Hermione never liked to focus on her memories on what life had been like before Hogwarts. In truth, because Hogwarts was turning out to be much like her life before. No one liked her and everyone found her annoying. There only seemed to be one person that actually tolerated her, and that was Audrey Potter.

Not that Audrey was Hermione's friend. But at least she wasn't like Pansy or Millicent who never missed a chance to insult her, or Tracey who ignored her. Daphne ignored her too, but she often seemed to ignore all the girls to hang out with Theodore, so Hermione didn't take that as hard.

Audrey didn't really interact with any of the girls either, preferring to hang out with Ron.

Ron Weasley. He didn't really like her, but Hermione really wanted him to because she liked him. Not in that she had a crush on him and she wanted it returned, but because the Weasley's had been Gryffindor's for generations and he had given that all up to get Sorted into Slytherin to be with a friend he met on the train. The fact that he did that was proof that Ron Weasley was not all that he had appeared to be, and Hermione wished that he would realize that about her.

She wished they both would.

Shorter and not what I thought it would be, but I like it. This is the end of the Slytherin arc, but I'll get back to this eventually. :)