Author's Note: This is Druidess, my interesting take on the events after the second war. This story is going to be humorous and happy (eventually) with a ton of romance and adventure along the way. It's about all of our favorite characters, but mostly centers around Hermione and Draco who eventually become the glue of the group.

So read on! And find out how breaking up with Harry Potter can alter a life.

Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.K. Rowling.

Chapter 1: Life was Wonderful

Life was wonderful. No, really. Right now, in this moment, Hermione Granger was thinking just that: "Life was wonderful." Usually, Hermione's brain was amazing about processing information quickly and correctly, sorting details into little "brain" files, if you will, and then finally analyzing everything. This was not the case for the present time, however.

No, in actuality, her brain was doing just the opposite. It seemed like her brain was trying to push away her new information; throw up, brush its teeth and then return to the normal flow of precious words and ideas that normally came to the brilliant witch. The reason for that was because her favorite person, the best boyfriend, and an amazing hero was breaking her tiny heart.

"C'mon, Herms..." Harry paused. "Say something."

Of course, eventually some kind of problem, issue, or snag would come about in Harry Potter and Hermione Granger's perfect relationship. She just did not realize that it would send Harry into intermission and then let the movie end in tragedy. She wished to herself that he would stand up, yell at her, and then stab her in the gut just to relieve the pain-seed that he planted in her heart. Unfortunately, it did not seem to be heading in that direction.

"You know," Hermione began slowly, thinking of words to fit her sentence right. " I just don't want to say anything to you right now...." And with that she stood up and began to walk away.

"But-what-wait-hold on-I'm confused, Hermione." Harry finally mumbled out. His eyes were questioning her and his eye brows twisted around above his eyes, like they usually did when he did not understand something.

"Why are you confused?" Hermione spat, suddenly angry. She looked away and continued speaking. "You don't want to see me anymore, you want to end the most amazing relationship either of us have ever had, all for a reason you won't give me and you don't understand why I want to walk away from you?" Her words were malicious and rude and they stopped Harry from his pursuit. "Don't act stupid, Harry." She softened her voice and looked at him once more. "I'm leaving now."

With those last three words lingering in the air, Hermione pulled out her wand and apparated to her flat hoping Ginny was at home.

See, after Harry, that stupid prat who just broke Hermione's heart into two with no given explanation at all, had defeated the dreaded and evil Lord Voldermort, he started dating the brainy witch. That had lasted for a good 2 years until now. They had agreed early on to keep things slow, since it was a new experience for the both of them. However, as the relationship advanced it was quite obvious to everyone that Harry and Hermione were completely, utterly, and disgustingly in love. They took trips together when they could get off. They spent weekends together dining at candle-lit meals, star-gazing in the country, or having picnics in the sun in the park or on the beach. The couple had even progressed as far as to having sex, the first time for both of them. But they still wanted to take things slow.

So, Hermione and Ginny, both working jobs for the ministry, had moved into their own cute, little flat. This was mainly until Hermione and Harry had moved in and so that Ginny could get out of the Burrow. With the living situation, both of the witches had become very close friends. Harry and Ron had moved into their own flat (for a while), they were after all the best of friends. It just worked out so perfectly. Hermione had considered her life to be, in more or less words, 100 percent amazing! It was perfect. She had her family, who she visited frequently, she had her friends who were always there for her, she had her guy who was perfect, and she was making a stand in the wizarding world as her own person. Things were great, until now.

Now, all Hermione could see was an image of the earth, floating happily in space, and then all the sudden a nuclear explosion occurs in England, the mushroom cloud appears, and the earth crumbles into rocks and falls into the nothingness of the universe.

Hermione took a deep breath and stepped into her little flat. Ginny's friendship to her demonstrated wonderfully when she saw that the redhead was sitting in her robe with giant socks and a huge tub of chocolate ice cream on the couch. Ginny had her hair in a messy bun and was eating the ice cream straight from the container, like a real woman. Hermione grinned wildly. Ginny always had the best timing for eating-ice-cream-right-out-of-the-tub moments.

She sat down next to Ginny, who was watching the television, and threw off her shoes violently. Then began to ingest as much chocolate as possible.

"What's up, Herms?" Ginny asked without looking away from the T.V.

"Oh nothing much," Hermione replied coolly. "Harry broke up with me." She added in causally.

Ginny paused, her spoon midway between the tub and her mouth, a look of complete confusion across her dainty face.

"I'm.... sorry I didn't quite catch that last thing you said." She looked at Hermione, forgetting all about the Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

"Harry. Broke. Up. With. Me." Hermione stated each word, spelling it out for her.

"...WHAT?!" Ginny practically screamed.

"Yea."

"You're lying to me, Hermione Granger. You're a bloody liar."

"Shall I gather the memory into a pensive for you? Or would you rather I use a truth potion? We don't have any Veritaserum, but I know I have some weaker potions...." Hermione said matter-of-factly.

Ginny just stared.

Hermione ate the ice cream. It melted her pain. Or numbed it at least.

"Why on this earth would he break up with you?!" Ginny, again, practically screamed.

"I don't know he didn't tell me. He asked to meet me for lunch after work, which is normal. Then we ate, (he had the soup, I knew something was wrong!!!) but everything seemed okay..... but then he just says, right then and there 'Hermione, I love you but I think we should break up. It's not working out so much.' and then I said, 'What in the bloody hell are you talking about, Harry? We just had the most amazing sex last night and then you made me breakfast in YOUR bed this morning!' and he said, 'Well, I've been doing some thinking since then and I've come to the conclusion that we should end this.' Of course, I couldn't even cry at that point. I was just too confused. And then I asked him "Why?" about a million times. And he wouldn't give me an answer." Hermione paused to take a deep breath. She knew she was rambling but didn't give it a second thought.

"I asked him again and again and he kind of had this weird look in his eye, as if he wanted to tell me the truth but then he must've thought better of it because a second later he said, 'This is just how it has to be, Hermione.' And I didn't say anything for a really long time and then he asked me to say something and I got angry. How could HE," She spat his name angrily. "Expect me to say anything when I didn't understand the entire conversation in the first place! And I tried to think of any signs there might have been that should have pointed me to the reason why, why he didn't want to be with me anymore. Why this is all over. And I can't think of a single moment in my life when Harry Potter and I were together that would explain this moment of insanity. I mean we were talking about moving in together, getting married, maybe having children just the other day, Ginny! I DON'T UNDERSTAND. My brain is going to explode!!!"

Hermione only got angrier with each word and after her rant, she promptly plunged her face into the tub of ice cream and let the coolness wash over her flushed face. Plus, it was chocolate. Chocolate has magical healing powers, female only though.

Ginny had sat through Hermione's rant shocked and at a complete loss for words. She listened intently thinking that at any moment Hermione was going to start laughing and then say, "HA HA JUST KIDDING WITH YOU!" And then Harry would come out of no where and they would all eat the chocolaty goodness that was the ice cream. But that didn't happen. And after a minute, Ginny was sure Hermione was trying to drown herself in the chocolate, which could not happen. Dead people in the chocolate ice cream was not allowed.

Finally, Ginny lifted Hermione's head from the tub which caused her to laugh out loud. Hermione's face was covered completely with the semi-melted ice cream and it looked like she had attempted to put a mud mask on, but used too much water and put it over too much of her face. Then, because Ginny was laughing, Hermione decided she would laugh too. After all, she just gave her face an ice cream bath. That isn't normal.

After the two witches laughed and ate more ice cream, Hermione fingering the ice cream on her face and licking it off, the mood got a little more serious.

"What am I going to do, Ginny?" Hermione looked at her dearest friend, desperately.

"I have no idea!" Ginny thought, but did not say out loud. She didn't want Hermione to become hopeless.

"Slowly, with time, and with major girl power, we shall overcome this tremendous evil that has occurred." She said with a playful tone and hugged her friend. However, even with the friendly tone Hermione began to sob into Ginny's shoulder. It all finally hit her. Harry broke up with her, the perfectness that was Harry and Hermione forever was over and she was alone.

The two stayed like that for a while; Hermione wailing uncontrollably into Ginny's shoulder while Ginny cooed at her with 'Shh's and 'It'll be okay's.

"It'll be fine, Hermione. You just need to give it time. Time and ice cream and spa treatments and sun bathing and dancing in the rain and shopping and... and everything will be fine, love." Ginny said. She looked at Hermione with a heart warming smile.

Hermione knew that everything would be fine. She knew that Ginny was right. And with that thought, she smiled.