Dear Diary,
Today was worse than yesterday. I thought that coming to Hogwarts would be better than Muggle school because I would be like others. I was wrong. I am shunned and made fun of because of my heritage and my love of learning. Even now Harry and Ron only tolerate me because they use me for homework and answers. Yet, I cannot leave them because they are the only ones who try to get to know me. I only have a year left now. When that year passes I will not hesitate to run from the past and the present and hide from the future. Wish me luck with surviving tomorrow.
Love, Mione
She silently slipped the well-worn leather bound book into the nook between the bed and the wall. She looked around the empty room and sighed. Everyone was down at the party in the common room, so she escaped up to her dormitory. She was back to repeat her final year at Hogwarts because of the war the year before. She thinks back to the events immediately following the war. She was an outcast even then. She decides to take a walk so she silently opens the secret exit under her bed and slips into the damp passage way underneath. She appears moments later near the Whomping Willow and decides to walk toward the Forbidden Forest. She does not light her wand, knowing it would not only cause attention but she enjoys dark and the mystery it provides. She gets nearly a kilometer into the woods when she smells a delightful scent carried on the soft wind gently caressing her. Suddenly, she sees a pale figure sitting on a rock a ways in front of her. Bathed in the soft light the moon provides his hair shines like corn silk. "Come here, la mia bella ragazza." The man spoke. She quietly walked towards him and when she neared he patted his knee. " Come sit, my beauty. " he called out. " She obeyed and perched on his knee. Once there she sighed feeling waves of contentment wash over her as she leaned into his chest. His skin was cool, but was plesent on this warm night. "Sir, what is your name? And if I may ask, why do I feel so comfortable around you?" she questioned this stranger. " My sweet girl, I am Caius. One of the rulers of vampires. You feel comfortable because you are my mate. " "What is a mate?" A mate is like a soulmate. You are the other half of my soul, il mio amore." "So you'll never leave me?" she suddenly questoned, fearing rejection. "No, it would phisically pain me, besides why would anyone want to leave you,. mio caro." "You would be suprised, I don't have many friends..." she trailed off sadly. " "May I ask, what is your name, la mia cara compagna?" "Hermione, mione for short." " Mione would you like to leave here tonight with me?" "Yes" she breathed, overjoyed at the chance to escape her horrible life. He picked her up and ran deeper into the forest. The next morning a student at Hogwarts would be found missing, never to be found again.