A/N: Thanks to the people that took time to review! Anyway, Santa comes in 2 sleeps! Lol, I'm so excited!
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Draco had already abused two sixth years for saying that his best friend, Blaise Zabini, bought this whole situation on himself. Their argument had been that if he didn't sleep with the Weasley girl, none of this would've happened. Of course, they didn't say it in those words though, and that's what pissed Draco off even more. He liked Ginny because of her relationships with the two most important people in his life and he didn't like to hear people calling her names or disrespecting her when she wasn't around to defend herself. Draco hated people who did that. They were cowards. That's all they were. He always thought that if you wouldn't say it to someone's face, you shouldn't say it.
After this happened, people started to come forward with information on Blaise's attack and who was involved. It made him sick to find out that it wasn't Pansy or Millicent that had gone after Hermione, it was Crabbe and Goyle. He didn't understand how men could hurt women. It was such an unfair fight. Even though Crabbe and Goyle were not at all bright or smart, they were big guys and could handle themselves in a fight. Ginny was only small and petite –and pregnant- and would barely be able to maintain balance when up against guys as big and strong as Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe.
It was the Malfoy way to abuse women, but Draco would never do that. He saw his Father abuse his Mother and it broke his heart everytime he saw it. When he was 8 he remembered making a promise to himself never to hurt a girl, ever. He knew that he wouldn't break his promise either, he never did. He kept every word that he had ever promised.
Now that Draco had received all the information necessary on who attacked of Blaise, he set off to find them. He had already discovered that none of them were in the Slytherin tower, which led him to believe that they were receiving punishments with either Dumbledore or Snape. Somehow he thought that Dumbledore would have them. If he was the old man, he wouldn't want Snape handing out detentions to his own students, some of which he favored. He was always much to lenient when it came to dishing out detentions to his house.
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Meanwhile, Hermione was pacing around the heads' common room. It was 11.00pm and Ginny had just dozed off to sleep after being comforted by Harry. She knew that nothing would happen between them, so she left them alone in her bedroom to talk.
Harry had turned up just after Hermione had put Ginny in her bed and the two had gossiped a bit. The knock at the portrait was a surprise. Hermione hoped that it was Draco, she hadn't seen him for hours and missed him heaps. She was also worried about him. What if the other Slytherin's turned on Draco for still supporting Blaise?
"Hermione?" Harry asked, not sure whether or not he should interrupt her chain of thoughts. She was usually very snappy at everyone who interrupted her while she was thinking.
"Yeah, Harry?" Hermione asked. She didn't care that he had interrupted her. She only felt sad when she thought about where Draco could be. She didn't know if he was okay or not and that made her extremely worried.
"Thanks for letting me see her tonight. It really meant a lot to me. We haven't had a lot of time to talk since we broke up so it was good just to have a friendly ol' chat."
"No problems, Harry. The distraction would've been good for her. Thanks for getting her out of that mess earlier as well. I just don't know what Ron's been doing lately. First he sets out to hurt me by telling everyone about Draco and I and our sex life... then he tells everyone his sister is pregnant by a Slytherin? Of course that's going to cause shit! Doesn't he think?"
"To be honest, 'Mione, I don't know what the hell he's been up to lately. I think he's hurt that you moved on so fast. When he broke up with you he kept telling everyone how hurt you looked and how you were so in love with him. He's probably embarrassed that you're with Draco now and everyone's talking about it." Harry avoided her eyes as he continued, "I'm really sorry that I wasn't there for you when he broke up with you. If you were as hurt as he said you were, you would've needed all the support you get. I know how it feels when someone you love so much leaves you for someone else."
Hermione didn't know that Ginny had told Harry the reason she wanted to break up with him. She had only done it because she felt guilty about playing around with Blaise behind Harry's back. She told Hermione that she "didn't want to hurt Harry, but I can't leave Blaise. I just can't." Hermione hoped that was what Ron thought when he was breaking up with her, but even if he tried not to hurt her, he still did. Right now, Harry was the only one who understood what she went through. Even Draco didn't, no matter how many times they talked about it. But then again, Hermione knew that she would never ever understand what Draco must be going through. His dad has just received the Dementors Kiss and his mother is dead because his father killed her – and Draco saw.
"But at least Ginny did it because she didn't want to hurt you anymore. I think Ron just did it to me because he didn't want to have to keep going behind everyone's back. He could fuck her in the open if everyone knew they were together."
"Believe it or not, 'Mione, he did care about you and he did love you, probably still does..."
"I do believe that. I also believe that he didn't care about me enough not to do something like that. That isn't love. That isn't caring about somebody. It's ruthless and it's cowardly. Of course I was going to be hurt. Of course I was going to be upset. I thought he loved me. I thought he cared. But he didn't love me enough and he didn't care about me enough not to do it! About him still loving me, I don't give a fuck anymore. I don't care if I never see him again!"
"I don't blame you about that, but I can't live without seeing Ginny. I know that someday, I'll find someone I love and care about more than I do her, but until that day, I can't think about anyone else."
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Draco was walking with a purpose towards the office of Professor Dumbledore. He was out for revenge and he didn't care what anyone said. He was going to make everyone that was responsible for Blaise's injury, feel as bad as everyone affected put together. He wanted them to feel the pain that Ginny was feeling. He was going to dish out punishment of his own as he knew Dumbledore would let most off with a warning for a first-time offence.
He said the password 'sugar glider' and made his way up to the door of the office where Dumbledore welcomed him in.
"Ah, Mr. Malfoy, I wondered when I would be seeing you."
Draco ignored the comment of his headmaster and instead lunged towards the body of Travis Flint, sixth year and younger brother of Marcus Flint. Travis' name had come up during Draco's examination of the Slytherin's. Apparently he delivered the blow to the head which was one of the main causes of Blaise's amnesia.
His lunge made all the other Slytherin males around them jump back out of fear of what Draco might do to them. They were all still scared of Draco, regardless of the fact his girlfriend was a Gryffindor muggle-born. They wouldn't dare to turn on Draco, even though he was now an orphan, the consequences of aligning themselves against Draco still proved to be to severe.
Draco started laying into Travis as soon as their bodies hit the floor. He wanted to cause this bitch as much pain as he could. Blaise was his best friend and they were both finally happy with themselves and their lives right now and someone always had to ruin that. Now Blaise would probably never ever know that the baby Ginny is carrying is his. He will just know that some woman, named Ginny, is claiming that before he got amnesia, they were together and he got her pregnant. And unless the team at St. Mungo's can get his memory back, he will forever only live with memories from this day forward and never remember how he fell in love with Ginny.
By this time, Travis' nose had started to bleed and he was sporting several cuts along the side of his head. He was quite enjoying torturing Travis but Draco was actually quite surprised that Dumbledore hadn't stopped him yet. He spoke too soon though. No sooner had he thought those words than he had been pulled off of Travis with such a force that for a second Draco had to double-check that it was Dumbledore who had dragged him off Travis.
After the boys were dismissed from Dumbledore's office, Draco had to stay behind and endure 20 minutes of lecturing from the Headmaster on how he shouldn't take matters into his own hands no matter how much he wants to because it will only complicate and make things worse. Draco hardly listened to a word he said anyway, instead he sat there pretending he was listening when in reality he was actually thinking about his next target of revenge.