The next chapter is here, thanks very much for the reviews guys :D thanks very much, i think we are close to the end. two more chapters are in my head and then... what about a sequel? maybe, in three weeks :) but for now... lets enjoy a fight ;)

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Chapter 10

New affairs, new problems

Harry and Hermione returned to the Great Hall, their arms wrapped around each other. They approached the table Ron was there, but he was alone.

"Where is Lavender?" Hermione asked, smiling.

"We fought and she left." Ron answered not looking at them, his eyes pinned on Ginny and Malfoy.

"Oh," Hermione only said.

Ron looked at his friends. Harry smiled at him and Hermione pointed her hand with the ring.

"We are engaged," Harry grinned at his best friend. Ron looked at them surprised, and some moments after he smiled.

"Congrats guys, that's great! Mom's going to lose it," He said some moments after. "Excuse me, I'm going to kill my sister now," he told them and stood up.

Harry caught his arm.

"Ron please," Harry said.

Ron took his arm away. "If you want, you both are welcome to stop me, but I have to fight with her. This bastard's father killed my brother and Fluer, a friend, a family member." Ron said angrily and started walking; both Harry and Hermione ran after him. Ron approached the table which Ginny and Malfoy was sat.

"I need to talk to you. Now," Ron said, through grit teeth, red all over his face.

"I have nothing to say," Ginny told him, looking at the trio.

"Oh yes, you have," Ron snapped and gripped his sister's arm and forced her to her feet.

"Don't touch her Weasley," Draco angrily said and stood up as well.

"Shut up, murderer," Ron snapped back. Many people around them had stopped talking, dancing, laughing or eating, and now everyone was watching the five people.

"Ron leave me alone! You are with Lavender, and your friends are with each other." Ginny said, red on the face as well.

"She is right Weasley, piss off." Malfoy shouted.

"I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!" Ron shouted, loosing his temper and taking his wand out. Harry griped Ron's arm.

"Let's go somewhere more private," Hermione said. Now everyone was looking at the five in the corner of the Hall.

They started walking out of the Hall, some students followed them. Hermione turned around. "Fifteen points from each Ravenclaw and Slitherin for not letting your professors talk in private." She said and left.

The five were in the same corridor Cho had kissed Harry before.

"Ron, it's my life!" Ginny screamed.

"Not with him! Lucious killed Bill and Fluer!" Ron shouted back.

"Right, my father, not me!" Malfoy shouted.

"Ginny, look at him, he thinks you're a blood traitor…" Hermione pointed out.

"Shut up, Mudblood." Malfoy snapped at Hermione, and Harry took his hand at the ready as well.

"You shut up Malfoy," He threatened him.

"Why Potter? What are you going to do? She is not better than my father, she killed my mother!" Malfoy shouted.

"Because your bloody mother tried to kill her!" Harry shouted back, and Draco pointed his wand at Harry, and Ron pointed his at Malfoy.

"Don't dare to cast a spell, Death Eater!" Ron shouted. Hermione took her wand as well and pointed it at Malfoy. Ginny took hers and pointed it at Hermione.

They looked at each other for some moments but none lowered his wand.

"This is pointless," Hermione said, calmed, lowering her wand first. Ginny followed, the men didn't move, looking at each other with hater.

"Harry please," Hermione said. He didn't move. Ron lowered his.

Both Malfoy and Harry stood like that, arms raised, pointing their wands at each other's hearts, locked gazes. The other three were speechless. Finally they both lowered their hands.

"Ron, you are her brother, you know what to do with that problem." Harry muttered furious. He took Hermione's hand in his and both turned around and started walking.

"DRACO, NO!" Ginny screamed but it was too late.

"STUPEFY!" Malfoy screamed and the spell hit Hermione. She fell fifteen feet forward, hitting her body on a wall and fell down unconscious.

Harry turned around blind in anger.

"CRUCIO!" the two men screamed at the same time. Malfoy's curse past next to Harry's right arm. But Harry's curse hit Malfoy straight on the chest, and he fell down screaming. Ginny fell on her knees next to him. Harry kept the curse for awhile and then stopped. Ron hadn't move, half socked by Harry's action, half enjoying the view of his enemy.

"I hate you!" Ginny screamed. "I HATE YOU ALL! CRUCIO!" She screamed at Harry, and he lowered his body and the curse hit a wall.

"GINNY!" Ron screamed in shock. He was about to run towards his sister, but then Minerva showed up.

"What are you doing here?" She saw Hermione's body. She lowered her self and cast a spell on the young witch, and Hermione's eyes opened slowly. Harry came closer, and he hugged her.

"Are you alright?" He asked worried.

"My head…" she moaned in pain.

"Everyone in my office, right now!" Minerva sternly said, looking at the marks from the curses around the walls.

Everyone followed her in her office, Ginny holding Malfoy on his feet and Harry and Ron keeping Hermione on her feet by her shoulders. Many students looked socked at their teachers, heroes and the student with Minerva in front of them.

They stepped inside the office and Harry and Ron put Hermione on a chair, Malfoy sat on another one. Ginny next to him.

"What on earth were you doing in the corridor?!" Minerva shouted for the first time, loosing her self-control.

"Malfoy hit Hermione with a stunner!" Harry shouted and Ron nodded his head. Hermione head hurt too much, so she wasn't able to say anything.

"You took your wand out first!" Ginny retorted, glaring at the two men.

"I can't believe you're with him!" Ron shouted back at his sister.

"Grow up! I'm with him, and that's not going to change," Ginny cried. "Harry used an unforgivable!" she continued.

"What?" Minerva asked.

"Malfoy did the same, Ginny! Open your eyes, he did the same. We did it at the same time, but he had first hit Hermione, and she did nothing to him." Harry defended himself.

"What?" Minerva asked again, but none gave her much attention.

"What is your problem, Potter? You are with the Mudblood, and I'm with the one I want, so get over your self!" Malfoy snapped, losing his anger once again.

Harry lost it. He gripped Malfoy's collar and pointed his wand at his jaw.

"Say that again, and you are dead," Harry hissed.

"Harry, no!" Minerva and Ginny screamed.

Ron pulled Harry back forcefully.

"Okay, that's enough!" Minerva screamed and everyone, even Hermione, looked at her.

"I don't care about your personal problems! Harry you used a curse like that? I can't believe it, but he had already hit Hermione, so take her from here and go to the Hospital Wing," Minerva started. "Ron, go to the Burrow and tell to your parents that Ginny is expelled!" Minerva continued and everyone froze. Harry and Hermione didn't move out of the room, just stared, shocked.

"But, professor…" Ron started; Minerva raised her hand, stopping him.

"No Ron, she already made an Amortentia and cast an Unforgivable. She is out of this school." Ginny sat ramrod, eyes wide open, mouth shut.

Malfoy stood next to her. "No professor, she did it because she was furious, like Potter was when he cast the curse on me." He tried defend Ginny.

"Malfoy, you are no longer part of the school's staff members so I don't care about your opinion, I really don't. Not anymore, at least. You used the curse after your attack on Hermione. You are out as well, counting your helping hand in the Amortentia." She said calmly. Ron looked at Ginny, and tears were formed in her eyes.

"Well done sister! Your thing with him cost you your last year at Hogwarts. Well done." He said disappointed, "I will be back in a while, lead her to the Hospital wing, I'll find you there," he continued looking at Harry which nodded. Ginny was still standing there.

"You can't do this to me," she whispered in anguish.

"I'm sorry, Ginvera, but you did it…" Minerva said and nodded to Harry and Hermione to leave.

The couple started walking out of the office, down the stares and the corridors.

"I can't believe she is expelled." Hermione murmured, her hand on her head, rubbing her forehead.

Harry was holding her by the waist, and he, too, couldn't believe it.

"I know… But she deserved it, I can't believe she tried cursed me. I can't believe she is with him. They were making the Amortentia together, and now that." Harry said in disbelief. They reached the Hospital Wing and Madam Pomfrey put Hermione on a bed. She examined her for some minutes.

"Hermione, you are ok, I'll give you a pepper up potion for the headache. It's nothing serious," Pomfrey told her.

"Okay, thanks Madam," Harry said and the Healer left.

"When I saw you hitting the wall… I remembered the night of the battle and the blood around you…" Harry said looking at her eyes.

"It's ok Harry, I just broke some portraits with my body.." Hermione smiled.

"So brave and funny…" Harry smiled and kissed her. Ron opened the doors of the Hospital wing and came closer to them.

"Mom is screaming at the office." He said and sat on Hermione's bed's edge. "I can't believe her… Malfoy is there, shouting at everyone… Why… why my brother? Why not him, that ferret?" Ron wondered, pain in his voice.

"It's ok Ron, she'll understand…" Hermione assured him.

"Yeah sure, she lost her N.E.W.T.s… and that bastard is up there and saying that he is in love with her and much more crap." Ron said.

"Really?" Harry asked, surprised.

"Yeah…" Ron muttered, hiding his head in his hands.

"He may love her indeed," Hermione said, afraid of the other two reaction. The boys looked at her like she had seven eyes.

"Hermione are you out of your mind? Did you heat your head a bit too hard? He is a Death Eater, and his is with my sister!" Ron nearly shouted. He was much too tired to actually start shouting.

"I know, I know Ron, but McGonagall accepted him in the first place. He is trying to change. Don't forget we thought about Snape as well and you saw he was with us at the end…" Hermione continued more firmly.

"This is crazy, and you know what? I don't care if he tries to be good, Sirius was right, a death eater never stops to be a death eater!" Ron shouted and left the room, slamming the door behind him.

"Nice Christmas…" Harry murmured in sadness.

The day after Hermione came out of the Hospital Wing, good as new. The Weasleys had left, taking Ginny with them. Malfoy had left as well and McGonagall had lied at the ministry about the reasons she dismissed Malfoy. Sluggorn would return, he had retired the previous year, but accepted to be teacher with Harry and Hermione. The entire school had learnt about the five's fight but a few knew about the unforgivable they had been cast.

Harry and Hermione found Luna during her patrol and asked her about Ginny's affair with Draco.

"Look guys, she made me promise I won't say a thing. I promised to never see the Vampires-elves if I talk about it." Luna said very seriously. Harry and Hermione exchanged frustrated glances.

"Ok Luna, look, Ginny is expelled now. We are asking you as professors, if we learn about the true reasons of this affair we may be able to bring her back here." Hermione said.

"Ohh ok, listen, I tell you what I know. Since you Harry, told her that you want to be away from her, she was looking after Malfoy. She was crushed on him more since she learnt that you two are together…" Luna stopped thinking what else she could remember. "They became a couple two months ago, and since then I was the only one who knew about it." Luna said. "As Ginny was saying, they were in love." She finished. Both Harry and Hermione were silent.

"Thanks Luna, we'll do our best." Harry said. The couple headed for McGonagall's office. On their way there Cho showed up and tried hide her self in an empty class, Hermione ran after her and opened the door of the class. Cho was there, Hermione didn't say a word, she just punched Cho hard on the face.

"Try that again with Harry, and I'll make you believe you are a Gridilou, that's a promise, Chang!" Hermione said and left the class.

The couple kept walking. Harry took Hermione's hand and kissed, closing his eye to her. The couple reached Minerva's office. Harry and Hermione tried for more than an hour to pursue McGonagall to change her mind, but they didn't succeed.

"I can't understand you. She tried use an Amortentia on you Harry, and she tried hit you with an unforgivable as well…" Minerva said concerned.

"Well, I would the same thing for Hermione," Harry said.

"Minerva, Harry, no matter how much he has been through, he still can love." A portrait spoke and everyone turned and looked the previous Headmaster smiling at them.

"Still, Ginny is expelled and I won't change my mind." Minerva said ending the chat about it. "I learnt--I actually heard--that you two are engaged, congratulations," Minerva smiled.

"Uhmm… thanks," Hermione and Harry answered both uneasy.

"If you have nothing more to say about Ginny or someone else, you'll excuse me, I have to give some instruction to Mr. Sluggorn." Minerva said smiling and stood up smiling, leaving the room. Harry and Hermione looked at each other.

"At least we tried..." Hermione commented after some time.

"I know…" Harry murmured.

They sighed sadly.