Title: The Girl Who Lived (Year 2)

Rating: T

Summary: Hermione Granger-Potter enters her second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With a new Defense Professor, no Harry, things are going not so great. Add the opening of the Chamber of Secrets and Ginny Weasley's unhealthy fascination for Hermione and Hermione really wants this year to just end. Sequel to The Girl Who Lived (Year 1)

Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rowling's characters and I'm making nothing from this.

Chapter 1

The summer after Hermione's first year was carefree, except for the transformations into a werewolf that both Harry and she went through. Harry was being his usually annoying self, demanding to be allowed to return to Hogwarts even though he failed his first year and got kicked out. Hermione had already done most of her summer work in Charms, Potions, and History of Magic. She still had Transfiguration, Herbology, and a couple others to get done.

"Hermione, aren't you going to go out and have some fun?" Lily asked her.

"I'm waiting on a letter from Melissa," she said.

Lily sighed and said, "Maybe she's busy. You know that she really is getting settled in with Remus."

"I know that but she promised to write," Hermione told her and then there was a pounding on the door.

"Dear Merlin, who is that?" Lily asked and Hermione got a bad feeling that whoever it was, none of them was going to like it. "Petunia, what the-."

"IT'S YOUR FAULT, YOU DAMN FREAK," Hermione heard screaming, "MY SON HAS THE FREAK GENE."

Hermione had a funny feeling that she wasn't talking about Dudley.

"Petunia, there's nothing wrong with being a wizard."

"DON'T YOU USE THAT LINE WITH ME," she snarled. "MY HUSBAND DOESN'T WANT THAT CHILD IN THE HOUSE, BUT THERE'S NOTHING THAT WE CAN DO."

"You're not handing your son over to one of my friends," Lily said. "You're going to have to live with the fact that you have a wizard for a son."

And Hermione heard slamming. She walked out of her room and saw Lily shaking her head.

"What's wrong with her?" Hermione asked Lily.

"The same old, same old, nonsense," she said. "Hopefully she'll learn from this."

Hermione doubted that, but said nothing. It was clear that Lily wanted the subject to drop and Hermione was more than happy to do just that. When James got back from the Ministry Hermione got further proof that Lily wanted the subject dropped, and not brought up, when she didn't mention Petunia's visit to her husband.

"So when are you returning to work?" James asked her.

"Next week," Lily answered. "Since Hermione and Harry are no longer dangerous, then I don't have to worry about having to watch over them."

"Dad, have you asked Remus why Melissa hasn't written to me?" Hermione asked him.

"No, but I'll talk to him about it," James promised.

"Thanks," Hermione said and then Harry walked in.

"Well I hope that you understand that I don't like the idea of you going there," she snarled.

Hermione stared at her and then looked at Harry, wondering what was going on.

"What's going on?" Hermione asked them.

"Your dear brother is going to Durmstrang," Lily told her. "Dumbledore pulled some strings at the Russian Ministry of Magic to get Harry in. Russia doesn't have laws against werewolf employment, even though I don't like the reputation of that place."

"I know that you don't, dear, but it was the only school that would take him," James said. "And they needed his exam results."

"Which I did," Harry said.

"You had to redo your exam last week and we just got the results," James told him. "He managed to get in."

Great, thought Hermione, he can be Durmstrang's problem. He grinned at me and Hermione had a funny feeling that things were going to get worst. The next morning Remus visited and told her that Melissa had written to her.

"But I didn't get a letter from her," she said.

"That's strange, Melissa hasn't gotten a letter from you," Remus told her.

"But I sent her a letter," Hermione protested.

"Then something his keeping the mail back," James told them.

"But that's impossible," Lily said, "Nothing can keep the Owl post from delivering."

Something strange was going on here.

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A/N: Hermione will be finding out what's keeping the mail from coming to her and anyone else, for that matter.