Being Better

When Draco had chosen to lie, he had given her hope in that moment beyond the fact that they could win the war after all; he gave her back the hope that there was still good in people if you looked hard enough for it.

 

Post-war, Hermione receives a summons to speak at Draco Malfoy's trial. Her candor on the stand delivers him his freedom. But she doesn't expect a tentative friendship to strike up as a result, and she certainly doesn't expect to find herself falling for the boy she hated for years.