A/N: Hello again…thanks to the people who have been reading and reviewing, although I know most of you are still confused I am telling you now to just be patient and all the answers will be revealed soon. I don't want to tell you everything in the beginning because I myself have read plenty of fanfics, and I know that that takes away from a story. So please just be patient with me, and I promise that I will NOT disappoint you. Thanks, and don't forget to R&R!
Lost
Harry was fed up! He had bloody well had it! Couldn't he catch a damn break??
He had been in Snape's class, and as usual, had his iPod on. Harry had performed an illusory spell before hand so that it was invisible to others. Snape must have asked Harry a question several times because he hadn't heard him until he was standing right in front of him yelling "POTTER!" Harry had quickly taken his earphones out from his ears, which looked quite strange because no one else could see them, and Snape caught on.
"Well, Well, Well…think your cleaver do you Mr. Potter?" With the wave of his hand his iPod was now visible, and he had snatched it from Harry's hands before he could react.
"GIVE IT BACK!" He yelled jumping to his feet as if ready to pounce.
"How dare you have the nerve to come into my class, and deceivingly listen to this contraption! And then have the nerve to yell! Well now you won't be able to listen to it at all because I am keeping it until you change your self-righteous attitude! Detention, and thirty points from Gryffindor for your misconduct. Not too cleaver anymore are we, Mr. Potter?" Snape said snidely as he went to turn back around to walk away.
"I SAID GIVE IT BACKKKK!!!!" Harry yelled, as he tried to grab the iPod from Snape. Everyone in the class who had already had their eyes transfixed on the spat gasped.
"Mr. Potter. You would do well to remember where you are, and that I am your teacher! Ten more points from Gryffindor! Care to make it anymore?"
"FINE! DON'T GIVE IT BACK!" Harry went to grab his things off his desk, and just as he did he caught Hermione looking at him with utter coldness, and disappointment. He wanted to die. He turned to walk out the door, and Snape walked right in front of him before he could leave.
"And just where do you think your going? I suggest you sit yourself back down before you take more points from your house, and you have detention indefinitely."
"No. I'm going to Dumbledore, and you're going to give me back my iPod or I'll--
He was cut off when Hermione suddenly rose up from her chair, and gave him one of the coldest stares he had ever seen, but then again he'd seen a fair few lately.
"Oh Harry will you stop being an incessant prat, and just sit down before you cost us all the points we have worked so hard for!"
He was angry now… so angry in fact that he thought he might internally combust…he had heard of it happening before. He walked right in front of her, and looked her square in the eyes with a glare.
"Are you sure you don't mean all the points YOU worked so hard for Hermione? Because we all know what a know-it-all you are!" Hurt. He was sure he'd seen that look cross her face. And just when he was about to celebrate that he could actually still hurt her she went ahead and shot him…well, not literally, but that's what it felt like.
"You know what Harry!?…I think YOU'RE the know-it-all! You think the world owes you something because your 'The-Boy-That-Lived?' Well I guess it's your misfortune to know that the world doesn't owe you a thing! You are, quite frankly, the most selfish, self-righteous person I've ever met! Grow up already!"
He stood there, frozen, waiting for someone to shake him and wake him from his nightmare…but no one did. Harry was utterly shell-shocked. Had she just called him the same thing Snape had called him not two minutes ago? Had she actually agreed with him? Who was this girl? She had just embarrassed him in front of the entire class, and he was sure that he had turned twelve shades of scarlet. This couldn't be the Hermione he knew, could it? The one that he had been dying over for months!!! And suddenly he snapped.
How dare she yell at him, and take Snapes side! How dare she insult him, and tell him what he was, and wasn't! He had been slowly slipping away all because of her, and THIS is what he got? No bloody way! He was determined to make her feel just an ounce of what he felt.
And then he did.
In a calmer voice then before he said "You know...I don't know what I ever saw in you." When he did he saw her jaw drop slightly, parting her trembling lips. He saw her eyes were glistened with filling tears. And then he thought isn't that you wanted? To win? And then he had realized in that moment that he had lost. Lost it all. Lost her. There was no way back now because he had just, in so many unspoken words, ended whatever chance there might have been for him and her. He hung his head low in defeat, and walked out of the classroom. Not even hearing Snape yelling "Get back here Potter," after him, or Malfoy's "I knew you hated him! Ugh, that was bloody brilliant Mudblood!"
He was lost, never to be found again. If they asked about him in the future they would say Harry Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived, and completely lost it over a girl. He didn't know where to go, or what to do. He felt like yelling his brains out, or sobbing on the floor like a girl. Both seeming like pretty good options at the moment. He was a bloody idiot. He should have kept his damn mouth shut! But then again, she had started in on him first, right? But that look in her eyes, Jesus. He would have lynched himself right there if he could have. He had put that look there, and for that he wanted to cease to exist.
Just then his face bumped into something or someone. "Umph." He looked up to see that it was Minerva McGonagall.
"Oh Harry, do watch where your going," she said in her stern disciplinarian voice
"Sorry," he muttered looking at the ground. Seems he had a lot to apologize for lately. Suddenly he felt her hand on his shoulder, and he quickly looked up.
"Harry, can I have a word with you in my office?"
"Sure." And with that they both started the short walk down the hall.