Chapter 17

Hermione sat in her room, staring at the blank parchment in front of her.

'Come on, girl,' she thought. 'Why is this so hard? Haven't they always been supportive of you before?'

'No,' said another part of her brain. 'What about in third year? They thought you were crazy for taking so many classes. Besides, this is Malfoy and Snape. They would never be supportive of any kind of relationship between her and any of them. So how do I tell them what I have to do? How do I make them understand?'

'You can't make them understand,' she thought. 'You can only give them the facts. It's up to them to understand.'

With that, Hermione put quill to parchment and started the tale of her very short vacation.

A/N: I know that this chapter is only, like, a paragraph long, but I had to get a real chapter out so that I could tell all of you that I probably won't update for a while. My computer has a virus and I'm updating this from the library. But I'll try to update soon as I can and I will continue to update from the library. Sorry for the delay, but I've had a bunch of stuff going on in my life. Hope you all have a glorious month of May! Oh, and I will answer all your questions about the Clan Lords in the next chapter, I promise.