Harry's Point of View

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      When we rounded the corner the evidence of the fight was quite obvious. Hermione was standing against the wall, looking terrified. I watched as she tried to catch her breath. I looked at her standing there. When she heard us she looked up terrified at who she might see, the way she looked up it looked as if she was expecting someone else and had been afraid that she wouldn't be able to fend them off again. When she saw that it was us she said, "I thought you would have been here by now like five minutes ago, when you weren't I got worried that Harry had gotten to you," she laughed, and said in a more serious tone, "or 'they' I also have a good idea who 'they' is now. We need to get to the common room." We all nodded and she walked over and gave us all hugs. Going to Draco last and standing there and hugging him for what seemed like forever before I cleared my throat. A lot of things must have been conveyed in that hug because Hermione and Draco walked back with Draco's hand around Hermione's slender waist.

            I groaned when we got to the common room, Draco and Hermione needed to talk but I hoped that the current Luna situation would be talked about first. Hermione and Draco had talked all the way and they must have talked about everything we had talked about while we were without Hermione because she said, "We need to talk you have a tale to tell as do I," she turned to Draco, "after that we will talk in our room." All of us nodded not wanting to argue with her after what had just happened, even though we had no clue what had actually happened, just what we had seen. We moved through the door and Hermione and Draco dawdled, "Go ahead and talk, for a minute, we'll be inside waiting," I said. Draco gave me a look that might've been a smile, Hermione looked grateful. I closed the door no longer mad at Draco, he hadn't explained himself yet but he wouldn't have come to me if he didn't care about Hermione. 

           Draco's Point of View

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       I was so happy when Harry told us to talk after seeing us dawdling. I turned to Hermione, "Hermione, I," I was cut off fast , "Draco, I've heard it, I'll tell you more in our room, but for now," she paused, she breathed deep and let it out, "But for now shut up and kiss me."  My face split into a grin, "Never thought you'd ask." Hermione grinned and I pulled her in, she giggled right before our lips touched. Although she pulled back quickly. I smiled at the short compassionate kiss, it was sweet but also said 'Mess up again and you won't get me back, or get this again.' it also said, 'There are still hard feelings but I can work through them with a good truthful explanation and with you, even though you're the one the one that made these bad feelings come up.' She knew I'd gotten the message when I pulled back further, and put her head to my chest, and kissed the top of her head, murmuring, "I know, I won't make the same mistake I'll explain and you'll understand, I'll make you understand, and I'll help you through this, even though I'm the one that caused it." Hermione pulled away and said, "Thanks," and smiled, "let's go in now, but only under the pretense of having spoken for a few minutes." I nodded as I opened the door.

Harry's Point of View

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     We waited in complete silence, no one moved from where they were sitting... except me I paced the floor waiting for them so I could check on Hermione and she could fill us in and we could fill her in. The door opened and everyone let out a breath they didn't know they had been holding. Hermione walked in laughing and Draco walked in behind her smiling. I sighed they were going to get through the fight. They walked in and Hermione stopped laughing and said, "Me or you?" I knew she meant who was going first, I looked her up and down, apparently Draco thought I was checking her out and stepped in front of her. I blushed and everyone laughed, it was a joke but still. I said, "That's not what I was doing," I got cut off, "Sure." Draco said as everyone laughed. I sighed he was impossible. I sighed I had been thinking about this for a couple weeks but with everyone in so much danger I thought that now was a good time, I should have done this before Ginny and Ron were taken. "I think I specifically should go first with an idea of sorts and then we'll trade stories." Hermione nodded, Ginny, Ron and I had had the idea for ourselves and she knew what I wanted to do with everyone. "Okay can you guys sit down." Everyone remained seated or sat. "I feel that we need to link ourselves together," Draco gasped, apparently he knew what I was suggesting, "I think we need to do a blood bind," now everyone gasped, "With all of us involved, I contacted Ginny last night, in a minute she's going to contact me with Ron in the contact also so we will all join hands and they will take each others hands, I'll be there anchor to the bind, when we make the bind it will be forever lasting making us basically brother and sisters although relatives is a better description. When we get married to someone that took the bind with us it will be more make the connection stronger. Basically when Ginny and I get married our destinies will be linked and when we are together we will be stronger, that means that when we are together we will be stronger when it is all of us until we get married to another person that took the bind with us, meaning that we will be as strong as when we are all together even when we are miles apart. But once we are all married when we are together we will be so strong no one can stop us, because we are with our partner as well as our friend's become family. If we would have done this at first Ginny and Ron would still be here because they were with us when they were taken so they would have been stronger enough to fight 'they' off. Once we do the bind we should stay close to each other whenever possible so that we are super strong all the time and we can do like Hermione and fight 'they' off." Everyone understood and nodded they joined hand's I made sure they were standing next to their spouse and a super close friend so that they would get really strong. We got everything in order just before Ginny contacted us, Ginny and Ron were with us now so we began to cast the bind. All of us knew the words though we had never used them before, "I, (state your name) hereby call each and everyone of the people that cast with me brother, sister, friend, family and relative. I shall never break this  bind for they all now have a part of my blood as I have a part of theirs." We didn't break hands until the light in the middle that mixed up our souls, strength, love, magic, blood and destinies together. The same thing happened at marriages except it only included two people. At any of our weddings the ball would be bigger and brighter and would contain a bit of soul, strength, love, magic, blood and destiny from everyone included in the bind that the couple was included in. We broke hands right as the ball exploded, Ginny and Ron disappeared but I could feel them, as I could feel everyone else, just much closer, that part was cool. 

                "Hermione start your story please," Hermione nodded. "I was walking here and I stopped to wipe some tears from my eyes and then I heard the sound of apparation. I looked up and saw a bunch of people. I put the first three in a full body bind and they disappeared right after to go back to their lair, no one came back but the one stayed, which was a big mistake, instead of going to help the other three. He," "He?" Draco asked, "Yes he, I'll explain why in a minute. He turned and walked toward's me, I tried to move but he moved with me soon I was up against the wall, he said, in an eerily calm voice, "So Granger, we meet again. I must say I'm impressed, how is Draco, he must be having fun playing with your feelings."I didn't say anything so he moved closer and said, "Tell my old buddy Draco hey from his four old friends." Then he waved his wand and we started dueling, while we were dueling his mask it came off. I caught a glimpse right before he disappeared with a pop of disapparation. I swear it was, it was," Hermione burst into tears, "I swear I saw the face of, of Blaise Zabini. It happened to fast to be sure, and from standing there thinking I remembered that two of them were fat and one of them had long hair..." she choked on the words but Draco finished her sentence, "That means that it is Blaise Zabini, Gregory Goyle, Vincent Crabbe and and..." "And who?" I asked, "It can't be Pansy she was with me and the rest she never left." "Exactly we know three of them but I can't figure out who the girl is." Hermione rejoined the conversation saying. "Astoria Greengrass." Draco said, "She was a friend of mine." Hermione and I nodded, "Yeah that works we have 'they' now. But we can't prove it so we can't go to the Headmistress." We all sat down in defeat, having figured out who it was didn't help much. 

          "Draco's turn." Draco began and explained exactly what had happened from when Hermione started walking to the common room and when we found her. Hermione nodded, "That is helpful of Ginny, now we can keep Luna safe, and keep her even safer because of the blood bind." Everyone agreed and we decided to get moving or else we would be late to our marriage classes, in two hours. We needed to do a lot of things between now and then.