Hello everyone. I felt like I was forgetting every other character in the story so I sort of brought them together again. The entire story is same except for Ron and Hermione not being together but I do have Pansy for Ron and Draco obviously is for Hermione. So enjoy this chapter. I believe this one is fun because I enjoyed writing it. I know I was little late for the update but I had lot of things going on. Anyways Love you all and thanks for all the support.

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Chapter 15

She wanted him to leave her alone, he would grant her wish. But here is the rub, she hadn't mentioned the time so it wouldn't be bad if he started bothering her after sometime, will it? It had already been a month since the episode in the bathroom had happened. He had promise himself that he will 'leave her alone' for maybe till about the time everybody returns back to school from their holidays and for now Draco has some business to clear at home. He has to mention his heart problem (that's what Blaise had called it) to his parents. He will let them know that he loves the 'mudblood heroine' and if they object they don't necessarily have to be the part of his future life. With that thought he was headed towards charms.

It is the last day today for the class before the holidays. Draco has lot of things in his mind so he didn't notice anything until he bumped into something, rather someone. He caught the person by the shoulder before she hit the floor. He then realized that it was Hermione.

For four long weeks he had been dreaming about her. He wanted to touch her and kiss her like he had a month ago in the bathroom. She flinched at his touch and jerked her away from him and moved towards the door for Professor Flitwick to open it. He stood there just watching her every move. They were alone at the moment because they were both early for the class. He kept staring at her until he was brought back to reality by the noise descending towards the class. Yes I will give her some time to relax but after that you are mine, Hermione Granger, by the time he was done thinking the door to charms class opened and he and Hermione both entered it without glancing at each other.

Christmas at Weasleys was always ecstatic. But this year the mood for the blissful occasion was little off. Fred and George were the ones to change the gloomy atmosphere into a cheerful one all the time. However, the death of George's other half seven months ago had a huge impact in the family. Always happy George was lost in his pensive thoughts most of the time since Harry and others had arrived. But after he proposed to Ginny in front of everyone, the mood had lightened up a bit.

It could have been the night of his life if he hadn't gotten a very bizarre letter. In fact he got two letters but one was for Ron which was also weird. The envelope of the letters suggests them to read it when they were alone.

Flash back

Harry was alone in Ron's room reading his unexpected and very unusual letter. It read:

Potter,

I know this is not what you have thought of receiving as a Christmas gift on its eve, and also you might find it hard to believe to get it from me. Nevertheless I believe that you and also Weasley need to hear it directly from me before I formulate a plan. I need a big favor from both of you. It is hard to put everything in this letter so I was hoping you (along with Weasley) would want to meet me. I have never said this before to anyone but would you please meet me up tomorrow at the Leaky Cauldron. I promise I will behave myself and only answer your questions. You can bring veritaserum with you if you don't believe me but I desperately need your help (from both of you). And I would appreciate if you could come alone actually you and Weasley.

Please and thank you

Draco Malfoy

"What is he playing at?" barked Ron busting through his bedroom's door bringing his letter up in the air. "Do you think he is serious?"

"I don't know Ron, you and I got the letter at the same time. What I don't understand is why does he think that we would listen to him?" Harry asked

"Because we are Gryffindors and we are always brave and also curious as fuck… Do you think he is going to ask something about Hermione?" Ron asked

"I have a feeling." Harry replied. "But if he talks about wanting to be with her I am gonna Avada him on the spot."

"What do we tell everyone when we leave for tomorrow?" Ron asked

"It will be easy to lie to everyone but I am worried about Hermione. She might catch our lies." Harry replied

Next day the boys asked George if they can go visit his shop for a bit so this could be the cover up for them to see Malfoy. After telling George that they will be back in a while they left for Leaky Cauldron. It wasn't that busy because it was Christmas day but still they needed to put a silencing charm once they got to Malfoy's table. One can never be too careful in wizarding world.

"What's this about, Malfoy? And hurry up we don't have a whole day." Ron snapped as soon as he sat down.

Malfoy seemed like he wanted to reply back to Ron's comment with a snide but he rather bit his tongue and said "First of all I want to thank you guys for meeting me. I know it's hard to see my face after what happened with Gran… Hermione. I promise you that although it was my intension for getting close to her (sleep with her) in the beginning but I wasn't going to hurt her. I did bet on her but it was truly because I wanted to be with her. I… I saw her getting torture by my crazy ass aunt. I saw her go through all sort of humiliation throughout our school year. And some of them were caused by me. Through this bet I wanted to redeem myself and get to know her better." He finished

"So why didn't you? Why didn't you ask her out like any other boy?" asked Harry

Malfoy sighed "call me a coward or whatever you like but I am a Slytherin. We don't intend to do anything that is supposed to be normal. We make everything hard for everyone including for ourselves." He chuckled "you did see that bastard half-blood who talked about blood purity and stuff ended up destroying everything around him and made a way for his own destruction. I am not saying I am a good person but I am not bad like him or my father. To whom I did mention about Hermione by the way."

Shocked at this statement, both boys said "WHAT?"

"Ya I did talk to him about me liking Hermione as soon I got home for Christmas." Malfoy said

"What did he say?" asked Ron

"As usual blood purity and shit. But I didn't care. I am not the same weak child who admired his evil father all the time. Time has changed, I have changed and I am not going back. Mother is backing me up. She threatened that she would leave my father forever if he doesn't try to change. Believe it or not he does love my mother a lot so he hasn't said anything or has done anything and he won't do anything in the future also."

"So what do you want us to do?" asked Harry coming straight to the point.

Both Ron and Harry looked at Draco and he said "I would like to date Granger. But I want your help to convince her. I know I haven't done anything responsible or nice things to her or anybody but that will change. It could have been alright if we didn't talk or kissed but after that I feel like if I don't get her I wouldn't be able to breathe. And I am not lying. So in the near future I am going to charm her and try to make her mine. But in order to do that I needed your permission because you are her family, friends and brothers. So please please help me out."

Shocked would not sum up the emotions that Harry and Ron were feeling when they heard Draco's confession. But they nod with her approval "but this doesn't mean we are friends ferret. If you cross one line I will have you know I will break your neck the muggle style." Ron joked forgetting all about killing him if he mentions Hermione.

Draco smiled and said "wouldn't dream of it… Weasel."

As they were leaving Draco said "oh by the way I know you don't associate with Blaise but if you can hide this from him that would be nice."

"Don't worry we are not his friends and we don't like to talk to him because of how he was acting in Great Hall that day. So your secret is safe with us." Said Harry

Flash back ends

"Harry what did we get ourselves into?" asked Ron

They were sitting on the couch watching TV (Mr. Weasley was always fan of muggle things so after the war ended, he got electricity for the house and bought a TV much to Mrs. Weasley's dismay. But she wanted something to distract her for the loss of her child which is impossible but she was trying).

"That's what I was thinking about." Harry replied taking a sip of his fire whiskey

"Do you think the girls would approve?" Ron was referring to Pansy and Ginny

"What do you want to be approved by us?" asked a very puzzled Hermione who was standing in front of the kitchen door. She had been visiting the Weasley for the Christmas because her parents were visiting all of their relatives in order to compensate for last year's fiasco about them losing their memory and all. Ginny was behind her and Ron saw Pansy coming out of the kitchen door.

"Pansy? What… What are you doing here?" Ron asked standing up with shock in his voice. Ron had talked to his family about dating her after Harry proposed to Ginny. They were already happy about Harry and Ginny so they were ok with him dating Pansy. She also had mentioned about Ron to her parents. They weren't against her that much because the war had changed everything but also Ron was a war hero so they were also ok with their relationship. Pansy had mentioned this to Ron in her letter. He had smiled about it.

She smiled and went to him "I came to see you silly." She hugged him and they kissed

"EEEEEWWWWWWWWWW." both Harry and Ginny said at the same time

"Please don't do that in front of me, you will scar me for life." said Ginny

"Get a room." said Harry

"Oh please like you haven't done it. You were practically making out with my sister day before yesterday." Ron retaliated

"That was because I proposed to her you git. And she is my fiancée."

"OOoo I like the sound of that." said Ginny making her way to Harry. He put his arm around her waist.

"Oh my Merlin, am I the only single one here? Please guys do me a favor don't do anything mushy in front of me ok. Anyways you were saying something about us approving something. What is it?" asked Hermione going back to the topic.

Both the boys thought the topic was closed but they forgot it was Hermione Granger who they were dealing with. "Uummm…. You tell her Ron" Harry was out of word so he pushed Ron under the bus.

"Well Harry received a letter." said Ron which made him receive a deathly glare from Harry so he continues "The letter was from a girl, Romilda Vane. Remember her?" asked Ron

Everybody except Pansy nodded. Harry wanted to know where this story was leading so he kept quiet. But Ginny had to ask "Why would that bitch be sending a letter to MY fiancée after what she did to MY brother. And why are you reading her letter, Harry?"

"UUmm… I...I…." he looked at Ron for some answer

"Well first of all it wasn't her fault that I was in the hospital wing but that's not the point. Vane wanted to know if Harry was interested in her. But after reading her letter Harry wanted me to go to visit her to bitch at her and also slap her if she didn't listen to us." Ron lied

All the girls gasped and Harry just stared at him with open mouth and Hermione asked "What the hell is wrong with you, Harry? Why would you want to hit a girl?"

A very shocked Harry answered "Why indeed? Well I love Ginny and I wanted her to know that, also I wasn't going to hit her, I would have just stated my point verbally." He lied

At this everybody laughed and the topic was closed but somewhere far away from the Borrow in a mansion in Bistrol was a boy of eighteen named Blaise Zabini who was in fact very unhappy. His pureblood friend Draco Malfoy was going to taint his blood by asking the mudblood out and he didn't like it. He had followed Draco to Leaky Cauldron on the Christmas Day (because he had a sleep over at Malfoy Manor for Christmas Eve) and had seen him talk to Potter and Weasley. Although he couldn't hear what they were talking about he still had some idea. So now he had to make sure Draco doesn't follow up with his plan and won't ask Granger out.

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