Calming Flames

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"Why did you do, did she say why you two were done?" Harry looks over at Ron who was red-eyed and shocked.

"No you idiot or else I wouldn't be asking 'Why? Why?' She said it was because she lost the connection that we had during the war... I always liked her Harry... Even when I was with Lavender, I loved her..."

Harry glances at the map and sees Hermione at the astronomy tower. He looks at the time, 11:45, he looks back down and sees Draco on the other side of the hall as her. Looking over at Ron and seeing his despair... He looks back at the map seeing the betrayal... 'You owe me one Hermione' Harry thought as he shoved the parchment in his robe pocket.

"Ron come on, what if we went to bed? Have a nice shower, read a book, or study..." Harry said, holding out his hand. Ron looks up and takes Harry's hand and slowly walks up the corridors stair.

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Hermione played with her thumbs as she waited for Malfoy. She saw him in the hall and smiled. She started to walk towards him. "Hey, I'm sorry if you get into trouble for all of this, but it's super important..." She says as she starts to blush.

"Come on just say it! What's so important?" He says walking closer to her and hugging her waist.

Giggling she answers, "Follow me and you'll find out." Slithering out of his grasp, she then starts climbing the stairs and flicks her wand in the air, candles of all sizes flicker on, "Surprise! Do you like it?" She says in a joyful tone.

"It's beautiful, they all smell like... Pine? Why pine?" Confused, he looks over at her.

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Professor Slughorn walks in happier than anything. "All right class, let's begin. First things first everyone has their partners? Good, now we will be making the worlds strongest love potion... Does anybody know what it does to the affected?"

Hermione shoots her hand up, Malfoy, her partner, blinks and stifles a laugh. "Yes Miss Granger?"

"It makes the affected smell the things that they love the most. This will attract them making them easier to flirt with." She finishes with a grin on her face.

"Perfect! Now you will make this potion and the first group to finish successfully will get to leave class early."

Hermione and Malfoy finish first. Slughorn walks over and tests it. "It's perfect! Now Miss Granger, what do you smell?"

"I smell grass, parchment, and spearmint... toothpaste." She looks down and blushes.

Draco walks up to the potion, "I smell old books, parchment, and pine." He looks down as well, as if recalling a memory.

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"The potions lesson! Remember? You said that you loved the smell of pine!" Hermione exclaimed in a hushed tone.

Draco smiles and walks towards her, her looks into her eyes, those warm, beautiful, hazel brown eyes, he kisses her, holding her cheeks in his hand. "Thank you, it's amazing." He smiles again.

But they started to hear footsteps, frantic ones, as if the person were running. "Hide it might be Ron or Harry." Hermione whispered as she flicked her wand again and the candles went out.

Draco slithers into a corner, heart beating rapidly, and looks at Hermione, who was peering by the doorway to see who it was.

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'How can she be so rude to Ron? And sneaking off to see the great snake himself?' Harry thought to himself as he ran to the corridor. He raced up the stairs and saw Hermione looking up at the stars.

She looked over and smiled, "Harry, come, look at the stars with me."

He makes a weird face and slowly walks over to her. He sits and looks up, the sky was brighter than usual he thought, but I could've been the blood running to his head from sprinting. "Where's Malfoy?" He blurts as he keeps looking up.

"I'm sorry who? I thought you said Malfoy for a second there." She says calmly as she glances to the spot where Draco was hidden.

"Stop, just - stop. You can't lie to your best friends Hermione. It's unfair and cruel." He spits back as he gets up. "You left Ron for Malfoy and you lie about him even being here."

Hermione stands up and walks up to Harry. "And when did you start caring about who I talk to or date?" She looks into his emerald green eyes.

"So your dating now? With a Slytherin no less."

"Like I said why do you care?"

"You hurt Ron's feelings Hermione, you have to give him clarity on why you left him. He's been crying the whole night." Harry says leaning on the wall.

"R-really?" She says shocked,"I didn't think he'd take it that hard."

Draco was getting restless and shuffled a bit to make himself comfortable. This got Harry's attention. "Come out Malfoy...I need to ask you something. Hermione...go and apologize to Ron while I speak to Malfoy"

Hermione looks over at Draco as he gets up and smirks a little. He walks over to Harry and Hermione starts to leave the room.

"What is it, Potter?" Hermione hears as she's leaving the tower...

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Ron is laying in bed as he hears a faint knock. "Harry you know I don't want to talk right now." The door opens and Hermione walks up to Ron's bed and sits on it.

"Ron, I'm sorry... I was heartless and you need to why I left you..." She looks at her hands, "I'm in love with Draco... I know it sound silly but he's changed, I know that won't make you hate him any less but maybe you'll understand why when you see it for yourself." She gets up and starts making her way towards the door.

"Hermione... What in bloody hell are you thinking? Malfoy?" He says with venom. "Get out..."

Shocked she listens and walks out. Harry walks past her in the commons, there was blood on his knuckles and his lip was busted. She sprinted down the halls and up the astronomy towers stairs.

"Draco?! Draco!? Where are you?" She's yelling frantically as she looks in the tower. Then she hears coughing. She bolts toward the sound and sees him, nose broken, black eyed, busted lips, "Draco!" She screams as she falls to her knees pulling out her wand.

She starts to wave it around his face and muttering a spell repetitively. The cuts started to heal and the bruises were starting to fade. After what seemed like thirty minutes, Hermione sits up and looks at Draco.

"What happened?" She whispered

"He told me to stay away from you, and I said no of course." Draco responded, sitting up. "He caught me off guard..."

He pulls Hermione towards him and lays down so she was on top of him. She laid her head down as she listened to his heart beat. "I'm sorry Draco." She says quietly. He starts to stroke her hair and he shushes her.

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