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Plotting Planning and Worshipping

Chapter Two

By ScreamForSOH

Hermione's POV

I had no idea what she had in mind when she approached me asking for help. Ginny just came right up to me during my private study time one night and told me that she needed my help and that it would help Harry. And when she wouldn't give details, only said that all would be explained if I went with her to somewhere more private, I had to say yes; I always was too curious for my own good. She knew me too well, looking back I realize she knew everyone well enough to work such a brilliant plan without doing much more than get people talking.

"Okay Ginny, why do you need my help?" I asked walking into the room she had leaded me to.

She jumped into a description of a plan that she and some other students had thought up where Harry and Malfoy would be, to put simply, manipulated into getting along. It was short and very simple, they had obviously thought it through very thoroughly, thoroughly enough in fact that any question that I had, she was answering as I opened my mouth. She showed the benefits, the losses, how they balance up. She explained it all in a way that proved to me that she wasn't trying to con me into it, but trying to get me to do it on my own free will, trying to gain my trust once more since she broke up with him.

As she explained, other students would come in and say their part. Luna, Neville, Pansy (which confused me initially) and a few other students were part of the group who had come up with the plan. I don't know how long they had been gathering, or the amount of time and effort put in to create this plan, but it was well worth it, it was amazing and was very close to implementing. Though, I guess involving me was the start of the plan's execution.

Despite how much they had surprised me with their organisation and wonderful plan, I still held some surprises for them, as I had them skip some things as they didn't need to persuade me any more, for I had also noticed some of the things they were telling me, just hadn't connected the dots to something so simple, so brilliant, so I was up for it. Especially after hearing from the other side's perspective; which was necessary for the success of the plan in the end, but it also explained why Pansy was there of her own free will.

It turned out that I wasn't the only one that had noticed that Harry was taking each death, injury and horrible result of Voldemort's attacks to heart, blaming himself. With his laugh being half hearted and smile not quite reaching his eyes, and not appearing unless he thought someone would notice it missing, Harry was being lost to the war in a way no one wanted to see him go. Which is where Pansy came in, she had noticed a similar thing happening with Draco, his family and friends were being forced to follow Voldemort and give up everything, from their freedom, their possessions and above all, their dignity upon having to bow down to another.

Neither truly smiled. Although, it is true that Malfoy never seemed to smile before, he had when he was in the privacy and security of the Slytherin Common room. When he was with those he felt secure around, he would be open, bright and high spirited, to an extent of course, for a Malfoy. But ever since Malfoy had been brought back to the school, after the incidental event at the end of last year, he had not been the same, quickly angered, unable to focus and worse of all if you caught him at certain times you could see that he was nothing but a shell of sorrow and pain, smirks and glares to try and cover such feelings. He was snarky and malicious, turning into exactly what he had been afraid of the year before.

Harry and Malfoy needed to accept that some things were out of their control and that another people's actions are not their responsibility. They could feel remorse, feel sorrow, but learn to live and push through these times for their own sake and for the sake of their friends and those who sacrificed things for them. Ginny and her band of misfits seemed to believe that they could teach each other these things, and very quickly I was melded into their plans and began putting in my own ideas into the mix.

Things would be on their way soon.

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