August 31st, 2017.

Hermione sat cross-legged on the end of Scorp's bed with her son a mirror image at the head. He looked almost exactly like Draco did at age eleven, but there were subtle differences. Mostly that Scorp was happy. He didn't have Draco's trademark sneer, but rather a curious smile as his default expression. At that moment, though, he had his legs pulled up to his chest and face pressed into the space between his knees.

"I am scared for tomorrow," he admitted.

"Why?" Hermione asked. She teased him by saying, "You know if anyone bothers you, just tell them your mum is the Minister and I can throw them in Azkaban."

"Not for me," Scorpius insisted. "Al said he is scared he will be Sorted into Slytherin."

"Where do you want to be?" Hermione asked.

"I … I don't know, Mum," he grumbled, still unwilling to lift his head. "But I know where Al ends up because I Saw it. Does it make me a bad friend if I don't tell him he is placed in Slytherin?"

"No, honey," Hermione said. "Not at all. Can I tell you Hogwarts's biggest secret?"

Scorpius looked up then, desperate for something to make him feel less beholden to Al's future.

"Houses are stupid," Hermione said. Scorpius was not satisfied.

"Can I tell you my secret?"

"You can tell me anything, honey. Always remember that."

Scorpius nodded and said, "I don't want to be a Slytherin. I want to be in Ravenclaw with the smart people."

"Do you think I am stupid?" Hermione asked. Scorpius shook his head. "Do you think your father is stupid?" He shook his head again. "Then why would you think the smartest people only go to Ravenclaw?"

"Because Al said that is what Jay told him," Scorp admitted. "Al would not lie to me."

"But Jay would absolutely lie to his little brother," Hermione replied with a chuckle.

"Mum, I like him a lot."

"Jay?" Hermione asked, confused.

"No, Al!" Scorpius said. He grabbed a pillow to hold and channel his nervous energy.

"Well, he is very cute," Hermione said. "Green eyes, dark hair, I see how you fancy him."

"I don't think he will ever like me back," Scorp admitted. "So I want to be in his House, but then I don't and I don't know what to do. You and Dad were in separate Houses and you got married—"

"No," Hermione held up her hand and repeated, "no. I hope you end up loving someone as much as your father and I love each other. And I do think that may be Al. He is family and I think you're wrong, I think once Al determines if he wants your friendship to become something more the two of you will be inseparable and insufferable." They both laughed. "But your father and I went through so much pain to get where we are and I will do everything I can to make sure you never have to feel that."

Scorp looked away.

"It doesn't matter. It cannot be him; no one meets their soulmate when they are six months old."

"You're right, they don't," Hermione replied. She tilted Scorp's chin up to say, "And Malfoys don't marry Muggle-borns and babies aren't left on doorsteps."

Scorpius sniffled and tears fell from his eyes.

"I don't know what to do."

"I won't tell you what to do, Scorp. You decide what to do with your visions."

"But—"

"But Houses mean nothing. You are not choosing your abilities, Scorp, you are choosing the people you want to be around. Maybe you're right that Al will never like you the way you like him, and perhaps you won't always feel this way about him. That means right now you need to stop looking into the future."

"That is so hard!" Scorpius whined.

"Who is your best friend?" Hermione asked.

Scorpius responded, "Al," without hesitation.

"Then when you go up to get Sorted, you have to ask yourself do you want to be in Ravenclaw or do you want to spend the next seven years with your best friend?"

Scorpius didn't say anything for a few minutes. Suddenly, he tossed his pillow to the floor and crawled to the end of the bed to hug Hermione.

"I am so happy you're my mum."

The next morning, Scorpius clung to Hermione on the platform until the Potters arrived. They said their good-byes, Scorp grabbed Al's hand and rushed him over to one of the middle cars. They were hardly taller than the trunks knocking against the ground behind them. White smoke filtered out from the chimney of the scarlet steam engine. It surprised Hermione, the nostalgia that hit her when she saw the golden lettering on the side reading "Hogwarts Express."

It was difficult to see anything through the dense vapour. Crixus stood between Hermione and Harry, trading chocolate frog cards with Lily. Draco had Mira balanced against his hip, their relation apparent since they had the exact same shade of white-blond hair. Mira had his cheekbones and his trickster smile, but she had Hermione's wide brown eyes. Hermione allowed her mind to wander to next year when Ron and Alicia would join them with Rose. What an oddly fulfilling moment that would be.

"I am worried for Al," Harry admitted. "He's so quiet and, erm, without Scorpius I'm not sure he'll be able to make friends."

"Oh, stop," Ginny chastised him. "Al will be fine. He's just an introvert."

"I doubt your son and my son will end up in the same House, Potter," Draco said. "Though, I am grateful they are such good friends."

"Pretty sure Al wants to be more than best mates," Harry revealed. Draco and Ginny groaned but Hermione smiled to herself. They spotted Victoire and Teddy in the rear car, snogging near one of the windows. Jay and Molls popped out of one window, before Dominque pulled Jay down to stick her own head out. Scorp and Al were the last ones to appear, waving at their parents, grouped together a car-and-a-half down the platform.

"What if they aren't in the same House?" Ginny asked.

"They will be," Hermione confidently replied.

Harry asked, "How can you be certain?"

Hermione waved to their kids and said, "Because I know my son."

The train began to move and their kids' heads vanished back into the car, one by one. Al was the last to leave, nervously smiling at his parents until Scorpius pulled on his trouser leg. Hermione took Draco's hand in her own, twining their fingers together. They watched until the Hogwarts Express disappeared entirely beyond the horizon, and all was well.

A/N: Thank you so much for making it through this story! I am so grateful for all your feedback, your kind words, and favourites. I do have more Dramione works in progress. The first of which is my 12 Days of Ficmas series (the first three installments are available now), then I will have a 15/20 chapter Dramione AU in the new year. I've also included a roundup of the universe below, because I wanted to continue in the vein of Cursed Child, but I don't have the time. So here's what I had drawn up but you can feel free to disregard:

*Bastien ends up marrying Padma, who is Hermione's Senior Undersecretary.

*Mira's full name is Mira Jacquelyn Malfoy-Granger. In addition to being another Spartacus reference, Mira is a star so they kept to Black tradition. They also wanted to give her Mr. Granger's name so Jack became Jacquelyn. Draco denies he has favourites, but Mira would 100% be his favourite. Hermione is closest to Scorp, and Crixus is literally everyone else's favourite.

*Blaise and Dean adopt a seven-year-old boy from Italy after his grandmother/caretaker dies.

*Romilda revolutionizes wizarding fashion. Her business is very successful but she and LJ do not work out. She tutors all the Malfoy children in math until they go off to Hogwarts.

*Pansy designs every important Wizarding outfit for the next forty years. Including the dress robes for the Malfoy-Potter wedding.

*Trisha heads up the Maeve Ward until Hermione is elected Minister, at which point she becomes Chief Healer. She also does induct Crixus into her underground Butterbeer ring and sends him packages of the stuff to sell on the DL at Hogwarts.

*Scorpius refers to Albus as "Alex," a hangover from the days when he couldn't pronounce some consonants in the middle of words. (He had to learn to pronounce "x" because of Crixus.) Al prefers Alex anyway and changes his name immediately when he turns seventeen and drops his middle name altogether. This is a point of contention between him and Harry for several years. Scorp and Al end up in Slytherin together. Al kisses him for the first time behind the stands at the Quidditch pitch after Scorpius wins the open Chaser spot in their third year. They break up and date other people at various points, but get married at age 21.

*Narcissa never remarries. She dies at age sixty-five and Draco turns to Mr. Granger to grieve because he's the closest thing Draco has to a father figure. Mr. Granger is very torn up by Narcissa's death, as they were the closest of friends. (He never once entertained the notion of cheating on Abby, though.)

*Crixus is suave from the moment he is born. He dates a lot, is very fashionable, and Blaise gifts him Twilfitt and Tattings when he graduates Hogwarts. His best class is Charms and he is Sorted into Slytherin.

*Mira is smarter than everyone else in her class. She gets further in Arithmancy than any student in the history of Hogwarts. She is Sorted into Ravenclaw. Math is her strongsuit and she is crap at Defense Against the Dark Arts. She will absolutely kick some butt at Quidditch and is obsessed with sports. She uses her math acumen to move to America and become a sabermetrician because Draco imparted his love of baseball. Later she will write her own Arithmancy textbook that is used at Wizarding schools around the world. She marries the son of Viktor Krum.