She knew that there was only one way to end the dread that had been growing ever since she had decided not to tell her friends the truth. Now, she had done the inevitable and it had never hurt so much to face her destiny and be the real Hermione Granger.

Do you understand how much it hurt to do the right thing and let him choose you? Can you even begin to comprehend how painful it was for me to watch him love you, to walk away and let him share with you the life I so desperately wanted. H/Hr eventually