Sorry if I got things mixed up. I had the book and the movie telling my two different things I tried to get them right! Sorry if it's not...right...But I hope you all enjoy this AND the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 movie I KNOW you've got! (I don't, yet. It's still in a different state right now...) But have a lovely spring day! Oh. And Happy Birthday, Emma Watson!
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~SPOV~
"You think it was Draco?" I asked him, watching as he paced the length of his office several times.
"I do," he replied. "But his attempts are feeble. He doesn't truly want to do it."
I inclined my head, but said nothing.
"The time is coming," he continued. "Oh yes. It's coming."
He stopped and watched me apprehensively.
I shifted uncomfortably where I stood and said, "Sir, you know I don't want to do it."
Dumbledore nodded, smiling slightly.
"I know that, Severus," he said kindly. "But to harm Draco's soul-"
"And mine means nothing to you, does it?" I asked him angrily. "My soul is to be tossed aside like it is nothing, is it?"
"Severus, you have already damaged your soul," Dumbledore reminded me quietly.
"You think I don't know that?" I spat at him. "And all I do now, I do for you, but you choose to toss aside my soul, damaged though it is, as though it were nothing."
Dumbledore said nothing and I continued.
"Have you ever considered that you ask too much, that you take too much for granted?" I asked him. "Has it ever crossed your mind that maybe, just maybe, I don't want to do this anymore?"
"Whether it has or hasn't is irrelevant," Dumbledore replied shortly. "You agreed. You will do ask I have asked."
"Nothing short of unusual for me, is it?" I asked him.
I turned on my heel and, just as my hand reached the handle, he called out to me.
"Remember, Severus," he said. "You are doing an old man a favor."
I scoffed and hurried out of his office and back to the safety of my own.
I tossed my cloak aside where it landed with a soft flump onto the armchair. I paced for several minutes before I sighed in resignation.
There was no way out of any of this. I had to do. I would have to take care of Draco's deed because I knew he would never be able to do it, just as the Dark Lord knew that as well.
Eyeing my bed, I finally dressed for bed and sank into it, staring up at the dark ceiling, my thoughts chasing themselves in circles. Whatever I did, it would end in murder somehow.
Finally, what felt like hours later, I fell into a dreamless sleep.
~HPOV~
"So exactly how did you break up again?" Harry asked Ron at breakfast a few days after Ron had been spotted with me the night he had taken the Felix Felicis potion. released
Ron and I exchanged amused looks and Ron said, "Well, she thought I had been with just Hermione since she couldn't see you because of the Cloak and it just sort of…she yelled at me," he ended with a sheepish grin.
"But I'm glad to be shot of her," he continued, grinning. "At least I didn't have to, well…."
"Coward," I muttered with a grin. Ron caught my eye and we both smiled at each other before he dropped his eyes to his plate of eggs and bacon.
I turned to Harry, who was pushing his own food around on his plate.
"It seemed like a bad night for romance all around," I said.
"Oh?" he asked me, not realy sounding interested.
"Yeah, Dean and Ginny broke up," I said, trying to sound like I saw saying it in passing.
Harry perked up, looking more interested than he should and I grinned.
"Really? Why? What happened?" he asked quickly.
I gave him a funny look before saying, "Oh, just some small thing. Something about how he was always helping her with small things like getting through a door."
Harry nodded and finally took a bite of his food.
Oh, he was so in love! I thought with a beam as Ginny herself passed by. She plopped down on to the bench in front of me and began piling her plate with bacon and eggs, like her brother had before her. she poured herself a cup of coffee and, after blowing on it to cool it down, took a sip. I saw her peek at Harry, who was determinedly not looking at her. soon, I thought. It was going to happen soon.
Later that evening, i made my way down to Severus's office feeling very elated. Ron had broken up with Lavender and Harry and Ginny were so close to being together. It was such a wonderful day! So wonderful I felt I could sing of happiness.
I went straight to the potion, which was the lime green it was supposed to be before adding armadillo bile, the last ingredient, to the potion.
After almost twenty minutes of waiting for Severus to come, I decided to go get him, wondering if he had forgotten the time.
I knocked on his door and he answered almost immediately.
"Oh, are you coming?" I asked him, halfway turned to the potion.
"We will not be working on the potion tonight, Miss Granger," he said formally. "You may go. I will do it tonight. But I expect you to be here tomorrow."
"What-?"
He cut me with off with a look and jerked his head behind him.
Looking around him, I saw sickeningly familiar white-blonde ahir. A hand was resting on the armchair I usually sat in and in his hand was a glass of Firewhiskey.
Lucius Malfoy turned and his grey eyes met mine in an icy cold stare.
"Ah, it's the infamous Mudblood, Granger," he said coldly. "Why is she here?"
"She is doing me a service," Severus said, warning me with his eyes to keep silent. I nodded minutely and his lips twitched.
"Did you choose her for the task?" Lucius asked as he took a sip of his Firewhiskey.
"No I did not," Severus said, still watching me. "I find her company tedious and overbearing, but I cannot deny that she has been of some help to me. Tomorrow, Miss Granger," he said again.
"Yes sir," I said quietly. I turned and bolted from his office. I heard the door shut as soon as I had turned and I just wanted to be out of there.
Merlin's beard, Lucius Malfoy was out of Azkaban! How?
A break out, I immediately thought as I practically ran up the marble stairs. The Ministry has been hiding the break out!
I sighed as, a few minutes later, I stood in front of the Fat Lady.
"What's new?" I asked myself after I gave her the password.
As I changed into my pajamas later and was climbing into bed, a chilling thought occurred to me: if Lucius Malfoy was out, who else was out?
I shuddered as I drifted into a fitful sleep.
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