D/Hr 10th Day of Halloween: Reunion

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Title: Reunion

Author: interpretthis
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: Draco/Hermione, Ron/Luna

Rating: PG
WC: 417

Notes: For day ten of dramionedrabble's 12 Days of Halloween.  Prompt: evil. 
Summary: Draco and Hermione meet up with Ron and family at the Leaky Cauldron...

               

               “Oh, oh look Edgar – Draco Malfoy!” The young girl tugged on her brother’s sleeve, pointing at a towheaded man walking towards them, hand-in-hand with a bushy-haired woman.  “Dad’s told me all about him!  He’s the embodiment of evil!  Devil’s spawn!  Right Slytherin wank -”

 

                Ron snatched the girl into his arms from behind and flipped her around to glare at her.

 

                “Now that’s enough Emma…you wouldn’t want your aunty Hermy to hear you, now would you?  I’ve told you over and over I never actually meant to say that rubbish – I was hypnotized into saying it by that giant bunny I met in the woods.”

 

                “Still using the bunny excuse then, are we?”

               

                Ron started.  Hermione grinned.

 

                “Hello Ron.  Luna.”  She left Draco’s side to hug them both (the first being a bit awkward as Emma still clung to her father), then greeted both of the children in turn.

 

                “Shall we go in then?” Luna smiled faintly, taking her son by the hand to lead him into the Leaky Cauldron.  Ron grinned sheepishly at Hermione, pointedly avoiding Draco’s eyes.  He turned to follow his wife as Hermione waved him ahead.

 

                Draco and Hermione hung back in the small yard behind the pub.

 

                “Thanks for coming with me.  It’s been too long since I last saw them.”

 

                Draco nodded curtly, a smirk crawling across his lips as he took her in his arms, his mouth to her ear.

 

                “Though I could’ve done without another round of bunny excuses.”

 

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                Luna sat down beside Emma, watching with a wry smile as Ron attempted to spoon-feed Edgar puréed pumpkin.  Emma started in on Draco and Hermione, eyes fixed on them through the open door.

 

                “They’re a bit cute mum, don’t you think?  I don’t think Draco can be as bad as dad says he is.  He looks nice enough to me.  Handsome even, like that Muggle doll – what’s his name?  Ken.  Except with blond hair.”

 

Ron tuned in to his six-year-old daughter’s monologue with a twitch and a horrified squeak of a scream –

 

“EXCUSE ME YOUNG LADY?!  YOU SHUT IT RIGHT NOW AND THINK ABOUT PONIES!”

 

                Emma ignored him.  Ron huffed, glared and went back to spoon-feeding with a manic look in his eye.  Luna laughed softly, eyes gleaming, as their daughter continued on.

          

“I wonder why he was in Slytherin.  Maybe the hat made a mistake. Maybe he should have been a Gryffindor.  Or a Ravenclaw, like you mum.  He looks smart.  He looks - EW!!!  MUM, THEY’RE KISSING!”