Just as a note before you read, Harry has gone to Hagrid's hut and hidden. Dumbledore and various officials have gone looking for Harry and have spoken with Hagrid.
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"'Arry, come on out. It's ok, they're gone."
Harry's head peered around the corner, tear-stained and afraid. "All of them?"
"All, so don't ye worry."
"What did they say? I couldn't hear. What is going to happen to me? What did Dumbledore say?"
"Dumbledore, great man, talked with all ye ministry people and who knew. They wanted to send you to Azkaban but instead…"
"Instead?"
"Instead he fought for ye and they change it to expulsion from Hogwarts."
"Expulsion?" Harry muttered faintly.
"Yeah, inn't that great? You're gonna have to leave but they're sending you to Durmstrang which ain't so bad really."
"Durmstrang…"
"Yeah. Why aren't ye happy? You're practically free?"
"FREE?" Harry screamed and started sobbing, pulling at his hair and clothes, "free? What is freedom outside Hogwarts? There is nothing beyond it's walls. Hogwarts is my home! They have taken everything away, EVERYTHING!"
"Harry-"
"NO! They'd better have killed me for all I care. Anything but this…"
And he fell to the ground, crying and beating his fists on the stone floor, making them bleed.
"'Arry, control yerself."
Suddenly there was a knocking on the door, a quiet urgent tapping. "Hagrid? Hagrid, are you there?"
"Hermione?"
"Yes, it's me. Let me in!"
Hagrid, shooting a look over in Harry's direction, opened the door and their friend tumbled in. She quickly glanced over the room and, seeing the prone figure on the floor, ran over and fell to her knees. "Thank god, I was hoping you would be here. Come on Harry," she muttered as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and pulled him up. The raven-haired boy took one look at her and wailed, burying his face in her shoulder.
"There there," she crooned, gently rocking him, "there there."
They stayed that for what seemed like ages before Hermione pulled back and lifted her friend upright. He could not meet her eyes but she lifted his chin until he looked at her.
"I do not judge you Harry… and neither does Draco."
At the sound of his love's name, Harry quickly sat up and knelt beside her, grasping both her hands in his. "Draco? You saw him? How is he? What did he say?"
"He asked me to give you this," and she handed over the ring, "and his love."
"His love? He doesn't hate me? He doesn't wish me dead?"
"No, he loves you more than ever. And he asks you to come home to him."
"Where is he?"
"He's in the Room of Requirement."
"Oh, thank you, thank you Hermione!"
And the two stood up and prepared to leave but Hagrid pulled him back. "Jus' warnin' ye, ye have to be outta here by sunrise or the law may not be so nice. Go to Durmstrang and wait there. 'Mione and I will think and will come up with a plan to bring you back. Don't ye worry. You will see Hogwarts again."
"Thank you Hagrid."
"Ye welcome. Now, go see your husband, Harry Potter-Malfoy."
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