We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Author: Nicole Mellano

Rating: G

Pairing: None

Summary: Hermione Granger thinks back on her life altering choice.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.


" We do not remember days,

We remember moments."

I turn and look around the noisy room for one last time and then step through the barrier. And just like that, one door was shut and I was facing the corridor that would lead me to the other door – one to my new life.

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

I walked through that door and everything was decided for me. A new beginning. A new world. A new culture. A new everything. The only problem was that I was still the old Hermione. And this is what would be the cause of most of my grief in the days to come. Yet, as I was walking towards the train station with my mother, I was too exhausted by our hasty departure to realise that life as I knew it, was now over. The only thing on my mind at that moment was that at long last I was going to see Hogwarts. After 11 years of having the unexplainable happen to me it was finally all going to make sense.

As I walked out of the train at the Hogsmeade station on that dark rainy night, I did not think of how hard it would be for me to learn magic and adjust to the way of Wizarding life.

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

I did not know that that barrier between platforms eight and nine would forever separate me from my life back at home and my new life in Hogwarts. I did not know that every night I would cry myself to sleep remembering. Hoping. Longing.

"When you break something up you create new things."

Me! My life as I used to know it was broken. Irreversibly damaged in order to create a new life for me here. Everything I knew before, everything I was before, was no longer relevant. As I stepped through that old brick magical barrier I passed the point of no return. From that point, I had no choice, but to change. Change or suffer. Change and suffer.

"In each life there comes at least one moment which if recognised and seized, transforms the course of that life forever."

That barrier. Walking through that brick barrier was my moment. That mere minute before I was on the other side. Without even realising the full impact it would have on my life, on me, I stepped through and that was that. My choice was made. My life would never be the same again.

The End.

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