Chapter 1
Hermione Granger awoke to a loud owl screech. Outside her open screened window was a white snowy owl, Hedwig, waiting eagerly for the window to be open. It was eight thirty in the morning, on June eighteenth. She wasn't expecting Harry Potter to be contacting her this early in the morning.
She opened her window and Hedwig flew in. Hermione untied the letter attached to Hedwig's foot, and read it aloud.
"Dear Mione, I'm sending Hedwig from the burrow, I'm here with Ron and Ginny. The other Weaslys wont be back for a few days, and agreed that it was fine to have you stay over the few nights there gone. The fires open, so come when your dressed and packed, Harry."
"Well, I really don't see why not." Hermione said to Crookshanks, and with a flick of her wand all her things were packed. She got dressed, and made sure the doors of her new house, the graduating Hogwarts present given to her by her parents, was locked.
She then walked into the fireplace with Crookshanks in her arms. She grabbed a handful of the green Floo Powder and said loudly and clearly, "The burrow!"