Drapple- epilogue.

Today was a good day for Draco, nothing unusual had happened, nothing unusual, nothing weird. Draco had not had to work in over 15 years, the day he graduated from Hogwarts. The Malfoy fortune alone was enough to keep him going for a lifetime, and added to the 'human guinea pig' money, it was safe to say that luxury was ensured. Even thought he didn't have to, Draco had a small job as a supply teacher at Hogwarts, and marked homework for busy teachers. He also took his father's position as governor, again, not because he had to, just so that he didn't die from boredom each day.

Yes, today was a good day, well, was a good day until about 9am, when the day turned into disaster. At 9 am, a sliver otter Patronus burst into Draco's living room- Granger's Patronus.

"Malfoy- Come quick! You're needed at Hogwarts."

Draco sighed, yet was relieved; it had been a while since he had done any teaching, perhaps today was the day, finally!

Grabbing the floo powder, he shouted "Hogwarts, Headmistresses' office" and was immediately transported there.

Draco landed coughing and spluttering on the other side of the fireplace "Seriously woman! I'm the governor of this damn place, you could at least let the wards let me apparate!"

Hermione helped him up "Sorry about that, the fireplace has a crack, making landings uneven. I didn't want to replace it because it fits in with the period decoration."

"Okay, I'm here, so what did you want me for?" asked Draco,

"I need you to teach 5th year potions, Professor Lambert had a… err…. Unfortunate accident with this class."

Draco raised an eyebrow "What sort of accident?"

"Well, you know Neville has a son right? Brodie… and making skelegrow, you get the idea, just make sure Brodie stays away from the dangerous ingredients!"

"Oh, ok. When does the lesson start?"

"Well actually Malfoy, It started a few minutes ago."

"Ah! Granger, you know I like to prepare before classes, you should have told me before…"

"Yes, yes," she cut him off, "But your royal highness can complain later, right now Brodie Longbottom is sitting unsupervised in a room full of potions, go and get there before he does something stupid."

Draco smirked "Weren't you the one that defended Longbottom Granger?"

Hermione ignored him and continued to push him out the room.

"Seriously, is that how you treat your guests? It's a wonder how you were ever made Headmistress." The door was promptly shut on his face.

With a sigh, Draco made his way to the all too familiar dungeons. Students scuttled out of his way with whispers of 'Lord Malfoy', to Draco, this was a bit tiring, and was relieved when he finally arrived at the potions class. All the students rose as he came in, and he gestured for them to sit. Before he even had a chance to open his mouth, a girl put her hand up quickly.

"Yes?" Draco asked with a pointed look.

"Professor Lambert asked me to give this to the supply teacher, sir!" the girl stated.

"Err thank you miss…err."

"Jane Ranger sir."

"Miss Ranger then." Not even one minute in and Draco was already tired of this Miss Ranger. Somehow the know-it-all air of speaking in her voice made her sound just like Granger, not to mention the name similarity; Draco mentally shuddered of how freaky it was.

Jane Ranger came and handed him a folder.

His heart stopped as he opened it to look at the lesson plan.

SUBJECT- Potions

YEAR- 5th year, Gryffindor's and Slytherin's

TOPIC/POTION- 'Drapple'

CLASSWORK- Explain how to identify the Drapple potion and the symptoms of those who have consumed it. P.289 of 'The revised edition of advanced Potions'. After the Basic History of Drapple, set the students to work making Amortentia; then demonstrate the correct movement of placing the apple inside the potion.

HOMEWORK- write an essay of the history of Amortentia and Drapple, needs to be at least 4 rolls of parchment long.

POINTS TO MENTION- Explain the difference between Amortentia and Drapple.

EXTRA LEARNING MATIRIALS- The grave of the first Drapple that is buried at Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy who was the first test subject of Drapple.

"GRANGER!" Draco Bellowed.

Draco trudged out of class 40 minutes later. A horrible, horrible class, where every 5 minutes someone was asking if he was related to the famous Draco Malfoy of the Drapple potion, if there Headmistress was the inventor, if the Drapple tree was still at Hogwarts, if it had little baby Drapple's yet.

In the end Draco had given in and told them the true story- how his is 'the Draco Malfoy'- only to be bombarded with more questions.

There was one thing that caught his attention, one minute detail; it said 'Drapple is buried at Hogwarts'.

After class, Draco went straight to Hermione's office.

"What was that?" demanded Draco.

"What was what?" Hermione asked innocently.

"don't play dumb with me, I know that you set me Drapple to do on purpose!"

It took Hermione a moment to catch up with what he was saying, "Drapple? As in the potion?"

"Yes DRAPPLE, as in the potion, I had to teach the most embarrassing moment of my life to a bunch of moron's, and had to answer the most stupid questions regarding my personal life."

Hermione frowned, but then it melted away into a smile, then a grin and then a smirk. After assessing the situation, it turned into a full blown laugh.

"Granger! Are you listening? Did you even understand what I said?"

"Sure….But…Too funny…Drapple" Hermione choked out between laughs.

Draco fumed "…okay, enough, its not that funny… I…I had a question though, is…is Apple really buried at Hogwarts?"

Hermione stopped laughing and raised an eyebrow "Apple? Well, yes, she is, the small apple tree next to the whomping willow, why?"

Draco turned pale and left silently.

The next day Draco was back.

He made his way down to the grounds, and spotted what he was looking for.

"APPLE!" he shouted in a moment of madness and ran towards the tree, hugging it tightly.

"I've missed you…I've missed you so much, don't ever leave me. I love you baby."

Apple, now Apple Tree, swayed from side to side in the breeze.

It was the perfect moment, just two people…er…a person and a tree, standing silently, embracing each other. Nothing could ever get in the way.

And it was that moment, that Draco wondered, was it really just after-effects of the potion, or did he really love Apple.

He did, he loved Apple, Draco and Apple. Drapple.

A/n- epilogue as promised, sorry it was a little late. Thank you for your awesome reviews, I wasn't really sure how people would react.

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