Chapter 1- Always Understood

It was a new year at Hogwarts and the Harry Potter, my best friend, defeated Voldemort. Ron, Harry, and I were finally going to start our seventh year at Hogwarts and then will be adult wizards.

When I looked at my schedule, what luck. We had double potions first, which is two hours of Professor Snape deducting points from Gryffindor. By the time class is over, I bet we would have lost 100 points already.

I was made Head Girl and Draco Malfoy would have made Head Boy except, his ex-girlfriend Pansy told the headmaster saying that he almost got her pregnant. There were rumors everywhere. We knew it a lie though. Pansy just wanted revenge from Draco because he broke up with her.

We were relieved though. It would have been terrible if he became Head Boy. But guess who made Head Boy instead? Harry! Yes, the Harry Potter. I had a crush on him since first year, but I just couldn't tell him. Just think of it. Harry and I sharing a common room. It makes me weak in the knees.

As we entered Snape's dungeon, he already started his usually routine of taking away points. "Ten points from Gryffindor."

"For what?" Harry shouted.

"Twenty points for Potter's mouth." I could feel Harry boiling up with anger.

"Harry calm down", I whispered to him.

"Five points for Ms. Granger lack of asking for permission before speaking. I hated him. I just took a seat next to Harry and

Ron in the back of the room.

After Potions, there was Transfiguration with Professor McGonagall. At least she was fair. Today, we had to learn how to conjure a parrot to a mirror. It was easy, but I saw that Harry and Ron were having problems. Harry was doing fine, but his turned in plastic instead of glass. On the hand, Ron turned his to hairy parrot with no feet. I was terribly disgusted by it. Professor McGonagall gave them both extra homework, but Ron got more. He need to write a one foot essay on conjuring parrots into mirrors when Harry had a five inch essay on conjuring plastic to glass.

When the bell rang, we went to the Great Hall for lunch. While we were eating, the owls started piling in. I saw my owl, Mints. She was white like Harry's owl, Hedwig, but had red at the tips of her wings. The man who sold me that owl said that it was very rear.

Mints landed on my shoulder and stuck her foot out. I took the parchment that was from my mom and read it.

Dear Hermione,

So many things happened I don't know how to explain it all to you. Well, anyway here goes. Last night, your father had a heart attack and was sent to the hospital. I had left the office earlier that day. When I got home, I got a call from my dental assistant saying that John had a heart attack and they sent him to the hospital. When I went to the hospital, he was already dead.

Hermione was in tears when she read it. There was still more, but she couldn't bear to read what's next.

"Hermione what's wrong?" Harry asked.

"Oh Harry!" Was all I could say and I hugged him. It felt so good in his arms, but it was painful just reading that letter. I released myself from his grip and heading to my common room. When I got in, I wasn't surprised to see Harry walking in after me.

"Hermione did anything happen?" I pulled out the letter and showed it to him. He fully understood and pulled him into another hug. I freely cried on him. "I'm sorry Hermione that your dad died." I knew he meant it to. That's what made me drawn to Harry. He always understood. "Want to go for a walk by the lake?" He said. See what I mean. He always understood. I nodded and we walked out of the common room.