Harry was glad when he was returning to Hogwarts; it had been weird at the house with Melanie and Draco not talking. Ginny spent a lot less time with him, and Draco spent a lot more time, and true they had become much better friends but he would honestly prefer it if Melanie and Draco would just get back together, luckily Melanie's hair had turned back to her normal black.

Ethan was settling in well, he got on with everyone, many of the girls, unnoticed by him, had taken a notice of his good looks. And yes he looked like Harry, just a little bit less dorky cute, and a bit more like Christopher. Somewhere in the middle really.

Melanie was feeling guilty for yelling at Draco, but he hadn't been that nice to her either. She wouldn't go to him though, if he cared for her, really cared, he could prove it.

Hogwarts was boring, Melanie thought as she wandered aimlessly along a corridor, curfew was in roughly five minutes, it would take her twenty to get back to the Gryffindor common room, heaving a sigh Melanie trudged away towards the stair case.

"Hey you! Yeah you! You were meant to be- Oh it's you," Said a very familiar voice, Melanie turned to see Draco standing there with hands shoved deep into his pockets. And Melanie realised just how much she had missed him.

"Is that anyway to speak to your girlfriend?" Melanie said with a light tone.

"I wasn't sure if you were still my girlfriend…" Draco trailed off.

"Oh course I'm still your girlfriend, it was just a stupid argument," Melanie said softly. Draco nodded and stepped towards her, he liked the way his height loomed over her, and yet she felt so safe.

"Does that mean I can kiss you again?" Draco asked with a smirk.

"I guess so," Melanie said with an innocent smile plastered over her pale face. Draco swooped down on her and kissed her deeply, making Melanie's knees go weak, but he held her around the waist to stop her falling before pushing her against the wall for more support.

"I've been waiting a while to do that," Draco said when finally the pair detached.

Melanie giggled.

"Sorry I'm such a stubborn-"

"I don't want you any other way."

The Gryffindors couldn't be happier when Draco and Melanie walked in to the common room that night hand in hand. Everything was right once more, or as right as it could possibly be when you were part of their world.

Blaise was sat talking to Hermione, spring had decided to grace them with it's presence, which meant summer was soon to follow, and even bigger, graduation was after that.

"We need to do something; I mean a dance or a ball," Hermione said, bookish she may be, but she still wanted to celebrate her years at Hogwarts. "Possibly for only the seventh and sixth years." And so as the weeks passed by Hermione and Blaise spent a lot of time planning a ball.

Ginny and Harry were once again in trouble with Ron, only not for their relationship.

"I can't believe you Harry." Ron stated, he wasn't so much angry as hurt.

"We're sorry Ron, we really are," Ginny said, she was so unhappy.

"If you had just said rather then going behind my back," Ron mumbled then walked away. Harry stood gapping, while Pansy reassured Ginny that everything would be alright.

"I can't believe I did that to my big brother..." Ginny said in almost a whisper.

"Don't worry sweetie, he'll understand, you just didn't want to hurt his feelings." Pansy said.

The weekend just past Ron had wanted to spend some best mate time with Harry AKA go to the Quidditch store, but Harry had said he wasn't going, that he had detention. Then Ron thought that to send some quality with his only and younger sister would be great, so he went and asked her if she wanted to go and hang out with him. She was busy. Only thing is they weren't in detention or busy, they were planning on taking advantage of the empty dorm. Lying to Ron, they hadn't wanted to hurt his feeling, that was why they had lied, but all lies unravel in one way or another.

It was Luna who managed to make him talk to Harry again, and soon enough everything was sorted out.

And the couples were back.

Harry and Ginny, Ron and Luna, Melanie and Draco. All taking up the love seats while Hermione, Blaise, Ethan, Pansy and Neville sat about chatting.

Then one day Pansy suggested a game of truth or dare.

"Come on it'll be fun!" Pansy insisted, and eventually managed to get everyone to play, even Parvati, Lavender, Seamus and Dean.

"Alright, I'll go first. Ron, truth or dare?"

"Truth."

"Wimp. Alright, how far have you and Luna gotten in the seven months you've been together?" Pansy asked with a grin, Luna looked expectantly at Ron, she didn't care if they knew. Ron however was so red it was quite amazing.

"Everything but." Ron mumbled, then ducked his head as the boys started to whoop.

The game continued until they eventually settled into one big conversation, which was surprisingly about the war. Harry was talking about when. Melanie about where. Then Neville brought up a good question, who?

"Well everyone who wants to." Harry said.

"That's great and all, but that means you're left with only those who haven't been taken into the Deatheater ranks, and those who aren't afraid, and believe me a lot of people are terrified." Seamus said, and it dawned on Harry, who really would fight with everything they had?

"You guys would fight right?" Harry asked.

"To the death mate, but who else?" Ron asked.

"The other Gryffindors, I guess, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff? The Order, the ministry," Harry said.

"Harry haven't you been reading the Daily Prophet?" Hermione asked, but he had.

Voldemort was gaining more and more control. There were rumours he had got into the ministry, Fudge, still amazingly, the Minister, was failing terribly in his fear. High ranking Ministry officials would go missing for a couple of days then return, often acting slightly strange, and there hadn't been any death eater captures in over two months.

"Ethan, does your old school know of what's happening here?" Melanie asked.

"Well yeah, sort of, we didn't really pay much attention," Ethan answered, and it wasn't for not caring about the problems in Europe, but rather the Australians had no real useful information.

"Why don't you get in contact with old friends, tell them, everything. They must want to help. We're in the centre of this, Voldemort can't be defeated with out you me, Christopher and Harry. We're it. They must want to help you, and even if that's not enough, if we fail, he'll take your old home. He won't care, he'll kill them." Melanie said and it really struck. Ethan nodded, he'd Owl some friend's tomorrow morning, first thing.

But for now with those thoughts the fifteen students went to bed.