Treacherous | Hermione Granger Book II

|71| Epilogue

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"Do you think your mum will let you come back?" Saffron asked Olly on the last day of school, as they walked down to the Hogwarts Express. They had agreed to meet up the morning before the train was due to bring them back to Muggle London, then they could go back with the friends from their houses, as expected. 

"I'm not sure, but if I know my mum as well as I think I do ... I don't think so," Olly said with a sigh, looking at her. He tried to make light of the situation. "At least I know you'd miss me,"

"Of course I would," admitted Saffron unabashedly. "It's like you said the other day, you're my only friend outside of Gryffindor, and well, my family too I guess," She frowned. "Maybe if you could explain to her that everything is normal in school again, that it won't happen again,"

"Oh, I'll try," Olly assured her, as they heard the pistons of the train arriving at the station in the distance. "I don't think normals going to be good enough for my mum, that's the thing. None of this is normal for her, I was lucky to even be allowed to go to school last year, after this, I can't see her letting me come back,"

"I wish I could do something to help," remarked Saffron sadly.

"You did a lot more than you know," Olly informed her. "Since you and your friends figured out what was going on, it stopped. I think that'll give me a chance, and I'll take a chance over no chance,"

Saffron shook her head. "They would have figured it out with or without us, but I know what you mean," She paused. "You know, maybe you could try and get one of your friend's parents to talk to her about it at the station. Maybe if they explained it to her, she'd understand why you have to come back,"

"I would do that," began Olly, which signalled to Saffron that there was no chance in this happening. "But my mums not actually meeting me at the station, she'll be at work. I live close to the station, you see, only a few bus stops away,"

"Then maybe a letter?" she suggested hopefully. 

"That's probably my best bet," he paused. "Do you send many of them?"

Saffron shook her head. "The woman I live with, Ms Squire, she doesn't really let us do much, especially anything to do with magic. But I can respond with someone else's owl,"

"So would you respond to me?" He arched his left eyebrow at her when they reached the platform. Saffron spotted Lavender and Parvati standing next to one of the doors, apparently waiting for her.

Saffron bit her lip. "Yeah, I would,"

Olly nodded. "Okay then,"  Saffron then noticed that he too had people waiting for him, in the form of Terry Boot and Parvati's twin Padma. After getting her address, he gave her another nod and turned on his heel to go over to his fellow Ravenclaws. Not before turning on his heel, and offering her a wave. "Don't be a stranger,"

"I won't," Saffron called after him, another smile forming on her face.

She too turned away and set off in the direction that contained a glistening area of bright sunlight, which, perhaps, was an omen of a bright thing to come amidst so much darkness.

Walking only to the foot of the train, Saffron was already met by Lavender imploring to tell them everything about the treasured 'mini Olly', named so after his apparent namesake. To Lavender, he was suddenly more interesting and fanciable after the petrification, and yet again the girl assumed that he and Saffron had a relationship under a romantic light.