Disclaimer: see chapter 1 also Rose Zeller actually belongs to JK as well, I found her in the character archive. I don't know how old she is, or what year she's in so I've put her in 7th year.

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"You're alive," she said blankly to Harry.

"There's no need to sound so disappointed," he said grimly, wiping flecks of blood and slime off his glasses.

"Oh, well...I'd just been thinking...if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet," said Myrtle, blushing silver.

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Chapter 2 - The time has come

Draco and Hermione were among their friends in the great Hall, it was Halloween night of their 7th year at Hogwarts, and everywhere you looked there was couples dancing and romancing. This couple was no different. They had been together since June in their 6th year; 5 months and they were pretty serious.

As Draco pulled Hermione closer to him he saw that his watch read 11:34pm. He had no idea that in 24 hours time his life as he knew it would be over.

He looked around at all the other couples together. Harry and Ginny had been together for the last 3 years and were very much in love. Ron was with Rose Zeller, a Hufflepuff they had been together for the past 2 years and they were already expecting their first child together in 4 months time. Draco smirked at her pathetic attempt to cover the little bump up with a puffy dress. Harry, Ron and Ginny had become some of his closest friends since dating Hermione, they all truly saw he had changed and accepted him. If they only knew. He didn't honestly know Rose that well but he acted friendly towards her non-the less.

Only the true death eaters in Slytherin, Ravenclaw and the one Gryffindor death eater, Pavait Patel knew why Draco was allowed to act friendly with them and openly show affection towards Hermione. The simple truth was Voldermort needed Draco and he had to keep him sweet to get what he wanted.

Draco was very surprised when he found out that there was a Gryffindor death eater, but when he found out it was Pavati he wasn't as surprised, her parents were both in Slytherin when they were at school, they hung around with other known death eaters and Pavati's twin Padma was in Ravenclaw, which housed as many death eaters as Slytherin house. Only Hufflepuff house didn't seem to have any death eaters in his opinion.

Draco could smell Hermione's vanilla scented hair as she twirled her around on the dance floor, she never noticed him looking around the hall. He saw known death eaters leaving the hall Goyle, Crabbe, Zabin, Parkinson, Patel twins and loads more. To him he could smell a death eater a mile away and when he saw all these students leaving he knew something was up.

Lucifer, his father's owl was perched on top of the large doors where all the students were leaving, his eyes glowing red. A sign for Draco to leave. He knew that the time had come. Hermione had to know the truth.

"Hermione" Draco said stopping them dancing, he pulled her to the side of the hall. It was time to tell her. She needed to know. All thoughts were going through his head; he was trying to plan the best way to explain it.

"Draco, is there a problem?" Hermione said. Its now or never he thought

"Not for me, you maybe" he said coldly. His demeanor took Hermione back

"Draco?"

"Hermione I'm going to become a death eater," he told her. She was mad, upset of course, but she knew she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of seeing her like that. So she put on a brave face and looked him in the eye.

"Then you'll have to do it with out me" Draco turned away from the only woman her ever loved and left the great hall but not without the ever vigilant Mad eye Moody noticing him leaving with the other death eater. He signalled to McGonagall who left the hall through a little door that lead into a private waiting room.

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