Recipient: ella_bane Prompt: Draco/Hermione, Hogwarts letter Word count: 350-ish Rating: G!
August 15, 2007
Draco waves his wand to move the boxes from the spare room; she hasn't unpacked them in the year since she brought them from her parents' house, and she's relieved to see that he's already put an expansion spell on the bookcases; they'll never fit all their books without it.
The next box is full of photo albums, scrapbooks, a few Adrien Mole novels and a random Take That CD that she tries to Banish before he can ask her about it.
He flips through a scrapbook, teases her about keeping her Hogwarts letter for the last ten years, then reads the pages that she always knew the kids from wizarding families didn't get, the ones that explained about magic, and contained instructions for scheduling an interview with one of the professors.
"I had to hide it for a year," she tells him. "I had this letter sitting in my desk and I looked at it every morning, and then I had to get dressed and go to school and sit with my classmates and try not to turn the cat purple and be ordinary."
His letter came at the end of May; his father had acted like he knew it was coming, but he'd been a little nervous until it actually arrived. What if... he'd thought. Was it better to get your Hogwarts letter a year before you could start, or would waiting build character and discipline and all the things that his father had claimed were so important? Why did Hogwarts have to be so strict about the August 31 cutoff date?
"Hermione," he said, "we've cleared out most of the boxes. We can have the room painted and get the furniture in within a week. You just have to decide," he said. "Do you want to get induced so you definitely go into labour before September 1, or wait the extra week - or more - so you go naturally?"
"Why don't I get induced on August 31, and time the delivery so one's born that day, and the other isn't born til after midnight?"
Prompt: Draco/Hermione, Hogwarts letter
Word count: 350-ish
Rating: G!
August 15, 2007
Draco waves his wand to move the boxes from the spare room; she hasn't unpacked them in the year since she brought them from her parents' house, and she's relieved to see that he's already put an expansion spell on the bookcases; they'll never fit all their books without it.
The next box is full of photo albums, scrapbooks, a few Adrien Mole novels and a random Take That CD that she tries to Banish before he can ask her about it.
He flips through a scrapbook, teases her about keeping her Hogwarts letter for the last ten years, then reads the pages that she always knew the kids from wizarding families didn't get, the ones that explained about magic, and contained instructions for scheduling an interview with one of the professors.
"I had to hide it for a year," she tells him. "I had this letter sitting in my desk and I looked at it every morning, and then I had to get dressed and go to school and sit with my classmates and try not to turn the cat purple and be ordinary."
His letter came at the end of May; his father had acted like he knew it was coming, but he'd been a little nervous until it actually arrived. What if... he'd thought. Was it better to get your Hogwarts letter a year before you could start, or would waiting build character and discipline and all the things that his father had claimed were so important? Why did Hogwarts have to be so strict about the August 31 cutoff date?
"Hermione," he said, "we've cleared out most of the boxes. We can have the room painted and get the furniture in within a week. You just have to decide," he said. "Do you want to get induced so you definitely go into labour before September 1, or wait the extra week - or more - so you go naturally?"
"Why don't I get induced on August 31, and time the delivery so one's born that day, and the other isn't born til after midnight?"
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And yeah, the two of them, I think, would be relatively neurotic that way.
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