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DiSCLAIMER: I do not own harry potter and I dont own hogwarts and so
on, you guys know the drift!!!!

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Feeling the old Goodbye:
Silence enveloped the room and the two teens stood there looking at each other, neither one
daring to move. On the one side there stoodHermione, not knowing what to say, and on the other
Harry, afraid if he did say something it would scare her away.Their eyes still locked in the
gaze, neither one daring to make a sound or to move a muscle.Silence streched on for what felt
like hours, even days, and yet logically it could only have been a few minutes.

Just when Hermione was about to say something, she had no clue what so ever it might have been,
but she was still about to say SOMETHING, there was a loud banging at the portrait and Ronald
Weasley's voice echoed loudly from the other side.

"HARRY JAMES POTTER!!! You cant skip the welcome back chess game tradition, we've been doing that
since our first year and we aren't stopping now!!! Hurry up and let's start a match!!!" he
yelled.

Hermione nearly keeled over from the flood of memories that came rushing at her. She could
remember those chess games, sitting and watching them, teasing Harry about how he would never win

a chess game and scolding both boys for playing such a monsterous game. She could remember
bribing them to do homework or study for exams instead of playing that stupid wizards chess set.
Hermione didn't know what came over her but before she could do anything she burst into tears and

sprinted up her staircase into her new room and flung herself on to the king size golden bed.
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" I'm telling you Ron, she just started crying when she heard you say ANNUAL CHESS MATCH and
sprinted up the stairs like Voldemort himself was on her behind her holding a bad test mark or
something!!!!" Harry told Ron and then mumbled, " Pawn to d4".

Ron shook his head and examined the game closley, while still thinking about what Harry said.

"I'm worried about her Harry, I know you are too. I know that when she stopped... talking

to us... something must have happened back then that she was so afraid..." Ron said pausing
between points, not knowing what would explain what he was thinking.

" I mean... I know Ginny must know what it is... I've tried so many times to get her to tell
me... But you know Ginny... and then when she just cut us out... I mean, half of me is furious
with her but the other half is so...so.. BLOODY CONCERNED!" Ron spit out and then commanded, "

Queen to D4!!!!" taking Harry's knight.

Harry nodded in agreement. He remebered how Hermione had been that year, so quiet, so reserved.

The worst though was that she would'nt even talk to Harry and Ron. At the end, they realised
they had lost her, let her slip through their fingers. Maybe if they had tried harder, she would
have opened up to them. But in the end, they gave up leaving only Neville and Ginny as her
friends, and they realised then that time was what she might have needed the most. Because, in
time, she had started talking to Neville and Ginny, in time she had even smiled, and then in
time, across the common room Harry and Ron actually heard her laugh. I miracle, but they
could'nt celebrate with her because they had'nt been the ones to support her and give her that
time.

" You know Ron. Maybe if we had kept trying like Neville and Ginny, she would have opened up to

us too." Harry stated as he moved his castle to b3. And then paused to think.

" yea," Ron agreed, his voice almost a whisper and barley audible.

Harry then thought back to Hermione running to her room that night after Ron had yelled from the
portrait. Why was it that this girl could still have such an effect on him when he had barley
said a whole sentance to her in a year?

And more importantly, why did these old goodbye's still hurt so much?



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Hermione hit her pillow realising what a horrible spectacle she had just made of herslef in front
of Harry. Not to mention the fact that he had probobaly told Ron, and they were, most likley in
her mind, laughing all about what a sad kid she was.

She wiped away a tear falling from her eyes that had been slowley trickling down her cheek.

" How stupid am I! And just over memories! Why does their friendship still mean so much to me!!!

GRRRRR!!!" she cried and smacked her pillow again in frustration.

She stalked across her room, needing something to calm herself down. What!!! WHAT CAN I DO!!!!

Finally she remembered the secret glass room. She grabbed her blanket and a few new books to
bring along, ( after all, she needed to re- stock her little bookcase up there). Grabbing a few

matches and the text books and clothes she would need for tommorow she walked out of her room
quickly grabbing her old lantern on the way.

The walk to the library was quiet and quite uneventful, she managed to hide behind a statue when

Filch poked his head around the corner of the third corridor. When she was finally jogging up
the huge stair case behind the secret entrance she was almost out of breath. A lot of stairs,
plus a LOT of BOOKS were not a good match. She opened the trap door above her head at the top and
let out a gasp of joy. She was finally home. The stair seemed to be all around her and she
flung herself on to her big feather cuishon pile sighing contently. No horrid memories could get
her here. She was safe from the good byes and the other students.

But why did she sometimes still feel the pain from the goodbyes, no matter where she was?
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(A/N: Im so sorry it took me so long to update, its just that my computer broke down and I had

to wait for them to get it fixed and hooked back up and everything ya know!!! Any ways, I hope

this chapter was ok, Im starting another one, like, in five minutes and Im gonna try to post it
tonight if I can finish it.. hopefully i can!!!!

Thank you SOOOO much to everyone who reviewed, it truly is my inspiration, and I hope you still

like the story!!! For new readers, PLEASE REVIEW!!!!! I adore reviews!!!! Though Im sure that

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