Prologue
It was Hermione's seventh year at Hogwarts. Over the summer she had made plans to join the order and fight off the death eaters along side her two best friends, Harry and Ron. Harry had spent the first month with the Dursley's and then he went to Number Twelve Grimmauld Place where he met the Weasleys and Hermione. Shortly after, he dropped out of school, and began his search for Voldemort's Horcruxes. At the time Ron and Hermione had planned on joining him, and standing by his side but Mrs. Weasley refused to let her son drop out of his last year at Hogwarts. And Ron was stuck back at Hogwarts. For a short period of time Hermione believed that it would just be Harry and herself out looking for Horcruxes, but The Order had other plans for Hermione. This was going to be the first year at Hogwarts during the war without Dumbledore. Without Dumbledore, everyone was worried that Hogwarts would be unsafe. And The Order was out to prove that Hogwarts was still the safest place for young witches and wizards. And they wanted Hermione to be Head Girl and still be able to protect students, and confide information with The Order. Hermione dutifully took up her job, and was ready for a long and difficult year.
By the time the school year started all love and lust thoughts between Hermione and Ron had diminished, because of their bust schedules and their distance from each other now that Harry was gone. Things at Hogwarts had definitely changed. Anyone who could apparate could now do so in Hallways, Teacher Offices, and Common Rooms. Magic was permitted in self-defense cases. Professor Flitwick put numerous charms around the school to repel dark magic, but compared to Dumbledore's enchantments, they were practically useless. All the younger students had to be escorted to class, and their freedom was very limited. Ghosts and talking portraits were removed from Hogwarts, for the simple reason that many people didn't trust them. Slytherin students were now no longer to be in touch with any others, because parents were fearful that they would end up being Death Eaters. Hogwarts was no longer the same place it had been when Hermione went there as a young witch.
Ron, who had been extremely antsy about the Second War found himself being called to the Order in the middle of October. Mrs. Weasley let him drop out to fight Death Eaters. In the beginning Hermione kept in touch with him, but before she knew it she had no idea what happened to him. Harry on the other hand had to be completely alone always. Nobody kept in touch with him for his own safety. Without her two best friends Hermione felt quite alone. She ended up constantly patrolling hallways, and keeping herself aware of Death Eaters in the castle. Professor McGonagall was good Headmaster, but was nothing compared to Dumbledore. Hermione kept in touch with numerous official people in the order, including Mad-Eye, Mr. Weasley, Tonks, and Lupin. She would apparate to Number Twelve once a week and gives them new on the students there. But other than confiding with the Order, Hermione found herself quite alone and depressed. Anthony Goldstein, Head Boy, knew nothing of Hermione's alter life with the Order, and she preferred to keep it that way. They shared a common room, but other than that they shared nothing else.
Ever since Lucius had been sent to Azkaban, the Dark Lord was quite disappointed with the Malfoy family. He ordered the young Draco to kill Dumbledore. Draco was determined to put value back in the name Malfoy, and took up this challenge eagerly. But Snape and Narcissa had made an unbreakable vow; Snape was to kill Dumbledore if Draco was to fail. And sure enough Draco did fail, and in turn, Snape murdered Dumbledore. That night they fled to their lord, where Snape forced Draco into confessing how he had failed so miserably. That night The Dark Lord tortured Draco beyond Snape's comprehension. But Draco was obedient. He took his punishment and begged the Dark Lord for another task. But instead of giving him a new task right then and there, the Dark Lord banished Draco for a period of six months. The Death Eaters functioned without any help from the Malfoy family for that time.
But when the middle of December came, the Dark Lord came up with a new task. Find Harry Potter. In the beginning he was quite confused. But it all began to come together. His plan was to get the information from someone he was sure had it. Someone close to Harry Potter; Harry Potter's close friends. Draco made a list of people he knew the so-called "Chose One" was close to. Ron Weasely, Hermione Granger, and Ginny Weasely were Draco's first choices.
He thought it better to not mess with the Weasely family alone, so he picked Hermione Granger. Draco remembered her from school the previous year. She was always very intelligent and brave, and that would probably propose a challenge for him. But Draco made his decision, he began to study Hogwarts, watching her between classes, he noticed that she was always alone. That meant that the Weasely's were no longer around. He also noticed that she was Head Girl, and a Ravenclaw boy was Head Boy. Immediately he was sparked with jealously. He knew that if he had stayed around, that he would be Head Boy, and he would be sharing a common room with the mudblood girl. And yet this mudblood girl had grown up into a mudblood lady. Although she wore school cloaks, he had noticed that every time she took them off in her common room, she had a body built for sex. Her hair which had always been bushy and untamed, she finally learned to deal with. She pulled it up every day into a bun, so that the bushiness was much less noticeable. Her trait of being a know-it-all had diminished for the simple reason that she was very quiet now that she was alone. But the most peculiar thing about the mudblood was that she apparated once a week and returned usually an hour later. Draco was dying to know where it was that she was going to...