A/N:  Sorry for the weird formatting.  It looks fine when I'm typing, but gets all jumbled up when I read it.  If it bothers you, I'm sorry but I don't know what to tell you because I can't fix it.  Thanks for understanding!

Hermione walked into the common room, and found Harry and Ron sitting by the fire, reading over their notes from Heritage Studies.

"Harry!  Ron!  You won't believe what I just found out about the Ministry!"  Hermione leaped over the back of the sofa excitedly and slid onto the seat.

"Whoa, I've never seen you jump that high!" Ron joked. 

"This is important, Ron!" Hermione said, irritated. "I just found out from Draco-"

"Wait, wait, wait."  Harry interrupted.  "There are two things wrong with that sentence.  Ron, help me out here.  First off, you said Draco, not Malfoy."

"And more importantly, you said that you just found out something from him, so you were with him.  Hermione, I know we're trying to be nice to him, but that doesn't mean you should just walk up to him and start up a conversation.  We care about you and don't want you to get hurt, and he is dangerous!"  Ron exclaimed.

"Ronald Bilius Weasley!  I think that after surviving a wizarding war, I can handle myself around Draco.  Plus, we're trying to be friendly, at least I've made an effort!"

"Sorry, sorry," they mumbled.  "What was it you needed to tell us?"

"Well, remember how I said that something was bothering me about the Heritage Studies course?  I decided to talk to Draco about it," Hermione broke off to slap Ron on the arm after the growl at Draco's name, "and he thinks that maybe the Ministry is trying to control us."

"In what way?" Harry asked, confused.

Hermione sighed, beginning, "Well, think about it.  They could be after a person in our past, but why would they do that?  It's in the past.  So he thought that the Ministry might be trying to control our future bloodlines.  Like our kids.  That they want us to learn 'the importance of blood purity' and 'why bloodlines should be preserved' so that it will influence who we marry."

"The Ministry wouldn't do that, would they?" Ron faltered. It wouldn't have been the first time the Ministry had plotted behind their backs.

"Well, its a possibility, but the MoM was fighting against Voldemort, which was the side of blood purity." Harry murmured.

"Exactly!  They were fighting against  Voldemort.  That means that they wouldn't want another situation like that, and part of it started because Tom Riddle's father was a muggle and rejected his mother's magic.  If Riddle had been a pure-blood, it might have prevented everything having to do with Voldemort!" Hermione rambled.

"So you're saying that they think if they go back to the old ways of only pure-bloods, they can prevent any more dark wizards?" said Ron incredulously. 

"But that's crazy!  We're trying to enforce wizarding unity, not wizarding prejudice.  That's why we had this whole bloody war!  They're indirectly stating that all the deaths, all the sacrifices, everyone who suffered for the cause was pointless because they're going to undo it all anyway!"  Harry exclaimed, infuriated.  Then his tone changed to mournful and heartbroken.

"Everyone lost people and suffered: George lost part of himself in Fred, Teddy lost parents in Remus and Tonks, Hogwarts lost Cedric and Dumbledore and Snape, I lost... I lost Hedwig and... my mum and dad."

"Harry... I'm sorry.  I shouldn't have brought it up.  I'll figure it out on my own-" Hermione started.

"No.  The Ministry did this, and I will personally make them pay if they are meddling in our lives.  Let's just survive this four-week study, okay?  We'll do this together."  Harry said bravely.  Then he excused himself and went to bed, with Ron close behind.

As Hermione sat there she started to think about that letter again, the one between Lily Potter and an anonymous person.  It got her thinking about Heritage Studies... and...

A/N:  I'd just like to thank Pandicorn5368 because she helped me right this chapter when I was having major story line problems.  I loved collaborating with her and hope to do it again in the future!