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Chapter 1 - Just the Beginning

Hermione was on her way to the Gryffindor Common room. She had just spent nearly three hours studying in the library. She groaned when she remembered that she had to go back to her room where Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil also were at. Hopefully they will be snogging some boys in an empty corridor she thought to herself.

She never really was the type of girl to have a bunch of crushes on boys. Sneak out and snog them in empty corridors. When she was younger she would sometimes get little crushes on the boys she went to school with. But now there just wasn't a reason too anyway. Besides, no boy would like her back.

She maybe would have had a chance if she wasn't being made fun of constantly. But there is one thing keeping her back the most. There is one thing that keeps reminding her that she will always be horrible. There is one thing that will always bring herself esteem down.

The Silver Trio.

Of course they would always make her feel like the worst person in the world. She hated them. And there was no doubt that they hated her. First there is that annoying little red-head, Ronald Weasley. He was always hooking up with girls and didn't care about their feelings. Oh, but then there's Harry Potter. He was even worse. And he was so horrible to Hermione, but she just tried to ignore it the best she could. But then there is always Draco Malfoy.

She hated him with a passion from day one. There was nothing she liked about him. When they were younger, he used to pull her hair and call her names. Now he throws as many insults he can at her. It hurt her deeply but she tried her best to not let him know that.

One day, she hopes that all the prejudice will be done with and she can just-

"Hey Granger!" She heard a voice from a bit farther behind her.

She already knew who it was. Therefore, she started to walk faster. She heard them picking up their speed as well.

"Muddy, where are you going?" Harry asked sarcastically.

Crap! She should have known better than to walk the corridors alone. Especially when they would go out of their way to make her life living hell.

She rounded the corner as fast as she could. She heard snickering from right around the corner.

She wanted to run. She wanted to get out of there as fast as she could. That's when she broke out into a run. She ran for nearly less than a minuet but she was already out of breath. She made a mental note to herself to work out more often.

She felt herself slowing down. She was tired and completely out of breath. She knew she was no match for them. With them being fit and such, Hermione stood no chance at all. Should I hide? she thought to herself. No, that's stupid! They would find me. Now she heard footsteps getting even closer to her. That's when she started to panic. She's no Trelawney or anything, but she could tell exactly what was about to happen. There was no point in running now.

"Ahhh... Granger," a voice drawled out. Draco Malfoy. She knew he wouldn't do anything to physically hurt her, at least not at school; but she was still scared right now.

She halted to a stop and almost fell over. She then turned around slowly to be met with the Silver Trio.

"We thought we would be chasing you through the castle all night." Harry said smirking. "Why were you running away from us anyway?" Ron asked with an identical smirk on his face.

"I... I wasn't running away from you," she started. She was always a really bad liar. "I was simply rushing to go get my essay that I left in my room." She didn't want them thinking she was afraid of them, even though her fear most likely showed.

"Now, Hermione, which essay were you simply rushing to go get?" Draco asked with an obvious grin. He was defiantly having too much fun with this. It angered her no no extent. She didn't want them to know she was scared of them… even though she was. There was no doubt about it, but she was going to stay strong.

"Yes, please do tell. If you don't mind sharing with us, that is." Harry said.

"Transfiguration." she said in a matter-of-fact tone. That was the one class she didn't have with any of them and they would never find out she in fact did not have an essay due that day. She crossed her arms over her chest and raised her nose up in the air with confidence waiting to see what they would say to that.

"Well run along now, wouldn't want to keep professor waiting... on a saturday night." Ron said coolly. "I do hope you know we are not in school at the moment."

She wanted to kick herself for being the worst liar. She knew she walked right into that one. If only she would have stayed in her room that night. She would have been alone, or maybe even with Lavender and Parvati, but at least she wouldn't have been in this situation. Anything was better than this.

"Granger! You mean to say, you lied to us!" Draco feigned outrage.

"Oh shut up Malfoy. Honestly, can't you just leave me alone already." Hermione firmly said dropping her arms to her sides. She immediately regretted saying those words after she saw the look on Draco's face.

"You fucking mudblood!" Draco screamed in her face. "Who do you think you are? Telling me to shut up. I'll be damned the day you tell me what to do." He spat.

He took a step closer to her causing her to freeze. She felt like a deer caught in the headlights of a car. She honestly didn't know what to do, so she just stood there dumbfounded waiting for something to happen. Draco took another step closer to her. She was really getting nervous now. Although he was still far away from her, if he kept going at the rate he was going now, no doubt she would be backed up into the wall that was just a few feet behind her. She was then ripped out of all thought.

Hermione couldn't help but let out a small whimper when Draco roughly pushed her into the wall. This made Harry and Ron laugh at her.

Hermione now let her fear show. She couldn't hold in her emotions any longer. "Don't look to brave now, do you, Granger?" Draco provoked. Hermione tried to look everywhere but where Draco stood. She wanted to run out of this empty corridor and find a safe haven, but she couldn't due to Draco's strong grip on her shoulder. Nothing at all could be worse than this. Honestly, what do they want from me? she thought to herself.

Malfoy then backed away dropping his grip from her shoulder. She looked up curiously to see what he was doing. He actually looked calm with no sign of anger etched on his smirking face.

Wait. Smirking face?

He was defiantly up to something now. As Harry and Ron had identical smirks plastered on their faces, Hermione couldn't help but feel small and useless. Draco quickly took out his wand out of his robe pocket and pointed it at her. Her heart skipped a beat as all three of the boys' grins were getting wider. Right when she was bracing herself for what was coming next, something surprising happened. All three of them backed a few feet away leaving Hermione standing there curious.

Hermione let her guard down seeing that they were getting even farther away. Of course she should have known not to put her guard down so easily. They could not be trusted for even the slightest moment. "Levicorpus." That was the last thing she could mentally comprehend before she was dangling upside down in the air by her ankle.

She didn't know what to think of this. This wasn't really harming her and she wasn't in deep fear of her life.

"How are you doing, muddy?" Harry asked amused. "I assume you're just hanging in there." he continued laughing at her.

This really wasn't the time for witty jokes. She was dangling in the air by what felt like nothing. Although she wasn't really in fear of her life, she was scared. And her fear of heights wasn't helping her right now; all she could see was the ground a good couple of feet below her. Besides the ground, she could see the people in which who caused this whole problem to occur.

"Put me down," Hermione managed to get out before a breathless "please." Harry and Ron cracked a smile at this one before laughing loudly at how uncomfortable she looked right now. Bu all she seemed to be able to think about was how her skirt was falling off past her waist nearly exposing everything.

"You heard her. Put her down, Draco." Ron said with a smirk in her direction. "Alright. If you insist." Draco said loudly then breaking off the spell abruptly. Hermione landed with a loud thud on the painfully hard floor. "Happy now, Granger?" Harry finally said when their laughter at her fall calmed down.

She freaked out for a small second when she looked up and saw that they were all hovering over her. She backed away with her hands and feet and quickly got up before she let her guard down for too much longer. "Scared Granger? Or are we still playing brave little Gryffindor?" Harry taunted. It shocked her how much hatred one could have for another.

"If so, then I would like to play as well." Ron said. The thought of this made her shudder, but she didn't do anything about it. Instead, she finally decided that she was going to be brave and stick up for herself.

"I'll have you know-" before she could even get started, she was cut off by Harry.

"Oh, Granger. We would love to stay and chat, but we did promise some girls earlier that we would meet them up in the Astronomy Tower." She was guessing this "meet" had something to do with snogging some girls. Ron looked down at his watch to check the time. "Unfortunately, we have to go. See you around muddy." he said with a face of disgust in her direction.

And with that, they left.

Hermione had a rough time trying to go to sleep that night. All she could think about was how alone she felt. This was all because of the Silver Trio. She hated feeling like this. She never did like being sad or crying over something. Instead, she tried to think about the good things in her life and how great her friends were. Although she sometimes felt like she was alone, she knew she wasn't.

She did have friends she could talk to if she was ever feeling sad or just needed some one to talk to. She would say that her closest friend was Luna Lovegood. She didn't really have many close friends she could spill her secrets to and gush her feelings out to. But she did have Luna, and she was the best Hermione could ask for. Although, Hermione did like the idea that she was strong enough to stand alone, she did like having someone there for her to lean on.

Ever since her first year at Hogwarts, Hermione had always hung around with Luna; but with them being in different houses, it is sort of hard to talk to her a lot. But she can relate with Luna because people are always making fun of her as well. Maybe that's not that amazing, but at least they shared something in common. Not many people would be proud to share something in common with Luna Lovegood.

So maybe she is a little weird. Maybe people purposely tried to ignore her. But you can't control what other people do and you can't control what other people think about you. But most importantly, you shouldn't judge a person on what other people have judged them for. At least not until you see for yourself.

Hermione, as a person, always believed in giving people chances, not matter what.

Feeling inspired and light, she decided it was time for her to get some sleep. She looked up at her clock on the wall and gasped. It was four thirty-seven a.m. "Crap..." she said to herself. "I'm going to have the hardest time waking up!"

Knowing it was going to be a dreadful morning, she fell into a deep sleep.

She awoke the next morning feeling as tired and unsteady as she had feared she would that night. Although she had a calm, deep sleep, it was too short for any real rest. To ease herself, she decided to go take a shower before she went down to breakfast just to waste time. She was not at all in the mood to be surrounded by a bunch of noisy people in the Great Hall.

As she got out of the shower and dried her hair, she could already see a tangled mess of frizzy hair and untamed curls. Although her hair was starting to straighten out on its own due to growth hormones, she still sometimes had wild crazy hair some days. She supposed those "sometimes" were just bad hair days. She just wasn't in the mood to fight her hair today though, so she just decided to put it in a messy bun. It was a really messy bun.

On her way down to the Great Hall, she noticed Harry, Ron, and Draco going down the way she usually did. Knowing that they always just get her in a depressed, emotional state, she simply decided to turn around and go the other way. But then something made her change her mind.

They did not see Hermione standing there. Hermione then listened with astonishment when Ron started talking to Harry and Draco as if she weren't even there; although to him, she wasn't right now.

"What happened with that Ravenclaw girl last night?" Draco asked Ron.

Hermione could make out a scoff from Ron. "Well I went to take off her knickers, and I noticed they were tighty-whity's." Ron made another sound of disgust as Harry and Draco started to laugh as if it were a joke he was telling. To Hermione it was a joke.

"You mean like granny-panties?" Harry asked between snickers. Hermione looked up right in time to see him nodding with an annoyed expression. Unfortunately, when she looked up, she made eye contact with Ron and immediately she got a nervous feeling. This was just like a repeat of last night, she thought. Of course this would happen to me two times in a row just hours apart. Just my luck.

"Speaking of tight-whity's." Ron said looking straight at Hermione causing the other boys to look over in her direction. Why didn't I just keep walking away like I was going to? Sometimes I just set myself up for disaster.

"Levicorpus." This time the spell was cast by Ron. She wasn't as scared this time because she knew what to expect; just a little bit of heights, all three of them gawking at her like she was some sort of an animal to them. She might as well have been, especially by the way they were looking at her right. Their expressions were even more unwillingly abnormal than yesterday. She looked at them and then where their eyes fell over to. A pair of grey eyes, a pair of blue eyes, and a pair of green eyes all fell on one place.

She looked down to where their eyes were glued. Her heart skipped a beat when she looked down. Hermione's skirt was flipped completely over exposing her knickers.

Her stomach dropped as she froze and was shocked of all thought. While trying to compose herself enough to cover herself up, she was dropped onto the floor.

"Bloody hell…" she heard Ron mutter under his breath. "That's what she's been hiding under all her robes."

"She's honestly not that bad looking." Harry said snapping out of his trance.

Draco paused, "Eh. She's okay for a mudblood." Hermione stood up backing away awkwardly from them. She looked around to make sure no one had seen what had just happened, and with that she was already turned around nearing the Great Hall.

Alrighty... hope you all liked.

I know not much has happened, but just give it some time. I can't rush everything into the first chapter after all. I tried to explain everything as much as I could but I felt like I spent the entire chapter explaining and not enough stuff happening.

Stuff I couldn't manage to fit in this chapter; Luna is a Ravenclaw and is in the same year as Hermione. Harry and Ron are in Slytherin (if you didn't catch on.) This fanfiction takes place in their sixth year of Hogwarts.

Please review! I understand that I'm not too great but this is my first legit fanfic. I am going to try my best to update as much as possible and not forget about it. I would really appreciate some honest reviews about how my writing is and what you all thought about it.

Much love, xox