1. Harry Potter Promise NR.9


    Date: 1/13/2016, Categories: Fiction Fan fiction, Author: zimbi

    ... to earn that respect for the rest of his life. Susan also felt overjoyed. Harry certainly hadn't needed to include her several years ago. He had invited her to his new home because her aunt had been involved in getting him away from his horrible relatives and in engineering his godfather's freedom, but he really hadn't had to, if he hadn't wanted to. But he had let her in, taken a leap of faith and trusted her with his godfather's life. And she had found herself integrating into a group of teenagers that gave her a sense of home, a place to belong. Harry had given her so much more than the hand of friendship. He had given her a family, a place to belong. Sirius was shaping up to be a great uncle, and this group she was surrounded by were the brothers and sisters she had always wanted. Before Hermione had started at Hogwarts, the only friends she had had, had been those she found in books. Her classmates made fun of her because she was smart, she always got top grades, and, yes, she could admit that she was a bit of a teacher's pet. The other girls made fun of her bushy hair and her larger than normal front teeth. So she stuck to her books, and read about worlds with dragons and knights, and princesses that always got their prince. It was fantasy, and she knew that, but it was so much better than her reality. When she had gotten her acceptance letter to Hogwarts, she had hoped, perhaps naïvely, that the wizarding world would be different. And yet, she had had to learn the ...
    ... hard way that people were people, magical or not. She was still the bookish girl who wasn't comfortable in social situations. She was still made fun of, and people still avoided her. But then something remarkable had happened. Harry had extended an offer of friendship. Well, technically, he and Ron had accidentally locked her in a room with a troll and then rescued her, but it amounted to the same thing. With Harry and Ron as friends, she had mellowed out a little; Harry had taught her that books weren't always right, and even authority figures were fallible. She had grown into a woman she could be proud of, and she had Harry to thank for that. He was like her brother, and she couldn't imagine her life without him anymore. She trusted him implicitly, and she was so glad that that trust was returned. It couldn't have been easy for Harry and Ginny to tell them such a private thing, but they had, knowing that their friends would understand. She wouldn't let them down. Hermione had changed a great deal from the girl she was at eleven; she understood the concept of leaping without looking, and doing things because they were right, even if it broke a few rules in the process. Harry had taught her that some things were more important. XXX The morning of September First, it was organized chaos as was usual when the Weasleys were involved. Harry had asked – or begged – his guardians to let him and his friends have a sleepover the night before, and they had reluctantly agreed. They knew ...
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