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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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"How Late" Hermione asked, trying to keep her cool, although really she wanted to go back into the room and smack Anthony around the head. She had taught him better than that.

"A few days" Alice replied, fighting the frog in her throat to answer.

"Go back in and tell my son that you and I are going to have a chat and you will meet him back here in half an hour" Hermione told the young witch, taking charge. Alice nodded and went back to Anthony, re-emerging a few moments later with her jacket.

Hermione made her way down the stairs, Alice following in her wake. They left the pub and began to walk through the small town.

"Where are we going Aunt Hermione?" Alice asked, too overwhelmed from the events of the last hour to handle what was happening now.

"We are going to the apothecary, to get a pregnancy potion, then we are going to the Shrieking Shack." Hermione replied.

"The Shrieking Shack? Why are we going there?" Alice knew that there was nothing dangerous there anymore, but the old crumbling building still made her nervous.

"Where else around here will we go without being disturbed?" Hermione asked, although she knew the answer; there was nowhere during a Hogsmeade Weekend that didn't have a student or two lurking.

They walked down to the local Apothecary in Hogsmeade and Hermione bought a pregnancy potion before leaving and steering Alice towards the Shrieking Shack.

They made the long walk up towards the very old rotting building and entered carefully. Hermione directed Alice upstairs, keen to avoid the area where her old potions professor had lost his life and all the memories of war that came with it.

Alice stepped into the only room in on the second floor. Hermione followed behind her and took a look around. It hadn't changes at all since the time she had been there and watched Ron's rat Scabbers turn into Peter Pettigrew.

The walls had a dark thick layer of dust, the door was still hanging off its hinges and the bed was still in the same collapsed position from where Professor Snape had landed on it when Harry had stunned him.

Hermione pulled out her wand and cast 'Reparo' on the bed and then 'Scourgify' to get rid of the years of dust and dirt that had settled on it.

"Ok Alice, sit down" she told the younger witch and proceeded to hand her the small potion vial "down in one" she informed her. Alice took the vial, uncorked it and swallowed it in one go as instructed.

"Lean back a bit Alice" Hermione told her son's girlfriend and then placed her wand or the girl's abdomen; it span once and turned blue.

"What does that mean?" Alice croaked, unsure of how these potions worked and what the blue glow emitting from the wand meant.

"It means that you're pregnant" Hermione deadpanned, now allowing her anger to show on her face.

"Alice, how could you have been so careless?" Hermione asked, trying and failing slightly to keep her temper.

"Aunt Hermione, I swear we've been careful, I don't know how this happened" Alice was now properly crying.

Hermione softened a little, although she was still furious at the situation. She sat on the bed and put her arm around Alice "It's done now, nothing can change it, but you have to tell Anthony straight away and go to see Madam Pomfrey. I don't know what the school will do now that the marriage law has been repealed, but old policy was that you had to leave."

"Oh Merlin, I need to finish school Aunt Hermione, they can't expel me" Alice began to panic.

"Okay, calm down. I'm sure I will be able to sort something out with Professor McGonagall. I hate using this but if I have to I'll remind her exactly who your father and I are, I'm sure I can sort something out, I'll write to her." Hermione reassured the sobbing young witch.

"Come on, Draco will still be fuming, I need to get to Madam Puddifoot's and you need to go back and talk to Anthony" Hermione reminded Alice.

They got up and left the crumbling building. On the way back towards the main street of the small village Alice stopped. "Aunt Hermione, how am I going to tell my parents and Uncle Draco?" tears leaking out of her eyes again.

"Honestly Alice, I have no idea. First things first, tell Anthony, I know my son; he will do the right thing by you. Then we will tackle everyone else. Alice, don't for a second think I am remotely happy about this. I am absolutely furious, however there is nothing to be done and I will do my best to help with this situation" Hermione informed the young witch before beginning the walk towards the village again.

Upon reaching the main parade of shops the two witches split and went in separate directions. Alice made a slow walk back to the pub. She entered and went back up stairs and into the private room where Anthony was pacing, worrying about what was taking so long.

When he saw Alice he immediate wrapped her up in his arms and kissed her. "Love, you've been crying. What happened with my mother?" Anthony asked, worried that maybe his mother hadn't been as supportive as he thought she would be.

"Anthony I think maybe we should sit down" Alice told him and untangled herself from his arms to sit on the couch. "I need to tell you something"

"Okay love, what is it?" Anthony asked sitting next to her and taking her hand.

"Oh Merlin" she groaned and got back up, beginning to pace, unable to look at her love.

"Alice please tell me what's going on, you're beginning to worry me" Anthony asked, watching her pace, her face pale.

"Anthony, I went with your mother because I needed help…..I'm…err…I'm…" Alice couldn't get the words out.

"You've changed your mind" Anthony finished her sentence.

"No, no not at all" Alice stopped and went back over to the couch. She sat next to him but still couldn't look him in the eye; terrified that he would walk away when she told him "I'm pregnant Anthony"

"Oh" was his response. He opened his mouth to get some form of more intelligent sentence out, but nothing came.

"Anthony please say something" Alice begged a few moments later.

"I don't understand, we've been so careful the last couple of weeks, I always made sure I cast the charm on us both" Anthony was trying to rack his brains for what had happened.

"Not at Halloween you didn't and neither did I, we were too caught up and now I'm pregnant" Alice responded.

"Oh Merlin Halloween...so wait… your two weeks pregnant?" Anthony was trying to clear it all up in his mind.

"I guess" Alice replied, nodding uncertainly. "Your mum said to go to Madam Pomfrey, but Anthony I'm worried"

"Love, if it's what my mum said to do, then it's what we do. Come on let's go now while everyone else is out of the castle" Anthony suggested, standing from the couch and offering a hand to Alice. She took it and stood, but as she went to walk towards the door, Anthony stopped her and knelt down in front of her. He put his hands on her hips and kissed her abdomen.

"Alice no matter what happens I love you and we'll work it out" he told her, looking up into her eyes before placing a second kiss on her.

"I love you too" she replied, wiping the latest tears from her face. Anthony stood and they left the pub and went back to the castle.

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The couple made their way to the hospital wing after reaching the castle and were greeted by Madam Pomfrey.

"What are you two doing here, you should be out in Hogsmeade buying sweets that will make you ill and jokes that I will have to heal the after affects of later" Madam Pomfrey asked jokingly, leading them to a bed.

She looked at Alice and saw the tear tracks on her face, "Miss Weasley, what on earth is the matter?" the old nurse asked, looking for signs of injury.

"Err….well….I'm pregnant Madam Pomfrey" Alice Murmured.

"Are you sure my dear?" Madam Pomfrey asked, putting her professional face on and hiding the fact that this would not be good.

"Yes, I just took a test with Anthony's mum, she said I am" Alice replied, fresh tears leaking from her eyes.

"Right well, lets make sure and check you over then we can think about your next step" Madam Pomfrey said, flicking her wand at the curtain, causing it to close and indicating to Alice to sit back against the bed.

Madam Pomfrey summoned a pregnancy potion from her stores in her office, still having some left from the batch brewed before the marriage law was repealed and asked Alice to drink it and lean back.

She followed the same procedure as Hermione had earlier that day "Yes, two weeks I'd say" Madam Pomfrey confirmed. "I'm just going to run a standard check up on you then I think we need to go and see Professor McGonagall" Madam Pomfrey told the couple.

She waved her wand various different ways and took notes on a piece of parchment. "Okay dear, everything is perfectly fine. Now I'll let you get yourselves together, I'm going to floo Professor McGonagall and tell her to expect us in a moment" Madam Pomfrey, exited the curtains.

Alice wiped the tears from her eyes and sat up, "Anthony, your mum said she would try and help, but if the school goes back to its old policy on student pregnancy, they will make me leave. What are we going to do?"

Anthony sat next to Alice on the bed and wrapped his arms around her, "that's not going to happen. Professor McGonagall is reasonable woman, she will do the right thing" Anthony reassured her. "Now there is something I wanted to ask. I was going to wait a while but after today's events I don't want to wait anymore" Anthony got up from the bed and pulled Alice to her feet, he kneeled down and took her hand. "Alice Hermione Weasley, I love you, you are my world and now you are going to be the mother of my child, you would make me the happiest wizard in the world if you would agree to be my wife"

Alice looked down into Anthony's eyes and nodded. Anthony stood and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her full on the mouth, lifting her and swinging her around.

They were interrupted by a throat clearing, and turned to see Madam Pomfrey waiting for them.

Anthony put Alice back down and took her hand "Are we going to see Professor McGonagall now?" he asked the old nurse.

"Yes Mr. Malfoy, we shall floo from here straight to her office" she turned towards the fireplace and the newly engaged couple followed.

A moment later they stepped out into Professor McGonagall's office. The professor herself was stood behind her desk, hands braced on her high-backed chair.

"Well, Mr. Malfoy, Miss. Weasley. Sit down please. I have briefly spoken with Madam Pomfrey about your situation. Before I make any kind of decision as to how to handle this I would like to hear what you think you would like to do" Professor McGonagall told them, her lips very thin and her stance stiff.

Anthony spoke up first "Well Professor, obviously we only just found out that Alice is pregnant, which hasn't afforded us much time to think about what we want to do, but one thing I do know is that I want to marry her as soon as possible, and if the school would prefer that Alice leave then I will be going with her"

"Very well Mr. Malfoy. I'm rather pleased to hear that actually" Professor McGonagall told him. "This is what I would like to suggest although I will have to discuss it with the schools directors. As we have a few married couples still left from before the marriage law, one of whom I believe is pregnant, I would like to allow you to both stay at school, in the marriage wing. Provided of course that you mean what you say about wanting to get married as soon as possible" Professor McGonagall continued. "Now I am not promising this yet, I need to speak to the school board, although as Hermione is on the board in the Malfoy seat I don't really see a problem. This is all I am prepared to offer, and if I am honest I am thoroughly dismayed that two of my best pupils have allowed this to happen. Now if you will excuse me" Professor McGonagall indicated that they were to leave her office.

Anthony and Alice both thanked the headmistress before getting up and leaving. "Well that could have gone a lot worse" Anthony said putting his arm around Alice's shoulder as the descended the spiral staircase from the head office.

"To be honest I don't think we could've asked for better, she didn't even really tell us off" Alice said, a fresh wave of tears leaving her eyes.

"Hey now, what are these tears for?" Anthony asked, wiping his thumb under Alice's eyes to remove the tears.

"I like Professor McGonagall, I hate feeling like we've let her down, and I'm dreading telling your dad and my parents" Alice told him, folding herself into his side as they walked down the corridor.

"Don't worry love, like I told you before, they don't matter"
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