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Blood Ties	By : christineyoung Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 62592 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 12
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A/N: Thanks or the lovely reviews last chapter. I *heart* you all big time.

Chapter 30

"A vampire?" Harry whispered.

"It's a last resort, Harry," Hermione explained. "I've been researching and the Headmaster has been looking as well. We haven't found anything yet. But I will continue to look. I won't give up on you, Harry."

Tears shimmered in his green eyes and she heard his gratitude in his thoughts. "There's no need to thank me, Harry. You're one of the most important people in my life. You're like a brother to me. I would die for you."

Harry nodded in gratitude and then swung his gaze around to Dumbledore. "So, what do we do now? Where do we go from here?"

Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as he twirled his beard around his fingers. "We continue to take the fight to him. We gather and destroy the rest of his horcruxes. We continue to monitor their movements and keep abreast of their plans. We continue to hunt for a solution to your horcrux problem. I want the three of you to stay at Grimmauld Place this summer. It's the safest place that I have available. It's unplottable and secret kept. And Sirius can aide you in your quest. The Black library has a fair number of books on dark magic and you might be able to find something there."

"You mean," Harry asked. "That I don't have to go to the Dursley's this summer? I get to stay with Sirius?"

"Harry, I don't want you to go back to the Dursley's ever again unless you want to," Dumbledore answered. "That was a grave mistake on my part. I didn't realize what a jealous shrew your aunt was. I didn't realize just how much she could mistreat someone of her own blood. I was foolish to believe that she could ever treat you as one of her own. The blood protection is inconsequential now, since Voldemort used your blood in his resurrection. There's no point in allowing your muggle relatives to mistreat you any longer. I've taken the necessary steps to have you recognized as an adult in the wizarding world. Sirius should have been your guardian but since he has the status of a fugitive, we can't use him."

"Thank you, sir. I can't express how much this means to me," Harry explained. "I know that I should be angry but having you come out and admit that you were wrong is like a balm to my soul. It means a lot to me that you brought me here to explain everything to me. I've felt like you were keeping things from me in the past and I thought it was because you didn't trust me or something."

"It was never anything like that," Dumbledore said. "I wanted you to have a normal childhood. I didn't think it was fair to burden someone with something so huge while they were so young. I wanted you to experience things that I knew you missed out on when you were taken from the wizarding world. I didn't have the heart to tell you exactly what you were facing when I could see how happy you were for the first time in your short life. But times are changing. He is back and stronger than ever. I couldn't, with good conscience, keep you in the dark any longer. The time has come and it's time to bring an end to this madness, before he gets any stronger. I know that you can do it."

Harry stood followed by Draco and Hermione. "We won't let you down. We will destroy the rest of the horcruxes and when the time come, we will destroy Voldemort for good," Harry said confidently.

Dumbledore smiled. "I have the utmost confidence in you. Tonks and Kingsley will meet you at Kings Cross to take you to Grimmauld Place. I will see you there often myself. We'll chat more this summer and finish what we started."

Harry nodded and they left the office. Hermione walked behind her friend, trying to stay out of his thoughts. She didn't want to invade his privacy but she wanted to know how he felt about all this, how he felt about her new status.

"Harry?" she asked uncertainly.

"Why didn't you tell me the truth?" he asked as he walked. "Do you not trust me?"

"No," she answered automatically. "You've got it all wrong, Harry. I was terrified at first. I didn't know what to think or say. I couldn't let anyone find out. Could you imagine what would happen if some first year wrote home to tell mommy that there was a vampire attending Hogwarts? I know that you would never tell anyone but it was a chance that I couldn't really afford to take. Not only that, it wasn't my secret to tell. It's not as if Draco was announcing he was a vampire from the rooftops."

"About that," he spat and spun on the spot to face them. "How did this happen?" he asked as he gestured between the two of them. "You just happened upon her and decided that she was your mate?"

"No," Draco admitted quietly. "I knew from the start of school. I knew it on the train. I had been fighting it all year long. I was convinced that if I told her she would either hex me into oblivion or run screaming the other way. I'll admit, what I did in the forest was reprehensible and the way that I went about making her my mate wasn't the right way to do things, but I was terrified that she would turn me down. I would have eventually succumbed to madness and put an end to my own existence if that had happened. I regret now the way I went about things but I wouldn't trade her for the world. I'll spend the rest of eternity making it up to her if I have to."

Harry narrowed his eyes as he shrewdly eyed his onetime enemy and rival. "If I ever hear of you hurting her, you won't have to worry about ending your own existence," Harry said darkly. "I'll do it for you."

Draco gulped as the green eyed wizard strode away. He could feel the darkness emanating from Potter in that moment. For that moment, it wasn't hard to realize that there was a piece of the Dark Lord residing within him. He believed that he had just got a glimpse of it.

End Note: So... tell me what you're thinking. I go on vacation at the end next week and I hope to finish writing this story over my break. If I mange to accomplish that, then maybe I'll go back to daily updates. I have quite the writing marathon planned. I want to write the next chapter of What A Malfoy Wants. I need to write my contribution the Breath-of Twilght's Christmas Countdown. I also want to write the prequel to Full Moon. Whew! That's a lot. I might need a vacation from my vacation. Review!
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