A/N: Im not completly happy with this chapter, it might get remade later, but here's what happens next at least. I hope you enjoied this all and what i edited on the previous chapters. I'll be hopefully working on this more.

Chapter 14: The Whomping Willow's Wrath

Snow fluttered across the sky as Draco emerged out from the entrance into Hogwarts. Hermione was in trouble and the thought of such a thing killed him inside. Strength unknown to him flared up and he was willing to take on anything that was to come in his way. He walked down paths strong and paced. Before he knew it, he was standing a couple hundred feet away from the Whomping Willow. There laid fragile Hermione still in her beautiful dress, struggling beneath the many branches of the evil tree. She struggled not yelling for help knowing that no one would answer its call. The tree was swinging its branches in attempt to get to her but she was just barely out of reach. Draco's eyes watched horrified and he started to run towards her.

"HERMIONE" he yelled out, running faster than before. Draco pulled out his wand while he ran closer, branches began to launch after him, and he turned, spun, jumped, and dodged out of the way of the swinging branches. He was almost within reach of Hermione; he flicked his wand saying a spell that burned the rope off the tree. Hermione as free, his mind was at ease, he dodged to where he was next to her, running his hands over her face.

"You ok?" he said while everything in his body still raced.

"I'm fine" Hermione replied whipping tears from her eyes. "How are we going to get out of here?" The Whomping Willow's branches still flew from place to place, preventing a safe return to the building. They both sat thinking of what spell could be used to get out of the way.

"I got it!" he said excitedly. "When I say so, run back to the building, don't look back, I'm going to try to stun it."

"Can you even do that spell!"

"I am not weasel. I can manage, now just wait for when I say so, and you run and don't stop."

Draco watched the swinging branches fly in front of them; swishing back and forth, angrily. He looked around watching for when there would be a perfect gap of time for her to run back to the building. Finally their chance came, the branch whacked the ground and none was going to come back at that spot for a few seconds.

"NOW HERMIONE, GO!" Hermione picked up and sprinted across the ground, the Whomping Willow might have been big and brutal but it wasn't fast and Hermione was a fast one. Draco watched her ready with his wand just in case until she successfully crossed the ground without being harmed.

She reached the other side and immediately turned around watching Draco still underneath the tree.

"COME ON DRACO!"

Draco looked around, waiting for a similar breaking of time so that he could run just as Hermione did. Finally what he thought would be the perfect moment, he took off running. He was only a couple feet away from her, her eyes watching him as he ran closer, but soon her eyes grew to fear.

"WATCH OUT!"

But her warning was too late. The medusa like branches flew around him teasing itself to when it'd strike down onto Draco below. Finally, a branch came by and swung, hitting Draco's right side of his body causing him to fly in the air, landing a little past Hermione, curled up. Hermione started to feel more tears fly down her face, and she rushed over towards Draco's body covered in dirt and snow. She bent down before him moving him over to where she could see his face. He looked back up at her lifting his hand and placing it on her face, giving her a weak reassuring smile.

"Just hold on Draco… just a little longer, for me. Please." She turned to the empty spot besides her where she flashed a magic spell to conjure a sort of carrier, where she placed his body on it and drug him inside of Hogwarts, yelling for help.