IF YOU WANT TO GET THE FULL UNDERSTANDING OF EVERYTHING WITHOUT BEING
CONFUSED, PLEASE READ THE LONG AND TEDIOUS CHAPTERS 1 BEFORE GOING ON.
IF YOU WANT TO START THE STORY WHERE THE ACTION BEGINS, START AT CHAPTER 2.
Ok, so as this is my first fanfic, please be bear with me! The first chapter is OPTIONAL, but very helpful in the full understanding of the story. (If you don't read it you might be wondering why Hermione's learning the Dark Arts later on in the story.) Chapter 1 is the Hermione Prologue and Chapter 2 is the Draco Prologue. I'm sorry they're so long and tedious, but I'm planning a lot of plot in this story. Hermione needs a new outlook on life before romance can start, you know.
Chapter 1 – Prologues
The Hermione Prologue
If one word could describe Hermione Granger's relationship with the majority of Hogwarts, it would be misunderstood. As she always got good grades, she was automatically assumed to be a bookworm, with no life other than studying. Sure, she cared about grades, but seriously, she wasn't really interested in the plants that screamed and made disgusting noises in Herbology, and she couldn't care less about relationships between the goblins and giants 23049029384203 centuries ago that Professor Binns droned on endlessly about. So then, the reader asks, why the hell does she go through all the trouble to get her "Outstanding"s?
Ever since she had come to Hogwarts, many Hogwarts students...*cough*Slytherins, had discriminated against muggle-borns as having dirty blood, without enough magic in them to compete with pure- blooded wizards. Since then, Hermione had been determined to show that it didn't make a difference whether you were muggle-born, pure-blooded, or a half-breed: as long as you had magic in you, you could succeed in the wizarding world.
However, she had beyond proved the point to Hogwarts students, teachers, and the O.W.L. examiners, and now, as sixth year started, she knew she had to start thinking about what she wanted to do as a career. Last year during career advice with Professor McGonagall (and one assumption of Hogwarts was correct: Hermione did admire Professor McGonagall to quite an extent), she had had a hard time thinking about what she liked doing. When asked about her favorite experience at Hogwarts, she had to admit that the quest for the Sorceror's Stone, researching about the Basilisk, learning about the real story of Sirius Black, helping Harry train for the TriWizard Tournament (and later on at the end of the year, the adventures at the Department of Mysteries) had completed and fulfilled her existence at Hogwarts. So, it was not surprising that the path she chose was to train for being an Auror, for she had displayed, as Dumbledore had once said, "a cool use of intellect" in situations where other people just crumble under the pressure.
As a result of this decision, Hermione decided to drop all subjects except those that would be necessary in her training. She decided to take, under Professor McGonagall's advice, Transfiguration, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, and, at Hermione's request, Arithmancy. Now Hermione still had some free time in her schedule. She knew most of it would be dedicated to spending time in the library researching various topics that were not typically covered in her classes. Therefore, she decided to take two extra courses: the Dark Arts and Flying.
Learning and mastering the Dark Arts would help Hermione understand defending herself against them, for one of the most effective ways of defense is to know your enemies' plans and attacks. And her enemies, Voldemort and his army, would be very skillful in the Dark Arts. Dumbledore had always been against learning the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, but an exception he made was to teach those who hoped to be in the Order when they grew up, for it seemed to him that as they had to this point been less successful than Voldemort in building up forces, that they needed to have any sort of advantage possible to prepare for the Voldemort's uprising.
Now Flying, Hermione had thought, may come during missions she might have to do when she joined the Order, so she decided to take a stab at it again. She practiced plenty over the summer at the Burrow, and after weeks of practice, had succeeded in flying at full speed around the Burrow while dodging jinxes aimed at her by the Weasley twins, who were more than glad to help out if they could experiment some new jinxes.
The last thing Hermione had resolved to do at Hogwarts was get a life. She would have more free time now without as many subjects on hand, and she still had a year before N.E.W.T.s. Therefore, she resolved to just concentrate on enjoying life, as she knew acing her classes would be easy, as she had done it so many times before.
And so, with a new outlook on life, Hermione stepped onto the Hogwarts Express armed with a fresh determination and a clear mind.
The Draco Prologue
Draco Malfoy was bored with life. He didn't give a damn about being a Death Eater, and he did not want to be as pitiful as to kiss the robes of a wizard as hideous and twisted as Voldemort. He told his father (who had recently broken out of Azkaban along with the Dementors) this, and of course, the reaction wasn't great. The solution his father came up with was to give him unlimited money, buy him a mini-manor, and isolate him from the family and Voldemort until he graduated from Hogwarts. Lucius decided that if he began to feel the fears of living against the Dark Lord's side, he would then appreciate the advantages being a Death Eater could bring. Draco, of course, took this as an opportunity to enjoy life: get drunk, pick up girls, and slack off. But even that got old after a while. Nothing made him get off his lazy ass except Quidditch, which was pretty much the only thing he did every day, and no one and nothing else made him feel excited, interested, or made him feel any emotion at all. Life sucked. Maybe being tortured a few times by a psycho would liven it up, he thought as he boarded the Hogwarts Express.
IF YOU WANT TO START THE STORY WHERE THE ACTION BEGINS, START AT CHAPTER 2.
Ok, so as this is my first fanfic, please be bear with me! The first chapter is OPTIONAL, but very helpful in the full understanding of the story. (If you don't read it you might be wondering why Hermione's learning the Dark Arts later on in the story.) Chapter 1 is the Hermione Prologue and Chapter 2 is the Draco Prologue. I'm sorry they're so long and tedious, but I'm planning a lot of plot in this story. Hermione needs a new outlook on life before romance can start, you know.
Chapter 1 – Prologues
The Hermione Prologue
If one word could describe Hermione Granger's relationship with the majority of Hogwarts, it would be misunderstood. As she always got good grades, she was automatically assumed to be a bookworm, with no life other than studying. Sure, she cared about grades, but seriously, she wasn't really interested in the plants that screamed and made disgusting noises in Herbology, and she couldn't care less about relationships between the goblins and giants 23049029384203 centuries ago that Professor Binns droned on endlessly about. So then, the reader asks, why the hell does she go through all the trouble to get her "Outstanding"s?
Ever since she had come to Hogwarts, many Hogwarts students...*cough*Slytherins, had discriminated against muggle-borns as having dirty blood, without enough magic in them to compete with pure- blooded wizards. Since then, Hermione had been determined to show that it didn't make a difference whether you were muggle-born, pure-blooded, or a half-breed: as long as you had magic in you, you could succeed in the wizarding world.
However, she had beyond proved the point to Hogwarts students, teachers, and the O.W.L. examiners, and now, as sixth year started, she knew she had to start thinking about what she wanted to do as a career. Last year during career advice with Professor McGonagall (and one assumption of Hogwarts was correct: Hermione did admire Professor McGonagall to quite an extent), she had had a hard time thinking about what she liked doing. When asked about her favorite experience at Hogwarts, she had to admit that the quest for the Sorceror's Stone, researching about the Basilisk, learning about the real story of Sirius Black, helping Harry train for the TriWizard Tournament (and later on at the end of the year, the adventures at the Department of Mysteries) had completed and fulfilled her existence at Hogwarts. So, it was not surprising that the path she chose was to train for being an Auror, for she had displayed, as Dumbledore had once said, "a cool use of intellect" in situations where other people just crumble under the pressure.
As a result of this decision, Hermione decided to drop all subjects except those that would be necessary in her training. She decided to take, under Professor McGonagall's advice, Transfiguration, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Charms, and, at Hermione's request, Arithmancy. Now Hermione still had some free time in her schedule. She knew most of it would be dedicated to spending time in the library researching various topics that were not typically covered in her classes. Therefore, she decided to take two extra courses: the Dark Arts and Flying.
Learning and mastering the Dark Arts would help Hermione understand defending herself against them, for one of the most effective ways of defense is to know your enemies' plans and attacks. And her enemies, Voldemort and his army, would be very skillful in the Dark Arts. Dumbledore had always been against learning the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, but an exception he made was to teach those who hoped to be in the Order when they grew up, for it seemed to him that as they had to this point been less successful than Voldemort in building up forces, that they needed to have any sort of advantage possible to prepare for the Voldemort's uprising.
Now Flying, Hermione had thought, may come during missions she might have to do when she joined the Order, so she decided to take a stab at it again. She practiced plenty over the summer at the Burrow, and after weeks of practice, had succeeded in flying at full speed around the Burrow while dodging jinxes aimed at her by the Weasley twins, who were more than glad to help out if they could experiment some new jinxes.
The last thing Hermione had resolved to do at Hogwarts was get a life. She would have more free time now without as many subjects on hand, and she still had a year before N.E.W.T.s. Therefore, she resolved to just concentrate on enjoying life, as she knew acing her classes would be easy, as she had done it so many times before.
And so, with a new outlook on life, Hermione stepped onto the Hogwarts Express armed with a fresh determination and a clear mind.
The Draco Prologue
Draco Malfoy was bored with life. He didn't give a damn about being a Death Eater, and he did not want to be as pitiful as to kiss the robes of a wizard as hideous and twisted as Voldemort. He told his father (who had recently broken out of Azkaban along with the Dementors) this, and of course, the reaction wasn't great. The solution his father came up with was to give him unlimited money, buy him a mini-manor, and isolate him from the family and Voldemort until he graduated from Hogwarts. Lucius decided that if he began to feel the fears of living against the Dark Lord's side, he would then appreciate the advantages being a Death Eater could bring. Draco, of course, took this as an opportunity to enjoy life: get drunk, pick up girls, and slack off. But even that got old after a while. Nothing made him get off his lazy ass except Quidditch, which was pretty much the only thing he did every day, and no one and nothing else made him feel excited, interested, or made him feel any emotion at all. Life sucked. Maybe being tortured a few times by a psycho would liven it up, he thought as he boarded the Hogwarts Express.