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Hermione reached across her bed tothe bedside table, truning off the alarm clock. She looked at the clock. 6:15 it said. She dragged herself out of bed and into the shower. As she shampooed her hair, she thought of what had happened almost a year ago.

The phone rang while she was sitting in the hot tub that was sunken into her back patio. She picked up the cordless phone that was on the edge. The voice on the other side belonged to her close freind, Harry Potter.

"Hermione?"

"Yes?"

"Where's Ron?"

"I haven't a clue, why?"

"Oh, shit. Ok, I'm coming over. Get ready to leave, but make sure you wear something you can move around in."

"Wha--" CLICK. She didn't know what else to do, so she ran inside her house and quickly got dressed in a pair of snug jeans and a low cut tank top. She saw a picture of the three of them from their school days on top of her dresser. her body had really grown up since then, and she didnt mind showing it off either. Her hair had since then become sleek and shiny,and about shoulder length. Compared to then, her hair was perfectly straight. She was still smart, but if you didn't know her, you would never had guessed. She heard a knock on the door as she was pulling back her hair. She went to the door to let Harry in, but when she opened the door, he pulled her out instead and said something quickly.

"What? I caught none of that except Malfoy and Ron somewhere in there."

"I said Malfoy challenged Ron to a duel a few weeks ago after a bet on a Quidditch match went awry, and now I can't find Ron or Malfoy anywhere, and the only place I haven't looked is where they arranged the duel!"

She just stood there for a second thinking. "And why didn't you just tell me to come with you?"

"I thought you would have wanted and explanation"

"Just shut up and go already!" She held on tightly to his arm as she apparated to a place that, judging by the size of the mansion on the hilltop across from them, was seomwhere behind the Malfoy Manor, which, to her knowledge was inhaibted only by Draco. Before them were two men, about 20 years old each, and both at each others wand point. They were about 10 feet away from each other, and appeard to be yelling at each other.

"I told you, Weaselbee, I'm not going to-" he stopped, appearing to have noticed the two that had apparated onto the edge on the clearing. "Well, looks like Pot-head Potter got himself a girlfreind."

"I told you never to mention that ever again," Harry said, drwing his own wand.

She vividly remembered that time back in Hogwarts in their last year, when Malfoy was close enough to trust with somthing like this. With a load of spells placed on the door to the head boy/girl common room, Harry had revealed a stash of drugs he had brought back from his vaction to America with Sirius. The night ended up with several stories told and unmentionable events that happened.

A/N: Sorry, this is getting complex, but thats going to come up later and some things just need to be explained

"And I'm notHarry's girlfreind. Just because you haven't seen me in five years gives you no reason to forget me Malfoy."

Malfoy's jaw dropped. "Granger? Wow, for a Mudblood, you're pretty hot." This made Hermione draw her wand out of spite. " Now that you have been kind enough to show me your wands, " he muttered a spell and all other wands in the clearing came zooming to his outstreached hand. "Honestly, Granger, you should have expected that. Now, you two, get over here," He directed them to an are off to the side with his wand," And don't go anywhere." Before they could react, he had them both in full body locks with two quick spells said under his breath.

'Damn he's fast,'she thought,'but how am I going to get my wand back? We need to get out of here.' She and Harry, both being Aurors, had begun training with wandless magic, but they were still in the very basics. Luckily, she had read most ofthe book they had been given to study, but unfortuntaly had not had time to work on the spells she found. 'Well, here goes nothing' She began trying to summon her wand, but it did not come. She treid several wandless counter-curses they had learned, but none worked. Then out of nowhere, Ron began to scream as if his body were being torn apart. She francically began to summon her wand and saw it move closer inch by inch, until she finally yelled as loud as she could with her jaw frozen, and it flew into her hand. She gave the counter-curse and sprang up, ready to hit Malfoy with whatever she could think of, but he was already by Ron. He grabbed Ron's arm and disappeared into thin air.

"CURSE YOU DRACO MALFOY!" she yelled into the night sky as loud as she could.

"I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU REGRET THIS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!"

She turned off the shower and climbed out to get ready for work. As she ate breakfast, she remembered with a shudder that they had found Ron six months later, half-insane from torture. She was going to land Malfoy in Azkaban for life for this, if it was the last thing she did.