And we got to it. With the Slytherins on our side now we were back in the running. I pulled Draco to one side once the crowd had dispersed.

"Why are you helping me Draco?"

He looked a little embarrassed when he answered.

"Cause your right Harry" That threw me.

"About what?" I asked still a little puzzled.

"About Voldemort. He is an arsehole and I know that now."

"But your dads out there now isn't he, aren't you worrying about him?"

"No not really. He made his bed and he had got to lie in it"

I thought for a minute. Then I answered.

"I am glad that you are with me on this" Now it was Draco's turn to be surprised.

"Why?" he asked

"Because if you can change there is hope for us all"

He smiled at this and held his hand out. I reached out and shook it.

"Stay alive, hey" he said and left.

"That was fucking weird" I said to myself.

"Yea it was a bit" said a voice from behind me. I smiled. Hermione.

I heard footfalls stop just behind and a pair of soft arms snaked their way around my waist.

"Where you been?" I asked as I turned and embraced her. She replied while snuggling her head into my chest.

"Helping Madam Pomphrey" she answered and her head came up and her eyes locked with mine. I leaned in and tenderly kissed her lips. I was not expecting her reaction. She pulled away from and turned away. She took my hand and pulled me towards the cupboard at the end of the hall. As we went in she locked the door and moved a table in front of it. I walked in to the middle of the room and turn round.

"What is it Hermione?" I started to say but stopped before the first syllable was out of my mouth as I saw what she was doing. She was undoing her shirt buttons as fast as she could with shaking fingers and her jeans were already in a puddle at her feet.

"I want you Harry. I don't want either of us to die without me telling you how I feel" she said as her shirt joined her jeans n the floor and she stood in front of me in just her underwear. Her red bra perfectly supported her pert breasts and the gold panties left even less to the imagination.

"And how do you feel?" I managed to say.

"I want to feel you Harry. I want to have you inside me now. I want you to be my fi..." she didn't get any further. I sped across the room and scooped her up in my arms and laid her down on a nearby table. I kissed her lips and then trailed kissed down her neck and down her chest until I reached her bra. I saw that in clasped at the front so I bit down on it and it sprang free revealing the mounds that I had been fantasising about for weeks. They were not overly large but fitted her frame. Her nipples were already hard and erect and I enclosed the left one in my mouth. I heard her hiss and she arched her back, pushing her breast further into my face. I trailed my tongue around her peak and reached up with my hand to caress the other. I squashed and rolled her nipple between my fingers. Judging from the noises she was making I reckoned she was enjoying it. And her noises were eliciting an involuntary reaction in my trousers. However due to our position my member pushed against her leg and she gasped.

"Harry." She moaned and I released my grip on her breasts.

"Yea" I answered just as breathlessly.

"Your erection" she said and I looked down at my trousers where there was a huge bulge.

She pulled herself off the table and sank to her knees in front of me. Her hands roamed over my crotch and it was my turn to moan and hiss as she undid my belt and pulled my trousers and boxers down in on fluid motion. As she did she flinched back so that she wouldn't get hit in the face as my cock sprung out and stood to attention in her face. She looked for a moment and then her hands wrapped themselves around my length and started to rub it back and forth. I moaned and reactively thrust my hips forwards.

She stopped her movements for a minute and then there was suddenly a warm feeling surrounding my cock. I looked down and only saw Hermione's bushy hair bobbing backwards and forwards from my groin. I felt her tongue wrapping itself around the rod in her mouth and I had to fight to not come right there and then. It only helped for a minute. Then I felt hands on my balls and then I couldn't stop myself.

"Hermione!" I moaned in a voice that I didn't recognise as mine and then I felt a surge along my entire cock as I emptied myself into Hermione's mouth. She pulled back when I had poured the last of my orgasm into her.

I reached down and pulled her up and laid her out across the table again. I then put my hands on her panties, caressing them gently. Then I pulled them off in one quick motion and threw them behind me. Her beautiful lower area was now visible to me. It was pink and wet and looked incredible tight. The light dusting of hair above her entrance matched top hair perfectly. I knelt down and pressed my nose close to her folds and took a deep smell. She smelled absolutely divine. I pulled back and positioned myself at her entrance.

"Harry" The longing in her voice was tangible.

"You sure?" I asked to be sure. I wanted to keep going but I had to know it was all right.

"Yea" she replied without looking at me.

I leant in and slowly sheathed myself in her until I reached a barrier. I pushed harder and felt the obstacle break under my probing.

"FUCK!" she screamed when the barrier broke and I continued until I was entirely in her.

After getting comfortable I started to slowly move. I started slowly until her legs locked around my waist and pulled me into her again and I sped up.

"Oh Shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit" she said getting louder and louder until she was screaming.

As she increased in volume I increased in speed until I could feel my climax building again.

"Harrrrrry" "I'm gonna cuuuuuuuuum!" she shrieked and as she climaxed and as I felt her euphoria spread down her passage I roared my own high and shot into her and we slumped in a tangled sweaty mass on the table.

We lay there for an immeasurable length of time until Hermione spoke.

"We better get back" she said. I nodded and stood up, unsheathing myself from her and standing back to allow her to straighten up. She picked up her bra and refastened it while I pulled my trousers and boxers back up. She retrieved her knickers from where I had thrown them and, with a quick cleaning charm, put them on and pulled her jeans up.

"So what now?" I asked when we were both dressed, even though we did still have just-fucked hair.

"Well we fight" she replied without looking at me.

"What's wrong Hermione?"

"As I was helping Madam Pomphrey I got our full casualties list" she said. I had known that this moment would come. I was a little worried that she chose this moment to tell me this but I didn't want to upset her any more than she was already.

"Well how bad is it?" Now that the moment had now come I wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible.

"George, Ginny, Percy, Filch, Justin Finch-Finchley, Lavender, Parvati, Susan Bones, Krum, Karkaroff, Professor Sprout, Mad Eye, and Professor McGonagall. They were the only ones that we found but there are at least 20 more missing" she was crying fully by the time she had finished the list. I was completely stunned these people were my friends. People I had know for 4 years and now they were gone. McGonagall dying was an even more massive blow to me. I had always seen her as much an immovable part of Hogwarts as Peeves or Dumbledore himself.

I took a step forwards and wrapped her in my arms and she collapsed into my embrace. I don't know how long we stood there.

"Is this going to change us?" she asked and I knew she wasn't talking about the losses we had suffered.

"No Hermione. I still love you and I will always love no matter what life throws our way. I promise I will always come back to you"

"Voldemort wasn't right was he when he said he would walk over us? Was he?"

"No of course he wasn't right" I paused and then continued. "I will tell you one thing; he is not walking straight through me"

She looked up at me and half smiled.

"Nor me" "I will be beside you Harry. Till death do us part"

"I do" I replied and that got a full, but watery, smile out of the girl of my dreams.

"Come on then. They will be wondering where we got to" she said drying her eyes and unblocking the door. We opened the door to see an empty hall. We stepped out and almost collided with a Ravenclaw student running down the corridor.

"Hey what's happening? Where is everyone?" I asked the girl as she stopped for a second.

"By the One Eyed Witch passage. We have got reinforcements"

I looked down at Hermione next to me and saw the hope I felt in her eyes. We could win this.