Matilda Scamander - The Real World ✔️

Prologue

Matilda sits on the four poster bed and rubs her hand over the red quilt. A bed away from home. Matilda chuckled lightly at the thought. Her last day at Hogwarts was both light and dark. The fear and anticipation of the future keeping her mind busy. She looks around her dorm and at each girl she shared it with for the past seven years. They all sit quietly mulling in their thoughts. Matilda looks down at her red skater dress with exposed sides, she smiles at how she looks in the dress but it's still her style as she wears black converse on. Matilda gets up and shrugs on her Gryffindor robe like asked by the teachers. She then walks over to the mirror and inspects her ample make-up and pushes a couple of her freshly curled curls behind her ear. She sees all her dorm mates do similar things also all having a small bag with things that they left behind after their exams. They sit in silence again once everyone is content on the way they look. The head of their house was to pick them up and take them to the grand hall as students for the last time. A knock at the door makes the girls jump.

"May I enter?" Says the warm and familiar voice of their recently appointed head of house Neville Longbottom.

Matilda saw all the girls look at her so she got up to open the door. "We are ready." She says buzzing with confidence but a undertone of nerves.

"Good, the boys are already in the common room." The Professor smiles and walks down the usually enchanted stairs. The girls follow now chatting and the chatting gets louder once the boys join in. The graduates all wear neat clothes but personal styles can be seen as some are dressed in formal clothes while other wear presentable clothing. Once outside the hall they wait with the graduates from the other houses. Matilda shuffles and makes her way towards Victoire. Victoire smiles widely when she sees Matilda.

"You wore the dress I told you too." Victoire beams but Matilda knew not to defy the now around eight month pregnant girl. Matilda nodes and look Victoire up and down. Even though she was pregnant she looked stunning, in a form hugging navy dress that showed of her perfectly round bump, black heels and her hair done in an elegant pony tail that ran down her back. She too wore she house robe to her distaste.

"Of course I did." Matilda smiles even though her pregnant friend had been starting to make her wear dresses more and more she didn't hate it like she thought she would. Victoire smiles again as she rubs her bump. "Please get out." She mutters with a mild aggressive tone to the bump. Matilda can't help but giggle a little. Victoire shouts her a dangerous look. "You won't be laughing when you are pregnant." That shut Matilda up. Victoire smiles satisfied at the sudden silence.

The doors to the hall swung open signify the graduation had started. The hall had a different layout to its usual four tables and one on the podium for the teachers opposite the entrance. Now their where only benches. In back closest to the door, the benches where filled with proud parents and family members. The middle was filled with students and at the front two rows where free for the graduates. On the podium the regular table for the teachers still stood. The group made their way to the seats. Matilda and Victoire plopped down next to each other. There was a light buzz of conversation over the hall but it was immediately silenced when Professor McGonagall stood up and made her way to the center of the podium. "Welcome everyone," her voice clear and calm yet old. "I am happy to announce the end of another successful year here at Hogwarts. As per usual we will be saying goodbye to our seventh years this afternoon for they have naw graduated and I am proud to say that this is the third year in a row that all students passed their exams in one go." McGonagall pauses for the clapping. "This year has been lovely and so has the graduating class. I wish them the best of luck in their next endeavors. Before I bore you with more words some of the teachers would like to say some words." McGonagall steps back and forward comes Professor Trawlney, followed by Hagrid, Professor Longbottom, and finally Professor Flitwick who was also the one to be handing the students their final report cards and Hogwarts certificates. Matilda glanced over at Victoire whose head was in her shoulder, Victoire was just intently looking at her bump and had a hand resting on it.