A/N - This is just a short four part story, and hopefully I will get the other three parts up later this week. Enjoy!

Headmistress of Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall, was busy doing paper work when an owl suddenly flew into her open window and perched on the desk. McGonagall was momentarily surprised by the owl's presence, it was well past breakfast time which was the normal time for owl's to deliver post at Hogwarts. Once she had recovered her composure she removed the attached letter from the owl's ankle, the owl then quickly took off back out the window once the letter had been removed.

Looking at the letter in her hands McGonagall didn't recognise the writing so she opened it with a hint of caution, despite the war being over for several years it still paid to be vigilant. McGonagall's eyes quickly fell to the bottom of the page where they widened at the sender's identity, Harry Potter.

Six years ago Harry and his best friend, Ron Weasley, had left for America with a team of Auror's to track down the few remaining Death Eaters. When the other Auror's had returned a year later Harry and Ron weren't with them, instead in their places were two letters to the Weasley family explaining the two boys had decided to stay on in America for a while.

McGonagall knew for a fact that since their failure to return home letters from Harry and Ron had been few and far between, which made her receiving one all the odder. McGonagall was still in regular contact with Molly Weasley and she knew the witch received a couple of letters a year, if she was lucky. She also knew that the other third of the boy's trio, Hermione Granger, hadn't heard from either of her friends in over two years.

Curious as to what Harry could want from her McGonagall began to read the letter. It soon transpired that somehow Harry and Ron had gotten involved in the opening of a new magical school in Boston and they wanted permission to come and visit Hogwarts with a few of the people involved in the new school to show them how a good wizarding school should be run.

Thinking over the proposal McGonagall could see no problems with the visit in theory. There was however someone she wanted to consult before writing back and arranging an official visit with Harry. Placing Harry's letter in her desk drawer, McGonagall finished her paperwork before leaving her office in search of the person she wished to speak with.

McGonagall headed straight towards her old Transfiguration classroom, where she found the witch she was looking for. McGonagall stood in the doorway for a few minutes, watching as Hermione prepared for her next class. McGonagall had always thought Hermione would make an excellent Professor and she had been proven right, the young witch was a superb teacher and while she might be strict she was also well liked amongst the students.

Making her presence known McGonagall stepped into the classroom, shutting the door behind her. She wanted to talk to Hermione in private and would rather they weren't interrupted by a student.

"Minerva, what can I do for you?" Hermione asked with a smile. It had taken her a while to get used to calling McGonagall by her first name but the fact the older witch had been such a support for her had helped.

"I just want a brief chat." McGonagall replied. "I received an interesting owl earlier." She then went on to tell Hermione about the contents of Harry's letter.

"What does this have to do with me?" Hermione asked. "Surely it's your decision if you let them come or not."

"Ultimately it is, but I wanted to consult you first." McGonagall said. "I know you haven't heard from either Harry or Ron for a few years and I want you to be comfortable with their presence, if I sanction their visit."

"Its fine, Minerva." Hermione shrugged. Yes, it hurt that her supposed best friends hadn't contacted her for years but it wasn't as if it had stopped her from living her life. "If you want to allow the visit, I'm perfectly okay with that."

"And what about my Potions Master, how will he feel about their return?" McGonagall asked. "I'm assuming Harry and Ron know nothing of that situation."

"You're right, Harry and Ron don't know of my marriage, but that's only because they don't keep in touch. They don't even know Ginny just got married." Hermione told McGonagall. "And as for Draco, I politely suggest you ask him yourself, but knowing him I don't think he'll mind in the slightest. In fact he'll probably quite enjoy letting Harry and Ron know how much things have changed in their absence."

"As long as he doesn't cause trouble." McGonagall frowned slightly at the possibility of a confrontation between one of her Professors and two visitors to the school.

"I think Harry and Ron are much more likely to cause trouble than Draco." Hermione said. "But if it helps I'll talk to him and make sure he behaves whenever the visit takes place."

"You're talking as though the visit is already planned, Hermione. I haven't made a final decision yet." McGonagall said, raising an eyebrow at the younger witch.

"Yes, you have." Hermione replied with a chuckle. "If you weren't planning on allowing the visit you never would have spoken to me."

"You know me so well, my dear." McGonagall chuckled, heading for the door. "Anyway I'll leave you too it. Thank you for being so co-operative, let's hope your husband is just as easy to deal with."

"I'm sure you'll convince him to play nicely." Hermione chuckled as McGonagall left her classroom.

After leaving Hermione, McGonagall headed down into the dungeons. She hadn't originally intended on speaking to Draco about the visit of Harry and Ron but the more she thought about it the more she thought she should broach the subject before sending a response to Harry. It was no secret that in their school days that there had been serious problems between Draco and the Gryffindors, but while Draco and Hermione had settled their differences McGonagall was aware that when Harry and Ron went overseas there was still bad blood between them and the former Slytherin. Then there was the fact that Draco and Hermione were now married, something McGonagall couldn't see the two former Gryffindors approving of.

When she reached the Potions classroom she found a lesson was taking place. Entering the classroom McGonagall couldn't help but notice that despite the fact Draco was sitting at his desk doing some paperwork the whole room was silent, except for the noises coming from the cauldrons. It wasn't the first time that McGonagall had noticed that like Severus Snape before him Draco Malfoy had the ability to control his class with the minimum of effort, his mere presence was usually enough to ensure a productive working environment.

"Professor McGonagall, what can I do for you?" Draco asked as the headmistress approached his desk.

As she told him of Harry's letter and the potential visit McGonagall couldn't help but wonder about the way Draco had addressed her as Professor. With students present first names were never used amongst staff but McGonagall couldn't ever remember hearing Draco call her anything other than Professor. Hermione had always said that it was because she still intimidated him and McGonagall couldn't help but wonder if it was true. If it was true she couldn't help but feel slightly pleased that she was capable of intimidating the Professor that was considered the most intimidating by the students.

"So Potter and Weasley are paying us a visit, that should be fun." Draco smirked.

"I don't want any trouble." McGonagall warned.

"Honestly Professor, when have I ever caused any trouble?" With his wicked smirk and cocked eyebrow McGonagall couldn't help but be reminded of a teenage Draco Malfoy, who was capable of causing trouble in an empty room.

"When have you not?" McGonagall snorted in amusement. She knew that her warnings were actually unnecessary, Draco was one of her most trusted members of staff and she knew he would never dream of causing any trouble that would risk him losing the job he loved.

After a few more minutes conversation McGonagall left Draco's classroom and headed back to her own office. Once in her office she composed a response to Harry and sent it off with her own personal owl, hoping she hadn't made a mistake by inviting him and Ron into the school. She knew Draco and Hermione would behave but she was less sure of Harry and Ron's behaviour, hopefully they had grown up during their time away.

The possibility of seeing Harry and Ron again played around in Hermione's head for the rest of the day. While she was quite excited at the prospect of seeing her friends once more she couldn't help but be disappointed that they weren't coming specifically to see her or Ron's family, they were returning on a business trip.

Once the last lesson of the day was completed Hermione returned to the quarters she shared with Draco. The couple owned a cottage in Hogsmeade where they stayed on a night and on weekends but until the castle retired for the night they preferred to stay on school premises. As Hermione settled down with a cup of tea she couldn't help but wonder what Harry and Ron would make of her life, and more importantly what they would think about her husband.

When Harry and Ron had left for America, Hermione had only just received confirmation that she had been accepted as a trainee Professor at Hogwarts. At the time she knew that two other people were starting training at the same time as her, she also knew that one of those people was Neville Longbottom, starting his training as Herbology Professor. The other person starting training was a mystery and she didn't discover who else was joining them at school until her first day.

Both Hermione and Neville had been shocked to discover the third person training to be a Professor was Draco Malfoy. What was even more shocking was the fact the blond Slytherin apologised for his past behaviour and offered the hand of friendship to the pair of Gryffindors. Since the three of them were all in the same situation they decided to all stick together and by the end of the first term a solid friendship had been formed.

The trio's friendship flourished over the remainder of their first years training and by the time their training ended after their second year they were practically inseparable in their spare time. It wasn't until nearly the end of their first year as official Professor's that things began to change when Neville began a relationship with Ginny Weasley.

At first Neville would go out with Ginny alone, but then he gradually started to bring Ginny along on their friendly nights out. With Ginny a regular presence in their friendship Hermione and Draco found themselves pushed together a bit more as Neville and Ginny were usually too wrapped up in each other to pay attention to them.

Gradually Hermione and Draco's friendship became an extremely close one that led to the pair getting romantically entangled. Despite the pair getting together almost a year after Neville and Ginny, Hermione and Draco's relationship developed a lot quicker than the other couple and they were engaged a little over a year after getting together. Their engagement was relatively short and they were married at the beginning of the summer holidays, six months previously.

Despite only being with Draco for a little over two years Hermione was confident in her relationship and she knew it didn't really matter what Harry or Ron thought, her life was none of their business any more. Hermione was actually quite surprised that Harry and Ron had faded from her life so significantly, back in school she thought she would always be able to rely on her friends but they had proven otherwise in the last few years. Even Ron's family couldn't rely on them keeping in touch and she knew for a fact that neither of them knew that Ginny and Neville had gotten married over Christmas.

Hermione was so distracted by thoughts of her friends she failed to notice Draco entering the room. It wasn't until her husband collapsed onto the sofa next to her that Hermione realised she wasn't alone.

"You look as though you've had a tough day." Hermione commented as she got up and made a fresh pot of tea.

"I have." Draco sighed. "In my last lesson one of the second years spilt a potion over himself, turning himself green in the process."

"Clumsy." Hermione said, handing Draco a cup of tea. "Even Neville didn't turn himself green in Potions."

"He did everything else though." Draco chuckled. "Neville and I might be friends now and I wouldn't mock him to be cruel, but he was terrible at Potions."

"That's because he was scared of Professor Snape." Hermione retorted as she sat back down next to Draco.

"Most people were scared of Snape." Draco snorted. "Even the Slytherins."

"I can never remember you being scared of Snape." Hermione said.

"That's because I wasn't, I'd known him far too long and far too well to be intimidated by him." Draco replied. "Professor McGonagall on the other hand was far more terrifying."

"Yeah, she could be a bit fierce." Hermione said, remembering the few times she and the boys had gotten into trouble with the head of their house.

"She came to see me today." Draco said, changing the subject. The mention of the Headmistress had brought her visit back into his mind, he'd forgotten all about McGonagall and his wife's former friends when he had to deal with a green second year.

"She came to see me too." Hermione said. "I'm guessing she was telling us the same thing."

"Potter and Weasley?" Draco asked and Hermione nodded. "How do you feel about that?"

"Fine." Hermione shrugged her shoulder. "I'm not going to make a big deal out of it. If they want to talk while they're here that's good, but if they don't it doesn't really matter."

"Do you think they're coming back for good?" Draco asked.

"Who knows." Hermione sighed. "Molly would like it if they did."

"I'm sure she would." Draco agreed. He actually had quite a good relationship with all the Weasley family, Molly in particular had made him feel really welcome in the family when he started dating Hermione.

"Minerva also asked me to ensure you behave yourself." Hermione said, staring intently at her husband. "She doesn't want any trouble."

"So she said. And as I told her, I have no intention of causing any problems." Draco said.

Hermione smiled at Draco before she leant over a placed a soft kiss on his cheek. "Come on, dinner's about to begin, then after that we can go home and forget all about Harry and Ron and their impending visit."