"Sweety, did you hide my bag?" Kiera asked her pet snow owl. "Well hmph. where in the world could it be!" Kiera stumbled around the room, her curly brown hair beginning to fly in her face. she picked up the phone and dialed the number she knew all too well.

"hi daddy! its me, is hermione there?...okay...hey hermione, i'm trying to pack and i can't figure out where i left my bag. it has all my money and everything in it. have you seen it?...oh really?..thanks, okay so you'll just bring it tomorrow when we leave? okay good. tell dad love. bye bye

"whew," she let out a breath of relief, and finished her packing.

Kiera was new to this whole hogwarts thing, it would be her first year. she was a pureblood and her parents were divorced. her dad had married hermione's mother about a year and a half ago, so she was going to school with hermione at hogwarts. she was exstatic to get to go to school, especially where she could learn more about witchcraft.

"Kiera! it's time for dinner, we're having your favorite, and i've got a surprise for you!" her mother yelled up the stairs.

"Did you hear that? i get a surprise, and we're having my favorite, beef strogonauff. yummy!" she exclaimed to sweety.

she ran down the stairs and haulted to a stop right before she hit the dining room as to enter the room gracefully and maturally.

"smells delicious mom!" she sniffed the air rappidly as it was her last day to have a sense of smell. "So whats my surprise?" she asked curious as she set the table.

"Nice try but lets eat first, then you'll get your surprise." her mother carried in the main dish and they all sat down to dinner.

Her mother, like her father, had gotten remarried a few years back. she had married a lawyer, Howard Daly, he didn't have any kids so him and her mother had tried for a kid and now she was pregnant.

after they had finished eating and cleared the table, her mother came out carrying a cake. it was huge! with pink and green frosting, and homemade!

"good luck at school honey." her mother had tears in her eyes. "oh, and your surprise! hun, would you please go get key's present?"

Her step-dad came into the room carrying the most beautiful robe and the biggest box she thought she'd ever seen!

"Wow..." she was speechless. she opened the box and inside was a huge brand-new trunk with a lock and everything. she opened it slowly, as to add more drama to the moment, inside was a broom, it looked like it was homemade.

"Oh mom!" she exclaimed clinging to her neck, "its all so beautiful! thank you howard" she still wasn't comfortable calling him dad.

"well the robe was once mine and the trunk we bought at the store a few days ago. and howard made the broom. isn't it lovely?" her mother looked so helpless her petite body and a huge belly harboring a child. Kiera couldn't help but giggle.

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"Are you all packed hermione?" her mother called up the stairs.

"yes mom! i'll be down in a bit." she echoed.

she picked up the phone, dialed ron's number, knowing that harry was a lost cause.

"hello, is ron at home? this is hermione...yes. Ron? hey, are you all packed?..thats good...yes well have you talked to harry lately?...oh i see...i hope he's all right."

"Oh, don't worry about it. im sure he's fine. anyways, how is Kiera doing? is she excited..." Ron mumbled through the phone

"She's uhh, fine...ronald wesley are you eating?"

"umm, no! well i have to go almost time for bed here." ron almost choked on his dinner

"oh yea i forgot! okay well i will see you tomorrow. good bye." hermione put down the reciever slowly, hoping that she would not be so nervous after dinner. she didn't know why she was so nervous this was her third year at hogwarts. maybe it was the fact that her step sister was in her first year and might be somewhat embarrassing.

hermione made her way down the stairs, trudging but trying to stand tall. she took a deep breath and made her way into the kitchen.