Title: The Girl Who Lived (Year 2)

Rating: T

Summary: Hermione Granger-Potter enters her second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With a new Defense Professor, no Harry, things are going not so great. Add the opening of the Chamber of Secrets and Ginny Weasley's unhealthy fascination for Hermione and Hermione really wants this year to just end. Sequel to The Girl Who Lived (Year 1)

Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rowling's characters and I'm making nothing from this.

Chapter 3

Lily took Melissa and Hermione out to get their things for the coming term. They had to buy a whole set of Lockhart books and Remus and Sirius decided to go with them. For protection! The man that had killed James still hadn't been caught and they all knew that he was out there.

"Oh great," Remus muttered.

"What's wrong?" Hermione asked.

"That," he said, pointing to a sign that told them that Lockhart was signing copies of his new book 'Magical Me' at Flourish and Blotts.

Hermione groaned. She had a bad feeling about Lockhart just like she had a bad feeling about Quirrell.

"It shouldn't be that bad," Lily said.

"Could someone just please kill me?" Hermione asked them.

"Don't worry, we'll keep Lockhart away from you," Sirius vowed.

"Thanks," Hermione said.

They went to get money from the Potter trust vault and then it was off to get their things. Hermione found a new kind of ink at the store across the way and then the dreaded trip to the bookstore. Normally Hermione would be excited, but Lockhart felt like he was going to be a nightmare. When they entered the shop Hermione was shocked to find the Weasley's were here. Great, she would have to put up with them.

"Hello, Lily," Mrs. Weasley said. "Hello, you."

"Great, I'm now a you," Hermione hissed. "Get out of the way, I want to get my books."

"You need to teach your adopted daughter some manners," Mrs. Weasley snarled. "She has a mouth on her."

"Actually, Molly, my adopted daughter wants nothing to do with any of you," Lily said. "After all you caused Harry to turn on her."

"It's not my fault that he was placed in Slytherin and got expelled."

Hermione turned and saw Lily glaring at her and then a body hugged her and at once she pushed away. It was a red headed girl and she looked like a Weasley.

"What do you want?" Hermione asked, not really in a mood to deal with a Weasley right now.

"I'm Ginny and I'm your biggest fan," she said. "Date me!"

"No," Hermione said. "I don't go out with…younger students."

"I'm not that young," she said.

"You're too young for me," she said and she went past her with her books.

"Dear Merlin, you're going to have a nightmare," Melissa told her.

"Don't remind me," Hermione said.

Ginny seemed to like hanging around with Hermione, which she found to be really creepy. She should be hanging out with children her own age. The real nightmare, however, was yet to come. Lockhart came out and at once spotted her. Great, she had to put up with another clingy person.

"Well bless my soul, it's Hermione Potter."

"Hermione Potter!" a man said and he grabbed her but she pushed him away.

"Dear Merlin, what's up with grabbing me?" Hermione said. "I'm not taking a photo and keep your red headed child away from me."

And Hermione stormed out.

"Hermione," Melissa called out and she joined her near Madam Malkin. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Hermione said.

"No, you're not," Melissa said and she sat down. "I know that you hate your fame."

"I hate everything about it," Hermione said. "Dear gods, this girl is like a year younger than me and she was hanging onto me like I was some kind of god. My parents died at the hands of Voldemort and everyone from the Weasley brat to Lockhart rubs the whole thing into my face. Oh lookie here, its famous Hermione Potter. Oh what is it like to know that your parents were murdered?"

She heard Melissa sigh and said, "Are you going to be okay this term?"

"I don't know," Hermione said. "I'm just sick and tired of it all. I had this soul fragment inside me but no one seems to care. Let's bow down to the famous Hermione Potter."

Soon Remus and Sirius joined her and said, "I should have told the Weasley's to leave."

"I've got a bad feeling about this term," Hermione told them. "I think that it might be worse than the last one."

"Don't worry; we'll make sure that nothing happens to you."

"Thanks," Hermione said, glad she had real friends.

Maria Lupin came to visit a couple of days after the 'horror' shopping trip. Apparently she had been told what had happened at Flourish and Blotts and was there to offer support. She concluded that the only reason that Ginny liked Hermione was because she was famous. That one line reminded her of everything that she had lost.

"I don't want anyone to like me because I'm famous," Hermione told her.

"Can't get away from it," Maria said.

"I know that," Hermione told her. "I just don't like it."

"So how is everything going with the new stepdad?" Maria asked her.

"Okay, I guess," Hermione answered.

"She's not sure if she likes Mr. Snow," Melissa told her.

"Well at least you didn't get a former Death Eater like Malfoy as your stepfather," Maria reasoned.

That alone made Hermione shutter.

Hermione and Melissa went through another transformation and then it was back to normal for everyone. Hermione just wished that, besides her parents, she had her humanity back. She sighed, knowing that dreams like that were impossible. On September 1st she and Melissa were taken to the castle while it was still daylight. It was a full moon tonight and she wouldn't be able to make it to the sorting. Both of them ate their early dinner and then it was off to the Shrieking Shack. Thankfully not being around kept her from hearing the news that everyone was talking about in the morning. Ron and Ginny had attempted to get to Hogwarts by flying car.

"What the hell?" Hermione asked the next morning when she was released from the Hospital Wing, along with Melissa.

"That's what I heard," Terry Boot said. "Oh we got a new student that's really out of it."

"Who's that?" Hermione asked, interested.

"Luna Lovegood!"

Hermione was happy to hear that Ginny got sorted into Gryffindor, which meant that she wouldn't have to put up with her at all. Severus had warned her that Ginny had demanded to be put in Ravenclaw. Hermione was glad. She had a bad feeling that having a psycho witch hanging over her wasn't going to be helpful for her continuing living. On Saturday, Hermione had to spend the first week recovering; the owl that was used for those that didn't have one dropped a letter on her plate.

She opened it and felt as though someone had thrown cold water on her. This just wasn't happening to her? No, not in a million years! Was this the byproduct of living while your parents died? Who would be sick enough to send this to her?

"Hermione, what's wrong?" Melissa asked.

She showed the note and Melissa gasped. In dark green writing were the words, "I'M WATCHING YOU!"

Hermione felt her blood run cold and she knew, she had a stalker.

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A/N: Yeah well I can give you one guess that it is. Yeah, it's Ginny.