The Eighth Years were allowed to apparate to their destinations and didn't have to take the train. Draco was really thankful for that. He shrank his suitcase and said goodbye to Hermione outside of the Hogwarts wards. She asked him if he wanted to take care of Aria for the holidays, and even though he would have liked to, he had to decline. Hermione thought that he, Theo and Pansy would stay at one of their homes. Little did she know that they had booked rooms in a Wizarding hotel. None of them wanted to go back to their dusty manors, empty mansions or joyless homes. Because of that, she had asked Aria to fly to her parents house the day before. 