"Sweater Weather"
Disclaimer: I do not own anything here that sounds familiar from reading Harry Potter umpteen times. I wish so much that I was J.K Rowling but I am not.
Chapter 9: The Diary
5 years later
Hermione Granger, now eighteen years old, was going through a trunk of old things in her apartment. She came across a diary with her name on it. She was reminded of a time when she'd been young and in love. She opened it and flipped to her third year, a certain entry about a certain professor.
Dear diary,
Professor Lupin was such a sweetie today! He met me in Hogsmeade and showed me a beautiful clearing in the woods near it. But then, Malfoy burst through the bushes and I'm afraid that he'll tell the other teachers. No, I know he will and I'm worried for my Remus.
She flipped the page to the next entry and her heart sank as she remembered.
XXflashbackXX
"Hermione," Remus reached for her arm but she jerked it away. "Hermione! Look at me!"
Hermione reluctantly turned toward him. "Yes?"
"You know what this means?"
"You're sacked?"
"No, I'm not sacked. Professor Dumbledore decided to be a very kind soul and let me stay. But……."
"But?"
"We'll have to stop."
"Stop?"
"All of it. The meetings the whole you coming early to class thing, the dates."
Hermione felt as though she were about to cry.
"Hermione, I don't like it any more than you do but Dumbledore insists it. And you must admit that it sounds like a good thing to do." Hermione nodded and he walked toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "Don't think for a minute that this changes my feelings," he wiped her tears off her cheeks with his thumbs and kissed her gently on the lips. "I love you."
XXend flashbackXX
If he loved her so much how come he'd ignored her at Grimmauld Place 2 years later? Where was he when Harry defeated you-know-who? She knew, he was in the battle. Right there in the thick of things. Almost died too. Hermione clenched her eyes shut at the thought.
XXflashbackXX
Hermione was chained to the wall, unable to help her friends. Then Lupin jumped out from the shadows and held Voldemort off while Harry and Ron escaped. Voldemort shot the Cruciatus Curse at her former professor. She cringed as his body contorted in pain.
XXend flashbackXX
She thought about how she had broken loose after Harry destroyed Voldemort, she found Lupin not breathing and she gave him CPR. But there were tears on her cheeks at the fact that Lupin himself did not even know. As soon as he had woken up she had been too cowardly to stay around and be forced to talk to him. She wished, more than anything, that she could have a second chance.
A/N: last chappie next! woot!