Changes

Changes
Written By:

Andrea Stacy

Rating: G
As Harry sits alone in the common room with a sleeping Hermione, he reflect upon the changes in his life, and the changes that are to come.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Harry Potter or any of its characters. I am simply
expressing my love for the books through this fiction. Please don't sue me.

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CHANGES

I sit in the common room watching the last embers of the fire die. She has fallen asleep on the large cushy sofa next to me. I look over at her. Hermione. She looks so peaceful. Like a sleeping angel. I want so badly to touch her, to feel her soft skin against mine, but I don't dare disturb her...

She sees me only as a friend, a bestfriend, but nothing more... I see her as so much more. She is my rock, my source of strength. She has helped me through so much. People don't give her the credit she truley deserves. Without her I would never have been able to completely the tasks from 4th year. Without her I don't know where I would be.

I think it was 5th year when things really changed for me. She was struck by a deatheaters curse, and as her body lay limp on the cold floor of the department of Mysteries, i thought she was dead. Thats when it happened. I realised what Hermione really is to me. Thats when I realised that I was inlove with my bestfriend. Hermione Granger. At that moment I would have given and done anything for her to be okay. To my great relief she was okay, just unconcious... But thats when things changed for me. I no longer tqake her for granted. I am very protective of her now.

Still to this day, two years later she is clueless to my feelings for her. Brave Harry Potter does not have the curage to tell a woman that he is in love. I don't want to ruin what we have now. i don't want her to feel different around me, that she can no longer confide in me. I don't want what we have no to change simply because I am in love with her. I don't want to lose the friendship that we share by complicating things.

I know, I know, I have been told several times by the few people who DO know of my feelings, that maybe she will return my love. Maybe it will all turn out okay, maybe even better... yes, maybe it will, but for now I am still afraid. Love is a very scary thing.

I don't know what the future will hol dfor me, or for Hermione, or us as a pair. What I do know is that I love her, and I will always be here for her.

Well there is one thing that I do know for certain. Whatever the future does hold for us, it brings changes. Changes for better, or maybe for worse, but changes. I just pray that it will all turn out okay.

The fire is out now, the common room is silent except for the smooth sounds of our breathing. I don't want to lose this moment of Hermione resting by my side. I don't want to wake her, only to have her leave to her room. The nights are so lonely for me. Tonight I don't want to be alone... I lay back on the sofa, and she moves to rest her head on my shoulder. I gently put my arms around her to keep her warm. I listen to the sound of our hearts beating together as I to drift off to sleep, hermione at my side...

END