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Truth will set you free!	By : dreamtrooper Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 9582 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter nor the characters from it and I do not make any money from the writing of this story. This plot however is a figment of my imagination.

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Harry summoned a potions expert in the Ministry itself. Their division had a team of Potion Masters whose job was to test, try, examine, breakdown any potion that they may come in contact with during their missions. This was what kept them safe as they always had antidotes to common poisons that wizards or witches usually used to harm them. He gave Thane Nibble the vial he had in his hand. Thane was a very young and wise potion master. Sometimes he reminded Harry of Snape. He trusted Thane more than anyone in the team and so he chose him to test the potion that Rose made and asked him to find out the ingredients in it. Hermione bit her lip nervously while they waited for Thane to bring in his report. Draco too sat with his legs crossed fiddling with his wand from time to time. He also kept looking at Hermione to see how she was faring. As time passed Harry finished his tea along with them and then spent the rest of the time doing his case work. Hermione did not have anything to do nor did Draco and so they simply sat next to each other lost in their thoughts about Rose. They exchanged glances but not words. Harry decided to ignore them because the tension was getting too thick in the room. Fortunately, after two hours, Thane arrived with the vial and a parchment in his hand. Hermione and Draco both heaved a sigh of relief. Harry looked at them grinning. This was his daily job and he had forgotten how anxious he had been when he first started as an Auror and sat outside the lab waiting for results of any cursed or spiked drinks he had discovered while solving a crime.
Thane smiled at the trio and walked over to Harry and handed him both the things he had in his hand. Harry read the parchment and raised an eyebrow chuckling. Hermione and Draco stared at him waiting for his response. He looked at Thane and asked, "Are you sure this is all?" Thane smirked back and nodded, "Its too simple and clever. Nothing more to it. anybody could have made it except the ratio was very wisely chosen for maximum effect." Harry nodded, "Thank you Thane. You did well." Thane beamed at him. Hermione who was too curious to wait anymore brust out, "What is too simple? What ratio? Will you tell me what you found?" She gave him an exasperated look while Draco chuckled, "Really Potter? you know how she gets when she not in the know. Just tell her will you?"
Harry smiled at Draco and replied, "Hermione the vial contained a mixture of two potions namely Lust potion and the Sleeping Draught. Rose had made the mixture very cleverly. It might had not worked if she had not mixed it right." Hermione looked stunned at the foolishness that Rose did. One did not mix potions unless one was totally aware of the reactions it would produce. Sometimes different potions when mixed together could counetr-act against each other and remain ineffective. Rose had taken a risk by doing that. She felt anger towards her child at that moment. Anything could have happened to Draco. He could have gone into coma or he could have fallen unconscious...it was a risk that Rose should not have taken.
Draco looked at Thane and asked, "Do you by anychance know its effects?" Thane nodded, "One would feel extremely horny for a short while before falling off into deep sleep. and that is why I said that the ratio was very cleverly taken. The lust potion was 30% while the sleeping draught was 70%. which meant that a person would feel attracted towards someone for a while before the sleeping draught would do its job and make that person go into deep sleep for 6 to 8 hours." Hermione looked angry, "Still it was a dangerous thing to do. I did not expect that from Rose. If only I could know why she did this." Harry cleared his throat forbidding her to divulge anymore details to Thane, "Thane if a person took this fluid, would the lust potion maybe last longer and make the individual act on it?" Thane shook his head, "Not a chance. I have tested such potions before. mostly witches use that to trap someone into a commitment but they usually mix the sleeping draught to about 20% and the lust portion for 80%. That is when a witch or a wizard would act on their thoughts and then fall asleep. This particular ratio was meant to let a witch or wizard think of a person, but not act on it. the sleeping draught is too strong to not affect that person. they would fall into deep sleep." Harry nodded slowly, "So you mean that after taking this mixed potion a person will feel lust but cannot act upon it as he would be too sleepy to do so?" Thane nodded eagerly, "Exactly. it was intended to maybe rouse someone but then put them to sleep immediately." Harry smiled at Thane and thanked him for his time and help. Thane simply shook his hand and left smiling. If he was surprised by the stunned looks on Hermione and Draco, he did not show it.
Draco Kept staring at Harry who merely shrugged and got back to finishing his report. Draco spoke softly, "When did you suspect?" Harry looked up from his file and replied, "When you showed me your memories and there was nothing after you.. you know... fell asleep. That is not normal."
Draco nodded slowly, "So...so this means... this means that nothing...nothing happened that night. That...that I simply went to sleep and nothing happened and so ...since nothing happened between me and...and.. her..so.." He stammered but Hermione completed his sentence slowly, "That means that Rose was not pregnant with your child. That means that she wanted to trap you into marriage and I for one still do not know why my child would act like that!" She raised her voice in frustration while Harry looked at her surprised as did Draco. She looked at both of them with anguish.
Harry got up from his chair and embraced her. Hermione was still sitting in her chair and hugged his waist. Harry felt very sorry for Hermione. She was one who never lied or resorted to deceit and to know that her daughter did so must have hurt her a lot. She was heartbroken and needed someone who would help her calm down. He looked at Draco who was looking very worried. He spoke to Harry in a soft voice, "Maybe...it would be better if we continue this tomorrow. She will have time to process all this. Merlin knows I need to do so too."
Harry nodded and said, "Mione, why don't you go with Draco and rest at home. We will all meet tomorrow. We had a good start. Within a few days we got to know a lot more than we did a year ago. So go and take rest." Hermione wiped her tears and nodded. She did need time to process everything. She needed time to see if she missed more than she thought when Rose was alive. She needed time and space to reorganize her thoughts and plan for the next. She was nothing if not a planner. Draco stood up and took her arm as she stood as well. Harry nodded at him and Hermione and Draco left his office in silence.
Draco took Hermione home... to her home. He saw that she was very much shaken with what she learnt today about Rose. A mother will have expectations from her child but when she learns that somehow maybe her expectations made her child act in not so an upright manner than she is bound to be shocked. He summoned Tippy and asked the elf to make tea for them. When Hermione protested he said he could brew it but it might turn out to be even more poisonous than the draught of death. He really did not want to risk it now...not when they were so close to finding out the truth about Rose. Hermione smiled at his attempt at humor and gave her permission to Tippy.
Within half an hour after having tea and talking with malfoy about his Charity mission, Hermione was feeling normal again. She wanted to go back to her job in Draco's Charity. She missed helping people and for the first time in a year she felt that maybe having a job would stop her from feeling so useless. Draco felt relieved when he found her responding to his questions and adding more information about the ministry and their views about charitable trusts. He was worried that she might get depressed again and close them all off.
Hermione smiled at him and said, "Thank you. Thank you for helping me. being there for me today. I really needed someone. And...and Malfoy...I...I need to apologize on behalf of my daughter Rose. I don't know why she did what she did. It was not right and you were about to...she lied...I really cannot get past that. She lied about the baby, about your relationship, she lied about your love, about her baby's father...it's like...like I did not know her at all and I am her mother! when did my Rose change so much?"
Draco looked alarmed when he saw tears. He did not want hermione to think that this was all her fault...she usually did that. She blamed herself for every bad thing that happened. He did something he had never done before. He caught her by the arms and pulled her into his arms and embraced her. He enclosed her in a hug and spoke quietly, " Hermione Granger...listen to me and listen hard. You are not to blame yourself for what Rose did. She was a grown witch who made her decisions because she faced something that none of us know. We will find that out and we will punish the person responsible. Till then you will not put the blame on yourself. Am I clear?" He pushed backwards to look into her eyes. She was calm and smiled a little at his efforts to calm her. She nodded.
Relieved he almost let her go but then stopped and spoke, "I ...I am so happy that nothing happened between me and Rose. It was killing me and now I am relieved. You may feel uncomfortable but the truth is that I never wanted Rose. I always wanted you."
Hermione looked at him with her wide brown caramel eyes, "I know...I know Draco..I saw your memories. I know what you wanted that night."
His eyebrows shot into his forehead as he realised what she was saying and then spoke huskily, "Then you will forgive me for doing this." saying that he kissed her lips full on with a passion that stunned Hermione into rigidity. She could do nothing except feel his want on her lips. Slowly she responded and the kiss went deeper than they had planned. Hot, searing, consuming electric sparks ran through their veins, all through their bodies settling inside their lower stomachs. It was Tippy's untimely arrival that broke them apart breathless and heaving, they looked at each other for seconds before Draco spoke, "I have to go but I will be back. we need to continue this." He Disapparated from her flat.
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