-The Snake-

That fucking bastard! HE sent those disgusting letters to me! He's the one who made me want something else - someone else! He's the reason Ron hates me! The reason I lost my baby! That little shit in going to pay! He likes to hurt other people, to destroy their lives and make them suffer, well now it's his turn to suffer!

She reached the entrance hall and threw the books that she had been carrying to the ground.

She dug her hand into her robes and whipped out her wand, and then with a great surge of rage, threw open both of the big oak doors and exposed the Great Hall.

Inside the hall was packed with students, laughing loudly and eating lunch, but there was not a teacher was in sight.

Hermione scanned the room and paid little attention to the students close to the doors that were staring at her and whispering. Her heart was pounding so loud that she could hear it in her ears.

She looked like a total mad woman standing in the door way of the Great Hall, her face flushed and her chest heaving; her hair was wild looking and her eyes were on fire.

But her outside appearance was nothing compared to the way she was felt inside.

There was no positive light inside of her, she was acting on intense feelings of anger and hate, and she did not try to hold back at all.

She didn't care if she got expelled from Hogwarts for what she was about to do, just as long as she could kill Malfoy first.

And then, she saw him.

Draco; sitting at the Slytherin table close to the front of the hall, laughing with his friends…

The sight drove her mad.

How dare he be happy! He had turned her life upside down, and now, now he sat with his friends, no doubt laughing at her mess of a life…

Her eyes narrowed and she gripped firmly on her wand as she stormed towards him, down the aisle between the Slytherin and Ravenclaw tables.

She was marching towards him, her wand pointed at him from a quickly closing distance. Many students had stopped eating and were now watching her, but she didn't care. Her glare was only on one man…

She was only a few feet from him now and she thundered across the hall, "YOU WORTHLESS, EVIL, HEARTLESS LITTLE SNAKE!"

At this moment she had reached him, and she savagely grabbed his collar and spun him around in his seat.

Students began to scream and everyone was up off their seats trying to get a better look as Hermione dug her wand tip into Malfoy's neck.

Draco stared up and sneered at her, daring her to do it. She looked into his eyes, eyes she recognized from her dream, cold and green, shining in the light of the candles hanging above.

She leaned in closer to his face, she was right on top of him, towering over him; her face inches from his and her wand still pressed against his neck.

"How dare you do this to me! You worthless little fuck! How dare you control me, trick me and play with me!"

"HERMIONE!"

Hermione tilted her head to the left and saw Harry standing in the doorway of the Great Hall, he was red faced and looked like he had just ran after her.

Seeing that she had paused and noticed him, he quickly ran down the aisle, but stopped when Hermione pulled away from Draco but did not remove her wand from his neck.

"Leave it Harry! This has nothing to do with you!"

"But it has to do with me." said Ron.

Hermione whipped her body the other way, and saw Ron standing to her right. He was a few feet away from her, and he was looking her right in the eyes.

As she stood there she felt her body slowly relax until Malfoy said, "Weasley, get your insane girlfriend off of me!"

Hermione's head snapped back and she glared at Malfoy, all of her anger quickly returning,

"How dare you play tricks on me! I should have known Halloween night! I should have known then!"

Draco smirked, "I have no idea what you're talking about. And if you don't remove your wand from my neck, I'll snap your arm in two."

Hermione smiled, she suddenly had a very good idea, "Get your ass up Malfoy, we're going for a little walk."

Draco glared at her, and then reluctantly got off of his seat. Hermione, keeping her wand sharp at his neck, gave a quick nod at both Ron and Harry, and then steered Draco out of the Hall.