An Undiscovered Love

Chapter 1: To the Burrow

"Hermione, dear! Wake up! The Weasley's will be here in an hour and a half to pick you up!"

"Okay Mom! I'm up!"

Hermione rolled over and looked at the clock. 'Ugh…9:30…I guess I better get up and finish packing and take a shower.' She pushed the covers off of herself and got out of bed. She walked into the bathroom across the hall and turned the water on to as hot as she could stand it.

Fifteen minutes later she walked back into her room wrapped only in a towel. She got dressed in a pair of semi-baggy jeans and a loose red t-shirt. She then proceeded to try and tame her waist length, frizzy hair. After giving up thinking it was hopeless, she went around her room collecting all of her school supplies and clothes that still needed to be packed into her trunk.

Once everything was packed neatly into her trunk, Hermione looked at the clock again. '10:50,' she thought, 'they'll be here soon. I can't wait to see Ginny, Harry, and Ron again!' She dragged her trunk down the steps and into the living room. There she found her mother and father sitting on the sofa, talking.

"Good morning, honey," her father said, "You all ready to go to the burrow for the rest of the summer?"

"Yeah dad. All packed up. I can't believe in 2 weeks I'll be starting my final year in Hogwarts!"

"Well, I'm sure you'll have a great time." Her mom said just as the flames in their fireplace turned green. A second later a tall man with bright red hair stepped out of the fireplace into the Granger's living room.

"Hey Mr. Weasley." Hermione said to the man.

"Why hello there Hermione! All ready," Mr. Weasley said. Then he turned to Mr. and Mrs. Granger, "Hello Anne. Richard." Then he turned back to Hermione. "We better get going. Everyone can't wait to see you again."

"Okay. Bye mom. Bye dad! I'll see you during Easter break and I'll owl you once I get to Hogwarts."

"Okay honey. Have a good time this year. We love you." Anne said while giving her only daughter a huge hug.

Hermione smiled and after giving both her parents a few more hugs each, grabbed a pinch of floo powder, stepped into the fire and shouted, "The Burrow!"

She stepped out into the cozy living room of the Weasley's house. Sitting around waiting for her to arrive were her 3 best friends in the whole world. Ron, Harry, and Ginny were all sitting on one couch. Also, Fred, George, and Mrs. Weasley were sitting around the room. When they saw her, Ginny, Harry, and Ron all jumped up and ran over to her.

"Hermione," Ginny shrieked. The two girls hugged and jumped around, Ginny screaming for joy. After they were done Hermione turned to Harry and Ron.

"Hey guys." She said while pulling them into a huge hug, while they gave replies.

"Hermione dear," Mrs. Weasley said, "You'll be staying with Ginny in her room if you two would like to go and bring your stuff up there before lunch."

"Okay Mrs. Weasley." Hermione and Ginny grabbed a hold of her trunk (Mr. Weasley had come with it after Hermione) and made it up the stairs to Ginny's room. They put her trunk at the end of one of the bed and sat down onto Ginny's bed.

"Wow Gin, you look great!" Hermione exclaimed. It was true too. Ginny was a gorgeous 16 year old. She had the curves that every girl her age dreamed of, light skin with light freckles spread out across her nose and cheeks. She had beautiful red hair to her waist with natural highlights, and bright baby blue eyes. Ginny smiled. Every one of her teeth were a bright white and perfectly straight. Hermione's parents, who were both dentists, would be proud.

"Thanks 'Mione. So…when do you think you and my brother will FINALLY get together," the younger girl questioned.

"What makes you think we will? It's not like he even notices me." Hermione replied sadly. She had had a crush on Ron since third year. Maybe even before. She only realized it in the third year when she noticed how much she missed him when they had all of those fights.

"Doesn't notice you? Girl, you're all he ever sees! Don't you ever see him staring at you at school? He's liked you since forever," Ginny squealed, "Besides why wouldn't he notice you? You have a terrific figure. All you need to do is dress it right and with a little help from me, every guy in the whole damn school will look at the two of us! So…what do ya say? Ready for a make over," Ginny asked, her eyes bright with hope.

Hermione thought about it. Why shouldn't she get one? She wanted to look great for her final year at Hogwarts. Maybe Ron would notice her finally… "Okay Gin, but lets just shop for clothes and everything else until the day before we leave? Then I can wow everyone the next day?"

"Okay! We can get everything you will need for your new look and then the day before we can go get your hair done! This is gonna be so much fun!"

"Well, we better go help your mom with dinner now." Hermione said. Her and Ginny got up and walked down stairs chatting. Hermione kept thinking all through dinner of what was going to happen and what she would look like. She wondered if Ron would like the new her when she's done…