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A/N: For the 200 Characters in 200 Days Challenge. Favorite Era Boot Camp Strange. Rilvalry Boot Camp with Voice.
Hermione had always been seen as a bookworm, a goody-two shoes, someone who would never do anything wrong in all her life.
But, that wasn't true one day in primary school (before she had found out that she was a witch), it had been a nice bright day and the kids had been brought out to recess.
Hermione had made a beeline to her favorite spot under a tree with a new book under her arm.
She had been minding her own business, not wanting a fight -but that always seemed to be the way didn't it? You wouldn't be looking for a fight, but someone else was.
She heard girly laughter ahead of her but didn't take her eyes off of the page, a determined look on her face.
"If it isn't the teacher's pet, Hermione Granger!" A familiar voice said, a few girls laughed.
Hermione grimaced not wanting to look up because she knew if she did she would come face to face with Irene Welsh. The ritchest and meanest girl in her year.
Despite the fact that she didn't want to look up, she did anyway an annoyed look already on her face, having been forced to deal with this for so long.
"Hello Irene, how are you?" Hermione asked in false polietness.
"Hello Irene, how are you?" Irene said in a mocking tone making her voice go up higher and causing Hermione to ground her teeth together.
Hermione rolled her eyes at the childishness and went back to reading her book, hopefully if she ignored her she would go away.
(No such chance) As Irene marched herself to where Hermione was sitting and grabbed her book from her hands.
"Hey! Give that back!" Hermione cried standing up in an instant and tried to grab the book back, but one of Irene's croonies Alison pushed her back a mean look on her face.
"Watch yourself," Alison said a smirk coming across her face.
"Give it back now!" Hermione said her arms crossing over her chest defensively.
"Make me," Irene said tauntingly.
Hermione glared at her, as one emotion started to bubble up. Anger, anger at the fact that Irene got away with everything, anger at the fact that despite the fact that Irene was the prettiest and ritchest girl in school she still felt the need to bully someone, and the fact that it was always Hermione that she picked on. Anger at the fact that no matter what Hermione did, ignore her, try to be friends with her nothing worked.
She got so angry that she started to shake.
"Oh is the little baby going to cry? Did I make the little baby sad?" Irene said in a mocking voice.
Before anyone knew what happened, before anyone could even blink Irene had flown backwards, Hermione's book landing at Hermione's feet.
"Irene!" Alison shrieked. Alison and the other girls rushed over to their fallen leader leaving Hermione confused and shocked.
'How did that happen? Did I make that happen? If I did how did I make that happen?' Hermione's thoughts whirled around in her head, she shook herself a frown on her face as she tried to figure it out.
Hermione bit her lip as she saw Professor Cinch walk over to see what had happened.
"What happened?" She asked a frown on her face as Irene stood up a dazed and confused look on her face.
"I don't know, one minute Hermione and I were talking and the next minute I was on the ground." Irene said a frown on her face.
Professor Cinch turned around to face Hermione and said "did you push her?"
"What! No, I would never push her!" Hermione cried a look of shock on her face.
Professor Cinch frowned but then nodded. "You have never done anything bad before and you do not seem to be that type of person, so I feel inclined to believe you."
"But then how did I get on the ground?" Irene asked.
"Did you feel Miss Granger push you?" Professor Cinch asked.
"Well, no..." Irene replied.
"So perhaps you stumbled and fell." Professor Cinch replied.
Irene frowned but said nothing.
Hermione grabbed her book and left before Irene said something that would get her in trouble. It was weird, as soon as Hermione had felt anger, and the anger had built up Irene had flown across the ground.
She knew that she had done it, but now she had to figure out how. And she was going to no matter what.
Now years after the fact she knew that she was a Witch, and what had happened to Irene had been because of accidental magic. And while she didn't find that out until Professor McGonagall had came to tell her, one good thing did happen. Irene stopped bullying her, but afterwards until Hermione went to Hogwarts Irene would give her a strange look, as if trying to figure it out.