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Chapter 17: Library and Garden

Ginny and Draco had walked around the outside of Hogwarts and into a garden that Ginny had never seen before. There were flowers of every kind and color, glistening under the morning sunlight. There were butterflies flapping their wings through the air, and relaxing on flower beds. There was a rainbow shining in the sky above a fountain sculpted as a woman. The woman was holding her hand out, and water sprayed up, out of it. Everything looked as if there were some kind of magic holding it in place.

"It's beautiful," Ginny whispered.

"I thought you'd like it," Draco whispered back, wrapping his arms around her waist, as she gazed at the scenery around her.

"How'd you find this place?" Ginny asked.

"I was walking around outside one day, and I went off of Hogwart's grounds without realizing it, and I ended up here."

Ginny nodded, still looking all around her.

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"It's not like I want to know what he's going to do to them, either," Hermione said.

"So what are we going to do?" Harry asked.

"Make sure he doesn't find out," said Ron.

"How are we going to do that?" Harry asked, "It's not like it's going to be easy."

"I have an idea," Hermione said. "Follow me."

"I'll catch up with you guys later, I have to finish the essay Snape assigned," Colin said dully.

"See ya," Hermione said, and led the way down to the library. She was walking rather quickly, so Ron and Harry had to jog to keep up.

"Sit down, let me find the book. It's somewhere around here..." Hermione trailed off.

Ron and Harry sat down in the comfy chairs in the corner of the library.

"I found it," Hermione said while walking toward them and sitting down in the chair between them. She started reading from the book entitled 'Illusions and Hexes.' After a minute or two, she summarized what she had read for Ron and Harry. "This spell blocks out the memory of a person's existance whenever the person who drinks this sees the person or people who's memory is being blocked. So, pretty much, if he hears about Draco and Ginny or sees them together, he won't feel anything because the relationship that he has with both of them is blocked from his memory."

"That's brilliant!" Ron said. "What do we have to do for it to work?" "All we have to do is get three simple ingredients, mix them together one at a time, and then make him drink it," Hermione said.

"How are we going to make him drink it?!" Harry asked a bit confused.

"You know perfectly well that he will probably stay for dinner in the Great Hall. Naturally, he'll sit next to Snape," Hermione said matter of factly.

"So?" Ron asked as if it were nothing new to him.

"Do I have to spell everything out for you?" Hermione asked with a sigh.

"Get on with it, 'Mione," Ron said annoyed.

"As I was saying, he'll most likely sit next to Snape. Some time during dinner, we'll get Malfoy to go up to the staff table and ask Snape a question about the essay he assigned. When Snape and Lucius arn't looking, he'll slip the potion into Lucius' pumpkin juice."

"Malfoy?! How are we going to get him to do that, and to give the potion to his father?! I don't think so," Ron said.

"I'll bet you five galleons that he'd be delighted to do it," Hermione challenged.

"How can you be so sure?" Harry asked.

"Oh, please! You can't sit there and tell me that you didn't notice the hate in Draco's eyes when he looked at his father. It's obvious that he dislikes him very much."

"That's true," Harry said, "but how are we going to get him to do it?"

"Threaten him," Hermione said.

"I like this idea!" Ron said happily.

"Stuff it, Ron. Let Hermione finish."

"As I was saying, we tell him that in order for us not to tell his father about the relationship between him and Ginny, then he has to do it for us."

"So, pretty much all we are doing is halping HIM?!" Ron asked in disbelief.

"And Ginny," Hermione said.

"Good point."

"What are the three ingredients we need?" Harry asked.

"Don't worry about those, I have them in my dormitory. As I said, they are simple, every day ingredients."

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After about an hour and fifteen minutes of talking and looking around at all the wonders of the garden, Draco walked ahead of Ginny toward the statue.

"Where are you going?" Ginny asked.

"Stay there, I need to get something," Draco replied.

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