Dear Hermione,
If you ever read this letter, then it means I have finally come to a place where I am ready for my feelings to be made known to you. Either that or someone has decided to show it to you without my knowledge. For that, they'll pay. But here for better or for worse, you're reading this, so here it goes.
I love you, Hermione. Plain and simple. It was not love at first sight thing. In fact, I really despised you the first couple years we were at school together. When my father came upon the knowledge that you were making higher marks than me, he pressured me harder at my studies. "How could that insufferable mudblood be doing better than you, Draco?" he shouted at me. "She had no knowledge of our world prior to being accepted at Hogwarts? You are better than her! My blood is in you!" I went without supper that night, well at least to my father's knowledge. My mum came up a few hours later with food, but that's beside the point.
I'd say it was maybe our third year where my feelings started to change. I noticed something different about you. I couldn't put my finger on it, and to be honest, I still can't, but there was just something about you I never realized before. Was there something different about me? Was there something different about you? I'll probably never know, but I do know that my outlook on you had changed and frankly, that's all that matters.
I began to notice you more. You're intelligence, not just in book smarts, but in ingenuity. You're a smart girl even without the books. You're clever. There's also an extreme lack of prejudice within you. You actually care about people, well, like people regardless of who they are. That's not my world. I never could be that way, not without disappointing my family. But you are so much more than I am or could ever hope to be. As much as I want you, there is no way on earth I could possibly deserve you. I am ilk!
I love you for who you are, Hermione. I love every facet, every good thing, every bad thing, every small piece that make you YOU.
I have dreamt about you day and night. Your radiant face comes to me as I sleep. I long for your presence when I do not see you. I long to feel you in my arms. I want to be near you.
But this love I have is never meant to be. We come from different worlds, you and I. If only life dealt us different cards or changed the game now. If only there was some way I could be with you without my family's prejudice breathing down my neck. But I cannot disappoint them, even if it means sacrificing my own happiness. I hope you understand now why I make fun of you and your friends. I pick on you, because I care, but also I need to keep up this front that I don't.
Hopefully by the time you read this, the world is a different place. Maybe we're together, or maybe I just opened up about my feelings to you for the first time, or some wonderful thing that has brought me to handing this letter to you! I hope that day comes. I pray day and night that it would be so. I love you Hermione Granger. Always.
Affectionately yours,
Draco Malfoy