After Remus left, I sat in the library looking at books. I was supposed to be looking for protection spells that we might not know about, but my brain was elsewhere.

Harry came in and sat next to me on the couch. He picked up one of the books I had looked at already.

"Anything useful?" he asked.

"I don't think so, but I haven't really been paying attention," I replied.

"I don't blame you," Harry said. "He's the last person I ever expected to be angry with." I nodded but didn't say anything. "But it's whatever, you know? I don't care how angry he is with me as long as he goes back to Tonks."

"I don't think you'll have to worry about that," I said. "Remus is an idiot obviously, but he always does the right thing, even when it's tough. I think his decision will just be easier this time around because he wants to be with Tonks. . . That is still obviously not a good reason to abandon your family. A good reason would probably involve him being dead or being hunted by death eaters but, still, things will work out alright in the end."

". . . Are you sure we're talking about Remus?" Harry asked.

"Who else would I be talking about?" I asked.

"You know who," he replied.

"I wouldn't be talking about Draco because Tonks is going to take Remus back and I'm not going to Draco back," I said.

"You're sure about that? Even if he's sorry?" Harry asked.

"I guarantee you he's sorry. And I know that as soon as a safe opportunity arises, he's going to come back over to our side," I said. "That doesn't mean I have to take him back."

"But you'll want to," Harry said.

"Yes, and I have such an excellent track record of wanting things that are good for me," I said.

"What about what's good for your daughter?" he asked.

"Draco's what's good for her right now. But that doesn't go for me," I said.

"You've got an excuse for everything," he said.

"Sure do," I said.

Ron and Hermione walked quietly into the library with us and sat down.

"Any luck?" Hermione asked.

"None," I replied.

"Well, we've got some news. Kreacher got back with Mundungus. He ran off, but not before telling us that he sold the locket," Ron said.

"To who?" Harry asked.

". . . Delores Umbridge," Hermione replied.

"Wow, just when I thought this day could not get any worse," Harry said.

"This is good though. Now that we know where to go we can develop a plan," I said. "I'll bet Hermione's already formulated one up."

She nodded. "Yes, actually."

"Well, lay it on us then," Ron said.

"Essentially, using a polyjuice potion we'll just pose as members of the ministry of magic, find Umbridge, get the locket and get out," Hermione said.

"That plans sound way too simple to actually work," Harry said.

"It should work in theory, but it might help if we scoped it out a bit," I said. "It'll take a month for me to make the potion. That'll give you guys enough time to get just close enough for us to find targets to pick for the polyjuice potion and develop a way for us to knock them out and take their hair and hide their bodies."

"Hide their bodies? Hannah, we're posing as them. Not committing murder," Ron said.

"All the same, she's right," Hermione said.

"And. . ." I started, "this whole thing has led to me thinking up how I can get the baby to Draco."

"How?" Ron asked.

"Well, Draco's going to Hogwarts and the only place it would be dumber for us to walk into aside from the ministry is Hogwarts. So what I have to do is send the baby to Hogwarts by means of someone else," I said.

"And who would that someone else be?" Harry asked.

"Two people actually. One person that is on our side who knows that I actually intended to do this in the first place that works for the ministry—so Tonks," I said.

"And the other person?" Hermione asked.

"A death eater who would rather have Draco keep the baby than let the baby stay with a bunch of blood traitors," I said.

"Lucius?" Harry asked.

"Yes. If both Lucius and Tonks both are there when I hand her over then no one will be able to say that Tonks knew where we were because Lucius will know that I just came out of nowhere and surprised her," I said.

"And how do you intend to get them to work together on this magnificent plan of yours?" Harry asked.

"By force obviously, with the use of interdepartmental mail," I said. "I'll use it to tell Lucius and Tonks to meet in the same place and amid them quarrelling over why they were summoned there, I'll pop in, leave the baby and scurry away. Then they'll realize it was a ruse set up by me to get them together."

". . . This plan also sounds too easy to work," Ron replied.

"True, but unfortunately, we can't plan for that one. We'll just have to wing it," I said.

"Why not just leave the baby with Lucius?" Ron asked.

"Because he could easily disregard the fact that I don't want him and Narcissa to raise her and do it anyway. If Tonks is there, she'll make sure she gets to Draco," I said.

Ron raised his hand.

"What wasn't clear about that?" I asked.

"It's not that, it's just, well—does anyone here know how to deliver a baby?" he asked, genuinely concerned. "I mean, in theory it's as simple as you push and out comes a baby but I feel like there should be someone present who knows how to actually do it, not in theory."

"Well, Dana coached Harry and me on what to, barring any complications," Hermione said.

"But she should've prepared you for that! What if Hannah's in labor for like 48 hours and no baby comes out? Or what if she comes out feet first? What is the baby's head is too big to actually come out? What if the umbilical cord gets wrapped around her?" Ron asked.

"Oh, my God, you're right," I said, realizing every word he'd said was true. "So much can go so horribly wrong."

"And now they're both panicking—awesome," Harry said.

"Look, everyone knows where we are. Dana probably knows how young and incompetent we are. She'll show up eventually, to either deliver the baby to be more thorough on how we're supposed to do it," Hermione said

Ginny POV

"You know you didn't have to come back this year. You are 17," I told Emily. We were both sitting on the Hogwarts Express, waiting to pull off to Hogwarts which was sure to be a small version of a prison this year.

"I know, I wasn't going to but, I couldn't really stand the thought of you being the only Weasley stuck here," she replied. "Besides, everyone will feel better knowing we're looking out for each other."

Our cabin door open and we saw the faces of a relieved looking Neville and Luna. I suspected these were going to be the only four friends I had all year.

"Hello," Luna said sitting down beside me.

"How as your summer?" Neville asked.

I sighed. "I've had better summers." Emily nodded in agreement.

"How did things turn out after the death eaters showed up at your brother's wedding?" Luna asked.

"Snape and Malfoy turned up," Emily said.

Neville scoffed. "Can't believe they've made that murderer headmaster. And don't get me started on that git Malfoy."

I motioned to Luna to close the door and she did quickly.

"Actually, we shouldn't go writing Draco off just yet," I said.

"Why the hell not, after everything he's done?" Neville asked.

"I know that business with Hannah was completely horrid of him but I know he'd take it back and turn around if he could," I said. "He is an idiot, but he does love Hannah and their yet-to-be-born daughter. I don't think he's going to go out of his way to continue to work for a man who plans to kill them."

"That's what he said before though, wasn't it?" Neville asked.

"Look. . . When he showed up at my house during Bill's wedding I talked to him and I know you think I'm crazy but. . . I trust him. And I think the only way we're going to be able to make it through this year would be to trust him," I said.

"What about Hannah?" Neville asked.

"Hannah wants us to stay out of trouble and not have to worry about us while she's off trying to stop You-Know-Who. She may hate Draco for what he did to her but she knows he's not evil and that if he ever wants her forgiveness then the least he can do is keep a close watch on all the people he's hurt," I said.

Neville sat back and crossed his arms.

"We'll see," he said.

We sat in silence for a long while as the train started making its way to Hogwarts. Before long, the door opened. Draco was standing there with Kassia.

"Just the lot I was looking for," Draco said coming inside. Kassia closed the door behind them.

"Kassia, I'm so glad you're okay. We were worried about you," Emily said.

"Yeah, I'm all right," she said.

"What the hell do you want, Malfoy?" Neville asked.

"Not even going to give me a chance to explain myself, Longbottom?" Draco asked.

"After what you did to Hannah, I don't think you deserve to be heard out," Neville said.

"Well if you won't listen to him, what about me?" Kassia asked.

Neville nodded. "Of course, you're just a victim of kidnapping after all."

Kassia sat down next to me. "No one can debate that Draco is an asshole and an idiot and what he did to Hannah, what he did to everyone, was horrible. But he's sorry, and obviously that doesn't make it okay but. . . He's not evil. He has to continue to behave like he is otherwise his daughter could get into trouble, but. . ."

"You're actually going to try to help stop Vol-."

We all shushed Luna immediately.

"Sorry. I forgot we can't say the name," Luna said. "But you're going to try to stop him?"

"Of course I am," Draco said.

"How do we know we can really trust you Draco?" Emily asked.

"I guess. . . You'll just have to trust me on that one too," he said. He looked over to me.

"I trust you," I said.

"I trust Ginny," Emily said quietly.

"And I trust Ginny too," Neville said.

"That being the case we should trust Draco as well," Luna said.

"Well, maybe," Neville said. "If you hurt anyone else Malfoy, I promise I'm going to make your life a living hell. And if you run off like a coward again, I promise I'll chase you."

Draco nodded. "You've got my word, I'm not going anywhere."

[Chapter title credit to Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls for his song "Draco, Come On"]