*Flashback*
3rd year

Hermione walks the Hogwarts corridors with her jumper covering her hands while holding her books, defence against the dark arts, care of magical creatures, divination, muggle studies, and so much more it was getting out of hand, she was tired, exhausted, she was regretting it but she needed it.

She walks around a corner and meets a chest, her books fall from her hands.

"Oh sorry" Hermione says as she bends down to pick up her books.

"Watch it Granger don't you know to not go around sharp corners" Draco says, Hermione looks up at Draco and stands up holding her books, Hermione rolls her eyes.

"You also went around a sharp corner Malfoy no big deal it was an accident" Hermione says, she starts to walk around Draco when her jumper sleeve rolls down showing bandages, Draco notices this and also a cut on Hermione's cheek, Draco turns around quickly.

"Who did this to you?" Draco asks, Hermione turns around confused and looks down at her arm, she pulls her sleeve up over her hand.

"Why do you care?" Hermione asks, Draco steps closer to Hermione and looks down at the cut on her cheek and sees three small stitches.

"Oh I don't, I just wanna tell them they did a good" Draco says smirking, Hermione raised her head and turned around.

"Don't forget I punched you Malfoy, I think I did a pretty good job at that" Hermione says, Dracos smirk falls.

"Seriously Granger, who did that to you?" Draco asks, Hermione looks Draco up and down, then walks away leaving Draco questioning what happened.

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Borgin and burkes, last time Hermione was here was when she was spying on Draco with Harry and Ron. She never once imagined her going into this shop when she was younger, but now she is, with the people she never imagined ever being with. Bellatrix opens the vanishing cabinet and looked at Hermione.

"Go on then, or do you chicken out" Bellatrix laughs as Greyback joins in, Hermione takes a deep breath and steps into the vanishing cannot as Draco follows. The door then shuts and before they know it, it opens again to show the room of requirement. Hermione steps out as Draco follows.

"Hogwarts.." Hermione says under her breath but loud enough for Draco to hear, Draco could tell Hermione was uneasy, she never wanted to come back here, she was scared. Draco takes his hand in hers and rubs his thumb over her hand.

Blaise follows, then Bellatrix and Greyback. Draco let's go of Hermione's hand and starts to walk out of the room of Requirement leading everyone to Dumbledores tower.

As they arrive they can hear Dumbledore speaking, almost like he wasn't alone, Hermione draws her wand and looks at Draco and Blaise, Draco nods but Blaise gives Hermione a worrying look.

"What Blaise?" Hermione asks

"Are you completely sure about this, everything changes the moment you point your wand at him" Blaise says in Hermione's ear, Hermione looks up at Blaise and nods.

"I'm sure" Hermione says, she turns and starts to walk up the stairs slowly. As she starts to reaches the top she meets the eyes of Dumbledore, he never looks like a threat, or a bad person. He always knew when people were around him, or when something bad was going to happen.

"Good evening Hermione, what brings you here on this fine night?" Dumbledore asks in a calm voice, Hermione knew not to trust his voice, or more so his words, she knew he knew what was going to come.

"Who else is here? I heard you talking"Hermione asks, Dumbledore nods.

"I've been talking loudly to myself, I find it extraordinary useful." Dumbledore says, silence follows, Hermione's wand still pointing at Dumbledore but her hands shake, she was scared, she was more shocked.

"Hermione, you are no assassin" Dumbledore says

"How do you know what I am? Nothing ever shocks you" Hermione asks in a harsh tone.

"I've known you since you first stepped foot into this castle with your uniform and wand, your smile full of excitement ready to learn Hermione, I knew who you were back then and I still know that little girl is inside you" Dumbledore says, Hermione starts to lower her wand but puts her arm back up, Dumbledore takes his wand out his pocket but Hermione feels like she won't be attacked and she was correct, he throws his wand to the side out of reach.

"Hermione, years ago I knew a boy who made all the wrong choices, please let me help you"

"I don't want your help, not again, not ever again, I always needed your help since day one but not anymore, I don't need anyones help but my own."

"Hermione"

"Don't you understand, I have to do this, I have to kill you, for the sake of my parents, for the sake of my mental health, for the sake of being who I truly am" Tears start to form in Hermione's eyes, she didn't feel bad about pointing a wand at the person she trusted many years ago, she was crying because she hated the memory of her parents. She hears footsteps coming up the stairs, she sees Draco, Blaise, Bellatrix and Greyback come up the stairs and join her.

"Well well look what we have here, well done Granger" Bellatrix says, Hermione doesn't look at Bellatrix, she keeps her eyes on Dumbedore.

"Bellatrix" Dumbledore says, Bellatrix laughs.

"Do it Granger, or are you scared, just like every other mudblood is, you are just as pathetic as your blood" Bellatrix says, Hermione's hands start shaking more as she starts to lower her hand, she wanted to but something was holding her back, that's when she notices someone in the corner of the room, Harry. They make eye contact and Hermione can see he has his wand drawn, but he didn't want to do anything to her, he looked more ashamed or shocked.

"No" a voice says behind Hermione, she lowers her wand and turns around, Snape appears, Hermione looks at Snape almost like he was protecting Dumbledore.

"Severus. Please."

"Avada Kedavra" A green light comes out of Snapes wand and hits Dumbledore pushing him off the tower, Snape lowers his wand. Hermione stares at where Dumbledore was just standing a minute ago, until she feels a pair of hands grab her arm and pull her down the stairs, she didn't care who or even looked to see, she was to busy being shocked.

As they reached the great hall Bellatrix starts to smash plates and the windows, Hermione didn't know if she was happy or scared. As they reached the grounds Hermione starts to smile, even though she didn't kill him, he is now dead, she faced him.

"How dare you, how dare you Hermione, he trusted you Snape" Hermione turns around and sees Harry running down the hill with his wand drawn, Draco grabs Hermione's hand but she pulls away and starts to walk towards Harry, Snape pulls his wand and fires a spell at Harry knocking him to the ground.

"Leave him" Hermione says to Snape, Hermione walks up to Harry then gets down on her knees.

"Hermione, what happened to you"

"I changed Potter, I changed." Hermione says, she takes Harry's wand and snaps it in haft. Harry looks at Hermione like he just met someone new, he didn't recognise her.

"Tell Weasley I said hi will you" Hermione says as she stands back up and walks away, she can feel Harry's eyes on her back, Harry stands up holding his arm.

"I did everything for you Hermione! Every year I did everything to protect you! I was the only one in first year to notice you were in danger when the troll got lose, I was the first one to come and save you! I was the one who showed up everyday in the hospital wing when you were petrified, I was the one who was always there for you since day one! And where was Malfoy? Laughing at you!" Harry's says, Hermione stops dead in her tracks and turns to face Harry, he can see the tears still stained in her cheek.

"You stopped last year, you started to care more about what Dumbledore thought of you or what girls thought, you stopped caring at me, I also did everything to protect you and Ron! I sat for weeks making potions, I sat in the library late at night reading to find out so much for you, I ditched my classes to help you, I loved you and you didn't even care, I loved Ron and he didn't even care, I was just seen as this smart girl, but I'm not that anymore." Hermione says, Draco grabs her hand and pulls her away leaving Harry shocked.