*mature rating because of language* * TRIGGER WARNING * This is the rewrite of Learning How To Laugh Again. I feel confined within these walls that are depression, these walls that are glass, these walls that are closing in. Everyone peers in, unsure of how to act, so they just watch. They watch me get crushed between these walls. All except one.

Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger have always despised each other. Forced to share a common room, they have to learn to tolerate one another. Returning to finish their final year at Hogwarts, they face the very troubles they thought they had escaped. 'He ran as fast as he could through the forbidden forest. He had to know, he had to see for himself what he could never have believed to be true. He slowed as he grew nearer and crept quietly through the trees, careful not to make a sound. It was then that he saw her. Someone he had believed to be dead.'