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Chapter 3

A knock on the door drew Draco's attention away from his book. Looking over to Harry he saw that the boy was still asleep, before he opened the door and stepped outside.

"Here's the potion." Lucius spat.

"Drink it." Draco demanded. The potion was dark blue just like it was supposed to be, but that didn't mean that it wasn't messed with.

"Draco you don't know what affect this potion could have on me since I haven't had the first potion."

"Your right. Here." Draco replied handing Lucius the potion that Harry had taken. Lucius flexed his jaw and threw his potion on the ground and took the potion that Draco handed him. He took a seat on the ground before downing the potion. After a few moments Lucius pulled another vial of dark blue liquid out of his pocket and took a sip. After a few moments he stood up and shoved the vial into Draco's hand before walking off without another word.

When Draco returned to his room he found his owl sitting on his desk with a letter in his beak.

"Good girl." He cooed handing his owl some treats out of a box he kept on his desk, before opening the letter.

To contact me just say Hermione Granger I am awaiting your call.

Hermione

Draco walked over to his fireplace and tried again to contact Hermione. This time he found himself looking into an extravagant living room that reminded him very much of his own.

The blonde was about to get angry when he saw Hermione walk into the room.

"Oh I'm sorry have you been here long?"

"No, I just flooed." Draco said surprised that Hermione was actually here. "Is this your house?" Hermione raised an eyebrow.

"Why would I ask you to floo me elsewhere?"

"I just- I never pictured you as a person with money."

"Both of my parents are dentists. Doctors of any kind usually make pretty good money. I assume that you didn't come here to find out about me what do you want?"

"I wanted your side to know that Potter is safe."

"How do you know about Harry?"

"My father made the capture."

"His with you?" Draco nodded. "What the hell? You expect me to just believe that his safe? Your dad send you to do this so he could get his ransom?" Hermione was furious.

"No! I'm calling you so that you don't do something stupid. There is no way that you will be able to get through all the wards my father has up alive and now that we have Potter there will be deatheaters surrounding the property. You will lose to many people trying to save him. I can get him out of here by December without risking anyone."

"Am I supposed to believe you?"

"Look you'll just have to take my word for now. I can open up a time slot for you to come in and not only take him, but to get Voldemort as well. I just can do it until December twelfth."

"So you just woke up today found Harry in your house and decided that you want to save him or what?"

"I don't have to explain myself to you."

"Fine then tell me this. Why can't you just floo Harry here now?"

"Because I don't want to die. Also I can almost guarantee you'll get Voldemort in December. Look run it by Dumbledore and contact me. I promise that I can keep him safe."

"I want to know he is safe before I do."

"Give me an hour and you can floo here." Hermione thought about it for awhile then nodded.

"Alright an hour."

Draco pulled his head out of the fire place. Harry was still asleep, but Draco wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not. The blonde desperately needed a shower and he didn't want to leave Harry alone, but the potion that Lucius gave Harry took a lot of energy out of him. Draco decided not to wake him and went to check the locks on all of his windows and the door. He added extra protection spells around those as well as around his bed, before he went to take his shower.

As Draco stepped into his shower he went over the rough draft of the plan he had. The plan Draco had would take a lot of lying; mostly to Voldemort's side. However Harry wouldn't know that Draco was lying to them and if he found out things could go badly. Draco couldn't risk telling him though. He knew that Harry was bad at Occlumency.

Draco knew a lot more than he should have known. That was why Voldemort needed him so much. Also Voldemort thought that only Draco could kill Harry. But Draco knew it wasn't true. He had been planning on turning from the dark side for a long time. So he planted information and clues that led Voldemort in the wrong direction. Nothing could be linked to Draco except for the pointless things. Voldemort was hoping that one day Draco would come upon something of great importance. The truth was he had and had let other's discover the wrong thing. They did get rewarded, but they were also heavily punished when the truth came up.

No one but Draco knew the reason Voldemort hadn't gotten further in the amount of time he had. Draco sent him in so many wrong directions, that he was chasing his tail more then he chased Harry's. For someone so powerful Voldemort, was extremely gullible. Which was good for Harry because it was probably the only thing saving him from the final show down with Voldemort. Draco used to say that it was the only thing saving him period, but those few times that Voldemort had gotten on and stayed on track long enough to get to Harry, Harry proved himself and held his ground.

Draco stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around his waist before going to the door and looking to make sure Harry was still alone and asleep. He was. Not trusting anyone who would be in the house Draco rushed to get dressed and magically dried his hair.

Draco walked back into his room pulling the vial out of his pocket and lifted the protection charms from his bed.

"Harry." He said giving Harry's shoulder a small shake. "Harry wake up." Harry's eyes fluttered open and filled with surprise before he remembered everything that had happened.

"Ugh." Harry closed his eyes again and covered his head with his arms.

"Come on you need to take this." Draco said trying to pry Harry's arms away from his face.

"What is it?" Came Harry's muffled reply.

"It's the counter potion, so you can move your legs again." Harry moved his arms and let Draco feed him the potion. "We need to wait a few minutes. I made Lucius test it, but I don't trust him. Do you want to take a shower?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, I'll get some clothes for you." Draco looked at his watch. "Granger will be here in about thirty minutes." Harry shot up.

"Hermione's coming here? Will it be safe for her?"

"Yes and Yes. While you're in the shower I am going to ward everything, it will be fine."

"Am I going back with her?"

"No. Not yet at least and I hope not ever." Harry gave Draco a questioning look. "If you go home with Hermione tonight and most likely any other time I will die for letting you go. I know that you probably don't care about my life, but I do. I'm not risking your life by attempting to save mine, so you're going to stay."

"Okay." Draco looked taken aback, by Harry's response.

"Okay?"

"Yeah. I don't want you risking yourself to save me. I don't want another person dying because of me." Draco was silent for a moment. He was surprised that Harry cared at all.

"I won't die."

"Good."