Chapter one

"Things were so much easier when she was a child Harold." Said a woman with a tired voice.

"I know Suzanne; there was none of this running letters home from her school saying she and her friends were in more trouble." The lady sighed and after a moment continued.

"Though she had gotten the highest score on her final exams didn't she?"

"And you think that will ever make up for the scare she gave us in her second year?"

"Nothing will ever make it better, I know this. We should go to bed, I would hate for her to come down here and hear this. She would be devastated."

They stood up and walked towards the door where Hermione Granger was standing. She jumped up and rushed out, she didn't want to explain why she had been eavesdropping. She ran to her room and sat on her bed astonished and hurt at her parent's words.

She had been sitting there for several minutes crying when she suddenly jumped up muttering to herself.

"Younger? How much younger? When did they start hating the fact that I was getting older?" She dumped her book bag out on the ground and sifted through several of the extra books she bought for "summer reading". She grabbed one with a purple cover and sifted through it, she stopped looking at the page she wanted.

Aging Potion

She ran her finger down the list of ingredients and nodded at each one she currently had. This was amazed that a potion like this was so simple, there was nothing to it.

"Wow, Ron could have made this." She stopped realizing that he most likely couldn't have.

Hermione began making the potion. An hour later she had thrown in one of the last ingredients and watched as it turned a light pink. She re-read the instructions and saw that the aging wouldn't come to affect for fifteen minutes. She gathered some in a small vial she had pulled from her book bag and walked outside, she didn't want to wake her parents if something went wrong.

She walked outside and down the street. She could feel that rain dropping on her head and groaned. Uncapping the vial she looked into it, yanked out one of her hairs and dropped it into the pink potion. It sizzled and turned a yellow before she gulped it down. She closed her eyes waiting for the changes but nothing happened.

Long after fifteen minutes later nothing hadn't happened until a sopping wet white cat came darting out of a darkened yard. Her eyes and widened.

"KITTY!"