p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry awoke early the next morning deciding to go for a morning run, though for what reason he could not say. All he knew was that he needed to keep his physic up which only served to stop mid run and ask himself, as he looked at his body emwhat physic? /emBut as he asked himself that question, it kind of answered itself and returned to running./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry quickly ducked into the bathroom for a quick shower and was down in the Great Hall even before any of the boys were even awake. The hall had a few scattered early birds but for the most part was empty considering that it was Saturday. Harry however was pleasantly surprised to find Hermione sitting munching on some bacon as she read a book./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Good morning," he said cheerfully as he sat down next to her and began to form his morning breakfast almost on automatic; a couple pieces of toast, a lot of fruit, a single egg, some oatmeal and a large mug of coffee. emCoffee? Since when do I drink coffee? /emHarry asked himself as he suddenly stopped pouring the drink and pushed it away only to grab a large glass of orange juice instead./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Good morning Harry," Hermione said brightly/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""So…did you read my note?" Harry asked nervously though was almost absolutely sure she would say yes, which is why her answer shocked him/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Yes I did, and my answer is no," she said/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry's world was rapidly breaking apart, "Wha-wha…why?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione sighed and closed her book, "We don't really know each other that well, I mean apart from yesterday, we've only spoken at most three times," Hermione explained/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh…I see," Harry said, not trusting himself to say anything else/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""But don't get me wrong, I…emfeel/em the same why," Hermione said glancing around and blushing, "but I think we need to go on a couple dates before we decide to actually…become emthat/em," Hermione said obviously avoids words to avoid people overhearing the conversation./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh…oh!" Harry suddenly getting what she was saying, "well how about a date then, today, now even," he said with a smile/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione blushed, "N-now? Where would we go?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry smiled, "Let me eat breakfast and let me worry about that ok?" he said giving her a quick kiss on the cheek, that thankfully nobody notice, causing Hermione to blush deeply. Harry quickly but in a mannerly order ate his breakfast and stood up, "Come on," he said holding out his hand/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione looked at the hand for a moment then Harry before nodding and taking his hand. Harry smiled and quickly pulled her out of her seat, shouldered her bag and almost dragged her out of the Great Hall./p
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p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Harry, please slow down!" Hermione asked almost pleading/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry slowed down but only a bit, "Come on, we're almost there," Harry said excitedly pulled her up yet another staircase./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""And where is 'there' exactly?" Hermione asked/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""You'll see," Harry said with a sly grin, "see we're here," Harry said as he came to a stop in front of a blank wall./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione looked around, "Uh, Harry what exactly am I supposed to be looking at?" she asked/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh, stand here for a moment," Harry said as he started pacing in front of the blank wall muttering to himself/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Um, Harry, are you ok?" Hermione said getting a bit worried. Harry ignored her and continued to pace the wall when a door suddenly appeared, surprising Hermione, "how…how did that door get there?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry smiled and took her hand and slowly lead her to the door, "It's called the Room of Requirement, few even know of its existence and the few that have entered it, even knows that they are even in it or what it does," Harry said with a smile, "come on, it's ready," Harry said as he opened the door./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione looked in surprised to find what seemed like a relaxing lounging area with a single love seat, a coffee table that had a teapot and two cups resting on it, a tele, a fireplace with a roaring fire, and large bookshelves everywhere./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""How?" was all Hermione could get out/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""I asked for the perfect room to take you for a date," Harry said as he pulled her into the room, closing the door behind him, and leading her to the loveseat where he pulled her into his lap, "so…what do you think?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione looked around the room for a minute before turning and looking at him with a smile, "I think…that you just earned the letter 'y' Mr. Potter."/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""The letter Y?" Harry asked confused. Hermione just looked at him with a knowing smile. Harry thought for a moment before it suddenly hit him, "oh…anything I can do to earn the letters 'e' and 's'?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione smiled even more, "We'll see Mr. Potter, we'll see."/p
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p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry couldn't have had a better day, after spending the entire day with Hermione, she hadn't given him the other letters yet but told him to 'keep it up' and that was enough to encourage him. he was a bit disappointed when all Hermione would allow was a kiss on the cheek, saying that a kiss on the lips was an intimate gesture that shouldn't just be handed out like candy especially the first one, and he agreed with her. He lay in his bed smiling thinking about Hermione when his thoughts were suddenly interrupted, "Harry mate, where you been, I haven't seen you all day?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry looked over to see Ron on the edge of his bed looking at Harry, "I was…with someone," Harry said simply before looking back up at the draping of his four poster bed./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Who were you with? I asked and nobody saw you all day, some emSlytherins /emsaid that they saw you and Hermione walk out of the Great Hall early this morning and that you probably didn't want to be bothered, but that was probably just lying," Ron said/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Curiosity took ahold of Harry wondering who out of all the Slytherins would so much as talk about him in a civil manner much less redirect anybody to give him privacy, "Uh, who exactly said that?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Ron's face turned into a sneer worthy of Snape, "emGreengrass /emand emDavis/em," he said as if the names were less than a pile of sod./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"emGreengrass and Davis…they're first years like me, I think I have them for potions, Daphne I think her name is and Tracey, hm…/emHarry thought to himself quietly./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""So where were you mate?" Ron asked a little put off that Harry had yet to answer/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""I was with Hermione," Harry said simply/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""No seriously where were you?" Ron said smiling/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Why would I be joking, I hung out with Hermione all day," Harry said getting a bit irritated himself/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""emWhy?" /emRon asked as if he had said that he had spent the entire day sorting through owl dung./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Because I wanted to, why else?" Harry responding, he was quickly losing his patience in the conversation/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""But she's a freak! She –"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Ron wasn't able to finish as Harry's wand was now at his throat, Harry emerald eyes cold and piercing, he spoke so quietly that if they hadn't been alone, Ron wouldn't have heard what Harry said, "Never, emnever/em, call her that name. As of this moment Ron, you and I are no longer friends, I don't care if you apologize to me, to her, in front of Merlin himself, I will emnever /embe your friends ever again, emever./em Don't talk to me, or Hermione unless it is absolutely necessary, and when I mean necessary, somebody's life better be in danger, if it's yours I won't give a rats ass," and with that Harry whipped his wand back into its place and walked out of the boy's dormitories, his cloak waving in such a manner that it would have made Snape proud./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry upon walking out of the dormitories he came to the realization that it was time for lights out, as he came face to face with the other first year boys, "Hey Harry where you going? it's time for bed," Seamus asked/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry was a crossroad of life, he could either turn around and go back in the same way he came, embarrassment sure to follow as he had just made a dramatic exit, or risk getting in trouble if McGonagall decided to make a sweep of the common room in her rounds around the castle, "Um," Harry had to think quick on his feet, "Potions essay! I haven't finished it yet!" he said quickly before he realized that he in fact actually hadn't and knew that Snape would want it first thing Friday and between Quidditch, Hermione and everybody else's classes, he would probably crap out a piece of shite./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh well see if Hermione can help you, she's also staying up finishing up the essay, surprised that didn't already have it finished," Seamus said with a clap on Harry's back and the rest of the boys stepped aside to allow Harry to pass before they entered the dormitories./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry made it to the bottom step of the dormitories and saw Hermione working on the essay in front of the fire. Harry smiled and leaned against the frame just taking content in watching her as she bit her lip and twirled some hair around her finger./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Harry, are you going to just stand there and stare at me?" she asked suddenly not bothering to look up as she continued to write, "not that I mind as long as it's you but it's a bit distracting," she said with a slight blush and grin, only allowing her bright brown eyes to catch his emerald ones for a moment before returning to the essay/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Uh yea…I mean no," Harry said nervously/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione giggled, "What are you doing down here? Curfew is in effect, you know that right?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Yea well, I kinda can't go back up there without looking like an idiot," Harry said as he finally moved from the steps and sat down on the couch in a heap looking at the ceiling/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""How so?" Hermione asked curious as to what he meant/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry sighed, "Well to put it simply, Ronald Weasley was being…well Ronald Weasley. He said some things, stupid things obviously because this is Ron we're talking about. In the end he called you…a emname, /emneedless to say we are no longer friends," Harry concluded/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh Harry, I'm sorry," Hermione said/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry looked at her, "No need to be sorry, it wasn't your fault. To tell you the truth, he isn't exactly the greatest influence in the world. I mean before I met him, I was excited to come here and be with people like me, to learn, to actually have friends," Harry said before catching himself/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione looked at him curiously before moving over to sit next to him, "Friends?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry 's head fell, he didn't want her to see his tears, he wanted to be strong for her, "I never had friends before, my cousin Dudley always use to scare everybody that even got near me by bullying them."/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh, Harry," Hermione whispered before wrapping her arms around him, "I…," she took a deep breath, "I never had friends either, everyone always saw me as Ron sees me, just a, ugly, buck-tooth, bossy know-it-all," Hermione felt the tears falling before she even realized she was crying./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry looked up, his eyes full of tears as well, "They and Ron are wrong, you know that right? You a beautiful and smart girl," Harry said blushing, causing Hermione herself to blush deeply as well./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Harry, you don't have to answer this if you don't want to but," Hermione wiped some tears from her eyes taking a breather for a moment, "what's home like?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry's eye filled with pain and he began to sob, Hermione immediately pulled him into a hug and allowed him to cry for what seemed like hours until finally stopped. When he finally had Hermione had shifted from a hugging position to having Harry's head in her lap as she stroked his hair. When she finally heard him stop she looked down at him and found him fast asleep, he had cried himself to sleep. During the entirety Hermione had been thinking what could have caused this kind of reaction? Her mind had raced at all the possibilities; finally she came to the only evident conclusion. His words about his cousin, his wire-y build as he relentless crying could only mean one thing, abuse, and not just the physical, but emotion and mental as well. Harry was broken, and Hermione determined that it was her job to fix him, no matter the cost./p
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p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry quickly ducked into the bathroom for a quick shower and was down in the Great Hall even before any of the boys were even awake. The hall had a few scattered early birds but for the most part was empty considering that it was Saturday. Harry however was pleasantly surprised to find Hermione sitting munching on some bacon as she read a book./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Good morning," he said cheerfully as he sat down next to her and began to form his morning breakfast almost on automatic; a couple pieces of toast, a lot of fruit, a single egg, some oatmeal and a large mug of coffee. emCoffee? Since when do I drink coffee? /emHarry asked himself as he suddenly stopped pouring the drink and pushed it away only to grab a large glass of orange juice instead./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Good morning Harry," Hermione said brightly/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""So…did you read my note?" Harry asked nervously though was almost absolutely sure she would say yes, which is why her answer shocked him/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Yes I did, and my answer is no," she said/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry's world was rapidly breaking apart, "Wha-wha…why?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione sighed and closed her book, "We don't really know each other that well, I mean apart from yesterday, we've only spoken at most three times," Hermione explained/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh…I see," Harry said, not trusting himself to say anything else/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""But don't get me wrong, I…emfeel/em the same why," Hermione said glancing around and blushing, "but I think we need to go on a couple dates before we decide to actually…become emthat/em," Hermione said obviously avoids words to avoid people overhearing the conversation./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh…oh!" Harry suddenly getting what she was saying, "well how about a date then, today, now even," he said with a smile/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione blushed, "N-now? Where would we go?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry smiled, "Let me eat breakfast and let me worry about that ok?" he said giving her a quick kiss on the cheek, that thankfully nobody notice, causing Hermione to blush deeply. Harry quickly but in a mannerly order ate his breakfast and stood up, "Come on," he said holding out his hand/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione looked at the hand for a moment then Harry before nodding and taking his hand. Harry smiled and quickly pulled her out of her seat, shouldered her bag and almost dragged her out of the Great Hall./p
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p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Harry, please slow down!" Hermione asked almost pleading/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry slowed down but only a bit, "Come on, we're almost there," Harry said excitedly pulled her up yet another staircase./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""And where is 'there' exactly?" Hermione asked/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""You'll see," Harry said with a sly grin, "see we're here," Harry said as he came to a stop in front of a blank wall./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione looked around, "Uh, Harry what exactly am I supposed to be looking at?" she asked/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh, stand here for a moment," Harry said as he started pacing in front of the blank wall muttering to himself/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Um, Harry, are you ok?" Hermione said getting a bit worried. Harry ignored her and continued to pace the wall when a door suddenly appeared, surprising Hermione, "how…how did that door get there?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry smiled and took her hand and slowly lead her to the door, "It's called the Room of Requirement, few even know of its existence and the few that have entered it, even knows that they are even in it or what it does," Harry said with a smile, "come on, it's ready," Harry said as he opened the door./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione looked in surprised to find what seemed like a relaxing lounging area with a single love seat, a coffee table that had a teapot and two cups resting on it, a tele, a fireplace with a roaring fire, and large bookshelves everywhere./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""How?" was all Hermione could get out/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""I asked for the perfect room to take you for a date," Harry said as he pulled her into the room, closing the door behind him, and leading her to the loveseat where he pulled her into his lap, "so…what do you think?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione looked around the room for a minute before turning and looking at him with a smile, "I think…that you just earned the letter 'y' Mr. Potter."/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""The letter Y?" Harry asked confused. Hermione just looked at him with a knowing smile. Harry thought for a moment before it suddenly hit him, "oh…anything I can do to earn the letters 'e' and 's'?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione smiled even more, "We'll see Mr. Potter, we'll see."/p
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p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry couldn't have had a better day, after spending the entire day with Hermione, she hadn't given him the other letters yet but told him to 'keep it up' and that was enough to encourage him. he was a bit disappointed when all Hermione would allow was a kiss on the cheek, saying that a kiss on the lips was an intimate gesture that shouldn't just be handed out like candy especially the first one, and he agreed with her. He lay in his bed smiling thinking about Hermione when his thoughts were suddenly interrupted, "Harry mate, where you been, I haven't seen you all day?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry looked over to see Ron on the edge of his bed looking at Harry, "I was…with someone," Harry said simply before looking back up at the draping of his four poster bed./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Who were you with? I asked and nobody saw you all day, some emSlytherins /emsaid that they saw you and Hermione walk out of the Great Hall early this morning and that you probably didn't want to be bothered, but that was probably just lying," Ron said/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Curiosity took ahold of Harry wondering who out of all the Slytherins would so much as talk about him in a civil manner much less redirect anybody to give him privacy, "Uh, who exactly said that?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Ron's face turned into a sneer worthy of Snape, "emGreengrass /emand emDavis/em," he said as if the names were less than a pile of sod./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"emGreengrass and Davis…they're first years like me, I think I have them for potions, Daphne I think her name is and Tracey, hm…/emHarry thought to himself quietly./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""So where were you mate?" Ron asked a little put off that Harry had yet to answer/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""I was with Hermione," Harry said simply/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""No seriously where were you?" Ron said smiling/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Why would I be joking, I hung out with Hermione all day," Harry said getting a bit irritated himself/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""emWhy?" /emRon asked as if he had said that he had spent the entire day sorting through owl dung./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Because I wanted to, why else?" Harry responding, he was quickly losing his patience in the conversation/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""But she's a freak! She –"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Ron wasn't able to finish as Harry's wand was now at his throat, Harry emerald eyes cold and piercing, he spoke so quietly that if they hadn't been alone, Ron wouldn't have heard what Harry said, "Never, emnever/em, call her that name. As of this moment Ron, you and I are no longer friends, I don't care if you apologize to me, to her, in front of Merlin himself, I will emnever /embe your friends ever again, emever./em Don't talk to me, or Hermione unless it is absolutely necessary, and when I mean necessary, somebody's life better be in danger, if it's yours I won't give a rats ass," and with that Harry whipped his wand back into its place and walked out of the boy's dormitories, his cloak waving in such a manner that it would have made Snape proud./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry upon walking out of the dormitories he came to the realization that it was time for lights out, as he came face to face with the other first year boys, "Hey Harry where you going? it's time for bed," Seamus asked/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry was a crossroad of life, he could either turn around and go back in the same way he came, embarrassment sure to follow as he had just made a dramatic exit, or risk getting in trouble if McGonagall decided to make a sweep of the common room in her rounds around the castle, "Um," Harry had to think quick on his feet, "Potions essay! I haven't finished it yet!" he said quickly before he realized that he in fact actually hadn't and knew that Snape would want it first thing Friday and between Quidditch, Hermione and everybody else's classes, he would probably crap out a piece of shite./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh well see if Hermione can help you, she's also staying up finishing up the essay, surprised that didn't already have it finished," Seamus said with a clap on Harry's back and the rest of the boys stepped aside to allow Harry to pass before they entered the dormitories./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry made it to the bottom step of the dormitories and saw Hermione working on the essay in front of the fire. Harry smiled and leaned against the frame just taking content in watching her as she bit her lip and twirled some hair around her finger./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Harry, are you going to just stand there and stare at me?" she asked suddenly not bothering to look up as she continued to write, "not that I mind as long as it's you but it's a bit distracting," she said with a slight blush and grin, only allowing her bright brown eyes to catch his emerald ones for a moment before returning to the essay/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Uh yea…I mean no," Harry said nervously/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione giggled, "What are you doing down here? Curfew is in effect, you know that right?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Yea well, I kinda can't go back up there without looking like an idiot," Harry said as he finally moved from the steps and sat down on the couch in a heap looking at the ceiling/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""How so?" Hermione asked curious as to what he meant/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry sighed, "Well to put it simply, Ronald Weasley was being…well Ronald Weasley. He said some things, stupid things obviously because this is Ron we're talking about. In the end he called you…a emname, /emneedless to say we are no longer friends," Harry concluded/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh Harry, I'm sorry," Hermione said/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry looked at her, "No need to be sorry, it wasn't your fault. To tell you the truth, he isn't exactly the greatest influence in the world. I mean before I met him, I was excited to come here and be with people like me, to learn, to actually have friends," Harry said before catching himself/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Hermione looked at him curiously before moving over to sit next to him, "Friends?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry 's head fell, he didn't want her to see his tears, he wanted to be strong for her, "I never had friends before, my cousin Dudley always use to scare everybody that even got near me by bullying them."/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Oh, Harry," Hermione whispered before wrapping her arms around him, "I…," she took a deep breath, "I never had friends either, everyone always saw me as Ron sees me, just a, ugly, buck-tooth, bossy know-it-all," Hermione felt the tears falling before she even realized she was crying./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry looked up, his eyes full of tears as well, "They and Ron are wrong, you know that right? You a beautiful and smart girl," Harry said blushing, causing Hermione herself to blush deeply as well./p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;""Harry, you don't have to answer this if you don't want to but," Hermione wiped some tears from her eyes taking a breather for a moment, "what's home like?"/p
p style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"Harry's eye filled with pain and he began to sob, Hermione immediately pulled him into a hug and allowed him to cry for what seemed like hours until finally stopped. When he finally had Hermione had shifted from a hugging position to having Harry's head in her lap as she stroked his hair. When she finally heard him stop she looked down at him and found him fast asleep, he had cried himself to sleep. During the entirety Hermione had been thinking what could have caused this kind of reaction? Her mind had raced at all the possibilities; finally she came to the only evident conclusion. His words about his cousin, his wire-y build as he relentless crying could only mean one thing, abuse, and not just the physical, but emotion and mental as well. Harry was broken, and Hermione determined that it was her job to fix him, no matter the cost./p
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