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Chapter 1: Everything Has Changed

"The war is over."

The words echoed in Harry's head.

"Voldemort is gone."

The thought was almost unimaginable.

"It's time to move on."

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"Harry!"

Harry woke up groggily and jumped to see her best friend, Hermione, standing over her looking very worried.

"Jeez, Mione! Way to wake someone up." The raven-haired girl grumbled, slowly sitting up on her bed.

"Well I'm so sorry." Hermione drawled sarcastically, standing up and putting her hands on her hips. Harry always thought she looked like Mrs Weasley when she did this but she would dare actually say so. "I just thought you might like to know that our Hogwarts letters arrived. You'll have to excuse me for thinking you'd be excited."

This was enough to get Harry to jump out of bed, her emerald eyes wide with excitement. "Did we get in?" She asked, jumping around the room trying to find her jumper and slippers.

"I don't know!" Hermione exclaimed exasperatedly. "We are all waiting for you!"

Harry yanked her jumper over her head, shot her friend a lopsided grin and cried, "Race you downstairs!"

"Harry! No fair!" She heard the brunette call after her as she ran down the steps of the Burrow.

Harry looked around her at the 'new' Burrow. It was the small building, only expanded on the inside. Bedrooms had been added for all three Grangers, who had been staying with the Weasleys since the war, afraid of returning to their normal lives. Harry had also been given a room. Multiple bathrooms and living rooms had also been added as well as the full refurbishment the house had gone through. It still looked like the Burrow, only bigger.

"Good morning!" Harry called cheerily to the crowd that was gathered in the kitchen.

"Morning Harry!" Ron replied, handing her letter.

"That was so not fair!" Hermione complained as she came tumbling down the staircase.

Harry smirked at her as she collapsed into a chair, gasping for breath.

"Come on Mione, enough of this!" Ron begged her. "Our letters!" He waved hers under her nose as he said, "Remember?"

Hermione snatched her letter from his teasing fingers and looked at him, then Harry and then Ginny, who had at this point joined them.

All four of them held their breath as they slowly opened their letters. These letters would tell them if they had been reaccepted to Hogwarts and what year they had been placed in. Following the war, Professor McGonagoll, the new Headmistress, had announced that Hogwarts would be reopening to those who deserved it. Many who had joined the dark side would not be returning this year. It would also be determined what year they would return to due to the lack of actual education the previous year and the fact that some people far exceeded their current years' standards during the Battle of Hogwarts.

Harry pulled out her letter and a grin grew on her face as she read it.

'Dear Miss Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been reaccepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You will be entering as a Seventh Year Gryffindor.

We would also like to reoffer you your position as Gryffindor Quidditch Captain.

You will find, attached, your list of supplies for this year.

We await your owl,

Professor McGonagoll

Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry'

"Yes!" She pumped her fist into the air. Not, only had she been reaccepted, but she's also been reinstated as Quidditch Captain, words could not describe how happy she was at that moment. She would be returning to Hogwarts, going home again.

Harry looked over at her best friends. She could tell by the looks of joy on their faces that they'd all been reaccepted too.

Hermione looked up from her letter, grinning from ear to ear. "I'm Head Girl!"

"I'm Head Boy?!" Ron looked flustered and confused. Hermione hugged him tightly as he reread the letter.

"Nice one, mate!" Harry smiled at him. She really was proud of her best friend. He'd really grown up these past two years. He deserved the title more than anyone she knew. She looked over to Ginny, who's grin was bright enough to scare away a Dementor.

"Say 'hello' to your new class mate!" She drawled sarcastically. "I am officially a Seventh Year!"

Mrs Weasley joined the group just in time to hear Ginny's announcement.

"Oh Ginny dear! I am so proud of you!" She cooed. "All of you!" She turned to the rest of them. "You know what this means, time for a trip to Diagon Alley!"

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Draco Malfoy looked around in disbelief, he never thought he'd see Diagon Alley ever again. Not much had changed, he noticed, but he was far more uncomfortable than he remembered being when he had been there last. People were staring, a lot of people.

Ever since the Malfoys' trial, it was all people could do when he was around; stare. All because Harriet Potter had stood up and defended him- them. His mother had helped her, for her own reasons, when the Dark Lord had tried to kill her and in return she saved them from their doom, Azkaban. Of course, his father had still ended up there, being a proved Death Eater, but he and his mother were cleared of all charges and he was in debt to Harriet Potter. Draco ran his hand through his hair, which he'd taken to leaving as is (no gel) thinking about Potter. He remembered the fiery passion he'd seen in those beautiful emerald eyes when he'd run into her during the Battle of Hogwarts.

Draco stopped walking. Had he really just thought about something to do with Potter as 'beautiful'?! No way, must've been some sort of fluke, he was focused on other things right then so it must've just been a slip in his mind. Draco resumed walking briskly behind his mother, up the stairs into Gringotts Bank.

"Mrs Malfoy and son." A goblin greeted them as they approached his desk.

"We wish to enter our vault." Draco's mother held her head high but her voice was softer than it had been before the war, she genuinely sounded kinder and more relaxed.

The goblin must've noticed this change too as his eyes widened a fraction before resuming his usual glare. "Follow me please."

Draco and his mother followed the small creature to the carts. Draco would never admit it, but he loved the ride in the Gringotts chamber, he always smiled as the cart wizzed through the many tunnels over the endless pits. He jumped forward slightly as the cart drew to a halt.

"Vault 709." The goblin announced as he stepped out of the cart and walked up to the door. "Key, please."

Draco handed it over obligingly and watched as the goblin opened their vault. There was a quick 'click' and the door swung inwards revealing the treasures of the vault.

"I will wait here, please take all the time you need." The goblin told them before he returned to the cart.

"Come Draco." His mother spoke to him softly, leading him further into the vault than the young man had ever been before. "Draco, as you know, it is custom for a Pureblood to become engaged before his eighteenth birthday."

Draco groaned inwardly, he had a feeling he knew where this conversation was going.

"Mother I-" He began but was cut off by his mother.

"I know you don't have anyone in mind currently but Draco you don't actually need anyone in mind." His mother explained. Draco looked at her hoping she didn't mean what he thought she did.

"Mother you haven't… You… Have you arranged a marriage for me?" Draco was shocked. His mother had always encouraged him to search for love and all that.

"No! My dear Dragon!" His mother handed him a box. "This is how you will become engaged."

Draco looked at her with wide eyes before taking the box and opening it. Within the box, on a bed of green satin, lay a bracelet. A beautiful silver gold link bracelet decorated with small sapphires and emeralds. But as beautiful as the bracelet was, Draco was still confused.

"This will find you the perfect wife. All you do is tell it exactly what you want in a bride, personality, type anything. You tell the bracelet and it will find you the perfect wife. When the bracelet has found your perfect match, it will latch onto her wrist and will be irremovable. We will send in an advert to the Daily Prophet with a picture and your match will have to come forth as only you can remove it."

"That doesn't sound too bad I guess…" Draco pondered. "But what would happen if it chooses someone I dislike?"

"Dragon, the bracelet does not make a mistake." Seeing her son's hesitation she decided to ease him into the thought slowly. "If you are really displeased, you can just remove the bracelet from her wrist and simply end the engagement. Would you like to use it Draco?" His mother asked softly. "All the Malfoy men have used it in the past, even your father. This bracelet found me and Lucius and I have been together and happy ever since."

Draco let out a breath he didn't even realise he'd been holding. "Yes." He breathed. "I'll use it."

His mother smiled at him. "Take your time Draco, I'll be waiting outside."

Draco nodded as he lifted the bracelet out of the box and held it in both hands and began his wish. "I wish for a woman with a mind who can think for herself. Someone who will bring out the best in me, whom I can bring out the best in. I wish for someone who will understand me and love me for me, not my wealth or status. I want a girl whom I can talk to about nothing and everything, a girl who will stay with me till the end and for whom I can do the same. Find me someone who completes me and finds the true me that I have lost in time. Also," He added sheepishly. "Preferably a girl I know and… Well… Someone who can make me happy." Draco looked down at the bracelet as he finished his wish. Nothing happened for a few moments but then suddenly, in a flash of bright light, it was gone. He looked down at his hands and noticed quickly a marking on his wrist. It was like a ribbon that wound itself around his wrist and meet on the inner side, entangled to form a small, barely visible heart. Draco smiled, he knew, he just knew, that this would end well. He could just feel it.

"I am so proud of you Dragon." Draco turned to see his mother watching him cautiously, her pride obvious on her open face. Draco knew she may have expected him to wish for a Pureblooded girl of high social standing, as his younger self would have. But he didn't. Instead, he followed his heart.

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"Now, Harry dear, you need a lot of new clothes!" Mrs Weasley rushed the children through the crowded bustle of Diagon Alley. "Why don't you head on over to Madam Malkin's? I'll go with the others and get your books."

"Can we meet Harry at Quality Quidditch Supplies, Mum?" Harry rolled her eyes at Ron, of course, the only thing he had in mind was Quidditch. Then again, she could do with some new gloves…

"I could meet you there when I'm done, Mrs Weasley?" Harry chimed in, earning a full on grin from Ron.

"Alright dears!" The woman huffed. "And how many times have I told you to call me Molly?" She called after Harry as the girl began weaving her way through the crowd to Madam Malkin's.

Harry could just see the store over everyone's heads when suddenly a bright white flash took over her vision and she felt a cool, numb feeling on her wrist. As soon as the feeling had come, it was gone. Harry shook her head and rubbed her eyes for a second. That was really weird she thought. She looked down at her wrist and was suddenly surprised to see a slivery bracelet with blue and green gems clipped snuggly to her wrist.

"What is this…?" She muttered, trying to get it off. Her eyes went wide as she realised it was stuck. "Ok… Ok…" She muttered. She realised she had no idea what to do and would have to wait until Hermione could explain. "I really hope she knows what this is…" She opened the door to Madam Malkin's.

She walked in and realised it was fairly empty, except for Madam Malkin and a boy with pale blonde hair. Harry was hit by a sudden sense of déjà vu as the boy turned around and their eyes locked. Emerald green meeting mercury silver. It was just like the very first time she'd walking into this shop. Just her and Draco Malfoy.

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