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They Don't Matter	By : Jenxiaris Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 5485 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The Great Hall, Hogwarts

The exams had come and gone. The seventh year students were lined up at the side of the hall ready to receive their scroll and exam results and the rest of the years and many parents were sitting in the Great hall waiting for the ceremony to begin.

Professor McGonagall stood at the podium in front of the collected families and students and the hall instantly became silent.

"A very warm welcome to all of you on this special day. I would like to say congratulations to every single one of the seventh year students today. You have all done extremely well, especially considering some of the more difficult circumstances that have arisen this year"

There was a quick round of applause and Professor McGonagall raised her hands to quiet everyone down.

"Without further ado…" Professor McGonagall began calling students forward to accept their scroll certificates and results.

The audience applauded as each student accepted their scrolls and when the final student had been called there was a loud cheer and some sparks sent to the ceiling by the Fred and Christopher, who got scathing looks from both Professor McGonagall and their mother.

After much excitement over the exam results and congratulations from the visiting parents the people in the hall dispersed. Alice, Anthony and both their parents retired to Draco and Hermione's quarters.

Ron and Draco instantly began discussing ideas on where to look for Lucius next, although they didn't come up with very much. Luna and Hermione organized food from the kitchen as Alice said she was too tired to go down to the end of year feast.

They sat around discussing the N.E.W.T results, Anthony passing everything with a distinction and Alice passing everything but Divination the same way. She got a credit in Divination and was more than happy with the results.

"I'm so proud of both of you" Hermione gushed, "With everything that has happened this year, you've just done so well"

"Thank you mother" Anthony replied for both of them.

"Are you packed and ready to go home tomorrow?" Luna asked.

"Almost, just some clothes to put in our trunks, Anthony packed all our books up as soon as we finished the exams" Alice replied.

"Unfortunately building on your bungalow was put on hold, we were worried about Lucius attacking the manor. Not fair for builders to feel under threat, so you will have to stay in the main building with us a little longer" Hermione informed them.

"That's not a problem" Alice assured her mother-in-law. She was just grateful to have a place with the baby so close to being born. "Do you think we will be safe there?" she asked, laying a protective hand over her protruding belly.

"Yes dear. Draco and I will be apparating ahead in the morning to reinforce the wards. Professor McGonagall is going to allow you, Anthony, Jessica, Annabelle and Narcissa to floo from her office once we say the Manor is ready" Hermione assured her. "We're not taking any chances with having you on the train"

"Thanks" Alice responded quietly. She was really tired after eating the delicious food that was sent up by the house elves and was more than ready to go back to Gryffindor Tower.

Ron and Luna bid them farewell and left not long after Alice could no longer hide her yawning and the young couple said goodnight to Anthony's parents and went back to their little room.

….

The Next Morning

Everything was packed. They were ready to go and sitting in Professor McGonagall's office waiting to hear that it was safe for them to floo to the Manor. Narcissa walked in shortly after with Annabelle and Jessica, who had a scowl on her face, as she had wanted to go on the train with Albus, which her father would not allow.

After they sat down Narcissa turned to Jessica "Do wipe that look from your face Jessica, it is most unbecoming. Your father is thinking of your safety and your mother and I fully agree with him"

This just infuriated Jessica more but she did try to rearrange the look on her face to appease her grandmother.

They waited quietly, just a small conversation held between Narcissa and the headmistress until the floo turned green and Hermione stepped through. "The Manor is secure if you're ready"

Alice nodded and Anthony pulled her to stand. She was carrying all her baby weight in front of her and finding it increasingly difficult to do things such as get up from a chair without a little help.

Jessica stomped towards the floo and got straight in without saying anything to anyone in the room and swirled away.

With a small sigh Hermione lifted Annabelle on to her hip and held on tightly as she in turn swirled away to the manor.

Narcissa was next into the fire grate. With a small nod to Professor McGonagall she called out her location and left.

"Professor McGonagall" Alice quietly called the head's attention. "I just wanted to say thank you. We really appreciate everything you did for us this year"

"You're very welcome Mrs. Malfoy. I wanted to say that I was very pleased with your results, I was a little worried that with the stress of Lucius and the strain of a pregnancy that you would not finish the year. You have done extraordinarily well"

With a nod to their Professor Alice and Anthony got in the grate together. Anthony held on to Alice, to protect the baby in case of any mishap during the floo and they swirled away.

….

Malfoy Manor

They arrived in the dining room and were immediately accosted by Annabelle. She grabbed Anthony's hand and began pulling him toward the door, "I want to show you the huge teddy bear daddy got me as a welcome home present" she screeched as she pulled her brother towards the stairs.

"Draco spoils her too much" Hermione whispered to Alice.

"Where's Jess?" Alice asked.

Draco answered with a similar scowl to the one his daughter had been wearing all day. "She stormed straight to her room when she got out of the fireplace"

"I think I'll just have a little chat with her" Alice said, slowly making her way to the door.

Narcissa had already gone to her rooms, leaving Hermione and Draco alone. "That poor girl is already so big and she still has something like eight or nine weeks to go. I cannot imagine how she is managing" Hermione told Draco.

"You were big with Anthony, it stands to reason that his son would be big too" Draco replied, wrapping his wife in his arms and kissing her forehead.

"Oh I think that baby is going to be much bigger than Anthony. She is the size now that I was at the end of my pregnancy"

"Do you think there is any chance Madam Pomfrey got it wrong and it's twins?" Draco asked his wife.

"No, I don't think so. I was at the twenty-week scan too. There was only one baby in there"

"Well it won't be long and he'll be here. Until then, what in Merlin's name are we going to do about his great-grandfather?"

…

Over the next four weeks witches and wizards had begun to get in contact with the auror department with sightings of Lucius. Each sighting was investigated and only a few were hoaxes. The ones that were not showed clear signs that he had been where they were told he had been.

Each sighting brought him closer and closer to Wiltshire and each sighting made the residents of the Manor more and more alert and nervous.

Alice was just weeks away from giving birth to the baby and Anthony would not let her out of his sight. She had promised Jessica that whenever she visited any of her family that the younger witch could come with her and see Albus, so every trip now consisted of Jessica and Anthony and the poor girl couldn't get any time alone.

A fact that did not help her hormonal state. She was now getting angry much more easily and when she wasn't angry she was crying. Anthony kept explaining that he just wanted to keep her safe but this just infuriated her more as she constantly shouted back that she was a perfectly capable witch.

Building on the bungalow had resumed. The frame had already been prepared and built before the building work had to be stopped and within the past four weeks the building had plumbing, the floors were down and the painting had begun.

There was some discussion as to whether to modernise the bungalow with things like muggle electricity but Alice and Anthony both said they had grown up without it and didn't see any need.

They tried their best to carry on with their lives as usual, Anthony joining his father in the home office to begin learning the business, Alice organising baby necessities as she was now nesting, a concept that Hermione tried to explain to her son, much to Draco's amusement.

….

Two weeks later Anthony was awoken by Alice shaking his shoulder. He grumbled and rubbed his eyes. "What's the matter babe?" he groggily asked.

"I think it's started" Alice breathed heavily, trying to turn and get out of bed.

"What's started?" Anthony wasn't quite awake yet.

"The baby is coming" Alice informed him with more urgency.

Anthony took a second to process what Alice had said then jumped out of bed. "Oh Merlin…Okay what do we do? Wait where's the bag you packed? Merlin's saggy left bollock I can't find your bag"

Anthony words came out in a mixed panicked jumble and Alice had to give him a hard slap around the face to make him stop.

"Anthony for goodness sake calm down. It's just started, no need to panic. My bag is in the wardrobe. Now go and wake up your parents, we need to go to St. Mungo's" Alice began to change her clothes while Anthony processed what she said and ran out of the room.

His parents room was in the opposite wing of the Manor, he ran the length of the four different corridors and sprinted up two flights of stairs before slowing as he went past Annabelle's room. He didn't want to disturb his little sisters' sleep.

Meanwhile the residents of Draco and Hermione's room were not sleeping. Hermione was currently on top of Draco, slowly rocking her hips back and forward as he licked and sucked on her nipples. They were passionately making love and closing in on a strong climax when Anthony burst into their room.

"Mother. Father quick Alice…..Oh hell!" he turned to the wall and immediately tried to forget what he had walked on…yet again.

"Anthony Cygnus Malfoy! You were not brought up to barge into people's rooms in such a rude manner" Draco admonished him as he and Hermione pulled their nightclothes on.

"Sorry father" Anthony said to the wall. He wanted to make absolutely sure there was no risk of seeing anything else when he turned back around.

"What has you running in here at this time of night?" Hermione asked after making sure she was fully covered.

"Can I turn around?" Anthony questioned.

An impatient noise from his father answered his question. "Alice says she is in labour and we need to go to St. Mungo's" Anthony said after turning around and focusing his eyes on the floor, there was no way he was looking at his parents at this particular moment.

"Right. Draco go and inform Narcissa and make sure she is there to close the floo after we leave, we need to keep the girl's safe while we're at the hospital. Anthony go and quickly send a note to Ron and Luna, they can meet us there" Hermione had swung into action, "Well don't stand there like a pair of lemon's, go!"

Both Malfoy men did as they were asked. Hermione quickly ran into her walk-in wardrobe and changed into some easy to jeans and a t-shirt and then quickly made her way to Alice.

Within twenty minutes Draco, Hermione, Anthony were stood in font of the fireplace in the dining room while Alice hunched over a chair and breathed through a contraction. She had snapped at Anthony when he had tried to help her and he practically hid behind his parents and received a stern look from Hermione.

When it was over and she had straightened up, Draco and Anthony quickly floo'd to the magically hospital. Alice got into the floo straight after and called out " St Mungo's" and swirled away and after making sure Narcissa was ready to close the floo, Hermione followed.

She exited into the main entrance of the large hospital and found Anthony supporting Alice while Draco stood at the front desk and informed the welcome witch that they were there and needed to be taken to the maternity ward.

Ron and Luna arrived just as Alice's maternity witch, clad in the hospital's uniform of lime green robes, came around the corner with a wheelchair. They both kissed her cheek and Anthony helped her into the chair and the group followed her up to the maternity ward.

The ward wasn't much more than twenty years old, as most witches gave birth at home until the marriage law was introduced, and it was so clean that the white walls almost sparkled.

Anthony was taken to a room where he could put some scrubs on while their parents were asked to stay in the ward's waiting area.

They waited for two hours, Ron and Draco partaking in a game of Wizard's Chess, as there was an old looking chessboard among the magazines in the waiting area and Luna and Hermione just talked.

"Isn't this so exciting" Luna was saying.

"Where's Brandon, I don't think it's particularly safe to leave him alone at home considering Lucius' determination to hurt Alice and anyone that is important to her" Hermione asked.

"He floo'd to Harry and Ginny's after a lot of complaining that he wanted to come to the hospital. I think he may have finally come around" Luna informed her friend. They continued to chitchat for a few more minutes before Anthony came into the room.

"What's going on son? She can't have had him already" Hermione said as the group all jumped up and surrounded him.

"She has to have a caesarean. They're getting her ready now. The baby is too big, the maternity witch said something about his heart not handling the labour well enough" Anthony informed them before sinking into a chair and putting his head in his hands.

"She will be fine son, this is the best place to be" Hermione kneeled down in front of him and put her arms around his shoulders.

"They said I can't go in with her" Anthony whispered to his mother, she alone could see the tears streaking down his face.

"Oh my darling boy, I am so sorry for what you are going through" Hermione held him close, "I'm one hundred percent sure she will be fine"

They waited just twenty minutes before a medi-wizard came out, visibly removing his scrubs and using his wand to clean his hands.

He came over and shook Anthony's hand "Congratulations young man, you have a very healthy baby boy"

The room breathed a sigh of relief and Anthony was taken straight down to meet his son for the first time.
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