Summary: Our favorite Head Boy and Girl head to sunny Southern California for a student exchange program. Will they kill each other before the year is through or will they manage to turn a lifelong rivalry into something more?
Story Notes: So this is your warning for this story. NOTHING IN THIS STORY IS CANON! Well some stuff is, but I pretty much threw canon down the garbage chute with this one and my evil way the characters. You have been warned. :D
Disclaimer:The characters and canon situations in the following story belong solely to JK Rowling. I am not making any money from the publishing or writing of this story.
Chapter One: Hermione's Letter
As Hermione Granger sat at the breakfast nook in her parent's house eating a bowl of cereal she heard a sharp rap at the window and her heart began to race. She jumped up and dashed to let the small sandy-brown owl through the window. Quickly she untied the envelope from its leg and gave it a tiny piece of meat before it flew off into the sky.
She almost shrieked with joy when she saw the Hogwarts seal on the back. Hermione had been waiting for this letter ever since she left school at the end of last year.
Suddenly she grew hesitant to open it. "What if it doesn't tell me what I want it to," she thought nervously. "It certainly feels much too thin to contain a Head Girl badge."
Cautiously, Hermione started to break the seal but stopped just before it cracked. She couldn't do this. Her stomach was doing flip-flops and cartwheels, she really felt like she was going to be ill.
"Oh good Gods, woman! You've faced Voldemort himself but you can't open a bloody envelope!" she berated herself out loud.
Gathering every ounce of her so-called Gryffindor courage she ripped open the letter and unfolded the parchment. She gasped and screamed when a shiny gold Head Girl badge slipped out into her hand.
Her parents came barreling into the kitchen upon hearing her scream to find their daughter doing an odd sort of dance.
"'Mione, what in the bloody hell are you doing!?" Michael Granger shouted at his daughter.
"What? Oh, you mean the screaming right?"
"Yes, but also the dancing thing, if you can call it that." He mumbled. He loved his little girl but sometimes she was just plain weird.
"Oh, well I just received some amazing news Daddy!" she paused for dramatic effect, "I just found out that I made Head Girl!"
"Oh Love that's great!" her mother Mackenzie gushed.
After doing another short victory dance and eating a celebratory bowl of ice cream with her parents. Hermione realized she hadn't actually read her Hogwarts letter yet.
Dear Ms. Hermione Granger,
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is pleased to welcome you back for you back for your seventh year. We are also extremely excited to offer you the position of Head Girl this year. We sincerely hope you'll accept the position as it comes with a few added perks this year. Attached to this letter you will find a list of required supplies and extra information about the new opportunities that await you this coming term.
Congratulations on making it to your seventh and final year at Hogwarts and making Head Girl; it is quite an accomplishment.
Sincerely,
Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall
"New opportunities" Hermione thought out loud, "I wonder what that means."
Eagerly, she flipped to the "extra information" and read:
Dear Ms. Granger,
As you've undoubtedly already read, the title of "Head Girl" comes with a few extra perks this year. This is a project I've wanted to try for a few years but was unable to because of the threat posed by Voldemort. However, now that the scaly bastard has been vanquished by you and your friends, I can finally commence with the project.
This year the Head Students will be given the choice participate in an exchange program of sorts. The first semester of your seventh year will be spent abroad in sunny Southern California at Washington High School for Witches and Wizards (Oh, those silly Yanks and their affinity for naming schools after their dead presidents). Anyhoo, you will spend the first semester there studying most of the same subjects as you would here with a few added courses. After the Christmas holidays you will return to Hogwarts with the two Head Students of Washington High so that they can complete their semester of the program.
I truly hope you will agree to take part in this once in a lifetime experience. I look forward to your arrival at Hogwarts two days prior to the start of the term so we can fill you in on the details of the program.
Wishing you all the best,
Headmaster Albus Dumbledore
Hermione just barely resisted the urge to let out another scream and settled for giggling like a mad woman instead.
"Mum! Dad!" she yelled while running at breakneck speed into the den. "You'll never believe this!"
"Good Lord, you're jumpy today 'Mione," Michael scolded her.
"Sorry, Dad it's just that I've just received some great news. It's even better than making Head Girl."
"Oh, no this I've got to hear," Mackenzie chuckled.
Hermione, being far too hyper to calmly explain the situation to her parents, just shoved the letter into her father's hands. Then, after what seemed like an eternity to Hermione, her parents finally looked up at her.
"Uh-oh," she mentally panicked. "That doesn't look good."
Author Notes: Dun Duh Dunn… hehehehe. So I have set up the story with this chapter. But we still don't know who the Head Boy is (I'll give you a hint though. He isn't a Gryffindor. Thank God!).
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