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Prologue

"H-harry! Uhh... what are you doing here so late at night?" Hermione asked. She was visibly trembling since she had been caught off-guard doing something that no one would expect from her.

"I should be asking you the same question" Harry said coldly. "So, this is what you mean when you said you had other plans?"

"Well, umm... yes, but you don't understand!"

"Then tell me! Tell me what is bloody going on! I thought I was your best friend who you could tell anything to, but I guess I was wrong!"

"It's not like that, I swear!"

"Then what is it! Say it! Tell me why I came out here, and found you kissing him," Harry shouted, making sure he said the last word with disgust in his voice.

"You won't understand" Hermione cried. She broke down in tears, which caused Draco to react.

He stepped forward to Harry, making sure he could see his terribly dangerous eyes. "Don't you ever make her cry like that again, or you'll regret it."

Harry seemed unaffected by Draco's threat. "Me make her cry? How would I know you won't do that! After all, you are known to—"

He was about to say more when Draco forced his wand to his throat, hoping to stop him from finishing the sentence. "You say one more word and I will be forced to curse you so badly you wish you were never born."

"Boys, please stop this" a small voice behind them softly said. They both turned around to face Hermione, who seemed to regain her composure.

"Hermione, are you alright lately? First, I find you talking to yourself, and now I see you kissing this... thing" Harry said, his voice filled with hatred. Once he heard the insult, Draco was about to mutter a curse when Hermione stopped him.

"It's not like that! He has changed if you only give him a chance!"

"I won't! I never will!"

"How about for my sake, then?"

Harry paused. He would do anything for Hermione, but he didn't trust Draco a bit. He didn't know how he could give someone a chance if they had teased him and his friends cruelly for the past seven years. Draco would have to prove himself first before Harry would even consider acknowledging him.

"Wait, I just want to know one thing. Potter, exactly what in bloody hell are you doing out here" Draco asked coldly.

Harry seemed surprised by the question, but didn't respond. Hermione, seeing that her friend probably doesn't want to answer to his enemy, she asked the question again.

"Well, Harry? What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be playing wizard's chess with Ron?"

He glanced at her with a hollow look in his eyes. "That's what I was doing but I remembered to give some assignments to Seamus. I went to the dorm to find him, but all I saw was a black rose on his bed. I thought that looked kind of odd, so I searched everywhere in the castle for him but I couldn't find him anywhere. That's when I looked through a window and saw two people standing out here. I came all the way down here, hoping that it's Seamus, but instead..." Harry didn't need to continue for the other two to know what he was going to say.

"Let's go find him."

"Hermione, I think there are more important issues to be discussed here!" Harry yelled.

"Harry, we can talk about this later! It's not like Seamus to just disappear like that, so we'll help you find him" she suggested.

"We? What are you bloody talk—"Draco couldn't finish his sentence before Hermione grabbed his hand and ran to the entrance of Hogwarts. They were in front of the Great Hall where they met up with Ron and Dean.

"Hermione! There you are! Have you seen—"Ron paused when he noticed Draco standing in front of him.

"What are you bloody doing here!"

"Never mind that, Ron!" Hermione was too tired to explain everything to him. "We're here to help you find Seamus. He's got to be in here somewhere."

"But we haven't seen him all day! He wouldn't just..." Dean started to say when all of a sudden, his voice started fading away. This caused the other three to turn their heads to face him, wondering what was wrong. When they did, they saw the most unusual sight they had ever seen. Right before their eyes, Dean was slowly starting to become transparent, much like a ghost. He appeared to be yelling, yet no sound came from his mouth. They were all shocked from this and tried to save him, but were frozen in their spots caused by this sudden surprise. Dean slowly began vanishing into thin air, until he was completely gone. The other three were completely shocked and didn't know what to do.

"W-what just h-happened here?" Hermione asked softly, feeling more unprepared and frightened than ever.

"I-I don't know." Harry replied, noticeably trembling.

"Look!" Ron exclaimed.

They all looked at the floor where he was pointing, and their eyes widened even more. They saw something that confused them greatly, and made them panic to the point where they were afraid that it might be a dangerous sign of the future.

On the exact spot where Dean had disappeared laid a single black rose.

A/N: This chapter is only used to refresh what happened in my last story. I'll post the next chapter soon so that you won't get mad at me for leaving on such a cliffhanger..lol. I'm also thinking of writing two endings for this story (weird, i know) because i would like to write a tragic ending, but then people might like a happy one...so i'll see how it goes. I hope you guys'll like this story :)