a/n Thank you for the reviews. Here is the 24 chapter. I never thought that I would make it this far.
Hermione ran out to the forest just as Draco came back. She smiled as he stumbled out of the forest.
"Draco! I've been looking every where for you, where have you been?" He looked up at her confused.
"Why were you looking for me?" He asked and Hermione rolled her eyes.
"I've been thinking and I decided that I'm sick of thinking. I'm just going to do what I feel like doing." At this he smiled at her.
"Oh, and what do you feel like doing?" She pulled him to her and kissed him on the lips.
His arms made their way around her waist and he pulled her closer to him. Just as he was about to deepen the kiss a sharp zap of electricity made them pull apart.
"What was that?" Hermione asked confused.
"I have to go," Draco said and he ran all the way to Gryffindor tower. He had to talk to Harry about this; he would know what to do.
"Password?" The Fat Lady asked.
"Who cares? I need to talk to Harry Potter! Please," he added as a second thought.
"Ok, I'll see if he is in here, but next time have the password." Moments later Harry was through the portrait hole staring at Draco.
"I don't know who to explain this, but the Dark Lord left some of his powers behind for his successor. The only problem is that his successor couldn't obtain his powers, but some how I did. Now I just kissed Hermione and an electric zap made us pull apart. What is happening?" He looked pleadingly up at Harry who frowned slightly.
"Well Voldemort's powers should be like him, so the shun love. You love Hermione, so whenever you touch her the power should react. There might be a way to change it though, so that Voldemort's power feeds off of love instead."
"How, I never wanted this power in the first place! All I wanted was Hermione!" Draco said in frustration.
"All you have to do is tell Hermione you love her, and then the love that you two share should turn around Voldemort's power so it feeds off of love." Harry concluded. (a/n you know how Harry has to defeat the Dark Lord with love? Well he knows everything about love because he had to master his weapon. I just thought you should know in case you were wondering why Harry knew all of this.)
"Easy," Draco said jumping up.
"No, not easy," Harry said and he gave Draco a sad smile. "You see Voldemort's power will restrict your throat so that every time you try to say 'I love you' to Hermione, you won't be able to say it." Draco scowled and sat back down.
"Then how am I going to say I 'love you' to Hermione?" They had reached the dilemma.
"I don't know, but I'll find out. I have a bunch of ancient books on the power of love and hate. Maybe I could find a way to freeze Voldemort's power just long enough for you to tell Hermione that you love her." Draco nodded and smiled at Harry.
"You know Potter, you're not that bad," Harry smiled at him.
"You're not that bad either Malfoy," Draco smiled back at him.
Mean while... Inside Gryffindor tower…
Ron lay idly on the bed waiting for Harry to get back from talk with Malfoy. It seemed that everyone was spending a lot of time with Malfoy. He even had Hermione, wasn't that enough? He took her away form him, and now he was taking his friends too? What next his family?
"Having Malfoy troubles?" A creepy voice asked form the corner.
"Yeah, who are you?" Ron looked up and saw Michael. "Aren't you supposed to be the new Dark Lord? What are you doing here?"
"I have a little problem; you see Malfoy has gotten a hold of my father's powers. Now he is at risk of over taking me as the new Dark Lord. Technically I'm not in the school this in front of you is just a reflection of me. I need someone to let in into the school so I can take Malfoy. See if you let me in, I'll take him and you won't have to worry about him any more." Ron smiled a little, and it bordered on being evil.
"You won't hurt anyone will you?" Michael shook his head.
"Of course not," Ron frowned a bit.
"Ok, when do you want me to open the doors?"
"Midnight," he said in a low voice before the reflection disappeared in a wisp of smoke.
Ron lay back on the bed with a huge grin plastered to his face. He didn't have to worry about Malfoy any more. Just then Harry walked in deep in thought.
"Hey Ron, why are you so happy?" Harry said catching sight of Ron's big grin.
"Nothing mate, nothing at all. Hey you want to play chess?"
"No, I have to look something up for Draco," then he sighed as he saw Ron's grin begin to fade. "Ok, but only one round." Smiling again Ron set up the chess board. Everything was going his way.
"Draco, what is wrong? Why did you have to leave?" Hermione asked the minute Draco reappeared.
"I had to go talk to Harry. You know that Power orb that held the Dark Lord's power?" She nodded vigorously. Sighing Draco told her everything that happened, and what Harry said. He half expected her to jump up and run away from him. But she didn't, instead she smiled at him sadly and wrapped her arms around him.
Draco sighed in content as he held Hermione in his arms. He wanted so much at that moment to say that he loved her, but he couldn't. Instead he steeled on pulling her closer to him and hiding his face in her hair. Eventually he would tell her how he felt.
a/n I decided to give you guys a break and not end on a cliff hanger. What did you think about the chapter? Another twist with Ron and everything right? Don't worry Ron isn't evil, he just think he is protecting everyone by doing what he is doing. Tell me what you thought!