A/N: ok hopefully this is a little happier than the last chapter lolol but ill leave that for u guys to find out….

"youth is like diamonds in the sun

and diamonds are forever"

Chapter 23

Finally forgiven

"come in", said McGonagall.

Hermione walked into McGonagall's office and sat down, wearing the most conservative outfit for the first time in what seemed like forever. The skirt was knee length and hardly tight at all, and she wore a collared shirt which was almost buttoned all the way to the top. She wore her signature Tiffany necklace and bracelet, and black Christian Louboutin heels. McGonagall peered over her glasses at Hermione. "Yes Miss Granger? What is it that you wanted to discuss before your departure?"

"Well Professor McGonagall…. I thought that I should tell you that you don't know that much about all the shit… uhh I mean stuff I've been going through for the past year. This has been the worst year of my life… but also the best in some ways. I met the love of my life but I lost him, and ever since I have been so depressed which made me do all these awful things which I'm so so sorry for."

"oh well Miss Granger, I suppose I'd better hear you out," McGonagall sighed. So Hermione began recounting her tragic tale.

"It all began when I fell for Draco at the start of this year… I never really knew the person he was inside, and when I found out I loved him instantly. It turns out that all these years he tormented me were only for show, and he always respected me.

But after we fell in love and made a commitment to each other, I made the most terrible decision of my life… I fell in love with another guy, Adam, the exchange student. I didn't love him like I loved Draco – Adam was wonderful but it was mostly just lust, whereas with Draco I knew we were meant to be together forever, deep deep down in my heart.

Even when I was having sex with Adam, the whole time I was thinking of Draco – I just couldn't get him out of my head, but it wasn't long before he found out about what had happened between the two of us, and he hurt me terribly, both inside and out. That is how I ended up in the hospital wing – he burst into the prefect's bathroom, lifted me up with wingardium leviosa and dropped me onto the tiles after crucio-ing me. It was terrible, but I had to endure it and not tell anyone, because I so badly wanted to protect the love of my life.

I begged him for forgiveness but he just wouldn't listen, and I was heartbroken. All my friends had abandoned me because I had abandoned everything to be with him and I was left with nowhere else to turn, so that night I went to Hogsmeade and drank my sorrows away. I saw Draco bidding on Pansy in a bachelorettes auction and I got so upset I just drank more and more, and that's when I blacked out and woke up in the hospital wing for the second time. It was a stupid, stupid thing to do but I couldn't see anything else as a way to make me feel better.

That is when I started spiraling into depression, skipping classes just to wander around sifting through my fractured thoughts and having sex with random guys just to fill the hole in my heart that had been left by Draco breaking up with me, even if it was just for a few minutes. But I couldn't make the sad feelings that had enveloped me go away, so I fled back into Adam's arms.

Then when I got caught outside Hagrid's hut, I was almost expelled, but then Dumbledore started raping me and I just accepted it so I could stay at Hogwarts. And now that Adam, my only consolation for losing Draco, is dead…. I have no future and nowhere to go. Hogwarts is the only place I have ever felt at home, the only place that gave me hope for a better life. I'm begging you Professor, please let me stay. I feel so sorry for all I have done, but I can work through my issues with your help."

McGonagall had pulled out a box of tissues and was sniffling into one of them. "Miss Granger… this whole incident has been a terrible misunderstanding. I know you have made mistakes, but you have learned from them, and you have suffered so many terrible losses. To add the loss of the only place you have ever felt at home would be inhuman. I am so sad for all we have done to you, and I would be glad to offer you your place back at Hogwarts. I will have your luggage brought back up to your old room, as long as you promise you will never act out again."

Hermione looked at McGonagall with a smile, tears sparkling in her eyes. "I promise".

A/N: FINALLY Hermione is getting cut sum slack…. But will she keep her promise? Find out next chapter!