I woke up in a completely groggy state the next morning. I looked around my surroundings. Where the fuck am I? Oh yea…the new dormitories. I glanced around to see the rest of the beds appearing to be empty. Where is everyone? I got up slow and unbalanced, almost hitting my bedside table. I grabbed my shower things and headed towards the door to get into the communal bathroom. I walked in and it the Gryffindor colours surrounding me, though not in the obnoxious way one would believe. There was black to make the colours more subdued and luckily for me there were about 12 shower stalls, thought it made no difference this morning since no one else was in here with me. I walked straight to the shower and washed off the grime of last night and half an hour later stepped out clean for the new day. Pulling on a pair of jeans and a black halter, I stepped out to find my friends. I assumed it was time to eat, so I headed towards the great hall. I wonder who that guy was last night. He was so fucking sexy, and I wouldn't mind meeting him again. Maybe Ginny will have been able to recognize him? I came down to a very crowded Great Hall, with food everywhere. It appeared that I was the last one to arrive though, nonetheless a seat was saved for me in between Neville and Ron.

"Gmmmd morning!" shouted Ron with food hanging out of his mouth, my appetite suddenly depleting.

"Good morning, Ronald" I said firmly enunciating every syllable. I gave everyone a bright smile, before grabbing a delicious looking strawberry pastry.

"You're up awfully late…" said Ginny giving me a very curious look.

"Well, I was awfully tired and apparently no one felt the need to bother me this morning. A nice change from the norm, I must admit," I said with a cheshire smile.

"Yes, what happened to you last night? One minute you were dancing in front of me with the Ravenclaw and the next thing I know, you're gone."

"Oh, that I will tell you later. I was actually hoping you could help me, but I guess not…" sounding mildy disappointed. "Any good gossip from last night?"

"Apparently Lavendar ended up in Blaise's bed, that skank but otherwise nothing too interesting."

"EWWWW. Things I don't care to know about," said Harry finally acknowledging my presence.

"Good morning to you too,"

"Sorry, I'm a bit hungover to be honest and discussions such as that are just not what I want to hear this morning," replied Harry.

"Awww poor baby," I said in a teasing manner and was shot a glare in return. Nice to have everything back to semi-norm. It's better than the constant depression that was hanging around us before. I looked around the table again, and saw something similar to a few years before the war. It was truly a beautiful sight, people were laughing and smiling again after so much pain. Everyone is finally healing… Today luckily for all the older students was a free day to get adjusted back to Hogwarts. We decided to enjoy the warm day outside. We stepped outside in the warm day as all the other students did, and it seemed that last night had its effects. Though most of the groups were still within the houses, there were the few younger ones who started to mingle with other younger children from the other houses. If only we had the chance to start without any prejudices…to start anew. I smiled at the younger ones as we passed by, hoping that they would start something new as we headed towards our usual shady spot. As we all sat down, I felt a wave of relief watch over me, it's all over now. Conversation began immediately, flowing from one to another as we were all sprawled out on the grass. I glanced at Harry watching him sleep in the warmth of the summer, and enjoying the peacefulness that surrounded him. For once he didn't look like he was struggling or fighting anything, there was a new aura that surrounded him and there was only one way to describe it, beautiful. As Ron smiled and laughed with Ginny, I couldn't help but join in. I hadn't been paying attention but there was something simply beautiful about the whole scene surrounding me. What if we had been like this from the beginning? No Voldemort or anything evil in the world. If only…I glanced around us to see who was surrounding. There was a group of Slytherins sitting by the black lake with their feet in the water, despite everyone's beliefs nothing came out to play during the warm summer heat, at night possibly but not. I glanced over each one: Blaise, Pansy, Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Daphne, and Theodore and the animosity that I once felt towards them all disappeared, because as much as we had lost, they had lost just as much. If not some of them their parents, and suddenly I couldn't feel that angry towards them because they were just children like us, forced into a decision. I have no idea where this compassion was coming from, but it was better than the angry Hermione that existed before and was angry with them. Somewhere along the way, the war had changed all of us of course, but it changed me and made me more sympathetic to people fighting against me believe it or not because some of them, and I'm not suggesting all but some of them had no choice. I shook my head to wipe away the thoughts that were plaguing my head. Everyone around me now was sitting in silence just enjoying the chatter of the people surrounding us, and I was enjoying the pure silence and the power of healing that was occurring around me. Before I knew it, I was being shaken awake by Ron.

"Hermione, wakey wakey. It's time for dinner," he said and as I opened my eyes I saw his big blue eyes staring at me earnestly and it reminded me only how young we are.

"I'm awake," I replied brushing myself off and standing up for dinner.

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