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Chapter 8

The next morning was the starting of classes. At 5:30 a.m. Hermione was already up and ready. She didn't wake up at 6 like she usually did, but because of a dream she had. She didn't remember much of the dream, but enough to know that it included a girl with pale skin and had long black curly hair, black eyes and long pointy teeth. But the weird part of the dream, was that the girl looked exactly like her! She shook her head and thought she was just overreacting.

Hermione turned the light on in the dormitory to see if her hair was messed up. "TURN OFF THAT LIGHT!" yelled the irritated voices of Lavender and Parvati. Hermione mumbled 'They're obviously not morning people' She sighed and turned around to see Lily laughing silently. 'What are you laughing at?' Hermione mouthed. 'You!' Lily mouthed back. Hermione rolled her eyes and grabbed her warmest cloak off of a chair. Even though it was still September, it was still cold in the towers in the morning.

Hermione crept into the, what she thought was the empty Great Hall, to find a big black dog, sitting at the Gryffindor table. Hermione gasped, "Siri- I mean, Snuffles!" She ran over to greet him. Snuffles looked at her for a while, then transformed into Harry's godfather. Hermione's smile brightened. "How are you Sirius?" Hermione asked. "Ohh, yes, I am doing verrrry well, besides the fact that my godson was MURDERED! I am doing just GREAT!" Sirius said sarcastically. Hermione backed up surprised at his outburst. "What! What do you mean Harry was murdered?!" she exclaimed. Sirius glared at her. Hermione stood up, "WELL?!" Sirius' eyes went from deadly, to confused. "You mean, you, don't know?" he said slowly. "KNOW WHAT!!" she yelled. He sighed tiredly.

"Hermione, haven't you heard of what they were saying about you?" She raised an eyebrow. "Who's been talking about me?" "Everybody!" "Oh well, a lot of people always talks about me, especially in my 4th year! I don't care what they say." She told him. He snorted, "Okay, so I guess you won't care if I told you that everyone is saying that you killed Harry then, will you?" Hermione stared at him with her mouth slightly open. "Ok, now THAT I care about." As soon as they were done talking, everybody else came into the Great Hall for breakfast.

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It was time for potions and Hermione was leaning on the wall with the rest of the Gryffindor's. All the Slytherin's on the other side of the hall were smirking or grinning happily at Hermione. Draco Malfoy was about to come over to Hermione, but at that moment, Professor Severus Snape walked down the hall they were in, with an air of impatience, billowing cloak and all, said, "Hurry up and get into the classroom!"

'We'll we would if you hadn't locked us out' Hermione said under her breath, but Snape heard her. "I heard that Ms. Granger. That will be 10 points from Gryffindor for muttering under your breath!" growled Snape. The Gryffindor's glared at Hermione and as they were going in, Hermione could have sworn that she heard one of the Slytherin's say to one of his friends, "These couple of days just keeps getting better and better!"

"Just ignore all of them!" someone said from behind her. Hermione turned and saw Lily glaring at the Slytherin's and Gryffindor's. "Lily?!" Lily stopped glaring and smiled at her. "What?" Hermione was shocked! "How come you're still talking to me after what everybody's talking about?" "Why? What's everyone talking about?" questioned Lily. "Well, everybody's saying, that. that I killed Harry!" she said, close to tears. Lily looked at her, and then did something totally unexpected. She laughed.

"Why are you laughing?" "Because that's the stupidest thing I have EVER heard in my life! Why would you kill one of your best friends? And if you even did, why on earth would you say that!!!" Hermione laughed as well, "That is pretty weird, isn't it?" she sobered, "But I wish everybody else would see it that way." "Don't worry about it 'Mione! I'll stick by you, k? And don't worry about what the other people think, especially Ron. He'll come around and see how much of a git he was!" "Ya, I guess your right Lil!" Lily did a double-take. "Lil?" "Yep, I'm going to call you Lil because you cut my name short too."

"MS. GRANGER! Stop talking this instant! That will be 10 more points, now PAY ATTENTION or I will get the headmaster in here!" Snape thundered. The Gryffindor's were beyond angry.

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A/N - I really hope you like this chapter. I'm trying to make this story interesting. It's going to get better, I promise. Thanks to ~ Mooncancer, Horsegul, and the person who left no name! :D Tell me what you think about this story so far, k? :D

~Gryffin-Gurl~