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"Harry you must understand Voldemort would have killed him. I had to take the unbreakable vow. I am a lot of things but someone who would allow someone who had previously been cruel to me to die I am not. I have compassion. I was not allowed to tell you because whether you like it or not you are impulsive and everyone would have known in moments! You know that when you are passionate you shout a lot about how you feel. It's just who you are and you can't help it. Please don't hate me!" she pleaded tears in her eyes. He rounded on her still furious.
"Hermione you fool! I don't hate you! I could never hate you I am not Malfoy or rather who he was. I am afraid though I may never trust you ever again. I have never ever kept anything from you in my whole life. You even know about all of the shit with Dursleys even he doesn't know!" he said pointing at Ron who didn't react to it.
"Please Harry. I didn't lie to you because I wanted to I had no choice. The vow doesn't allow me to tell you anything. He was forced by his father to become a death eater and he would have been killed. You may hate how he treated me before but he truly does love me and would do anything to see me happy even be your friend!" she said seriously as he rounded on her the hatred in his eyes shocking to her.
"Do you know Hermione there is one thing I did not ever tell you because I couldn't bring myself to do it. In my occlumency lessons with Snape I accidentally saw how my father was as a teenager and I didn't tell him about it. He hasn't mentioned it to me so either he didn't notice or doesn't care that I saw it. He was vile Hermione! He was everything Draco was. I was horrified. My own father Hermione!? Do you have any idea how that made me feel? I could never be friends with Draco Malfoy because unfortunately when I see him all I will ever be able to see is my own vile father and the fact that he or the other staff never helped Snape. He was alone!" he snapped as she gasped in shock.
"Harry I am so sorry about your father truly but Draco isn't him and you need to see that!" she said calmly.
"Did you seriously just forget everything he ever did to you? Can you truly be that naïve? I was abused Hermione! My heart broke all over again when he hurt you. You were so precious back then and never hurt anyone nor did you deserve it. I thought everyone would be better here like Snape naively but I was a fool. They aren't better at all except the abuse is different for sure. I just feel so betrayed by you. Even without the vow or before it had been cast you could have included me so I would part of the vow if you didn't truly believe I could keep my mouth shut. That you hid it from me goes to show that you truly don't trust me. Excuse me please I must go you can do what you want with this information!" he sneered at Dumbledore as he left slamming the door. She turned to Ron who looked furious too.
"There's no point looking at me. I fucked up so much myself recently I'm hardly in a position to gloat am I? I am disappointed you couldn't have told Harry though. I wouldn't have been the best person to tell because of that fucking spell. Ginny if our parents have approved of Zabini then I will too although you did ruin Harry. He loved you so much. He'd just not gotten the courage up to tell you yet. He had intended to tell you this year you know he told me that. I just don't know how he'll behave now. I truly hope this hasn't ruined our friendship because that will make me very sad. Hermione I have always loved you dearly but unfortunately that spell made me act abhorrently towards you and I didn't deserve you to return my love. I am sorry and all I can say is my wasted heart will love you forever!" he said shaking and shedding tears as he left.
Gryffindor was in awe when Harry Potter and finally Ronald Weasley returned both crying.
"Who died?" Seamus joked as Harry rounded on him looking so furious he gulped in fear.
"My friendship did if you must know Finnegan. If you must know Hermione decided to go and get married! It's not to me before any of you idiots even think of saying anything and no for anyone who was a smart arse like I was apparently it's not Zabini either. He married Ginny!" he snapped leaving as Ron then entered behind him.
"How does it feel that your sister married Zabini?" Lavender squealed in joy as he looked at her such a broken look in his eyes.
"To be honest I don't much care about that or much else at the moment. I have some serious thinking to do about where my life is going right now!" he said as she ran up to him shocking him by pulling him into an alcove.
"I'm sorry Ron but I can no longer hold myself. I am in love with you and I think I'll explode if you don't know about it!" she said sincerely shocked when he burst into tears.
"Why is life so hard Lavender? I am sorry but I cannot deal with this right now. I loved someone else more then life itself and although she is now indisposed it would be awful of me to take advantage of your feelings. Should they ever change in the future I will certainly let you know. Please don't worry" he said hugging her and slipping up to his room. He entered as Harry looked at him in awe.
"You're crying Ron. Don't cry over me please it's really not necessary" he stated in confusion.
"I am not crying because of you I am crying because of me and my stupid heart. I loved her more then life itself and I fucked up so much she went and married Draco to save him but also to spite me and you know what I deserved it. Do not think I don't know that!" he said as stunned Hermione listened from behind their closed with Ginny at her side. They had followed the boys here as fast as they could after giving Dumbledore permission to tell anyone else he wanted to.
"Hermione is a lot of things Ron but someone who genuinely thinks of the feelings of her friends before doing something so life changing she could never be. Why the hell did that spell make her say she was highly attracted to Zabini if she didn't end up with him? You know for a bizarre reason I would have accepted that easily because of that spell but Malfoy? Why him of all people? He was so vile! I mean he made her cry all the time. It makes no sense whatsoever!" he snapped as she bristled from the other side of the door before placing her hand and on the handle and entering.
"I have just come to tell you both I will always love and value your friendship. I would have married any of you if it would have saved your lives. Yes even you Ron. I truly believe there is someone out there for all of us and that you two merely haven't met her yet!" she said as Ron rounded on her looking so broken her breath hitched.
"Why was I never enough? Why was I always just another Weasley to everyone? I never thought that would be true of you but it is. I mean why didn't I matter enough to you? Was I really that unworthy of your love before I fucked up obviously?" he asked quietly.
"Ron because of that spell and how it made you behave you and I always fought. I would never have wanted to date you for that reason. You broke my heart Ron with the situation pertaining to The Yule Ball and I am sorry to say I just couldn't see you the same way after it. Then with your spell you tried earlier on I could never bring myself to love you like that. You are my very best friend Ronald and I will love you always until I die for that reason. Just because the love is not romantic love does not mean it is not strong and true! You are so much more then the sum of your parts and if anyone ever says anything about that they will answer to my damn wand" she said passionately as he looked at her in awe. If he had expected her to say anything it wouldn't have been that.
He smiled a watery smile at her tears still streaming down his face. "Does this mean I now have an emotional range which is more then a teaspoon?" he asked a sob and a laugh escaping his mouth at once as she unconsciously laughed slightly.
"Yes it most certainly does!" she said throwing a cautious look at Harry who now looked resigned instead of mad.
"To be honest Hermione I more disappointed in you then anything. I mean I am my own worst enemy and we all know this to be true. Because I showed respect and waited like a fool for Ginny I lost her. I am not ok nor will I be ok again for quite some time. I will get over this but I will need to permanently cut ties with her. I just can't ever look at her knowing my love can never be returned. It must be this way. I am sure she will understand. Obviously I am destined to be alone which I now don't think is awful. I'm going to bed!" he said as a stunned Ginny walked in having chosen to wait outside. She looked at him tears in her eyes and cried heavily.
"But Harry why did you never tell me? I waited so long for you to tell me you loved me but then when Blaise needed my help I helped him because I thought I couldn't have you. Yes that is wrong to admit and although I love Blaise now it wasn't that way initially!" she said as he rolled his eyes to heaven.
"I always fuck things up for myself. I guess I don't want myself to be happy. I am not sure. Either way goodnight Ginevra!" he said closing the curtains around him and warding them so only he could open them again. For good measures he silenced them too. A few minutes later however he opened them shaking in rage but for an entirely different reason. "Hermione, Ginny I must apologise but I gave vows that I would never judge you for who you married but I think I've been cursed of poisoned without my knowledge. I would never ever go against a vow naturally!" he said as they all left for the hospital wing. When they entered madam Pomfrey scanned him and gasped.
"Mr Potter you have indeed been given a potion of extreme distrust and anger towards these girls. I don't know why or by whom but I can see it affected a vow of some kind you gave Miss Granger here whatever it was. The levels in your system are exceptionally high so please take this extra strength potion now!" she said as he took the potion gagging on it as it tasted awful a huge explosion sound coming from him internally. When it was over he looked at her tears in his eyes.
"I am so sorry Hermione. I fully accept your relationship with Draco. I love you so much sis! If he ever hurts you though he will answer to my wand" he said hugging her closely as she cried relieved tears of joy.
"Thank you so much Harry. I love you too bro!" she said smiling from ear to ear.
"Ginny congratulations on marrying Blaise. I would be lying if I told you I didn't think he was one of the best men you could have met and married. I am sad it's not me but despite what that potion made me say I have always believed everything happens for a reason and there is someone else out there for me. I do actually fancy someone else too so I might try and ask her out. I am sorry this potion fucked with me so much. That wasn't fair to you at all!" he said crying as she charged at him and hugged him closely smiling brightly.
"Oh Harry go for it. I think she likes you too. I have excellent observation skills and I know what you think of her!" she said giggling as he blushed. How in the hell had she noticed that. He was in love with Susan Bones or so it felt like to him. He was so excited by her and would indeed be asking her out this year. Hopefully she wouldn't say no. She was divine after all. Blaise and Draco came together to the hospital wing to get their wives shocked when Harry and Ron were crying but for good reasons.
"Please Draco and indeed Blaise give me a vow right now that you will never cheat on or hurt my friends!" Harry said seriously as they stunned him by merely complying and giving the vow he had asked for. They all hugged it out and once he could see how much safer and cared for the girls were he was happy for them. Hopefully whoever had placed the potion in his system was a bad death eater who now dead. Actually his wish had indeed come true but he'd learn of that later on. Mulciber the death eater who had slipped him the potion when last he was in Diagon Alley on the orders of Lord Voldemort was now dead himself. It had been Voldemort's hope to drive a wedge between the friends henceforth alienating Potter and leaving him free and alone to kill. Dumbledore was informed about the potions in his system and sighed in relief. All was well for now it would seem.