She sat down with her head in her hands and a smooth hand caressed her brown locks like a mother would to a child.
'Don't worry 'Mione.' The voice crooned 'we'll sort this out somehow.'
'How?' she asked bewildered as she looked up into Draco's eyes
'I'll think of something,' he replied, 'maybe there's something in the library.'
'Okay.' She said as she stood up giving him a questioning glance.
They trudged to the library and walked up to the front desk.
'Excuse me Madame Pince,'
'Yes.'
'I was wondering, do you have any books on paternity potions and such?'
'I believe so Miss Granger, but why would you need them?'
'Something for a friend.'
'Oh, okay.' She started to walk through the different aisles of books and picked up a number, and brought them back to the desk, 'here we are, all the books that deal with paternity issues and such. Hope they work for you.'
'Thank you Madame Pince, Hermione said gratefully and picked them up.
They sat there for what seemed like hours looking through the different volumes and shaking their heads. About an hour later, and twenty discarded volumes later, they decided to give up using the library and went back to their common rooms.
Walking into the Gryffindor common room she was immediately greeted with a bombardment of seventh years, mostly her friends inquiring into what happened in the meeting with McGonagall.
'Erm… I can't tell you, it's a private matter between me and the people involved.'
'Aww, can't you tell us at all what happened?'
'No.'
she pushed past them over to where Harry and Ron were sitting.
'Ronald, please.'
'Please, what?' he said angrily.
'Please can we put this behind us and be friends again?'
'No,' he said flatly, 'how can I stay friends with a liar like you?'
'Because I still care for you.'
'You didn't when you were screwing him.'
'I've said I'm sorry, what more can I do?'
'Get rid of it.'
'Ron!' Harry interrupted, 'You can't make her do something like that. That's a bloody Slytherin tactic.'
'Don't you DARE compare me to a SLYTHERIN!'
He stood up quickly and stormed off to his dorm. Hermione sat next to Harry and looked at him pleading with him to make Ron see sense.
'Hermione, what happened today? Ron won't tell me.'
'Okay.' She replied and relived what had happened. She told him of Draco's proposal before and the reaction they both had to neither of them being the father. He listened intently as she said that she didn't want tension between her and Ron and that Draco was helping her research into how to find out who the real father was.
'I'll help you Hermione,' Harry said after a couple of minutes, 'You're one of my best friend and it's the least I can do for you.'
'Oh thank you Harry, you really are a true Gryffindor.'
