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I plan to do a few chapters of this, if all goes according to plan and you want me to continue. :)

So...on with the story (:

Granger

Disdain.

Hermione began to notice a pattern in her six years at Hogwarts. Because, in her first year, she looked very carefully at how people saw her. She wanted to prove herself, so she read up on her many lessons, on potions and charms and defence against the dark arts. If she knew her stuff and studied hard, no-one could say she was a lesser student, no-one could prove muggleborns knew less. She thought no-one would dare judge her.

and though she had been christened 'the brightest witch of our age' by many, but along her way, she had also earnt another alias, another name to be called by, and that name was Granger.

And so the pattern developed.

Nobody who liked her called her Granger, not even during the brief period in first year, when she had thrown herself into her work and the red head, whom she now had the pleasure to call her best friend, had teased her and made comments that made her cry. Even then he had called her 'Hermione Granger' and so he should. Why on earth should she be known as anything otherwise?

Draco Malfoy called her Granger as a symbol of her apparent 'muddy blood'. He sniggered at her, and in his eyes someone who was not of pure blood like him and had parents that were not of the highest wizarding parentage did not deserve to be addressed properly. So out of spite and disgust, he referred to her as nothing but her surname.

Hermione, although feeling respect for this man, also wondered why Professor Severus Snape would constantly refer to her as 'Miss Granger'. Perhaps he simply resented the fact she was talented, kind-hearted and wanted to help people like Neville Longbottom excel at potions. He called all his students by their last name, but was there a reason? Was he too, disgusted at her parentage?

Though some were kind, and those who called her by her birth given name were indeed those she was happy to call a friend. They were the people that did not care about the purity of her blood.

To them, she would always be Hermione Granger.