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Facing Your Demons

On Board The Hogwarts Express

Hermione Grange woke up incredibly early on September the 1st. She wanted to be ready for the time when she went to school. First, she started off with her shower. She let the warm water wash over her completely tanned and toned body. 'Wow! All of this working out over summer really helped!' Thought Hermione excitedly.

When she was finished with her shower Hermione walked over to her dresser and chose an outfit to wear. After 20 minutes of searching she decided to wear a pair of very low-cut, big legged, baggy black jeans with chains on them, black Chucks, A small around the neck shirt that covered her black strapless bra, and her hair in a spiked pony tail.

Then, she started with her jewelry. She put on her spiked bracelets (one for each arm), sex bracelets, spiked choker, Wicca Star necklace, HUGE diamond rings on three fingers of each hand, earrings, a playboy bunny belly ring, a loop for her nose, lip, and eyebrow, and a tongue ring that said 'BITCH' on it.

After finishing with her jewels she started the make-up. She added a thick layer of black eyeliner under and on top of her eyelids with bright red lipstick. She put on mascara and was finished. She grabbed her things and set them by the door for her dad to take them out to her black Mitsubishi Eclipse Spider. He never talked to her. He knew her depression and knew she would chew his head off if she did. Her mom was scared to death of her.

Hermione walked up and looked into her mirror. She didn't even look like Hermione. And that's what she wanted. She grabbed her leather trench coat and car keys and left the house without saying 'bye' to her dad or 7 month pregnant mom.

When Hermione got out to her car she double checked her bags to be sure her drugs were there along with her knives and liquor. They were so she popped in her CD and listened to "Down With The Sickness" by: Disturbed.

When she arrived at Platform 9 and ¾ she ran through the barrier and was met by the faces of her fellow students. She quickly put on her black sunglasses and went to load her stuff onto the train. After she did that she looked around and spotted the usual red hair along with messy black. She was going to have some fun!

She got out a cigarette and lit it with her lighter while walking over to the guys, "Hello, there!" She said in a fake happy way that damn near made her sick.

Harry, Ron, and Ginny stopped their conversation and looked at Hermione. Hermione glanced down and saw Ginny and Harry holding hands. She wanted to throw up.

Ron let out a little cough and Harry looked like he was going to pass out. Ginny decided to speak, "And who are you? Some new Slytherin? Here to call us names?" Ginny was obviously on PMS or something. Hermione dropped her smile and glared at Ginny.

Harry stepped in front of Ginny and spoke to Hermione, "I'm sorry about that. It's just that we don't normally trust people we don't really know. So what's your name? Are you new here?"

Hermione had to smile at his sweetness. She always did have a crush on Harry. Out of everyone at school, Harry was the only one that tried to figure out what is wrong with her and try to help. But he was often to caught up on Ginny and didn't really care.

Hermione smirked and spoke to them keeping her identity secret, "You can call me Elizabeth. And no I am not new. I've been going here for 7 years." This was all true. Everyone now called her Elizabeth since she doesn't really like the name Hermione anymore, "And I'm a Gryffindor."

Her three ex-friends raised their eyebrows. Ron spoke with suspicion in his voice, "We have never seen you and we are in Gryffindor. But your voice does sound familiar."

Hermione smiled a HUGE smile that reached her eyes, "Oh, believe me you know me. Nice talking to you." Hermione turned around and walked away from them but far enough to still hear what they were saying.

They were talking about her, "That girl was strange. What was she a evil chick or something?" spoke Ron with distaste. Harry changed the subject, "Where's Hermione? I'm starting to worry. We haven't heard from her all summer." Ginny just nodded her head and changed the subject back to the new Hermione, "What was that chick's deal? She had all those piercings and tattoos. I don't believe she's a Gryffindor. But only time will tell."

Hermione just smirked to herself and walked onto the train. She walked all the way back to an empty compartment. She sat herself down and took out her portable radio. When she hit the play button her favorite CD started playing. The soundtrack to the movie 'Queen Of The Damned.' She put on her favorite song on the CD number 14. Hermione started singing.

"Before I'm Dead"

moon hangs around
a blade over my head
reminds me
what to do before I'm dead
night consumes light
the honesty I dread
reminds me what to do before I'm dead

to see you
to touch you

epochs fly, reminds me
what I hide, reminds me
the desert skies
cracks the spies
reminds me what I never tried
the ocean wide salted red
reminds me what to do before imp dead

to see you
to touch you
to feel you
to tell you

the sun reclines...remind me
the desert skies...remind me
the ocean wide salted red
reminds me

By the time the song was over she realized someone was watching her dance and sing. So she quickly slid her sunglasses back on and turned around to be met by Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Blaize Zabini, Crabbe, and Goyle. Hermione smiled to herself. Pansy was the one to speak, "Yeah, hi this is our compartment. Do you mind if we were to join you?"

Hermione just nodded her head, "By all means knock yourself out." They all sat down with Draco by Hermione and Pansy by Draco. Draco looked at Hermione and spoke to her, "I don't think that we have ever seen you before. What's your name? What house are you in? Are you new?"

Hermione laughed at his questioning, "Well, I am not new, I'm in Gryffindor but hoping to be transferred, and people call me Elizabeth." Draco smiled when she said she wanted to be transferred from Gryffindor. Pansy was next to talk to her again, "Well, we're Slytherin. We're happy to know that you don't like Gryffindor. What is that?"

Hermione looked at the pug-faced Pansy, "Well, I used to love it. But when I found out that my friends didn't give a shit about me and that I wasn't muggleborn that I didn't fit in with the little goodie too-shoes." All of this was true. Hermione discovered that the Grangers were never muggleborn. They just didn't like to be magical. But Hermione did.

They were all surprised to hear that she was muggleborn. But relieved to know that she wasn't. Blaize was next to question to her, "So, we've never seen you. What's your full name? Maybe it'll ring a bell for us."

'Ahhh, a challenge.' She knew they were just testing to see if she was going to lie to them. So, she wasn't going to give them that luxury, "My full name is Hermione Elizabeth Crystal Granger."

Pansy shrieked, Crabbe and Goyle grunted, Draco smirked, and Blaize smiled. Draco was amazed, "YOU are Granger? You're the mudblood?"

Hermione just laughed, "No. I am not a mudblood. But yes I am Granger." Blaize looked at her and smiled, "Well, She is definitely not a mudblood. Not to mention hot. What happened to you?"

Hermione stopped smiling. She didn't know if she was ready to tell anyone. But she decided that she could make Draco fell bad at what he did. So she decided to tell them, "Well, two weeks before school ended last year, Draco here said I'm a worthless, ugly, pathetic, mudblood bitch. That caused me to slip into a deep depression. I started hating myself."

Draco's face flushed. She could tell he felt a little guilty. She just sighed and continued, "Most of you were in my classes at the end of the year, remember how I never raised my hand and never talked? My grades fell because I was so depressed. I even started to cut myself as you can see."

She showed them her scars and her injection wholes in her arm where she did drugs. Pansy shrieked. There were so many scars in her arms. Draco was now very upset. Hermione continued, "So, I started wearing black, got a few piercings and tattoos. And here I am. Finding out that I wasn't muggleborn was the best thing that happened to me in the past few months. Me and friends; Harry, Ron, and Ginny aren't friends anymore. They didn't care that I was depressed. So I decided to not be friends with them anymore. They're too caught up in their girlfriends anyway."

Everyone was silent when she finished. The suspense was killing her so she got out a cigarette and started to smoke it. Everyone except Blaize looked at her like she was mental. "What is that?" asked Pansy with curiosity. Blaize chuckled, "It's called a cigarette, D. Hey, Mione, can I have one?"

Hermione nodded her head and gave one to Blaize and threw her very expensive lighter to him so he could light it. Eventually everyone started to ask for one. Pansy threw up, Crabbe and Goyle coughed their lungs out. Draco smoked like a pro. Pansy and the goons never asked for another one. Hermione laughed at them and continued to smoke.

After an hour of talking with the Slytherins, Hermione realized she needed to get to the Heads Compartment. When she stood up and told everyone Draco got up as well.

- "Uh, Draco what are you doing?"

- "I'm going to the Heads Compartment."

- "Why?"

- "Well, because I am Head Boy. Why where are you going?"

- "I'm going to the Heads Compartment as well."

- "And why is that? Let me guess you made Head girl?"

- "Well, yes, actually I did."

- "Hmm, I'm not really surprised. At least I don't hate you anymore."

Hermione smiled and walked a head of him to the Head's Compartment.

When arriving they noticed that all of the school prefects were already there. Hermione saw Ron sitting there talking to Ginny. They had both made prefects. Hermione was a little worried about this. Ron and Ginny were going to know that she was Hermione.

Draco saw her worried. He then asked her, "Hey, Mione you ok?"

Hermione looked at him and forced a smile, "Yeah, but you know Ron and ginny don't know that this is me. I told them my name was Elizabeth."

Draco laughed, "Then this will be the perfect opportunity to break it to them."

Hermione sighed but then smiled. She was about to walk in when Draco grabbed her arm, "Hey, I just wanted to apologize for being so evil to you and forcing you into a depression state and all."

Hermione just smiled at him. She appreciated that he had apologized to her. Malfoys never apologized. Her nodded her head while smiling and opened the door to the compartment.

When she walked in Draco started to talk first, "Welcome prefects. I am Draco Joshua Lucius Malfoy, Head Boy, and this is Hermione Elizabeth Crystal Granger, Head Girl."

The look on Ron and Ginny's faces was priceless. Hermione just wanted to laugh her head off. Instead she started to speak, "You all have duties to attend to. The school prefects will lead their
House first years to the common rooms and show them around a bit. You are all to be polite to them it being their first year here. If we find you being disrespectful or rude to them in anyway you will be torn of your badges."

They all nodded their heads and Draco finished, "Your house passwords are Slytherin, Silver Serpent; Gryffindor, Wheezing Wizbees; Ravenclaw, Ambition; and Hufflepuff, Love Goddess. Any questions?" Everyone shook their heads.

When all of the prefects left only Hermione, Draco, Ron, and Ginny were left. But before they could question Hermione, Harry walked in, "Ron and Ginny I thought you all were going to come back to the compartment, Neville was getting on my….. What's going on?"

He noticed how they were looking at Hermione. Ron opened his mouth with confusion and spoke, "Well, we have just discovered that Elizabeth is really Head Girl Hermione." Harry looked from Ginny to Ron to Hermione. He couldn't believe his ears. This was there Hermione?

Hermione looked at them all nervously, "Can you guys breathe please? I mean this isn't anything to be mad about."

Now it was Ginny's turn to talk, "Nothing to be mad about? Hermione you lied to us! How could we not be mad? Any ways look at you! What have you done to yourself? You look like a 50 cent whore!"

This made something in Hermione snap. She blew up, "WHAT HAVE I DONE TO MYSELF? WELL LET'S SEE! IF YOU GUYS PAID ANY FUCKING ATTENTION TO ME AT THE END OF LAST YEAR YOU WOULD KNOW! BUT NO! YOU WERE TO FUCKING CAUGHT UP WITH YOUR BITCHY GIRLFRIENDS THAT THERE WAS NO TIME FOR LITTLE HERMIONE! WHO YOU HAVE BEEN FRIENDS WITH FOR WHAT 7 YEARS! I SLIPPED INTO DEPRESSION. PARTLY BECAUSE OF YOU! NOW YOU HAVE THE CUTS TO CALL ME A WHORE? I WOULDN'T BE TALKING GINNY! AT LEAST I HAVEN'T SLEPT WITH EVERY GUY IN GRYFFINDOR! LIKE YOU! Oh wait! Harry didn't know about that! Did you do her Harry? Did you realize that she was a whore? I'll be surprised if you didn't! NOW GET OUT!"

She was pointing to the door and opened it for them to leave. They all left with their heads down. Only Harry was brave enough to talk, "I'm sorry, Herms. I didn't know. I hope you'll forgive us."

Hermione wouldn't forgive them, "Just get out!"

Harry listened and left. Hermione slammed the door and let out a huge scream. She was angry! Draco took that as a sign sat down too afraid to talk to her. He remember how she punched him in his nose when he made her mad back in 3rd year and how she kicked him really hard in the balls back in 6th year. Hermione just sighed and sat next him.

Draco looked into her chocolate brown eyes and spoke, "Well, look on the bright side. Your friends with some Slytherins now. And you have me!"

Hermione laughed at his attempt to cheer her up. He was really trying. She had to give him credit for that. She was about to respond but the train stopped at Hogsmeade. It was time to get off of the train. She quickly changed into her school uniform that she resized to be a mini skirt and a belly shirt. She also put of her knee length high heeled boots. She and Draco met up with Pansy and the goons and walked out to ride in the carriage together.

Hermione and Draco were certain about one thing. 'This is going to be an interesting year!'

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