Summer was the best time, for one it was a holiday, and two, Hermione didn't have to see all those that made her life at school a horrible existence. She knew it would be different this year, the year she was Head Girl in her seventh year. She had worked hard and this was her reward, nothing was going to spoil it.
Hermione lay in the sun on her deck chair; her parent's house in the muggle world was far nicer than their wizarding one. The muggle house was in the Azores, on the island of Santa Maria, of the coast of Portugal. Their wizarding house in England was a small manor in the English countryside but the Azores house was in the sun and the air smelt fruity and warm. In the chair next to her lay Ginny Wesley, Hermione's best female friend at Hogwarts. The girls lay in the warm sun discussing the coming year.
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A long distance from the sunny shores of the Azores, in a dark room in England, somebody dug and delved into Hermione's past and discovered a secret, a secret that they welcomed. A secret that would change everything and would mean that they could finally confront Hermione and tell her the truth. Tell her what they had always wanted to tell her right from her first year. This new information on the girl, the hard sought after and very expensive information had enabled them to be able finally breathe a sigh of relief. They would tell her this year, this coming term. Just as soon as school starts back……..
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The holidays drew to a close, the sunshine and warmth to become a happy memory for Hermione and Ginny as they packed to go back to the wizarding world, back to England. Away from the very good-looking Spanish and Portuguese boys that filled the Azores and flocked after the two girls. Now older, Hermione and Ginny both had womanly curves, Ginny perfectly straight hair and Hermione tame wavy hair. Gone were the awkward teenage years that haunted the two in the past. Both confident young woman, they stepped into the taxi with Hermione's parents, that would take them to the Airport, and their second home, Hogwarts.
Arriving at the train three days later, Hermione was accompanied by her parents to the train for the first time, it meant a lot to her. Ron and Ginny were there with their parents, and Harry with them also. Hermione hugged her parents goodbye and stepped onto the train with her Gryffindor friends for this, their final year. Waving to their parents, Hermione could feel this year would be a good one, she was a seventh year and Head Girl, and nothing could be better. Ginny, Harry and Ron found an empty compartment in the train, and were joined by Luna and Neville, much to Ron's pleasure. Harry and Ginny had started dating and he didn't like the thought of spending the whole train ride alone with them! Hermione carried on to the Heads compartment, and sat down on the seat, she had beaten the Head Boy to get there. A few minutes after the train had started Professor McGonagall joined Hermione in the compartment, sitting on the seat opposite her. Greeting Hermione, she had brought her news on the Head Boy situation.
"Miss Granger, as your aware we have no Head Boy in this compartment. The reason is not that he is late, rather that he has not been chosen. We have the unusual predicament of having two equally deserving candidates this year and both have reasons to not be chosen. Therefore we want to put to you an idea. What would you think if we made Head Boy a joint position between the two young men?" the professor concluded.
Hermione was in shock, who would equally deserve the role? Obviously it would bother her much, she wasn't sharing and it could have its advantages. On impulse Hermione agreed to the suggestion, and started going through the advantages, disadvantages and problems of the situation with the Professor. Professor McGonagall left after the discussion to consult Dumbledore on the result and to fetch the two unsuspecting Head Boys. One question in Hermione's mind hadn't been answered, who were the two new Head Boys?
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