Hermione walked down the hall still furious at Ron and upset about their confrontation. She wasn't watching where she was going and bumped straight into Draco Malfoy "oh hello.' She said a bit irritably, "What's up with you?" he asked. Hermione told him in full detailed but very fast what happened between her and Ron. Draco nodded understandingly in various spaces of her story. "you understood nothing of that did you?" she asked feeling a bit better. "not one bit!" he answered proudly.

By now word of Hermione and Draco was well known. Everywhere she went Hermione noticed the dirty looks she was getting from the slytherin girls and the glares and shakes of heads from her fellow gryffindors. Suddenly she heard a harsh voice behind her, "Granger!" she turned only to see an angry pansy parkinston. "listen granger hands off my guy!" she snarled viciously. "and who might that be?" Hermione replied coolly, "Draco." Pansy growled snidely. Draco came up behind pansy and tapped her on the shoulder. "Snide dear snide." Draco smirked, "Oh dracy poo!" she cried flinging her arms around him. Draco responded by pushing her away shaking his head, giving her a look of disgust, putting his arm around Hermione's shoulders and walking away slowly with her.

"Good one" Hermione said approvingly. "Ms Granger when will you learn?" he said pompously, "everything I do is nice." Hermione snorted. "What?" Draco asked innocently. "I hate to disappoint you Mr. Malfoy but not everything you do or have done is nice." She stated matter of factly.

Just as they turned the corner, they ran into Harry, "oh hi Harry!" Hermione greeted him cheerfully. "oh hi - um - Hi - uh - Hermione." He said uncertainly, "look um if Ron catches me talking to you he'll well um I have to go." He turned and ran in the opposite direction. Hermione gritted her teeth and growled softly. "Ron Weasley is going to pay." She turned on her heel and walked away leaving Draco gaping behind her.

Hermione went storming into the gryffindor common room. Her face was red from anger. Oh hey Hermi-" Harry began but didn't get to finish his sentence because she had already stomped past in fury. "Ron you get here now!" she yelled. A few people turned and looked at her in surprise. "Yes Hermione." Ron said calmly as though nothing had happened. Hermione walked up to Ron and slapped him, hard. "Ron Weasley you are a fucking bastard and if I had I wasn't sensible enough I'd kill you on the spot!" Ron stared, he wasn't alone by now everyone in the common room was staring at her in disbelief. Hermione shook her head at him and stalked out of the common room.

"Ugh!" she scowled as she walked into the head boy/girl common room. "whats the matter?" asked Draco. Hermione shook her head, "you don't want to know." "oh ok." Draco replied softly. "are you alright?" Hermione asked. "Im fine." Draco snapped, "just peachy what did you think I was hiding some big secret because Im not." "ok, I never thought you were." Hermione said confused.

Hermione went into the bathroom and locked it, ran a bath got in and let her thoughts swim in her head. Why did Draco snap at me like that? She thought. She soaked there for a while pondering this situation in her mind. Come to think of it, she thought, he has sort of been acting weird since a few days ago. He's been acting as though he completely depends on me for some reason she shook her head in confusion.

When she was out of the bath she put her pajamas on and walked out into their room. "Draco?" she called him "yes?" he replied. "I just wanted to-" she began but was stopped, "Im sorry. For snapping at you I shouldn't have." "Draco, is there something you want to tell me?" she asked comfortingly. "No!" he snapped "do I have to tell you everything? What are you my mother?" he turned and walked to his bed climbed in, drew the covers over his head and she heard him crying.

She walked towards the muffled sobs coming from his bed and gently lifted the cover off his face. She kissed him on the forehead. "Draco?" she whispered, "its ok you can tell me." He sat up in bed and looked at her through his tearstained eyes, Hermione tried to make light of the situation "not once have I ever seen Draco Malfoy cry." She said trying to smile. She leant into him and gave him a supporting, warm, loving hug. Draco held her tightly, "shhh.shhh" she comforted him. "Now tell Hermione whats bothering you."

"Ok." He began "um, I found out, that my mother, was." he gulped and the tears started again, "yes go on sweetie." she prompted him "she was raped." he paused and hung his head low, "by Voldemort." Hermione shook her head sympathetically. "he uh - cast a memory charm on her so she didn't remember, but it wore of.a week ago." "you poor thing that must be hard to find out." She said. "it gets worse, they did a check." "what are you trying to tell me Draco?" she asked concerned. "Hermione, Voldemort is my father."

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