Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, or anything related to the books. I just like writing about them :)
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Hermione sat at her desk reviewing work for the upcoming year. The warm August sun beat in through her window making the old room seem peaceful and serene. She loved the summer because she could leave her window open, feel the warmth of the sun, smell the fresh air, and hear the birds singing their lovely songs. It made it very hard for Hermione to keep her attention on her studies. She would have sat for hours daydreaming if it hadn't been for the owl flying through the window.
Her summer had been consumed by random visits by two unfamiliar owls bringing her short letters from an almost completely anonymous friend. Hermione was always intrigued by the mysterious letters and even came to look forward to the visits from her new owl friends. The first owl was a beautiful snow owl who wore a black velvet ribbon around her neck with a charm made of white gold on it. The charm had the name "Artemis" engraved in the gold. Hermione always admired this owl. She was so beautiful and had sort of an air of mystery about her. The second owl, who was the owl delivering today's letter, was darker in color and wore a pale green velvet ribbon with the same white gold charm. Only this owls charm had the name "Charlemagne" engraved into the gold. Hermione had begun to favor Artemis over Charlemagne. He seemed rougher and more dangerous, but most of all, his collar reminded her of Slytherin.
Each time a letter was delivered; Hermione would fall into a certain routine for reading it. First she would hand the messenger an owl treat that she kept for her messages from Harry and Ron. Then she would carefully take the letter from the bird and examine it.
The letters were always short, one or two lines long. Always addressed to Hermione which made her sure they weren't delivered to the wrong place, and always signed with a single letter, D.
Today's letter was somewhat of an invitation, it read:
Hermione,
Since another year at Hogwarts will be beginning shortly I would like to meet with you. We never seemed to find ways to make this work in the past, but I would like very much if we could this year. Please don't let me down another year.
D.
Hermione read this letter carefully. Not only was this the first summer she had been receiving letters from her anonymous friend, but she always kept her plans to meet with someone. So if this person had tried to meet with her in the past she almost certainly would have met with them.
Next on her routine for these letters was to reply. She was always just as polite as the sender was with his but each of her letters ended with the same thing. But "D" continued ignoring her pleas for answers.
D,
I would like to meet with you as well, but I am afraid your letter was slightly confusing. You see if we had made plans to get together in the past I would have kept those plans. So I do not understand why you say I'm letting you down when we haven't actually made plans to meet before. I'm sorry if I sound a bit testy but your letters are starting to confuse me. Not to be rude or anything but I'm not sure you even know me.
Hermione
P.S. Who are you?
The question at the end of her letter was merely a force of habit by now. She did not even care to ask anymore since she knew they would be meeting in a few weeks back at Hogwarts anyway. She gave Charlemagne another treat before sending him off with her letter.
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A/N: This is my first fic. I can take criticism. I know it's short, sorry. The next chapters will hopefully be longer :)