Ginny and I had to take the O.W.L's. Draco, luckily, had healed fast and was released from the hospital wing just says after the accident had actually happened.

Truthfully, all the exams were easy- and I sure I'd done as well as Hermione had last year, but unlike her, I was much more laid back about it.

Everything fell back into its regular state, until Harry got the memory from Slughorn and Harry rushed up to see Dumbledore.

He came back quickly and grabbed his invisibility cloak. Then he tossed Ginny, Hermione, Ron, and I the luck potion.

The D.A would regroup tonight, in a job of patrolling the halls.

I went up to the Astronomy Tower, after a dull hour of standing alone downstairs. I looked out the window and saw the Dark Mark looming overhead.

No, it couldn't be. Someone could not have been killed, and the Death Eaters couldn't have gotten in…I hoped the luck from the potion was still coursing through the D.A members' veins, including mine. I saw an outline of two people on broomsticks coming towards where I was, so I hid by the stairs.

"What does it mean?" I heard a voice which I distinctively recognized as Harry's. Even though I'd gotten a portion of the potion, we still hadn't spoken to each other for over a week.

"Go and wake Severus." Dumbledore said faintly.

"But-"

"You swore to obey me Harry- go!"

Harry ran over to where I was hiding in the shadows, but I was flattened against the wall.

Footsteps were coming up the stairs. Harry looked to Dumbledore and then backed away, pulling out his wand. He then threw his invisibility cloak on and just in time as Draco raced past me, not noticing me as I shut my eyes and didn't dare to breathe.

"Expelliarmus!" he disarmed Dumbledore.

I didn't see Harry anymore. Dumbledore's wand flew in an arc over the edge of the ramparts.

Draco saw the second broom. "Who else is here?" he narrowed his eyes. Harry and I held our breath. If only he knew.

"A question I might ask you, or are you working alone?" Dumbledore asked calmly.

"No, I've got backup. There are Death Eaters here in your school tonight."

I nearly gasped but covered my mouth. Harry had been right all along. Draco joined Voldemort. He himself was a Death Eater. I should've known.

"They trust me. I was chosen." Draco pulled his sleeve up to reveal the Dark Mark on his forearm. Once again, stupid, stupid, stupid!

"Draco, you are no assassin."

"How do you know? You don't know what I'm capable of. I've done things that would shock you!"

"Like cursing Katie Bell in hoping that in return she'd bear a cursed necklace to me. And replacing a bottle of mead with one laced with poison. Excuse me Draco, but they have been such feeble attempts, your heart couldn't have been in it."

"It has! I've been working on it all year and tonight-"

There was a muffled yell downstairs. A fight was going on. A huge one.

"So how did you get the Death Eaters in here?...Perhaps you should get the job done, it is very easy for you to do- I'm defenseless." Draco did not act. "I see, you are afraid to act until they join you." Dumbledore observed.

"I'm not afraid!" Draco sputtering, he gasping and shaking.

This wasn't him. But it was- and he was acting on his orders- not on the Imperius Curse.

"Killing isn't as easy as the innocent believe…so tell me, how did you smuggle your friends in here."

"Had to mend that broken Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement- the one no one's used for years. The one Montague got lost in last year. There's a pair in Borgin and Burkes- forms a passage between them."

How could I not have believed Harry? How could any of us not have? All the signs were right there, just as Harry had pointed out since the beginning. But people see what they want to see.

Then I realized what Dumbledore had, Rosmerta. She poisoned the mead for Draco, she hid in her bathroom, waiting for a Hogwarts student to come in so she'd pass off the necklace. She'd been under the Imperius Curse.

"I take it nobody has been murdered?" Dumbledore asked after a long silence.

"Someone's dead." Draco said, his voice went up an octave as he said this, his voice quivered. "Stepped over the body on the way up here."

"Draco, years ago, I knew a boy who made all the wrong choices. Please let me help you." I knew that boy had been Voldemort. Tom Riddle.

How could Draco and Voldemort even be compared? They weren't alike at al. One had murdered my brother…Draco wouldn't have killed him. He would never do anything to hurt me.

"I don't want your help! Don't you understand!" he snapped, speaking through clenched teeth. "I have to do this. I have to kill you. Or he's gonna kill me." It sounded like Draco was on the verge of tears. I did nothing but stay in my spot. Draco couldn't die. I wouldn't let it happen. My love was too deep for him, to even care he was working for Voldemort all year.

But Dumbledore shouldn't have to either. No one had to die. Just Voldemort and his helpers…just not Draco. Anyone but Draco. I guessed if I had to choose, I'd selfishly choose Draco to live. "He'll kill my whole family!" he shouted.

"Why else do you think I have not confronted you before now? Because I knew that you would have been murdered if Lord Voldemort realized I suspected you."

Draco winced. So Dumbledore knew who was behind Katie and Ron's accidents the whole time. He just did nothing to stop it- to bring it to justice…just to allow Draco to live?

Omigod. Oh. My. God. Draco could've died at any time through this year. And much worse then Harry's curse would've done him. He'd have died at the hands of the Dark Lord. Anger exploded from me. How dare he!

He thought he'd rip away the two most important people in my life- Cedric and Draco- and it wouldn't even matter?

"Nobody can help me. He told me to do it or he'll kill me. I've got no choice."

"And what about Denise? What will happen to her?" Dumbledore stole a glance towards me, he knew I was there. Me, quaking with fear, my face ashen, and my gray eyes wide.

"I haven't told her a thing! I'm trying to protect her! Don't you see? Voldemort will find everyone I love and kill them!…" His shouting dropped to a hoarse whisper. "He'll torture her."

"Meaning you have to protect her and your parents…but what about your friends? Miss Parkinson?"

"I don't give a damn about her anymore! Maybe Crabbe, Goyle. But I've done everything in my power to protect Denise! I enchanted her charm bracelet on Christmas, so she'd be immune to the Imperius Curse."

I touched my bracelet, and then opened my locket to look at the pictures on the inside. On the left side was the picture in my first year- and on the right was a recent picture, only a few weeks old. Both pictures told a story, but there was a five year gap in between them.

"Ingenious. Very smart." Dumbledore praised.

"I can't let her get hurt…she has to stay safe…if Voldemort realizes she's my weakness…" he gulped. "He'll kill her."

Draco's words were gut-wrenching, but his actions in order to save me went straight to my heart.

"Come over to the right side Draco, and we can hide you more completely then you can possibly imagine. What's more, I can send members of the Order to your mother tonight to hide her likewise. Your father is safe for the moment in Azkaban. When the time comes, we can protect him too…" Draco seemed to be considering this, but something else was bothering him, and Dumbledore saw why. "Denise as well, if need be- she will hide with you- and you two can be alone together, protected…"

Draco swallowed this. I thought it sounded amazing. And no one would have to die. I could be with Draco…

But when I thought Draco would accept, Bellatrix and others ran up the stairs past me and reached Draco.

"Well, look what we have here. Well done Draco." Bellatrix kissed Draco's shoulder or neck, and I suddenly didn't care they were related. She had touched him, especially through her lips. I inched my way up the stairs and onto the wall of the round room, careful to stay hidden.

Draco looked back at her, only with the corner of his eyes for a second though.

"Do it." Bellatrix hissed to him.

"He doesn't have the stuff." Greyback shook his head.

Greyback- who could easily attack Draco and bite him- it wasn't even a full moon- who knew what could happen. I just knew Greyback had a flair for children, young people.

"No- the Dark Lord said the boy's to do it." she turned to Draco. "This is your moment. Go on Draco, NOW!"

"No." Snape appeared, his cloak billowing out behind him as always.

Draco who was grimacing, his hand shaking so much that it was impossible to aim correctly for his target, widened his eyes, lowered his wand and stepped away.

Then I was seen, by a trick of the moonlight.

"We have a visitor." Bellatrix used her wand to flick me out of my hiding place and in the path of the Dumbledore. So any spell would hurt me too.

"Draco- raise your wand."

Draco put his back up, his eyes wider then ever.

"Excellent- may I have a go at her? She's a beauty…very brave and loyal. She'll make a great addition to my clan." Fenir Greyback stepped towards me and I whimpered, wanting to scramble away, but was frozen to my spot.

"No…Draco will, right nephew?" Bellatrix whipped her head towards him.

I had put Draco in the most dangerous and frightening situation of his life. I was his weakness- and he was being ordered to kill not just Dumbledore, but me as well- the girl he loved.