When she reached the staircase, she fell to her knees and started to cry.

"Hermione! What's wrong?" he asked lifting her up.

She turned into him and cried on his shoulder, "Oh Harry! Ron wants to kill himself, he thinks Ginny's dead! He won't try to see the bright side and look to the possibility that she is alive!" she fell to the floor once again, bringing Harry with her. They sat there for a while, Hermione crying in Harry's arms.

"Miss Granger?" came a voice. "Potter, what's wrong with her?" It was professor McGonagall.

"Ron, he-well, you see, he, er, Professor? Ron wants to kill himself, he-"

"He, WHAT?" she shrieked. Hermione cried even harder. "You two go down to the Great Hall and fetch Dumbledore for me, while I go talk to Mr. Weasley."

They nodded and left down the Grand Staircase.

McGonagall burst through the doors and headed over to Ron's bed. "Mr. Weasley!" she snapped.

"Yes, ma'am?"

"I was just told an interesting bit of information from your friends!" She spat. Her shouts echoed all the way down the corridors, and were heard by Dumbledore, as he headed up the stairs.

Ron wouldn't talk to either of them for the rest of the week. There was no news of Ginny, and Snape was still neglecting the plan. As much as he loathed Harry, he couldn't let him die.

After potions one afternoon he asked Hermione to stay back, the class oohed while they filed out of the dungeons and headed off to dinner.

"Sir?" she asked as she walked up to his desk. "Have I don't something wrong?"

"No Miss Granger, but there is something that I want to tell you." He sighed and sat down behind his desk.

"Y-yes, sir?"

"I-" he mumbled something.

"Sorry, I didn't catch that." She said softly.

He straightened up in his chair. "I need to know if I can trust you."

Hermione was taken aback with the question, but answered all the same. "You can trust me." She said.

He sighed once more. He was about to speak when an owl flew in the open window and landed in front of Snape, he reluctantly took the letter and opened it.

It read:

Severus,

I am waiting for Potter; the Dark Lord will not be pleased to find that you have gone soft on him!

You have tonight to bring him to me or else the girl dies, no questions asked!

LM

He sighed once more and tossed the letter to her, her eyes sped back and forth as she read the letter. Her eyes rested on the signature, "LM?" she read aloud, "Who-"she stopped. "Surely not-" she looked into Snapes' eyes and realized it was true. "Oh god! Ginny!" she whispered. She looked back at him anger in her eyes. "You knew!" he nodded. "You knew this whole time and you didn't do anything abou-" she stopped again. "That was Lucius Malfoy that I saw the day of the train wreck!"

"Excuse me, Miss Granger?" he asked

Hermione went into the story of what she saw the night of the train wreck. Just as she finished they heard a scream coming from the room above the dungeons. Forgetting their conversation they bolted up the steps and saw Ron lying face down in the middle of the Entrance Hall, surrounded by a pool of blood.