Chapter 1

(Plot : When the war is over between Good + Evil and Voldemort is finally defeated. Hogwarts School resumes the rest of the school year a year later (instead of them 10 years later). The rest is pretty self explanatory.... But love will start to be uncovered ).

''Bloody Hell, I've run out of Blood beans. I can't stand the lack of junk food before meal times'', Ron moaned throwing his empty box of Jelly Blood beans on the floor.

''Blimey Ron, you'll eat us out of this castle if it was made out of sweets'', Harry laughed rolling his eyes. Hermione strolled up to Ron and Harry quickly, she was on duty today. Her long bouncy curls flew around her as the wind picked up her pace.

''Ronald, are you going to pick up that box or will I have to report you for littering, again?'', Hermione rolled her eyes. Ever since she was elected head girl she had been tired of covering for Ron's problems.

''Turning into head girl has made you right... Snobby'', Ron kicked the box down the corridor.

''You think so?'', She said in her high pitched voice she used when she was stressed.

''I know so'', Ron grinned his goofy smile.

''Right, that's it. Wingardium Leviosa'', Hermione chanted flicking her wand wildly out of her robe and pointing it at Ron. Ron went crashing down the corridor next to the candy box.

''Idiot'', Hermione growled and stormed off down towards the common room. She was annoyed at how her friends were always putting so much pressure on her now that she was head girl.

''Hermione!'', Lavender shouted. Lavender went back to being Ron's girlfriend again after the war. Hermione didn't mind, she felt her heart was....some place else. Lavender was actually okay when she wasn't so hyper or talking incessantly about herself. Hermione shook her curly ringlet curls.

''Hey Lavender, I'm sorry I have to go to the common room to do some work, I'll speak to you later. Bye'', Hermione walked off without even waiting for Lavenders response. She marched up the first flight of moving stairs. As she was waiting for the common room stairs to move Draco pushed past her and leaned against the wall.

''Mudblood'', He nodded looking away from her face. Ever since the war had finished and Draco was aloud to return back to school he couldn't look at Hermione. He could only hide the deep secret he had been hiding since his first stay at Hogwarts, he would never allow her to know it. He made sure the fidelius charm worked and only she, the one person he wanted to tell would never know.

Hermione breathed in a deep breath and changed weight onto her other foot to stop herself from kicking him. She scowled and looking the other way.

''I preferred you not talking to me'', She almost ran towards the stairs when it connected. Hermione still couldn't believe that Draco was elected head boy after watching her get tortured by Bellatrix and joining the death eaters. She knew he didn't want to be a death eater, it ate him up inside. She didn't despise him like she thought she should. She pitied him mostly. How pathetic had his life been, doing everything out of force and not out of will. Although, that blank face -his blank face, that she watched whilst she was getting tortured made her annoyed. Annoyed because its last face she sees at night, and the one she wakes up to.

''Hermione Granger!, nice seeing you again. Are you going in?'', Greeted the talk-active new painting of an old professor on the common room door.

''Hello Professor grindlesticks. Its nice seeing you and yes please, I have work to be getting on with'', Hermione smiled at the painting whilst it swung open and let her in. She grabbed hold of the door handle on the back of the door and slammed it shut in Draco's face before walking off into her new room. The common room, was like any other room in Hogwarts -Old, castle like with a roaring fire. It looked exactly like the griffindor common room, except it had all of Griffindor's students missing. She missed the common room and often found herself sitting next to the fire with a book like she used to in the common room. She felt like she was not accepted in the common room any more, even though she was still welcome. It was her house after all. Being head girl meant that she had her own bedroom next to the common room -next to Draco's. Draco always disappeared into his room after grabbing a drink of soda from the fridge from the common room. Hermione liked it that way, she got peace and time to read her books. Hermione's room was small but homely. It was exactly like a Griffindor room but smaller and with only one bed.

''Oh Crookshanks!, get of my homework!, I've just finished that. Its due in two weeks!'', Hermione scowled picking her up from her desk. The ginger fur ball with large greeney yellow eyes meowed a low deep meow and strutted of towards the end of Hermione's bed. Hermione got to work with next months assignment until a small voice on the end of her desk spoke to her. It was a Howler, she hoped it was a good scowler. She picked up the letter quickly and opened it.

''Miss Granger, You are required to go to Dumbledore's office. Immediately'', said the Howler.

''I can't be in trouble. Its probably about Ron. What would Dumbledore want?'', Hermione wandered over to her bedroom door, opening it, and walked straight past Draco who was sitting in his thoughts picking a bagel with his fingers. She ignored his presence, walking with the howler in hand and marched straight out of the common room. Hermione made it halfway towards Dumbledore's office until footsteps behind her stopped her at her tracks. She was supposed to be the only one allowed out of dormitory at this time of night and teachers usually never patrolled the corridors near Dumbledore's office. A black shadow moved past on her left. She gasped spinning round feeling inside her pockets for her wand. She had left it in her dorm room.

''Why if it isn't head girl?. What are you doing out of the library'', A voice snorted from behind her.

''Bog off'', Hermione spun round to face nothing. Puzzled, she looked around her again finding nothing. Something hard slammed into her back causing her to fly towards the floor. A gasp of air left her lips as she laid on the floor winded clutching her throat. Pairs of invisible hands held her down to the ground, she started kicking her way free but their grip tightened. She didn't want to scream like the last time she was tortured, she wouldn't give into that fear again. She wouldn't let herself be afraid again.

Something was tied around her eyes preventing her to see her attackers. Again and again, fists slammed into her chest wounding her but she never screamed. She laid limp letting them physically beat her. She'd thought they'd give up, knowing that she wasn't afraid. Fists smashed into her cheek bones and her face. She could feel the blood dripping down her cheeks.

Suddenly they stopped and all went quiet until a pair of footsteps got closer down the end of the corridor.

''Hermione?''.

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