Breaking Hermione

Coma White

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You were from a perfect world
A world that threw me away

-Coma White
Marilyn Manson

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HERMIONE P.O.V

Being in the past so far had been a complete and utter disaster. The anxiety, unrelenting, seemed to creep up on me at any opportunity and now it has reared its head again moments away from Slughorn's dinner party.

"Are you sure you don't want me to go with you?" Jade asked. "I'm sure old Slug wouldn't mind."

Shalini watched on apprehensively along with her sister as I began walking out of the Slytherin Common Room. I might as well have been walking out onto a battlefront for how scared they looked.

"I'll be fine..." I lied. I really had to pull myself together. "Seriously," I told them. "Don't worry."

"As long as you're sure." Jade smiled at me in a brave stab at reassurance. "We'll be right here if anything goes wrong."

It was really nice of her to wait with me and Shalini before I left. Shalini helped me get ready and Jade had come so we could talk about our thoughts on who had broken the protective enchantments on the Hospital Wing.

"It was Tom." I'd said instantly. "He looked like the speech Dippet made at dinner was just some joke. Did you see him? He was laughing."

"Yeah, but that's not proof." Jade had pointed out. "We can't just accuse someone of indirectly murdering someone because they were laughing. For all we know he might've just found the whole thing amusing."

"He did find it amusing. Because he knew he'd gotten away with it." I appealed to her. "You seriously can't be defending him. Who else do you know in the school who would do something as horrific as pulling down protective enchantments while Dementors are here?"

None of us mentioned anything about Tom after that. The more we talked about it, the more helpless we felt. If we were going throw accusations at Tom we did need evidence, and that wasn't something I wanted to think about before I had to go to dinner with him.

"See you guys later. I'll let you know how it goes." I said wearily. There was no point delaying the inevitable. It was time to leave.

As soon as I'd left the common room I'd pulled my hair out of its jewelled pins allowing my curls to fall just past my shoulders. It was too much. I didn't even feel remotely like myself, at least with my hair down I was slightly more covered too.

I took a minute to stand there and go over it all. No one was in the hall around me. I'd told them I'd be fine, not that I believed my own words, of course. Standing there alone I had a moment to stop and think about what was going to happen. I was Tom Riddle's date to Slughorn's dinner party which meant I had to endure his terrifyingly unnerving company for hours.

Even the thought was giving me searing anxiety. What was he going to think when he saw me in this slutty white dress that basically left my whole chest hanging out? Did I really need to do this - oversexualise myself to seduce my arch enemy?