She was getting older and she hated it. She was getting older and she couldn't stop it. She was getting older and everybody knew it.

:You show your age,
when you drown your rage.:

She tried to laugh through it, really she did. She tried. Everyone took it for granted. They assumed that she was all right, when really she was just laughing to stop crying.

But he saw it. She just didn't see him.

:But i see past those laughter lines:

He tried to get her to notice him. He had pulled out all the stops. He had gone against everything for her. He had gone against his fucking LIFE for her.

He tried being romantic.

He tried being charming.

He tried everything.

:so baby, lets split tonight,
I got a tank full of gas till light.

Yeah we can drive for miles and miles:

But he failed.

:But you just said,
"Not for all the love in the world"
"Not for all the love in the world":

He supposed she couldn't take any love because she couldn't give any. And she was never one to make an unfair deal. She had eyes for Ron. Ron didn't have eyes for her. And she didn't have eyes for him. The whole world was going blind.

:Cause she didnt realize, now thats a lotta love:

Before the war she was happy. Most everyone is happy when they are young. It's easy to believe in dreams before they are broken before your eyes.

:Pipe dreams fade:

He studied her when she was happy, just as he studies her now.

She used to think that the world thought like she did. She thought the world was fair. After the hero won the villains were all supposed to fade away, disappear, die. But they didn't. The evil guys stayed around under the mask of a repentant sinner. And god loves repentant sinners.

Why is it that God seems to want people who sinned and then are 'sorry' for their sins, more than people who don't sin at all? That doesn't give much incentive to be good now does it?

:and all the underdogs get laid.:

And after the war came and went, and her ideals had come and gone, her heart was broken. Then she was broken.

:Left your heart in the hands of a jugglin clown.:

She only wanted Ron. Why she couldn't love HIM he didn't know. Why couldn't Hermione Granger love Draco Malfoy? Why was God so against him, against them?

She tried everything to get Ron, just as Draco now tried everything to get her.

:And so you crave recognition,
but the keys to the city went missing:

But Ron had Lavender.

Hermione tried to solve it, like it was an Arithmancy problem. Easy, right? Well, she definitely learned that lesson quick.

:People are all puzzles to be figured out:

He tried to convince her then. He tried to convince her that he, Draco Malfoy, was the one for her. But she didn't want his love.

:But you just said,
"Not for all the love in the world"
"Not for all the love in the world":

She didn't realize that one persons love could surely be as good as any others. For as smart as she was supposed to be, she was remarkably close minded.

:Cause she didnt realize, now thats alotta love
Oh Oh:

Everyone else got their happy ending. Everyone else got their love. Harry had Ginny, Ron had Lavender. But Draco wanted Hermione and Hermione wanted Ron and both were too stubborn to look elsewhere.

:I guess that everybody,
went to a better party, oh no:

He would have given her anything and everything. But she wanted one love and one love only, not matter how little of it she got.

She wouldn't have him,
:Not for all the love in the world

Not for all the love in the world
But she didnt realize, now thats a lotta love.: