AN:/ Welcome back to another Chapter of Rising of the Phoenix! I don't own the rights to Harry Potter that belongs to JK Rowling! Enjoy Chapter 12 of Rising of the Phoenix!

Hermione's Point of View:
I lay in bed. It was Christmas break. My visions seemed to be getting worse, and I let my father or brothers know about them by giving them the journals I had been keeping during school. But all I felt was sadness and not just because of the visions but a certain boy in Gryffindor James Potter. I think back to the last week of school of how badly James tried to talk to me, beg for my forgiveness, he would send me notes constantly in class, and kept proclaiming his love for me everytime he could. I wanted so badly to believe him and forgive him. I knew I would have to talk to him eventually especially with the Potter New Years ball coming. Being eleven my parents deemed it appropriate for me to go. I look over at my desk and see the unopened letters and sigh. Dorcas has been a shield against James, but now I started to feel bad for not hearing him out. I remember that night so clearly I had put the Prewett Wards around my bed and silencing charms so I could hear them but they couldn't hear me cry my broken heart. I was brought out of my thoughts by my door opening and in walked my mother holding yet another letter. "Darling you should really read them and hear the poor boy out" she says to me.

She says this to me with every letter I sit up and sigh, "I don't know what to say to him mum I know I shouldn't have fallen for someone so young I mean I am eleven! But, I had just admitted to having a crush on him and all the sudden there is a banner saying he is in love with someone else? But, I could see him trying so hard. I don't know what to do or say" I say to her looking at my hands at a complete loss of what to do.

She lays the letter in my lap and runs her fingers through my hair, "My advice darling is to read the letters and hear him out and then only you can decide what to do. I will stand with you whatever you decide." she whispers, kissing my forehead and leaves the room.

I sigh she is right. I have to do the logical thing. I have always been the logical one ,my mother was surprised when I didn't end up in Ravenclaw heck I think most of them were. I retrieved all the letters and began. "Hey Grace, I know you're still not talking to me but I thought I would have a better chance with you being away from Dorcas and maybe you'd at least read my letters. I swear Grace the Slytherins messed with the banner I chased after you after I cleared my head. I had hoped you would come down the stairs so I could explain. I was devastated when it was Alice. Knowing you were probably up in your dorm room crying your eyes out kills me! Ask the lads I lost my shit and cried myself might have broken a few things in my dorm room. Isaac and Remus had to hold me and Sirius back from going to hurt them for hurting you. Please Grace, I am begging you to talk to me! Please forgive me! I can't bear to think of the sad deadness in your eyes. It haunts my dreams every night! Write me soon Yours, James"

I nearly cried at his words. He sounded so sincere writing to me. Like he was telling me the truth, but I felt so much pain he was feeling in those words. I opened the next one, "Grace, My owl came back without a reply and I am guessing you left my letter still unopened. I used to love Christmas, all the lights and the magic of new fallen snow. I would have loved to have you here with me then that would have been the most magical Christmas I had ever had. You are the reason I breathe, the light of my life, my warmth on a cold day, I could give you a reason for every star in the sky why I love you! If you just give me the chance! I know you think I'm a no good tog rag right now for breaking your beautiful heart. And, I swear it would never happen again. Please just write to me so I know we are going to be okay! I don't know what I would do if you weren't in my life, friend or otherwise. If the last week at Hogwarts has anything to say about it. You were so close, but I couldn't touch you or talk to you and it killed me to the inner fiber of my being. Even now knowing you are still no doubt hurt, and I couldn't have prevented it kills me! Please Grace Please! Yours, James"

Now I know I was crying because I felt the same way I wanted so badly to go and sit next to him, have his arms around me, lay my head on his shoulder and have his fingers running through my hair. Yell at him for pranking people instead of keeping up on his school work. The girls had decided instead of coming to my place they would spend it with their family so the self defensive lessons have helped, but my mind is always on James. I opened the last letter and out came a necklace. I looked closer. It was full of diamonds and bright shining it was shaped like a star. It was beautiful. "Grace, I wish I could give you the world and all the stars in the sky, but I did find this in the Potter vaults. It's ironic because the star is called Sirius. I did some research on it and found this while reading, because Sirius is also known as the Dog Star or Sirius A, it is the brightest star in Earth's night sky. The name means "glowing" in Greek — a fitting description, as only a few planets, the full moon and the International Space Station outshine this star. You are like the Sirius Star, you are the brightest and only woman I see in the entire world, all the rest look like ugly ogres. I hope to see or hear from you soon! I hope beyond hope you forgive me, and if you're willing to be my date to the Potter New Years Ball. I love you Hermione Grace Prewett with everything in me. Yours for all eternity and even after that James" he wrote in his final letter. I looked at the necklace and smiled. I could see him actually trying and not giving up. Even with Dorcas meddling. But, how can you really know you're in love with someone, especially at eleven years old? I looked over my closet my mother had gotten me a beautiful silver one shoulder long dress that puffed out at the waist with a rhinestone belt. I had thought about not going feigning sick. I sigh and decide to follow my heart, grabbing a quill and paper and writing out a letter to James, sending it off with my owl and placing the necklace in my jewelry box. Christmas might truly be turning around for the better, I smile and go and spend some quality time with my family. Not knowing I had made the wizard in question the happiest in the world.

James Point of View:
It had been the absolute worst Christmas holiday that I could ever remember in existence. I was heartbroken having not heard from Hermione and every attempt I had made at school or on the train was stopped by Dorcas Meadows. Alice and Marlene tried to help me to no avail. It's like she was one step ahead of them, and us. Sirius had been blasted off the family tree and what shocked my family was a little Regulus Black dragging in an unconscious Sirius. He begged us to keep him safe. My parents offered to let him stay as well, but he shook his head and disappeared into the flames. My parents wanted to legally adopt Sirius, but his Uncle Alphrad took him under his wing, but asked we house him which they were happy to do. Sirius had tried to get me out of my bad mood, but all I wanted was to hear from her even if it was a howler even then I would still hear her voice. "James Darling come down for dinner" my mother says to me.

I sigh and nod following her me and Sirius talk about quidditch and he is still teasing me about getting Hermione a necklace with a star named after him. Joked saying now he had a claim on her. I punched him for that and we later laughed it off. All of a sudden a beautiful owl swoops through the window and lands next to me. I recognize the writing anywhere and remove the letter giving the owl my whole damn plate. She had written! "James, could the letter wait till after dinner?" my father asks with laughter in his eyes.

I shake my head and stand rushing out of the dining room and into my private sitting room. I feel like my heart is beating out of my chest. She didn't return the necklace that much I know , feeling the letter. I rip it open. "James, I am sorry it has taken me so long to respond. My mother talked me into reading your letters and think about things logically. She still swears up and down the house, put me in the wrong house and swears I should have been in Ravenclaw. I am sorry I have gotten off track. Your letters made me cry. They were truly beautiful! I do have to wonder James we are eleven years old. How can you truly know you're in love with me? You haven't even tried to talk to other witches, or wizards. I am not saying you swing that way, but how can you truly know? I loved the necklace by the way I can Sirius giving you a hard time saying something along the lines of now he has some claim on me or something" I laugh because that is exactly what happened. "I do forgive you and wanted you to know I missed the closeness over the last week at Hogwarts. I almost felt this empty feeling of not having you close" It warmed my heart knowing she felt the same, and knowing she forgave me made my entire Christmas. "I honestly don't know where we go from here? Do we stay best friends? Do we become more? Merlin did I mention that we were only eleven? Isn't this something we talk about when we are older? And, as for your other question, if I haven't completely ruined things by not responding sooner I would love for you to escort me and be my date to the Potter New Years Ball. My dress is silver if you want to match. I hear people do that as a way of saying that they are that person's date. I hope you have a Merry Christmas James. And, I need a nickname for you since you have deemed it to be okay to call me Grace! See you soon Yours, Grace" she writes. I am over the moon! She forgave me. She is going to be my date to the ball! Sirius and my parents came into the room and I was jumping for joy. I look at them with a huge smile "SHE SAID YES!" I whoop and jump for joy. I couldn't wait for the ball now! Now to get some Silver dress robes! I wanted no doubt that she was with me and she was my date! Now to get Hermione Grace Prewett to fall in love with me, agree to marry me, have my children, and live happily ever after! I couldn't wait!

AN:/ Ugh! Did anyone else love that chapter as much as I did? ugh the feelings I get from it! I felt the writing the letter was so in line with Hermione's character! I hope you loved it as much as I did and I will update soon! Draco Lover Forever 1994!