Chapter 1 of Lovely
By ZebraBow
Authors Note: I really don't know where this story is heading, so I think that I can figure it out while I am writing this… Good idea, no?
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.
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Hermione Weasley had to smile. She was in her most favorite section in the Wizarding Library of Brighton Alley. She loved the feeling of being around books. Ever since she was a little girl, the smell of new and old books alike made her smile.
She tried to bend down and pick up a book which was in the utter last row. Such a thing could have been possible, if she wasn't six months pregnant.
"Ron Weasley, I hope you bloody choke on what you are stuffing your face with right now." Hermione cursed.
Strangers walking by the section could hear mutterings of "he had to be bloody spontaneous" and "forgetting the bloody charm".
Almost there. She told herself. Just a little bit more.
Hermione heard a creak and stood up. Ow, my back. She whined to herself as she looked around. Of course, there was no else in that whole entire row. "What," she said out loud, "am I still the only person who enjoys reading Gilderoy Lockhart?"
As soon as she said this, a little girl ran into the section and started furiously looking through the books. Hermione watched with a smile on her lips as she saw the blur of red moving quickly through the entire section.
Hermione coughed. Either the child wasn't aware of her presence or she was just ignoring Hermione.
She coughed again and the little girl still hadn't turned around.
"Excuse me," Hermione said, "but can you help me get that red book over here?"
The child turned around and Hermione inspected her. She was probably five or six.
"My mommy said that I wasn't supposed to talk to strangers." The child said as she turned back around.
Hermione stood there dumbfounded. "Well, my name is Hermione Weasley. What's yours?"
"Lilly Tanner." The child replied almost automatically.
"Well, Lilly. I guess that we aren't strangers anymore." Hermione said nonchalantly.
Lilly slowly turned around. "Um, all right. But you can't tell my brother that I have been talking to you. Deal?"
"Deal." Hermione confirmed. This time she got a good look at the child. A mob of red wavy hair that was cut a little shorter than up to her shoulders adorned her face. But the thing that caught Hermione's eyes wasn't the hair or the red freckles that lay across the nose. It was the eyes. Big chocolate brown eyes that held vast amounts of innocence. Just like Ginny's Hermione's heart panged as she thought of her friend whom no one had seen for years. In fact, this child looks like a mini Weasley. She could be mistaken for one.
She gasped as she looked at the clothes the child was wearing. It was a school uniform. And not just any school uniform, a muggle one. Maybe she was muggleborn? However, Hermione knew this particular school. La Petite was a school that the children of the cream of the crop in the muggle world attended to. It was extremely hard to get into and you would probably have to be on the waiting list since birth to get in.
Hermione racked her brain. What did Lilly say her last name was? Oh yes, Tanner. I don't think there were any Wizarding families with the name Tanner.
"Which book is it?" Lilly asked once again.
"Huh," Hermione said. "Oh yes, this one." She pointed to a red book with gold bindings.
Lilly bend down and picked up the book with ease. "Here you go!" She said with a sweet smile.
"Sorry that I was spacing off like that."
"Erm, it's ok." Lilly said. "My mommy looks like that when she is thinking of my daddy."
Hermione chuckled at this. "Thank you." She started to turn around to leave but then stopped. Hermione's curiosity was sparked by this child. She was both well mannered at times, and intelligent. "Does your daddy work at the ministry of magic?"
Lilly's eyes turned gloomy. "My daddy died in the war."
"Oh, I am so sorry." Hermione said as she apologized.
"It's ok. My mommy says that daddy was a hero." Lilly said with a huge smile. "Excuse me, Mrs. Weasley. But do you have the time?"
"Yes," Hermione said as she looked at her wrist watch. "It's a half past two."
"Oh my goodness, I am so late." And with that Lilly Tanner picked up her two books and with a "It was nice meeting you Mrs. Weasley." And ran out.
Hermione watched as the little girl excited the library.
She picked up her book and apparated home.
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Authors Note: Like it or hate it?