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Summary~Hermione is at Malfoy Manor after Draco discovers her, after she has been subjected to the cruciatus curse.
Hermione is starting to see the good in him, when Harry shows up at MM's doorstep, which is where our story begins...
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"Hermione, wake up!" A blurred image came into her vision.
"Harry?..."
"Shush, you just passed out again. Take it easy." Harry's smooth voice seemed to float in midair as
she slipped into that peaceful darkness again.

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"You know this is all your damn fault Potter."
"What?..."
"If you hadn't shown up to save the day, she never would have passed out!"
"Yeah, sure Malfoy, like hell I was going to trust you alone with her!"
"And exactly why not Mr. Always-Saves-the-Day?"
"Considering what your father did to women the past few years, and knowing you so look up to him-"
"My father is dead Potter, you hear, DEAD! My mother killed herself to join him only a few days later! Happy?"
Harry turned deep crimson, wising he had just kept his over-large mouth shut. He stuttered,"ummm, I'm sorry."
He said this with an air of uncertainty.
"I'm glad to be rid of him finally." Malfoy said in his usual drawl. Harry was shocked, then realized he shouldn't be.
If he had had a father like Lucius Malfoy, he'd be glad he was dead too.
"Well, how am I sure you're not a Death Eater?" Harry asked sullenly, looking at the floor, trying not to make eye contact.
"You HONESTLY think I, Draco Malfoy, would be a Death Eater? Follow in my father's footsteps? I've seen what Voldemort does with you after
you've had your purpose, either puts you on the shelf, or kills you. Destroys whatever you love the most, eats away inside you. My father went
through hell with him, and drug me and my mother down with him. That is, before he killed him."
Harry's eyes got as big as dinner plates. He never thought Malfoy would NOT be a Death Eater, it just seemed so natural for him.

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As Hermione heard this, she started to sob. It only reminded her more of her predicament that she was here. Her parents had been destroyed
by Voldemort. And she herself had been tortured by Death Eaters. She had wanted to die when she opened the door to her parent's house, only to
find her parent's dead bodies, a bloody message on the wall, her mum's blood. It read:

YOU'RE NEXT MUDBLOOD~LORD VOLDEMORT

She never thought she'd see the day Voldemort attacked her own family. She had ran out of the house, crying, nervously trying to find another
wizard or witch to help her out. That had only been two days ago. She had run on foot, for miles at least, until she got to the country, and gotten
to a wrought iron gate with the initials "MM" blended into it.
She remembered a noise and turning around, only to see three burly, cloaked figures mumble words she recognized as "Crucio".

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Draco whipped around at the sound of crying, his father had never tolerated it.
"Look what you've done Potter! You made her cry!"
"ME? You're the one talking about your father raping women!"
"I was not!"
"SHUT UP!!!" A new voice was heard. Hermione stood in the door-frame, her face shining from the tears streaeming down her
cheeks.
"It's both your faults! It reminded me of my parents! They're DEAD!!! And no thanks to you two, the muggle police have probably
already discovered the bodies..."



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