After a War ((Old Copy))

Chapter 28 Book 3

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Ginny turned out fine, nobody was hurt to a point of having to go to St. Mungos. At least nobody he knew of. He knew it would happen eventually, but he really wished it wasn't Snape.

The professor dragged him into the same room he'd found Jack in earlier and slammed him against the wall.

"Headmistress McGonagall has informed me that you knew Voldemort was alive!?" Snape questioned angrily.

"Yes, of course I knew, why do you think I kept going missing during school!? Why do you think we kept showing up the classes with new scars or leaving early because one of our wounds opened up because we had to patch ourselves up instead of going to Pomfrey!? Of course I knew!" Draco snapped, shoving the proffesor off him. It was easy, saying that the proffesor was a ghost. He wouldnt be for long though. He was a temporary ghost, like Fred was.

The thought suddenly dawned on him, Teddy was going to be alone in that house when his parents disappeared. It had been over a year since the battle and Snape was already fading away a little bit, becoming more and more translucent with every passing hour, until it became the hour of his death. Remus and Nymph died hours before Snape did.

"Now if you'll excuse me proffesor, I have something I need to do." Draco said urgently. Snape almost grabbed him again, but missed him by inches as Draco escaped him. He still couldnt apparate though.

Well. He hadnt tried to in a while. Maybe his apparation just needed a nice long break to proccess that he'd become an Animagus.

He wasnt good with any hand magic, but he had to get back to the forbidden forrest and find that cabin.

The sound of a twig snapped made him smirk. He'd done it. He'd finaly apparated for the first time in ages. But the twig snap was a good sign, and a bad sign. It wasnt him that snapped the twig, so what did? He turned around to look behind him, a pale blonde wolf. It didnt appear to be a animagi, not from what he knew about Identifying them.

He had taken down a wolf before, sure it was a spur of the moment thing when he saw Hermione about to be forced off a cliff, but he'd still taken one before. He swallowed hard, the wolf didnt seem to want to harm him.

He bolted backwards when the wolf started to growl and turned into a lynx midair, landing on all four paws. He leapt over a fallen tree.

While he didnt like the thought of being a cat, he couldnt help but like the feeling of wind in his fur and the ground beneath his paws.

"Wait!" He heard a call. He skidded to a stop, it was a female voice, soft and gentle, almost like Hermione's, but was much higher. Over his shoulder he saw the wolf behind him. There was nobody else there. The wolf trotted up to him and sat down. "Wow you're fast for a cat." she exclaimed.

Draco's cat eyes widdened when he realized the wolf was talking. That wasn't normal. THat wanst normal at all. It was creepy and weird, and he didn't like it.

Did Muggle animals talk!? Hermione would have mentioned it if they did right!?

"Im looking for a cabin, that's why I ran." Draco tried to explain himself, but only a few purrs and lynx 'meows' came out. Great, she could talk to him but he could talk to her. He was trying to justify why he ran, he didnt want to look like a wimp, much less in front of a girl.

"Oh that cabin with the two ghosts and the human?" The wolf responded. What!? How did she understand what he said through the cat sounds!? Draco didnt understand Animagi at all. He really should have paid more attention during McGonagall's class when she explained how Animagi worked and what they could do.

"Yeah." Draco responded in awe basically that she understood him.

"I know the way, that little kid in nice, he can change forms to, or at least his nose can sometimes-" She began to walk in the direction they came from and he followed as she talked "-turn into mine. It's adoribly funny, he finds it hillarious as well. Most of the time it's by accident, but once he did it on purpose and it was so cute, he turned the whole lover have of his jaw into a wolf jaw and aww, you should have seen it." Draco decided she talked to much, but at least it made time pass by.

The cabin came into view and the wolf stayed behind, Draco thanked her for helping him get to the cabin and turned back into a human by their porch. He knocked on the door. No responce. He was afraid of that.

He knocked for a flat five minutes until he finally gave in and just walked into the cabin. The toddler sat in the living room, curled into a ball on the floor, leaning against the arm chair behind him.

Draco hadnt been around his cousin much, but he had been around him enough for Teddy to recodnize who he was when he saw him.

"Drac! Their gone! They disappeared! Can you help me find them!?" Teddy asked in a rush, he had tears in his teal eyes. His hair was a very dark blue at the time. Draco picked him up.

"It's ok. You'r mommy and daddy just have to do some work for a while ok? So they said you can come on a vacation and live with me and auntie Mione for a while." Draco told him. Teddy nodded with still watery eyes btu wrapped his arms around Draco's neck and put his head on Draco's shoulder.

Draco pat Teddy's back, he felt bad for lying about his parents, but what was he supposed to tell him? Now that he could apparate again, he wanted to, but he didnt want to abuse it, or else he could lose it again, so he flooed back to the appartment. George and Solomon were back, and surprisingly, so was Jack. Solomon was dragging him by his collar to his room. Fred was talking to Makayla, apparently asking if she was ok or not, and George was sitting by Fred with Maya next to him. Pansy and Hermione were in the kitchen, feeding Justin in a high chair.

Hermione noticed him exit the fire place and for the first time in a long time, her face fell when she saw Teddy. She knew what it meant. She had been smiling since she got back from St. Mungos, it scared Draco slightly and he felt a little more at ease now that he knew she wasnt stuck happy forever. She looked at Maya and Solomon, who had both also taken notice that Draco had Teddy.

Solomon retreated to his room quietly, dragging Jack along with him still. Maya cleared her throat to try and choke back tears without actually crying. George took her hand.

"May-May!" Teddy yelled when he saw Maya. Draco almost snorted at the nickname but decided against it. Teddy frowned when he saw Maya wasnt smiling and that her cheeks were wet. "Why's sissy sad?" Teddy asked Draco.

Draco simply held onto Teddy tighter and shrugged, pretending he didnt know. He put Teddy downn and allowed him to run to Maya instantly. She picked him up and hugged him.