Harry and Ron came in to get Hermione for class, and saw her sitting with Draco, and Blaise.
"Mione what are you doing?" Ron asked.
"I'm washing my hair.What does it look like I'm doing? I'm studying."
"Your sitting with Malfoy and Zambini." Harry said.
"Gee good eye." Hermione said sarcastically.
"Look Potter, and Weasley we were gonna wait till later to talk to you, but now seems as good as time as any."Blaise said.
"Since our fathers were put away last year we've been seeing things in a new light.We see now that our fathers were wrong and we wanna make amends.Hermione accepted, how about you guys?" Draco said.Ron and Harry stayed quit for awhile before Harry stepped forward with his hand out.
"I guess we all have to grow up sometime."
Draco smiled and shook his hand followed by Ron and Blaise.Hermione smiled and picked up her bag.
"Let's go to class before we're late."
Everyone nodded and grabbed their stuff to go.
The next day at potions Hermione was getting nervous about where the potion would take her in her past , and what Draco would see.
"Now that you all have your potions infront of you decide who's your gonna take first and then I'll decide if it was done right when you get back and then tomorrow you'll try your partner's potion."Snape said. "Begin."
Hermione looked at Draco. "Do you wana go first?" She asked.
"No let's do your today,and then we'll do mine tomorrow."
Hermione smiled defeated and uncorked her potion taking a sip and then handing it to Draco to do the same.In a pop they were both gone.
They landed in Hermione's livingroom. She could see her mother sitting on the couch next to her and her father standing infront of them.
"What do you plan to do? Our daughter is a freak."Her father said.
Hermione stood up abruptly. "I am not a freak! Why do you hate me!"
Her father backhanded her sending her to the floor
"You ruined my life.You were just a mistake."
They swirled a little and a new scene came into veiw showing Hermione lying on her bedroom floor crying as her dad hit her with a baseball bat.
"Please stop I'm sorry." Hermione pleaded.
"Say it. Your nothing, just a waste of space."
"I'm just a waste of space."
They swirled again and Hermione was laying in a hospital bed her arm broke and there were bandages around her head, her mother was beside her crying.
"Why can't you just be normal?" Her mother asked her.
"I'm not going to stop being a witch it's the only way I can get away from him. I'm proud of who I am. He'll have to kill me first."
Hermione's mom shook her head and walked out of the room.Hermione wiped a tear from her eye.
"I'm not gonna cry anymore it does no good, it's just a form of weakness and I refuse to be weak anymore."
They landed back in the classroom Hermione looked at Draco and saw his shocked face.Hermione grabbed her things and ran from the room.
"What happened?"Harry asked.
Draco looked at him weirdly. "You mean you don't know."
Harry shook his head, and Draco looked at the door Hermione just ran from "I just found out Hermione's secret."
Hermione ran all the way to the common room and threw her bookbag across the room just barely missing the window.
She heard the door open but payed no attention.
"I'm not gonna cry, I'm not gonna cry."She said over and over again.
"Mione why aren't you gonna cry? It's okay to cry." Blaise said.
Hermione turned to looked at the guys with an evil glare.
"Crying is a weakness. I'm not weak!"
"Hermione I had no idea what you went through at home." Draco said.
"And I'll bet you just couldn't wait to tell everyone huh!"Hermione yelled as Pansy came into the room.
"Well How about you just go tell the whole school that my parents hate me and my dad beats me every chance he gets to make sure I know it!"Hermione then ran to her room.
"Woah,What did I miss?"Pansy asked.
"Draco what did you see?"Ron asked ignoring Pansy's question.
"Her dad hitting her with a baseball bat, telling her she's not good enough, that she's just a mistake, and a freak."
Harry sat down and put his head in his hands "So then my dream was true."
"What?"Blaise, Draco, and Ron asked in unison.
Harry brought his head back up "I had a dream and Hermione's dad was hitting her.I asked her about but she denied it and stormed off."
"Now I feel bad from the way I treated her." Pansy said.
"What do we do now?" Ron asked.
Everyone was at a loss they had no clue what to do or even where to begin to help her.
Hermione sat up in her room staring out her window with her arms around her knees.
"Now they know everything, and they're gonna think I'm a freak too."Hermione said to herself.
She got up and walked over to her nightstand taking out a pill bottle from her mom's stash of sleeping pills.She downed the bottle and waited.
Author's note: I want to thank everyone for reading my story, it'll only get better from here...I hope.
