Harry awoke in infirmary and Dumbledore was standing beside him.

"Hello Harry, I see that you are awake." he said in kind soft voice.

"What happened?" Harry asked. Suddenly his head started to ache and he became observer of himself. Other Harry's head ached a bit while he recalled last night until Quirell stunned him followed by when he awoken.

Dumbledore said while twinkling his eye:

"I am afraid that last night Voldemort tried to kill you. You shouldn't be so trusting. You could trust professors and your friends." His eyes sparked when he said last sentence.

First Harry was confused so he forced other Harry to ask a question:

"Then why he didn't kill me? I remember that he got me into Forbidden forest outside wards."

Dumbledore kindly replied: "Your mother sacrificed herself to let you live. You have power that Voldemort doesn't: love. But your friends were waiting too long." and he left.

Hermione ran to his bed, hugged him and said:

"Harry, I was so afraid. Promise me that you won't scary me anymore."

"I will do what is best on my abilities, I promise." he replied.

She was followed by Neville with Pansy: "What happened mate?"

"I am not sure, I got stunned and then woke in hospital wing."

"Lucky you, you missed a troll. There are rumors that professor Quirell was killed by it. But enough of dark news. I bought bag of chocolate frogs from Weasley twins."

They had lot of fun together. They laughed a lot when Harry turned into frog. When they called madam Pomfrey she just quickly kissed Harry which turned back.

"I will kill these demons. This is third time I need to do THIS countercurse."

Week passed but Harry couldn't put his confrontation with Dumbledore out of his mind. Finally he decided to ask his friends for help.

"So Dumbledore told me that I defeated Voldemort with power of love."

Hermione dreamily replied: "Interesting I will go to library if it could help."

That evening Dumbledore made talk:

"As you are aware of recent incident with professor Quirell let me introduce your new DADA professor and thank him he came on such short notice. He has extraordinary experience with dark creatures. Without further ado let me introduce Gilderoy Lockhart"

Then man with peacock robe come and with charming smile started talking:

"I am honored to take such important position. To help your preparation I offer 10% off to new required DADA textbooks. Prefects will distribute owl orders."

Month passed and our trio missed Hermione which spend most of time in library. They noticed that circles below her eyes became progressively darker. Finally on breakfast on early December she broke her silence:

"I found it, come to Black Lake where nobody will overhear us."

When they arrived to lake bank Pansy asked:

"So what you found."

Hermione simply said: "Harry, you must marry me."

"What?" Harry was shocked.

Hermione calmly said not noticing stares of others.

"Simple, I got pass to restricted section. Gilderoy thought he was signing a autogram."

She took book from her bag: "Here, I found book on love magic. It is very interesting read. Did you know that when you concentrate on someone you give him some of his power."

Harry said: "That is absurd. Surely next thing would me convince me that Dumbledore is so powerful because everybody loves him and made me also powerful as boy-who-lived for his nefarious schemes. All hail to dark lord Dumbledore that does everything to maximize his power."

Rest of group quickly agreed that Dumbledore cannot be evil, after all he offered them lovely lemon drops.

"No, its true. Then she explained experiment that one of them will cast lumos and depending on how many other concentrate on him spell will be bit stronger.

Finally after convincing them she listed to page in middle of book.

"This explains what magical marriage does. It allows couple to share magic and draw from each other so their spells will be stronger. And strongest partner for Harry Potter is Hermione Granger. It is written, so it is true." she said not noticing that last sentence she quoted was written as a footnote in unfamiliar handwriting.

Harry said: "Wait Hermione, while this may be true we need to wait until we will be 18."

Pansy said: "That wouldn't be problem. My aunt taught me as she wanted to marry husband she loved and her parents didn't want to allow it as all purebloods are related she dug a marriage contract from 18th century. These require only to be 12 years old."

"Nice, we will go to Gringotts and find some. But there will be some rules. First one is no kissing." Hermione said.

"Yuck, like I would ever want to do that."

Rest of year was boring in comparison with Halloween events. They studied and gathered evidence to make Harry free of Dursleys. FInally he was ready to confront Dumbledore.

"Hi Harry, lemon drops?"

"Thanks."

"So Harry what brings you here."

"Well I do not want to Dursleys, Goblins send me a copy of will you sealed that says I should go to Sirius Black or other wizarding family."

"I am sorry but I had to. You would end with your closest relatives on father side which would be Bellatrix Lestrange or Lucius Malfoy."

That seemed reasonable as these were death eaters.

"I also found irregularities in my accounting, there were large withdrawns from somebody named Mungulus Fletcher. Could you do anything about it."

"One moment."

Dumbledore wrote quick letter and send it with Fawkes.

After reading reply he said:

"Look here is reply from Gringotts. I am sorry that I couldn't get that money back but it seems that it was aunt. Do you know that she is squib? She likely went to Diagon alley where she found Mungulus who is known thief and they together wrote contract to allow Mungulus withdrawing money. Probably they split money."

"They also abuse me, look." and he shown scars on his back.

Dumbledore sobbed

"Har-ry, I am so-rry. I though that Petunia wo-uld love you like Li-ly. You must stay there as blood wards protect you while you live with mother's relatives. I will send close friend of your mother to stay there on holiday to keep them in check."

As Dumbledore seemed sincere enough Harry decided to trust him this time and learn about her mother from her friend.