Chapter 12 - Graduation Day
The rest of the day passed in a blur, Draco and Hermione told Harry, Ginny, and Blaise and all of them, plus the rest of the Weasley's, besides Ron, congratulated them on their engagement and their soon-to-be jobs and soon it was time for then to get ready for graduation, the whole Weasley clan, minus Ron, and Harry were there, clapping when Ginny, Hermione, Blaise, Luna, Neville, and Draco received were called up. To no one's surprise afterwards Harry popped the question to Ginny, but to everyone's great surprise Blaise asked Luna to marry him, as they had been going out since the ball. It was a great day, everyone joking and laughing. It was little trouble to them when they saw Lavender crying when she noticed Ron didn't come. No one liked her anyway, she was as horrid as Pansy in their eyes.
No one noticed the red-head near the edge of the forbidden forest, scowling as he saw the shine of the diamond on Hermione's finger and glaring as he saw Blaise propose to Luna. In his mind, his family and friends had all become traitors. Unlike everyone else he noticed Lavender's tears with great concern, however and had to force himself no to go over and comfort her, instead sending Pig with a quick note telling her of his whereabouts and watched as she quickly detached herself from everyone else and run over to where he was. He told her that he couldn't stand being in England with his traitorous family and asked her to run away with him to him to America and marry him. She quickly accepted, which was good because Ron had already been allowed to transfer his Auror job to America and with a silent accio Lavender's and his bags were with them and the apparated to America to the house Ron had bought for them.
No one at Hogwarts noticed or cared about Lavender's disappearance and when the Weasley's received the final owl they would ever get from Ron late that day, they were barely upset, he was no longer family in their eyes, he'd hurt Hermione all too much. Life continued as normal, in everyone's eyes life couldn't be better, exspeically when Narrcissa welcomed Hermione as family with relative ease.
Ron and Lavender lived happily in America and by August, they were married in June in Vegas, Lavender was pregnant, no one in the Weasley family would now about this child, the Brown's didn't even care enough to know.
Hermione and Draco had married at the Burrow in late July, Harry and Ginny in Early August and Luna and Blaise had married in a park in mid August. In late August Hermione and Draco left the flat they had bought to go start their jobs at Hogwarts, none of them expected what challenges the next year would bring.