Hi people…..again…..

Okay guys, sorry for making you wait for so long. My family went on a cruise over Christmas break! Don't' hate me!(please?)

Moving on, thanx for all of the great reviews im getting!

Sooooooo, here is Chapter 17!

Enjoy………

Chapter 17

Ruby gone and Pheonix song

Ron sat at Hermione's bedside in the Hospital Wing, holding her hand as she lay unconscious, twitching convulsively. Madame Pomfrey said that the necklace had been soaked in a love potion called Amortentia. Ron recognized the potion's name from the previous year when Hermione had identified it in Professor Slughorn's potions class. The Veela Diamond, Madame Pomfrey had explained, has an extremely powerful love spell on it by itself, so adding the most powerful love potion known to wizard kind to it made its power increase tenfold. Madame Pomfrey had given Hermione many different antidotes, but she wasn't sure that Hermione would ever be exactly the same as she had been. She would most likely have many veela characteristics from now on.

Ginny had been up here earlier. Ron had told her to go up to bed and get some sleep. She had done so, crying silently.

Hermione suddenly gave a violent jerk, startling Ron.

"No! No! No! Stop it! It hurts! Take it away!" she shrieked, her eyes still closed and her arms flailing about wildly, as though trying to fight off an attacker. Madame Pomfrey came rushing in, put some kind of sedative in a syringe(a/n: if you don't know what a syringe is, it is a doctor's needle), and put it in Hermione's arm. Hermione struggled helplessly for a second, then, her head fell back onto her pillow. She didn't stir for the rest of the night.

Malfoy stormed into the dungeons and snatched up the potions book he had left there(A/N: hee hee hee……. I love to make Malfoy storm around…its fun).

How could this have happened?

Finally, he found the page for Amortentia. His gray eyes scanned the page. When they hit the warning, they widened.

He could've killed Hermione.

He began pacing around the room, thinking hard.

What would he do? Potter and Weasley would most definitely come after him now!

Hermione was sitting in a dark room all alone. No, she felt the presence of another at her side. She looked over the figure of Ron. But his face was covered in a dark substance. What was it? Hermione took a closer look…

"NO!" She let out a scream of terror and awoke in the hospital wing. Harry was sitting beside her bed with the ruby.

"Oh, hi, Harry," She said feebly. Suddenly, it all came rushing back to her. The note, the necklace, Malfoy.

"I know how to destroy it," She said. Harry nodded and set the ruby on the floor. Then he put a silencing charm on the room. Hermione retrieved her wand from the bedside table, pointed it at the ruby, and said,

"Neuclation Reducto!" Then, she very quickly cast shield charms on both herself and Harry.

This time, after the smoke cleared, there was no trace of the ruby anywhere.

Almost instantly a strange sound filled the air, a sound that Harry and Hermione had not heard for almost a year, began to ring through the corridors. It was beautiful, yet eerie at the same time. The warbling notes sounded sad….but happy, too.

"It's Fawkes! He's back!" Harry exclaimed as the pheonix flew through the door. He glided across the room and perched on Hermione's shoulder. He then rested his head on top of Hermione's and began to cry.

Hermione felt better. Much better, in fact.

But of course, Hermione thought.

Pheonix tears heal. They must not only heal flesh wounds. They can heal internally as well.

"Thank you, Fawkes," Hermione said gently, stroking the pheonix's scarlet head.

"Hermione, I have to tell you something," Harry said,sitting back down in his recently abandoned chair.

"Professor Trelawny made another prophesy. About me and Voldemort. But I know what it said because I was there. She said;

When Dark Lord an Young Wizard battle, the young one will be almost dead, when an daring friend comes to his aid. The Dark Lord will hate her for her heritage, but she will protect the young wizard from almost certain death."

Harry finished with a dramatic air that sounded very much like Professor Trelawney's herself.

"So what? Trelawney's an old fraud," Hermione said in a bored tone of voice.

"The prophesy means….you, Hermione."

Hermione' jaw dropped.

Her? Defend Harry against Voldemort?

"What? No, I-,"

"The prophesy said,'the Dark Lord will hate her for her heritage," Harry interrupted, emphasizing the last four words of the sentence.

"For her heritage, Hermione. You're muggleborn. Voldemort hates muggleborns. She. It's going to be a girl protecting me. Friend. It all fits. It has to be you," Harry said. Hermione put her face in her hands.

"But why?" Hermione said softly, almost inaudibly. When she looked up, there were tears in her eyes.

"Why me?"

As Ron walked back to the Common Room from the Hospital Wing, he heard an explosion go off up ahead of him. It was coming from the Gryffindor Common Room passageway. As he rounded the corner, he saw chaos.

The fat lady's portrait had been completely blasted of the wall, like somebody had set off some explosive that Hermione had mentioned once, Dinictite, or something like that. Everything in the Common Room had been destroyed. There was somebody in there, too.

"Hello? Who's there?" Ron asked, drawing his wand as he did so.

"Weasley, how nice to see you," Bellatrix Lastronge said, turning to face him. She had an insane smile on her face, and her wand in her hand.

"Stupify!"

Ron opened his mouth to shout the word "Protego!" but, before he got the chance, all went dark.

Hours later, Professor Flitwick(Who had taken over the role of Headmaster when Minerva disappeared)walked quickly to the hospital wing. He couldn't think of how he would break the news to the two students.

When he swept into the room, he found Harry, Hermione, and Fawkes the pheonix sitting at one of the beds.

"Mr. Potter, Ms. Granger, I'm afraid I have some rather unfortunate news. Mr. Weasly has been kidnapped," Flitwick said very solemly.

"Kidnapped? By who?" the students chorused.

"I believe that he was taken by one of Lord Voldemort's death eaters. And the thing I am almost completely sure about," The Headmaster continued, "is that he'll be back."

Ron awoke in a dark cell. He was sore all over. He let out a small moan.

"Weasley, I see you're awake," the familiar,sneering, oily voice of Severus Snape said.

"The Dark lord is very, very pleased that you will be with us for a while," Snape said with a high derisive laugh, very much like Voldemort's himself.

"What do you mean?" Ron asked coldy.

"What I mean is," Snape said maliciously,

"You are now our bait."

Soooo….. am I evil or what? Yes I am going to leave you at this cliffhanger for an entire week. Now press the review button or it will be TWO weeks! HaHaHaHaHa!

Okay so, please do not hate me for not updating in a while, like I said. Its not my fault the boat charged 30 bucks for one hour online!

NEXT CHAPTER: Unexpected Savior

The final fight between Harry and Voldemort is raging on, when Hermione jumps into the frey…..

Stay Tuned!