The Debt

Author's Notes:

I have no solid title on this one yet.

This idea or plot bunny came to me lastnight and I have no idea where it is going although i have a basic promise for beginning, middle and ending.

I may, or may not change the title.

Introduction 

It was meant to be a one night of drinking to celebrate a couple of things and to mourn some more than one.

But that one night will change the course of life of the Golden Trio after the war.

Some time after the war. Hermione Granger works full-time at the Ministry of Magic while her bestfriends Ronald Weasley and Harry Potter fulfills their career as Ministry of Magic Aurors.

With the Dark Lord gone, the last of the Death Eaters were rounded up and the several few, hunted down one by one despite the unresolved cases enlisted at the Ministry.

But the balance of peace will once more be tipped to the other side when a hideous crime leaves an account of vengeance to the Light.

Caught up in a crossfire from a night-out with her bestfriends, Hermione finds herself running for her life again with Harry and Ron at her tail as they try to catch a marked murderer only to be led in an empty apartment with an unconscious Draco Malfoy on the floor.

With all evidences pointing to the young Malfoy heir, the trio gets caught up with their emotions and decides to take Draco in until he admits to the hideous murders in recent bearing the only Death Eater to be given a pardon and escape the wrath of Azkaban with a clear motive after his mother’s death.

Hermione Granger and her friends’ morals shall be tested and be twisted to its full having Draco Malfoy at their mercy – a once in a lifetime offer of fate.

With no one else in his life and nobody to look for his whereabouts, Draco has no choice but to beg his life back knowing he is innocent of a crime being accounted to him by the Golden Trio.

The world has completely changed and Harry Potter places justice in his own hands as they keep him locked at the old Grimmauld Place with the rounds being created by the three of them to make him spill the truth out of his guts.

Draco spits nothing but smirk and resent for the deaths and lives they have lost in the war and swears to his mother’s grave that he is innocent.

Ronald Weasley is ready to murder him any change he is given a reason and Harry Potter is no different having Ginny being the victim of the crime that has been created in recent while Hermione Granger’s morals and faith are challenged by her own intellect when she is consumed to believe that there is a definite foul-play.

With Harry and Ron prowling and guarding Draco without rest at the old ancestral house, Hermione must keep herself conscious and discreet in finding a way to prove is Draco is indeed innocent or not. And for once, she personally believes that even someone like Draco could be innocent.

How can she convince her bestfriends when things point out otherwise and her growing interest for the ex-Death Eater and his deep-seated desire for her finally surfaces that makes the Wizarding World question her ally to the cause of the Light.

Can Hermione prove Draco’s innocent without sacrificing her morality or will she choose him despite of all things and bear witness to his inevitable death in Azkaban and end as another star-crossed loves’ story who will never actually make it until the end.