J K Rowling owns Harry Potter. I own the fact that I am a shameless FanGirl.
I was inspired by the writer HalfASlug. If you haven't read their stories and especially if R/Hr are your favorite couple, go to their profile and read, read, read the night away.
A/N -The IDEA: Lost moments in time where Harry and Hermione speak in context of friendship, their crushes and growing up. I hope to have 7 of them, one for each year. Some of these are going to be short. I will upload one at a time but each moment is complete. I hope to have them up pretty quick but you know, I have a test in a couple days so we will see about that.
November 1st.
"Good morning Hermione." Harry said quietly as he spotted her in the common room the next morning.
"Oh. Good morning Harry. Did you sleep well?"
"Sure. Knocking out a troll tends to take your energy I guess." Harry said with a smile.
Hermione smiled back at him. She couldn't think how to express in words how grateful she was to him and Ron.
"Yeah. I guess it does. ...Thank you, Harry. You saved my life."
"Hermione, you don't have to thank me. I am just glad that you are okay. You are ...okay, right?"
"Yeah. I am okay. I promise."
"Good. Listen, Hermione. I want to say sorry."
"What? Why?"
"Well because I was so mean to you before - calling you a know-it-all and all that. Well I am sorry. You helped me with that essay the other day and if you weren't a quote-unquote 'know-it-all' I wouldn't have gotten a decent mark on it."
Harry looked at his feet as he said this to her. He was embarrassed to know that in those moments of teasing the girl who stood in front of him, he was no better than Dudley. He felt sick at the thought.
"Harry, you have nothing to apologize about. All is forgiven. Like I told McGonagall last night, without you I would probably be dead."
And then out of nowhere, Hermione hugged Harry for the first time. This was a new feeling for Harry. He had never had any friends before coming to Hogwarts. He was never shown any affection at the Dursleys. He decided that this was a good feeling and hugged Hermione back, hoping that it would be the first of many to come.
