At the welcome breakfast at Hogwarts later that day. Hermione is sitting with her friends at the gryfindore table. "granger!" Draco yells from two tables down. Hermione turns around.

"what?" Draco throws a crumbled ball ofpaper at laughs. draco turns back to his was about to the throw the back at when she nociced it send read me on it. It wasn't trash it was note. She uncrumbles the paper and reads it to herslef.

To Hermione,

I was thinking about what you said, your right this isn't the real me…... But I don't know what to do everyone expects me to be this person. My friends, family, classmates. My dad wants me to be this person. I have never disobeyed my father before…..well execpect for once but he never found out about it. I don't know what he would d do to me if I disobedy him and he found out about it. Meet me at the atromany tower at 10 O clock PM I need to talk to you some more.

-Draco

Hermione quickly hides the letter in her pocket. At ten o clock pm Hermione went up to the atranmy tower. Draco was there waiting for her.

"hey?" she says awkwardly. Its been so long since she`s talked to him as if he was normal human being. "hey." Draco replies. Looking down at the world below. "…..Hermione I need your help…and I cant go my friends cause they wouldn't understand. Everyone is expecting me to take another person`s life….but I cant. it wouldn't feel right. but If I don't kill this person Voldmort is gana kill me and my family. " Draco starts to cry. Hermione runs over to him. "i don't know what to do! Please Hermione, help me…..i know where not close anymore but….i really need your help. I mean your smart maybe theres away out of this that i`ev over looked."

"cant someone eles maybe do it for you?" "no it has to be me, i`m the choosen one." Draco starts to cry even more. Confused and not knowing what to do Hermione hugs him hopeing to help him feel better.

"Ron, do you really think a watch you left up here last year is still gana be up here?" Harry asks Ron as they run up the stairs of the asronomy tower.

"it might." Ron says simpley. They get to the top of the astormmy tower and as they walk into the door way Harry and Ron`s jaws drop with disbelief at what they see.

"what the bloody hell is wroung with her! Why would she be going out with that Bastard!" Ron Complains.

"ron, you don't know that she is dating him. She was just hugging him maybe there just friends." Harry says.

"were her friends Harry! Not him! Hes the emieny!"

"maybe hes not as bad as we think and hermione sees it in him."

"not that bad? This is the kid who constantly makes insults about us. He the one who almost got buckbeack killed. "he was the one who was gana throw nevillle`s remembrole on the roof if it wasn't for you stopping him. Hes the one who called Hermione a…..well you remember."

Harry nobs yes.

"and you think maybe he`s not that bad."

"look at breakfast tomorrow we`ll confrount Hermione and ask her whats going on between then."

"alright."

Lunch the next day

The next day at breakfast.

"so then I had relized I had taken Luna Lovegood`s wand by mistake." Hermione tells Harry and Ron. she was previously telling them some story about how she was scaried cause her wand wasn't working.

"why are you with him!" Ron yells now standing up. not fully relizing that he had just screamed it. "What are you talking about?"Hermione asks, looking embrassed. Ron sits now embrassed for himself.

"I think what ron ment to say was," harry says. " me and ron where going up to the asonamy tower last night to look for ron`s watch and once we got up there we saw you and draco hugging we wanted to know if something was going on between you two.

"well I don't really think that's any of your business. But if you must know hes an old friend." "we have been friends with you since our first year." Ron says. "how can he be an old friend of yours if we didn't know you were friends."

"we were friends before Hogwarts. We lived in the same town he lived nextdoor and we were good friends." Hermione smiles remembering old times, when she was little and her and draco would play in her backyard. They play all sorts of games both muggle games and wizarding ones. "you expect us to belive that." Ron says. "you parents are muggle and everybody knows malfoy lived in Monder Valley,cause he never shuts up about it and how amazing it is there,and Monder Valley is the most hateful of muggles."

"well my parents didn't know that when they bought the house. You know why am I explaining myself to you! Were friends shouldn't you belive me?"

"Hermione we just don't want you to get hurt. " harry says