"Hermione, are you ready," Draco asks. "I am, and you?" "I am too," he sighs deeply. We both knew we were lying. We entwine our hands and I squeeze his. He smiles at me. In my eye corner I see Lucius and Narcissa doing the same.

We both walk into the Hogshead and I walk over to the bar. "Aberforth? Are you there," I yell. We hear someone stumbling down the stairs. "Never thought I would see you here again, Miss Granger, and in the presence of the Malfoys.. hmm."

"Nice to see you again Aberforth. This is my family. You know how to reach Hogwarts, don't you?" "I know it, yes." He looks at the portrait of a girl. Ariana Dumbledore is written on the frame.

Ariana nods and walks a bit backwards. "Step in the portrait and she'll bring you to the Room of Requirement," Aberforth tells us. I smile at him and press a kiss on his cheek. "Thank you so much for everything you've done for us, Aberforth." He smiles and I see his face turning red.

The Malfoys and I step into the portrait and follow Ariana. When we reach the Room of Requirement we see whole Dumbledore's Army, the Order of the Phoenix, the Weasleys and last but not least, Harry Potter.

"So this is the Room of Requirement," Narcissa whispers, looking around observingly. "HERMIONE,"everyone exclaims when they see me. Harry looks up at me and everyone goes silent.

"Where is Scorpius?" Everyone except the Order of the Phoenix and the Weasleys look confused. "He's with Fleur and Andromeda at Grimmauld Place 12. No one of us wanted to stay back, so we decided this would be the best."

"Hermione, what are you doing? That's Malfoy's hand you're holding right now, do you realize that," Parvati Patil asks. "I do realize that, Parvati," I say, holding our hands up. Draco smiles and presses a kiss on our entwined hands. Now finally people seemed to realize what was going on between us.

"Hermione, do you have any idea where Rowena Ravenclaw's lost diadem can be," Harry asks. "Why are you asking Harry?" "I am sure it is a Horcrux." "Well.. I have seen it" Draco says quietly.

Everyone's heads turn to him, even the one's of his parents. "Where have you seen it Draco," I ask him. "In sixth year I practically lived in this room Hermione, you know that. Her diadem is hidden in the trash room where I hid the Vanishing Cabinet and where you hid the Potions book of the Half-blood Prince, Harry. I saw it on some sort of bust."

"Malfoy, I never thought I would say this but you're amazing," Ron mutters, eyes wide open with surprise. Draco bows jokingly. We all walk out of the ROR and Draco begins to pace before the room. The room begins to form and Harry, Ron, Draco and I walk in.

After some minutes of searching for it we finally find the diadem. You couldn't say it wasn't beautiful. "But now, how can we destroy it," Draco asks. "That shouldn't be of your worries Malfoy," someone spits from behind us.

We turn around and face Crabbe, Goyle and Zabini. "Hmph, never thought you three would get us. I always found you guys too stupid to even count to three," Draco says with a smirk. "We have trained very hard this year, you know that don't you?"

"I know that Goyle, but that training doesn't make you smart. By the way, I've been training as well.. under my aunt, Bellatrix Lestrange. You know, most feared Death Eater blah blah blah."

The boys are so busy with Draco that the three of us could quickly grab our wands and curse them. A pile of trash explodes and buries the way towards us for them. I grab the diadem, shrink it and hide it in my jacket, quickly running with the rest.

That extraordinary dumbness of Crabbe brought us all in danger. He send an uncontrolable Fiendfyre through the damn room. Draco and I climb on a pile of chairs and tables. One of the tables has a broken leg and we nearly fall. Draco helps me climbing further and we reach the top of the pile.

I cling on Draco and we look around ourselves for a way to escape the fire. "WE ARE LOST DRACO, WE CAN'T ESCAPE THIS FIRE," I yell at him.

"DON'T THINK LIKE THAT HERMIONE, WE'VE SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR. THINK OF SCORPIUS, THINK OF OUR LOVE," he yells at me, shaking me by my shoulders. I quickly nod and tears begin to come up.

"Hey, what is that," Draco asks, looking somewhere behind me. I look up and we see two shadows. "IT'S HARRY AND RON, ON BROOMSTICKS!" They fly past us and throw a broomstick at us.

"ESCAPE," Harry yells, quickly flying for the exit. Draco would fly as he can do it much better than me. When we fly out Draco screams. "WE HAVE TO SAVE GOYLE AND BLAISE," he screams. "WE CAN NOT NOT SAVE THEM HARRY, THEY'RE THE ONLY SURVIVORS," I yell at them.

After much effort we got Goyle on the broomstick of Harry and Zabini on the broomstick of Ron. Then we fly out and the door closes behind us. We crash and all of us fall on the ground.

"Ugh.. Hermi-Hermione, are you okay," Draco asks, coughing a little. "Ye-yes, and you," I groan as well. He nods and stands up. "Come, we have to go on," he says, helping me up. "We have a war to win."