Chapter One

A Harry Potter Fanfiction

The sun had long been up when Hermione was abruptly awakened by a tapping on the window. After a few moments of trying to figure out what was going on Hermione realized that the tapping was coming from an owl that was carrying a neat envelope that she assumed was letters from the Weasly's. Without any other considerations, the young woman pulled herself up from her bed and unlatched the window allowing the owl to flutter to a position on the desk giving Hermione its leg. Quickly she detached the envelope, placing a few treats in front of the owl. Hermione ripped into the "news." The first letter she opened was one from Ginny:

Dear Hermione,

I know you probably hear this enough, but I miss you. Other than mom, I'm the only female in the house. I know I should be used to it by now but I still wish I had you around. Hopefully you will be home soon though and maybe you will send us a letter sooner. I can only hope. But on a lighter note! Harry and I have finally finalized everything. He asked me to marry him! We are going to pick a date when we know you can make it. We don't want to have you miss out on anything. Also, I was wondering if you would be my Maid of Honor. Ron agreed to be Harry's best man. I'm so excited but I want you to be around so that you can help me make some plans! I should let you go though. The sooner you finish your business the sooner I get to see you!

Ginny

P.S. - Ron has been going insane with missing you. It's bloody annoying!

Though she was tickled with the news of the wedding, Hermione was a bit distressed about the last bit. If Ron missed her so much, why had he stopped writing her? She knew it was horrid to question his inability to write, considering she had never once responded to any of their letters, but Ron was the person she missed the most. He had stopped writing seven letters ago and the last one that she had gotten from him wasn't exactly the sweetest one she had ever read. She couldn't blame him though because the last time they had seen each other had lead to the creation of the growing life within her own stomach. Of course no one knew about the new child yet and no one would until she arrived home (her stomach bulging more and more with each day.) There was no telling how the news would go over since she and Ron hadn't ever confirmed with anybody that the two of them were even in a relationship and it didn't help that they weren't married either.

Hermione sighed and moved on to the next letter, which was written by Molly:

Our Dear Hermione,



Each day passes and we only wish to see you more. We know that soon you will show up back home but we can do nothing but worry about you being gone for so long on your own without any contact home. Everyday Arthur asks if he can send the ministry to go and find you but Ron claims that he knows that you are safe. Have you talked to him? He doesn't send letters with ours any more seeing as he seemed to have become too angry to consider even trying to keep up any more. We worry that he's getting depressed about not seeing you in so long but he's trying to appear normal. On a lighter note though, Harry and Ginny announced their engagement the other night! They are so excited but neither of them wants to make plans without you there. Please hurry home sweet, we miss you dearly.

Molly and Arthur

Hermione tried to keep her cool when she noticed that there were only two letters, which meant that Harry didn't write. She didn't like that and anger rushed through her. It only took a couple of moments before she blamed his actions on herself. Honestly, she couldn't get angry with the fact that both Ron and Harry opted not to write as she never wrote them. Hermione had disappeared on them, claiming that she would only be gone for a couple of weeks as she was going to try and reverse the magic that she had used on her parents in order to have them back into her life but when she arrived they had moved from the home that she had made for them. After a lot of research though, Hermione was able to find her parents but was shocked to find that they had brought another life into the world during her absence. They didn't know they had ever had a child by the name of Hermione thanks to the magic done on them but Hermione wasn't expecting to have a younger sibling the next time that she saw her parents. After the shock Hermione had literally lost herself. She was staying at an abandoned house where she only took the mail from the Weasly's owl and snuck food into the house during the late hours of the night. She was in the process of "trying to find herself." Hermione had done the opposite.

Without another moment's hesitation, Hermione jumped up and began to pack her bags, finally ready to go home. Home back to the family that she had had for her entire career at Hogwarts and home back to the love of her life.

It didn't take long for Hermione to pack up her things and was starting to shrink them in order to fit everything in her small hand bag. She was on the verge of finishing when she remembered that she had no floo powder left, making it impossible for her to use the floo network and that she had also never been much of a person for disapperating. After stopping her actions for a few minutes to consider all of the possible options, Hermione decided that the latter of the two ideas was what she was going to have to go with and with that she finished what she was doing gripped her wand and prepared for the stomach-renching journey.

A/N – Ok…I suck at life. I began this story and then almost considered taking it down and not finishing then I decided that I would finish it and then I never did finish so I went back to see where I had left off 

at and decided that I wanted to restart. So here I am…restarting and hopefully things will go better this time seeing as I also have to summer to work on it!

Disclaimer – I don't own Harry Potter!!