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Book One: The War

Chapter 6:- Bad Times

"Ok class, I want all of you to pratice your Wingardium Leviosa spells and I'll test you on them at the end of this week," Hermione finished as the students started packing and slowly exited the classroom. Its been a week since she joined Hogwarts and she was loving it. She taught first years and Advanced Charms to the Sixth Years. It was lunch and she was starving, teaching was a tough job. A lot of things had happened in the past one week. She got pretty close to Draco, just as friends though, catching up with everything. She called it truce with Lavender and things were ok between them. Even though, she had to listen to her talking about Harry, but, the good news was that she was finally coming out of the bubble. It was going to take a long time but she was going to get over Harry. It was hard because, he obviously got over it and everytime they met, he would give her a hug and it would make Hermione feel like it was old times again. Destiny and Ginny got along perfectly, Hermione still didn't finish exploring Hogwarts again. She had six years of catching up to do.

"Hey Hermione," Draco said and walked over.

"Hey Draco," she greeted. Things were great between them, sure there were sarcastic remarks once in a while, but all in all much better than before. It was kind of strange because, usually Harry would be here before both of them. That way, he would start the conversation and Hermione and Draco would join. But now, since they were the only ones there, noone knew what to say.

"So, how was your class?" Hermione asked

"Fine," he said simply followed by yet another minute of that awkward silence. Hermione took this time to analyse him. She had to admit that he looked very good, especially now that he is being nice and he gave out that mysterious vibe that she never got from Harry. Harry was always open and very friendly. Draco was friendly too, but in his own special way.

"Hey Guys," Harry called out and was walking up to them followed by Lavender, Ginny and Destiny. Hermione was so happy they were here, she probably wouldn't have known what to do.

"Hey," Hermione said. They walked into the Great Hall and sat at their usual table, reserved only for teachers. Harry and Draco were absorbed into a conversation, Destiny and Ginny were talking about Draco to Hermione at the other end.

"Wow, he changed so much," Ginny said. "Its hard to think that he used to be the Malfoy we knew"

"Yeah," Hermione said feeling uncomfortable, she really didn't know what she felt for Draco, was it friendship? or was it just because he changed and she had no other choice, or something more? She was confused right now.

"What do you mean by 'Yeah'. Just admit it, he's so handsome," Ginny stated.

"No I don't" Hermione said quickly but she knew she meant the opposite.

"Whatever," Destiny said. "He's so handsome,"

Hermione started eating her food, she didn't need to hear this at all, she had more important things to worry about, like what Dumbledore was going to do about Voldemort. Dumbledore had been speaking to them a couple of times about what was going on and what needed to be done.

"Ms. Granger, Dumbledore wants to meet you," a seventh year came up and said. "Along with all of you," she pointed out. "in his office,"

The atmosphere at the table changed, it was tensed, Slowly each of them made thier way out of the Great Hall. Noone spoke anymore, there were thinking of only one person, Voldemort. What did Dumbledore wanted to see them so suddenly? This never happened before because all of the meetings were arranged. They reached the gargoyle. Harry walked over and said the password and it started moving. Slowly all of them started walking into the rotating staircase.

"Come in," Dumbledore said as they stood at the front of his door. He looked weak and for the first time, his eyes showed exhaustion.

"What happened?" Draco asked, suddenly.

"Firstly, I would like everyone except for Mr. Malfoy, to wait outside the door please,"

Draco was surprised, he just asked them to come in, what had happened? He caught Hermione eye before she left, she was scared and that somehow bothered him.

"Now, Draco, I hope you know that your mother helped you a great deal, shes the reason you're where you are. As you know you father, Lucius Malfoy, is still with Voldemort. Recent discoveries have shown that, you're mother, has been killed," Dumbledore said as he removed his glasses. Draco was shocked, his face showed no emotion, after about a minute, he broke down. His face was inside his hands.

"I'm so sorry for telling you this, but your mother was very intelligent, I found this in her pocket," he said and handed it to Draco. There was a letter to Draco, which wasn't opened and there was another peice of parchment, which had a message, and by the looks of it, it was written by Voldemort.

The End is coming soon, the day which no witch or wizard will forget, It will be the night when Hogwarts will end to exsist, along with Potter and Malfoy, the reason why Dumbledore is still alive.

The end is coming...soon..I shall have my power back and Potter will Die.

Voldemort

"What does this mean?" Draco said

"It means that we are in war, Draco," he said.

"Wait a minute, where did you find my mother?" Draco asked.

"Nowhere near here," Dumbledore said simply.

"WHERE!" Draco demanded getting up.

"I'm afraid I can't tell you that Draco, because I know you'll try and go there, I can't let that happen," he said. Draco left the room and walked out, leaving the others surprised.

"What happened?" Harry asked, sounding worried. Dumbledore was silent for a while and noone else dared to say anything.

"Well, I unfortunately had the priviledge to tell Draco, that his mother was murdered by Voldemort," Dumbledore said calmly. "I know what you're thinking, don't go after him, he needs his space,"

"Yeah," Harry said.

"Oh my God," Hermione said.

"There's nothing we can say," Ginny said.

"Why did you want us to be here, it would have been better if you had just called Malfoy?" Hermione said, it must have been so hard to try and keep a straight face when you just found out that your mother died. Just thinking about it made Hermione feel bad.

"I wanted to let you know as well instead of him telling you, which would have been harder on him, anyway, I wanted to show you what I showed Draco," Dumbledore explained. He passed around the peice of parchment, it was followed by and eerie silence.

Hermione was thinking about only one part of the note/warning "Potter will die,"...It kept ringing in head, like a song, a bad song. She was overwhelmed with emotion and didn't know how to express herself. Tears started rolling down her eyes.

"Hermione, what's wrong?" Harry asked.

"Nothing," she said really quickly. "Just scared, that's all,"

"The Other Minister is getting informedright now, this is very serious, I want you to be on alert, you're my last hope. After Snape, there is no hope of recommencing the Order, Voldemort probably knows everything by now," Dumbledore said. "the only thing we can do is stay united, you are my last hope, now, I have no idea on when Voldemort will attack and who, but I want you to promise me, that you WILL NOT in any circumstances do anything that would put you in risk of being caught by him," Dumbledore said sternly. This was the first time they had heard him speak this way, he was dead serious.

"Yes," they answered gloomily.

Hermione left before anyone else, what was wrong with her? Harry got soo many death threats before and hes still alive isn't he? Why was she so scared now? This was going to be just like before, nothing different, Harry would defeat Voldemort.

Hermione turned around to see something that made her even more depressed. It was Harry comforting Lavender.

"Lavener, baby, it's ok, everything is going to be fine," she heard him say to Lavender who was shaking with sobs.

"No, Harry, if anything happens to you--" she said sobbing harder.

"Nothing is going to happen to me." Harry assured her and looked up to see Hermione. Hermioen turned away pretending to look at something else. Ginny and Destiny left, where were they when she needed them. She noticed Harry walking up to her, she quickly wiped her face and put on a plastic smile.

"Hi Harry," she said trying to act normal.

"Hermione, what's the matter, why were you crying back in Dumbledores office?" he asked her, walking closer, Hermione took a step back.

"I guess it was too much for me to handle," she said trying not to let her voice break.

"It's ok Hermione," Harry said and gave her a hug. Hermione let her tears flow, she didn't have anything to hide. She didn't care about what Lavender was thinking, she didn't care about what anyone was thinking, what mattered was that she cared about Harry, maybe didn't love him like before but she did care about him a lot.

"I'm scared Harry, what IF something DOES happen to you?" Hermione asked.

"Hermione, God, you of all people, this happened throughout Hogwarts, everyone thought I was going to die in first year fighting Quirrel, what about the Chamber of Secrets, the Triwizars Tournament, facing Him, NOTHING is going to happen to me, this is just another death threat," he explained.

"I know, but it sounds so final," Hermione said.

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Can anyone say GLOOMY, I have NO IDEA how i got here, but i guess the story needs to move on..ne wayzz...the next few chapters, willl be MUCH less gloomy, tRUST me, and ...ROn lovers get READDDYYY cuz hes coming to Hogwarts...will b romance blooming b/w him and...u have to read to find out..AND... I'll move away from this scenario, like...voldemort iS COMING kinda atmosphere..future chapters will be more lite..and...happy..?..dunno..ok..take care and REVIEW!

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