"Hermione. Hermione. Wake up you have to go to class today." A voice was invading my dreams. "Hermione, it's time to get up and go to class." Finally I snapped up and looked around. I woke up to the smell of spearmint toothpaste. Where was I? Oh right, I was in the Hospital Wing. "Are you coming Hermione?" The voice sounded dead depressing and I finally recognized it as Ginny's.

"All right I'll come." I got up and gave one last look to Malfoy's deadened face.

"He still hasn't woken up yet," Madam Pomfrey said looking at me sadly. "But he will live." Then she gave me a mood lightening potion so that I would be happier. I needed to watch my mood not get overworked or I could kill the baby.

Then she gave Ginny one too. Ginny looked absolutely miserable. Her eyes seemed to have lost their light brown color and turned grey. Her whole face was sunken and her lips were green. Her cheeks were tear stained and sunken. Her hair looked like it had died.

"Let's go to class Ginny." She nodded her head and we walked out of the hospital wing to hurry off to potions.

When I saw Professor Slughorn inspiration struck. Maybe he knows where McGonagall went.

"Professor?" I asked timidly waiting for him to notice me. "Where is Professor McGonagall?"

"Why Miss Granger? Is she not here?" Professor Slughorn.

"I don't know Professor. That's why I was asking you. You see, there was a fight and some students left the school. She wasn't there at the time and something really bad happened." I sort of started to regret telling him everything I was telling him.

"I'm sorry Miss Granger but I wasn't aware that she had left. It sounds like you had a rough night, so today we will brew amortentia to cheer everyone up." He gave me a big smile and I forced one back. That was not going to help us today.

Slughorn asked us to all get out our potions supplies and books. "To cheer us all up," he said, "we will be brewing amortentia. Can anyone tell me what amortentia is?"

Even though I'd said it before, I couldn't help myself. I flung my hand into the air at top speed and said "Amortentia is the most powerful love potion in the world. It is distinctive for its mother-of-pearl sheen, and steam rises from the potion in spirals. Amortentia smells different to each person, according to what attracts them."

"Thank you again Miss Granger," he said giving me a wink. "Oh and twenty points to Gryffindor."

I started brewing my potion. I grabbed all of the ingredients the book required and put them in in the exact amounts, following the instructions perfectly. Ginny was next to me shaking. She was taking what had happened with Harry very badly. I wondered if I should tell her about their auror job, but decided against it for now.

After a long while I finally stepped back from my potion wiping sweat off my face. I was trying as hard as possible not to smell it. In the past I had smelled freshly grown grass, new parchment, and basically Ron. I smelled spearmint toothpaste and his hair. Both of these were smells of the burrow and reminded me of Ron. Now, after Ron had left, I wasn't sure what I would smell and I wasn't sure I wanted to know.

To my horror Professor Slughorn said, "all right everyone. I must ask you all to lean over your cauldrons and take a sniff of your potion. I would then like you to write down what you smell on a spare bit of parchment. You don't have to worry, no one will see this but me. If you don't pass in a card you won't get a grade."

I leaned over my potion and took a deep whiff of it. I smelled— the parchment and the grass again as well as — no, it couldn't be — the spearmint toothpaste again. I quickly wrote it down on a card and passed it in. There would be plenty of time to think about it later.

"It's all right, all right. Breathe." Some quiet sniffling and Slughorn's calming voice came from across the room. I looked over to see Ginny softly crying, tears dripping onto her card. She looked up at me as I walked over.

"H Harry. All I c c can smell is H Harry." She burst into tears against my arm.

"Shhh shhhh Ginny it is all going to be all right. Just breathe." At that moment an owl flew through the window and landed in front of us. It held it's leg out to us and I removed the letter. Then the owl flew off and I opened up the letter. Two pieces of parchment fell out; one with Ginny's name and one with mine. Both were from Harry. I handed Ginny hers and began to read mine.

Dear Hermione,

You are probably very upset right now. I can not tell you how upset Ron is right now. He says he's sorry and he didn't mean to hurt you, but I won't let him write to you until you are ready. I'm not sure I completely believe him. That he didn't mean to hurt you I mean. He was so upset when he found out you were pregnant. He blamed it directly on Malfoy because he didn't want to be responsible.

Enough about Ron. How are you? I wanted to tell you that I don't care who's child you are carrying. You are my best friend and I am so excited to see the mother you will become. If Malfoy ever hurts you, we have taken our auror jobs, we can send him away to some place that he can never hurt you again. I'm so sorry to have done this to Ginny. She probably hates me and that makes me feel so awful because I love her with all of my heart. Take care of her for me.

With love,

Harry Potter

I re read the letter multiple times. I wanted to believe all the good he wrote, but it was hard. I looked over and saw that Ginny was smiling. I asked if we could trade letters and she obliged.

Ginny,

I'm so sorry for the pain I have caused you. I truly am. I needed to get Ron out of there before he hurt Malfoy and more importantly Hermione any more than he already had. Ron was jealous that someone had gotten his precious girl pregnant. Honestly, I would have acted similarly if it were you. He loved her so much that he went too far. I think it might be a while before they get together again, but I do find it likely. For now, as much as it kills me to say it, Hermione has Draco Malfoy.

Now I need to tell you something I should have told you earlier. Over the summer Ron and I got asked to become aurors for the Ministry of Magic. Our plan was to skip Hogwarts and just go straight into our jobs. You can thank Hermione, she convinced us to come to Hogwarts for a week. Oh, and I convinced McGonagall to give you the Defense Against the Dark Arts job. Congratulations!

Now onto us. By the end of the year I should be able to buy us a decent hous, that is, if you still want me. I just want you to know that I don't want this to be just another high school relationship. I want this to be forever. I want people to come up to us in the streets when we are taking our many grandchildren out for walks in Diagon Alley and ask us how long we've been in love. I will answer 'Always' for that is the magical word of love. I will always want you Ginny and my heart will always skip a beat when you enter a room for you are just that beautiful.

Ginevra Molly Weasley, I will always keep walking towards you.

Harry Potter