A/N: Well, COVID sucks… Starting school and being drained with two hyperactive little ones… Writing isn't always the easiest. I am going to try though. -Anima
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After a relatively tame Care of Magical Creatures class, the group traipsed up to the school in their now predictable order.
"So are we going to have that talk?" Harry asked, following behind them. "We all have a free period now, right?"
"Yeah, let's go," Hermione sighed softly. "Neville, you can come along as well if you want to." Seeing long hair that was the same shade as her boyfriend's, Hermione called out. "Hey Luna, do you have a free period right now?"
"I do actually," the girl said in her floaty voice as she practically danced over to the group. "I was going to go talk to the Giant Squid, but the number of wrackspurts around you guys make me think I will be needed for this conversation."
After that declaration, the group walked up the staircase until the got to the Den, where Draco murmured the password under his breathe. The seven students shrugged out of their robes and dropped their bags by the door before getting comfortable in the spacious common room.
"So, what happened?" Harry asked, still confused.
Hermione then dove into her story, not getting as upset at the third rehashing, and feeling safer than she ever had before surrounded by her loved ones and in the arms of her boyfriend. By the time she finished explaining what happened, Hermione could see the anger on the face of her best friends, and a surprisingly terrifying look in the normally dreamy eyes.
"I can't believe that fucking bastard," Neville seethed, while clenching his fists. "If I ever see him again, I am going to murder him."
"Get in line," Harry, Ginny, Draco, and Blaise growled out to the surprise of Hermione.
"There is no need," Luna said in a sharp, but mysterious tone, causing the rest of the group to look at her in wonder. "He has already been apprehended, and is sitting in Azkaban. This is not the first time something like this has happened, and more testimonies will take place.. That bastard is going to end up getting the kiss in the next few weeks."
They all looked stunned at her declaration before she blinked rapidly and her eyes suddenly cleared. "Oh, did I forget to mention I have seer blood? And that I can force a premonition if I focus on something hard enough?"
"That is bloody brilliant!" Draco exclaimed, high fiving Blaise. "Potter, if you don't man up, I am setting her up!" Harry turned bright red at this and started stuttering, unable to get an intelligent sentence out.
"Yes, Harry Potter," she replied happily. "I would love to be your girlfriend."
The rest of the group burst into laughter as Harry resembled a tomato. "That may come in handy," Blaise snickered, pressing a kiss against Ginny's neck. "Now we just need a girl for Neville."
"Hannah," Luna said in a daze as she grabbed Harry's hand gently. "Not that he would mind, since he has been crushing on her for ages."
"Luna!" Neville cried. "I told you that in confidence."
"I was about to say, just how much do you know, Luna?" Draco asked, concerned that she seemed to have all the answers. When she turned and looked directly at him for a few seconds, he felt his palms start to sweat.
"Kingsley and Tonks will believe you," she said. "If you reach out to them today, you will be officially free in less than two weeks when he receives the kiss as well for all of the murders."
Draco exhaled shakily, burying his face in Hermione's hair, not wanting to believe the girl, but hoping that what she said was the truth.
"Expecto Patronum," Hermione said firmly, before she jolted slightly in shock. Before her stood a Hebridean Black dragon, instead of her little otter. "Well, that settles it." She whispers mysteriously before continuing. "To Kingsley Shacklebolt, Kings, I need you and Tonks to come up to Hogwarts. Ask Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape to accompany you to the Den." The pearly white dragon then turned into a ball and took off.
"What was that?" Blaise asked in awe.
"That was my patronus," Hermione explained, settling against Draco's chest again.
"It changed," Harry mused.
"It did," she replied.
"Why?" Draco asked her, his voice tight. The Hebridean Black dragon was actually the dragon that his mother was most fond of, and the reason she chose that constellation for his name.
"You," she replied simply. "Great emotional upheavals can cause patronus forms to shift. It used to be an otter, now it is a dragon."
"It is the specific dragon that caused me to have my name," he responded, before turning her and pressing his lips against hers, running his tongue over the seam of her lips quickly, swallowing her gasp as he proceeded to thoroughly snog the woman he was head over heels in love with. Pouring his emotions into the kiss. When he finally pulled back, they were both breathless. "I love you."
"As I love you," she responded simply.
"Can you teach me that spell?" Blaise asked, ignoring the impromptu snog that just took place.
"Of course," Harry responded happily. "I taught everyone in the DA how to cast it, so I am sure I can teach you guys."
"Brilliant," Blaise replied with a happy look on his face.
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A/N: Okay, I know it is short, but it something. I hope you all enjoy the update! -Anima