theshadow369: i think i might just make krum come down and visit hermione...oh the accent...goodie...can't wait...(not)...i'm going to suxk at the accent, but i'll try.

(this fic isn't going to great)

but here goes...

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Chapter 5: Come Back

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Hermione,

If I was so great, why are you breaking up with me?

Any answer you could say haunts me, I don't know what to think.

Have you found someone new? I'd like to know, I don't want to jump to

conclusions, but I'm afraid I already know the answer; Potter. Right? I knew

he would someday find out how great you are. And that you were under

his nose the whole time. I was just hoping he wouldn't realize it until you left

Hogwarts, that way, you'd still be with me. I feared you'd allow him to be with you.

Why do you think I cornered Potter in the forest that night Crouch came back?

Hermione you are too beautiful and brilliant for me to let go. It pains me to

admit that you have no feelings for me any longer when it's me that would die

for you...

Viktor

She wondered why she had broken up with him. She cried. She missed him terribly, but not in a way that she would miss Harry if he ever left. She loved Viktor the way she loved Ron. There could never be any romance between them...

Dear Viktor,

I am so sorry that things couldn't work out between us, it pains me as well

to not be able to love you the way you deserve. You deserve someone that would

appreciate how great you are, in a way I cannot.

You are so sweet and honest, any girl you'd ever want would be right by your

side, but it's true I love Harry. You were right.

I hope you understand this and I really hope that we can still be friends.

Hermione

She finished writing thinking it was a good reply. She truly wanted to be Viktor's friend. He was a great person. She started to date him in her fourth year because no other guy would pay attention to her, but Viktor did, he was almost exactly like her. He loved knowledge. His values and principles were almost the same as hers. He had always respected the fact that she wanted to wait till marriage. And he also wanted to help her with S.P.E.W.

Hermione then left back down to the common room to wait for Harry and Ron. She started to get her books out again. On her list there was still two assignments left.

"How was practice?" She asked once they came in.

"It was ok. But I'm starving, can we just go down to lunch." Said Ron, and they made there way to the Great Hall.

Once they sat Ron pulled all the food he could towards himself. At least Harry had the time to fill his plate, instead of pulling every bowl of food away from other people.

They ate and talked freely during lunch. Ron described some of the funny mess-ups the team made. Then he started to complain that he had so much homework to finish. He begged Hermione to help him, so much that she finally gave in.

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As Monday came the Gryffindors that had Potions first period groaned when they saw their schedules; including Harry, Hermione, and Ron. Draco on the other hand, was happy that he would get a chance to make Potter and Weasley's life hell and at the same time have Hermione to look at.

As Hermione was putting away her Daily Prophet at the end of breakfast, she didn't feel like reading it this morning, she gasped and Harry right away asked her, "what!" Hermione walked out of the Great Hall a bit faster, Harry and Ron quickly catching up to her.

"Hermione what's wrong?" Asked Ron as they made their way down to the Dungeons. Hermione didn't answer right away.

"Look at the Daily Prophet," she answered walking down a corridor and then turning to go into Professor Snape's Classroom. They sat at the end, and Hermione gave Ron the newspaper, he gaped at the front page. Then gave it to Harry who said in a low voice, "it was bound to happen." He looked at Hermione who was sitting between them. They had a habit of always sitting on either side of her so no Slytherin git would bother her.

"Ten points from Gryffindor," said Snape suddenly; Hermione jumped at the sound of his voice and looked around at him, "for reading a newspaper that has nothing to do with Potions." Then he walked off.

"What is it a crime now, to want to be informed." Said Hermione under her breath and staring at Snape's back. Unfortunately he heard and turned to face her, his lip curling. The whole class stared; the Gryffindors looked upon them frightened and the Slytherins, as always, sneered and sniggered. "Twenty more points from Gryffindor, Miss Granger, for snide remarks. I will not tolerate it, as a matter of fact take your belongings and move over to the second row, by Mr. Malfoy." He seemed to carry out his name for pure sadistic pleasure, while Draco turned around and smirked at her. Hermione looked up at Snape and then to Malfoy, her mouth slightly open. "Potter you move next to Zabini, Weasley next to Goyle." Snape seemed to smirk in a smugly sort of way before turning back to leave. How dare he separate the Golden Trio!

Harry held Hermione's hand and stated clearly, "if he bothers you at all, says anything you don't like, I'll curse him into oblivion. I promise." Hermione sighed, got up and walked slowly all the way to the other side of the classroom. Harry then said to Ron, "if he says anything tell me, you're closer to them and can hear them." Ron nodded.

"Don't worry, I'll probably explode and beat him if he tries anything." Ron assured Harry before turning and leaving.

Draco was ecstatic. Though his superior Malfoy demeanor revealed no such thing. Hermione groaned as she made her way next to him. Oh well, she sighed, she was strong enough to endure this cruel hour. She tried to sit as far away as possible. For her anywhere near the Slytherin Prince was dangerous. Yet he seemed to move closer slightly, looking down at her as an inferior piece of dirt.

Hermione detested the way that he looked at her, always the same, "get away from me mudblood" look. And it was fine with her, she would love to be sitting by Harry right now.

Snape started to explain a potion to the class, it was supposed to work as an antidote for severe poisons, and he said it took a month for it to be done, "and you will have the next month to do it. I don't think that any of you are intelligent enough to do it on your own, just gathering the proper ingredients is almost suicide, that is why the person sitting next to you will be your partner for this assignment." He finished looking smugly at the class that inhabited his classroom. Instant groans could be heard everywhere.

Hermione put her head down and in her hands. Her thin fingers rubbed the temples of her head. Just being Malfoy's partner is suicide...Poor Ron...Goyle!...

"Nice going back there, now I'm stuck with you." Malfoy said bitterly.

Hermione looked up at him, leaned back in her chair and folded her arms coolly across her chest, "Malfoy I was reading about how the Death Eater you've got for a father was released out of Azkaban and welcomed back with opened arms. Tell me how he did that. Bribery, money? Why doesn't he just burn in hell." She said coldly.

"Listen mudblood, do not talk about things that you don't understand." He said looking at her colder than ever, straight in the eyes...Alright, Granger, take notes down, because I don't feel like it." Hermione rolled her eyes, and listened to what Snape said about the potion, and took noted down. For her sake, not Malfoy's.

Harry had to admit, for the first time in his life he was lucky in Snape's classroom, he was probably with the best partner. Lucky. Blaise Zabini didn't talk much, he mostly read and looked sulky, yet mysterious. He hardly talked. Him and Harry just stated what they would do, agreed on it, and wouldn't have to see much of each other after Potions for the following month. Oh Hermione...with Malfoy...

Once class was over, Malfoy said, "go to the library tomorrow after dinner and we'll work on this." Then he left not waiting for Hermione to reply.

"How was it?" Asked Harry when Hermione, him, and Ron were making their way to Charms.

"It was fine, but I have to go down to the library after dinner and work on it tomorrow." She said dully.

"Snape's going to kill us with this assignment. It's like the hardest potion we've ever done. He'll be working us day and night...and I got Goyle, does it get any worse?...Sorry Hermione I forgot you were with Malfoy." Said Ron, then shuddered thinking of having Malfoy for a partner, "but I'd probably end up killing him mid way through this. I wouldn't take his crap Hermione, and neither should you."

"Ron, do you really think I'm going to let him do anything to me. If he says one single insult to me, I think I'll end up cursing him into the next century..."

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hey, so u done reading? well i was going to stop this chapter where Hermione was writing back to Krum, but that would of been WAY too short, for u guys, so i made it much longer, hope you're happy with it! REVIEW!

don't worry it should be getting better soon! REVIEW!