A/N: These are snippets of events that took place after chapter 16. The end is what the events have led up to.

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"Oh, Draco, I'm not sure I should," I answered slowly, yet carefully.

His eyes became dark and lonely.

"Draco, it's not because I don't want to. I just don't think that I should- "

"Why? You like being a virgin?"

I looked up at him. He was quickly becoming the old, jackass Malfoy. "What is with you?" I asked.

"You didn't answer my question."

"What's wrong?"

"You want to stay a bloody virgin for the rest of your life?"

"I won't stay a virgin for my whole life, Malfoy."

"Whatever," he said, walking away and shaking his head.

"Malfoy!" I screamed.

He didn't turn around. He just kept walking.

*

"Oh God," Ginny replied. "He really did that?"

"Yeah," I answered, pulling my pillow closer to me.

"So, where is he now?"

I shrugged. "I haven't seen him in weeks."

"Neither has the rest of the school," Harry replied.

Ron, Harry, Ginny, and I all sat in silence. I had just finished telling them what had happened so many weeks before-about three weeks, to be exact. Not like I was counting or anything...

Anyway, Dumbledore had just announced that Malfoy had been either missing or was kidnapped; he had said that during supper this evening. No one knows where he went. No one has even seen him in a long while. Everyone just thought that he was skipping classes and goofing off in Hogsmeade. I just thought he was avoiding me for saying no.

Turns out, he was gone.

"Gee," was all that Ron could say.

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I walked down the stairs. Christmas chimes were ringing with joy; Malfoy hadn't been found yet. His parents had cast out search parties; Goyle and Crabbe had been taken into the Wizard Government Offices, and were being questioned night after night. They would always say nothing.

I knew this stuff from Wizard Weekly. Honestly, they post up everything there.

"Miss Granger," McGonagol said, pulling me over to the side of the hallway. "I have an important message from Dumbledore. Are you willing to accept?"

"Yes."

"All right. He has given you this key," she said, handing me a big hunka gold metal in the distorted form of a key. "And he would like you to go to the Tower and wait for him there around midnight. It's very important."

"Okay," I replied slowly as she quickly walked away.

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"Good luck," Ginny whispered as I slipped out of the Gryffindor common room.

I was dressed in black leather pants and a white tank top. I walked down the corridor. Instead of using the Changing Staircase, I walked up the spiraling staircase that led up to the Tower. I knew Dumbledore would think that I was inappropriately dressed for a meeting, that's why I wore my black sweat jacket over my tank top.

I stared at the huge wooden door in front of me. I stuck the key inside the lock and I turned the heavy metal. The door opened with a creaking sound.

"You can just leave the key in the wastebasket by the door," said a raspy voice from inside the dark room.

I threw the key inside the wastebasket and the door shut closed behind me.

Damn. It was dark.

And suddenly the lights came on. "Please sit," Dumbledore said, motioning a chair over. A small wooden chair slid over form the corner.

I reluctantly sat down.

"Are you wondering why I brought you here?" Dumbledore asked.

"Of course, Professor," I replied.

He smiled an unkindly smile, and slowly, he changed. He changed into another person. He changed into...

Malfoy.

"The Polyjuice potion," I whispered, fear clutching my heart.