After a War ((Old Copy))

Chapter 24 Book 1

After a War

So word spread quick. Either someone was there and told everyone, or they just out two and two together. So absolutely everyone knew that she had kissed George, not under a mistletoe, but by the lake. She hoped they didn't know the full story, that would be a very long explanation as to why Sirius never told anyone but Remus about her. She sat at the Gryffindor table, all the Slytherins were at the Gryffindor table, and the Hufflepuffs shared a table with the Ravenclaws. Maya didn't know why, but she didn't mind, she got to sit next to George without people asking why. Hermione was already up and walking again. She would be out of the Hospital wing any day now. Maya hadn't told Hermione about her and George. She didn't really want her to freak out about it. George was planning on telling Fred though. She understood that, Fred was his brother, he was going to be the first one to know that Maya and George not only kissed by the lake, that they decided to try dating. Yeah, dating was a weird word. Very odd. At least it was odd to Maya at the moment. The owls flew in and dropped letters in front of almost everyone. George picked his up. He sighed and leaned over to her.

"My parents want you to come over for dinner." He whispered in her ear.

"What? How do they already know!? We haven't even told Fred yet." Maya asked.

"I don't know, they're stalkers I guess." Maya smirked and continued to eat. She would have said something but the headmistress spoke up.

"Now, we all know, this year had been hard for most of you, to come back here. We did not choose Head boy and head girl or the prefects unfortunately. We decided against it because we thought you would be more responsible with your actions, but, after these days at school, we have already had pranks and breaking of rules everywhere. So, we will be selecting Head boy, Head girl, and six prefects." McGonagall smiled at the students and sat down.

"Who do you think will be chosen?" Harry asked.

"I don't know. Maybe Hermione. She would make a great head girl, or prefect." Maya said. "Speaking of Hermione, where's Draco?" She looked up and down the table, no Draco.

"He's with Hermione." Ron grumbled. Harry nudged him.

"You cant still be upset over that can you?" Harry asked.

"Blimey Harry! Your bloody blind! Malfoy isn't a good person!" Ron said loudly. The loud noise actually seemed to help Maya with her thoughts.

"Tell that to his dead father, that he killed for Hermione." Harry grumbled. Ron looked at him.

"So, when you first said we should be friends with him, you said it was because he was innocent, because he wasn't a murderer, and now you want to be friends with him because he is a murderer?" Ron asked.

"I'm technically a Murderer Ron." Harry said. Everyone in hearing range looked at him.

"Harry that doesn't count." Ron said quietly. Harry played with the food on his plate.

"It does Ron." Harry stood up and started walking. All the Weasley's at the table stood to follow him, Harry was like a brother to every Weasley but Ginny. Maya grabbed George's hand and they walked to follow Harry. He walked to Dumbledore's office. Maya sat down by George and waited for somebody to say something.

"Harry." Ginny said quietly.

"You cant be s upset with yourself, you had to do it." Luna said.

"Luna, where's Neville?" Harry asked, ignoring what they had said. It was good to change the subject.

"He had to go to his grandmother's house, she has rats." She leaned in closer. "I don't think their rats, their Narggles! Neville knows it too. He's going to tell me what he figures out." She smiled and nodded. Draco walked in and shut the door behind him.

"Weasel said you'd be up here, he's on his way, just wanted to talk to Hermione for a bit." Draco said uncomfortably. He leaned against a bookshelf built into the wall.

"You ok Malfoy?" Fred asked. Draco winced at the name but nodded.

"Fine." Draco said as he continued to nod.

"Mhmm." Harry chimed. "We're going to have to play that game again, the one we played at the lake but a different version." Harry said.

"Sure, sound like fun." Ginny said. They all started talking about it when Draco interrupted.

"Will Hermione be able to play?" Draco asked. Harry nodded.

"We can wait until she's healed to play." Harry said, then he went back to talking to Fred and Ginny. Luna chimed in often. Maya pulled Fred away when nobody was paying attention.

"You do know I'm Fred right? You grabbed the wrong twin." Fred teased. Maya smirked and grabbed George too. George looked at Fred then at Maya. He grabbed her hand, hoping his brother would just see it instead of him having to say It out loud. Fred looked between the two and raised his eyebrows impatiently. George sighed and pulled Maya's hand in his into plain sight. Fred stared at the hands in front of his face for a moment or two before opening his mouth and saying nothing.

"Fred! We're dating now." George said quite loudly. Fred smirked, he got what he wanted, he turned around to see everyone staring at George, their eyes moved to the hand he was holding. Ginny ran up and wrapped her arms around her brother.

"Finally! Now, never keep secrets from me again." Ginny let go of him and pointed a warning finger at him. George sighed. Maya smiled as Ginny hugged her too.