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Ch. 10 Trust
"Hey Tori, how are you?" I ask as we settle in for coffee before I need to meet Jonah at St. Mungos.
"I'm okay," she says unconvincingly. "Actually I am scared," she amends looking it.
I reach across the table and cover her hand with mine. "Tori, I promise you that everything is going to be fine," I say and she smiles faintly.
"How can you promise that? What if they come after him again, what if this time he doesn't make it?" she asks quickly her voice rising to a higher pitch and looking slightly panicked.
I rise and move over to her kneeling next to her and pulling her into a hug, "Tori, I really don't think they will go after Theo again," I say soothingly then decide to add a bit. "You and Theo are protected, I made sure you two are protected," I say pulling her back to look into her eyes.
"What would you do if it was Draco that was attacked?" she asks quietly pleading with me for anything to make her fear go away.
I force myself not to show my worry, I forgot to send him a letter, which makes me the worlds worst girlfriend, I push that away and think seriously about what she has said.
"If Draco had been attacked, and we were married, and I was pregnant with his child-" I stop as what I said actually penetrates into my brain as a 'maybe some day' instead of a 'hypothetical'. I smile slightly and then go on, "I would make sure he knows that I love him, and that I am proud to be his wife," I say and feel that what I am saying very well could be the honest to Merlin truth, even if we aren't married and expecting.
"I would live in the present instead of worrying about the future and the could be or in fear of losing him, because then I would have already lost him," I finish watching to see if anything has helped. I hug Tori again and as I lean back I whisper, "you and Theo are going to grow old together with a bunch of children, you have nothing to fear from this unfortunate attack." She nods a little sniffling, I hand her a napkin from the table and she dries her eyes looking a little less frazzled.
I rise and go back to my chair sitting down and taking a deep breath, I want what Tori and Theo have. Thinking about Draco and the future, I can actually see him and I being together, I wonder if he feels the same way, he acts like he does, but I still feel as if something is missing. To hide my frown I take a sip of my coffee and Tori clears her throat.
"So to get away from that subject, how are you and Draco doing?" she asks sipping her coffee clearly trying to get a hold on her feelings.
"We are doing well," I say then smile. "We went to a movie last night, and he was very sweet, he invited me back to The Manor to have dinner with his parents again, then invited my parents," I tell her and she gasps.
"But your parents, I mean how does he not know about them?" Tori asks looking bewildered.
"I wondered the same thing, and I asked him after the movie, he told me that after he was tasked to kill Dumbledore and failed, he was hardly let in on many other tasks or information," I explain. "He started to defect before the final battle, he realized how messed up Voldemort was and wanted out, however having The Crazy Volide set up headquarters in your house it is hard to get away," I finish and Tori nods looking like pieces have come together for her.
"I guess that makes sense, I can't imagine how awful that must have been," she says and shudders a bit. "Does he talk much about it?"
I shake my head slowly taking another sip of my coffee. "No not really, he answers my questions if I have any but doesn't expand much." I sigh thinking about it. "Actually Tori, I feel like there is something big I don't know about him, I don't know how to explain it, but there is something," I say scowling down into my coffee mug.
"He told Theo that he really likes you," Tori says lowly and I look up in surprise.
"He has talked to Theo about me?" I ask in shock.
She nods at me smiling. "Actually after that party where I tried and failed miserably at setting you up with Adrian," Tori says and I can't help but laugh at that. "He was talking to my Theo asking about you and then told him that he fancied you," she finishes looking pleased.
I feel my eyebrows rise in surprise. "Wow, I didn't know that," I respond.
"Have you two not talked about this?" she asks quietly.
"Well, no not really, I mean I know I like Draco, in fact," I say and lower my voice leaning in Tori doing the same. "I think I may have fallen for him, he is so sweet and truly I could see us lasting," I say and Tori lets out a soft squeal.
"Oh, 'Mione, that's wonderful, I really hope you two do stay together," she bounces a bit in her chair and I grin at her and shake my head a little.
"I wanted to ask you how the pregnancy is going?" I say trying to change the subject.
"Oh, it's going well I'm almost six months now," she says and smoothes her hand over her stomach which is now obvious. "I actually wanted to ask you if you would be the babies' Godmother?" Tori asks looking up at me.
Surprised I lower my mug back to the table and my mouth drops open. "Are you serious, I mean yes, of course I will," I say and rise again to go and hug her feeling so happy.
She stands to hug me back and I hear her laughing. "Theo and I both agreed for you to be the Godmother, you are an wonderful friend, and an amazing witch, we would both be honoured," she says looking at me and I feel my eyes burn with tears as I nod grinning widely.
She hugs me again, and then steps back and sighs, "I have to run to the loo, but then I need to get back to St. Mungos, I feel bad being away from Theo too long," Tori says and reaches for her bag.
I nod. "I am actually going there in a bit, Jonah and I need to speak with Theo briefly," I say and Tori smiles at me.
"How odd is it that you found the 'Mystery Man'?" she asks me and I roll my eyes.
"Very odd." I then whisper, "I think he is cute, but I'd take Draco over him any day, besides it's his fault he missed out." I shrug and Tori laughs.
"Too true," she says and I hug her one last time. "I'll see you in a bit." She turns to walk to the loo.
I walk out front and sit at a bench to make a parchment for Draco feeling bad I hadn't thought of it sooner, I quickly do what I need to then make my way to the owl post and then send it off.
Jonah meets me at St. Mungos and I hand over the coin I made for Draco glaring at him. "I can't believe both of us forgot to make a parchment for my boyfriend," I say sounding tough and Jonah looks shocked at first then lowers his eyes to the coin.
"Um," he says and I cut him off.
"I know I am mostly to blame, but you knew I was dating someone and didn't even think to mention it. If you had a girlfriend, and I knew about it I would have suggested we make her a parchment," I say quickly and he looks back up at me.
"You are right, I apologize." He pockets the coin. "I'd say it won't happen again, but well we most likely won't have to do this again." He is obviously fighting a smile as one of his dimples forms.
"You think you are so clever don't you?" I say fighting a smile myself.
He shakes his head slowly. "No, but you are plenty clever for both of us," he says looking at me in a way that I don't want to think about too much. His eyes darken a bit and I can tell he wants to say more.
"Let's just go see Theo," I say turning away from him and we head to Theo's room. As we walk in I hear Theo laughing at something, and I smile when I see he looks completely healed, although he still has a sling on his right arm.
"Hey big guy," I say and he jumps up from where he is sitting next to Tori grinning he grabs me one armed and lifts me and spins me as I cling to him giggling a bit though trying to speak through it.
"Theo, set me down," I say still half laughing he does set me down, and looks at me seriously.
"Hey, you have never told me to put you down before, are my hugs getting worse?" he asks humour twinkling in his eyes.
I roll my eyes and poke him in the stomach. "Your hugs are just as great as always, but you clearly have a sling on your arm," I say lightly hoping there won't be any issues about him being attacked.
"Well, yes, but I do have two arms," he says matter of fact and then turns to Tori pulling me with him.
"Hey Tori," I say and hug her she squeezes me hard. I whisper to her, "I promised you we'll get him, don't worry." I feel her nod against my head and then I look over at Jonah.
"Hey do you have that coin?" I ask he nods then pulls it from his pocket as I wave my wand over Theo, then Jonah waves his connecting the charm to the coin.
Theo raises his brows and I hold up my hand. "So I was going to ask if you guys wanted to go on a triple date with Ginny, Blaise, Draco and I, sometime," Tori and Theo exchange a look then Theo grins at me.
"I think we will turn you into a Slytherin yet," he says and I laugh rolling my eyes.
"I may already be there," I say sardonically and then look at Tori.
"Yes, we would love to," she says and I nod then Jonah steps forward.
"I hate to remind you of this, but have you thought of anything else that you think could help us in any way?" he asks looking professional though there is worry in his eyes.
Theo slowly shakes his head. "It was odd, and the first look at the bloke was off, like I couldn't see him completely then just as it was coming clear, I was hit with something, then I couldn't see even if I wanted to." He shrugs.
"There were at least four people there though, and one was a female. She kept laughing, it was creepy," He says then smiles. "'Mione will catch him, and then we will all feel just a bit of pity once he suffers her wrath." Tori makes a strangled sound as I bark a laugh.
"Leave it to you to make light of this," I say hugging Theo again I whisper, "Tori is worried, maybe you two should talk about this." He hugs me back and nods as I step back.
"Alright, if you think of anything, or if either of you need me, let me know, I'll talk to Ginny and set a time up for the date," I say and they both nod as Jonah and I leave.
"You know if he would allow us to look at his memories, we may be able to see something else he didn't," he suggests as we walk away from Theo's room.
I nod thinking about it. "Lets work with what we have for now, then we can ask him after a couple days, they need some time," I say and Jonah agrees. "Wait, how did you know to meet me here this morning?" I ask stopping short trying to remember if I sent him a message or not last night.
Draco and I had dinner after the movie talking about random things and of course we spoke of my parents more, then he walked me back to the floo at the Leakey Cauldron and after a wonderful blistering kiss that about burned my hair right off my head, I said good-bye and went by floo back to Harry's.
"You ah, sent me a message last night," he says looking at me a bit nervously I scowl at the floor trying to remember, I know I thought about it, but did I?
"Huh, I don't remember but I must have," I say out loud then look back up at Jonah, who looks relieved I tilt my head at him thinking that's a funny expression for him to have then shrug, no sense in worrying about it now so I suggest we head back to the ministry and he nods so we apparate.
Jonah and I head back to my office and decide to figure out how to go about tracing Flint without his knowledge. A letter like the others wouldn't work, considering he would probably check to see if there are any enchantments on it, and it would take too much effort to make it untraceable as well as hide the enchantments.
"Jonah, maybe we could see if Lucius could look into the ring, he knows what is does and maybe how it could be made," I suggest and Jonah looks up at me from a pile of papers he is holding his face a mask of concentration and intense purpose.
He blinks twice then says, "Jonah?" He looks confused then seems to catch himself his face pales making him look ill and he clears his throat I'm sure my face is a picture of confusion and concern.
I stand from where I am at my desk, and slowly make my way to him and kneel in front of him, he sits back a bit still looking at me with an odd expression on his face. "Are you okay?" I ask wondering if something is seriously wrong.
He slowly nods and then clears his throat again. "My mind was elsewhere, and I didn't hear all of what you said," he says looking down at the papers in his hands then back up at me.
I glance down at the papers and see that he is reading about the people the ministry thought to be former Death Eaters, who also knew Harry and I. I look back up at Jonah, and frown at him. "Do you need a break?" I ask and he smiles at me another more intense odd look crosses his face and I feel something about it is familiar.
He reaches his hand out and lightly touches my cheek, just as he had done after my encounter with Andrew. "You are beautiful," he murmurs and I feel my eyes widen, I figured he had some sort of crush on my after all he did try to kiss me that one night.
I reach up and take hold of his hand and move back a bit. "Jonah, I have a boyfriend," I say slowly and seriously, his smile dims a bit, but then amusement shimmers in his eyes.
"Yes, I know you do," he states then pulls his hand from mine. "I will contact fa-Lucius, and have him come by so that we can see what he knows about the ring," Jonah says and I frown again.
"Are you sure you are alright?" I ask and he nods though he frowns a bit and opens his mouth as if to tell me something then he closes his mouth and hands me a paper.
"We may check to see if this person has been found, and I think he may have a daughter," he says and I look down Jugson is the man, and I wonder what his first name is.
I stand with the paper and head back to my desk to sit. "I think there is a woman who works at the ministry with the last name Jugson," I murmur then I am thinking about this when an owl swoops in landing in front of me his leg out stretched.
It startles me so much so I don't reach out for it very quickly and before I do the owl makes a retching noise and flaps its wings as if in agitation then hops a bit before trying to take off just to flop back to my desk.
"Don't touch it!" Jonah says in a panic darting to his feet and freezing the owl so as to cut off the letter with a severing charm it landing innocently on my desk as the owl being let go makes more noise pecking at his leg.
I realize what is happening and shoot off a Patronus as I try to calm the bird, and making sure to not touch the letter. Someone had sent me a letter with a dark curse on it. Harry rushes in with a couple other Aurors and I force everyone to stop first to explain before someone gets hurt.
One of the Aurors levitates the owl out of my office to get it help, as the Auror waves his wand over the letter checking for traces and maybe a hint of where it came from.
A name floats into the air, which causes Harry to curse and me to growl while Jonah looks annoyed and the other guy just shrugs and then waves his wand again.
Petunia Dursley
"Max, you will go see to the owl and see if you can get an imprint from it, also you will forget this name for now, and tell no one what you have found, if you do I will know," Jonah says quickly and Max nods then leaves quickly. "I take it this is your Aunt's name?" Jonah says not exactly expecting an answer.
I wave my wand and make the letter unfold, which causes another issue because dark powder flies into the air swirling and all three of us fling ourselves away as we watch in fear of what it is.
It swirls around a slight ripple running through it almost as if it is seeking for something. "That looks like it could be a type of Imperio," Jonah says. "I think I have seen that used before," he says again and then looks very unhappy.
"What?" I say completely shocked. "I feel like an idiot, that is possible?" I say feeling dumbstruck.
"Aye, it is possible," Jonah says looking haunted. "Think of it like the letters we sent only used for bad instead of good," he says and I realize that is true, I could probably send almost anything charmed into a letter.
"How the bloody, buggering hell did it get past security?" Harry bellows looking livid. As he whips out his wand and viciously waves it light blooming from it and shooting out my office door. "Memos that will not be ignored," he growls sounding angry and a bit scary.
"So, I know this is usually my area, but what now?" I ask eyeing the black mist that is slowing growing and has now enveloped my desk.
Jonah sighs then lifts his wand and sends a Patronus. "Can you make a type of shield maybe?" he asks me and I shrug and raise my wand to give it a try. "It won't stop until it finds a witch or wizard to latch onto," he says unhappily as I swallow and hope for the best.
I watch, as my shield seems to work well then I glance over to Jonah and say, "maybe you should explain, yes?" I eye the mist, which seems as though the shield has stopped it although it looks agitated if mist can look agitated.
Jonah nods and then Lucius Malfoy sweeps into my office and stops short looking at the mist with a haunted expression then slowly turns to Jonah and says softly, "this is not good."
Harry and I look at each other and shrug hoping that if we wait one of them will fill us in.
"That mist will continue to seek a host until it has found one, we won't be able to trace anyone through the parchment, but when the Imperio begins its work on the host, they will know something," Lucius says looking from the mist to me then back again.
"You mean that it has to attach itself to someone, before we can get it out of my office, and what happens when it does?" I ask feeling apprehension settle over me heavily. "Does the person become a mindless slave?"
"The Imperio works the exact same way as if I were to cast it on you now, the only difference is the person who casts it isn't here, and well you can see how that would be effective," Jonah says watching the swirling mist. "So in a sense, yes, the person then would become a sort of mindless slave."
"Not exactly," Harry says stepping forward looking uneasy, I realize what he is thinking and I rush towards him meaning to stop him.
"Harry no, you can't," I say panicking slightly because if I don't make him, he won't stop.
"Jonah, hold her please," Harry says sidestepping me and I feel two strong arms wrap around my waist and holding me tightly.
"No! Harry there could be a hex also, don't Harry," I cry as Harry takes down my shields and steps into the mist instantly his body seizes, as the mist seems to be sucked into him and he slowly turns to look at me.
I feel myself shudder at the look in Harry's eyes, and I feel Jonah's arms tighten around me pulling me back against his chest more firmly. I watch in horror as Harry lifts his wand and points it at me, he opens his mouth then his brows furrow as if in concentration.
"Can he fight the Imperious curse?" Lucius whispers and I realize without taking my eyes from Harry he is literally right next to me wand raised his shoulder touching mine.
"He has fought it before and won," Jonah says softly as Harry visibly fights off a command only he can hear.
"Harry," I moan feeling helpless and utterly frightened, not being able to do anything at the moment. I focus on anything other than Harry pointing his wand at me, I look over at my desk and see the letter slightly glowing. "Jonah please, let me have my wand arm free, I won't hurt anyone in here," I whisper and I can feel Jonah hesitate not knowing what to do.
Lucius moves from my side to the other side of us closer to the desk, and then says clearly "confringo." Effectively blasting the parchment into pieces Harry shudders again then growls as he shakes the rest of the curse off.
I shove my way out of Jonah's embrace and rush towards Harry, "You shouldn't have done that," I yell at him flinging myself into his arms, which come around me steadying us both, then I lean back and hit him hard. "I can't believe you just stepped into an unknown dark mist," I yell at him then hug him again.
"Merlin Hermione," Harry says sounding indignant.
"Don't you Hermione me!" I yell my voice choking on the tears I'm fighting back. "Don't ever do that again, you hear me," I say giving him my best don't argue look which is probably slightly ruined considering tears I can't keep at bay.
He reaches up and swipes away my tears and nods. "I promise," he says softly and I nod then hug him again.
Then I let go of him, and turn on Jonah. "If you ever attempt to hold me back again, I will hex you into next week, and don't think I won't. I don't care if the-boy-who-lived-and-is-stupid-enough-to-think-he-can-do-anything is your boss, don't ever do that again," I say holding my wand out toward Jonah.
He raises both eyebrows and grins at me, I loose it for a split second and just as Lucius says, "I think she is serious." I throw a Stinging Jinx at Jonah hitting him in the arm.
"Bloody hell woman!" he shouts at me looking shocked although a bit impressed as well and I shake my head at him.
"Told you she was serious," Lucius mutters and Harry laughs a bit.
I turn back to Harry. "You want some too, as it's your fault I'm mad at him to begin with," I say menacingly and he grimaces.
"No I remember the last time you threw one at me, my face swelled up and I could hardly see," he says and glances at Lucius, who was around to see it when we were brought to the Manor by snatchers. "It bloody hurt," he adds shooting a pitying look at Jonah.
"Well now that we have all had some fun throwing jinxes and hexes, can we maybe see if Potter received any information," Lucius says and I glare at him still not completely okay with everything that happened. "Since he was stupid enough to step into the mist in the first place, that is," Lucius adds bowing his head a bit toward me and I can't help it I smile a bit then flop down in a chair feeling tired already.
"I got a sense that he knows quite a bit about Hermione, and he is very angry with her," Harry says then closes his eyes. "He kept trying to make me put the Imperious curse on her and bring her to him," he says, and then frowns. "I think from what I could understand he wants to lure me to Hermione once he gets her," Harry shakes his head in disgust.
"What kind of an individual are we talking about, and what exactly does Granger have that he wants?" Jonah asks Harry.
"Well, ah he does want something from her, and he wants to use her to get me," he finishes quickly and I watch in awe as Harry blushes deeply.
"So you are saying that he is trying to get Miss Granger by using the Imperious curse, either by putting it directly on her by using a crude, but effective, method like the letter. Or by putting the curse on someone else and forcing them to Imperio her and bring her to him," Lucius says then continues not waiting for an answer. "Then using her as bait to lure Harry Potter to him. Why does he want you?" Lucius finally asks looking at Harry.
Harry shrugs and I look around at the three men, and I wonder if it could be a simple answer. "You said he wants something else from me?" I ask and Harry nods slowly looking decidedly uncomfortable.
"That is sick," Lucius says and I look over at him in shock, his face is set in a disgusted look and he even looks a bit angry.
I shake my head slowly as I hear Jonah growl lowly then I look back at Harry who had nodded at Lucius' comment. I decide to let that all go it must not be important seeing as no one will come out and tell me, then it hits me.
"What?" I gasp sounding revolted, embarrassed, and shocked. "Could you tell who?" I ask quickly hoping he may have something, anything.
Harry shakes his head. "No I'm sorry 'Mione." I feel frustrated I want to know what sick and twisted person wants me just to rape me.
Just then Max comes back in and says quickly, "we have a name, from the owl, it was sent this morning." He looks between the four of us then focuses on Harry. "Millicent Bulstrodesent the owl to Miss Grangers office, it went through security as completely harmless," he finishes looking confused.
"Okay, so Flint and Bulstrode we now know for sure who we are looking for, we need to find one so we can chat with them," Jonah says and I sigh thinking that we probably saw her and didn't realize it this morning.
Harry opens his mouth to say something then another Auror rushes in looking exuberant. "I think we have something, oh I'm sorry for interrupting," he says looking embarrassed.
"No, Brian that's okay, what do you have?" Harry says sounding tired.
"We have spoke with everyone on the list from Miss. Granger's flat, except one," he says the excitement coming back into his eyes. "Andrew Grosser." He says and Jonah growls as I gasp having thought I would never have to deal with him again.
"Well that would make some sense," Harry says thoughtfully and I groan thinking it makes too much sense.
"May I ask why you haven't spoken to this individual?" Lucius asks looking at me in concern.
"He seems to have moved from the address Miss. Granger gave us, and we haven't been able to contact him through Patronus, or owl. He won't respond," he says then looks uncomfortable. "There is another way we could look for him."
My stomach does a slow unhappy flop as his words crystallize in my mind and I frown. "Yes, we can use something of his and trace him and I do have something," I say as Jonah makes another unhappy noise and Harry actually speaks out.
"No, you will not trace him Hermione," he says and before he can really get going I step back up into his face and place my hand over his mouth.
"I really hope you weren't going to say something stupid about me being a girl." I raise one brow and watch as he glares at me. "I have faced far more advanced evil than Andrew, and if you insist on arguing I will have to insist on forcing you to remember about twenty minutes ago when a certain boy-who-thinks-he-is-invincible stepped into an unknown dark mist, while having me restrained. Which by the way I am not above having you restrained if you force me," I say watching, as his look gets darker. "Don't push me Harry Potter," I add as I remove my hand.
"The last time you went up against Grosser, you didn't fair so well," Jonah says lowly and I whirl towards him.
"Yes, Mr. Masters," I say coolly. "I was taken off guard when he punched me, but I guarantee you if he were standing in front of me now, he would be the one who ended up on the floor, with no help from anyone else," I say as I gesture around. "I have fought death eaters hell bent on seeing me dead, I think I can handle an ex boyfriend who wishes to use me to lure Harry out while forcing himself on me," I finish not taking my cool gaze from him.
"Anyone else have an objection?" I ask and wisely everyone else stays quiet.
"Max, Brian go and gather what we will need and meet in my office in thirty minutes," Harry says then looks at me. "See you in thirty." Then walks out clearly angry.
As they leave I wave my wand and send a quick Patronus cancelling lunch with Draco seeing as it is 11:30, then I turn to grab my bag which includes the key Andrew gave me to his flat. As I turn back around I see Jonah's eyes go wide just as my Patronus comes back into the room and stops in front of Lucius and Jonah delivering my message to Draco.
I frown wondering if I accidently sent the Patronus to Lucius, but then I think about what I did, knowing I sent it to Draco. So why would it deliver it to Lucius? I realize that Lucius looks incredibly uneasy sneaking glances at Jonah who is looking at the spot where my Patronus had been as if he might be ill.
"That was odd," I say and then Jonah looks up and meets my gaze and I watch in awe as his eyes change first.
His bright blue eyes showing regret and apprehension start to darken then the blue turns to a gray colour, I gasp and the change happens quickly after that.
"No," I whisper my hand coming up to my mouth as if that would help keep the shock from happening.
His hair slowly turns blonde and shortens a bit, his facial structure is the last thing that finally changes. His features not as sharp as they had been when he was younger more full now that he had matured. Jonah is still there over it all sort of like a film, but I can clearly see Draco, my boyfriend, Draco Malfoy.
"The disguise isn't as strong if you know it is me, so before when you had no idea, there were no common features, now you are sort of seeing through it if you will," he explains clearly seeing the question in my eyes.
"You have kept this from me, but why?" I ask the first thing that comes to my mind. "I thought I could trust you, I did trust you," I say feeling broken and then I remember we aren't quite alone.
I look over at Lucius who looks unhappy. "You knew," I state looking at him feeling myself about to break. "I should have realized sooner, I was such a fool," I say forcing my feelings down and dropping my hand back to my side, "I knew there was something off about, nevermind," I say then grab my bag and start to walk out of my office.
"Wait, Hermione," Jonah or rather Draco says stepping forward as if to stop me.
I stop walking to face him and raise my wand not realizing I even had it in my hand. "Don't touch me, and don't follow me," I say and watch as he stops short and looks a bit surprised. "I don't understand what the hell you are doing, nor do I know what exactly to think about everything, because for whatever reason you haven't felt the need to tell me," I say realizing that maybe I was being a bit unfair as I never asked, but then again I had asked and he had given me half answers.
"I just need some time, apparently you and I will have to work together with this investigation, but I just need time," I say and I feel overwhelming sadness rise up to consume me. "I trusted you," I say on a fierce whisper fighting to keep collected then I shake my head and leave.
I have tried to keep everything clear in this chapter, but there is a lot going on, first off congrats to all you who knew from the beginning that Draco and Jonah were one and the same. I actually had Draco telling her that the Three Broomsticks way back in the story, but I wanted a bit more suspense. Anyway, now they are going to chase down the bad guys, we still don't know everything, but pretty close…I have the next chapter pretty well ready, but after that I am working on getting it going. Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you are all still enjoying my story! Please Review!