"You and Malfoy huh" Ron says, Hermione came back to the Gryffindor common room after talking to Draco in the library.

"What are you talking about now?" Hermione asks turning to face Harry and Ron "first you sat with him at lunch, then avoid us and then Malfoy stood up for you, what the bloody hell is going on between you two?!" Ron says, Harry looks down at his feet as he waits for Hermione to reply "I haven't been avoiding you two, I have been in the library all day, I'm sure Malfoy stood up for me for a pretty good reason" Hermione says walking away "you know...don't you" Harry says standing up and walking over to Hermione, Hermione turns around and faces him "yes I do, thanks for telling me face to face, nice friends you two are" Hermione says turning back around but Harry grabs her wrist.

"When my parents were killed I was young, but as I got older I finally learnt how they died, I thought for 11 years they died in a car crash, but no they were murdered, it's better to keep a secret Hermione, or the person will be hurt, we were just protecting you" Harry says looking into Hermiones eyes, her eyes starts to water with tears "At least your parents weren't murdered by the people you trusted the most" Hermione says pulling her wrist out of Harry's grip and walks away.

The next morning Hermione didn't go to the great hall as she didn't want to face Harry and Ron, or most certainly Dumbledore as she 'missed' her meeting with his last night.
Hermione made it to potions and waited outside the classroom door for 30 minutes while everyone else was having Breakfast. After 30 minutes everyone arrived and entered potions, Hermione stopping at the door and looked over at her seat, Harry and Ron were sitting at her normal table, Hermione looks over at Draco's table, he is only with Blaise Zablin, she walks over to them and sits down next to Draco "great move Granger" Draco says not looking at her, Blaise looks at Hermione but then looks away making eye Contact with Draco but he just shakes his head and mouths "later".

After potions, Hermione walks with Draco and Blaise to their next class, Hermione didn't realise how funny Blaise Zablin was before now, he cracked a few jokes with made Hermione smile and Draco roll his eyes.

"Granger I didn't see you at Breakfast" Draco says "I skipped, remember I'm trying to avoid Dumbledore and Harry and Ron" Hermione replies "ahh so the Golden trio has finally fallen apart" Blaise says "golden trio?" Hermione asks "you, Potter and Weasley, it's what everyone calls you three, anyway I'm guessing you found out the truth, but why hang out with Draco, you two are enemies, the whole school sees you two as enemies" Blaise says "I'm the one who told her the truth, plus we are trying to get revenge" Draco says "ooo the brightest witch of her age trying to avoid Dumbledore and get revenge on her best friends, didn't see that coming" Blaise says as Hermione laughs
"Sit with us at lunch, you need to eat, I'm guessing Dumbledore won't find you at the Slytherin table" Blaise says with a smirk as he walks away leaving Draco and Hermione alone.

At lunch Hermione sits down next to Blaise and Draco at the Slytherin table, she still kept getting strange looks from other Slytherins but ignored them "I didn't think I would ever say this but, Slytherin is better then Gryffindor" Hermione says "dam right it is" Blaise says "I just don't feel welcomed here, I'm a Muggleborn, probably the only Muggleborn sitting at this table" Hermione says "who cares" Blaise says, Draco looks over Hermiones shoulder and sees Harry and Ron walking in their direction "great, Potter and Weasley are walking over" Draco says bitting into his apple.

"Again, Really Hermione, also in potions" Ron says "talk later Ronald" Hermione says not looking at them "don't Ronald me, we are sorry for not telling you, we were told not to by Dumbledore, like you were told not to tell anyone about your time turner" Ron says "you had a time turner, Fucking ace" Blaise says "Ronald that's completely different" Hermione says "if it was my parents, would you tell me?" Ron says, Hermione turns around and faces Ron "yes I would, because you are my best friend Ronald, we go threw everything together, I would tell you anything, even if I was told not to, yes I didn't tell you about the time turner but at that time we didn't share enough memories as we have now, I counted you two as a brother and you go and do this to me, now if you will excuse me I'm busy eating my lunch with my new friends who have counted me in" Hermione says, everyone in the great hall is now looking shocked.

"New friends? Hermione, Malfoy called you a Mudblood for 6 years, picked on us for years, also you don't know Zablin that much" Ron says "look Weasley, I've changed, I don't call her that anymore, now piss off you're making a scene" Draco says "you've changed? You, Yeah right, changed as to being a death eater, you are using Hermione to hurt her even more then she is hurt now because you love seeing her in pain" Harry says "that's enough Mr Potter" Snape says walking over to the Slytherin table "no, you make me sick Malfoy, you can never change, you don't know how many times you have made Hermione upset over your words, don't know how many nights she has cried in our arms over you, and where were you? Oh yeah, Laughing at the things you called her" Harry says, everyone looks shocked at what Harry just said, Draco looks over at Hermione "I'm not a death eater" Draco says walking out the great hall "well Hermione? Us or him?" Ron says, Hermione looks at Harry and Ron then at Blaise then at the great hall entrance, she gets up and runs after Draco.

Hermione finds Draco at the astronomy tower "Malfoy" Hermione says "I didn't know I hurt you that much" Draco says not looking at Hermione "that's in the past" Hermione says "we were young, it started in first year Granger, I hurt you since first year, I didn't mean to call you all those awful things" Draco says turning around and looking at Hermione "Yes you hurt me, but that's in the past, since this new year you have shown me a different side to you" Hermione says "I haven't changed Granger" Malfoy says "you have in my eyes" "your eyes can't see much then" Draco says, Blaise enters the astronomy tower "Potter and Weasley are talking to Dumbledore" Blaise says out of breath from running "great, he will probably call me into another meeting" Hermione says "I can get Snape to come up with an excuse" Blaise says "no, it's alright, I'll face him" Hermione says.

Hermione enters Dumbledores office, she sees Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, Molly and Lupin. "Miss Granger, please sit" Dumbledore says, Hermione sits down opposite Dumbledore and looks down at her hands "Hermione, I'm very sorry for not telling you, I didn't want to see you upset" Molly says "who killed them" Hermione says looking at at Dumbledore "you already know w-" "I want to know who directly killed them" Hermione says interrupting Dumbledore, the room fell into silence for a second "it was Mad-Eye, he killed your parents" Dumbledore says, Hermione looks back down at her hands "Hermione, you are the smartest witch I know of your age, you must understand why we had to do this" Lupin says "I trusted you professor, I kept your secret, you were my favourite teacher, and you go and do this to me.." Hermione says looking up at Lupin with tears in her eyes "I'm sorry Hermione, I really am" Lupin says.

"I also need you to understand, Mr Potter and Mr Weasley were just trying to help, they are your best friends" Dumbledore says "they used to be my best friends" Hermione says "they were just trying to help Dear-" "don't call me dear" Hermione says interrupting Molly "they weren't trying to help, they obviously just wanted to keep me as their friend until the war is over as they want to use my knowledge to help defeat Voldemort, using someone isnt how a friendship works" Hermione says "when Harry's parents were-" "no, don't you dare go on about Harry's parents, it's always about Harry isn't it, Harry this, Harry that, this is about my parents, not his, I'm my own person, not just Harry Potters best friend" Hermione says standing up, she turns and faces McGonagall "anything you want to say?" Hermione asks, McGonagall looks away from Hermione.

Hermione looks over at Snape as they make eye contact, "I've seen you started to be near Mr Malfoy more now, any good reason as he was your enemy" Snape says "he told me the truth before anyone else could" Hermione says "and you believed him?" Snape asks "not at first" Hermione answers, Hermione looks at Dumbledore then at Molly "I won't be joining you for Christmas this year" Hermione says then she looks at Lupin "I hope you are getting better after the loss of Sirius, and you being a werewolf" Hermione says, she turns around and walks out the office.

Outside the office she met Draco and Blaise, Draco stands up from his seat "well? How'd it go?" Draco asks "wonderful" Hermione says rolling her eyes.

I'm so sorry for not posting in a while, I hope the last chapter and this chapter is good enough to fill in the space, I've been very busy with school work :(
Stay safe :)