Those Eyes

By- SlytherclawGirl07

Disclaimer-The Harry Potter Universe and its characters belong to J.K Rowling. I have no claim on them the plot however,belongs to me.

A.N-This is my first attempt at writing Fanfiction.I'm still in High School, so please excuse any grammatical or spelling errors. AU and and Harmony.

Italics-Present

Regular-Flashback

Bold-Narrator

'Those eyes , Why can't I forget them?' a twenty-six year old Hermione Granger questioned herself , knowing that it was impossible. Sitting on her bed in Lima, she thought back to the first time she saw those eyes and the heartbreak they brought her.

After a particularly vicious bullying session, little Hermione had let her legs take to the park just a few blocks away from her primary school. She let the anguish she had been hiding away, out, for the loss of, her parents, her future and ambitions. It had been a few months since the accident, but to her it felt that everything happened just the day before. The screams of her parents being burnt alive crept into her dreams, making her lay awake, staring at the ceiling of her room for most started shaking violently as her appraised mind conjured visuals of her being swallowed by the same fire with her parents screams playing in the background . Usually these visuals left little Hermione terrified but today she wished, not for first time that she had died with her parents. As the screams faded away she closed her eyes to enjoy the quiet that was scarce at the orphanage she currently resided in, not noticing the eyes watching her. She opened her eyes to the shuffling of feet and identified a boy with shaggy black hair to be the culprit. He stood approximately a foot away from the trunk of the tree against which she was leaning. The boys body was covered on scars, no burns she corrected herself. His green eyes peered through a pair of circular glasses. He was painfully thin , his cheeks hollow and body dirty. Wondering what he wanted she quickly collected her things scattered on the ground and stuffed them into her school bag and in her haste she left her uneaten lunch on the she was about to leave the park she turned back when she heard the boy say that she had forgotten her boy reached her and handed her lunch back to her. Hermione was confused, it was obvious that the boy was starving yet he did not run off with her lunch. She approached him and told him that the food would be appreciated by him more than her. The smile he gave with his yellowed teeth was so genuine that Hermione couldn't help but smile back taking a bite of her sandwich he told her that she looked much better when she wasn't crying and asked her to smile more she turned to head to the orphanage, the boy asked her if they would meet to meet again they parted thoughtabout his entrancing eyes throughout her trip to the orphanage.

Little Hermione didn't know this but it was the start of a beautiful friendship which eventually led to her loving him.

—Time Jump—

An older Hermione waited on one of the benches in the park for her green-eyed friend not knowing that she would never speak to him waiting pointlessly for hours she was about to leave when she spotted his glasses on a tin can. As she read the writing on the piece paper inside the tin, a numb feeling overcame her. She trudged down the street not minding the cold, holding a pair of glasses in a bruising grip that left her pale knuckles paler. 'He left ' she thought despondently within the confines of her faithful felt that her world, and most importantly her heart was shattering. As her eyes burned with suppressed tears she berated herself for not learning that everyone precious in her life was to be taken away. She had foolishly let herself become attached to Harry as he had introduced himself on their second meeting. She swore to never let another in.

She had changed that day, those who knew her well said that her parents death disturbed her but one day out of the blue , her behavior had changed completely. It seemed that Hermione Granger,the girl with secret smiles and lively eyes was finally broken and her once warm eyes were now dreams about the fire were replaced with Harry's eyes mocking her.

The former Ravenclaw doubted that she would be in the same house at Hogwarts if she had never met Harry, so long ago. As she thought of those eyes again she felt a few tears roll down her descision to let that boy into her heart was the cause of this, and she strengthened her resolve to never love another. Those eyes taunted her in her dreams. She knew Harry well enough to know that it wasn't his fault but a small part of her blamed him for knew that the chances of her surviving this war were slim, she also knew that even if she survived the rest of her nights would be spent like this. She rested her head on her pillow and in the softest of voices prayed that Hadrian Potter won the war.

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Notes-In this universe Harry never goes to Hogworts and for those who didn't catch on Harry is also known as Hadrian and Hermione does not recognize him.I know the timeline is messed It's AU.