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A New Job and Meeting Alex
Disclaimer: I do not own any Harry Potter characters except the names of Hermione\'s parents and little Alex. The rest belong to Jo Rowling.
Part Three
A NEW JOB AND MEETING ALEX
Draco Malfoy was finally a free man. After two years of a loveless marriage, with no children, Pansy was back to being a Parkinson. She was not happy when the courts did not allow her to keep the name or the money she had access to. The marriage was arranged, not willingly. Draco now spends his time as a school governor, and working at clearing the Malfoy name. He was determined for the Malfoy family line to be good again, starting with little Alex and Hermione. He wasn\'t going to tell his mother that she had a grandson at the moment. He wanted to make sure that Hermione and Harry weren\'t married, and Harry had adopted Alex. The school board was finally letting him visit the school because McGonagall wanted to see him about something. Draco had a feeling it was about taking the Potions position since Severus was retiring. He pulled on a cloak, and headed to the Floo fireplace in the study. \"I\'m off to Hogwarts, Mother,\" he said.
\"Oh, Draco, if you get a chance, tell Ms. Granger she has the cutest son.\" Draco froze at Narcissa\'s words.
\"You saw Alex?\" he asked.
\"In Diagon Alley before she went to Hogwarts,\" Narcissa said, \"She had him in one of those Muggle baby carriers that she had strapped to herself. It was a clever device as it allowed her to have her hands.\" Draco raised his eyebrows.
\"When was this?\"
\"Oh, a couple weeks ago,\"
Hermione entered Diagon Alley in need of some healing potions. Alex had a burn on his arm that she didn\'t want it to take forever to heal. She had wrapped it up before heading out. She was about to enter the Apothecary when she heard a squeal of delight behind her. \"Oh, look at that precious boy.\" She turned around to see Narcissa Malfoy behind her, and slightly panicked.
\"Mrs. Malfoy, what ...?\"
\"Oh, I heard about your little one in the Daily Prophet, and here he is.\" Narcissa stepped to the side to get a better view at Alex. Alex was intrigued with this woman, and moved his head around to look around at her. \"Oh, he\'s so cute.\"
\"Thank you.\" Narcissa went to tap Alex\'s nose with her finger when he suddenly grabbed at her fancy nail with his little fist. Narcissa laughed as she took it back.
\"That was strange.\"
\"What?\" Hermione asked.
\"Draco did that to my nails when he was a baby.\"
\"Oh, isn\'t that interesting.\" Narcissa laughed as she smoothed her hand over Alex\'s head.
\"Well, I better let you go dear,\" she said.
\"Okay, bye.\"
\"Alex is so adorable,\" Narcissa said, \"You should go see him when you\'re at Hogwarts.\" Draco nodded as he stepped into the fireplace, and flooed over to Hogsmeade at the Three Broomsticks.
Headmistress McGonagall was pleased to see Draco as he came into her office. \"Oh, Mr. Malfoy, it\'s been so long.\"
\"Professor, you\'re looking good,\" Draco said. McGonagall scoffed at him, and they hugged each other.
\"You are looking good as well,\" she said, \"Finally got rid of that wife of yours?\"
\"Two months ago.\"
\"I never liked her anyway,\" she said, \"You need a loving woman with you, Malfoy.\"
\"Call me Draco.\"
\"Only if you call me Minerva.\" Draco nodded and took the seat she offered. \"So, the real reason I called you was because that Severus has retired from Potions, and I need a new Potions teacher. I called upon Ms Granger to teach seeing as she was so good at Potion, but with her little one one the way...\"
\"How is Ms Granger?\"
\"Well, she got her figure back after giving birth.\" Draco chuckled. \"She rejected the Potions positions, giving Severus another year before retiring. It surprised me that she took the Muggle Studies position, and Mr. Potter was right behind her taking the DADA position.\"
\"I thought she had the baby ar St. Mungo\'s?\"
\"She did. She went on maternity leave two weeks before her due date. Mr. Potter was flooed, and he took Poppy to the hospital with him.\"
\"Are they married?\" McGonagall laughed.
\"Heavens no,\" she said, \"I had a feeling about Severus and Harry the minute Mr. Potter arrived. They have been lovers for a year.\" Draco nearly choked at the comment about his godfather and old enemy. \"Ms Granger had several offers from Mr. Weasley though, but she turned him down.\"
\"How is her son?\"
\"Cute as a button. He even had Severus doing baby talk whenever he babysat.\" Draco chuckled because his mother said that when he was a baby, Severus was all baby talk. \"He\'s crawling, and pulling himself up, and says a language that only Hermione and Harry can understand.\" She chuckled and noticed the look in Draco\'s eyes. It was the look a father got whenever someone talk about his child. \"So, about that position?\"
\"What about my position as governor?\"
\"Oh, you\'ll keep it, being a Malfoy and all. This offer allows them to keep someone from visiting every month. You can just owl them.\"
\"Okay, I\'ll take it.\"
\"Wonderful.\" She stood up, and offered her hand. They shook on it. \"You start as soon as you can get organized.\"
\"Great.\"
Within two days Draco was settled as the new Potions professor, and he was in search of Hermione. Not knowing exactly sure where her quarters were, he decided to stop by on Potter to see if he knew. It turned out he would\'ve been better finding her on his own. He didn\'t think that his godfather would be still at Hogwarts, but he saw something that would scar him for the rest of his life. He walked into the DADA classroom, but found no Potter, so he went up to the private quarters. No sound came from the room, and the door was unlocked. He knocked before opening the door. There before him was the last sight he wanted to see. Potter on all fours with Snape\'s cock up his ass. \"MALFOY!!\"
\"Oh, sorry!\" He turned around to shield him from the view, but the damage was already done. He heard Potter moan when his godfather groaned.
\"What do you ...\" Snape pushed Harry onto the bed.
\"Shut up, Potter,\" Snape said, \"What, Draco?\"
\" I just came to ask where Granger was.\" Harry moaned again when Snape stopped thrusting into him.
\"Well, Harry?\" Snape asked. \"Where is she?\"
\"She ..... she ..... oh, God.\" Draco looked over his shoulder to see his godfather had Potter at his mercy. \"She\'s in her classroom getting ready for the year to .... ah, Merlin, unh, begin, which I should be ..... \" Severus lifted Harry\'s head by his hair.
\"You are not getting off the bed until I am properly sated. Understood?\"
\"Sure, Professor,\" Harry said, \"What is with you today?\" Severus dropped Harry\'s head, and held him down.
\"I remember you were the one who wanted it rough at the moment.\"
\"Okay, I\'m going now,\" Draco said. \"Thanks, Potter.\" He walked over to the door. \"Keep him busy, Sev.\"
\"I intend to,\" Severus said. Harry moaned when Severus started to thrust into him again. Draco closed the door closing out the moans, and shook his head violently.
\"Oh, not good!\" he shouted. He was permanently scarred for the rest of his life.
Draco found the Muggle Studies room, and entered it slowly. Hermione was at her desk with her back towards him. It looked like she was going over some papers that need sorting. She didn\'t hear him enter the room, and he crept up behind her, and wrapped his arms around her waist. Hermione let out a yelp, and turned around to see Draco smiling. \"You!! You scared the shit out of me! I nearly had a heart attack!\" she shouted.
\"Sorry, Hermione,\" he said. He was thankful that she didn\'t make a move to get out of him arms. \"I almost had one myself fifteen minutes ago.\"
\"Oh, really?\"
\"Yes,\" Draco defended,\" I stopped to see Potter and ask him where you were and ...\"
\"You walked in on Harry and Snape, didn\'t you?\" she asked.
\"How did you know?\"
\"I did that not just two days ago, with McGonagall.\"
\"Oh, that must of been something.\" They both laughed before getting serious. \"I missed you.\"
\"You missed me?\" Draco nodded before leaning in for a kiss, but was interrupted when the cries of little Alex came through her chambers door. \"Excuse me, but our son is calling.\"
\"Can I see him?\"
\"Of course, you\'re his father.\" Hermione led Draco up to her chambers, and into Alex\'s room. He was sitting up in his bassinet, tears falling down his cheeks. Draco was immediately in love with him. He watched Hermione pick up their son, and try to calm him down. \"What\'s wrong, Alex? Are you hungry?\" Alex sobbed his answer, and Hermione sat down on the rocking chair. She began to unbutton her shirt, getting Draco\'s attention.
\"What are you doing?\"
\"He\'s hungry, Draco,\" she said, \"I breast feed him.\" Draco turned around when Hermione\'s breast came into view. \"Draco, you\'ve seen them before.\" In truth he didn\'t know why he turned around. He looked over his shoulder to see Alex latch onto Hermione\'s nipple, and began to suck, drinking the warm milk that came from it.
\"Well, at least I know that they are really real now,\" he said. Hermione chuckled as she supported Alex to fed. Draco had found the chair across from her, and watched his son have his lunch. He suddenly became very jealous of his son, attached to Hermione\'s nipple. \"Shouldn\'t he be on the cup?\"
\"Not until he\'s two, according to Poppy. I\'ll start him on the bottle when he\'s one.\" Alex made baby noises as he feasted on the milk that came from Hermione. \"You\'re not jealous of your son, are you, Draco?\"
\"No, well, maybe a little,\" he said, \"I remember Mother telling me once that Father was jealous of me when she breast fed me.\" Hermione chuckled as Alex let go of her nipple, and she burped him twice before handing him out to Draco. \"Are you sure?\" She nodded before carefully passing Alex to his father. Draco cradled his son, looking into the silver-grey eyes. Hermione buttoned her shirt back up watching Draco interact with Alex. The nine month old yawned widely before falling asleep in Draco\'s arms. \"He has my eyes.\"
\"He also has your smile.\" Hermione took Alex from Draco, and laid him down in his bassinet. \"Your mother\'s seen him already.\"
\"Yeah, but she doesn\'t know he\'s mine.\"
\"What will she do when she finds out?\"
\"Well, first she\'ll want us to get married.\"
\"Me? Married to a Malfoy?\" Draco shrugged his shoulders with his infamous smirk.
\"I want her to meet you and Alex officially,\" he said, \"She\'ll love you both.\"
\"She\'ll want proof,\" Hermione said.
\"Than she\'ll get proof.\" Hermione led Draco over to the love seat designed for one. Draco sat down on it, and pulled Hermione into his lap. \"I never told you this, but I fell in love with the night we conceived Alex.\"
\"I fell in love with you, too,\" she said. Draco pulled Hermione into a passionate kiss, pulling her up into his lap. \"Draco, we let this go any further and Alex will have a little sister or brother.\" Draco chuckled as he let Hermione get off his lap.
\"Okay, when the holidays are here, we go see my mother.\"
\"Well, if I\'m officially meeting your mother, than I am going to take you to see my parents,\" she said.
\"Why not have my mother join us? That way she can meet them,\" Draco suggested.
\"I\'ll owl my mother and see what she thinks.\"
\"Well, it\'s a start.\" Hermione chuckled as Draco kissed her on the forehead. \"If you\'re not willing to marry me right away, how about just beginning a relationship first, and see how things progress.\"
\"All right,\" she said, \"How about our first kiss as an official couple?\" she asked. Draco wasted no time in claiming Hermione\'s lips with his own.
Hermione and Draco owled their mothers who both thought it was a wonderful idea. Mrs. Granger couldn\'t believe that Hermione was going to bring a boy home with her. The only two boys she brought home were Victor Krum, whom both her and Mr. Granger hated, and Harry. At first when Hermione brought Harry home when she was pregnant, Mr. Granger thought it was Harry that fathered the child. His daughter proved him wrong. She explained to her mother that she was coming home for the holidays, along with Alex, and on Christmas, Alex\'s father and grandmother were coming for dinner. She said that Draco Malfoy was his father, but he\'s completely different than what he was from school. Her father made a verbal threat in the letter for Draco that his ways had better been changed.
Narcissa was shocked to find out that the little boy she was admiring in Hermione Granger\'s arms was her grandson. She was even more shocked to find out that he was the result of a passionate affair between her son and Ms Granger. Draco assured her that Alex was conceived out of love, and that Hermione had agreed to start a relationship with him instead of getting married right away. If things work out, he\'ll propose to her. He doesn\'t want to scare her away. \"So no talk about marriage.\" Draco had put in the letter. Of course his mother understood, but she still sent him a howler about keeping Alex a secret from her, and putting her though having Pansy as a daughter in law when she could\'ve had Hermione who wasn\'t barren as one. It didn\'t help that he received during a staff meeting with all the other teachers. School started without a hitch, and Hermione and Draco\'s relationship flourished under the watchful eye of Harry and Minerva as they were Alex\'s godparents. The holidays approached rather quickly, and the two lovers parted to go their homes until Christmas Day. Draco and Narcissa would arrive in the afternoon for the dinner, and so Narcissa could officially meet her grandson.
Part Three
A NEW JOB AND MEETING ALEX
Draco Malfoy was finally a free man. After two years of a loveless marriage, with no children, Pansy was back to being a Parkinson. She was not happy when the courts did not allow her to keep the name or the money she had access to. The marriage was arranged, not willingly. Draco now spends his time as a school governor, and working at clearing the Malfoy name. He was determined for the Malfoy family line to be good again, starting with little Alex and Hermione. He wasn\'t going to tell his mother that she had a grandson at the moment. He wanted to make sure that Hermione and Harry weren\'t married, and Harry had adopted Alex. The school board was finally letting him visit the school because McGonagall wanted to see him about something. Draco had a feeling it was about taking the Potions position since Severus was retiring. He pulled on a cloak, and headed to the Floo fireplace in the study. \"I\'m off to Hogwarts, Mother,\" he said.
\"Oh, Draco, if you get a chance, tell Ms. Granger she has the cutest son.\" Draco froze at Narcissa\'s words.
\"You saw Alex?\" he asked.
\"In Diagon Alley before she went to Hogwarts,\" Narcissa said, \"She had him in one of those Muggle baby carriers that she had strapped to herself. It was a clever device as it allowed her to have her hands.\" Draco raised his eyebrows.
\"When was this?\"
\"Oh, a couple weeks ago,\"
Hermione entered Diagon Alley in need of some healing potions. Alex had a burn on his arm that she didn\'t want it to take forever to heal. She had wrapped it up before heading out. She was about to enter the Apothecary when she heard a squeal of delight behind her. \"Oh, look at that precious boy.\" She turned around to see Narcissa Malfoy behind her, and slightly panicked.
\"Mrs. Malfoy, what ...?\"
\"Oh, I heard about your little one in the Daily Prophet, and here he is.\" Narcissa stepped to the side to get a better view at Alex. Alex was intrigued with this woman, and moved his head around to look around at her. \"Oh, he\'s so cute.\"
\"Thank you.\" Narcissa went to tap Alex\'s nose with her finger when he suddenly grabbed at her fancy nail with his little fist. Narcissa laughed as she took it back.
\"That was strange.\"
\"What?\" Hermione asked.
\"Draco did that to my nails when he was a baby.\"
\"Oh, isn\'t that interesting.\" Narcissa laughed as she smoothed her hand over Alex\'s head.
\"Well, I better let you go dear,\" she said.
\"Okay, bye.\"
\"Alex is so adorable,\" Narcissa said, \"You should go see him when you\'re at Hogwarts.\" Draco nodded as he stepped into the fireplace, and flooed over to Hogsmeade at the Three Broomsticks.
Headmistress McGonagall was pleased to see Draco as he came into her office. \"Oh, Mr. Malfoy, it\'s been so long.\"
\"Professor, you\'re looking good,\" Draco said. McGonagall scoffed at him, and they hugged each other.
\"You are looking good as well,\" she said, \"Finally got rid of that wife of yours?\"
\"Two months ago.\"
\"I never liked her anyway,\" she said, \"You need a loving woman with you, Malfoy.\"
\"Call me Draco.\"
\"Only if you call me Minerva.\" Draco nodded and took the seat she offered. \"So, the real reason I called you was because that Severus has retired from Potions, and I need a new Potions teacher. I called upon Ms Granger to teach seeing as she was so good at Potion, but with her little one one the way...\"
\"How is Ms Granger?\"
\"Well, she got her figure back after giving birth.\" Draco chuckled. \"She rejected the Potions positions, giving Severus another year before retiring. It surprised me that she took the Muggle Studies position, and Mr. Potter was right behind her taking the DADA position.\"
\"I thought she had the baby ar St. Mungo\'s?\"
\"She did. She went on maternity leave two weeks before her due date. Mr. Potter was flooed, and he took Poppy to the hospital with him.\"
\"Are they married?\" McGonagall laughed.
\"Heavens no,\" she said, \"I had a feeling about Severus and Harry the minute Mr. Potter arrived. They have been lovers for a year.\" Draco nearly choked at the comment about his godfather and old enemy. \"Ms Granger had several offers from Mr. Weasley though, but she turned him down.\"
\"How is her son?\"
\"Cute as a button. He even had Severus doing baby talk whenever he babysat.\" Draco chuckled because his mother said that when he was a baby, Severus was all baby talk. \"He\'s crawling, and pulling himself up, and says a language that only Hermione and Harry can understand.\" She chuckled and noticed the look in Draco\'s eyes. It was the look a father got whenever someone talk about his child. \"So, about that position?\"
\"What about my position as governor?\"
\"Oh, you\'ll keep it, being a Malfoy and all. This offer allows them to keep someone from visiting every month. You can just owl them.\"
\"Okay, I\'ll take it.\"
\"Wonderful.\" She stood up, and offered her hand. They shook on it. \"You start as soon as you can get organized.\"
\"Great.\"
Within two days Draco was settled as the new Potions professor, and he was in search of Hermione. Not knowing exactly sure where her quarters were, he decided to stop by on Potter to see if he knew. It turned out he would\'ve been better finding her on his own. He didn\'t think that his godfather would be still at Hogwarts, but he saw something that would scar him for the rest of his life. He walked into the DADA classroom, but found no Potter, so he went up to the private quarters. No sound came from the room, and the door was unlocked. He knocked before opening the door. There before him was the last sight he wanted to see. Potter on all fours with Snape\'s cock up his ass. \"MALFOY!!\"
\"Oh, sorry!\" He turned around to shield him from the view, but the damage was already done. He heard Potter moan when his godfather groaned.
\"What do you ...\" Snape pushed Harry onto the bed.
\"Shut up, Potter,\" Snape said, \"What, Draco?\"
\" I just came to ask where Granger was.\" Harry moaned again when Snape stopped thrusting into him.
\"Well, Harry?\" Snape asked. \"Where is she?\"
\"She ..... she ..... oh, God.\" Draco looked over his shoulder to see his godfather had Potter at his mercy. \"She\'s in her classroom getting ready for the year to .... ah, Merlin, unh, begin, which I should be ..... \" Severus lifted Harry\'s head by his hair.
\"You are not getting off the bed until I am properly sated. Understood?\"
\"Sure, Professor,\" Harry said, \"What is with you today?\" Severus dropped Harry\'s head, and held him down.
\"I remember you were the one who wanted it rough at the moment.\"
\"Okay, I\'m going now,\" Draco said. \"Thanks, Potter.\" He walked over to the door. \"Keep him busy, Sev.\"
\"I intend to,\" Severus said. Harry moaned when Severus started to thrust into him again. Draco closed the door closing out the moans, and shook his head violently.
\"Oh, not good!\" he shouted. He was permanently scarred for the rest of his life.
Draco found the Muggle Studies room, and entered it slowly. Hermione was at her desk with her back towards him. It looked like she was going over some papers that need sorting. She didn\'t hear him enter the room, and he crept up behind her, and wrapped his arms around her waist. Hermione let out a yelp, and turned around to see Draco smiling. \"You!! You scared the shit out of me! I nearly had a heart attack!\" she shouted.
\"Sorry, Hermione,\" he said. He was thankful that she didn\'t make a move to get out of him arms. \"I almost had one myself fifteen minutes ago.\"
\"Oh, really?\"
\"Yes,\" Draco defended,\" I stopped to see Potter and ask him where you were and ...\"
\"You walked in on Harry and Snape, didn\'t you?\" she asked.
\"How did you know?\"
\"I did that not just two days ago, with McGonagall.\"
\"Oh, that must of been something.\" They both laughed before getting serious. \"I missed you.\"
\"You missed me?\" Draco nodded before leaning in for a kiss, but was interrupted when the cries of little Alex came through her chambers door. \"Excuse me, but our son is calling.\"
\"Can I see him?\"
\"Of course, you\'re his father.\" Hermione led Draco up to her chambers, and into Alex\'s room. He was sitting up in his bassinet, tears falling down his cheeks. Draco was immediately in love with him. He watched Hermione pick up their son, and try to calm him down. \"What\'s wrong, Alex? Are you hungry?\" Alex sobbed his answer, and Hermione sat down on the rocking chair. She began to unbutton her shirt, getting Draco\'s attention.
\"What are you doing?\"
\"He\'s hungry, Draco,\" she said, \"I breast feed him.\" Draco turned around when Hermione\'s breast came into view. \"Draco, you\'ve seen them before.\" In truth he didn\'t know why he turned around. He looked over his shoulder to see Alex latch onto Hermione\'s nipple, and began to suck, drinking the warm milk that came from it.
\"Well, at least I know that they are really real now,\" he said. Hermione chuckled as she supported Alex to fed. Draco had found the chair across from her, and watched his son have his lunch. He suddenly became very jealous of his son, attached to Hermione\'s nipple. \"Shouldn\'t he be on the cup?\"
\"Not until he\'s two, according to Poppy. I\'ll start him on the bottle when he\'s one.\" Alex made baby noises as he feasted on the milk that came from Hermione. \"You\'re not jealous of your son, are you, Draco?\"
\"No, well, maybe a little,\" he said, \"I remember Mother telling me once that Father was jealous of me when she breast fed me.\" Hermione chuckled as Alex let go of her nipple, and she burped him twice before handing him out to Draco. \"Are you sure?\" She nodded before carefully passing Alex to his father. Draco cradled his son, looking into the silver-grey eyes. Hermione buttoned her shirt back up watching Draco interact with Alex. The nine month old yawned widely before falling asleep in Draco\'s arms. \"He has my eyes.\"
\"He also has your smile.\" Hermione took Alex from Draco, and laid him down in his bassinet. \"Your mother\'s seen him already.\"
\"Yeah, but she doesn\'t know he\'s mine.\"
\"What will she do when she finds out?\"
\"Well, first she\'ll want us to get married.\"
\"Me? Married to a Malfoy?\" Draco shrugged his shoulders with his infamous smirk.
\"I want her to meet you and Alex officially,\" he said, \"She\'ll love you both.\"
\"She\'ll want proof,\" Hermione said.
\"Than she\'ll get proof.\" Hermione led Draco over to the love seat designed for one. Draco sat down on it, and pulled Hermione into his lap. \"I never told you this, but I fell in love with the night we conceived Alex.\"
\"I fell in love with you, too,\" she said. Draco pulled Hermione into a passionate kiss, pulling her up into his lap. \"Draco, we let this go any further and Alex will have a little sister or brother.\" Draco chuckled as he let Hermione get off his lap.
\"Okay, when the holidays are here, we go see my mother.\"
\"Well, if I\'m officially meeting your mother, than I am going to take you to see my parents,\" she said.
\"Why not have my mother join us? That way she can meet them,\" Draco suggested.
\"I\'ll owl my mother and see what she thinks.\"
\"Well, it\'s a start.\" Hermione chuckled as Draco kissed her on the forehead. \"If you\'re not willing to marry me right away, how about just beginning a relationship first, and see how things progress.\"
\"All right,\" she said, \"How about our first kiss as an official couple?\" she asked. Draco wasted no time in claiming Hermione\'s lips with his own.
Hermione and Draco owled their mothers who both thought it was a wonderful idea. Mrs. Granger couldn\'t believe that Hermione was going to bring a boy home with her. The only two boys she brought home were Victor Krum, whom both her and Mr. Granger hated, and Harry. At first when Hermione brought Harry home when she was pregnant, Mr. Granger thought it was Harry that fathered the child. His daughter proved him wrong. She explained to her mother that she was coming home for the holidays, along with Alex, and on Christmas, Alex\'s father and grandmother were coming for dinner. She said that Draco Malfoy was his father, but he\'s completely different than what he was from school. Her father made a verbal threat in the letter for Draco that his ways had better been changed.
Narcissa was shocked to find out that the little boy she was admiring in Hermione Granger\'s arms was her grandson. She was even more shocked to find out that he was the result of a passionate affair between her son and Ms Granger. Draco assured her that Alex was conceived out of love, and that Hermione had agreed to start a relationship with him instead of getting married right away. If things work out, he\'ll propose to her. He doesn\'t want to scare her away. \"So no talk about marriage.\" Draco had put in the letter. Of course his mother understood, but she still sent him a howler about keeping Alex a secret from her, and putting her though having Pansy as a daughter in law when she could\'ve had Hermione who wasn\'t barren as one. It didn\'t help that he received during a staff meeting with all the other teachers. School started without a hitch, and Hermione and Draco\'s relationship flourished under the watchful eye of Harry and Minerva as they were Alex\'s godparents. The holidays approached rather quickly, and the two lovers parted to go their homes until Christmas Day. Draco and Narcissa would arrive in the afternoon for the dinner, and so Narcissa could officially meet her grandson.