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ONTHEASTRONOMYTOWER, Sowon leans on the railing, looking off at the rolling hills. She takes a deep breath of fresh air, then looks behind her to the spot where her and Draco first met. Tears stammer down her cheeks, she quickly wipes them away, "I need to stop crying over him."
She turns away and looks back at the rolling hills, then she feels a present next to her, she looks next to her and sees Draco. Sowon eyes widen and puts her hands out in front of her and places it on Draco's jaw, cupping it. Looking at him softly, "Is it really you?"
"Sowon, are you okay?"
Draco disappears, Sowon turns behind her to see where the voice came from. Hermione walks next to the girl, Harry soon joins next to the girl too. Sowon looks away and nods, "I'm fine."
Ginny and Ron wait by the stairs, watching Harry and Hermione go on either side of Sowon. The Korean girl turns to look at Harry, who she found out saw the murder of Dumbledore, "Do you think he would've done it. Draco?"
Harry shakes his head and pats the girl on the shoulder, "No. He was lowering his wand. In the end, it was Snape. It was always Snape. And I did..."
Hermione studies Harry, takes the locket from the rampart, "Strange. Thinking this is a piece of Voldemort's soul..."
"Yeah, strange. Only... it's not. It's fake," Harry tells the two. Hermione reacts, Harry nods, "Go on. Open it."
Hermione pries open the locket and removes a piece of parchment folded in a tight square, she reads it out to them, "To the Dark Lord. I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more. R.A.B"
"R.A.B?" Hermione asks, looking up.
Harry shrugs his shoulders, "Dunno. But whoever they are, they have the real Horcux. Which means, it was a waste. All of it."
Hermione studies Harry's troubled face, then glances over to Ron and Ginny, before connecting hands with Sowon, "Ron's okay with it, you know. You and Ginny. But if I were you, when he's around, I'd keep the snogging to a minimum."
Sowon looks between Harry and Ginny, she was jealous of them. She wishes she could have a relationship that could be happy. She misses Draco, but she could never tell her friends that as she already put a mask on, the mask of pretending to not love Draco anymore. But in reality she still loved him. She wanted to not love him anymore but she couldn't. Even if he was a Death-Eater.
She was deeply in love with Draco Malfoy. His face was planted in her mind twenty-four-seven. Sowon wishes to go back to fifth year and be happy with him, but she knew she couldn't. The war was coming and she wasn't ready. She had to protect herself, her friends, and her father, something she wasn't ready for.
Harry snaps her out of her thoughts, "I'm not coming back, Hermione."
He meant Hogwarts. He wasn't coming back next year. Sowon was still deciding if she wanted too to, because everywhere she went reminded her Draco and she couldn't do that to herself. Plus she rather help the order but at the same time she was scared of fighting.
Hermione nods, "We reckoned. Ron, Sowon, and me."
"I have to finish what Dumbledore started. I'm not sure where that would lead me... but I'll let you guys know where I am. When I can," Harry says, leaning back.
Hermione shakes her head and leans forward, "I've always admired your courage, Harry, but sometimes... you're really thick."
Harry turns looking at her, in surprise, when she leans closer, "You dont honestly think you can find all the horcruxes by yourself, do you? You need us, Harry."
"She's right," Sowon comments, nodding in agreement with Hermione.
Harry just stares at her. She cocks her head, smiling, doing her best to coax one out of him. Finally he does, briefly, "Yeah. I do. But do me a favor. When me and Sowon are around, keep the snogging to a minimum."
Once again, Sowon feels jealous of her group's relationship as all their relationships are accepted while hers wasn't. And it was never going to be, not until the war is won.
Hermione looks stunned, her cheeks redden, "Like that's going to happen."
She glances at Ron, shaking her head, "Besides, he's barking."
"Funny. He says the same thing about you," Harry comments, chuckling.
"Yes, but I'm exceptionally perceptive," Hermione says, holding Sowon's hand tightly.
"You're brillant. You both are," Harry says, looking off. Hermione follows his glaze. She looks out over the grounds, slowly loosing herself. Hermione flutters her eyes, "Do you think we'll ever come back?"
She stops. Her eyes glistens briefly. Sowon squeezes her friend's hand softly for comfort, making the red hair girl smile at her before they both look over at Harry, who held the same emotion. He looks away from the rolling hills, "I don't know."
Hermione nods and Harry's eyes shift, Ron and Ginny walks over. Ron turns and they exchange a look, something unspoken. Ginny leans on the rampart next to Harry with Sowon on her whole side, Ron standing next to Hermione.
No one says a word.
Sowon finds herself thinking one thing.
Did he really love her? or was it all a way to get back at Harry.
