At exactly 10 pm, Hermione Granger heard the door to the Room Of Requirement open. A certain Blonde Haired Slytherin popped his head in. She smiled. "Draco! I'm sorry...I just had...had to talk to you, or something!"

"I was thinking the same thing, you know," he replied, also smiling.

"Listen, I'm really sorry that I called you a ferret...I know that was painful, and that wasn't even Moody, he was an impostor, and it was really awful, even though I laughed, and-"

"Hermione! Shut up!"

She laughed, "So, My Brave Knight, how has life been faring?"

His face fell.

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"Hey, Harry...have you been noticing that Hermione's been acting a bit...strange lately?"

"Yeah, Ron, it does seem she is up to something..."

"Well, I think she's gone mad, although, that's not new at all."

Suddenly, the portrait hole opened and Lavender and Parvati walked in. "What about Hermione, Ron?"

Ron and Harry exchanged glances. Lavender and Parvati were always eavesdropping and such. "Well, she seems a bit distant...and acting really..."

"Mad, I tell you!"

"Ron!" Harry exclaimed.

Lavender and Parvati started nodding slowly, "Yeah, we've been noticing strange things too," Lavender agreed, "like, she's talking in her sleep!"

"About...guess who!" Parvati said, and she and Lavender started giggling uncontrollably.

"Who?" Ron and Harry said at once.

"Draco Malfoy!" Lavender and Parvati ran off laughing.

"MALFOY! Why would she bloody be dreaming about that worthless git?" Ron yelled.

"Ron! Keep it down! You don't want the whole school knowing she's doing it, you know."

"Right..." Ron's face turned bright red.

"Um, Ron, hasn't it been a while since Hermione went on her walk? I hope she's ok..."

"Why don't we check?" asked Ron as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"How- OH...right."

Both boys ran upstairs to get something that once belonged to four troublemakers.

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"...and even Headmaster Splinkett doesn't trust me, I know it!" Draco explained in an exasperated voice.

"Draco...I wish I could say that I know how you feel, and that everything's going to be alright, but I don't know...we're going to somehow convince everyone that you were innocent!"

"There's no way...even the remaining Slytherins hate me, because they think I backed out..."

"You've still got me, okay? No matter what." She pulled him into a tight hug. Hugs weren't really Draco's thing, but from her, they were Heaven.

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"I solemnly swear I am up to no good." The Marauder's Map suddenly came to life, showing everyone's activity inside and outside of Hogwarts. Ron and Harry scanned the building and grounds for Hermione, but they saw no sign of her.

"That's funny...it doesn't show people only if they're off the grounds or in the...Room of Requirement..." Harry slowly said. He quickly scanned the map again. "Malfoy's not on here either! What if Hermione's in trouble!"

Ron looked at Harry with fear in his eyes, rummaged in Harry's trunk for his father's old Invisibility Cloak, and started running down the stairs. Harry followed.

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"Yes, Horcruxes. Do you know that they are, Draco?" He shook his head. "Can I trust you with this?"

"Of course!"

She took a deep breath. "A horcrux is something that preserves part of a person's soul. Tom Riddle- Voldemort- made SEVEN of them. We have already destroyed two. Harry was going to drop out of school this year to find the other five, but the Order- The rebellion against Voldemort- forced him to stay in school to not draw any attention. We desperately need to find and destroy the other five. We suspect that there are four total relics from the original founders of Hogwarts Houses, and we already have Slytherin's ring. We have a theory that Sirius Black's brother, Regulus Black, took one of the four before we got to it. He is most likely dead. Then, if we kill Voldemort himself, he will be gone for good. If you were to somehow find one of these horcruxes, you could be trusted again."

Draco stared at her, taking in all of this new information. Slowly he nodded. "I'll do as much research as I can...and I'll try to remember anything that anyone else told me about these Horcrux-"

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Ron and Harry had reached the Room of Requirement. "Okay...we need to see what Hermione and Malfoy are doing..."

Surprisingly, a door appeared. Harry had no such luck last time he tried to see what Malfoy was up to. Harry and Ron opened the door, and peeked in just in time to hear "and I'll try to remember anything that anyone else told me about these Horcrux-"

OOOOH cliffy.

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