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Chapter Eight

Draco's POV

"Granger," I greet, ignoring Potter as much as I can. "You look... different."

She smirks. "Is it a good different?"

"It honestly is."

Saint Potter interrupts by demanding "What do you want, Malfoy?"

"To merely say hello, Potter. I love to worship my saviours on a daily basis."

Potter scowls and this makes me laugh. "Aww wouldn't you like a hug from your bested friend?" He just gives me a disgusted look and grabs Weaslettes hand. "See ya, 'Mione. "

"Bye!" She replies waving at them. I look at her emerald green dress with the silver gems and something clicks.

"You rock Slytherin colours," I grin and her eyes widen. "But- but I didn't mean, I mean to wear-"

"Yeah, yeah. But you did." I cock my head to the side whilst the music started to play. "May I have this dance?" I ask courteously, extending my hand. She rolls her eyes. "Whatever, I'm bored anyway."

"You won't be once I'm finished with you."

I grab her hand and pull her into the middle of the dance floor, dancing to the new song, "Dementors Kiss."

You take away my happiness,
A hit and miss,
Crucio to my heart,
A Dementors kiss.

Where is all the joy gone?
You sucked away my soul,
To even think that
We together were growing old

I have to let you go
Please let me go

I spun her round to the depressing song, until it finally stopped. Professor McGonagall stepped to the front, a giant scroll on hand. The moment we remember the Fallen 50. The Fallen 50 are the ones that lives were lost in the battle of Hogwarts.

She begins to read them out.

"Severus Snape

Remus Lupin

Nymphadora Tonks

Colin Creevy

Fred Weasley..."

She continues on, and I feel worse and worse. My Dark Mark feels like it's burning me, engraving itself deeper and deeper into my arm.

Flash back

I stand shaking, my father beside me, my mother silently weeping in her room. I wait for the dark lord to appear as I glance down at my pure, untainted left forearm. Why am I conforming to this? This Slytherin Stereotype that bugs me. No one knows who I really am, what I've been through. No matter how much I hate him, I honestly don't want the chosen one to die.

A dark entity enters my living room, shrouding us in a smoke so thick I couldn't see but I don't cough.

Bellatrix cackles, her deranged look completely freaking me out. Her thin, dirty fingers grasp my shoulder and I close my eyes.

The next ten minutes fly by, including me wishing myself somewhere else. Finally it's time to brand my pale arm.

His white fingers clutch my arm, snake like eyes boring into my own. He takes his wand and presses it against my inner arm.

I close my eyes to try to endure the extreme burning, tears nearly seeping through my eyes but I stop them. I will not be considered weak.

My eyes fly open to subtly glare at him, greeting him with a single, venomous word.

"Master."

Hermione's sobs snap me out of my memories aruptly and I glance down at her. Her mascara is running down her cheeks and as I'm about to comfort her, she runs out of the hall, heartbreaking shrieks of grief making her shake.

I run after her, out to the great lake.

"Hermione?" I call as she collapses in a fit of sobs and I run over to her.

"I - its all m-my fault! Half th-those people wouldn't be d-dead if it weren't for me."

"Its not your fault! It's more my fault than yours. If it wasn't for me joining my parents, some probably would have lived."

"That's not true," she murmurs. She snakes up the sleeve of my dress robes and traces the outline of the Dark Mark. I shiver. "Harry may be the boy who lived, but you're the boy who had no choice..."

She calms down slightly, but tears still mar her pretty face. In that moment, I'm not trying to prove Blaise wrong, or take advantage of a desperate, depressed girl. In reaction to her sweet, oddly comforting words, my hearts swells a little.

As if on their own accord, my lips reach down to meet hers, meeting the wet and slightly chapped lips of Hermione Granger...

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