With the Dark Lord back from the dead, secret friends are faced with a choice. Draco Malfoy takes it upon himself to protect those he loves from the pending war. Refusing to let his best friend fight this alone, Theodore seeks help from someone that Draco would listen to - Hermione Granger. While Narcissa Malfoy seeks the help from Severus Snape, only to find thing are not as they seem. Truths revealed become deadly and right in the center of those lies is a boy in love with a girl on the opposite side of the war. *Hogwarts Sixth and Seventh Year rewrite, with lots of flashbacks, following LITTLE plot of HBP and DH*

During the war, Hermione had been cursed. The scar on her arm had once held nothing but a mottled and painful memory. But now, when the Ministry places her as Head girl next to Draco Malfoy due to his probation conditions-she learns authority holds an amalgamate of liars, and they've left her paralyzed in his proximity.