Hey folks. Just a little author note to explain what happened with this fic. It was meant to be Draco/Hermione, believe me. I am totally a DMHG shipper and am barely tolerant of other pairings (terrible, I know). Anyway. When I was writing, Charlie was a convenient way for Hermione to escape, and to pull it off they had to get married. But.
Now that they're married, I had the problem of getting rid of him. And I like my Charlie, he's a cool guy. So I kinda compromised. They stayed married (I couldn't kill him off without having to put in at least twenty pages of Hermione grieving, she does love the guy after all, and what is everyone else going to do while she's mourning for twenty pages?), but Draco and Hermione had a more of a mental relationship, which can be deeper, when you think about it. After all, he knows everything about her, utterly, and vice versa. And they still hang out, and they are in love. But Hermione won't hurt Charlie like that and while Luke probably wouldn't mind too much, he still wouldn't be particularly happy, and she won't do that to her son either. So.
It was meant to be a DMHG ship, and it still kinda is. But it's also HGCW ship, so I hope you guys can deal with that, too.
Oh, and by the way, someone brought this up in a review and while I'm probably being uncharitable, but because I'm actually very proud of this story I thought I'd clarify. I got the main idea for this story (Hermione being kidnapped by Voldemort) from a story by Senya, in which all you really saw was Hermione's return to the Burrow. The story itself was good, but she'd stopped writing and the idea intrigued me so I asked if I could continue it on. In that light, I wanted to say that all the dragon stuff and the stuff that actually happened at the Manor was all my idea. I suppose I'm nitpicking…if people enjoy the story then it shouldn't really matter, but I thought I'd just point that out anyway.
I hope everyone liked it. Istalindar.