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Chapter 3: First Year
First year of Hogwarts had not been sunshine and daisies for young Hermione Granger. She stood out-and not in a nice way. Taller than anyone in her year, apart from Draco Malfoy, she alienated most the boys that wanted to be 'macho'. Her odd looks and bushy hair made her the prime target for those fussy girls whose only ambition, sadly, was to become a rich wizard's wife someday. Hermione bore it however, and she bore it with grace ass despite all this she had the support and love of friends.
Yes, for the first time in her life she had friends. As the year went by Harry and Neville proved themselves as the most loyal and trustworthy friends a girl could have. Hermione was sure of this despite never having had friends before to compare with. In her opinion there could be no finer friends. When her jealous fellow Ravenclaw's refused to be nice to her they were there to comfort her. When stupid pureblood girls called her ugly, Neville and Harry were always there to reassure her that she was far from it. They made her feel warm and fuzzy all the time and for that Hermione would always adore them.
Oddly enough, her friendship with the boys garnered even more hatred towards her, particularly from those aforementioned mean jealous girls. As far as they were concerned Hermione the 'New Blood'- or 'Mudblood' as not all of them were so polite-was honing in on their territory.
Of course being new to the Wizarding world, Hermione could not understand the heated looks she received from all the girls in her year, until she absentmindedly mentioned it to the boys. Oddly enough it was Neville who bashfully and red-faced explained the situation to her.
'Well Longbottom and Potter are two of the oldest wizarding families, we achieved the 'Most Noble and Most Ancient' status earlier than even the Abbots and the Nott's did.'
When Hermione continued to look confused, Harry decided it was time to cut in and save Neville any further embarrassment.
'It means were rich Mione', he said bluntly, 'Rich and titled every society witches dream'.
Hermione could have saved herself years of pain and hatred if she had ignored the boys from then on, but she would never do that. For the first time since her dear teacher had left her, Hermione was loved, she was 'Mione', and to a girl who had never ever had an affectionate name given to her before this was a prize worth more than a little teasing.
Though the boys had never been unwavering in their friendship and affection since that first day on the train ride to Hogwarts. Hermione remained. At first, leery. She wanted to trust the boys, but a life full of disappointments meant that her trust was not easily earned. Their eternal friendship was, however quickly cemented when they utterly humiliated the red-headed prat Ronald Weasley.
Since their first day, the Weasley boy had made his dislike of Hermione abundantly clear to all. She was a 'know-it-all' a 'usurper' even. He thought it was his prerogative that Harry and Neville be his best-friends. It had been his chief aim and goal for years, the youngest of six children Ron was not exactly wealthy and not nearly as clever or likeable as his elder brothers were.
William Weasley (the heir) technically didn't have to work as he would inherit the Weasley fortune (which though lacking in abundance was substantial enough), had been head-boy in school and had gone on to study to be a Curse-Breaker. He completed a 10 year course in 4 and was currently engaged to Nymphadora Tonks, a metamorphmagus and auror prodigy, who was related to the notorious Black family.
Charles Weasley, though not as clever as his elder brother, was very active, Captain of Gryffindor's Quidditch Team, in a way Ronald could never hope to be. He wasn't naturally clever like his brother, but he worked hard and achieved good grades. His interest lay in animals, particularly Dragons, and he was currently training to become a dragon handler which although dangerous paid extremely well so really he was set for life.
Percival, the third Weasley brother, was well-known as the first ever Slytherin Weasley, after generations of Gryffindor's his sorting had come as a surprise. It became evident though that he had been sorted where he belonged, he was extremely clever, that combined with his sly nature and ambitions for the future guaranteed him a high position in the ministry in the future. Though he had yet to even do his OWLS everyone expected nothing but the best.
Fredrick and George, the Weasley Twins, did not come across as awfully intelligent, but that was just their nature. For all they locked jokes and pranks, the boys were determined and hardworking, their pranks were always well thought out and cleverly put together. They planned on opening a joke shop some day and very few people doubted their success. Unlike Ronald they were well-liked.
Ronald was supposed to be a girl, and his mother resented him for not being so having had a difficult birth she was unable to have more children after him. Hermione was confused as to why she would want to have six children let alone more, since Neville and Harry explained that the Weasley though an old family were not exactly wealthy. As the youngest he never received anything new and as a result was very materialistic, his ambition in life was to be rich, and if he couldn't be that than to have rich friends that could supplement the lifestyle he so desperate wanted.
According to Ronald, Hermione had ruined any chances he had to gain those much wanted friendships. Which was why on Halloween he made the grave mistake of insulting her in front of her self-proclaimed protectors. Hermione was a loving girl starved of affection, when she saw he was struggling with his charms work she kindly offered her help despite his hostile attitude towards her.
Ronald did not appreciate the help. He was annoyed that a stupid 'New Blood' a bloody girl had showed him up, he didn't see it as help at all but another sign of his inferiority, and he had told her so, quite loudly, in not so nice terms.
Hermione, dreadfully shocked that anyone could be so rude had ran out of the classroom and by the time the Halloween Feast was spread out in the Great Hall, had yet to be seen. Harry and Neville were as any good friend would be frantic with worry, according to Lavender Brown and Parvati Patel Hermione had been crying when she ran out of the room and they couldn't have that at all.
To make matters worse, a troll was in the castle, a big, fat smelly troll, who liked to eat human flesh a much forgotten fact by many. The boys eventually located Hermione saving her from the evil clutches of the flesh eating troll, to find her concern being instead of on herself, on the stupid Slytherin's.
'What do you mean Dumbledore said to go to our dormitories?' she questioned.
'Does he not realise the Slytherin Common Room is in the Dungeon? The Dungeon the bloody troll was supposed to be in?'
Harry and Neville admitted it was odd, but were much too focused on their friends state to ponder on it much. They had already had a few words with Ronald after Hermione had fled, but seeing as their pseudo-sister had nearly been killed due to his actions it seemed as though further action would need to be taken.
The next morning, Hermione had taken note of how anxious her boys seemed. Their eyes full of anticipation throughout breakfast, and it wasn't until a bright red envelope came flying into the Great Hall that their tension was alleviated.
The Owl, dropped the letter in front of the Weasley Prat, and Hermione couldn't help but observe that the letter seemed to match his hair. The Prat paled dramatically, as he stared down at the scarlet envelope. He watched in horror as the thing rose in the air and started to screech at him.
'RONALD WEASLEY, HOW DARE YOU-HOW DARE YOU CALL A NEW BLOOD THAT AWEFUL AWEFUL WORD! HAVE YOU NO SHAME? HAVE YOU NO REGARD FOR THE REPUTATION OF OUR FAMILY? YOUR BROTHERS HAVE NEVER GIVEN ME THIS MUCH TROUBLE, NEVER! YOU SHOULD FOLLOW IN THEIR EXAMPLE! OH-WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE BEEN A GIRL? A GIRL WOULD HAVE BEEN AS MUCH TROUBLE! NOW YOU BEHAVE, IF I HEAR YOU STEPPED ONE TOE OUT OF LINE YOULL BE OUT OF HOGWARTS!'
The letter than turned in Harry's direction.
'THANKYOU LORD POTTER FOR MAKING ME AWARE OF THE SITUATION, PLEASE BE SURE TO THANK HEIR LONGBOTTOM TOO, I AM GLAD THAT THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD MATURE BOYS THAT MY SON CAN LOOK UP TO AT HOGWARTS!'
Ronald did not bother to fight with Harry or Neville, and after that incident he seemed to understand Hermione was off limits. In fact he pointedly went out of his way to ignore her. Hermione never doubted her friendship with the boys again.
The rest of the year was decidedly more peaceful. Apart from a somewhat friendly rivalry with the Malfoy Heir regarding the position of top of the class, nothing very noteworthy occurred.
Well nothing that they knew of anyways.
So yeah, shorter than usual, but I promise a new chapter within the week-an insider of what they 'didn't know' :D
I loved the response on the first two chapters and hope you're not too disappointed with this one! Its taking me a while to get into the story again:D
As for pairings when I initially uploaded the story I thought I put in the pairing but it didn't show. I have decided not to put it up because I think it's much more interesting when you don't know. However, I can reveal it won't be a Femslash, mostly because I already had a pairing planned.
I am open to any suggestions for Harry and Neville. Anyone but Ginny since she doesn't exist (I never really liked her)
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