Living on hope and nothing else was no way to live. Hermione wished she could return to the hopeful young girl who believed that good would always prevail. She had been that girl once upon a time. An adolescence marked with tragedy and violence began to strip away that idealism. The events that transpired after her best friend was brutally murdered in front of her eyes removed the rest. She had seen the ugliness that human nature had to offer and it had not flinched in her judgement.