"’He is a close friend Hermione, and you know why? Because he saved my life,’’ Harry intervened softly. "’More than once.’’ He was referring, of course, to their jobs as Aurors at the Ministry of Magic. That’s how they’d become friends after all. In a shocking display of idiocy, Kingsley had forcibly paired Harry and Draco and had made them the Ministry’s poster child for Unity. 