Disclaimer: i dont own any of these characters, J.K. Rowling does.


Hermione Granger

Chapter 1: Good Morning

For Hermione Granger nothing was better than to awake and realize that today was the day that she would be boarding the Hogwarts Express and go back to Hogwarts. Nothing could have ruined her day. All her hard work the last six years paid her off with the reward of being Head Girl along with other privileges and duties that she would have knowledge of when she arrived at Hogwarts.

Hermione turned her head, the clock read 6:00 a.m. Time for her to head to the shower. She jumped up from bed and headed to the bathroom across the hall. Her parents were up now. She could hear their soft voices come from their room as she walked by. Hermione looked at herself in the mirror. Her appearance changed over the summer. No longer frizzy hair, her long curly brown hair replaced it. She had developed a small waist. Her lips became rosier and fuller, her eye brows became more defined. She got into the shower and let the warm water run down her body to awake and prepare her for the long day.

What to wear? During the summer she went shopping with Ginny to a muggle store and one in Diagon Alley. The white tank-top caught her eye. She put on the shirt and slipped on the jean skirt and some white vans. There don. Now the hair and face. She went to the mirror. She put her hair in a messy ponytail with her bangs hanging loose. Carefully she applied mascara, the way Ginny had taught her. Now she was done. Ginny thought the black mascara brought her liquid honey eyes. It was true, her eyes stood out.

Hermione had already packed her belongings in her trunk the night before. Everything from her clothes to her tooth brush were already packed away neatly in her trunk. Her parents gave her an owl for a congratulations present. She named it Clumsy. This was the perfect name for her. It flew into the window when coming back form hunting and it made a mess when eating treats. Not to mention it was a little slow. The thing that made Hermione love it was that it always made her feel needed and important, not that she needed to feel that way when Crookshanks was around.

Mmhm. The smell of home made blueberry muffins caught her attention and suddenly she was starving. Blueberry muffins are her favorite. Racing down stairs, she tripped over a step and fell down on her face!

"Are you okay honey?" her mother's voice come from the kitchen.

"Yeah mom, nothing to worry about" Hermione said getting up.

She walked over to the kitchen table. Her mom had served her two blueberry muffins along with pancakes that already had syrup poured over them, along with a cup of milk.

"Thanks mom!" Hermione said.

She didn't say anything else. Her mouth was already watering. Her hand picked up a muffin and Hermione bit, closing her eyes as she did, and chewed slowly. Savoring the taste of the warm soft buttery muffin. When she opened her eyes, her dad was looking at her.

"Good morning. So happy to see you grow up" he said.

"Oh dad we had this talk last week!" Hermione said annoyed. It was true, her dad started this long talk exactly like this, he told her about how he missed it when she was a little girl. This was not the time to have a conversation. She was already done eating, down to the last drop of milk. It was already 7:50. She had to leave at 8:00 to get to the train early to find an empty compartment and meet the Head boy. She had 10 minutes to brush her teeth and get all her things in the trunk.

"Dad we're going to be late!" Hermione said. She sprinted up stairs, brushed her teeth quick and carefully. Grabbing Clumsy's cage and her trunk, she ran down stairs and put them in back seat of the. Her dad wasn't in yet. She would have driven there herself, but her father insisted to drive her for the last time.

Inside the house her mother was crying.

"Mom what's wrong? Is everything alright?" Hermione said.

"Oh sweetie I love you so much! I'm so proud of you!" her mother waled out and reached for her. Her mother gave her a big tight hug.

"Karen let her go. If you hold on any longer you won't see her graduate" her father said separating them.

"Mom I love you too, I wish I could stay longer but I have to leave now" Hermione said, kissing her mother good bye.

On the ride to the train she was so nervous. All she could think about was if Harry and Ron like the new look, and what if she did something wrong and she would be expelled? I need fresh air. She reached out to put the window down and realized her hands were sweating. She was over reacting. Think positive thoughts. She was having her won dormitory, well almost. Um I'll get to see Ginny, Harry, and Ron. Her dad notice the tension on he face because he said "Hermione, are you feeling okay?"

He pulled her from her thoughts.

"Uh, yeah I'm fine, just nervous. No big deal" Hermione said.

"There's nothing to be nervous about, your finishing school. You should feel relaxed that you made it this far" her father said smiling.

He was right. But she had a feeling lots of things were going to change. Or would it?