Hermione sat on her yellow quilt cover, holding her first-year potion book in her grasp. Her eyes whipped across the pages, taking in the different mixtures that she would be practising in Hogwarts with her cauldron that sat idly against the base of her bed.
That morning, her mother had helped her try to tame her wild hair, but no matter how many products they used, it never seemed to relax. So she sat, with what resembled a maine around her small, heart-shaped face with her head in a book, which was her norm.
Although she wasn't trapped in her usual bubble of concentration that she had when she was reading. Instead, the balls of her feet kept lifting uncontrollably making her knees shake.
Today, she thought, I will become an official witch.
Not that she hadn't learned the entire curriculum for that year, because she had. She spent her entire holidays reading and re-reading the books she was provided with, making sure every slice of information was planted in her head.
Although she had tried to catch up with knowledge, she still couldn't reach the level of experience her classmates had. They would all be familiar being in the presence of wizards, all have witnessed magic in everyday life. Not Hermione, she had been living like a human, like a muggle.
And it wasn't only her hair she worried about, her teeth, as her father called them, where every dentist dream, but to Hermione, she thought she might as well have been born from a rabbit.
Which, as she read, would have been more respectable that being born from a non-magic family.
There was one boy she often had researched who she thought might be interesting to talk to.
She shut her book after placing in a bookmark and placed it into her new trunk. Then, she skipped over to her desk and switched on the computer sitting on top. Her knees where still shaking, and they were starting to irritate her.
It was fairly fast to set-up, with her father being best friends with a man who works with computers. She opened a search browser called wiznet and typed in his name.
Harry Potter.