Chapter 1: The Train ride
It was a bright spring day when my mum came to wake me up. It was the day I had to leave for school.
"Hermione, are you ready?" asked her mum as Hermione came down the stairs.
"Yes, I'm ready. I can't wait to see my friends again," said Hermione as she walked to the car.
Two hours later and we were finely at the train station. That's when I gave my parent's their hugs and told them that I would write to let them know how things were going.
"Hermione, have fun and don't get into trouble," said father.
"I won't get into any trouble. I love you both. Bye," said Hermione as she ran into platform 9 ¾ to get onto the train.
"Hermione over here," yelled Ron as she was putting her things on the train.
"Hey Ron, where's Harry?" asked Hermione.
"Oh, Harry is saving us a compartment," replied Ron as they both boarded the train.
Ron and Hermione were on the way to their compartment that Harry was saving for them, when they ran into the trolley selling snacks. Both grabbed a few things to tide them over for the ride. As they got closer to their compartment the voices of Harry and Ginny could be heard talking about how their summers went.
"Hey Harry. Hey Ginny, what's new with you guys?" asked Hermione as she sat down.
"Hey Hermione, how are you?" replied Ginny as she went to sit next to Hermione.
"I'm good, how about you?" Hermione replied back to the girl sitting next to her.
"I'm fine, How come you didn't come over at all this summer?" asked Ginny.
"I'm sorry Ginny. I just didn't feel up to coming over this summer. I just wanted to spend some time with my parents. That's all," said Hermione as she looked at the boys across from them.
"Oh well that's fine. There's always next summer right?" Ginny replied.
"Yes Ginny," said Hermione as she grabbed her book that she was reading, It had been three hours since they boarded the train.
"Now we've got two more hours before we get there," said Hermione which everyone got the hint to go put their school uniforms on.
"Hermione did you get your list of classes at all?" asked Harry.
"Yes, Harry I got my class list, why?" said Hermione as she looked at Harry.
"Well, I can't find mine," said Harry as he was looking around.
"Maybe you put it in your trunk when you were packing your school stuff?" said Ron.
"Ron, don't we have the same classes together?" asked Harry.
"We can just share the list," answered Ron.
"We're almost to school, I can see it over there," said Hermione as she was putting her book away.
"I wonder what we're having for dinner?" said Ron.
"Ronald, is food the only thing you ever worry about?" asked Hermione and waited for an answer but he just turned his head to look out the window since the train was coming to a stop.
"Well, should we head over to the carriages?" asked Harry.
"Yes, let's go," said Ron as he started walking.
"Ron, will you slow down so we can keep up with you?" asked Hermione exasperated with trying to keep up with the other boy. She finally made it to the carriage. When all of the returning students got to Hogwarts, they all went straight to their seats and waited for dinner to start.
"Hermione, how was your summer?" asked Harry as he was getting ready to sit down in his spot.
"It was really good I spent a lot of time with my parents," replied Hermione as she was sitting down.
"What did you all do?" asked Ginny.
"We went shopping, went to the fair that came to town and a bunch of other things. What about you?" Hermione responded.
"I rode my broom and sat around telling stories from the past. We also went to Diagon Alley to do our school shopping and that's about it," said Ginny.
"Hey, here come the teachers and the new students," said Ron as Snape stopped and looked at them.
"Well, well, look who's back. It's the golden trio," said Snape. When the trio went back to listening to the list of the new students being called off, Snape got the hint and walked up to his seat at the staff table.
Dumbledore came in front and began to speak.
"Welcome back to another fine year at Hogwarts. I would expect that each and every one of you would do your best in all of your classes." As he clapped his hands, he said "Let the feast begin."
An hour later Dumbledore stood up and told them that it was time to get to their houses and that classes would start tomorrow, goodnight to everyone. Hermione and the other Gryffindors made their way to Gryffindor Tower.
When they got to the portrait of the Fat Lady, who guarded the entrance, Hermione stood in front and said, "Fudge Drop." The portrait then swung open to let them in to their house.
"We are all going to bed. It has been a long day and we have classes tomorrow" Hermione said as she walked up the stairs to the girl's dormitory.