A/N: One of my favorites!
She remembers pretending to hate him in first year, calling him childish and just awful. She changes her mind when he helps save her, naming him a 'tad heroic'.
She always thought he never cared when she was Petrified in second year. He was lazy, letting Harry do all the work to finding the mystery behind the Petrifiying. She thinks differently when she learns how much he avenged when discovering his sister in danger.
Third and fourth years are when she can't stand him. From teasing her for dropping out of Divination to accusing her of flirting with Viktor, he became the impossible teenage boy she knew he'd be someday. But feelings arrive when she keeps telling herself that she'll never see him the same way again…
Fifth year is different. They are deprived of energy and sleep from studying for OWLs, and there's no time for arguing. But she's still afraid of the feeling, and wants to keep it undercover…
Sixth year – there was only one reason why she'd cry after he started dating Lavender Brown. She loved him, although she feared to admit it. There was a war going on, and with Harry Potter as a best friend, both of them were destined for a dangerous mission alongside him…
Seventh – she slowly reveals the truth this year. She holds his hand, smiles at his jokes, and sits beside him just for the sake of it. Then he leaves her and Harry in the middle of nowhere, and her heart is broken. He doesn't love her…he doesn't want her…
The Final Battle was a mix of wild, untamed emotions for her. Voldemort was destroyed. Lupin, Tonks, and Fred were all killed. But one detail she remembers so vividly that it's frightening is that kiss. She couldn't hold it back any longer. She flung at him, pressing her cold lips against his surprised ones. It could have been her last chance to do it. And the lift in her heart she felt when he returned the kiss…she was the luckiest girl in the world.
Hermione Granger had kept a secret during the war, only to lose it in the Final Battle.
She loved Ron Weasley.
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