Learning How To Smile
Disclaimer: Do I look like JKRowling?! HUH?! DO I?! No…I didn't think so!!! So don't come crying to me about stealing her characters…I just asked them over for tea and see what happened? Hehe…no, seriously. I don't own Harry Potter or anything related. The plot is all that I own…and who knows, maybe there is someone else out there with the same plot bunny as me…but I did it first!!! =P
A/n: Thanks to Catark who is my fabulous Beta. Also thanks to Darkstar and Amberlena for the fabulous reading. Sarahkitty also helped out with the prologue, so a huge thanks goes out to her. The disclaimer is that same for every chapter, so I am not going to put it in every chapter…tough turkey jerky!
Summary: Life is an interesting thing. A constant teacher. As for Hermione Granger, life has never stopped teaching to her. It has taught her through a war of good and evil, throughout grad school, and even throughout her job as a teacher herself. Now it is not only teaching her the pains of heart brake, but the process of loving once more.
Prologue
Once upon a time, I knew what love was. To know what it felt like to love someone so deeply that you could share each other's feelings…through the good and the bad. But then I learned what it was like to have that love taken away from you and thrown out the door.
I stopped knowing what love felt like and started knowing what it felt like to nurse a broken heart. I've relearned how hard it is to trust romantically and how easy it is to lose faith in people.
I certainly am the scholar…always learning. But I wish I would stop learning how the keep myself miserable and, instead, learn how to be happy. To learn how to be happy and move on…
I want to learn how to smile…really smile.