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Chapter 19

Hermione felt a rush of appreciation for Ron, every few seconds she kept sneaking glances at him. She had a feeling that her love for him grew even more.

As they dragged the Mongaroo by its gorilla-like arms, something dark flew across their path.

Hermione let go of the arm, it was so heavy, and it felt like such a burden dragging this animal to the entrance of the Forbidden Forest. On top of that, the place where the creature burnt her was aching terribly.

"I need to sit for a few seconds." Hermione said sitting on a large boulder, wincing.

Ron looked at her concerned, "Do you want me to carry you?"

Hermione wasn't sure but she swore she heard him ask that question in a hopeful tone. Or maybe I'm just crazy? She thought.

She looked up at him, he also left the Mongaroo who was lying on the floor in a painful looking position, "No, it's alright."

"Why do you always have to be so damn stubborn?" Ron exploded, suddenly.

Hermione glared at him, not paying attention to the sound of something somewhere behind Ron.

She got up; ready to tell Ron off when she heard a loud hoot. Her eye widened as she peered around Ron, there sitting on a limb of one of the trees was Hedwig!

Hermione gasped and moved around Ron quickly.

Ron turned around to see what she was gasping at, "What is it?" he asked, following behind her.

Hermione stroked Hedwig's head. She wouldn't have recognized Hedwig if it weren't for the patches of white feathers that were surrounded by black dirty ones on her small body. It looked as if the forest had turned her wild, like Ron's Ford Angelica.

Hedwig stuck out one of her feet, she was clutching a rolled up piece of parchment.

Hermione gave Ron a quick curious look before holding out her hand as Hedwig dropped the parchment.

She looked at the handwriting where it said "To: Ron and Hermione" and she instantly knew who it was from.

Harry.

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Once they were back inside their dungeon, Hermione pulled out the parchment from her shorts pocket.

When they were in the forest, they decided not to read it there because they didn't know who was listening to their conversations.

As the room darkened, the torches were magically lit.

"C'mon Hermione, hurry and open it." Ron said excitedly. He was sitting next to her on the cot.

Hermione was happy that Hedwig was there to distract her from getting mad at Ron because, she didn't want to have another row with him. She was so sick and tired of it.

She slowly unrolled the parchment, but in Ron's urgency to see what was written inside, Ron helped her, which caused the parchment to rip.

Hermione had to bite her tongue from screaming at him. Why couldn't he just wait and have a bit of patience? If I were in Harry's position, would he be so excited to read a letter from me?

She quickly rid her head of those thoughts and started to read the letter. It said:

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Dear Hermione and Ron,

I have many things to inform you about, firstly the Death Eaters have trapped the Gryffindors, Ravenclaws, and Hufflepuffs all in one tower, it's very cramped in here. Ron, countless times Lucius has walked up to Ginny and told her that she was next in line to die…but don't worry, I've been protecting her.

Also, I am very lucky to have such a smart owl as Hedwig, it was last night when she came to the tower window with pieces of parchments and quills and such all in a pouch. This was at midnight when everyone else was sleeping.

Hermione, I've been hearing things about this potion that they're going to give you, I hope you both try and find a way to escape. A group of us (mostly Gryffindors of course) are thinking of how we can escape.

They have already killed the Creevy brothers and Luna…and I heard that they have a whole list of people who they want to torture. We're in the tower where Divination used to take place.

Waiting to hear from you,

-Harry

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Hermione jumped up from the cot and dropped the parchment, which fell slowly to the ground, "They're alive!" she exclaimed happily.

Ron's face was also glowing with happiness.

"Oh, Ron!" She exclaimed, unable to believe that Harry and Ginny were alive. Lucius gave her such a fright when he said that Ginny would be next, but as long as Harry was there hopefully nothing would happen to her.

Hermione wrapped her arms around Ron's neck and pressed her body against his own. She could feel him holding her just as tightly.

After a few seconds of silence, Ron cleared his throat, "Um, Hermione?"

Hermione looked up at him, she saw his eyes inviting her to do what she longed to do for a long time…Oh hell, Hermione thought giving in to the temptation.

Ron bent his head and pressed his lips against hers.

Finally! Hermione thought blissfully, little did she know, that this one kiss would change her life forever.