A/N: I don't own any of the characters from Harry Potter. I only own the ones that you do not recognize, for they are my own characters.


I woke up with a start on Friday morning. After getting changed into my robes I went down to the common room, hoping for Ron or Harry to be awake already. Luckily, I saw a wisp of Harry's get black hair leave through the portrait hole. I ran after my friend, hoping he would wait.

"Harry! Wait up!" I yelled at him. I was almost breathless from running across the common room, through the portrait hole and halfway across a corridor.

"Oh, Hermione." Harry looked slightly put down at the sight of me.

"What's wrong?" I asked while beginning to walk beside him.

"Oh, um, nothing much," Harry answered, obviously hiding something. I decided not to ask too many questions, so we walked to the Great Hall for breakfast in silence. When we entered the already packed hall, all heads turned towards me. Nervously, I made my way to the Gryffindor table to sit with Lavender Brown and Pavarti Patil only to find them whispering. They abruptly stopped when I got to the bench. Something was going on and I wanted to find out.

I ate breakfast in silence and then went off to my first class, Potions. It was my least favorite class, but it was with the Slytherins and if anything is going around about me, I'm sure Draco Malfoy or one of his group members know about it. And just as if to answer my questions, as I entered the cold potion dungeons I saw Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy Parkinson whispering. When I got near them, they broke apart and went to their seats with a little smirk on their face. I tried my best not to notice everyone looking at me during the class and I just went on with my work.

After Potions, Ron came up to me and asked, "Hermione? Is it true?"

"Is what true?" I asked back.

"Is it true that you love Harry and you meant to ruin his and Cho Chang's relationship last year?" I could feel my face turning red. Tears were swelling up in my eyes from embarrassment.

"No! It's not true!" I ran out of the dungeons, through the hallways and into the girl's dormitories. I cried for two hours! My pillow acted as huge Kleenex for me.

"Hermione?" I heard a girl call through the room.

"Go away!" I told whoever was there.

"Hermione, its me and Lavender," another girl said. I assumed it was Pavarti. "We just want to know if it's true, that's all." I was debating whether or not to tell them the truth. I had spent a couple of hours crying over the fact that someone knew, maybe I should just spill the whole thing out.

"Fine." I shortly replied. Lavender and Pavarti pulled back the curtains that I drew around my bed after I had started crying. "Do you want to know the truth?" The two girls nodded. "Well fine then, I will tell you. Sit down." Pavarti and Lavender sat down. I still had tears trickling down my cheeks, but I didn't care. I just wanted everyone to know the truth so that one evil rumor will go away.

"Come on Hermione. You said you would tell us so tell us!" Lavender impatiently said.

"Yes." That's all I could get out. I didn't want anyone to know the truth, but at the same time I did. "Yes I do! But I didn't do what people are saying I did." Lavender and Pavarti has puzzled looks on their faces.

"What are you talking about Hermione?" Pavarti asked. "We wanted to know if you liked Draco Malfoy. That's the only rumor that we heard. People said Draco found your diary and said that you wrote about always loving him, even when he said and did all of those mean things to you." I was shocked. I didn't move. I even think the tear that was rolling down my face stopped.

"Oh my gosh!" I yelled. "I cannot believe this! How many rumors are going around about me?" I asked at no one in particular.

"Hermione is there another rumor going around about you and your diary that we haven't heard yet but thought that we were talking about?" Lavender asked. I nodded. "Oh wow. We have to figure out all of this. Come on Pavarti. Lets go and find out about all of the other rumors." Lavender and Pavarti left Hermione in the dormitory. I bet they don't even care about what I'm feeling right now, I thought, they probably only care about the gossip that they can get their hands on. Oh no! They're going to find out about the one about Harry and me! I raced out of the Gryffindor Common Room, searching for Ron. Classes had already ended and most people were off the their common rooms. I went through each crowded corridor, hoping to find Ron. I had finally sighted him going off towards the Gryffindor Tower. While I was racing to catch up to him I ran into none other than Harry, also going to the common room.

"Oh uh hi." He greeted.

"Hi." I replied.

"I got to go. I guess I'll see you at dinner." Before I could even ask him another question he began to walk in the direction opposite the tower. I didn't care about Harry right now I just wanted to find out how Ron found out about the rumor. I caught up to him, finally in the common room and began asking him loads of questions.

"Who told you that rumor? Who told that person? How did they find out? Tell me Ron!"

"Whoa slow down Hermione! The person who told me was Harry who found out from Draco. Draco found out because he said he found your diary. Even though I hate him, I asked to see the diary and he was surprisingly carrying it around with him in his robes. He showed me the entry that said that you liked Harry. I needed to know if that was really your diary or not so I asked you, but when you ran off crying into the dormitories I knew it was true because if it wasn't then you would've told me. Why didn't you tell me before Hermione?"

"Ron I can't talk right now. I need to find Malfoy because he has been spreading rumors about me all day!" I left the common room in search for Draco Malfoy. On my way I found out about some of the other rumors that Draco had spread about me….