"Why are you and him," Harry jerked his thumb towards Snape, "On first name terms?"

"Well, that wasn't the first question I was expecting, but oh well, Severus and I are on first name terms as we consider ourselves friends and equals." Harry took a seat and nodded slowly.

"Ok, now lets get down to business." His voice turned cold and serious. "You are Hermione, are you not?"

"I am, though Granger is not my last name." She replied,

"And you're an elf; as in house elf, elf?" Harry questioned, in the background Severus snorted.

"No, I am Elven, there's a difference."

"Oh." Harry sat and looked thoughtful for a while, whilst Hermione studied the boy that she'd made her best friend.

"How old are you?" he asked quietly,

"Twenty five, Harry, I'm sorry that I couldn't tell you. Please don't let this be the end of our friendship." The pain in her voice was mirrored in her eyes, she lowered her head, waiting for the explosion that she knew would come.

"How could you. You pretend to be young, alone, in a world that you don't feel you belong in. you used all of this when trying to become my friend, someone I trusted." Harry jumped up and began to pace.

"I trusted you, but all of what you told me were lies. How can I keep a friendship that was built on lies, how will I know that you even are capable of speaking the truth?" he raged on, his words becoming louder and louder. Hermione sat in her chair, taking it all in, waiting, where as Severus stalked slowly towards Harry as if he were stalking prey.

"you're nothing more than a lying bitch! You just wanted the glory of killing Voldemort didn't you? You may have power, but you have no heart." Harry screamed thumping his fists on a reading table just in front of where Hermione sat.

"Potter, you have no right," Severus began, Hermione raised and placed her hand upon the tall dark mans shoulder.

"Let it be Severus, he needs to let it out before I can show him." Hermione's voice was barely above a whisper, and yet it echoed around the empty library as if it had been shouted.

"Show me what? You have nothing of interest to me, I don't even know you." Harry spat.

"Harry, please, listen to me. I have had to twist the truth in order to keep a promise I made to my mother on your mothers behalf. You must understand that I've done this as it needed to be done. I hated to lie to you, at first I thought of it only as fulfilling my job, but over time you became a close friend, someone who I cared deeply for, I hated to lie to you. No one could know, nobody did know. I was alone; playing a child who was alone and frightened, there wasn't a lot of difference in the way I felt and the emotions I had to show. I am in the wrong place Harry, I don't belong here, I belong with my people."

"Then go back to your people oh mighty one, and don't talk about my mother as if you knew her." Harry said fiercely.

"I knew your mother Harry, she was a lovely woman, friends with my mother. She was an intelligent lady and a talented witch. Her life was robbed of her as she saved you. My mother and your mother died protecting you Harry. We have more in common than you may like to think we do, especially now. Just know that all the pain you've gone through for not having parents, I know exactly how you feel. Except I saw my mother die, I had to bury her. Bury my own mother." Hermione began to glow, her eyes shone with a fearsome blue light; a light wind began to whistle around the library; Harry took a step backwards and tripped over a table, landing on his backside watching as the woman who was once his best friend began to rise off of the floor.

"Hermione?" Severus asked carefully "Hermione, calm down."

"Harry Potter, I will not have you doubting me, not after all I have done for you. You can either accept that I am not who you thought I was, or you can forget me all together, either way I am to leave the castle soon. My work here is done and I have reason to believe I am not wanted." Hermione's voice was full of power, her eyes still shining blue she looked straight at Harry; later he would wonder if she had been staring into his soul.

AN: Harry may seem OOC here, but it will all be explained... please review!!