Dear Miss Granger,
We would like to offer you the position of Head Girl for the coming year. We hope that you will take on the honourable position at Hogwarts. Head Girl-ship is an honour given only to one male and one female student who have proved they are worthy of the title. We look forward to seeing you in September. Heads meeting will be held in the Hogwarts Express.
Yours truly,
Professor M. McGonagall.
Hermione re-read the letter again and again. Then she took the shiny silver badge that had the words 'head girl' on it out of the envelope it had been sent to her in. it was only the 10th time she had done this since the post had arrived this morning. She had been so excited that she had rushed out the house and walked into muggle London so that she could get to Diagon Alley and buy her new books and things. Hermione smiled to herself, she had done what she had always wanted to do. She had proven to herself and everyone else that she, a so-called mudblood, could reach the highest position possible. She was happier than she had been in a long time, she was walking along a small alleyway that would lead her to the leaky cauldron and then everything went black.