Disclaimer: See Chapter One.

AN: I am so sorry it has taken me several years to find my muse back for this story. I was reading it over and finally figured out how I wanted this chapter to go. This chapter will contain abuse, language and some adult graphic material.

Always thank you for the support,

HS

Chapter Sixteen:

Hermione's Story

Hermione looked at her family and gave her a reassuring nod. "I remember the abuse started for me truly at the age of five. Jane Granger had gotten a phone call from my school because I had done some accidental magical."

Flashback:

Jane Granger angerly pulled opened the door just as the bus pulled up to the house and walked outside to her daughter. She crossed her arms over her chest and raised her brow at the young girl. She didn't smile and warmly welcome her like she normally did. Jane only pointed to the open house door. Hermione's smile fell and walked past her mother with hunched shoulders and entered the house without a word. Jane turned on heels and entered the house slamming the door behind her in anger.

"Sit down." Jane snapped at Hermione.

"What did I do wrong Mum?" asked Hermione as she sat down on the couch.

"I received a phone call from your principal! You turned your teacher's hair into snakes! Live snakes!" snapped Jane. "Then don't get me started on the kids on the bus or at the school! You turned your desk into a pile of flowers! This has to stop Hermione."

Hermione moved her eyes from side to side and the tears fell down her chubby cheeks. "I can't help it; it just happens when I'm upset or being bullied."

Jane walked over to the closet and pulled out John's belt and walked back over to her daughter. "Stand up and walked over to the wall. Face the wall and up your hands on it."

Hermione's eyes widen in shock. She had never received a belt whipping before. She swallowed hard and did as her mother told her to do. Jane cracked the belt across Hermione's butt. She cried out in pain. Jane struck her over and over again until she got tired of whipping. She ordered Hermione to go wash the dishes.

Hermione painfully walked to the kitchen and dragged the step-stole over and sat the dishes on the counter. Jane entered the kitchen and turned on the water to hot and filled it with it along the soap. She stood at the counter with her arms crossed and watched her daughter burn her hands as she washed the dishes with tears streaming down her face.

End of flashback

"Jane stood there and watched the burning water put blisters on the hands. That day started the rest of my living nightmare." Hermione said with tears in her eyes. "It got worse as I got older."

Flashback two years later:

"Get in here and fix me drink freak!" yelled John as he entered the living room after a long day at work.

Hermione ran down stairs into the living room. She opened the liquor cabinet and grabbed the whiskey bottle. She pulled out whiskey's stones from the mini fridge and dropped four into the glass. She poured him a large glass just as he sat down on the couch and walked to her father. She split the whiskey on his pants, and her eyes widen in horror.

"I'm sorry." Hermione said.

John took the glass and sat it down on the table and grabbed Hermione by the wrist and drug her over to bar. He put the whiskey in the cabinet. He placed her small fingers in door and slammed the door onto her fingers. Hermione cried out in pain that ran through her hand.

"Get up stairs no dinner for you tonight!"

Hermione ran from the room holding her jammed fingers. John sat down on the couch and picked up his glass and took a long sip. He had to think of something to stop the strange things from happening around his daughter.

End of Flashback

"It even got worse. I was locked in my room or in basement for several days without food or anything to drink. Then I was made to work in Jane's flower beds. They seemed to grow like magic each time I worked outside. It was better then being locked away. I learned to love working in the flowers." Hermione said with a sad smile.

"Did they making you do sexual acts Miss McGonagall?" asked Madame Bones.

Hermione shook her head. "No ma'am. They never did force me into that, but I was forced to watch them have sex."

Minerva gasped and covered her mouth in horror. She cut her eyes over at the devils that were on trial. She let out a cat like hiss at them.

Madam Bones waved her wand and the pictures of injuries appeared for all the Lord and Ladies to see. "As you can see Miss McGonagall went through countless broken bones and fractures over the years at the hands of these muggles. They tried to beat the magic out of their only child." Madame Bones turned to Hermione and asked, "What was worse of abuse?"

Hermione took a deep breathe. "The years went on and abuse got worse it seemed. They ordered me to stop calling them Mum and Dad. It was Jane and John unless we were out doing things. I was forced to do all the cleaning and cooking. They rarely fed me. I was eating rotten food from the garbage." She chewed on her bottom lip the will the tears not to fall. "The worse came to ahead when I was about ten."

Flashback:

Hermione sat tied to a chair in John and Jane's bedroom forcing to watch them have sex. Her brown eyes widen in horror as she watched John enter Jane roughly causing her to scream out in pain and pleasure. She knew not to close her eyes she couldn't bare it, and she closed her eyes. She never wanted to have sex ever. John looked over and saw Hermione's eyes closed. He got up off the bed naked and tied Hermione from the chair. He dragged her down the hall. As he threw punch after punch in stomach. Hermione cried out in pain.

"I told you to never close your eyes freak!" yelled John. He pushed her down the stairs. He watched from the top of wooden stairs as Hermione body made a sickening crunch with each hard landing until she stilled at the bottom the stairs. "Now, I'm going to fuck Jane." He said and left Hermione nearly unconscious form on the bottom of stairs.

End of flashback

Minerva rose from the bench, "Please that's enough. You have enough evidence from workers, police and Hermione."

Madam Bones saw Hermione crying on the stand and nodded her head. "That is all dear. You can step down."

Hermione stood up shakingly from the stand and made her way over to Minerva. She quickly pulled her daughter into her arms and let her cry into her chest. Harry looked at the Granger's with wide green eyes at the horror he learned about his best friend a been living in her whole life, and he gently rubbed her back comforting her the best he could.

"Jane and John Granger, through the evidence provided by this court. You are found guilty as charged. You will be severing a life sentence in Azkaban. Kingsley take them away!" snapped Madame Bones.

"Hermione, watch and see what your bravery has done." whispered Harry.

Hermione pulled back from her mother's loving embrace and watched the black auror take John and Jane way in handcuffs. She let a smile cross her face at the sight. She was free from John and Jane's abuse. She could heal and now truly move on from the horrors of her past.

"It's over. It's really over!" said Hermione happily and threw her arms around Harry's neck. "Thank you for being with me all of you!"

Harry smiled at his best friend. The family walked out of the courtroom happy that the nightmare was finally truly over and Hermione could finally be happy with her family.

SS/HG

Hit the button and let me know what you think. I didn't want to draw out it too long. They were guilty.