Another Author's Note. This story is officially abandoned the first of April, 2020.

Okay. I heard from 88 lovely individuals and all of you were really encouraging. I was so afraid to let you down again but I wanted to be honest because I felt I was not putting out quality work. And I really felt an outpouring of love, so I can't thank you enough for that.

What I have decided to do is to stop working on this. I will write the new story as a third part to Pariah instead-never fear, I've already figured out how to tie the foreshadowing into the new one. Give me a little time because I need a mental break from this for a bit, but I'll begin the new story soon enough. Oh...and I didn't say there wouldn't be some heartbreak in the new one, just that Draco and Hermione would be safe. ;)

A lot of people asked to know who the attacker was. So allow me to give you a synopsis of what would have been the next 18 chapters:

-Harry was withholding information from Hermione, which she discovered in his files on the case. They have picked up bits and pieces from Luna's tattered mind showing Gregory Goyle attacking her. BUT, his eyes are glazed over and he is clearly imperiused. Oh, and Minuet isn't actually dead, he'd only been hurt.

-They bring Delensura to Lucius, who studies it over and realizes there's a spell on it that hides some of the book's contents. A blood ward of sorts. He breaks it and sees how the attacker managed to tailor the attacks to each witch. Lucius says that if she is able to See events of the past, than her memory isn't taken, only locked away. Narcissa is listening to this all, twisting her wedding bands nervously. Hermione has a glimmer of a memory of the ring Draco gives her and she asks him where it's at because she just has this feeling. Lucius vows to create a reverse ritual.

-Draco and Hermione go to search for the ring and when he says accio, he can hear the ring struggling to break free of the bag he tossed behind his couch when returning home from the hospital after her attack. He retrieves the bag he'd forgotten about and finds her broken srcying mirror in it. Hermione can See images, the same one, on all of the shards. The mirror captures Draco falling and Hermione turning to look. Only the attackers shoes are visible when Draco hits the ground.

-Lucius has researched and found a ritual to bring Hermione's memories back. Harry, Ron, and Healer Holcomb witness it. She remains in a coma for a while and Draco agonizes. Again. He fights Lucius, thinking he did something to her when she rouses, with a headache but unscathed. Her memories are slowly returning instead of flooding back all at once, but they are there.

-The Malfoys go to party on Mabon and leave Draco and Hermione at the villa in France. Draco takes her for a ride in a hot air balloon because they'd watched the clouds and now he wanted her to know what it was like to be in them, without a threat. They have sex. The papers speak of her recovery.

-Astoria goes missing and Goyle is arrested. But there are huge parts of his memories missing when they use legilimency on him. He only says that he needs to visit a floral shop to get some lavender for a wedding. Draco realizes the shoes in the mirror were Blaise's and recalls the conversation where Blaise says he was sick of dwelling in the shadows of darkness. He wanted to make a name for himself. So this whole time he's been using Goyle to do his dirty work, except with Hermione and Draco. That was personal.

-Goyle is released since there's no evidence to actually keep him and is promptly murdered. Draco and Hermione show Harry the mirror and he say they can't make an arrest only on a Seer's suspicions. So Hermione laments to Narcissa that Blaise will get away with it some more. Narcissa comes up with the plan to have a fake wedding and lure him there.

-They See Blaise threatening a florist to deliver only the lavender from his private gardens. Which was a new variety he'd made himself that causes eternal sleep.

-At the fake wedding, the florist didn't exchange the lavender and Minuet is there photographing. Blaise is confused by both and is getting antsy. Hermione leans in at the altar and Draco whispers, "Now," and Hermione announces that Blaise is the guest of honor. She enlarges the broken Scrying mirror (they'd pieced it together) and asks it to reveal Blaise's secret. Everyone sees Blaise attack them. Blaise snaps and tries to burn the whole place down with fiendfyre. He's arrested.

-The epilogue is Theo and Draco burning down the manor before the real wedding.

The new version of Damned will NOT end this way. It will not have the same storyline or motivations. It's totally separate from it.

Anyway, thank you for all of your feedback. I'm sorry if you only read completed works but came along on this because you saw the first two parts were complete. But I literally can't force this story anymore. It's terrible and my writing is suffering because of it.