My name is Hermione Granger. I'm a dentist, just like both my parents were. I live in a small flat outside of London with my cat. She's a very pretty long-hair calico. I don't have many close friends, just a few people from the office that I go out with now and then.
I killed someone one day. I didn't mean to. It really wasn't my fault at all. I was doing exactly what I was supposed to. He pulled out in front of me, you see. I might have been able to stop, but I couldn't see him at all. It was early morning, and I was driving to the office. I was driving into the sun – there was a horrible glare. His car was black, and he was in the shadow of a building, just pulling out into the sun. If he had been all the way into the light, or if the glare wasn't so bad, I would have seen him, but as it was, there was simply nothing I could do. I hit him directly in the driver's door, and, well, he died.
At least there wasn't any family to speak of. A couple of cousins, I think, but that was all. I would have felt quite bad if he had had children. Of course, I wasn't happy he died, but really everyone agreed it wasn't my fault. I would probably have forgotten it altogether if it weren't for one thing. The incident reminded me of something.
Almost like a dream, I felt like I had done something similar before. I had hurt, or even killed someone…. Never meaning to, I'm sure. It just happened. I couldn't see him either. Or, wait – I could see him, I knew what I was doing, but…. What was it? I couldn't see him…. Figuratively speaking? I was blinded by a glare – a cause so bright – and he was on the edge of the shadow….
Well that makes no sense at all. It must have just been a particularly odd dream. But still, it haunts me sometimes. A man, a dark man, screaming for me to look at him – to look him in the eye. But I didn't, I held out a… a gun? No, a knife – a stick? And he was dead. Not at all my fault I'm sure. Maybe he didn't deserve to die, but it wasn't my fault. I didn't see him properly. And anyway, what do I care? It was just a silly dream after all.