Finding Salvation
"Hermione, love, time to go!"
Hermione rushed down the stairs ecstatic because today she finally moved up a level in her church's Sunday school. At the elementary level, the kids got to delve deeper into different Bible stories instead of just focusing on a verse or two throughout a whole month.
Mr. and Mrs. Granger had both been raised in Christian homes and were proud to be raising their only daughter to love and cherish the same values.
Taking her mum's hand, the little girl all but tugged her mother out the door.
Many a Sunday in the Granger household followed a pattern similar to that one. Waking up early, having a quick breakfast, getting dressed, and Hermione pulling either one or both of her parents by a hand and out the door. Every Sunday was filled with love and happiness and an eager child.
One Sunday did not follow their normal routine at all. One Sunday changed everything.
As the family was having breakfast, the doorbell had rang. A professor from a boarding school introduced herself.
As a witch.
She then proceeded to tell almost eleven year old Hermione that she was also a witch.
"But witches are bad; magic isn't good, it's a sin! I don't want to be a witch!"
Minerva McGonagall had no idea what to do in such a situation. As mother and father comforted their crying daughter, the woman who turned their lives upside down explained that the unusual and off actions Hermione sometimes caused were accidental magic. Because she was young, her emotions led her magic; that's what Hogwarts was for: to teach and train children control.
"Miss Granger, dear, do not think of your magic as a sin. Think of all the good you could one day do in the world by using magic. Power is neither good nor evil, but intentions are. If you intend good, that is not sin is it?"
Hermione was stumped. She didn't think trying to do good magic would be sinful, but then what if God thought all magic was bad? She looked up questioningly at her father.
Her parents were just as upset as Hermione. How could she be a witch? No one in either of their families had ever been magical.
The professor answered all of their questions , and, by the end of the unexpected and life altering meeting, the Grangers had accepted that God had given their daughter a beautiful gift. Even the older witch could see that one day the little girl would chamge- and save- many lives.