Chapter 9

I was sat quietly on my bed, I couldn't stop thinking about what had just happened. Would I have to stay hidden for the rest of my life until they kill me? What will happen when I finish my last year at school? Will I even finish my last year at school?

Millions of thoughts were rushing through my mind, tears were bursting out from my eyes. I heard the door open so I quickly wiped away my tears and grabbed a book so it looked like I was reading. "You didn't come back for lunch." I recognised Ginny's voice straight away, so I turned around and she could see inmy eyes that I had been crying. "What happened?" Ginny asked.

"It's about Voldemort." she looked at me with a confused face. "His l-last wish is to k-kill all m-muggle b-borns." on the last word I burst out crying again and Ginny wrapped her arms around me straight away.

"Does Ron know yet?" Ginny asked while I was still in her arms.

"Ron! How am I going to tell him that I'm going to get killed!" more tears sprung out of my eyes. Ginny hugged me again and we just sat there whilst I was crying.

I walked down the stone steps down to the common room and saw Ron and Harry playing wizard chess in the corner. I took a chair from a table near them and sat next to Ron. "Hey Hermione." on said, without even looking up from the board. I watched them play for a bit and decided that I needed to tell Ron what was going on, I'm sure Ginny would tell Harry next time she saw him.

"Ron, I need to talk to you." I said, trying to stay calm. My voice was back to normal now after all the crying.

"Can't it wait?" Ron said, still concentrating on the game.

"No Ronald! It cannot wait, it's about that letter from the ministry."

"Fine then. I'll know if you cheat Harry." Ron glared at Harry playfully.

"Can we go in your room?" I asked and Ron nodded.

We both walked up the other set of stone steps leading up to the boys' dorms and we walked over to his bed, I sat down at the end of it and he joined me.

"So? What did you want to talk to me about?" Ron asked, sounding a little annoyed that I had pulled him away from his game. I took a deep breath, trying to hold in my tears.

"The letter was from the ministry. It was about Voldemort." I began. Ron gave me the exact same look I had giving Dumbledore when he had told me what it was about.

"I know he's dead, but before Harry killed him he had one last wish." I took another silent deep breath. "To kill all muggle borns." I saw his face suddenly drop.

"W-what do you m-mean?" he stuttered.

"I mean what I said." I said calmly. I don't know why I wasn't crying again, I guess I must have been all cried out. "Dumbledore said that if I was to go outside of Hogwarts then someone from the ministry would have to come with me."

"But I don't want to lose you, Hermione." Ron was now crying.

"There's nothing we can do, Ron. One day they will capture me and kill me." the tears that I had held in for so long had suddenly burst out and we were both crying.

"I'll make sure that nothing happens to you. Or the baby." Ron said as he held my hand, I smiled shyly.

"I love you, Ron."

"I love you too, 'Mione."

I kissed him sweetly on the lips, like it was our first ever kiss. His lips tasted like sugar, no surprise knowing Ron.

I realised, when we pulled away from the kiss, that his face was still pale white and still looked like it had dropped. He still held my hand as we got up off his bed and walked back to the common room where Harry was waiting, this time Ginny was with him. They were talking, I wanted Ginny to tell Harry what was happening, only because I didn't and I couldn't really do it the same way as I did with Ron. I couldn't exactly kiss him when we started crying could I?

We walked down to the bottom of the steps when Harry noticed us, he had a sorry look in his eyes which I was guessing is from what I thought it was from. I walked over to Harry and Ginny, pulling Ron with me, and I sat down where I was sat before. There was an awkward silence.

"I'm sorry, Hermione." Harry said apologetically. I just let out a faint smile.

"I have some homework to catch up on." I said changing the subjects. They all knew I was lying because it was a new year so we had different teacher which means no homework. I quickly got up and walked straight to the girls' dorm, I grabbed one of my books and started reading. I wasn't really sure what book, I just grabbed one and opened it straight away.

By the time I had finished my book, I noticed that I had been crying some more and there were splodges on some pages, it was time for our evening meal. I fixed my hair, made sure that it didn't look like I was crying and went back to the common room, it was empty, switched my slippers for my Ugg boots and walked to the main hall which was full. I think I was probably the last person out the whole school to sit down, I saw that Ron had saved me a seat next to him and I sat down in it.

"Thanks for coming to get me when you were coming in here." I said looking at them.

"Sorry, we just thought you wanted some time alone." Harry said glumly. I looked down at my plate and played with the food on it, I let the conversation flow without being part of it. As soon as I had finished 'eating' my food, I walked straight off to the girls bathroom. I sat in one of the cubicles and cried. I couldn't believe that I was going to die! And maybe my baby was too! I felt like my heart was breaking, that I was nothing, that nobody cared.

I heard somebody walk into the bathroom so I wiped away my tears and walked out of the cubicle, I looked who it was. Draco Malfoy? Didn't he know this was the girls bathroom? What was he doing here?

He saw me walking out of the cubicle. "Well hello there, miss mud blood." he said slyly.

"What do you want?" I said as sickening as I could. A little smirk rolled upon his face and I could see him slide his hand into his pocket to get his wand. Was this it? Was this how I was going to die?