Life After (One Shots)

Prologue

This is my first piece of writing.. So go easyy...

It had been a month since school had restarted... Hogwarts had been rebuilt and most students had been invited to redo their last years... Even if they had been offered high paying jobs for their role in the war, the Golden trio had decided to come back for an 8th year...
Harry saw this as an opportunity to spend more time with Ginny... Ron wanted to just be a regular kid for one year... And of course Hermione Granger couldn't even imagine not completing her education...
Them returning to Hogwarts, however was not nearly as surprising as the return of a certain blonde pureblood...
Draco Malfoy had known that he would not be greeted warmly.... But right then... He would have done anything to just get away from the empty Manor.... where he could still see the Dark Lord sitting at the table.. Still hear his deranged aunt's maniacal laugh... Still dream of his mother's cries as his father's body was removed, who had preferred to kill himself rather than spend his life in Askaban... He had taken permission from the Headmistress to be able to visit his mother in St. Mungo's psychiatric ward from time to time where she still struggled with finding her voice again..
He had decided to put everything else aside and work on moving forward...which meant completing his studies..

To his surprise..apart from all the hate he had received from the whole Wizarding world, the students at Hogwarts itself seemed to have forgiven him.... He wasn't treated as a blood traitor by his housemates or as a Death Eater by others... It was as if someday during the war or in the grief afterwards..they had all grownup...and realized that two sides Hogwarts had been torn into had equally consisted of kids who were being asked to do things that they never wanted to do or ever fully believe in..
Friendships had become stronger than ever
Sometime after the war ended, Draco had found himself to be in constant company of Blaise Zabini who had turned out to be surprisingly jovial for a Slytherin..
He had played a great part in keeping Draco just above the surface..
He had joked and teased and kept him company through the hardest of times...
Pansy Parkinson had been his shoulder to cry on and had held him through the toughest of nights
She had been his friend since they were three and seen him at his best and worst..
They had briefly dated as their parents had expected them to but had soon decided they were better as friends..

Hermione and Ron had barely managed to date for a month before they decided that they couldn't risk a great friendship for a terrible relationship .. The two of them and Harry had become closer than ever and Harry and Hermione had gained the siblings they never had.. Harry and Ginny were going strong and not looking back.. Ron had matured greatly after the war and started going out with Lavender Brown again who had a whole new attitude towards life after becoming a werewolf
Hermione Granger was putting all her focus towards her studies and her grades and performance were only rivaled by Draco Malfoy's...
Everything seemed to be getting better