Disclaimer: I don't own the characters; they are property of JK Rowling.

Rating: R

Summary: Harry is the heir of Grindelwald; he is blamed by the Order for Sirius's death; he is accused by the Ministry to be a Death Eater; Hermione is the heir of Voldemort...and she is the only who trusts him...

Dark Harry-Hermione

Chapter Seven

"Ministry's Attack"

Some days later, Harry was hiding the Dark Arts books he was studying during the nights, to not be noticed, when Hermione and Ron entered the common room; Harry was so shocked to hide his books, that he didn't notice that they were going down both from the boy's dorm...

Then he went to have breakfast after them, and seeing Ron with an arm around her waist, made him smirking: "Yes, Weasley...enjoy her until my revenge will come...because from that day you won't have anything to enjoy anymore..." he thought; then, while he was eating, he saw an horror look on Hermione's face...she became extremely pale, and since she was reading the "Daily Prophet", this couldn't mean anything good...

Suddenly, few moments later, Ronald Weasley stood up, the newspaper in his hand, and started to shout: "Hey, all of you! Hear this!! The famous Harry Potter is accused to be a Death Eater!!"

One moment later, the Great Hall looked with disgust toward Harry, but he didn't notice this, and the comments which followed, because he took the "Prophet" from Ron's hand, and started to read, disbelieving and shivering:

"The famous Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, was declared yesterday evening from the Minister Cornelius Fudge, one of the people inquired to be a Death Eater; there are already some clues against the young wizard, for example the fact that he was the unique person knowing the Order of the Phoenix whereabouts, and then, after the facts of that famous night in the Ministry, the Headquarters were attacked, and he was the only person who could have revealed the secret, because he was the unique that wasn't questioned with Veritaserum about having revealed that; he, also, tried to capture the Order's members and some guys of Hogwarts, near to it, in the Death Eaters attack to the Ministry...

The article continued a long, and every line shocked more the poor Harry; there were almost three pages of totally invented clues against him!

He, also, received a letter form the Ministry which informed him that he had to attend to a trial at the end of the school...for the moment, he would remain at Hogwarts, while the Ministry would search more proofs against him, and it would confirm the already existent ones...

Harry was so shocked that he stared the floor for some minutes, then he searched Hermione's look; she couldn't say nothing, since Ron was near her, but from her eyes, he found the answer he was searching...she was still on his side...

Finally Harry started to notice the comments about him, and most of them were arriving from the Slytherin table; curiously, however, he didn't hear Malfoy's voice...

He stood up, going to the Transfiguration Class, and remained quiet all the lesson, while the others looked at him disgusted...

Exiting from the class, he heard a Ravenclaw whispering to another:

"I always said that...only a Dark Wizard could defeat You-know-who as he did at the age of one...he is destined to this fate..."

Others looked at him secretly, behind columns and doors, and he overheard Seamus saying to Dean:

"Do you see it now? My mother was right on him last year...he is fool...and very dangerous..."

Another said: "Well, what do you expect from a guy who can speak to snakes? I'm sure Dumbledore hid it, but he was actually the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets, four years ago..."

A group of Hufflepuffs started to run away, as he turned in their direction, while a Slytherin fourth year was whispering to another: "I heard he helped Sirius Black to escape, when he was captured here in the park..."

For many days it seemed that all the school was against him, so he was very shocked when, walking near the Charms Class, wandering alone in the corridors after dinner, he was grabbed by Malfoy and led in the Class...

In it there was a little group of students, but Harry hadn't the time to look well who was there, because Malfoy started speaking:

"Potter...you know I and you have been always fierce enemies...but I want to tell you that this time, I'm on your side...I know you are not a Death Eater...and I want to offer you all the support I can give you...and the other people in this room wants to do the same..."

Finally, Harry looked around him, seeing that in the room there was Neville, Luna, Justin Finch-Fletchey, Ernie Macmillan, Ginny and Terry Boot were there; he was contemporarily glad that them trusted him, and sad for not seeing Hermione...

Seeing his sad look in the eyes, Malfoy smiled, and said: "Ah, also Hermione Granger wants to help you...but you know, she has to pretend to be faithful to the Order, and with that huge prat of Weasel near her, she surely couldn't come here..."

Hearing this, Harry cheered up, and said:

"First of all, I want to thank all of you for trusting me...second, I want to inform you that I'm studying many books against the Dark Arts and also Occlumency and Legilimency" then he explained what those two subjects were, before continuing: "So, I think that if you really want to help me, you have to study those subjects, too...you know that helping me means first or later facing the Dark Lord, don't you? So if you don't want to do this, you can leave, without problems..."

Nobody stood up, and then Ernie spoke: "We are with you, Harry...and we will always be..." and Draco added: "Yes...that Fudge is a total moron...he needs really a good beating up to awake...and this is what we will give him..."

"But don't forget that our primary target is Voldemort" Harry added, frowning a little.

When the secret meeting ended, all of them returned to their dorm; on his way, Harry met Hermione, who hugged him, tears flowing on her cheeks, then she whispered: "I'm with you, Harry...I'll always be..."

Harry kissed her cheek, taking away her tears with his hand, then he replied:

"I know it, Mione...I know it..."