Eight Chickens And A Wizard - Dramione

Eight Chickens And A Wizard

A/N Hi! I wrote a fic because I kept thinking up chicken puns and needed something to do with them! Enjoy the pure fluff, we're here for a good time. 

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Sunday - Eggatha Christie

Hermione floo'd in on the Sunday night, following a stressful day with her editor. She barely had time to dust the soot from her jumper before a large St Bernard lept at her, licking her face with considerable enthusiasm. Pansy had forewarned her about Myrtle, but she hadn't been expecting her vivid description to be quite so accurate. She got the dog off her, and crouched down, fussing her fur with both hands. If somebody had asked her what sort of dog Draco Malfoy owned, a massive St Bernard with a complete disregard for boundaries would not have been her first guess, but she supposed that she wouldn't have guessed she'd be house-sitting for the man either.

Hermione had joined the Ministry after the war, working in the auror department alongside Harry and Ron. They had both flourished whilst she had absolutely hated it. Her therapist had recommended journaling, to get her thoughts down and out of her brain so they wouldn't feel quite so overwhelming. Upon showing her just how much she had written, she'd suggested publishing it as a novel. Hermione had considerable doubts about doing that, thinking that nobody would be interested, but she floated the idea among her co-workers, and they were all chomping at the bit to hear about the war from her perspective. It took her a year to edit her rambling notes into a sequential narrative, and the book had been an overnight success. It had been everywhere, and everyone had read it, meaning that Hermione was able to quit her Ministry job and focus on her passions. With her editor clamouring for another project from her, she'd come up with the idea of looking into pureblood culture, and how it would fit into society post-war. Included in this would be interviews with several pureblooded wizards and witches, from both sides of the war, and this was how Draco Malfoy and his slytherin friends had come back into her life. Changed entirely by their experiences, they'd been more than happy to help with her book and had been surprisingly candid. It had not been the combative experience she'd been expecting, and, as a result, she quickly fell into friendships with the slytherins. She had a standing brunch with Pansy Parkinson, Daphne Greengrass, and Ginny, and being able to talk about nothing and everything with other women meant a lot to Hermione. She hadn't had a group of close female friends in her life before, and as much as Harry enjoyed a good gossip, it wasn't quite the same. Blaise Zabini provided an interesting insight into what it was like being pureblooded but not Sacred 28, and Theo Nott delved deeper into the history of those famed families, with his relative Cantankerus Nott having devised the exclusive list in the first place. Her editor had been over the moon that she'd had such a long conversation with Draco Malfoy, knowing that people would eat that chapter up, but it had been about more for Hermione than just her book. They'd spoken about their shared experience that day in the Manor, strictly off the record as Hermione wasn't about to broadcast the day she was tortured to the world, but it had been incredibly healing for both of them. She realised quite quickly they had a lot in common, and with the hatchet well and truly buried, she counted him as a close friend.

Once Harry had started dating Theo, their friendship groups merged into one, and her social life was busier than it had ever been. Harry and Ginny's relationship had ended after they both came out, with the pair remaining incredibly close friends. They'd often featured in the Prophet in recent years on nights out, just the two of them, which confused the wizarding world to no end, but they couldn't care less. In fact, they sort of revelled in the chaos, as did Theo, who was completely head over heels for his boyfriend to the point that he never shut up about him. Her own relationship with Ron hadn't been anything more than the one kiss they shared, with them mutually agreeing that they were better off as friends. Ron was also looking to start a family far sooner than Hermione was, so it was the best thing to do for them to both find happiness. He had also sat down for an interview for her book, and they'd laughed together about their many exploits over the years, as well as his incredibly unique pureblood/Sacred 28 experience growing up.