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 8

Hermione tried to put the matter behind her but she just couldn't. She kept on having nightmares about him coming back from the grave and killing her. Finally she went to Madam Pomfrey for Dreamless Sleep potion. Thankfully she had some. At the beginning of October there was another Full Moon and so she and Melissa were locked up in the Shrieking Shack, along with Remus, so that they could change without endangering the students.

Hermione might hate the potion but she didn't hate the effects.

The next morning all three of them were back in the hospital wing, recovering. She spent her time getting some of her homework done and getting visitors. One of them was Luna Lovegood, who was sporting a bruise.

"What happened to you?" Hermione asked her.

"Nothing," Luna said.

Hermione looked at Melissa, who gave her a look that told her that she didn't like the fact that Luna was lying.

"Luna, you can tell me," Hermione said. "I won't tell anyone."

"You promise," she said.

"I promise," Hermione vowed.

She took a deep breath and said, "Cho Chang and the other girl's are bullying me."

"I know," Hermione said. "I suspected it at once when I came upon them. You need to go to someone."

"I can't," she said. "I can't because no one is going to believe me. My father owns the Quibbler, and that's enough to make most people not believe me."

"Luna, just because your father owns a paper doesn't mean that you're lying," she said. "I tell you what; I'll talk to my adopted mum. She can figure things out without people knowing that you told."

"But you said-."

"I won't mention your name," Hermione promised. "I'll say that a girl in Hufflepuff is being bullied because we saw it."

"It's not going to work."

"Luna, we're family while at Hogwarts," she told her. "I'm not having a family member hang herself."

Luna gave her a small smile and then she left.

"Dear Merlin, what she thinks will happen," Hermione said.

Melissa shook her head and then Hermione groaned, the smell of bad perfume hitting the room. Oh great, Ginny was here.

"Hello," said Ginny and I wanted to just die.

"Don't you have anything better to do?" Melissa snarled.

"Shut up, Dursley," she hissed. "I'm coming to see Hermione."

"Leave me alone," Hermione begged.

She batted her eyelid and then Madam Pomfrey came in and said, "Miss Weasley, kindly leave. You're distressing my patients."

"But-."

"Leave…now," Madam Pomfrey ordered and, thankfully, Ginny left. "Dear Merlin, what the hell is going on here?"

Hermione was sure that she didn't want the answer to that.

Everyone was still on edge from the attack on Professor McGonagall. The new Transfiguration teacher wasn't McGonagall and never would be. His name was Professor Borge, and he was American. He had his own way of doing this and he didn't favor Gryffindor House. Something that she was sure that Ginny wouldn't like. Ever since Hermione and Melissa had gotten out of the wing, Ginny had been following them.

It was damn creepy if you asked her.

News that Lily was marrying was all over the school a week after she had recovered from her monthly transformation. Hermione still didn't know who she was marrying but she seemed happy. Personally that was all that matter to Hermione, her being happy.

"I wonder who the lucky wizard is going to be." Maria wondered.

"Don't you know?" Luna asked.

She shook her head. Hermione had reported to Lily about what had happened and she didn't have to mention the fake house for Lily to say," So Luna Lovegood is the one being bullied."Dang, how does she do that?"

"Don't tell Luna that I said anything," Hermione begged.

"Dear, you didn't mention a name," she said. "I have reports from Professor Flitwick."

"Well, I think the wedding will be wonderful," Melissa said, drawing Hermione away from her thoughts.

"Me too," Luna said, grinning.

That night Hermione turned in early. She had already done all her homework and Melissa was already in bed. She blew out her candle and fell into her usual uneasy sleep. She was dreaming about her dead stepfather, again, when she smelled it. Bad perfume! At once she bolted away to find a totally naked Ginny Weasley over her. She screamed and then used her animal ability to change into a leopard and put her in a corner. Ginny screamed as well, waking everyone up.

"What the-."

"It's Weasley and she's naked," someone said, lighting all the candles.

Hermione showed her fangs and she heard Melissa hurrying out.

Ginny was hauled into the Headmaster's office and Hermione, now human, was looking at the girl with great distaste. The look that Dumbledore gave told Hermione that he wasn't pleased. The twinkle in his eyes was gone, filled with the kind of power that Hermione suspected made him feared by Voldemort.

"You, Miss Weasley, have broken the most important rule here at Hogwarts," he said. "Breaking into another houses dorm is a serious violation of the rules. What the hell were you thinking, Miss Weasley?"

"But I love her," Ginny said. "My mum told me stories about Hermione and-."

"And you decided to attempt to rape her," Dumbledore snarled, a tone that had a lot more bite than anything that Severus could spit out of his mouth. "I'm disgusted with you, Miss Weasley. I'm here by expelling you from the school. I will not have the safety of the students endangered. Not with the attack on Professor McGonagall still fresh on everyone's minds. Get your things and you will take the Hogwarts Express home."

Ginny burst into tears but Hermione didn't want to hear it. She should be safe in her bed and not worry about someone trying to attack her as well. And then something changed. She gave me a look that spoke of pure hate. I had a bad feeling that I hadn't seen the last of her.

Hermione don't know what was worst. People finding out that Ginny had broken into Ravenclaw Tower or the fact that everyone wanted to know why Ginny thought that she was pretty enough to be anyone's girlfriend. Draco Malfoy, without Harry Potter around to tone him down, started on her.

"You're too ugly to even have a lesbian girlfriend," he taunted, and his friends laughed. "Of course who wants someone that howls at the moon?"

Hermione knew, that he knew, that she was a werewolf. It was common knowledge at the Ministry and one that Hermione really hated people knowing.

"Shove off, Malfoy," Melissa said. "No one cares what you think."

He laughed and then I said, "How about I send Ginny to you, with a small spell, to make her want to rape you. I'll make sure that there's photo's so that everyone knows how desperate you are to lose your virginity."

That made Malfoy go pale for some unknown reason. He bolted, taking his friends with him.

"God, that boy is a jerk," Melissa said.

"Yeah, I know," Hermione said. "Come on, we have Potions next."

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"I think it's great that your having the wedding here," Professor Flitwick said.

"I know," Lily said. "I'm just happy that I won't have to worry about attempted rapist being around."

Flitwick shook his head and said, "Yeah that was bad. I don't know how Miss Weasley figured out the password to Ravenclaw tower."

"Has it been changed?" Lily asked him.

"Yes, this morning," Flitwick answered.

"Good," she said and then, "I wrote to Harry, telling him that I'm getting married. He hadn't replied back."

"It will take an owl time to get there," he told her. "And it's starting to get cold."

Lily nodded and said, "I wish things had been different."

Flitwick patted her on the arm and said, "Don't we all."

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A/N: I was pondering when to do the whole 'Ginny breaks into Ravenclaw Tower because she's a psycho that's being controlled by another psycho' scene and decided that this would be a good place. Though Hermione is right, Ginny isn't done. It's going to get worst, might change this into a bit of a horror story.