Chapter Two: Telling Harry and Ron

A/N: I own my characters and the plot

The next morning, Hermione sat at the Gryffindor table alone, until Harry and Ron came down.

"McGonagall said you were coming late," Harry said, smiling.

"Yeah, I've got great news. I'm not a mudblood. I'm a pureblood," Hermione smiled.

"What?" Ron asked.

"Yeah, it turns out that my father is a wizard, and so is my mother. I don't know who my mother is, but my father is Voldemort," Hermione told both of them.

Harry and Ron both choked on their toast.

"I was at Malfoy Manor yesterday because Draco and I are promised to each other," Hermione added.

Harry stared at Hermione.

"You aren't lying," he said.

"No I'm not. I've never lied to you. It was a shock to me toowhen I found out," Hermione replied.

Ron looked as if he was going to cry and Hermione didn't understand why.

"But what about us Hermione? I thought that after last year…" he trailed off.

Hermione burst into tears.

"I'm so sorry Ron!" she cried.

People looked at Hermione in confusion. She got up and ran out of the Great Hall. She turned a corner and ran into Draco.

"Are you all right?" he asked, holding her up.

"I hate you! I hate my father! I want my life back!" Hermione yelled.

"I know you're angry about the whole situation, but why do you hate me? What did I do?" Draco asked.

"It's your fault I can't be with Ron! I have to marry you!" Hermione cried.

"You actually want to be with the muggle-lover?" Draco asked, disgusted.

Hermione stopped crying and gasped. She wiped away her tears and looked up at Draco.

"Muggle-lover? He's a blood traitor?" she asked.

Draco nodded. Hermione composed herself.

"I'm sorry, I don't hate you. I guess I forgot that his family… I'm sorry," she said.

"It's all right. You didn't realize. Shall we go to class? I've got our schedules," Draco said.

Hermionesmiled andnodded and they went to class. They went to the Potions dungeons and saw Professor Slughorn.

"Good Morning!" he exclaimed.

"Good Morning professor," Hermione smiled.

"Morning," Draco said.

"I heard you two were Head Boy and Girl, congratulations," Slughorn said.

"Thank you, sir," Hermione replied.

"Take a seat, class will begin in five minutes," Slughorn said.

Hermione and Draco sat down in the back of the room and got out their books. The rest of the class filed in and sat down. Harry and Ron glared at Draco, but said nothing.

"We are going to start a potion that will require many weeks to finish. I will partner you up today and you will begin notes for the potion. If I get no complaints, you shall get no homework," Slughorn smiled. "Now, Harry and Pansy, Ron and Parvati, Dean and Milicent, Seamus and Lavender, and Draco and Hermione."

Ron grew red in the face.

"Professor, why did you pair us up this way?" he asked.

"Because, Mr. Weasley, I am the professor and you are the student. I can do as I please," Slughorn grinned.

The class laughed and began to move to sit with their partners. Hermione was already writing down what Slughorn had put on the board. She wanted to be prepared, no matter who her partner was.

"Should I take notes?" Draco asked.

"If you want," Hermione replied, not looking up from her parchment.

Draco opened his book and began to take notes on the potion. He and Hermione finished in half an hour.

"Wonderful! You two can just sit there or go to your common room and wait till your next class," Slughorn said.

Hermione went to the library and sat at a table in the corner. She began to read, but stopped when Harry and Ron sat down.

"What are you two doing here?" she asked.

"We finished our notes. We need to talk," Harry replied.

"Okay," Hermione said.

"Are you and Malfoy dating?" Ron asked.

"No, why?" Hermione asked.

"Because he just took Pansy Parkinson up to his room," Harry told her.

Hermione felt tears burn in her eyes. She didn't cry, instead she nodded.

"Okay, that's really none of my business, but thanks for telling me," she said.

"Just thought you ought to know, I mean, you are getting married to him, aren't you?" Ron asked.

Hermione shrugged and got up.

"I'm gonna go, thanks for the warning," she said.

Hermione walked to the Head's Tower and said the password. She expected to hear Draco and Pansy shagging, instead she heard arguing.

"You don't love me!" Pansy yelled.

"No! I never have! Get that through your thick skull!" Draco yelled.

"It's the mudblood, isn't it?" Pansy asked.

"She's a pureblood, she's Voldemort's daughter," Draco replied.

"Still, you love her, don't you?" Pansy asked.

"More than anything. I only brought you here to break up with you. You're a good friend Pansy, you always have been. Dating isn't for us," Draco said softly.

"Its okay, I guess. We're still friends, right?" Pansy asked.

"Of course," Draco replied.

Draco and Pansy walked out of his room to see Hermione rooted on the spot. She wasn't breathing properly and fainted. Draco swore and rushed to pick her up.

"I have to take her to the Hospital Wing," he told Pansy.

Pansy nodded and went with them. Madam Pomfrey for Hermione to wake up and she stared at Draco and Pansy.

"You heard us, didn't you?" Draco asked.

Hermione nodded, but didn't say anything. She sat up.

"You can go," Madam Pomfrey said.

Hermione stood up and her knees buckled. Draco grabbed her around the waist.

"Don't touch me," she said, pushing Draco away.

Draco creased his eyebrows.

"Why are you angry with me?" he asked.

"Just don't touch me. I would've felt better if you and she had been shagging," Hermione said, as they walked out of the hospital wing.

"Wait one damn minute," Draco grabbed Hermione's shoulders. "You're mad at me because I told Pansy I loved you? What the hell is your problem?" he asked.

Hermione's eyes shined in fear. Tears streamed down her cheeks but she never broke eye-contact with Draco.

"I'm not mad at you. I'm afraid of you, and my feelings for you. If I let you touch me again, I'll do something I'll regret," Hermione said.

Draco's hands dropped and he looked at Pansy.

"And this is the only daughter of Lord Voldemort," he said.

Pansy laughed softly. Draco turned to look at Hermione again, and before he knew it, he was a little white ferret bouncing up and down.

"You were saying?" Hermione asked, when she turned Draco human again.

Draco was shocked. He wiped the blood from his lip and glared at Hermione.

"Nothing, Granger," he drawled.

Draco began walked towards the Slytherin common room with Pansy behind him. Hermione fell to the floor and began to cry.