Chapter 11: Shattered Hearts and Hopes

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter; I own only 2 char. namely Paige and Ethan Sherlate.

Thanks to Charleigh who reviewed my fic a lot. It was because of her that I posted the 10th chapter. Thanks Charley!

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"Umm, Hermione, we better go...really we must!" Ginny added to her unmoving friends "See ya in a bit!"

"So, I was just a game, I thought better of you, you're probably the only Mudblood that I thought was better than the others but for the first time I was wrong.......I was wrong for falling in love with a girl like you, No, I take that back, It was wrong for a pureblood like me to fall for someone..someone like you! A Mudblood! Gawd, what was I thinking? I knew we would never work out, father forbids it anyway...You see Granger, I didn't like the thought of loving you but I thought I was wrong and that there really was something in you. Too bad! I thought very wrong, so just now, I realized no matter what happens we could never be together!" Draco said coldly "After all as my friends and fellow Slytherins say you are unworthy of my love and I just realized how very right they are"

"No, listen it was because---"

"I don't need your explanations; you explained too much already, Actions are better than words, if you must know"

"Draco-"

"Don't.....Don't you ever address me with my first name! Only purebloods are to address me that way, No lowly Gryffindor like you should address me that way. Next time I'll make sure that every Mudblood must bow to a Pureblood" though he didn't mean it he said it.

Hermione was very taken aback but she managed to say something

"Look, will you just listen, there's an explanation to all this"

"No, I've done enough listening already. Now, I do the talking. I have extended my patience to it's limits. Yet this is how a girl like you repay me? I thought I found love on a girl I barely knew. Now listen to this, I take back every word I said to you, I take back the fact that I had fallen for you!" he finally said then walked away "I have so much to say but then you wouldn't listen, I know you want to, your just to proud to listen to me......." Hermione thought sadly, two fat large tear drops fell from her eyes. "If you must know how I really feel, I really do love you and I hope you still do love me too, don't go away it's not too late to change everything you said."

"One wish I wish to make.....Is that every word he said he will slowly take

I wish I never did that dare.....because I love him I solemnly sware. But never would this be like before...too bad his love won't come for me anymore"

Then she proceeded back to her room...Thinking of all those things he said swirling in her head. (Not meant to rhyme)

Next Morning

"How did it go, Hermione?" Lavender asked

"I don't wanna talk about it" she replied "Besides, why did you make me do that dare, you know I already have Ron!"

"Oh we know that you have Ron, the problem is...Do you love him like you love Draco Malfoy?" Parvati asked

Hermione did not answer the question.

"We're your friends, Hermione, we know you like Malfoy better, so we decided that if we gave you that dare, he will become your boyfriend and when you finally have some sense you'll dump Ron"

Hermione still did not answer but a later on she said "Relationships don't work that way, You should have not gave me that dare, if you did want to make us have a relationship, you should have left it to me, Friends should not decide what's good or what's not for her friend you know, that dare caused a disaster"

"Okay, I know we shouldn't have, we're really sorry"

"It's okay, no big deal" she answered but she told her friend that she needed sometime alone so she went up to the Gryffindor common room. She was thinking that she should confess to Ron about her mystery man and that she should say sorry to him for paying not that much attention to him.

When she went to the Gryffindor common room, Ron was not around so she went to the Great Hall.

As she reached for her spoon an owl swooped down on her table..with a howler.

Hermione stared at it, thinking it was not hers. Then for a split second another letter was delivered this time it was plain.

Paige who was just passing by smiled at Hermione with lots of malice.

"Oh, look......The Mudblood has a howler, Can I have the honors of opening it for you?" she said

"No-wait!" Hermione said but she was too late Paige already opened the howler and Ron's voice echoed the hall:

Hermione!

I thought I could never send this to you but last night I screwed up the courage to give this letter to you! How dare you?! I had the perfect girlfriend but then you were just a two timing b*tch! For all you guys out there take this from the master who had experience on this wretched pathetic girl, never court her, never be her boyfriend, Don't waste your time on her. After all she can break your heart like she passed all her test! Don't you ever fall for a selfish b*tch!

Good day to you all except you, Hermione! (Don't hate me for doing this, the letter is way harsh but please bear with me!!!!()

Then the howler burnt.

"Granger.."Paige said breaking the silence of the hall that every single person in the room heard her "I didn't know you and your Weasley boyfriend broke up. You finally had some sense and you broke up with him since your ashamed of him!" she said giggling then she went away.

A lot of students stood up to take a better look on Hermione. Hermione went scarlet.

"Ron, of all the people I have expected...What did I do to you?" she thought

She opened the next letter it was from......

Hermione,

I wish to tell you this a long time ago but I figured out that it's just not the right time. I really don't love you, I only loved your brilliance..In other words your nothing but my 'A ticket' but I figured out that I'm smart enough already, thanks to you and that I really don't need you. I am more superior than you, you do know that. I still can't stand the fact that this coming ball your gonna be my partner, that is such a disgrace for a Malfoy. Especially when I am a pureblood and you..oh well a mudblood. So bear with me if I won't anticipate or make that day good for you cause I promise you, I never had the heart to love someone as lowly as you. Your just every boy's 'A ticket' and you'll stay that way. You'll never have the heart of a Malfoy, not ever! As they said 'Once a mudblood, always a mudblood'

Without the slightest love,

MALFOY

Hermione read the letter twice.......thinking that Draco's letter was a thousand times heartbreaking than Ron's even if Ron's letter was spread to the whole world.

Lavender, Ginny and Parvati approached hr..

"All right! That's it, I've had enough, I can't take any more of this cruel and useless letters and if ever I receive one more I"LL KILL THE SENDER FOR SURE!" she said angrily

Lavender placed her hand on Hermione's shoulder...

"You okay?" she asked

Hermione stood up and said "Does this look okay to you? I need some time alone so leave me alone"

Lavender just stared at Hermione then went away with her other friends.

When Hermione reached the common room, she saw Ron and Padma. Ron was facing Padma and Hermione saw that Ron was giving Padma something. Hermione looked closer and saw Ron giving Padma the locket she gave him as a present. Hermione was beyond angry.

"Why is that on her neck?! How dare you, I spent so much just for that!" Hermione said eyes flickering

"No, Hermione..HOW dare you?" Ron said facing Hermione

"How dare I? What a stupid question to ask me! You're the one who embarrassed me in front of the whole school and you're the one who's giving her something that I've given to you!" Hermione replied

"Hermione, please-"Padma spoke up

"Shut up! This does not concern you, so if you please leave this fight to us"

"Hermione, I admit it, I embarrassed you in front of the whole school, I switched you for Padma but your crime is heavier than mine! Remember that day when your so called Mystery Man revealed himself?! I was with your friends looking for you..worried sick! Then I saw you hiding behind Hagrid's hut kissing the last person I expected..Draco Malfoy! You abandoned me! He was our enemy..I didn't stay long enough to see what happened to both of you...and the time you were my girlfriend you were so overprotective and to him you're already giving yourself away! See after the love and care I showed you....this is how you repay me?" he asked

"Didn't you know that I rejected him because of you?! I figured out that I still have feelings for you! Even though I loved him a thousand times than you..I figured that rejecting him would make me feel lighter but no..it did not! It made me feel Stupid! Besides Ron, you will never listen.you draw your own conclusions which are all wrong. So let me guess, if that's the locket I gave you as a present, then this mood ring is Lavender's gift to you when she was your girlfriend, Am I right?" she asked

Ron stared at her, Padma still saying nothing then Ron said "Well.yeah sort of-"

"Know something else, Ron?" Hermione asked"You SUCK!" she said throwing the mood ring in front of Ron.

Ron stared at the ring then picked it up. Then Padma spoke up.

"She's right you know and I'm her friend.I can't abandon her.You ought to be ashamed of yourself, you were the luckiest man when you had her, every guy wanted her but she sticks to you and she dumped Malfoy because of you and one more thing Ron; I think Hermione deserves better, so if this is what you call better then give her your very best because if a girl deserves your best, that girl can only be Hermione"

"Yeah right...if she'll ever talk to me again" Ron said to her

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Hermione went to the out-of-order bathroom crying her eyes out.

"I guess being 16 must be so tough! This whole idea is a joke....I am a joke!" she thought miserably

"Hermione, are you in here?" Ginny asked

"Don't come in."she said to them

"Oh come on, Hermione, were your friends and we definitely know that you need cheering up!" Ginny said

"Fine"

Then she faced them.

"How do I look?" she asked them

"Awful" Parvati remarked "Stupid" Lavender replied "Ugly" Ginny answered and they all burst into laughter

Hermione hugged them.

"Oh, guys I just don't know what I would do without you"

"So, what happened, Hermione?" Lavender asked

"Ron and I sort of broke up.and I'm not lying when I say that he really literally broke my heart! The golden locket I gave him..he gave it to Padma" Hermione said

"Really?"

"Makes sense to me, Remember that day when I told Hermione, there was something fishy about that mood ring?" Lavender asked

"Yes" they all replied

"Well, I think that ring was the ring I gave him as a souvenir when I went to Alaska with my parents. It looked so much alike and it turned out it was really my present to him." Lavender said

"Wow, talk about pathetic boyfriends" Parvati said then they all laughed

"So, what are you going to do now, Hermione?"Parvati asked

"Actually, he kinda set me free when we broke u, Imagine the times when he was my boyfriend, Even if I'm just talking to Harry, he feels insecure about it!" Hermione said

"We better go, we might run into that noisy ghost" Lavender said and with that they went.

That's it...thanx for the 91 reviews.I'll be posting again soon. When crappy finals are over!

Hellish