Early Spring. The house of Lestrange family, Prague, 1995.
Time passed quickly enough and Hermione was thinking more and more often about Draco's grey eyes. She loved to stay for days looking at the photo he sent her at her request. A moving photo with a smile of Draco and a glance of his beautiful eyes was Hermione's biggest treasure. She hated her life in Prague with her family, as the more Hermione was growing the more Bellatrix seemed to hate her. And the most painful for the young witch was that she didn't know the reason which determined Bellatrix behave in such a way with her. So a copy of Draco represented a big hope for Hermione.
Spring arrived in the beautiful Prague with blooming trees and flowers, warm sun and chirping birds. Hermione had Transfiguration classes with Bellatrix at that moment. The black-haired witch was explaining something from the history of Transfiguration in order to introduce the subject and to feed Hermione's curiosity manifested often during the learning process.
"You should become a part of me
Before I turn into a dream,
Show me your feelings, let me see,
Before I'm merging with the steem;
Inhale my poison for right now,
I'll give you endless life and love,
I have to heal your wounds somehow,
I fit you like your own glove…", Hermione read and sketched a smile.
"What the hell are you doing there?!", Bellatrix became angry. She thought Hermione was studying, but no, she was reading as per usual poems. Lately that was Hermione's favourite activity, which was distracting her from her study process. It was unbelievable that the smart girl who was allowed to study magic by herself was at that moment 'wearing a pair of pink glasses', was reading poems instead of studying.
Hermione winced as she heared Bellatrix screaming. "No-nothing!", she hurried to close the book.
"I'm losing my time teaching you, and you read poems instead of learning something?!", said Bellatrix with anger. "Oppugno!", she pronounced pointing her wand on Hermione and all the sheets of parchment from the table were attacking the poor girl. Hermione covered her face with her hands and yelled. She opened her eyes after some seconds and could see Bellatrix lying down with all the sheets of parchment on her. Hermione remembered about the magical bracelet – the gift received from her father, she was wearing it. The bracelet prottected her and redirected the jinx back to Bellatrix, who was trying to escape from the spellbound parchment. Hermione was looking at the bracelet with astonishment as she didn't know that the magic of it could even redirect jinxes.
"Why are you staring at that bracelet?! Better help me!", said Bellatrix fighting with the parchment. She couldn't cast a Counter-jinx as her wand fell from her hand and rolled somehow under the bookcase.
"Sorry, I'm not allowed to do magic outside Hogwarts. I can use only spells involved in the learning process.", said Hermione and left Bellatrix alone to fight with the effect of the jinx. The girl felt avenged.
Hermione was looking for her father to thank him for the bracelet and know more about it, but she found that he wasn't home. As she entered her father's cabinet she observed a photo of a woman on his desk. Hermione took it into her hands and could see that the woman resembled her very much, especially their eyes, they were the same. She didn't know who could be the woman and then Hermione observed the bracelet she was wearing on that woman's joint.
"Hermione, what are you doing here?! ", asked Rodolphus Lestrange as he entered his cabinet. When he observed that Hermione was holding in her hands the photo he hurried to take and hide it into a drawer.
"Who did allow you to enter my cabinet and touch the things from my desk?!", asked Mr. Lestrange nervously.
"I just…", Hermione hadn't time to explain as they both heared a desperate shout:"Rodolphus! Help me!". It was Bellatrix. Mr. Lestrange hurried to the room from where the shout could be heared. He found Bellatrix still fighting with the sheets of parchment and hurried to help her by casting a Counter-jinx. The disheveled, black-haired witch stood up and rushed Hermione who was sitting beside the door and staring at them:"You are responsible for this!". Rodolphus Lestrange stopped her and was trying to calm his angry wife.
"LET ME GO, Rodolphus! I'll kill this nuisance right now!", Bellatrix was screaming with anger.
"Calm down, Bellatrix! She is only a girl!", said Mr Lestrange still trying hard to retain the witch.
Hermione ran away in order to avoid Bellatrix's cruelty. She took Draco's photo and went to wander about the streets of Prague.