Adrenaline Rush
~hotsleekeyz~
Chapter 5 Immune
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Hermione was greatly astounded the moment they entered the dining hall at the Malfoy residence. She wandered her eyes around at the many things her eyes caught in interest.
With her eyes glinting in amusement, she felt a warm hand over her shoulder.
"Hermione, I reckon we take our meal outside. The hall is too huge for us. I want to talk to you in private", Draco whispered with a gentle smile on his face.
Hermione nodded and so she felt Draco's hand lead her out to the veranda that viewed the spacious land that the Malfoys had.
They sat under the moonlight with the servants fixing their meal at a fast rate. It amazed Hermione even more that the complete works was done---the candlelight, the wine, the meal, and just everything. Hermione thought that even the thought that Draco was again with her after how many years was perfect in itself already.
Silence won over them as they tried to warm things up a bit. Years of being away sure made a huge space in between them.
Draco stared above them, looking at the many stars above them.
"How was it with Potter?", Draco asked as he led his eyes back at Hermoine who was eyeing him back.
"I guess it was fine. We were happy most of the time"
"And how about the other times that you weren't alright with him?"
"Draco, you couldn't really say he was bad to me that way. Couples are supposed to live that way. We can't really live perfectly as every one perceives that marriage can bring"
Hermione bowed her head morosely. She had forgotten one thing---
"Oh, I see. . .", Draco relpied as he spooned himself some pasta.
"Look, I'm sorry Draco. I didn't mean it that way"
"No worries, I wasn't thinking about it"
"Draco, I haven't forgotten the fact we are still married", Hermione voiced sympathetically.
"I'm glad you didn't. But Hermione, this isn't the wizarding world. We aren't married here"
Hermione led her sight out to the vast land beside them.
"I never wanted it to be this way Draco. It's complicated this way. I was thinking how Wade will take it", Hermione claimed as her voice broke.
Draco stared at her intently. "Are you crying?"
"No", Hermione replied as she brushed her hand over her shallow tears.
Draco smiled. "You're still the same Hermione. You wouldn't want any one to see you at your weakest"
Hermione didn't reply. Though she knew Draco would be able to read her emotions even if she conceals them, she got comfort in knowing Draco that way---at least she needed not pretend like the way she used to with Harry.
"Hermione, I see Wade is a very smart little boy---just like her mom, soon enough he will understand this"
"I hope so. He loves Harry as his dad so much already, I don't know how he's going to accept the fact that the man he knew his dad was wasn't really him"
Draco took Hermione's hand in his. He let Hermione feel that warmth of his hand.
"It's alright. We will manage. . . Can you feel my hand warm against yours?"
Hermione blushed as she tried to reminisce the times that Draco asked her that whenever he'd take her hand in his own. "Yes, I can"
"Do you know why it's warm?"
"You're alive! Of course it will be warm!"
Draco let out a childish chuckle and leveled it into a sincere smile. "No, no. You took it literally. What I meant was, my hands are warm because it sends signals to my heart that the woman I loved all these years is again with me"
Hermione stiffened at such statement. She didn't know how to react. She was expecting Draco to be hard-hearted after being the person he truly was.
"Draco, I--- I, I don't know what to say, really"
"You need not talk. Let me do the talking as I've missed you badly"
Hermione laughed a bit.
"Hermione, was there anything funny with what I said?", Draco queried with a brow raised.
"Nothing's funny at all. It's just that I'm not used to this"
"THIS?"
"Yes. . ."
"But we were like this before!"
"I know, I know. But it's different now Draco. For almost five years, Harry had been protecting me and Wade from you because we know for a fact that you had become a Death Eater and that you are the Heir to the Dark Lord's powers. And now, we're here like this, just like the students in Hogwarts that we used to be"
Draco laughed at Hermione's honest claim. It daunted on him that it really was absurd that the situation was like that, considering that he was SUPPOSED to be brutal to her.
//Oh Merlin!//, Draco thought to himself as he remembered what he was supposed to do.
"Hermione, there is something you need to know", Draco mouthed as Hermione spooned in the last of her pasta.
"Yes?"
"I'm coming back home in days' time. I don't know when exactly as my parents would only be sending me an owl to tell me we're leaving"
"So, you're leaving again. I thought you're staying for good", Hermione replied as she bowed her head in disappointment.
"As much as I'd want to, but I can't. I'm needed back up North"
"But Wade needs you as his real father---and I need you here as well Draco. It was hard being away from you. . ."
"God Hermione, I know it's hard because I had my own share of suffering but I have to leave"
"And when will you come back?"
"My apologies Hermione, but I won't be coming back"
"But Draco! . . . Maybe it's true after all. Harry told me that a person who had forgotten the feeling of loving will always leave you scarred--- scarred in the heart as much in the soul"
"I'm sorry. If I could only take you with me, I will. But I can't. You know that. It's better that way. You'll be safe and I will be as well. Let's not make it complicated. We all know that Father isn't pleased with you"
"I know that---but Wade?"
"That's the problem Hermione. . ."
Draco stood from his seat and walked towards Hermione's side. He knelt slowly and took Hermione's hands and kissed them.
"I have to take Wade with me", Draco said gloomily.
"You can't take my son!", Hermione immediately retorted.
"But he's my son as well, Hermione"
Hermione took her hands away from Draco at once with a disgusted look in her face. She stood to leave when Draco's hand caught her wrist.
"Don't touch me Malfoy!"
"Who are you talking to? As far as I know, you're a Malfoy as well!"
"I disgrace being one, if that's what you long wanted to hear! But I'm leaving. And don't you stop me Draco. You will never take my son away from me!"
Hermione ran back inside the mansion and went to search for Wade. . .
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Hermione had gone back and forth the whole mansion in looking for Wade but to no avail.
Nearly giving up, she felt warm breath over her silken neck.
"Where did you take him?", Hermione asked at once.
"In a place that Mudbloods could not enter perhaps?", a cold, drawling voice replied from behind.
"That's just plain stupid as my son IS a Mudblood as well"
"Oh no, I meant Mudblood-Mudblood. Mudblood, as in YOU, Mudblood"
Hermione faced the man behind her at once and saw that it wasn't Draco.
Hermione was about to scream when the man in front of her took his palm over Hermione's mouth to stop her. The man dragged her away into an abandoned room.
Hermione struggled free but the man was too strong for her. They were already inside the unlit room, when the man suddenly punched her in the face---leaving her dizzy and half-conscious.
Before she completely lost it, she heard someone's desperate cry.
"LUCIUS! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!"
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Harry was back at their house. He was pacing around, much confused in his thoughts.
He went down for some coffee and when he was down half of the stairs, Harry heard the doorbell.
Harry rushed towards the door, expecting it was Hermione. He opened the door, and much to his surprise, it was his enemy---Draco Malfoy.
"What are you doing here Malfoy?", Harry spat at once.
Draco shoved Harry in and closed the door behind him.
"What the hell?---", Harry asked at Draco's moves.
"Forgive me Potter, but you've got to help me now"
"I don't see why I have to help you", Harry snapped.
"It's Hermione. . . and Wade"
"They're with you right? You kidnapped them! And why would you be asking help from me right now?"
"Let me explain first okay? My Father found out about my secret mansion in London and he heard that Hermione and Wade were with me. I was only supposed to meet them for a while when all of a sudden, I heard someone crash in my house, and true enough, it was my Father. I went to Wade's room in the mansion but he was no longer there. When I came after Hermione, who anxiously went looking for Wade after knowing my plan of taking him with me, I found out that my Father already got hold of her. I don't know what happened exactly, but we've got to save them both. They are both in trouble!", Draco explained hurriedly as he panted terribly.
"But why do you look scared?"
"You don't know what my Father can do to them---they're Mudbloods remember?"
"NO!", Harry yelled at once as he took hold of the table and slammed it against the wall.
Draco took Harry's shoulder at once and pulled him up.
"There's no place for that in here Potter. We need to find them now"
Harry nodded as Draco Disapparated, and then he followed.
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Draco and Harry Apparated inside _Draco's Mansion_ and the servants ran to them at once.
"Where's Father?", Draco asked furiously.
"My Master took the little kid, Sir!"
"And Hermione?"
"We don't know Sir. We only saw the Master run away with the little boy"
Draco faced Harry and said, "I'll go after Lucius. You go find Hermione"
In Harry's confusion, he nodded and ran to every room.
In the silence of the mansion, it daunted on him that he was double- crossed. Him looking for Hermione was fine but Draco looking for Wade was foul play.
Everything worked for Draco's plan.
Draco was able to get hold of Wade.
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"Hermione! Where are you! Tell me where you are!", Harry yelled desperately.
The servants were also out for the look for Hermione by that time. They've searched for her in almost all the rooms, and still, she wasn't found.
//God! Where did Lucius take you?//
//Wait! If Lucius IS disgusted with Mudbloods, then he would take Hermione in a filthy place. . . where could that be?//
"Excuse me, but where is your stock room?", Harry asked one of the servants.
She led Harry to the stock room, and it shocked him that Hermione couldn't be in there. The stock room was neat. Hermione just couldn't be in there.
"How about the lavatory?"
They headed to the lavatory but it was crisp clean. Hermione couldn't be in there as well.
"God! Where could she be in?"
"I don't know Sir. I have no idea"
"What room have I not entered?"
"The Master's bedroom"
The servant immediately led Hermione to the Draco's room and as soon as he opened it, he was shocked that there was complete silence. Since it was unlit, he opened the light, and sure enough, Hermione was on the floor with blood on her face.
Harry ran to her and took Hermione in his arms. He patted Hermione's cheeks to awaken her.
"Come on Hermione, wake up. Mione, wake up"
Harry continued patting Hemrione's cheeks and soon enough, Hermione moaned in pain as she tried to open her eyes.
"Where am I?", Hermione asked as her sight was still blurry.
"Mione, it's me, Harry. You're here at Draco's house. We've got to find Wade"
"Wade?"
"Yes, Wade. Lucius got hold of him. I reckon this is all a part of Draco's plan to get Wade. He made it appear as if Lucius kidnapped him"
"Who?"
"Hermione, your son was kidnapped. We've got to find him!"
"Who are you?"
Harry's brow formed a questioning look on his face.
"Mione, this is Harry"
"Harry?"
"Yes, Mione. This is Harry. We've got to go soon and look for Wade!"
"Wade? What's that?"
"Your son Mione! You're son was kidnapped!"
"My son?"
Harry suddenly realized what the case was.
Hermione had lost her memory.
~Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns characters, setting, etc. Except: the plot is mine.~
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Whipeee!
There you go with the lengthy chapter of chapter 5 of this story. I really had a lot of question marks in my head on how to go along with this, though I was able to manage finishing it. Good thing that my head screwed up a little more and there were exclamation marks instead, and I got to finish this one.
You hold on to the next chapters so that the new twists' questions would be answered.
POINTS TO CONSIDER:
*Draco was really nice to Hermione back at the veranda where they took a meal while sharing their thought to one another. The set-up was really romantic until Draco revealed that he was to take with him back up North [remember that Lucius told Draco that he could only see his son for a while and then they'd go up North? Think about that point and come up with a guess what really happened in the mansion]
*The house was Draco's, not the Malfoy's. It was Draco's secret mansion and he led his wife and son there thinking they were safe but the antagonist Lucius is, he found out of the mansion and went there to take Wade along with him.
*Draco asked Harry to look for Hermione as he will be going after Wade. Was that really foul play? Did Draco think that either way, he could get Wade even if his father took his son? Or is it that it was already planned that way to make it harder for Harry and Hermioen to accept?
*Harry went around in search of the filthiest places in the house only to find Hermione in Draco's room. Did Lucius think that it would take longer for Harry to find Hermione if he did otherwise of what Harry was supposed to assume, that he put Hermione in Draco's bedroom and not in some dirty place?
*When Harry, found Hermione, she had blood on her face because of Lucius' assault on her. When Hermione awoke, Harry told her of the situation, only to find out that Hermione had amnesia. [I'd give this one away : Hermione will, of course, find it meaningless to look for Wade since she forgot having a child anyways, which makes it harder for Harry since he had to bear with bringing back Hermione's memory so that they would be able to look for Wade together]
To be able to answer your suspicions and questions, read on to the next chapter!
Please R&R! Thanks. . .
~kaye~
Chapter 5 Immune
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Hermione was greatly astounded the moment they entered the dining hall at the Malfoy residence. She wandered her eyes around at the many things her eyes caught in interest.
With her eyes glinting in amusement, she felt a warm hand over her shoulder.
"Hermione, I reckon we take our meal outside. The hall is too huge for us. I want to talk to you in private", Draco whispered with a gentle smile on his face.
Hermione nodded and so she felt Draco's hand lead her out to the veranda that viewed the spacious land that the Malfoys had.
They sat under the moonlight with the servants fixing their meal at a fast rate. It amazed Hermione even more that the complete works was done---the candlelight, the wine, the meal, and just everything. Hermione thought that even the thought that Draco was again with her after how many years was perfect in itself already.
Silence won over them as they tried to warm things up a bit. Years of being away sure made a huge space in between them.
Draco stared above them, looking at the many stars above them.
"How was it with Potter?", Draco asked as he led his eyes back at Hermoine who was eyeing him back.
"I guess it was fine. We were happy most of the time"
"And how about the other times that you weren't alright with him?"
"Draco, you couldn't really say he was bad to me that way. Couples are supposed to live that way. We can't really live perfectly as every one perceives that marriage can bring"
Hermione bowed her head morosely. She had forgotten one thing---
"Oh, I see. . .", Draco relpied as he spooned himself some pasta.
"Look, I'm sorry Draco. I didn't mean it that way"
"No worries, I wasn't thinking about it"
"Draco, I haven't forgotten the fact we are still married", Hermione voiced sympathetically.
"I'm glad you didn't. But Hermione, this isn't the wizarding world. We aren't married here"
Hermione led her sight out to the vast land beside them.
"I never wanted it to be this way Draco. It's complicated this way. I was thinking how Wade will take it", Hermione claimed as her voice broke.
Draco stared at her intently. "Are you crying?"
"No", Hermione replied as she brushed her hand over her shallow tears.
Draco smiled. "You're still the same Hermione. You wouldn't want any one to see you at your weakest"
Hermione didn't reply. Though she knew Draco would be able to read her emotions even if she conceals them, she got comfort in knowing Draco that way---at least she needed not pretend like the way she used to with Harry.
"Hermione, I see Wade is a very smart little boy---just like her mom, soon enough he will understand this"
"I hope so. He loves Harry as his dad so much already, I don't know how he's going to accept the fact that the man he knew his dad was wasn't really him"
Draco took Hermione's hand in his. He let Hermione feel that warmth of his hand.
"It's alright. We will manage. . . Can you feel my hand warm against yours?"
Hermione blushed as she tried to reminisce the times that Draco asked her that whenever he'd take her hand in his own. "Yes, I can"
"Do you know why it's warm?"
"You're alive! Of course it will be warm!"
Draco let out a childish chuckle and leveled it into a sincere smile. "No, no. You took it literally. What I meant was, my hands are warm because it sends signals to my heart that the woman I loved all these years is again with me"
Hermione stiffened at such statement. She didn't know how to react. She was expecting Draco to be hard-hearted after being the person he truly was.
"Draco, I--- I, I don't know what to say, really"
"You need not talk. Let me do the talking as I've missed you badly"
Hermione laughed a bit.
"Hermione, was there anything funny with what I said?", Draco queried with a brow raised.
"Nothing's funny at all. It's just that I'm not used to this"
"THIS?"
"Yes. . ."
"But we were like this before!"
"I know, I know. But it's different now Draco. For almost five years, Harry had been protecting me and Wade from you because we know for a fact that you had become a Death Eater and that you are the Heir to the Dark Lord's powers. And now, we're here like this, just like the students in Hogwarts that we used to be"
Draco laughed at Hermione's honest claim. It daunted on him that it really was absurd that the situation was like that, considering that he was SUPPOSED to be brutal to her.
//Oh Merlin!//, Draco thought to himself as he remembered what he was supposed to do.
"Hermione, there is something you need to know", Draco mouthed as Hermione spooned in the last of her pasta.
"Yes?"
"I'm coming back home in days' time. I don't know when exactly as my parents would only be sending me an owl to tell me we're leaving"
"So, you're leaving again. I thought you're staying for good", Hermione replied as she bowed her head in disappointment.
"As much as I'd want to, but I can't. I'm needed back up North"
"But Wade needs you as his real father---and I need you here as well Draco. It was hard being away from you. . ."
"God Hermione, I know it's hard because I had my own share of suffering but I have to leave"
"And when will you come back?"
"My apologies Hermione, but I won't be coming back"
"But Draco! . . . Maybe it's true after all. Harry told me that a person who had forgotten the feeling of loving will always leave you scarred--- scarred in the heart as much in the soul"
"I'm sorry. If I could only take you with me, I will. But I can't. You know that. It's better that way. You'll be safe and I will be as well. Let's not make it complicated. We all know that Father isn't pleased with you"
"I know that---but Wade?"
"That's the problem Hermione. . ."
Draco stood from his seat and walked towards Hermione's side. He knelt slowly and took Hermione's hands and kissed them.
"I have to take Wade with me", Draco said gloomily.
"You can't take my son!", Hermione immediately retorted.
"But he's my son as well, Hermione"
Hermione took her hands away from Draco at once with a disgusted look in her face. She stood to leave when Draco's hand caught her wrist.
"Don't touch me Malfoy!"
"Who are you talking to? As far as I know, you're a Malfoy as well!"
"I disgrace being one, if that's what you long wanted to hear! But I'm leaving. And don't you stop me Draco. You will never take my son away from me!"
Hermione ran back inside the mansion and went to search for Wade. . .
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Hermione had gone back and forth the whole mansion in looking for Wade but to no avail.
Nearly giving up, she felt warm breath over her silken neck.
"Where did you take him?", Hermione asked at once.
"In a place that Mudbloods could not enter perhaps?", a cold, drawling voice replied from behind.
"That's just plain stupid as my son IS a Mudblood as well"
"Oh no, I meant Mudblood-Mudblood. Mudblood, as in YOU, Mudblood"
Hermione faced the man behind her at once and saw that it wasn't Draco.
Hermione was about to scream when the man in front of her took his palm over Hermione's mouth to stop her. The man dragged her away into an abandoned room.
Hermione struggled free but the man was too strong for her. They were already inside the unlit room, when the man suddenly punched her in the face---leaving her dizzy and half-conscious.
Before she completely lost it, she heard someone's desperate cry.
"LUCIUS! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!"
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Harry was back at their house. He was pacing around, much confused in his thoughts.
He went down for some coffee and when he was down half of the stairs, Harry heard the doorbell.
Harry rushed towards the door, expecting it was Hermione. He opened the door, and much to his surprise, it was his enemy---Draco Malfoy.
"What are you doing here Malfoy?", Harry spat at once.
Draco shoved Harry in and closed the door behind him.
"What the hell?---", Harry asked at Draco's moves.
"Forgive me Potter, but you've got to help me now"
"I don't see why I have to help you", Harry snapped.
"It's Hermione. . . and Wade"
"They're with you right? You kidnapped them! And why would you be asking help from me right now?"
"Let me explain first okay? My Father found out about my secret mansion in London and he heard that Hermione and Wade were with me. I was only supposed to meet them for a while when all of a sudden, I heard someone crash in my house, and true enough, it was my Father. I went to Wade's room in the mansion but he was no longer there. When I came after Hermione, who anxiously went looking for Wade after knowing my plan of taking him with me, I found out that my Father already got hold of her. I don't know what happened exactly, but we've got to save them both. They are both in trouble!", Draco explained hurriedly as he panted terribly.
"But why do you look scared?"
"You don't know what my Father can do to them---they're Mudbloods remember?"
"NO!", Harry yelled at once as he took hold of the table and slammed it against the wall.
Draco took Harry's shoulder at once and pulled him up.
"There's no place for that in here Potter. We need to find them now"
Harry nodded as Draco Disapparated, and then he followed.
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Draco and Harry Apparated inside _Draco's Mansion_ and the servants ran to them at once.
"Where's Father?", Draco asked furiously.
"My Master took the little kid, Sir!"
"And Hermione?"
"We don't know Sir. We only saw the Master run away with the little boy"
Draco faced Harry and said, "I'll go after Lucius. You go find Hermione"
In Harry's confusion, he nodded and ran to every room.
In the silence of the mansion, it daunted on him that he was double- crossed. Him looking for Hermione was fine but Draco looking for Wade was foul play.
Everything worked for Draco's plan.
Draco was able to get hold of Wade.
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"Hermione! Where are you! Tell me where you are!", Harry yelled desperately.
The servants were also out for the look for Hermione by that time. They've searched for her in almost all the rooms, and still, she wasn't found.
//God! Where did Lucius take you?//
//Wait! If Lucius IS disgusted with Mudbloods, then he would take Hermione in a filthy place. . . where could that be?//
"Excuse me, but where is your stock room?", Harry asked one of the servants.
She led Harry to the stock room, and it shocked him that Hermione couldn't be in there. The stock room was neat. Hermione just couldn't be in there.
"How about the lavatory?"
They headed to the lavatory but it was crisp clean. Hermione couldn't be in there as well.
"God! Where could she be in?"
"I don't know Sir. I have no idea"
"What room have I not entered?"
"The Master's bedroom"
The servant immediately led Hermione to the Draco's room and as soon as he opened it, he was shocked that there was complete silence. Since it was unlit, he opened the light, and sure enough, Hermione was on the floor with blood on her face.
Harry ran to her and took Hermione in his arms. He patted Hermione's cheeks to awaken her.
"Come on Hermione, wake up. Mione, wake up"
Harry continued patting Hemrione's cheeks and soon enough, Hermione moaned in pain as she tried to open her eyes.
"Where am I?", Hermione asked as her sight was still blurry.
"Mione, it's me, Harry. You're here at Draco's house. We've got to find Wade"
"Wade?"
"Yes, Wade. Lucius got hold of him. I reckon this is all a part of Draco's plan to get Wade. He made it appear as if Lucius kidnapped him"
"Who?"
"Hermione, your son was kidnapped. We've got to find him!"
"Who are you?"
Harry's brow formed a questioning look on his face.
"Mione, this is Harry"
"Harry?"
"Yes, Mione. This is Harry. We've got to go soon and look for Wade!"
"Wade? What's that?"
"Your son Mione! You're son was kidnapped!"
"My son?"
Harry suddenly realized what the case was.
Hermione had lost her memory.
~Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns characters, setting, etc. Except: the plot is mine.~
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Whipeee!
There you go with the lengthy chapter of chapter 5 of this story. I really had a lot of question marks in my head on how to go along with this, though I was able to manage finishing it. Good thing that my head screwed up a little more and there were exclamation marks instead, and I got to finish this one.
You hold on to the next chapters so that the new twists' questions would be answered.
POINTS TO CONSIDER:
*Draco was really nice to Hermione back at the veranda where they took a meal while sharing their thought to one another. The set-up was really romantic until Draco revealed that he was to take with him back up North [remember that Lucius told Draco that he could only see his son for a while and then they'd go up North? Think about that point and come up with a guess what really happened in the mansion]
*The house was Draco's, not the Malfoy's. It was Draco's secret mansion and he led his wife and son there thinking they were safe but the antagonist Lucius is, he found out of the mansion and went there to take Wade along with him.
*Draco asked Harry to look for Hermione as he will be going after Wade. Was that really foul play? Did Draco think that either way, he could get Wade even if his father took his son? Or is it that it was already planned that way to make it harder for Harry and Hermioen to accept?
*Harry went around in search of the filthiest places in the house only to find Hermione in Draco's room. Did Lucius think that it would take longer for Harry to find Hermione if he did otherwise of what Harry was supposed to assume, that he put Hermione in Draco's bedroom and not in some dirty place?
*When Harry, found Hermione, she had blood on her face because of Lucius' assault on her. When Hermione awoke, Harry told her of the situation, only to find out that Hermione had amnesia. [I'd give this one away : Hermione will, of course, find it meaningless to look for Wade since she forgot having a child anyways, which makes it harder for Harry since he had to bear with bringing back Hermione's memory so that they would be able to look for Wade together]
To be able to answer your suspicions and questions, read on to the next chapter!
Please R&R! Thanks. . .
~kaye~