called, "Whose there. Come on and show yourself."

There was a rustling but still Hermione saw nobody. Finally realizing she walked slowly over to where she heard the noise and put her hand out and ran it through the air until it hit something hard. She gripped the fabric and pulled it away to see Harry, Ron and Ginny standing huddled under the cloak. Harry had the Marauder's Map in his hand.

"I'm assuming this wasn't just a let's spy on Hermione and Draco thing. Did McGonagoll put you up to this?"

They all nodded.

"And Remus," Ginny muttered.

"I guess I'm not allowed to be mad."

"No this is for your own good."

"Well thanks, but next time your trailing somebody try not to muffle a scream."

"That was Ron," Ginny said pointing her finger at her brother.

"Not my fault that the suit of armor was sticking out farther than I thought."

Everyone started to laugh and eventually Ron joined in.

They finished their patrolling, this time with no invisibility cloak and then they went off to bed.

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a/n sorry for the jump but I had no ideas. It's going to be jumping forward a lot because I'm having writers block at this point in the story. I'm going to be jumping to when the school finds out about Hermione and then grad so that should be in the next few chapters.

QUESTION

Do you think the wedding should be:

A-Christmas theme so red and green

or

B-Winter/Snow/Ice theme haven't decided exactly on colours but probably a bluey silver or something like that.

PLEASE SENT ANSWER IN REVIEW THAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO… RIGHT?

Sorry for the long wait but as I said I've had writers block so I'm trying to get to a part that I want to write and not just in-between stuff so I get rid of the writers block. Reviews would be gratefully appreciated.