GoF The Way It Should Have Gone
Disclaimer: JK Rowlings and a bunch of other people own the Harry Potter universe and characters, I own nothing.
Author's notes: This is my first attempt at writing fanfiction, it's a HR/Fleur story so you are warned, rating may later change. The story is pretty much cannon until 4th year, from there on it's AU. My motivation for writing this story is that I love the pairing and don't see enough stories as it is and that I love Hermione as a character and I love to read stories in which she is not a doormat to her friends and she is showed as the complex and capable youg woman that she is, so I asked myself, why not create the story I would like to read myself? And this is it. I am pretty nervous about posting it and bear in mind that I am not an english born speaker, so I apologise for any errors beforehand.
Lastly any comments and reviews are appreciated, I only ask that whathever you have to say please don't be rude about it.
Chapter 1
It was a glorious winter Saturday and the sun was shinning all through Hogwarts grounds so all the students were outside playing in the snow and enjoying the rare opportunity to do so in the Scottish highlands.
So it was in a day such as this that Hermione Granger found herself alone in the library, normally she enjoyed the solitude but in this day she couldn't help herself but being a bit depressed.
'Really, I know that they are best mates and are making up for lost time, but I thought, I don't know, I thought that after all that has happened this year that things would be different'.She knew that Harry considered Ron his best friend, almost like a brother, and that she was second to that ( something that had proved true in years past with Harry always choosing Ron's side in every argument she had had with the redhead ) but she thought that she and Harry had gotten closer this year after the goblet fiasco. All the school, including said redhead, had turned their backs on Harry, calling him a cheat and an attention seeker, but not Hermione, no, she had been with him every step of the way, encouraging him, providing an ear when he needed to vent and training him for the tasks, and she had deluded herself into thinking that Harry finally saw her as the good friend that she was, that he had started to appreciate her and consider her at least as good a friend as Ron. But here they were , the first task had come and gone, Ron had apologised and Harry had again the school support, and where did that leave her? Well, alone in the library researching for the second task while her two friends were somewhere in the grounds playing in the snow and enjoyed the good weather.
She understood that Harry was stressed and needed some time to relax and forget about the tournament, but didn't she deserve the same? It sometimes seemed that she was more invested in the competition than Harry was, and whenever she asked him about the egg Ron would tell her to stop nagging Harry, that there was a lot of time until the second task, and she realised, there was where her problem laid, Ron.
It had angered her that none of her two friends had asked her to the ball even when they got desperate, and please OY, Hermione, Neville is right, you are a girl! Ron was such a git!, but what really had angered her was that the night of the ball, when she was enjoying herself with Viktor Krum, and feeling pretty and girly for the first time in her life, that Ron had to go and ruin it for her, although if she was honest with herself the thing that had hurt the most wasn't Ron and his insensitive remarks, no, what cut deeper was that once again Harry took Ron's side, not only did he not defend her when Ron was spewing all his bullshit, but later he found her crying and didn't console her ( as she would have done had their roles been reversed, hell, as she had been doing all year ) he left her there in the stairs crying, and all through the Christmas holidays he had been hanging out with Ron and the rest of the Weasleys ( the twins and Ginny ) while she researched in the library for the tasks.
Her musings were interrupted by the clearing of a throat " Hemionniny, vat are you doing in library on day like this? Come vith me to take a valk, yes?"
"Oh, hey Viktor, I'm doing some research for Harry, you know, for the tournament, so you see I am really busy…another day?" She really wanted to take Viktor up on his offer but this was one of the last days of the Christmas break and she knew that once the lessons started she was going to be more busy, so it was only logical to just stay put as much as she longed to be outdoors with Viktor taking a romantic stroll.
"Please Hermionniny, it's good veather, yes? Come vith me to how you say, to breath fresh air, research can wait, sun can't"
"I, yes, ok I'll go with you" Really, she would only be delaying her research a couple of hours, after lunch she would continue, and after all didn't she deserve a break too? And with that she picked up her notes and left the library arm in arm with Viktor never realising the pair of eyes that followed her every move, the same pair of eyes that had watched her since she arrived in the library and that now watched with a frown her arm encased in Viktor's arm.