Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to the brilliant mind of J.K Rowling. I'm just messing with her characters for my own amusement, and yours too.
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Hogwart's Train
Summer had once again descended upon Hogwarts and the students were happily making their way to the train and back to King's Cross. For Harry, Ron, and Hermione things couldn't be better. Voldemort was finally gone and they could relax a little better.
Of course some Deatheaters were still about so they had to be careful. They were to spend the summer at Grimauld Place with Sirius, Remus, and the rest of the Weasleys.
Hermione sat staring out the window of the train watching the fields and trees pass them by. She was so lost in thought that she didn't notice Harry and Ron trying to get her attention. "HERMIONE!" startled out of her reverie she blinked and turned to her boys. "Sorry, I was lost in thought" she couldn't help but feel slightly embarrassed.
Harry smiled at her, knowing that whatever she was thinking about must be extremely important. "What were you thinking about?" he couldn't help but ask. Hermione smiled back before replying. "I was thinking about my cousin" "What cousin?" Ron jumped into the conversation.
"My cousin Haileigh. She lives in America and she's three years older than I am." She paused for a moment before continuing. "When we were younger I used to see her all the time, but now it's only the occasional letter or telephone call" "Why don't you go and visit her?"
' Why didn't she go? Oh that's right, because Haileigh was way too busy spend time with a silly bookworm.' Hermione sighed heavily and when she did they knew something was wrong.
Harry decided to ask since he knew that Ron wouldn't have the guts to do so "What's wrong?" "I can't go visit her because she's always so busy. She does have a life."
Harry nodded and waited for her to continue "My parents sent me a letter saying that I have a huge surprise waiting for me sometime this summer. I hate surprises"
"So does that mean you're going home instead of Grimauld Place with us?" "No I'm not going home. I guess this surprise is something that as soon as I see it I'll know" Harry and Ron glanced at each other not completely understanding, but seeing her look so irritated they decided not to push the subject.
The rest of the trip passed by with a blur and soon they were meeting Sirius and Remus and on their way home.
GRIMMAULD PLACE
The first week of summer passed quickly for Hermione, and she couldn't help but notice the funny looks she was getting from everyone. She was tired of it and decided to shut herself in the library to get away for awhile.
She was alone for a grand total of fifteen minutes before Sirius and Remus walked in. Remus was the first to speak. "Are you alright Hermione?" she cast an irritated glance in their direction before answering.
"Harry and Ron told you didn't they?" they both just shrugged a little and waited for her to answer the question.
"I'm fine, just slightly irritated" Sirius raised an eyebrow "slightly?" she glared at him for a moment "Maybe you need to get outside and go somewhere. Remus and I were going to Diagon Alley, would you like to come with us?"
Hermione thought for a moment then quickly nodded "just let me grab my stuff and I'll meet you at the door."
With that Hermione raced from the room, grabbed her things and was off to Diagon Alley with both men.
DIAGON ALLEY
As soon as they arrived they went their separate ways promising to meet at Flourish and Blotts, to the annoyance of Sirius. Hermione wandered through Diagon feeling a little better than she had all week. She was still not looking forward to her so called "surprise" as her parents so nicely put it.
She didn't even know where to look. She checked her watch noticing it was time to meet Sirius and Remus, so she took off in that direction. Since she was early she browsed the shelves hoping to find something new she could pick up for some light reading. Unfortunately she didn't notice someone creeping up behind her until it was too late. "BOO" Hermione nearly jumped out of her skin, but when noticing it was just Sirius she turned to smack him "Prat!" He couldn't help but chuckle at her reaction
"Sorry love, couldn't help myself" "uh-huh, sure you couldn't" she gave him a glare before continuing "Where's Remus?" "I don't know" suddenly his attention was taken elsewhere.
Following where his eyesight had gone, she saw him staring at a woman 'of course he is' Hermione couldn't help but shake her head and smile slightly. Something about this woman seemed extremely familiar to her but she couldn't quite place her finger on it.
"Sirius, you in there?" she called waving her hand in front of his face. He blinked then looked at Hermione "Sorry, um you ah ready to go" "Yea, I just have to go pay for these and we can go" he nodded and followed her up to the front of the store.
The woman who had caught Sirius's attention was working here at Flourish and Blotts. 'Great now he's not going to stop drooling' Hermione placed her books on the counter.
As she got a better glimpse of this woman Hermione knew she knew her. The woman was around 5'5, blue-black hair that fell straight down to her shoulders with bangs that went off to the right side of her face.
She had pretty sapphire blue eyes that were rimmed with black eyeliner and hidden behind rectangular shaped glasses. What was really strange was that she was wearing muggle clothes.
A pair of faded blue skinny jeans, bright green Converse, a Three Days Grace t-shirt and around her neck was a sapphire crescent moon on a leather cord.
Hermione let out a sudden gasp, Sirius turned to look at her with concern and the woman had a smile on her face. "I don't believe it" "Hermione, you okay?" Sirius was now slightly worried. 'Did she know this woman?'
He turned to look at the woman and was surprised to see her smiling at Hermione. "You were my surprise?" disbelief could be heard in her voice.
The woman crossed her arms and gave a little huff of annoyance, but you could still see barely suppressed amusement in her eyes.
"Wow princess, if I knew that was the reaction I was gonna get I would've just stayed home" Hermione gaped for a moment before she spoke. "You know Comet, you never cease to amaze me"
FT: Well I know it starts off kinda boring and slow, but it will get loads better later on
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