Title:

Forbidden

Author:

Kristen, a.k.a., Juliana Black

Summary:

Forbidden love is taking over at Hogwarts. Draco likes a special someone, but that person has a crush on someone else, and is oblivious to Draco. Danni, Draco's best friend, is in love with Draco, but knows it is not returned, but that Slytherin girl has her eye on a special Gryffindor as well.

Warnings:

**SLASH** and **HET** romance. Slight swearing. I wouldn't recommend anyone under the age of 12 to read this unless they are very mature for their age. Talk of **CHILD ABUSE**. I'm RAISING THE RATING, sorry.

Archive:

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Disclaimer:

I own nothing, only Danni, and her last name belongs to my cousin. Harry Potter and all characters mentioned henceforth in this chapter excluding Danni are products of J.K. Rowling.

Key:

The "/" means a new place, and the "#^#*#^#" thing-y means a new time. Thoughts and emphasis are in italics.

FEEL FREE TO FLAME ME IF YOU WISH, BUT REMEMBER, YOU WERE WARNED THAT THIS IS SLASH, SO IF THE SUBJECT IS THAT OF THE SEXUALITY PREFERENCE OF ONE OR MORE CHARACTERS, YOU SHALL HAVE A SEVERE REPLY TO YOUR FLAME. IF THE FLAME IS ON A DIFFERENT SUBJUST, I SHALL ALSO POST A REPLY TO YOUR FLAME. PLZ REMEMBER TO USE CORRECT GRAMMER, PUNCTUATION, AND SPELLING. ^.*

Okay, I've had a request, lessen my spacing. *winces noticeably* Whoops. Okay. Check-a-rooni!

Chapter Two: A Secret Revealed and a Friend Made

"Where could Harry be? Do you have any idea Seamus?" Ron nervously questioned his classmates for Divination as they climbed up the ladder into Trelawney's classroom.

"No clue Ron, maybe he quit, or maybe he went to Pomfrey." Seamus answered back hastily, partnering up with Dean Thomas when he saw Neville coming over.

"Hey Ron, where is Harry?" Neville asked. Ron shrugged. "Want to partner up?" Again Ron shrugged, but this time in more of a Ah, what the hell, sure why not? type of shrug. "Thanks Ron." Neville squeaked.

Divination was quite uneventful, Ron fretted about where Harry could be, and Professor Trelawney was only making it worse, saying how much danger Harry was in at the moment while Parvati and Lavender cooed in awe.

/

Of the Fifth Years, most of the Ravenclaw, two Slytherins: Draco and Danni; and Hermione, the only Gryffindor, filed into the Arithmancy classroom.

"Hi Granger." Danni said politely. The two had never really gotten along much, but they were civil, and sometimes partnered up in Arithmancy, to share equal talent to get the best grades they could get.

"Oh," Hermione looked over to the auburn-haired Slytherin. "Hello. Hello Malfoy," she added darkly.

"'Lo Mudblood. If you'll excuse me," he said uninterested and dully as he took a seat.

"What's with him?" Hermione whispered to Danni. "Not- that I care at all… er I mean, it is that-" Hermione went red. Danni showed a small smile.

"I understand, you don't even like to see complete jerks feeling rotten. I get it… but I have no clue as to what is with him." Danni whispered in reply. "It's sort of worrying me… even Harry Potter and the Weasel would feel bad if they only knew… I just wonder how bad it was this summer…" she said half to Hermione, but also sort of to herself.

"What do you mean?" Hermione inquired, quite confused.

"Girls! Please be quiet! You may talk later, after class! Not during!"

"Yes Professor Vector," came the simultaneous reply. Hermione, was Professor Vector's favorite student, you could tell, but she was never totally unfair, unlike Snape, so since she didn't want to take points from Hermione, she didn't take any from Danni.

"I'll tell you after class." Danni said as she took out Numerology and Grammatica, Level 3, Vol. 1.

/

Harry moaned slightly on the hard stone floor. Where am I? Harry thought suddenly.

"-And I then said to him, 'Look Lee, I like you and all, but not like that!' So then he gets all, 'Well, okay then….' It was hilarious George. You honestly should have been ther- What the hell?"

"Hi Fred, George." Harry acknowledged the twins before he passed out again, fresh red towel still wrapped around his body, some blood trickling down the side of his face.

/

Just as class was ending for the first Fifth Year Classes that day, Danni and Hermione, who both had no classes until after lunch that day, ditched Draco and Ron in the middle of the hallway and went somewhere they could have some privacy to talk.

"Malfoy…" Ronald Weasley said darkly.

"No really? I thought I was Ben Affleck." Draco sneered sarcastically.

"Who?" Ron said incredulously.

"He's a muggle actor you dolt." Draco scoffed at Weasley's stupidity. Ron's eyes flashed dangerousy as he walked out of the hall cursing, wondering how Draco knew about muggle things…

/

"Well thank the gods that you're not as pigheaded as some of the other Gryffindors, and I not as horrible as most Slytherins, at least I actually have a girl that I can converse with. No offence to Draco of course, but sometimes I just wish-"

"-that you could have a friend that is female?" Hermione finished with a small smile. Danni nodded, eyes relaxing. "I feel the same way Paradis." Danni chuckled softly.

"Know what? I think we should just ditch the formalities and just call each other Hermione and Danni, or Herm or whatever it is that you prefer to be called." Danni spoke up, speaking her mind as always, good in this situation, but in most it was usually for the worst. Hermione made a very queer face when Danni had said the word "Herm".

"Blech, Herm. Ron is so stupid it scares me sometimes, he constantly calls me 'Herm' and I hate it!" Hermione erupted in a fit of giggles. "At least Harry realized that I couldn't stand it." Danni made a sarcastically sad face.

"Poor 'Herm'… Ack! Sorry! Had to! Ow!" Danni screamed in laughter, Hermione had put the tickling hex on her. Hermione whispered the counter-curse and suddenly her face turned serious and forlorn.

"What's wrong with Malfoy?" she asked quietly.

"Well… you see… er-" Daniella paused. "Hermione you must swear that you never ever tell anyone what I am about to say to you, not even to Potter." Hermione started to cut her off with a "But-" yet Danni cute her off. "No! If you tell Potter, he'll tell Weasley, who will be too shocked and accidentally blurt it out to Seamus, who inevitably will let it slip to Dean, who in turn will feel bad that Neville doesn't know, because he's nice, and tell Longbottom. And well, we all know Neville has the biggest mouth to Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown, and those two are the hugest gossips this school has ever seen." Danni spewed out as fast as her cherry red lips would let her. Hermione gave Daniella the, 'double-blonde-blink'.

"All riiiight. Er.. I…" Hermione sucked in a deep breath. "I swear on my love of magic that I, Hermione Granger of London, England, shalt not speak of the secret that thee shall utter upon thou lips to nary a soul, living or deceased, unless the secret is already known by that soul." Hermione quickly breathed out, speaking the sacred oath of a wizard's (or witch's) secret, by placing their own magic powers on the line. Danni gave a small reassuring nod to herself.

"Good. Now… Lucius, Draco's father…" Danni bit her lip. "He beats Draco every summer." She turned her head to the side, closing her eyes, grinding her teeth and clutching her fists as if this were painful to speak of, which, it truly was. Draco was her very best friend and she had known him since she was only six years old.

On and on Danni went on about the horrific details of what happened to Draco every summer, the chains in the dungeon of Malfoy Manor, being locked up to the walls for days upon days without any food or water, beating him senseless with magic…. And while Hermione gasped and covered her gaping mouth quickly with her hand throughout the entire time.

"Oh my god…" Hermione whispered, unbelieving, tears streaming down her face. "That's why he is so… horrible? So that his father won't beat him if any of the other Slytherins tattle?" Danni nodded sadly.

"I think it goes deeper than that though… I think he wants not only for Lucius to approve of him, but well… to love him. Draco desperately needs someone to love him, cherish him… you know… dating him…" Danni said, evasively keeping away the fact that Draco needed a boyfriend, and not a girlfriend.

"What about you?" Danni went scarlet at this remark.

"Draco… isn't er- interested in me." Danni said quietly, eyes downcast.

"But you love him?" Hermione asked gently. Daniella only nodded numbly, then her eyes bulged as Hermione leapt forward and enveloped her into a large, friendly hug. "I'm so sorry." Hermione said quietly. As they broke apart, the two wiped their tears from their faces.

"But honestly, about Draco, I think something worse happened this year, but I have no clue as to what. I'm assuming the worst… that Lucius forced Draco to wear the Mark."

The two girls looked at each other and gulped. "D'you really think…?" Hermione trailed off.

"I truthfully don't know what I think about all of this." Hermione suddenly broke into gasping sobs, which shocked the hell out of Daniella. "HERMIONE GRANGER get a hold of yourself this instant! You are scaring the crap out of me!" Hermione stops and let something crossed between a laugh and a sob escape from her mouth.

"Sorry, but… I just feel so bad for being so rotten to him, I'd be just as terrible as he is if I was in his place! And Ron and Harry! I'll try to get them to lay off of him a little, without telling them anything of course." She added quickly. Hermione's eyes were extremely red, and the two looked at themselves, tear-stains down their faces, eyes red, sitting on the cold floor of an unused old bathroom, and the two erupted into a fit of giggles

/

Harry James Potter lay unconscious on a bed in the Hospital Wing, fully healed, except for a concussion that Madam Pomfrey couldn't get rid of.

"And you two! I'm glad you found him, but what, pray tell, where you doing out of class?" she said, turning to Fred and George who had magicked up a stretcher and took him to the Infirmary.

"Seventh Years have Fridays off." Fred said simply as the left the Hospital Wing to find Hermione and Ron.

Okay, I hope this was long enough and good enough! I hope you like it! 20 reviews for chapter three! LUV YA! ^.* BTW: Sorry for leaving you there, more soon!

PS, OMGz!!!!!! I ACTUALLY HAVE A PLOT WORKED OUT!!!! IT'S A MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!