Chapter 6
Now Hermione had to tell Draco about the potion and that was not easy for her. She still did gather up the courage to summon him. "Draco please come here and sit down on the couch. I need to tell you something very important."
"What happened Hermione? I am very hungry cant this wait a bit till after the breakfast?" "I am sorry but no." "Ok then tell me fast." "Draco I have found your cure." He gave a small smile and said "stop joking Hermione I am hungry." "I am not joking it is a potion and the ingredients are rare. There are five and I have got three of them and the others left are a unicorn horn and the nail of a puckwudgie."
"After hagrids death only one person could have helped us with the horn and that was Luna and now we have to do it alone but are you really serious?"
"Do you think by the look of my face that I am joking?" "No. but what is this puckwudgie." "It is an American goblin but much rebellious against wizard community. Could we go today looking for the horn please as we have not much time left?"
They ate a few pasties and left for the forbidden forest because it was the only place they knew of where they had seen unicorns. They could get the view of Hogwarts again but then slowly disappeared into the darkness of the forest. They had to wade through the marsh and shrubs and there was some kind of poisonous insect there which stung Hermione at first she couldn't feel anything but soon fell to the ground unconscious. Draco was puzzled and thought it was because of tiredness so carried her to dry place and lay her on the ground. Draco waited and then he understood the matter when he saw the sting marks. He knew a few remedies for poisoning but he surely couldn't get them in the forest. He got up and searched for anything that could help her but was completely helpless and neither could he get the way out to seek help from Hogwarts. Then he saw someone appear by the bush he had his wand at the ready but she was a beautiful maiden with blonde hair. It was LUNA. She saw Hermione lying on Draco's lap so told him to carry her to her hut which was not very far away. Her hut was not big at all about the same as hagrids hut but it was much neat and had remains of really unknown animals in there it was like a paradise for Luna. But it was not the time for Draco to think about all that as Hermione was turning a light shade of blue and something had to be done quickly if she were to be saved. Even in midst of all that he noticed something on the wall which looked like the horn of a crumple horned snorkack. Tears gathered in his eyes as Hermione's breathing was reducing and he was not doing anything to save her. Luna had gone out and returned with a phoenix. "It is Fawkes Dumbledore's I take care of it now its tears can heal her." And for sure as soon as the tears slid down Hermione's throat the color of her face returned and her breathing became normal again. A few minutes later she opened her eyes and seeing Luna was baffled. "Luna! How the heck did I rea…" she fainted. Draco soon threw a worried glance at Luna but that was returned only with a reassuring smile. Hermione got up an hour later summoning water and Draco gave to her and explained what had happened. She started chatting with her like nothing had happened at all. Then again she remembered Draco's potion and explained all of it to Luna.
"not a problem about the horn at all mione I have that but cannot give you the puckwudgie nail I don't know if anyone could ever get one from them but I know that you will find them near the great lake in north America." "Thank you so much Luna" while talking, Luna brought them a unicorn horn wrapped in a cloth and gave it to them. It was quite late then so they apparated back to their flat and Hermione was very happy to get Luna back and get another ingredient for Draco's potion. "Draco I am so happy…" "Hermione will you marry me I really really love you." "Stop the joke Draco" "I am not joking Hermione please marry me before I die remember I still have my first wish left. I love you. Please." "Yes. Yes a hundred times yes but after I save you." He rushed to slide a beautiful diamond ring down her finger. "Ok but are we engaged?" "I think so!" she said wriggling her finger. They flopped onto the bed hugging each other and at last they kissed it was a tender loving but a passionate kiss and they didn't want to pull off but they did and Draco smiled but then started to sob. "I nearly lost you today don't ever do this to me again." "I won't but I will not let you too" "I don't want to I love you and want to live with you." They did not realize when they fell asleep and Hermione had only five days left to save him.