Loyalty

Part 26- You Say This Now?

A/N: Ok… so I went back to all my chapters and I tried to re-write them, but it was just no use! So, I decided to just go on with this chapter and hope they will get better. I'll have you know that my other story is going on quite well and I'm so excited to post it. But it won't be for a while because I want it all typed up before I post any of it so none of this will happen again…

THANK YOU MY LOYAL READERS! AND I'M TERRIBLY SORRY FOR THE WAIT!

Last Time On Loyalty

"I don't know."

"Can we just go?" Hermione asked impatiently. "This is creeping me out."

"Yeah come on. Grab Malfoy's other arm and help me get him up to the Hospital Wing."

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Eavesdropping.

Now, I really wouldn't call it that. More like wanting to find information from other people that they don't want you to know. Yeah, that sounds better.

Well that's what Harry, Hermione, and Ron were currently doing. The three of them were outside McGonogal's classroom listening to Minerva and Dumbledore fight.

"What else should we do Albus? There are walls falling throughout this school. Walls!" The Professor yelled. Harry could imagine her throwing her hands up in the air and Dumbledore sitting there with a calm expression playing across his face.

"Well we certainly can't have the students go home. There is a war raging outside this school, they are safer in here."

"We've had two students injured already. I am not ready for any more to come to the same fate."

Dumbledore sighed; his already aged face seemed to look older in the past few weeks. "We just need to let this play out."

The trio bolted when they heard someone coming towards the door, and they ran up to the empty Common Room.

"Let it play out?" Ron said, "What in the bloody hell is that supposed to mean?"

Harry sat down in one of the big armchairs and stared into the burning fire. "That's the last thing I'm worried about. Didn't you hear what Dumbledore said? The war is raging outside the school…"

Hermione, who had been sitting quietly the whole time not really knowing what to say, was about to speak when a little red headed girl walked into the Common Room and over to Harry.

"Can I help you?" He asked nicely, the girl looked like she was about to faint she was shaking so bad.

"Y-Your H-Harry Potter right?"

"Yes."

"T-There's someone o-outside the door that wants to see you."

"Um… Ok. Thank you."

The little girl ran before Harry could say anything more and he heard a slam of a door come from upstairs. He gave a weird smile to Ron and Hermione before standing up and walking through the fat lady portrait.

Draco Malfoy was leaning against the far wall.

After he had gone to the Hospital Wing Harry and Hermione had left to go speak with Professor McGonagal and didn't go back to see him. Apparently he hadn't broken anything and only had a minor fracture that Madame Pomphre healed in no time. Now, the reason why he was here I guess we'll find out.

"What do you want Malfoy?" Ron spat.

"I want to help."

Ok, that was definatly not what Harry had expected to come out of his mouth.

"What are you talking about?"

"I want to bloody help you! I'm sick and tired of everything that is happening around here, and I really want Voldemort gone."

Ron and Harry were staring at him like he had just put on a tutu and danced around naked. Hermione didn't really understand what was so bad about someone wanting to help.

"You can't be serious."

"Oh but I am Pott… Harry."

"How can we trust you?"

Draco lifted his sleeves and showed off his bare arms. "I don't have the Dark Mark, and I know things that will help you."

"What kind of things?"

"Well for 1 I happen to know that Snape has a memory potion stored in one of his cupboards that he seemed to forget about, and two, I know for a fact that Voldemort is planning on attacking the castle tomorrow the minute the moon comes up."

Harry stared at him in shock. "W-What?"

"He found a way to get onto school grounds and he is planning on attacking Hogwarts tomorrow."

"How long have you known this?"

"Um… maybe about a day." He said. "I was on my way to tell Dumbledore when that bloody wall fell on top of me."

"You can't be serious."

"Do you think I would be telling you all of this with a strait face if I wasn't serious?"

He reached into the pocket of his school robes and pulled out a tiny vile filled with pink liquid. "This is the memory potion. Have Hermione take it."

And before Harry or Ron or Hermione had any chance to respond he shoved the vile in Harry's hand and left in a flash.

"Am I dreaming?" Ron asked, pocking all over his body. "Or did that really just happen?"

"It really just happened." Harry said. He walked back into the Common Room and sat down in front of the fire, staring at the vile in his hands the whole time.

"I can get my memory back now!" Hermione smiled, "Isn't that great?"

"I don't know if I should give it to you."

She looked outraged. "What! Why not?"

"Malfoy gave this too me. I have no clue what it really is."

Ron nodded his head in agreement.

"I really want me memory back Harry."

"I can't afford anything more bad happening to you right now! What if this isn't a potion to give you back your memory? Huh? What if it just makes you worse?"

"Well, that boy didn't look like he was lying to me."

"Maybe you can just take it to Madame Pomphre in the morning." Ron said, "Ask her if it really is the right potion."

"Yeah, I guess I could do that. But what if everything Draco said about Voldemort is true?"

"Then you have till the sun sets tomorrow."

Harry set the vile down on a table next to his chair and dropped his head in his hands. "I can't believe this is happening. After all these years… it's almost over."

This would normally be the time Hermione would give her encouraging words on Harry defeating Voldemort, but seeing as how she wasn't really herself Ron felt that it was up to him to do it.

To bad he wasn't good at that kind of stuff.

"I'm heading down to dinner mate. You guys coming?"

"In a minute." Hermione said. "I need to talk to Harry."

"OK."

Ron stepped out of the fat lady portrait and made his way down to the Great Hall for dinner.

"Harry you have to let me drink the potion."

"I already told you. No. I can't risk it."

Harry still had his head in his hands and was to busy worrying about dying that he never saw Hermione grab the vile off the table and pop open the lid.

"Fine. Then I'll just do it myself."

Harry sprung his head up and watched in horror as Hermione downed the pink-ish liquid.

"NO!"

She dropped the bottle, and it shattered on the Common Room floor, sending glass every direction. Her hand flew up to her head as a feeling of nausea quickly came over her, and she slowly fell to her knees, then to the floor, her eyes shut.

"HERMIONE!"

Harry picked her limp body up off the ground and gently set her down on the couch. Her body was still warm and thankfully she still had a pulse.

Without another word Harry ran out of the Common Room and down to the Great Hall. He walked right up to Malfoy who was sitting by himself sipping a bowl of soup, and got right in his face.

"What did you do to her?" he growled.

"What are you talking about?" Draco asked innocently.

"That vile. What was in the bloody vile!"

"I already told you! A memory potion!"

"Then why is Hermione passed out on the Common Room couch?"

"Maybe because that's what happens when someone takes a memory potion." Draco said as-a-matter-of-factly. "The ingredients put the person who takes it to sleep and it lets them re-live their lives that they have missed through dream."

Harry gritted his teeth. "I'll believe it when I see it."

Ron didn't notice Harry had come in until he stormed out of the Great Hall doors, and he decided to follow him. They ended up back in the Common Room, and Ron got pale when he saw Hermione lying on the couch.

"W-What happened?"

"She took the potion. Malfoy said that it's normal, she's just reliving what she missed out on through dream."

"Can we trust him? Or should we go get Madame Pomphre?"

Harry sighed and sat down on the floor, caressing Hermione's hand in his own. "I think we should just wait and see what happens.

So that's what the two boys did.

They sat and waited.

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