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Chapter 6

Hermione woke the next morning and remembering last night, she immediately began to cry. Parvati (A/N is that spelled right?) and Lavender noticed and ran over to comfort her.

"Hermione, What's wrong?" Parvati asked worried that her friend is cy, and fro no apparent reason. 'Well I am going to find out." She thought to herself with determination.

"Well if you guys promise to keep this a secret, then I will tell." She said and managed to hold in a small sob that threatened to escape her trembling lips.

"Oh, Hermione. We promise not to tell anyone. Can you please tell us what happened." Lavender said trying to clam her friend. "This is a promise I intend to keep' Lavender thought to herself.

"Ok, well let e start from the beginning . . . " and she proceeded to tell them the events that occurred in the past few days. " . . .And now Lucius wants to kill me and Draco, and I have no clue what to do." She said as a small sob escaped from her lips.

"Oh Hermione, how sad for you." Lavender said and a small tear rolled down her cheek.

"I am so sorry, Hermione." Parvati said and pulled her friend into a tight hug.

Hermione stood up from her bed, where the three of them were sitting, and she ran from the room straight to the Great Hall. Draco was there sitting eating his breakfast. Hermione ran to him hugged him tightly.

Together they walked hand in hand to the owlery. Draco wrote the letter to Dumbledore on a spare piece of parchment, he found in hall, while Hermione snuggled into his shoulder. When finished the letter read:

Professor Dumbledore,

Me and Hermione are a couple now, as you probably already know, seeing as you seem to know everything that goes on in Hogwarts. Anyway, my father, Lucius, wishes to see me and Hermione dead. Can you please help us?

Draco Malfoy.

Draco carefully tied the letter to one of the school owls and sent it on its way. They walked back to the Great Hall and by the time they got there most of the students were already seated and eating happily. Hermione walked to her house table and sat between Harry and Ron, and she ate quietly. She was starting to explain to Ron what had happened the night before when the mail arrived.

Hermione looked up to Dumbledore as he read the letter, the twinkle from his eyes gone. He stood and raised his hand for silence, immediately the hall was quiet. "After breakfast will the following students please report to my office: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, and Pansy Parkinson. Thank you, you may finish your meals and head off to class."

Hermione silently walked to Dumbledore's office. Draco and Pansy were already there waiting. They knocked on the hard wood door a few times, then a voice inside the room said: "Come in, students."

The three walked in silently, and sat in three comfy chairs that were placed around his desk. Hermione quickly observed his office, It was tiny, compared to the other teacher's offices. She noticed that he had a crystal ball on his desk. So that must mean that Dumbledore was a seer. No wonder he always knows what is going on.

" So, Mr. Malfoy, do you have something to tell us?" Dumbledore asked, even though h clearly knew that Draco did.

"Yes. My father somehow found out that me and Hermione are a couple." Dumbledore nodded and so Draco continued. "He said that if I ever say Hermione again he would kill her and then proceed to kill me."

"I see. Is there anything else?"

"Yes, I was wondering if you could help us?" Draco said, even though deep down in his heart he knew Dumbledore could only help them for a short while. Eventually they would have to leave school and that would be when his father would strike.

"I can do very little to help you, but as long as you two are here he cannot harm you in anyway."

"Ok, I guess that will have to do. But what happens when we leave school for summer vacation? I mean my father is very smart he could track us down anywhere," Draco stated all in one breathe.

"Well, I guess you will just have to stay here then, or go into hiding, but surely you guys will want to come back for your 7th and final year here. You two are in line to become Head Boy and Girl next year."

"Well I surely want to come back, and I can't even imagine what school would be like without Draco." Hermione said calmly.

"Well I guess that means we will have to stay here for summer vacation then."

"Professor, I have a question." Hermione asked in a small voice.

"Yes, Ms. Granger, what is it?" Professor asked her.

"Well would it be alright if Harry could stay too? Because those muggles that he lives with are just awful." Hermione asked avoiding Draco's eyes.

"Of course that would be alright, but is that alright with Draco?" Dumbledore asked raising his eyebrows at Draco.

"Yes sir that is fine with me, I wouldn't mind getting to know Harry better, and this is the time to do it, I suppose."

"Well then now that that is settled . . ." He was cut short by Hermione.

"Sorry to interrupt sir, but why did you ask for Pansy to come? I mean she had nothing to do with this."

"I believe she can answer that for you, Ms. Granger" Dumbledore said glancing at Pansy."

"Well. . .umm. . .I owled Lucius to let him know what his son was up to." Pansy said, her voice just barely above whisper.

"Why?!? Don't you realize what my father is capable of?!?" Draco said standing up to yell at her in anger.

"I'm sorry. I never thought he would want to kill his son, his only heir, but I was never quite so sure about her. I never told him that she was a muggle-born. He must have found out through someone else." Pansy said, whimpering as though she were a dog that was beaten.

"How did you even know about us?" Draco said, his anger diminishing slightly. He threw himself in his chair and sat waiting for her answer.

"Well, a few nights ago in the library, I heard Granger, telling her buddies Potter and Weasley. I figured that Lucius would want to know so I ran to the owlery and owled him right away. I never thought he would want to kill anyone. I am so sorry." Pansy explained.

"Well. . .fine, I don't care anymore. Lucius can try and harm Hermione all he wants but he never will, because I will protect her with my life."

"Oh, Draco. . ." was all that Hermione could manage to say until she burst into tears, hugging him.

"Well now that that is cleared up, I think that you three students should head to your common rooms for the rest of the morning. I expect to see you in all of your afternoon classes. "Dumbledore told the three students. They stood up and left the office nad headed to their common rooms for the morning.

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A/N There is chapter 6, I hope everyone liked it. If I keep updating so much then I will have this finished in no time. : (