Draco Malfoy sat quietly at breakfast, it was silent at the Slytherin table, Theo and Pansy were ignoring each other, they both had completely shut out Blaise. Draco found it all very awkward. Draco looked up and saw the Gryffindor table, he used to do this all the time and be met with those beautiful brown eyes, but not for the last 2 weeks. It was then that it hit him that it had been exactly 2 weeks since he'd last seen Hermione Granger, two weeks since she'd jumped. A mass of red hair came into his sight, Ginny Weasely turned around to find Draco Malfoy watching her. She shot him a look of sympathy but to Draco it looked like anger. Deciding it was all too much Draco got up to leave the great hall, he reached the door when a owl dropped a box into his arms.

Draco didn't open the package until he was sat on his bed. Inside the box was a cassette player with some cassettes, at least that was it was labelled. He remembered back to when Blaise explained what they did. There was a tape with a 1 on it so Draco pushed the tape into the player and pressed play.

Hello listeners, "Hermione." Draco whispered.

I know what your all thinking, why would someone send me a box full of tapes, and but your obviously good at investigating because you found tape 1 and if in case you haven't guessed yes it's the little Bookworm Hermione. The girl who jumped off the astronomy tower.

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Draco couldn't believe what he was hearing. The voice of a girl he'd know for years, the voice of the girl who only two weeks ago had jumped off the astronomy tower. No one believed it was suicide, he'd even been blamed for pushing her. But here it was in his hands, proof. It was an elaborate suicide note.

I've never been a selfish person, all of you know this. I don't think I even remember the last time I did something purely for me. Then that would make my next decision my first and last selfish one. Its a sad fact really. I was even nice enough to provide you with a cassette player, as most of you on my list are pure-bloods and don't understand what cassettes are. My decision is selfish because I really don't care about the outcome of this jump, people drove me to to this and to anyone listening this, you lucky selfish bastard your one of those people. I would like to stress that YOU did this to me, you drove me to this. "What?" Draco exclaimed louder than he intended too. Hermione, how did I drive you too this? Lets begin with two simple rules, you all know how much I love rules. I know how much you love them Hermione, tell me what I've done wrong, I thought me and you were good. The first being when you've finished listening please write the name of the person whose story follows your on a new envelope and send the packagevia owl. The second is don't tell another soul about these tapes, who knows I might become a ghost and haunt you. Creepy right? I could be watching you open this. Draco quickly looked around the room to make sure she wasn't haunting him. I can't help but wonder where you'll open this lovely little box, the great hall? Your dormitory? At home? Or perhaps you'll receive it on the day of my funeral, now that would be fun right? So follow my rules and these tapes won't be heard by anyone who isn't on my list however if these tapes don't make it through everyone there is a second set of tapes, will be released very publicly if you all don't see and hear these tapes they must make it through all 9 of you and number 9 you can take these tapes with you to hell, I'll probably see you there. Consider this your only warning, your being watched.

Draco sat there for a minute before a single tear fell down his cheek. How many others had heard this same tape before him? How many more people were after him? What if he was the last one? What had he done that was so bad? The tape clicked over and her voice exploded in his ear again.

Lets begin shall we, now whose first? Theodore Nott.Theo?To everyone who is listening to this and doesn't know, Theo has a little problem.More than one.And what is that problem I hear you ask, well you see Theo can get a little obsessive.The Pictures.And by a little I mean a lot. So when was it that you decided that you had to have me Theo? Was it when when we were paired together in potions or perhaps when I rejected your flirting. Contrary to what most of you believe, I'm not the cheating sort.I never believed you were.That's a story for later thought.Ron has to be after me then.So back to Theo, despite your heritage Theo you do have a little flare for muggle objects more specifically muggle cameras, ones with no flash, ones with long lenses that could discretely come through some curtains if the window was open and you could just hover outside on your broom. Hermione's voice was slow, it gave Draco a tingling in his arm.Your good at that Theo, hovering. So your all listening to this your hearing that a slimy Slytherin is also a peeping tom. But its not just the fact you took those pictures Theo, it's who you gave it too. Now I'm pretty sure everyone has seen these pictures, they were very sexy.Very Sexy.Tell me Theo how long did you have to wait in between each picture before Ron moved out of shot? You see everyone, those pictures were not just of me in my underwear, they were a private moment between me and someone I loved , a moment that should have been kept private but thanks to Theo here, everyone experienced it.Ron was there? It explains it I guess.I over heard some 4thyears talking about the pictures, it seems as though they rather enjoyed their experience with the pictures you took Theo. But like I said its not just the pictures, it's about what the pictures started, all but one of these stories could have been prevented had you not taken those pictures. Its what you would call the snowball effect, or the domino effect. Just one little push and the whole row falls down. All it takes is one.

Draco breathed out, he always knew about Theo's camera, but didn't piece it together until after damage was done. I'm sorry Hermione.