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Harry shrugged. “I don’t know. Draco doesn’t know. And no one who knows is telling.”

“Harry, what does Draco think is going on?” Hermione asked. “What exactly does he say?”

“About the letters?” Hermione nodded. “Well, he says that there are certain things his father always puts in a letter, certain phrases, the way he signs his name, and so on…I don’t remember the exact details. And he says that all these things are missing from the last three letters.”

“But hasn’t he done a spell to make sure that it’s his father’s handwriting?” Hermione asked.

“First thing he does. It’s his father’s writing, but not his father’s style.”

“Has there been any other…blood…on the letters?” Ron asked.

“No. Not since the first one.”

“I think I see what he thinks.” Hermione stated. “His father has always written to him, and so if something happened…like for instance, if his father got hurt, then the absence of letters would tell him immediately that something was wrong. But there isn’t an absence of letters. Yet, these recent ones are very different from what he’s used to. There are, as he says, certain elements missing to them.”

“And then there’s the blood.” Ron added.

Hermione nodded. “Yes. I think that Lucius Malfoy is trying to tell his son that something is wrong.”

“Then why doesn’t he come out and say it?” Ron asked.

“We must assume for some reason that he can’t.”

“But what’s going to stop Lucius Malfoy from doing something?” Ron looked skeptical.

“Voldemort.” Harry spoke suddenly.

“But we’d know if You-er…Voldemort was doing something…wouldn’t we?” Ron asked.

Harry was silent. He didn’t know what Voldemort was doing. After all, he hadn’t had a vision since he’d bonded to Draco.

Another thing Harry noticed about Draco’s change in attitude was that the blond was silent. Yes, in public he acted like the Draco everyone knew and expected…but when there was no one around except Harry, he didn’t speak unless Harry started the conversation. It was like he always had something on his mind now. And Harry couldn’t find out what.

It wasn’t like he could bluntly ask, “What are you planning?” because he wouldn’t get an answer…or at least, he wouldn’t get the truth. And because Draco was a Slytherin, Harry doubted he’d find any evidence of what Draco was plotting just lying around.