Ch. 10

Hermione's POV

We landed in my living room and I found Ginny already conjuring up boxes to pack my things up. She raised an eyebrow at my arm in Draco's and then she grinned. I immediately dropped my arm and scrunched my nose at her as she giggled.

"Alright, what do you want packed up first?" Ginny asked me, still grinning.

"I'm not sure," I said, looking around the apartment.

There was something off about the apartment, and I couldn't place what it was. Everything was exactly the same as it was when I left it earlier, but now...now it just felt different. It didn't feel like home.

"Hermione?"

Ginny's hand on my shoulder broke me out of my thoughts and I jumped slightly before looking at her. "Honestly, the only things I really want are my clothes and books. I don't want anything else of this."

She gave me a concerned look. "Are you sure? You don't want your dishes or furniture?"

I shook my head. "There's too many memories associated with it. I just want to wipe the slate clean. We can always go shopping for the things I need later."

"You know," Draco said, catching our attention, "I left all of my furniture at the apartment. You don't really need to furnish. All you need to do is move what you want in and buy food."

"That's convenient," Ginny said in cheerful voice. Then she asked again, "You're sure you don't want anything else besides your clothes and books?"

I didn't answer, taking another look around the apartment. "I'll have to see what all I want. I'm rather tempted to just use Draco's furniture."

"That's perfectly fine then," Ginny said, giving my arm a squeeze. "Come on, let's start packing up your things."

The three of us went into the bedroom and divided up tasks. Draco was in charge of packing up my books, Ginny was in charge of my closet, and I packed up the clothes in my drawers. I also found other items that I wanted, conjuring up a box for me to put the miscellaneous things that I couldn't part with.

There were pictures of me with my friends and family; my alarm clock; little gifts that my parents would send me from their travels; my gramophone and records; even my acceptance letter from Hogwarts. I smiled at the aged piece of parchment before folding it up and gently putting it in the box.

"I don't think there were this many books in the Hogwarts library," Draco grumbled from the other side of my room.

I laughed. "Oh, stop exaggerating, Draco! It's not that many."

There was a sudden pop in my living room and my heart rate sped up slightly as I hoped it wasn't Ron. Instead, Harry suddenly appeared in my doorway and gave Draco an odd look.

"What are you doing here?" He asked in a surprised tone.

Draco straightened up while groaning slightly. "Packing up a library. Thank Merlin for magic."

Harry laughed slightly and then looked at me. "You invited him to help you move?"

"He offered to help so I took him up on it," I replied.

He gave me a curious look for a few moments and then shook his head, looking around. "Where's Ginny?"

"Hey Harry?"

We all turned to look towards the closet, where Ginny was holding up a camera.

"What is on your head?" Harry exclaimed with wide eyes.

A flash suddenly went off and Ginny started laughing hard. "Oh your face! That's going to be a wonderful picture!"

The three of us laughed while Harry still stared at Ginny's cat ears, his mouth hanging open. "Gin, really, what is on your head?"

"One of my brother's new concoctions," She answered between laughs. "This particular one gives cat ears, and George fed it to me in a demonstration earlier."

"How...how long are they going to last?" Harry asked as he took a few steps towards Ginny and reached out to touch her cat ears.

"In total about three hours," She answered before looking down at her watch. "I've got about two hours left with them."

Harry marveled at her ears for a few moments before turning away and shaking his head. "I'm surprised they look that good."

"You and everyone else," I said with a grin. "I think she should keep them."

"I don't know about that," Harry frowned. "Want some help, Draco?"

The two boys went back to packing my books while I finished up my drawers, moving to the closet to help Ginny. I looked at all of my clothes before frowning slightly and saying, "I really do have a lot of sweaters and jeans."

"Yeah," She nodded. "But you have other cute things too that I don't think you've worn in a year at least."

She held up a few blouses that I had completely forgotten about and said, "I found a bunch of skirts too. I'm trying to organize everything by what type of clothing it is."

"I appreciate that," I said, looking down at the boxes she had. "I'm good at organizing nearly everything except my closet."

"And that's why you have me," She grinned.

I laughed and gave her a side hug. "Yes, and I'm very happy to have you!"

She hugged me back and we continued packing up my clothes and shoes. We managed to finish packing my closet just as Harry and Draco were packing up the last box of my books. Draco shot me a smile as we came back into the bedroom and I returned the smile before looking around the room.

"I think that's everything I want to take," I said quietly.

"Are you sure?" Harry asked in surprise. "That's a lot of things to leave behind."

"I've packed everything that's sentimental to me," I replied. "There's nothing else really that I want to take."

"Not even your coffee maker?" Ginny asked, gesturing towards the kitchen.

I groaned slightly. "I didn't even think about that. I'll go through the kitchen if you guys take the boxes out into the living room."

They nodded and I left the room, immediately going into the kitchen and conjuring another box. The first thing I packed was my coffee maker, and then my toaster. Soon all of my mugs were in the box as well, followed by the silverware and plates my parents bought me when I first moved in. I was looking around the kitchen for other things when I heard someone come up behind me.

"What's all this?" Draco asked.

I turned to see him looking at the burnt papers and binder in the sink. I crossed my arms and leaned against the counter, saying, "Those used to be my wedding plans."

His eyes went wide as he looked up at me. "You lit them on "

I smiled slightly as he looked between me and the plans. Ginny appeared suddenly from around the corner and looked into the sink as well.