I know it's been ages since I've updated, so to save you the time and trouble of having to go back several chapters to decipher all the good stuff, I figured I'd just catch you all up on what's going on with this lovely little summary I have here.

If you're feeling daring and think, "pfft, who needs a summary?" then you may click to advance to the next stage. D Instead of reading this,

Extremely Long and Winded Summary

Somnium Gradior. Dream Walking. An ancient art discovered and used by The Order, a secret society devoted to the betterment of man. Originally used in the form of transfiguration and control of a Host's inner workings so as to heal whatever ailments, is now being twisted to the Dark Lord's own needs in his effort to take a hold of Hermione Granger, the one who is closest to Harry Potter's heart.

She is the Host but before the Walking can commence, a Source, a Token and Blood must be obtained.

The Token is the ring on necklace Hermione wears. On the night Voldemort had killed her parents he had taken this Christmas gift and transfigured it so that The Source's magic would be transferred into it, keeping a hold of the Host from the moment she put it on. In order to bring things back, the Source would have to be at Hermione's side and the Token placed on the Source's neck, restoring her magical essence.

Marcus Weber and Alister Collins are the Death Eaters who kidnap The Source, Petra Manalo, who must be drained of her magical energy drop by drop whenever the Dark Lord must Walk, and six others must also drop by drop be drained for The Blood.

Emma, Orla, and Adel are what remain of the five who were taken during the months of December to March, and Weber and Collins have one run to the castle to take the final who's blood will partake in the final stage for complete control of the host.

During the first stages of Walking, the host experiences an onslaught of voices and shadows. As time goes on the Host would soon lose sense of what is real and what is fiction, seeing people that aren't there and conjuring situations that don't exist. All the while Voldemort would have the ability to stay in her head and see and hear all that she does. Complete control of the Host is taken within her Dreams, hence the name, and it is here that they are able to converse "in the flesh". Often times these encounters in the Dream World would send Hermione into a mental state of anguish and helplessness.

There is one good thing about this though, and that is the one rule applied to the act of Somnium Gradior. The members of the The Order had stated that a member must only perform this act with good intentions. If used selfishly, total control would not be established, thus the partaker would often lose the connection with the applicant, and more often than not, Voldemort does lose control of Hermione which allows her to breath and finally tell Harry and Ron what exactly is going on. Three times Voldemort was able to attain complete control. The first was when she tried telling Dumbledore, the second soon after a Reversal occurred, and the third during Harry's first attempt at a date. The rest of the time, save for in sleep, Hermione's mind is her own, or so she wants herself to believe. For she cannot tell when he is or isn't sitting there, watching.

A Reversal, is a moment of mental connection between the Host and the Source. This often happened in the times of the Order, aiding them in their healing. This happening between Hermione and Petra, on Harry's doing (he researched, made and ground the potion into a fine powder then sprinkled it onto a flower posing as a gift. She then inhaled it, fell asleep and the Reversal began) allowed the girls to exchange information on what was going on.

After this happened, Voldemort assigned Wormtail to stay with the girls and, have them trust him so if any further Reversals were to occur, he would then report them back to Voldemort. Weber is jealous of this assignment and being the pretentious, egotistical bastard that he is challenges Wormtail, testing his anger and his gift; the silver hand that twitches and jerks.

Other new characters other than Weber, Collins, Petra and Adel, are fourth year, Eran Lot who had let slip that it was Blaise Zabini who last took out the book which had all of the information on Dream Walking (the book is now in Voldemort's possession, but was stolen by Weber on the first night) and first years Susan and Michael. The latter has developed a sort of crush on Hermione. Didi and Gogo are two house elves who were attacked by Weber and Collins on the night Petra was taken. The two are shaken now and will talk to no one.

The three discs each one for Harry, Hermione and Ron are magical objects brought back from Romania by the twins. The wearers are connected to each other, and are aware of each other's presence. They're able to tell if one of them is in trouble. Also, Ron told Harry upon tossing him the gift that, "strong feelings towards you like hate or love make the disc grow cold. So let's say you're standing around…er, Lucius Malfoy or something. You feel the disc become icy against your skin and all that so you know that he's dangerous, plotting something and whatever, or he…wants a shag."

We left the last chapter with Blaise and Draco secreting a potion, the entire school aware of Hermione's condition and a heaving argument between Ginny and Draco.

Wow, this was supposed to be a short summary to catch you all up on things, but well I tend to ramble on. Again, this is not a tale of star crossed lovers. That idea has been scrapped.

I applaud anyone who has made it to the end of this page and didn't just click to the actual chapter.

You deserve a virtual cookie.

Or a fictional foot rub.

With love.