Secret Malfoy - Dramione fanfiction

Wives Know Best

31st JUNE 2018

MALFOY MANOR

"Not long now I hope, I feel like a beached whale!"

Pansy laughed, bringing two cups of tea over to the table where Hermione was sat, complaining about her 8 month pregnancy. "You've been here before, with what you've been through you're lucky it hasn't come earlier!"

Hermione patted her stomach, "This one's a little trouper! I just want to meet her now; tell her how amazing she is!"

Pansy smiled, taking a sip of her tea. She put the cup down, fiddling with the handle. Hermione looked up from her unborn baby, her brows furrowing at Pansy's nerves.

"Pans? Are you okay? You look... distracted?"

"I saw Ginny the other day," she quickly let out, not moving her eyes from the table. Hermione frowned, turning her head to look at something across the room. Bravely, Pansy lifted her head.

"Hermione, she's really sorry and..."

"I've heard it all before."

Pansy sighed. "I know, but she sounded so sincere, I couldn't just..."

"So you actually had a conversation with her then?"

"Hermione," Pansy said exasperatedly. "I don't even understand fully what happened. What if it was an accident? They seem to really care about you!" she tried to reason. Hermione just shook her head sadly.

"I don't know what to believe. Maybe they are telling the truth, but maybe they're not. They were quick to believe Ron over me all those years ago..."

"Yeah, and don't you think what you are doing to Harry and Ginny now is the same?"

Hermione's eyes narrowed in defence. "This is different, my private life was broadcast around the entire wizarding world."

"But they've apologised, you forgave them for the Ron situation, why can't you forgive them now?"

Hermione let out a shaky breath. "I just can't Pansy. And even if I wanted to, Draco never could. He's too angry with them and the Daily Prophet to even think straight around them. He was wary of them for weeks when I first befriended them again," she said. Pansy nodded in agreement, Draco had been around her and Blaise's constantly during the first weeks he hired Ginny, laying off his worries about how they would treat Hermione.

She took another sip of her tea. "You could try?"

The conversation was clearly dying as Hermione drank nearly half of her own tea before sparking up the subject of Draco going back to work. Pansy nodded politely as Hermione spoke, but she could see her friend's mind wasn't completely on the topic she was discussing.

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1st JULY 2018

12 GRIMMAULD PLACE

Ginny turned the parchment over in her hands. Since Draco had fired her she had received letter after letter from James telling her all about his fallout with Eva and how disappointed he was with the Malfoy family. She understood that he was just trying to make her feel better, but in all honesty it was just making her feel worse. Despite what they had said and done to her and Harry, Hermione and Draco were still her friends; she still cared about them.

She only lifted her head when she heard the front door slam. Harry walked into the kitchen seconds later in silence, throwing his suit jacket onto the back of a chair. Ginny tried to smile, flicking her wand to start boiling the kettle.