Draco's Point of View

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        Neville just started choking, what is going on? I thought as Hermione and the rest tried desperately to help him. "Move!!!" I shouted. Everyone scrambled out of the way. "Anapneo!" I screamed, Neville stopped choking almost immediately. "Seriously Hermione why did you not remember that spell," I added. "I was frantic and I've never had to use that spell," Hermione responded. "That makes sense. Neville you all right?" I questioned. "I'm alright," Neville sobbed. Then I turned away from my friends, "Blaise, show yourself!" Hermione gasped a second before everyone else because she to had realized that Blaise was in the room. "You idiot. Did you really think that we would let you go free without watching you?" Blaise asked. "No but luckily you can't use me against my friends, Pansy, Hannah, Ernie, Ginny, Hermione, Luna, Neville or Harry." Blaise gasped, "Did you just call Potter by his first name." "Yeah I did." Ginny slowly walked towards Blaise from behind. 

         She was almost there when Blaise turned and shouted, "Incarcerous." Ginny gasped and Hermione screamed dropping to the floor not able to scream a spell. An all out war started in the common room as Astoria appeared. Crabbe and Goyle came out of Hermione's and I's room. Everyone started battling. Harry scrambled at Blaise screaming at him and shouting spell's. Ginny yelled, "I love you all I'll see you on the other side." "NO!" Hermione's scream ripped the air to pieces as she stumbled away from Astoria to get to Ginny. The room was in complete confusion but Hermione somehow made it to Ginny without getting hit by a spell, whether by friend or foe. I couldn't watch as she turned to Blaise and shouted, "Crucio." The next second Blaise was on the ground, writhing with pain. Hermione was laughing maniacally as Harry pulled the ropes from Ginny's neck. He kissed her softly and started CPR. She woke up, at least I think she woke up she might not have passed out, gasping for breath and saw Hermione with her wand right next to Blaise still torturing him. She stopped once she knew that Ginny was alive and well. Blaise started to get up but Hermione said, "Give Ron back!" Her voice was soft but over the racket her voice carried everyone heard. "I can't," Blaise said. "Why?" Hermione asked dangerously soft. "Because we killed him, right before we came here." Blaise stood and Astoria, Crabbe and Goyle followed as he fled the room. 

          Hermione sat down heavily head in hands but Ginny was screaming after him. When she finally stopped she couldn't speak. "They killed him, they killed him," Hermione kept repeating. Pansy and Luna were sobbing into Neville's shoulder as he cried silently. Ginny was crying with Hermione their arms wrapped around each other in a hug. Hannah and Ernie couldn't believe it and they kept repeating, "Blaise is lying." Harry was standing by the door staring out of the portrait as if to see if Ron would come laughing like it was a joke. When he sat down Hermione and Ginny wrapped their arms around him for comfort. All I could do was stare at my friends and think, It's all my fault I said the password with Astoria standing there. I'm an idiot. Then my thoughts would restart and Hermione looked at me and mouthed, It's not your fault so don't even think it is. I didn't respond but I walked up the stairs and fell into a fitful sleep.

Ginny's Point of View

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        "Incarcerous," I heard Blaise shout before I started gasping for breath as he choked me. My wand was tossed from my hand as I fell to the floor gasping for breath, not that it mattered I wouldn't have used a spell. I was choking and I heard an earsplitting shriek of "NOOOOO!!" It was Hermione, I couldn't see what she was doing but I could hear it. A cry of Crucio rent the air and Blaise fell to the floor. Harry pulled the ropes from my neck before kissing me lightly on the lips. He gave me the CPR he insisted I needed and Hermione stopped torturing Blaise once I was okay. Blaise tried to flee but before he could Hermione demanded that he give Ron back. Blaise refused saying I can't. Hermione, incredulous, asked why. Blaise said it was because he was dead they had killed Ron. Astoria, Blaise, Crabbe, Goyle they all fled before anyone of us could shout a spell. I shouted at them. Word's that I didn't know I was saying. I screamed as I cried. Harry couldn't get near me to comfort me but I didn't mind. When I stopped screaming I saw what was going on. Hermione had sat down, head in hand, repeating they killed him, they killed him, under her breath. Pansy and Luna were being comforted by Neville who was crying silently while holding the girls. Hannah and Ernie were saying Blaise is lying, as if that explained everything. Harry was standing by the door staring out. Draco was just standing there still as a statue not moving not blink. When Harry sat down Hermione and I wrapped our arms around him. Hermione mouthed something to Draco and he walked to his and Hermione's room. I was devastated they killed him, I can't believe those no good Slytherin brat's. 

          Struck with a sudden, stupid, idea. I stood no one objected though Hermione looked at me questioningly. I shook my head, I wasn't telling anyone what I was going to do. I walked to Harry, Hermione, Draco and I's stairwell to our bedroom. I walked up the stairs and opened Hermione's door without knocking. Draco didn't look up from his position on the bed. I walked to him and sat down on the side of the bed. "It's not your fault," I said gently, "It was Blaise's he didn't have to kill Ro- I mean him." "You don't understand, he did have a choice. Sure he hasn't had a choice in a long time. His father forced him, from the day he was born, to despise muggle-born's, blood-traitor's and muggles. He didn't have a choice in what he did in school and it is so ingrained in him that he didn't think he had a choice now because of that. I didn't either until 'The Sorting.'" 'The Sorting,' as it had come to be known was the day when McGonagall had told us the law that we had to be married. "Draco he didn't have a choice he was forced into this like you said his father forced him to. You changed because of light, he needs light in his life. Someone has to be his light," I said. "Who is going to be his light, he like's Astoria and she's no better than he is," Draco said voicing what, before I come into this room, was worried about. "I have a plan but you have to trust me," He nodded and I continued. Whispering my plan. He looked horrified but agreed that it might be our only hope.