I'm in the mood to write something different so this is my attempt.  I hope you like this story and even if you don't, still review.  I want to know how to improve this story and my writing.  If you have any suggestions don't hesitate to tell me.  Also the whole thing will be completely in Hermione's opinion and no one else's.  Here's the story:

            I had a horrible summer.  My parents argued the whole time about almost everything.  Most of all though, my parents argued about me.  They fought about Hogwarts and my education there.  They fought about when I should be home and when I should be at school.  They even fought about Harry, Ron and my friendship with them.

            I only got one joint letter from Harry and Ron all summer.  The letter looked as if it had taken all of five seconds to write.  The handwriting was the messiest I had ever seen in my entire life.  All it said was,

Dear Hermione,

Ron and I are having a great summer.  Ginny says hi.  See you in a month or so.

Harry and Ron

I of course had to send them about ten letters before I even got that reply.  There were absolutely no questions.  They hadn't asked how my summer was or even asked if I had made Head Girl.  Either they didn't care or just assumed I was Head Girl.  That was the way the rest of the world thought but I would think my best friends would care a bit more.

To say the very least, I wasn't at all happy at them.  Of course being the optimist I am, I thought that they just were very busy during the summer and would bombard me with questions as soon as they saw me.

September 1st came and I kissed my parents goodbye thinking that at last the horrible summer was over.  I walked in to the compartment in the train that Harry, Ron and I had promised to meet in last year, and I waited.  I must have waited an hour before I realized Harry and Ron weren't planning on coming.  I walked around the train looking for them, and I was just about to quit when I noticed one more room.

I knocked on the door, and no one answered.  "Is anyone getting changed in here?"  I called.  Again, no one answered.  I decided there was no harm in walking in so I did just that.  The sight in there made me recoil in disgust.

There was Ron making out with Lavender on the seats while Harry and Parvati were standing up and kissing.  I broke the moment by screaming at the top of my lungs "Stop kissing!!!!!!!"  Finally they all stopped and looked at me as if I was crazy.

"What's upsetting you Hermione, you look as if we were doing something wrong." Harry said.

"What's wrong?"  I yelled.  "I'll tell you what's wrong!  I just had the worst summer of my life and all I get from you is one lousy letter!  It has about three short sentences and looks as if you wrote it in less than a minute!  So I think that you were just really busy all summer.  Then today, I go to the compartment we agreed to meet in and wait there.  I waited there for an hour you two, a whole hour!  So now I know why you were so busy!  Apparently making out with some random girl means more than our friendship!"

They didn't even look guilty.  "Are you finished yet," Lavender asked, "your speech was getting a bit boring.  I think what we were doing before was a lot more interesting than this know-it-all, don't you Ronnie."  They immediately went back to kissing.

I ran out of the room feeling totally miserable.  Harry and Ron had been the only people who had ever accepted me.  I was all the same before Hogwarts.  I did well in class and all the teachers liked me.  The other kids either called me a nerd or completely ignored me.  I thought things would be different when I went to Hogwarts.  And it was different for a while.

Harry and Ron actually liked me.  They stood up for me and treated me like a friend.  Of course I should have known it wouldn't last.  But silly me, I fell for it and now here I am paying for my mistake.  They never liked me.  In fact they probably only put up with me so I would do their homework for them or something.

Now they don't need me anymore so here I am, discarded like garbage for girls who wear ten tons of make up and still think it is too little.  I feel like a toy that someone has just decided they don't want to play with anymore.  I sat by myself crying my heart out for the rest of the ride.

Once we got to Hogwarts I pretended I was happy for the first years' sakes.  When I was announced as Head Girl I sneaked a look at Harry and Ron.  They didn't even look as though they had heard.  It turned out Malfoy was Head Boy.  I half expected them to look comfortingly at me.  Stop it I reprimanded myself, you know they would probably comfort Malfoy before being nice to you again.

The sorting began and I watched all the first years being sorted.  No one really caught my attention until this one girl came up.  She had this beautiful black hair that I saw some sixth and seventh year girls staring at enviously.  Funnily enough it looked a lot like my mom's long black hair.  That wasn't what caught my eye though.  It was the expression on her face.  Her face told me she really wanted to prove herself to the world.  It was the same expression I had worn myself so many times.

McGonagall called her name "Stevens, Evelyn!"  I watched the girl, Evelyn smile nervously at everyone.  Suddenly she looked straight at me.  I caught her eye and smiled at her.  Evelyn immediately became less nervous.  She put the hat on, and for some reason I desperately wanted her to be in Gryffindor.  It took quite a while but finally the hat shouted out "Gryffindor!"

Evelyn came to sit at my table.  I made room for her to sit next to me.  "Hi Evelyn."  I said.  "Welcome to Hogwarts!  My name is Hermione Granger and I am Head Girl.  Don't worry, you'll have a great time here."

Evelyn smiled at me.  It turned out Evelyn was muggleborn too and we had an interesting conversation about muggle life.  "Why aren't you talking to anyone else?"  Evelyn asked me.  "You seem so nice!  You must have more interesting people to talk to than a first year like me."

I sighed.  "My friends aren't being the best of friends to me right now but that's not really important.  The question is why would I mind talking to you?  Believe me, if I found you boring I would have stopped talking to you long ago."

Dinner ended and I began to feel depressed again.  To make my night even worse I ran right into Draco Malfoy, the master of everything mean and obnoxious.  "Watch where you are going mudblood."  He said.  " Now I'm going to need to wash myself even longer to get off the germs."

"Stop acting like a four year old!"  I screamed.  I'd had enough insults today and Malfoy was just too much.  "Oh wait I forgot!  You are a four year old."  Then I walked away quickly so Malfoy would not see the tears streaming down my face.  How I hated that jerk.  I don't know why I let him get to me all the time.

I said the password and then quickly walked up to my room that I shared with Parvati and Lavender.  To my surprise two beds were already claimed and one bed was covered with tons of junk.

Lavender sat on her bed, reading witch weekly while Parvati was trying out make- up spells.  I started throwing the junk off the last bed just as Lavender momentarily stopped reading the magazine.  "Stop that you little brat," she said.  "That's the bed we are using for our extra stuff.  You are sleeping in the common room.  Oh, take your stuff with you."

Lavender threw my stuff down the stairs and ushered me out the door.  As my trunk fell I heard the sound of something braking.  I looked inside my trunk to find the picture I had brought to Hogwarts completely cracked.  It was my parents and I at some pretty lake.  There was a beautiful sunrise in the background.  That picture was my last reminder of when everything was perfect.

I cried quietly so no one would hear.  How could my life have changed so greatly in just a few months?  I knew almost for sure that no one would remember my birthday the next day.  My parents would be too busy arguing.  Harry and Ron were just changed.  I sobbed and sobbed until I finally fell asleep.

I know that Harry and Ron would not normally act like that but you will eventually find out why.  I know it's sad but that's how this chapter is supposed to be.  Please review!!!  I want at least five reviews before I continue writing this.