"I'm getting you out. I swore it to you, and I meant it, Granger." Malfoy is so earnest that he frightens her, eyes dark in the shadow as he looks down into hers unblinkingly. "No matter what, I will not let him hurt you again." He says the words fiercely, his gaze never sliding from Hermione's, their hands tangled together too tightly, and her heart thud-thud's too hard at the raw feeling in his voice. The ferocity, the desperation. He has never promised that before. He has never...