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Hermione's Keeper	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 17549 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Ginny Weasley wasn’t a bad person. She wasn’t a particularly good person either, but she had morals. A few, at least. If anyone was to blame for her attitude it wasn’t fair to blame only Molly Weasley, sure the woman instilled Ginny with a sense that she deserved only the best and the need to find a rich husband, but her heart had to be in the right place, right? No, Ginny liked to think that had her first year at Hogwarts gone normally and she hadn’t spent an entire year talking to Tom Riddle than she would have only been slightly screwed up and not horribly so. But the whispers she’d heard in her brain for an entire year still spread through said brain and caused her to question everything that happened to and around her and therefor overthink and inevitably learn to hate and be hateful. But Ginny Weasley was not a bad person just a victim of circumstance. Her marriage to Harry Potter had been fixed by her mother and not by them, while a part of her loved him in a way she was never in love with him, maybe lust but not love. She also knew that she had done him wrong, she should have just agreed to a divorce instead of repeatedly cheating on him with Dean Thomas and praying that Harry wouldn’t find out.

So, when Ginny decided that it was time to go for a walk to get out from under her mothers ever watchful eye, she was shocked to hear the unmistakable words of lust spoken by two disgusting pigs, she knew that she had to make sure that no one was in danger. Not to her surprise however, she found the two men lurking over a woman that was lying prone on the ground, she wasn’t even trying to fight them away, not that it would do her much good without her wand which she was sure that she didn’t have. When the man on top of her pulled back Ginny nearly gasped in horror as she saw that it was Luna Lovegood there lying upon the ground, Luna who had always been so kind and caring, so sweet and unassuming…Luna who had been living with Harry for the past month. Ginny felt a little jealousy at the thought but it was short lived as she thought about all that she’d put him through, she should be happy if he found happiness with Luna, he could do so much worse. When the opportune moment came up Ginny muttered the killing curse and the man fell on top of Luna, the other man tried to get his wand but the redhead was quicker and he too dropped to the ground.

Ginny held Luna’s hand and led her back to the Burrow. Molly and Arthur had gone somewhere, choosing not to leave a note for their daughter and there was no one else in the house to care that Luna was there. The blonde was as shaken up as Ginny had ever seen her and spent a full hour and a half in the bathtub scrubbing her dirty and bruised skin. Now that she was alone Ginny found herself shaking, she had never cast the killing curse before and she’d expected to feel different maybe more powerful or like a terrible person, instead she felt…normal, just like she always did and that scared her a bit. Maybe she was a monster after all. Luna walked down the stairs a while later in a pair of Ginny’s pajama pants and a matching long-sleeved shirt, her long blonde hair was thrown over one shoulder and she was barefooted.

“Ginny” Luna said from the doorway to the kitchen, watching the young red-haired woman making tea for them both and some scones “I want to thank you for…saving me”

“Was I supposed to let them rape you?” Ginny asked, sniffling a bit and running her fingers under her eyes, swiping at the tears that had fallen from her eyes “I couldn’t…I just, why would someone do that?”

“They’re monsters” Luna answered, walking over to Ginny and smiling at her. Ginny had been so strong just a few hours ago, wearing tight black pants and a black sweater with her red hair pulled away from her face in a tight bun but now it was hanging down in her face and her eyes were red “I don’t know how to say thank you”

“You just did” Ginny turned her head with a smile “Tea and then tell me what your plan is”

“Does anyone know that you attacked those men?” Luna asked “Will someone be coming here?”

“I don’t think so” Ginny answered “What is going on…am I in danger now?”

“You may be” Luna answered honestly “That’s why I think we need to drink this tea quickly and then you need to come with me”

“Where?” Ginny asked, looking out the windows for some unseen assailant.

“Malfoy Manor” Luna answered “We’ll be safe there”

~~~//~~~

Hermione was just waking up when there was a scream from the front hallway. She shot out of bed, grabbed her wand and crept out of the bedroom, down the hall and to the front steps. Height wasn’t there, he wasn’t leading an army to exterminate the house of all it’s occupants there was only a blood covered Rita Skeeter sobbing in the front hallway. She walked down the stairs quickly and over to the sobbing woman, hugging her tightly to her and starting to pull the older woman in to the sitting room, ordering Kip to get them some tea. Hermione needed to know what was happening that had this usually unshakable woman in to such a frenzy, she wanted to know whose blood she was covered in and why.

“Rita!” Hermione snapped “Rita, focus on me now, can you do that?”

“Y-yes” Rita sobbed “I d-didn’t mean to cause any p-problems…I tried t-to save him”

“Who, Rita?” Hermione asked “Who did you try to save?”

“George Weasley” She whispered, Hermione sat back on her heels and then plopped on to her bottom looking at the older woman not really understanding what she had said to her.

“George?” Hermione repeated “Why did he need to be saved?”

“Corrine” Rita said, making herself calm down her breathing “She sent Height to George, saying that he took Luna when he hadn’t. Height came there to kill him and…and…” She burst in to fresh tears again. Hermione watched her sobbing again, took in all the blood that was all over her clothes and then back to her face.

Hermione stood up from the floor where she’d been sitting and Kip walked by in with some tea and food for Rita. Hermione could hear the ocean in her ears, her eyes were narrowed in to tunnels and her feet though bared were slapping on the floor loudly as she walked towards the first floor study where Andromeda had been seeing her in house ‘patients’. When she reached the double doors she put her hand on the handle and then stopped, there was no noise from the other side and there was a fear that maybe the reason it was so quiet was because George was…she couldn’t even think the word. With a sick stomach Hermione pushed the door open a bit and found Andromeda standing in the corner sanitizing her hands, on the roughly made table George lay still as a corpse and if it weren’t for the short breaths he was taking Hermione would have assumed he was dead.

“Andy?” Hermione said, closing the door behind her “Is he going to be okay?”

“Yes” Andy answered “I managed to get the internal bleeding to stop and closed up the rest of the wound, had Rita taken any longer he would have died. We should all thank Merlin that she was there”

“I’m happy she was” Hermione spoke, going over to her ex-brother-in-law and ran her hand down his cheek “I think Rita may need some words of comfort and a calming draught, please”

By the time Hermione left the make shift hospital room there was a new person in the house. She looked extremely uncomfortable to be standing there and Rita was shooting her the dirtiest of dirtiest looks that made the air around everyone just a bit chillier than the late October weather ever could. She was a pretty girl with light brown hair, light eyes and a snobby attitude that showed through all her movements (though nervous as she was) and her eyes. Kip came out and spoke to her briefly and then turned and with a crack left the front hallway to get Draco because that was who the girl had asked for. Hermione narrowed her eyes as that annoying yet familiar feeling of jealousy reared its ugly head again, she walked up to her slowly one hand on her hip and the other one tapping her wand against her thigh. Corrine looked at the woman walking towards her, she should look amusing standing there in her pajamas with a mass of frizzy, brown curls but the look in her eyes were threatening and daring the younger Slytherin to say something to her. Hermione felt territorial of the house, the man in the house and everything that the scheming little slut would love to take from her. With a deep breath Hermione tried to pull back the feelings she was having towards someone she didn’t even know, she was just trying to decide to give the girl a smile when Rita came fully in to the room.

“You bitch!” Rita shrieked, she ran at the other woman and slapped her so hard the girl fell to the side, against the wall near her but Rita wasn’t done she grabbed the girl by the throat and started squeezing “Corrine, you stupid” She slammed her in to the wall “Brown-nosing” Slam “Murderer!”

“Rita!” Andromeda called from the doorway leading in to the sitting room “George is not dead nor is he going to die…stop!” She pulled the woman away from frightened young woman.

“Good morning” Draco said, completely unaffected by the fight that had been happening just seconds ago. He walked over and pulled Hermione in to a deep kiss before looking at Corrine and smirking at her “So, what’d you bring me?”

“I made copies of everything” She answered, handing him the files “From receipts, to the next victims, past victims, buyers lists…everything that he had I am giving you now” She bit her lip “Can I please have my brother back?”

“Hmm” Draco hummed as he looked through everything that was in his hands then smiled at her “Yes” He pulled the jar from his pocket and muttered a spell, the glass broke and there stood a twelve year old boy with light brown hair and a horrified look on his face then he ran to his sister.

“Are you okay?” Corrine asked “Did he hurt you?”

“No” Cody answered “If you’d been allowed to visit it wouldn’t have been that bad” He looked around bravely “Mr. Malfoy made sure I had clothes and plenty to eat and I got to play in the most fascinating places…he was really nice” Draco raised a brow at him but said nothing about what the boy had said but didn’t point out that he had been holding him hostage for a year.

“You may want to stay here until this whole thing with Height is over” Draco informed Corrine, there was an odd hissing noise that issued from Hermione who was standing behind Draco. He looked up and smirked to himself at her possessiveness, it felt good to know that she was worried about a little competition, even if the thought of being with Corrine or anyone other than Hermione made him sick.

“I didn’t kill Height?” Rita asked from the sitting room doorway “He didn’t look good when we left”

“No” Andromeda answered “I made a Floo call to Saint Mungo’s, he came in, said that he fell down a flight of stairs, seemed a bit embarrassed, made a few jokes about that, was seen and then went home”

“Thank god” Rita breathed “I don’t think that I could actually kill someone”

“I didn’t think he’d go after Mr. Weasley the way he did” Corrine offered to the whole room “I was getting desperate and he was getting defensive, even towards me and I just said the first thing that came to me”

“Yeah” Rita said coldly “You’re lucky I was there and got him here in time”

There was going to be more talking and threats but voices fell out of the fireplace and then two girls tumbled out. The first was Ginny Weasley, that made Hermione clench her jaw but then Luna followed her, missing her footing and plopping on her butt. There was silence in the room which gave Luna time to stand up and look around at all the faces staring at her in surprise, then Hermione let out a sob and ran forward hugging her tightly. When she pulled back from the hug she looked over the blonde, she was clean and her hair was wet, she had bruises on her face and arms, Hermione was sure that she had some on her legs. Tears filled her eyes and she hugged Luna again, sobbing as she did so, she had never realized just how much she had been missing the strange little Ravenclaw until she was no longer around. Draco didn’t sob but he did launch himself in to his cousins arms, his hands were shaking slightly but he was trying to hide it. Hermione knew exactly how upset he’d been knowing that Luna had been taken, they had spoken about it a lot in the past few days, it had been one of the things that helped bond Hermione and Draco’s relationship.

“Are you okay?” Draco whispered to Luna, he pulled back and looked her over “Did he…he didn’t…did he?” It appeared that Draco had an issue saying the word, rape. It was really cute to Hermione and made her tear up, which confused her because she had never been an overly emotional person.

“I’m okay” Luna assured him, there were tears in her eyes and her hands were also shaking “Ginny saved me before anything bad could happen…I owe her my life”

Hermione narrowed her eyes at the other girl, Ginny had never done anything to her personally. She’d only agreed with the divorce that Ron had attained, she’d spoke poorly of her but then again Hermione spoke poorly of her as well and Ginny had kept a tight leash around Harry’s neck for many years but Hermione had always known that if he tried hard enough Harry could have gotten free at any time. Still there was a feeling a dislike that wouldn’t leave the muggle-born witch as she looked at the redhead. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that she knew Ginny had once held a huge crush for Draco, maybe it was flippant take on Hermione’s divorce or maybe it was good old jealousy. She wouldn’t admit it but Hermione had hoped to save Luna, then Draco would look at her with more wonder than he already did, it was her own stupid pride that made her jealous. Ginny was looking at her feet nervously, she refused to make eye contact with anyone, choosing to stare at her feet instead and fiddled with her fingers.

“Thank you, Weasley” Draco said “I owe you one as well”

“It was nothing” Ginny said “Any decent person would have done the same”

“Which is why I am shocked that it was you who did it” Hermione spoke, Draco turned his eyes to his fiancée.

“Hermione” He said in warning “She saved Luna, could we please just…”

“No” Hermione said, her light brown eyes were locked in angry slits on the young redhead “I can’t just anything” She looked at Draco, willing him to understand why she was so angry but she just saw wonder at Luna’s return and something else that was directed at Ginny “I’m going out”

“Oh no you don’t!” Draco chased her out the door “Love, no. You need to stay here, in the house, where you’re safe…I couldn’t even think about letting you out of my sights…”

“Oh” Hermione said, her eyes wide and nostrils flaring all her jealousy was turning in to anger aimed right at him “Are you sure you’ll be able to focus your sights on me when Ginny and her…” She gestured wildly with her hands thinking about a good enough word “Life saving abilities are in the way!”

“What the hell?!” His grey-blue eyes widened in confusion “Where the…fuck is this coming from?!”

“I don’t know” Hermione sighed “I’m going for a walk in the garden” She turned away.

“But…” Draco looked lost as she walked off. He went back in to the house and in to the sitting room where he could see her walking around the slightly overgrown garden space.

“Where’s Hermione?” Luna asked.

“In the garden” He answered.

“I don’t think leaving her outside alone is a good idea” Luna told him “I went out to water some plants right outside my front door and I was taken”

“I’ll go outside with her” Rita said, walking out the front door. She found Hermione sitting on a bench glaring at some grass that was in front of her, with her wand twisting between her fingers “You okay?”

“Yes” Hermione said sullenly “I just…”

“Don’t trust Ginny” Rita guessed “You and me both”

“I want to trust her” Hermione said, more to herself than the other woman “She was never my best friend but she was my friend and my sister-in-law. We used to spend days together when Harry and Ronald were at some training session for a weekend, we’d do each other’s hair, nails, talk about school, guys that we dated or wanted to date but then…”

“Ron divorced you” Rita finished for her “And things changed after that”

“It was like she didn’t even want to know who I was anymore” Hermione said, tears falling from her eyes “Like I didn’t matter anymore. That’s what hurts the most, how easily I was pushed aside and I can’t help but wonder that if it had been me that was taken and Ginny had the option to save me…would she have?” She shrugged her shoulders “Or would she have just left me to die?”

“Sometimes people push others away to make it easier for them” Rita told her, rubbing her back “It’s the whole ‘I’m going to hurt you before you can hurt me’ mentality”

“And sometimes” Hermione said, turning her eyes to Rita “People are just bitches”

“That is true” Rita laughed “But some of us change. It’s been known to happen, I mean look at me, I am no longer transforming in to a beetle to get a story that I can spin in to lies and gossip”

“And all it took was a month in a little jar” Hermione snorted “Stuck in your Animagus form”

“I was impressed” Rita told her “Angry and humiliated that you did that to me so easily”

“You had it coming” Hermione sniffled and Rita gave a shaky laugh, nodding her head in agreement “Thank you”

“For what?” The reporter asked “I didn’t do anything”

“I haven’t had a conversation of this magnitude with a woman since before my mother lost her memories of me” Hermione informed her “It’s nice to feel like someone is there for me”

“Well” Rita smiled “It’s nice to have a little experience with this caring mothering feeling” She gave a watery laugh “I never got to experience motherhood after pregnancy”

“You were pregnant?” Hermione asked, realizing just how little she knew about the woman.

“Yeah” She smiled “A one-night stand gone “wrong” you could call it” She lowered her head and absently placing her hand over her now flat stomach “I was around twenty-five and went through the pregnancy alone but it was wonderful a little strange with the changing hormones and mood swings but I read about it, knew what to expect and then I went in to labor” Tears filled her eyes but she smiled anyway “I had a little boy and he was beautiful”

“What happened to him?” Hermione whispered.

“His heart was weak” Rita answered, looking at her hands as if she were still seeing something that had long since been put down “And he was too little for the potions that was needed to strengthen it. A child has to be at least six months old to have the potion, he stayed in Saint Mungo’s while I worked my ass off to keep my mind off of him alone in an incubator and to have plenty of money to buy all the things that he would need when he got home” Hermione nodded her head part of her hoping Rita would continue and another part wanting her to stop with the sad story “At four months old his heart stopped, they tried everything they could do and even administered the potion in hopes that it would help even though he was too young but none of it mattered…he died at four months and I never even got to bring him home”

“What was his name?” Hermione asked and Rita laughed.

“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you” Rita said “It’s too weird”

“Come on” Hermione pressed, gently tapping her shoulder against the reporters “What was it?”

“James” She answered with a fond smile “Named after a friend of mine from school that accepted my half-breed status quietly and never told anyone else”

“It’s a nice name” Hermione said, she didn’t ask if it was James Potter that she’d named her son after because she knew the answer to that. It also brought up the question of why, if she’d been friends with James Potter would she had attacked Harry the way she did during their fourth year. It seemed that to Hermione some questions were better left unanswered.

“Are you worried that Ginny is going to go after Draco?” Rita asked boldly once she’d calmed down enough “Is that why you don’t want her around here?”

“She was trained by her mother to go after a rich wizard” Hermione said by way of an answer “Ginny is beautiful, accomplished, a fan of quidditch, smart and being a Weasley she is likely to be able to bare children at the drop of a hat…why wouldn’t he want her?”

“Hermione Granger” Rita said around a large sigh “You either love hearing compliments or you are truly the dumbest intelligent person I have ever known” Hermione looked offended “You are the smartest witch of your age, you’re not a troll, you have a great sense of humor and Draco has been in love with you for years, so why the hell would he want her?” She laughed “She’s a Weasley for merlin’s sake, that should tell you something all in itself”

“I’m being…stupid aren’t I?” Hermione asked her.

“Yes” She answered the younger witch “But I’ve read that all women who fall in love are often stupid” They both laughed “And don’t worry, if I see that little red-haired bitch anywhere near your man I will not only smack the teeth out of her head but I will ruin her in every possible way…and you know that I can do that”

“Yes you can” Hermione agreed “Have you ever fallen in love?”

“Nope” Rita answered as they both stood up “I need someone amazing and refuse to settle for anything else. He needs to be sweet, heroic, funny, extraordinary, talented, smart, good looking...need I go on?”

“No” Hermione laughed “I got the picture” They walked in to the house, Kip was just bringing out lunch for them all. Luna and Ginny were sitting next to each other, Draco was sitting near Luna with an empty chair next to him for Hermione, everyone else was sitting with whoever they felt most comfortable with.

“So” Draco said to everyone “We have a rather interesting group of people here. But I am happy to say that we have all that we need now to take down Height and put an end to his half-breed trafficking. Potter has been, sadly, doing his own campaigning and I have to say that although with my help he would be closer to the seat he wants, he had been doing a great job shaking hands and kissing babies”

“So what’s our next step?” Andromeda asked.

“An interview” Draco answered “With reporter Rita Skeeter about a corrupt Chief Warlock and some of the information that we’ve got. Then Harry will declare an investigation in to the accusations where he will be given the rest of the information to bring to the Minister of Magic” He smirked “Then Height will be stripped of his position and thrown in to Azkaban and Harry will be given the position of the new Chief Warlock because he is qualified and witches and wizards everywhere will be vying for him to have such a position” He smiled at Hermione “And then Hermione and I can finally get married” Everyone around the table smiled “So after lunch, you can begin the interview process and Luna, will you catch Weasley up as to what’s happening?”

“Of course” Luna smiled at her red haired friend. Ginny looked at Hermione quickly and looked away when Hermione turned her gaze to her, Hermione smirked when she saw how nervous she made the youngest Weasley.

A/N: Two days off and no car means a lot of writing. I hope you like this chapter, I see the end in sight. Then depending on what ya’ll think I may write a sequel but don’t know. Depends on how I write the last chapter, I never know what’s gonna happen in these stories. Tell me what you think.
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