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3 weeks came and went while Draco and Hermione's love grew immensely. They talked together while going on their night routes and found out about each other's lives.

"So what do your parents do in the muggle world?" Draco asked one night.

"Um...I really don't wanna tell you." Draco could see Hermione's cheeks were red.

"Come on Hermione. You can tell me." He found out recently whenever he says her first name rather than her surname, he could get her to do whatever he wanted.

"You'll laugh at me."

"No I won't. I promise I won't laugh."

She looked at him for a second and sighed. "Fine I'll tell you. They're dentists." He looked confused so she explained. "They work on people's teeth. They make them straight and make sure that they are healthy."

He almost started laughing but found Hermione glaring at him. "Oh, is that a good job to have in the muggle world? Sounds kinda gross to be honest."

Then she started laughing and said, "It is gross but they had to go to school a really long time and the pay is great. I'm actually really glad I got my letter to Hogwarts because if I hadn't my parents would have had me follow in their footsteps and I didn't want to."

"Yeah. I was actually worried I wouldn't get my letter."

"Why do you say that? You're a pure-blood. A Malfoy."

"Well I guess the owl got lost and I got my letter 2 weeks later than I should have and my parents got really mad that I didn't receive it yet. I actually was threatened by my father to be disowned and thrown out on the streets. Just like what happened to Potter, only difference is I would have no relatives to go to. I would have gotten hit with curses left and right if that happened. I would have been an orphan."

"Just like Voldemort," Hermione whispered.

"What did you say?" he asked harshly.

She was taken aback by the venom in his voice. "Well…um…Harry found out last year that Dumbledore-" Draco's face fell by the old, deceased headmaster's name. "went to personally get Tom Riddle from the orphanage when his letter wasn't answered. Tom was abandoned because he was a half-blood. His mom was a descendant of Salazar Slytherin and his father was a muggle. Voldemort's grandfather was livid when his daughter had the son of a muggle and killed both of them then disowned Tom sending him out on the streets." Draco's mouth was hanging on the floor by the end of Hermione's explanation. "What's the matter Draco?"

Draco walked away pissed and went to the common room with Hermione on his heels. He pulls out his wand and was going to use the Floo Network to fire-call to the Malfoy Manor. "I have to tell this to my father."

"Draco! No you can't. He'll start thinking you're against Voldemort now. You can't."

"Yeah but all this time, everyone has been deceived by the Dark Lord. Plus my father keeps holding me up to the Dark Lord's status but I'm not the same as he is. I can be with you without anyone judging me if they knew this."

"Draco," he turned to look at her. "Do you honestly think that once Lucius finds out the truth about Voldemort then he'll just be so lenient about us dating? I'm still a 'mud-blood' to him. Nothing will change." Draco winced at the word "mud-blood" but he was more surprised that it came out of her mouth. "Well…am I wrong?"

He thought about it for a second and sighed. "No, Hermione, you're not wrong. You're right as usual." She slightly smiled and reached for his hand and pulled it away from the fireplace. "I guess for once in my life I have to trust Potter."

Hermione laughed and said, "I've trusted him for almost 7 years now. I would trust Harry with my life."

"Unfortunately, I know this already." She giggled at that. "Sorry, I know he's your best friend but him and Weasley…they will react the same exact way that my father will when we tell them about us and you know it." She nodded sadly. "Oh god, Hermione."

"What?"

"How did this happen? I care more about you than I've cared about anything else before. Even before I came back to school I was worried but I'm more worried now that someone will find out about us."

"I'm the same way too Draco." She thought for a second before asking, "Why were you worried about coming back this year?"

"Well, everyone thought I killed Dumbledore."

"No they didn't. Harry cleared your name and said that Snape did it."

"That's good because Snape did kill him, not me," he snapped.

"I know that Draco. There's no need to snap at me."

"Sorry." He looked at her with sad eyes. "This whole world needs help. The Dark Lord is a horrible person. And believe it or not but he's gotten in people's heads that he's helping. Like all the Death Eaters think he's on the good side and everything they are doing is for people's own good. I have no idea how he did that but he did. However I do know they are all there on their own freewill. None of the Death Eaters are under the Imperius Curse."

"I know how he did it. He's using Occlumency on them."

"Are you sure about that Hermione?"

"Yeah. Find out how their childhoods were and twist them around so each and every Death Eater thinks he's helping. That way they can never go against him later and say that they were under the Imperius Curse."

"How did you figure that out?"

"Draco…I have been around Harry Potter for my entire magical life. I know probably more than you do."

He shrugs, "I suppose you do. Maybe I shouldn't have been such an ass to Weasley 1st year and couldn't have been Potter's friend. Then maybe I wouldn't have so many problems right now." Hermione laughed. "What?"

"Just being Harry's friend doesn't mean that nothing would have happened to you. Us 3 have been through more stuff than anyone else in Gryffindor. If you wanted a boring life you should have been friends with Neville." She started laughing harder.

"Hermione?" she noticed the seriousness in Draco's voice and stopped.

"What is it Draco?"

"Have you really been though that much?"

"Yeah. You should have seen everything we have done. It's so fascinating. It's not a good thing that we have been through everything because of Harry but you have to understand Draco; I don't regret any of it. Because of Harry, I got the 2 best friends anyone could ask for. I would take any curse for them any day and I love them unconditionally. And because of Ron, I got another family; the Weasley's. So now I have 3 families."

"How do you have 3 families?"

"Well my blood family in the muggle world, the Weasley family and then my Hogwarts family. Everyone in Gryffindor – even the other houses, including Slytherin – have been my family since I got here. I guess 4 families because I always consider Harry, Ron and me as our own little family. I love them Draco so I don't regret any of the past 7 years."

"I guess you miss Potter right now don't you? I mean you still have Weasley and the Weasley girl but to not have one of your best friends with you is got to be hard for you."

"Yeah it really is hard. Last year he even told me and Ron that he wasn't coming back to school this year but we told him that we were coming with him. Then after Fleur and Bill's wedding this summer, he just disappeared and no one could find him. That's when Mr. and Mrs. Weasley told us to go back to school. They told us that if we really needed him, he would know it but for now to just leave him."

"You ok Hermione?" She had the gloomiest look on her face that he just wanted to drop the conversation completely.

"Not really but I will be. It was hard for me to be the 1st few days but after awhile it got easier."

"That's good. I'm glad you can just get over it that fast. I remember when I was going into the 6rd year and my father got so pissed at me over the summer because I was trying to refuse on getting my Dark Mark. Not that it did any good but that took forever to get over."

"So you got it?"

"Yeah I got it over Christmas break last year." She stepped away from him. He moved forward and grabbed her arms. "But for some reason it disappeared the night Dumbledore died. When I didn't kill him it went away. It was because I didn't do what the Dark Lord wanted and I wasn't a supporter of him any longer." He pulled up his sleeve and pushed his arm in front of Hermione's face and it showed a flawless pale arm. She had tears in her eyes as she rubbed her hand up and down his arm gently. "I never wanted it anyway."

"Does Voldemort know about this?"

"No. At least I hope he doesn't." he looked at her and asked, "How come you say his name like it's no big deal?"

"Because fear of the name only-"

"'increases fear of the thing itself.'" She looks at him in shock. "2nd year you said it. The day in Flourish and Blotts, when you were talking to my father." She nods at him. "That surprised me and my father when you said that. I remember leaving the store and he said, 'That stupid mud-blood will learn her purpose this year.' At that moment I had no clue what he was talking about. However I'm glad you were only petrified instead of dying like my father wanted. He was rather disappointed."

"Well, he'll be even more disappointed when he finds out about our relationship." Draco moved closer to her holding her hands.

"He would be very, very angry. So should we make the best of it while we can?" He had his normal Draco smirk on his face. He pulled her arms around his back and he started kissing her. Then moving his mouth all around her neck. They moved to his bedroom slowly. She was clinging tightly to him and when they got close to the bed he pulled her legs up and made her fall to the bed. Her legs wrapped around his waist he moved on top of her with her giggling.