A/N: ok so first one shot, I have no idea where it came from, if it's good, or if I'd even considerate for a full series. Let me know what you think and I'll go from there, I hope it has some good ideas at least.
"What was I thinking? I guess I hoped for too much, the war took so much more from us then we thought it would."
"Dooo nnoot wooorry mmy deeaar… they will get what isssss coming tthhere waay sssooon" , I still didn't understand the voice I would hear….. or why.
It was hard seeing everyone, having to look at people and seeing them look at us like we didn't get affected. Harry and Ron changed so much, as soon as the war was over harry went back to Grimmauld with Ginny and Ron took in as much of the spotlight with a new girl on his arm every week. It was hard to image that the Golden trio we used to be was really now in ruins, the only time we ever got together was when the ministry asked to make appearances, that's when the glamours' came out, we faked smiles and hugs and that everything was ok.
What no one thought to think after the war was, "where did the brain go?" why wasn't she traipsing around Diagon alley with the rest of the group and the Weasleys'. The truth was the trio stopped being the trio when they left her behind at the Manor. Something broke in Hermione, the only one who saw it were the slytherin students being forced to follow, even the deatheaters faltered. The torture she went through until bill, fleur and dean forced Harry and Ron to back was something no one talked about… not if they wanted to continue to live normally. Harry lost Sirius, Remus and Dumbledore but he still had the Weasleys' with him, the Weasleys lost Fred but they still had each other, well the few who stayed. Hermione, Hermione lost everything parents? Gone, a home? Gone, friends? Gone, what DID Hermione have? She had scars, lots of them, she had nightmares, she had unlikely allies and she had a growing addiction that no one would ever expect….
Hermione had what you would never thought a hero from a war would, she had a piece of a dark lord who whispered in her ear that making them suffer would make everything better, that it would make her feel invincible and most of all that it would make her happy, but does Hermione know what happy is anymore? How many witches can say that they survived the war not because of the boy who lived but because they gained a new soul, well not entirely new but enhanced magic and all. If anyone knew, how you do think they would have treated the aforementioned Gryffindor Princess that everyone hated or tolerated? Come on we all know loved would be a bit of a stretch with her know it all ways and her so called….. Dirty. Muddy. Blood.
"I, Hermione Morríghan Granger Riddle, (I'll explain the riddle in a bit, it's an interesting story I promise) claim my titles as Heir of Slytherin through Magic, Heir of Riddle- Gaunt through Soul and Heir of Ravenclaw through Blood, as it has been said So Mote it Be!"
Poor little harry won't know what hit him…. Neither will the rest of the Magical Community.
"My Story starts at Malfoy Manor, with a witch, a knife and a scream….. If you are inclined to listen, I am inclined to tell it. This is how I lost an old family, gained a new one and began changing the magical world without them knowing all because a scarred boy left me to die."