Ch.1-Memories

Harmony was sitting in her bedroom, packing her things for her sixth year at Hogwarts, the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she was a witch along with her sister, Hermione; bored out of her mind. She had about one more trunk left and she had basically brought her entire room with her, like she did ever year. This year would be different, she knew it. She didn't know how she knew it, but she could feel it. The last two years had been particularly interesting.

In her fourth year, she had caught the eye of none other than the Prince of Slytherin himself, Draco Malfoy. They had tried to keep their dating a secret, but soon Harmony had gotten tired of waiting for Draco to tell the entire school and they had broken it off for a little bit. Sooner than always, Harmony got over Draco and had decided to try to date someone else, that someone being Cedric Diggory. All had been going fine. Of course, that's when Draco decided that he would tell everyone that he was dating her and then the entire school found out that Draco had indeed lied, like most thought, and had been dating Harmony. Harmony, at that point, knew that she was only using Cedric not because she liked him, but to cover up the pain of not being able to be with Draco. She had quickly broken it off with Cedric, he who hadn't minded at all and had immediately started dating Cho Chang, and Draco apologized for being such an idiot and they had gotten back together. Not to mention, they were only fourteen!!

In her fifth year, she and Draco had spent a lot of time together and Harmony had met all of Draco's friends and everyone had finally found out that she was in Slytherin. Lauren and Alyssa were still her best friends; Alyssa was opening up more every day, despite the fact that she still didn't like Draco that much and vice versa. She still hung out with Kerry and Seamus as much as she could and she studied every night with Hermione, even though Draco didn't like her gone too long. The one thing that hurt her the most was when Harry had taken them to the Department of Mysteries. They had all been fighting the Death Eaters, when Bellatrix Lestrange had killed Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, who had been hit with a spell and had fallen through a mysterious veil that was behind him. It still pained her to look at him and know that he had truly lost the only other family member that he had left, his uncle and aunt not included.

So now, finally packed and ready for what another year would bring, hopefully Draco included, Harmony went downstairs.

Her mom greeted her in the kitchen. "Hi honey. Are you ready for another year?"

Her mother and father, unfortunately, were Muggles, so they hadn't had the chance to go to Hogwarts like her and Hermione had. Up until Harmony had started dating Draco, both her and Hermione had been called Mudbloods, or people with Muggle parents and being the worst insult, it had hurt. But now, no one called her or Hermione a Mudblood because of Harmony's boyfriend; despite the fact that he has started the name calling on Hermione in the first place. For some reason he had never teased her about it, despite the fact that Harmony always hung out with the Trio.
"Yeah, in a way." She replied. She hadn't seen Draco all summer because his parents had gone into hiding for the whole Voldemort returning thing, so Draco had to hide with them until he could come back to Hogwarts, where he was safe. She had written him a couple letters and he still hadn't responded to them. She guessed he couldn't, but a girlfriend had to try.

"You don't seem too happy." Her mom implied, knowing her daughter so well.

"Yeah, I mean of course I'm happy to go back, but I haven't seen or talked to Draco all summer, so what if he doesn't come back?"

"Well, some things you can't stop from happening. If Draco wasn't able to come back, then you wait for him to." Her mother said, not knowing the entire truth of why Draco hadn't been able to return her letters.
"Ok." She replied, hugging her mother as her dad came in to grab her luggage.

"I see you packed lighter this year." Her dad laughed.

"Yeah, I left some of my stuff there since no one else would be in my room." She, of course, meant the room Draco had found for her in her fourth year because she had been "switched" to Slytherin and the dormitories had been all filled and because she was still supposed to be in Gryffindor, due to one of Draco's impossible plans.

"Oh good. We're leaving in five minutes, so whenever you get done saying goodbye." Her dad walked out the door to stow her luggage in the car.

"Well, you better get going, wouldn't want to miss the train." Her mom said. Even after five years, it was still hard for Lisa Granger to let her daughters go to a school miles away. She knew they would be safe, Hermione was a smart girl and Harmony had Draco, but she never really knew the dangers that her daughters and all their friends were really in now that Lord Voldemort was back. And frankly, neither Harmony nor Hermione wanted to make their mother more worried about them and risk not being able to go back.

"Do you want to go look for Draco or put your stuff down first?" Hermione asked when they had finally said goodbye to their dad and had boarded the train.

"I guess I'll put my stuff down first." She said, hoping that somewhere on this train she would find Draco, she was worried about him.

They walked down the corridor of the train trying to find where Harry and Ron were, while Harmony was trying to peek into compartments to see if Draco was in one of them.

They opened the door to Harry's and Harmony sighed. "No luck?" Hermione said.

"No, not yet."

"Hey Harmony!" Ron and Harry said, jumping up to hug her like they hadn't seen her all summer, despite the fact that Hermione and Harmony had visited them last week while in Diagon Ally.

"Hey Harry, hey Ron!" she replied, hugging them back, even though there was one person she wanted to hug, and kiss, who wasn't here.

She decided she would wait a little bit before her journey even though she was anxious inside.

An hour later, she was curled up against the window reading her latest book, Breaking Dawn, when she heard the compartment door slide open. Thinking it was just Harry or Ron entering, she disregarded it quickly.

"Well, if it isn't Potty and Weasel. It's been a while since I could torment you."

She wasn't sure if she was dreaming or not, but she swore that she heard Draco's voice. Nah, must have been dreaming, he's not here. He's hiding somewhere with his parents. She must be going crazy, it was impossible.

"Sod off Malfoy." Harry replied, still not liking Draco all that much.

Malfoy? But it can't be. He's not here, she repeated in her head several times, a tear slipping down her cheek.

"What, no kiss for your boyfriend?" he said, wiping the tear from her cheek.

Still dreaming, she thought,shaking her head and closing her eyes just so the dream wouldn't go away.

Still getting no answer, he leaned down, tilted her chin up and kissed her. Her book fell to the ground with a thud when she finally realized that she wasn't dreaming. "Draco!" she said, when she pulled back.

"Hi." He responded, pushing Ron out of the way so that he could sit next to her.

She didn't know where to start. "Where the hell have you been? Why haven't you returned my letters? Why are you grinning?"

"Don't worry. There will be time for questions later, but come to my compartment, I want to show you something." He grabbed her hand.

"I'll be back..later." she said to no one in particular.

She all but ran to follow him as her heart was beating so fast, as if to tell her that Draco was finally back.

His compartment was fortunately empty when they arrived.

He slid the door closed and closed the curtains as well.

"Did you miss me?" he smirked.

"Yes, I was so worried about you. You could have been killed and I would have never known."

"Yes but what did I tell you at the end of last year, our little motto?" he said.

She remembered it as if he told her yesterday. "Love me for always, leave me never."

"That's right. And it's true. If only you had remembered that over the summer." He said.

"Yeah, well it was hard to remember that when I'm worrying like hell, wondering where you where, or why you weren't returning my letters. You could have replied with one word sentences or even replied at all with something like I'm safe or fine or something that I knew you're still alive."

"I'm sorry." He said, stroking her cheek. "I couldn't because they had the Ministry searching letters and yours probably gave away a whole bunch of stuff.

She didn't know what to think of that. "Oh, I hope they didn't find you."

"No, but my parents got a couple of them and passed them to me. I read all of the ones I got, especially that fourth one about the feathers." He smirked.

Harmony blushed. "Yeah, well I had to write something to you and I was running out of 'Where the hell are you' so I wrote that one."

"Where did it come from?" he asked. "Just curious."

"A book I'm reading." She replied.

"If I guess it, will I win a prize? Preferably one with feathers?" he responded.

"Hmm, maybe." She smirked back.

"Ok, was it by that author Stephanie Meyer?"

"Uh-huh." She replied.

"Breaking Dawn?" he replied, smiling.

"Don't tell me you read it?" she said.

"No, but I almost bought it for you." He said.

"Aww, you're too sweet. But yes, I bought it when I went to London to buy school supplies. Harry and Ron thought I was crazy."

"Why?"

"Because I was crushing on a fictional character and then they read the first couple chapters and they kinda threw it back at me." She said.

"Oh, but you're not crushing on a fictional character anymore are you?" he said, cocking his head to the side.

"Not anymore, I got my own personal 'character' right here." She said, turning to kiss him.

He returned the kiss, more aggressive than she expected. She guessed it was because of the time lapse that he hadn't seen her in four months…

They broke apart for air. "Miss me much?" she teased.

"Of course." He replied, capturing her lips for a much longer time.