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. REVIEW!!


I entered the common room and yet again people were staring at me. On my way over the Gryffindor tower, I ran into Draco Malfoy and whispered that I would repeat what I did to him in our third year if he didn't give me my diary. He gave me my book, evidently not wanting another slap across the face. It was time to put Professor Harling's plan into action.

I went over the middle of the room and yelled, "Everyone! Please listen to me!" All the heads turned towards me. I was never really a "loud" person and I didn't realize that everyone would actually want to hear what I had to say. "I need to tell you the truth." At this statement, there was a chatter commotion.

"What truth, Hermione?" George Weasley asked. "Draco showed us the diary and I hate this kid as much as the next person, but he showed it to us. Every single thing you wrote. We can't believe whatever truth you want to say." Nods of agreement were scattered across the room.

"Let her speak." Harry had gotten up from the chair that he was sitting in.

"Ooh, I see you only stick up for the person that says she has a huge crush on you," Pavarti teased.

"If you let her tell the truth, maybe she can cover up what Malfoy has already spread around about her. Maybe she can save her own reputation at this school." The emphasis that Harry had put on "maybe" got me embarrassed for ever thinking that Harry might stick up for me, but I continued anyway.

"I need you all to the know truth about my diary. I don't want any more rumors spread around about me. I need to show you something." I took out the diary and showed everyone everything that I had written, including the things that Draco had written. "Now you see these diary entries and think that I wrote them all, but look at them now." I pointed my wand at them and muttered a spell and everything that Draco has written in my writing was erased. I had gotten this spell from the library before I went to retrieve my diary from Malfoy. While I was in the library I bumped into Ron. He was a little disappointed by the way I had acted, but then I told him the truth and about what Professor Harling told me to do. Our relationship is fine now and he helped me look for the spell. Ron left before me so he got the common room before me. "Look at the pages. Do you see blank spaces in the middle of some of the sentences? Do you see the sentences at the bottom of the entries erased?" I had begun to pass around my diary to show everyone. I didn't care if they read the entries now, because I was going to tell them the truth. The whole truth. "Those blank spaces were the words and sentences that Draco Malfoy had written in to try and fool you. All of the rumors were based on something that I had written in my diary and now I will tell you the truth about them. The first one, me having a crush on Harry is true." I could feel my cheeks burning up just by saying that. "The lie is that I broke him and Cho up last year. I'll admit I didn't really like Cho, but I didn't break them up. Me not liking Cho brings up another rumor. I had never dated Cedric Diggory and I did not tell him to break up with Cho. I had never even met Cedric before. The final rumor that I had heard of was the one about Victor Krum. I did write in earlier entries that I had a crush on him. I did and we did pursue that a little by having him take me to the Yule Ball in our forth year and me being the one he had to save in the second task of the Triwizard Tournament." My diary was passed back to me and I held it up once again. "That is the truth everyone and I'm sorry if you cannot believe that. I just don't want any more rumors spread around about me." I finished my speech and then moved from the middle of common room towards the dormitories. As I was going up the stairs, I heard clapping. Harry has begun clapping for my speech. Everyone else began following suite and started clapping. I was blushing furiously and I was so glad that I actually had the courage to say that in front of everyone. I felt like giving Harry a hug just for the things that he must've gone through, but I didn't because I thought it would've been inappropriate. I walked forwards from the stairs and went over to Harry and gave him a handshake, just to begin our friendship again. All of the Gryffindors began clapping wildly now and I was so proud of myself.