Hi, guys! I'm really excited about this.

Congratulations to ShirokuroNoKitsune for figuring out who Tape Two is about.

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BTW, please don't give any suggestions on who the next person should be. I have a list with the person's name and the reason they're on the tapes that I composed when I got the idea.

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"Have you ever met one of those people that just didn't want to let you in? No matter how much you tried to be their friend, they despised you with every fiber in their body?

That's what it was like when I met you, Hermione Granger."

II

Harry hit pause.

Hermione? But the two had been friends! They hadn't been as close as he and Luna had been, but the two had been civil towards each other.

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"In another life, you and I could've been great friends, Hermione. We had a lot in common. We were both smart, we were both disliked by most of our peers, and we were both ridiculed for our parentage.

So why did you hate me?

It was the same question I asked myself every time I tried to be your friend, and you lashed out.

Around sixth year, I figured it out.

For someone so smart, you're pretty stupid, Hermione.

You see, Hermione, you choose to only believe what's right in front of you. You refuse to believe in what doesn't have proof or isn't logical."

Luna said logical with a bitter tone.

"I think our rivalry began two years ago. You remember it, don't you, Hermione? It was my fourth year, first day of the term, and after Herbology, I came up to you and Harry and Ron and told him I believed him about the whole Voldemort business.

I remember the exact way it went. I ran up to Harry and said, without so much as a hello, "I believe He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is back, and I believe you fought him and escaped from him."

"Er-right." Harry said awkwardly.

I had been wearing my favorite pair of dirigible plum earrings-keeps away the Swinkies, you know-, and surely that was the reason that, just then, Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown burst into laughter. But I hadn't know that, then. I thought they'd been laughing at what I'd just said.

"You can laugh!" I yelled to them." But people used to believe there was no such thing as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!"

"Well, they were right, weren't they?" You said, "There weren't any such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack."

You really need to stop being so narrow minded, Hermione.

And, FYI, Crumple-Horned Snorkacks do exist. Case closed.

Offended, I turned and left, but not before I heard Harry say to you, "D'you mind not offending the only people who believe me?"

Could you do me a favor and thank Harry for defending me? When I heard those words come out of his mouth, my heart swelled a bit, because I was given a tiny glimmer of hope that, maybe, I did have a friend.

But you, Hermione, you love to ruin my happiness. That's what logic is, isn't it? It stamps out dreams, and you did exactly that. You stamped out any hope I had of being accepted.

"Oh, for heaven's sake, Harry, you can do better than her." You said snobbily."Ginny's told me all about her, apparently, she'll only believe in things as long as there's no proof at all. Well, I wouldn't expect anything else from someone whose father runs The Quibbler."

Hermione, I'm going to tell you two things.

One, I have to thank you for that. Because you were the one who informed me that maybe Ginny wasn't as much of a true friend as I thought.

And, two, you offended me. Greatly. I've put up with a lot of verbal abuse for the past seven years. Even longer, in fact, because even in the Muggle world, people thought I was loony.

But NO ONE insults Daddy.

In case you're all wondering, my father is as loving and supportive as I've always said he is. Those rumors about him being abusive are rubbish.

I was about to turn around and give you a what for when Padma Patil came and whisked me away. At the time, she was as close to a best friend as I'd ever had.

"It's not worth it." She said briskly. And, because I didn't want trouble, I let it go.

But, you wounded my pride that day, Hermione. You gave me a tiny seed of resentment towards you and your "logic." Even as I tried to be your friend, there was always a touch of bitterness in my voice, a whisper of sarcasm when I complimented you. And I'm guessing you detected that seed, because you never did become my friend."

The tape stopped. Harry hit the rewind button, took the tape out of the player, and squeezed his eyes shut. He felt so ashamed. Because, the truth was, he knew how much Hermione disliked Luna. He heard all those comments about her father and the Quibbler and Luna herself. And, at first, Harry had defended Luna. But, as they reached seventh year, he stopped trying. It was useless. Hermione had always despised Luna, and she always would.

Putting the tape back in the box, Harry took out the tape with a three on it. This one was illustrated with a drawing of a shiny black bat. Harry put the tape in the box and pressed play.

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