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Can We Make It	By : Jenxiaris Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 10938 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 4
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After a very long day of double potions, double charms and double transfiguration (unfortunately all with the Slytherins) Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way to the Great Hall for dinner. On the way they were met by a nervous looking Ginny, who grabbed Harry's hand and held it in a vice grip.

They entered the hall and sat down to eat, although most of the older students looked too anxious to eat, as they were about to find out whom they were to marry. After a while the heads of houses, Professor Sprout for Hufflepuff, Professor Flitwick for Ravenclaw, Professor Slughorn for Slytherin and the new Gryffindor head Professor Sinistra (who taught astronomy) walked down the tables, handing out official ministry letters along with notes from Professor McGonagall to all the 6th and 7th years.

There were some gasps, some good and some really bad. There was the sound of girls crying with their friends trying to console them and coming from Hermione's seat complete and utter silence. As she looked at the parchment in front of her she felt shock, replaced with horror, replaced with complete denial. She re-read it to make sure she wasn't having a nightmare

Dear Ms. Hermione Granger

As per the announcement of the Marriage Law, the Ministry have paired you with Mr. Draco Malfoy. Your wedding is to take place by the end of September. A ministry official will preside over your wedding and will place the necessary charms on your wedding rings.

Good luck with your marriage.

Regards

Grogan Lufkin

Head of the Department of Marriages

Looking up Hermione saw a very pale looking Ron and Harry who currently had a sobbing Ginny in his arms. "Who did you get Ron", Hermione asked, not wanting to even think about what she just read. Ron handed Hermione his letter, seeing who Ron got Hermione smiled "that's good Ron, don't look like that, you will be great together". Ron had been paired with Luna Lovegood, strange as she may be she was a good person and a loyal friend who fought and suffered along side them in the war and Hermione thought she would be good for Ron.

"Ron, who did Harry and Ginny get, she looks really upset", Ron smiled "well, actually they got each other.... I'm not sure why Ginny is crying". Hermione had to laugh at how rubbish Ron was at understanding feelings; some thing would never change.

"Hermione, you haven't said who you got", Hermione looked away, she felt tears coming to her eyes, how could she tell him she had to marry their arch nemesis? Ron took the parchment from her hand and read, read again then swore loudly.

Before Hermione could stop him he got up walked over to the Slytherin table and punched Malfoy in the nose, hard. "You set this up didn't you, you slimy little ferret, what for? A last laugh, Harry beats the deranged git you follow so you have to take his best friend. How much did it cost you Malfoy?" For the first time Hermione looked at her future husband, and all she saw was his aunt torturing her in his dining room, how was she going to do this, she couldn't marry Draco Malfoy she just couldn't.

Harry came over along with Neville Longbottom and pried Ron off of Draco, as he was now on top of him hitting every part of his body he could reach. Draco wasn't even putting up a fight; he looked like he didn't have any fight left in him. Hermione realised that the light side wasn't the only one that suffered.

Goyle and Blaise Zabini came and helped Malfoy up just as Professor McGonagall came over and handed Ron a months worth of detentions "but Professor don't you understand, he got Hermione, this can't happen, it just can't..." Ron looked like he was going to be sick and couldn't look Hermione in the eye.

After the commotion had calmed down and the younger students had been sent to bed, Professor McGonagall got everyone's attention and asked them all to meet by the front doors as they were going to be shown the Marriage Wing. Hermione realised she hadn't read the other note yet, she opened it and saw that it explained that she and Malfoy had been given flat 202 in the wing to live in for the school year after they were married.

She went to the front door with a grinning Harry and Ginny and a sulking Ron and lined up with everyone else to go out to the new building in the grounds. As they walked over Luna joined them wearing her radish earrings and smiling her absent looking smile. She went to Ron, took his hand and smiled over at Hermione "what's the matter Ron...did the wrackspurts get to you", Ron snorted at this and Hermione thought that her earlier feeling about Ron and Luna was correct.

Once outside the Marriage Wing the professor asked for everyone to pair up with their future partners and wait to be shown to their flat. Hermione walked over to Draco and looked him over. He was at least 6ft in height compared to Hermione's small 5ft 4in, he looked toned under his robes obviously from years of Quidditch and his blonde hair was cut differently, it seemed slightly longer and fell across his face a little. Hermione waited silently for further instructions from the professor.

She looked around and saw who else had been paired up. Neville Longbottom was standing very awkwardly next to Hannah Abbott. Lavender Brown was salivating over her new fiancé Blaise Zabini who looked quite frightened much to Hermione's amusement. Gregory Goyle stood next to them, looking paler than Malfoy with Milicent Bulstrode and Seamus Finnigan was happily chatting away to Pavarti Patil with his arm around her shoulders. Pansy Parkinson stood further away by herself and Hermione realised that she must be paired with someone outside of Hogwarts. Padma Patil had joined Dean Thomas and was having an animated conversation with Susan Bones who was currently at the side of her new fiancé Justin Finch-Fletchely. Daphne Greengrass was standing with Terry boot and had Eloise Midgen next to her with Ernie MacMillan.

There was a few 6th years that Hermione didn't recognize all waiting to be shown their flats. Professor McGonagall proceeded to explain the building that had lifts like the ministry as opposed to moving staircases, which Hermione could only assume was because it was much easier to get a buggy into a lift than onto a staircase. The ground floor held the Crèche and 2 large fireplaces that were connected via the floo to the main entrance hall and the hospital wing (obviously that one was going to be seeing a lot of action in around 9 months).

There were 4 more floors with 10 flats on each floor and the group of students went and waited by the lift that was to take them to their floor. Harry and Ginny were on the 3rd floor in flat 307 and Ron and Luna were on the 1st Floor in flat 109. Hermione and Draco got off on the 2nd floor and waited outside flat 202 and waited.

5 minutes later when the professor came to let them into their flat they still hadn't spoken to each other. They entered into the hallway of a small 2 bedroom flat with white walls and high ceilings, "it is all white and you have until your wedding to let Mr. Filch know what colours of paint and curtains you would like. I'm going to go and let in your neighbours Mr. Finnigan and Ms. Patil" and with that professor McGonagall left them to explore their new home.

To the right of the front door was a small bathroom with a bath and shower and to their left they found what was meant to eventually be the baby's room. Inside were a crib and a bassinette, along with a small chest of drawers that double as a change table all in white. Leaving that room Hermione found that Malfoy had gone into the room next to the babies, which turned out to be what was supposed to be the master bedroom. It had a large antique wardrobe and matching four-poster bed with white sheets.

Before entering the last door Hermione decided that this could not go on. They were to be married within 4 weeks; they had to talk. "Malfoy, we need to talk about this, we're going to be together for a long time and we're going to have children, we have to communicate". She didn't know where she got the strength from to say all of this because she was terrified by the situation they had been thrown into by the Ministry, but someone had to take point and it was obviously not going to be her future husband.

Draco opened the door to the last room to find a small living room with white walls, a stone floor, a table to eat on, a couch and a bookshelf by the window on the far wall. He took a seat on the couch and finally looked at Hermione. "I'm sorry. I should have dealt with this better", there was a hard look on his face. Hermione was in shock, did she just hear Draco Malfoy, the Slytherin prince apologize!

Draco continued, "We are going to be married no matter what we want so I suggest a truce...and possibly try and build some sort of relationship". Hermione didn't know how to react, so she nodded and finished looking around the living room. Opposite the couch was another door, which lead into a small square kitchen that you could cook in, although Hermione was pretty sure they would either eat in the Great Hall or order their food from the house elves.

After leaving the marriage wing and walking back to the castle together Draco bid Hermione goodnight and went towards the dungeons and Hermione went upstairs to Gryffindor tower. Hermione went into the common room and sit down with a smiling Ginny, "I think Draco Malfoy just tried to be nice to me".

Ginny sat silently with Hermione who was obviously deep in thought trying to deal with what had just happened with Malfoy until Harry and Ron came back from Filch's office. They had gone down there because Ginny and Luna had already decided what they wanted to do with their flats.

Hermione tried to explain what had happened with Malfoy but she couldn't understand it. Ron was adamant that it was some kind of trick and Harry was trying to keep the situation calm because he didn't want to be in the middle of another Ron vs. Hermione row.

"You know we did save him during the final battle and his mother saved my life when I faced Voldermort and the death eaters, maybe we should gave him the benefit of the doubt", Harry was trying to reason with Ron but it didn't seem to work, all it did was add fuel to the fire "exactly Harry, we saved his life, the least the git could do would be to leave Hermione alone", Ron was in full tantrum mode where nothing apart from Mrs. Weasley could stop him. Ginny had had enough; she stood up, hands on hips and yelled in a very good impression of her mother at Ron "for goodness sake Ronald, the Ministry paired them up, get over it". With that she kissed Harry and went to bed.

The next morning at breakfast a beautiful brown Eagle Owl dropped a note in front of Hermione, it read....

Dear Hermione

I think we should talk in regards to our wedding and what we would like to do with our flat as we only have 3 and half weeks before the deadline, please meet me tonight by the Room of Requirement. Please send me a message back with Mercury, I have instructed him not to leave you until you do.

Regards

Draco

Hermione instantly showed the letter to Ginny. She couldn't understand why Malfoy was being so civil; he had even signed "Draco" and had called her "Hermione" not "Granger". Ginny read the letter with a smile on her face "oh for goodness sake 'mione your as bad as Ron. Why don't you try to accept that he is being nice because he is going to be your husband, maybe he is just as tired of fighting as we are. Besides it can't hurt that he is one of the handsomest men around, your quite lucky Hermione, although don't tell Harry and Ron I said that, they'll never forgive me", Hermione was shocked at Ginny's answer and although she doubted that Malfoy was just being nice without some ulterior motive she decided to take Ginny's advice and give him a chance. "Ok Gin, I'll meet with him "but I'm telling you now, we have a long way to go before I agree that he is nice, although you are right about one thing, he's very handsome".

She sent him a note back with the brown owl and went to her first lesson. After dinner Hermione went to the Room of Requirement and waited for Malfoy. He came 5 minutes later and opened the room.

They walked into a beautiful room decorated in a pale peach colour and was around the size of the living room in their flat. "I asked the room for this so you could see what I was thinking for our living room, a neutral colour, neither Slytherin nor Gryffindor", Hermione was pleasantly surprise by this. Draco had obviously put some thought into this and she wondered where the catch was. She sat down on the plush beige couch that the room had provided and decided to confront him "What is going on with you? Your being so civil with me and thinking up room colours and you haven't called me a mudblood once, what are you setting me up for Malfoy?" Draco's face hardened, he sat down next to Hermione and looked her straight in the eye "well believe it or not Granger, I've changed a lot in the last few months. I don't want to follow in the Malfoy footsteps and spend my life thinking about blood status and having the wizarding world associating my name with evil. I don't even remotely like you, I never have but I don't want my wand to be snapped so I'm afraid we are going to have to be husband and wife and I thought it would be easier if we were civil with each other".

Hermione instantly regretted what she had said, he was trying to be nice and she was being nasty back, "I'm sorry Malfoy, you're right, we should try to be civil with each other" she said while covering his hand with hers.

She felt an instant jolt go up her arm as she did this, which was very odd but thought nothing more of it as Draco began to speak again "Lets discuss what we came here for, firstly you may do whatever you want with our flat as long as the living room is like this, because I rather like it. Secondly I think we should get married next week, it would be wasting time putting it off until the end of the month and we want to make sure we get a slot with the minister otherwise we may end up missing the deadline and getting into some serious trouble, would these two terms of mine be agreeable to you?"

Hermione thought about it for a few seconds before agreeing, he was right better to get the wedding over with than to build it up and make it more stressful than it needed to be and she did rather like what he had done with the room.

"I only have two more request and then I will leave you to your evening, I think we should call each other by our first names as pretty soon you won't be a Granger anymore and couples usually refer to each other by first names if not some pet name and secondly I would like to give you this"

Draco pulled a beautiful ring from his pocket and put it on Hermione's wedding finger. It was a simple platinum band with a square cut emerald flanked by two smaller diamonds "this is the Malfoy ring, my mother sent it to me this morning, we may not be in love Hermione but I still want to do this the correct way, will you please wear it?"

Hermione looked at the ring and smiled, this was a lovely gesture, one that he did not have to make. She decided to give him a proper chance and nodded. "Thank-you Draco, it's beautiful". Draco's stomach flipped when she said his name, it was an unusual feeling for him to get around this particular girl but he would not complain.

"Draco, I have something I would like to discuss with you, I read the pamphlet the ministry gave us, it says we have to consummate the marriage by midnight of the wedding day. This is uncomfortable for me to admit to you but I've never done anything like that before and I thought you should know that before we have to do it", Hermione was bright red after admitting this, but Draco didn't seem to be flustered by her confession at all, "don't worry Hermione, I will try to make it a good experience for you" after all he wasn't called the Slytherin sex god for nothing.

"I think Saturday the 6th would be an appropriate day for the wedding, if it is agreeable to you I will go and book a slot on that day with Professor McGonagall now and also go to see Mr. Filch regarding the flat if you write down what you would like".

Hermione agreed and 10 minutes later handed Draco a piece of parchment with instructions for Mr. Filch. "Thank you for taking care of all this Draco, goodnight" before leaving she gave him a peck on the cheek and smiled before closing the door.

Hermione went back to the common room and told Harry, Ron and Ginny about most of the discussion and went up to the girl's dormitory with Ginny to discuss the wedding night and the fact that Hermione may actually be attracted to Draco Malfoy.
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