4.
There was a silence as Hermione sat and thought. It was funny, if she was still 18, still someone who thought she was a know-it-all, she would have started babbling and worrying. Who could she save, what would be needed? Instead, at 28, only ten years later, she was calm and collected.
She started to list all those she knew in danger, all those who had physically and mentally dared to confront the Dark Lord and live to tell about it.
"Harry Potter, Ronald Weasly, Fred and George Weasly, Ginny Weasly, good grief all the Weasly's. Neville Longbottem, Cho Chang, Ernie Macmillan, Lavender Brown, Parvati and Padma Patel, Luna Lovegood, the McCreevy brothers. Seamus Finnigan, Lee, Angelina, Hagrid, McGonnigal, Snape, Flitwick, Sinestra, even Trelawny...."
"You're forgetting some important people." Said Draco quietly.
"Who? She asked jolted out of her thoughts by Draco's sharp comment.
"Draco Malfoy, and Hermione Granger." He whispered softly. Hermione sat perfectly still for about three minutes as she realized how vast the list was, and the fact that she and Draco were targets as well.
"But that's a good thirty or so people. How could they gather them all together?" she wondered out loud.
"Simple. Someone else did it for them. Our friend Harry wasn't really thinking too much about death threats when he and his fiancée drew up a guest list and date for their wedding. Especially when they had it announced in the Daily Prophet." He said a little cynically.
"So what do you propose?" she asked curiously
"Well Dumbledore's gotten wind of it of course, hard to hide anything from that man." Hermione nodded recalling some of the reconnaissance she had done on the side for Dumbledore in the last few years.
"But the Servants are too stupid to realize their own intelligence leak. So, what Dumbledore and I are proposing is a sting. Every single member of the Servants of the Serpent will be present at that wedding in hiding. We'll be the ones to gather more intelligence, and hopefully sabotage their plan, and set up a sting operation that will get rid of each and every member. Granger, frankly I can't see why you won't jump at the chance. You could be someone who helps bring in the biggest criminals ever. So...are you game?" he said, speaking the last few sentences in a fevered rush.
"I..." Hermione tried to think one step ahead. This was Draco. She did not trust him one iota, and to have to work with him frightened her a little. She had gathered information before, but this was.... different. It seemed a little too good to be true. To rid England of the Serpents would make everyone breath so much easier...
"Come on Hermione" she thought. "It's a chance of a life time. S what if an absolute git is who you'll be working, you've dealt with worse. And you could make more of a difference than training medi wizards and healers...."
She looked Draco straight in the eye
"I'm game"
A.N. – that was very rushed, and I hope the quality didn't suffer. Tell me what you think, and if I explained the plot well enough....