"Lupin! Professor Lupin!" Hermione called. Professor wasn't technically his title since he was no longer her teacher, but old habits die hard. His office was dark and empty. Hermione grew frantic. A young woman came around the corner, "Can I help you?"

Hermione recognized her as Katie Bell; she had played Quidditch at Hogwart's with Harry. "Yeah, uh, where is Mr. Lupin?"

"Hermione, I am sorry, I didn't recognize your voice," Katie said. "Lupin is out this week, the full moon and all."

"Shit, the full moon." Katie was startled by Hermione's language, "Oh, sorry."

"No problem."

"Thanks."

Hermione ran up three flights of stairs and down twisted halls before she barged in another door. "Harry, you have to come help me!"

"What is it, Mia?"

"I have to go to Lupin's."

"You know he doesn't want visitors this time of the month."

"But I have to, it's about Malfoy."

"Well, why didn't you say so? Let's go!"

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Even with his drought, Remus became moody and unpredictable during the full moons. He wasn't going to go attacking anyone, but everyone thought it best if he stay away, just to be safe. Which was why he found it odd to hear a knock at his door. He stumbled out of his study where he had been napping. "Just a bloody minute, keep your knickers on," he responded to the incessant banging on his door.

"Harry, Hermione, what are you doing here?"

"I am so sorry to disturb you, but you had to know…"

"Know what? Slow down."

With that Hermione spilled her story. Lupin didn't think that Hermione stopped to take a breath for thirty minutes while she talked… cat, Isaac, kicked, nice Draco? Slow down!

"He is under the Imperius curse! That is what I am tying to tell you. Lucious has Draco under his control. It is the only thing that makes sense. That is why he is nice one minute and cruel another. That is why he isn't the Draco I knew in Hogwart's. He was trying to fight it and that is why Lucious hit him. Don't you see, Draco isn't with the Death Eaters? He is in grave danger."

"Slow down! It sounds like it would fit, but can you be sure. Would you risk the safety of our whole mission and the Order just on what you felt with your cat senses?"

Lupin knew this was Hermione's Achilles Heal so to speak, she would never risk the safety of the mission over some feelings. Lupin knew this would slow her down and make her think rationally.

"Yes. Yes, I would. That is how confident I am."

Well, that certainly backfired, Lupin thought. "Hermione, please be rational. If you expose yourself to Draco, our cover will be blown. Everything that you have learned will be wasted. Besides, we still don't know what all this Isaac talk is about."

"I am being rational. This is the most rational I have been in seven years. I am going to find out about Isaac today. If I don't go rescue Draco, he will die because of me. I won't have another death on my hands. I won't involve the Order if you don't trust me. You have nothing to loose but one Auror. But I am going in tonight and waiting for the curse to break, and when it does, I am taking him."

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