"Maggie what's this?" The little girls eyes lit up with wonder as she prodded the globe softly.

"Shh, what have I told you about not touching this stuff, if your mother knew Hermione."

"Is it magical?" The girl persisted.

"In it's own way, yes I think it is" the lady smiled, harsh lines evident around worn eyes.

"You're the best Nanny I've ever had" Brown hair flew around the fragile woman's shoulders as her little charge embraced her.

"Do you really have to go?" her sobs muffled in the old lady's cardigan.

"Oh, Hermione, you know I have too, but I feel, one day you will be reintroduced into my world."

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Hermione sniffed as she put the remainder of Nannies things into the box as the adults made pleasantries. Her parents had never been as close to her as Maggie had, preferring the intellectual company of one another.

Her sniffing halted as she heard a hissing sound. Lifting up the box the gasped, the objects flying out of her small hands, smashing on the ground.

Her head went dizzy as the smoke flew around her, the last coherent thought leaving her mind.

"And I never got to introduce myself."

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The old man lowered his spectacles at the girl sprawled out across the quidditch field. There again, it was not everyday a young miss landed in the middle of the Slytherin vs. Gryffindor annual game.

Levitating her he continued towards the nurse, whilst his school could do nothing but stare.

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Hermione opened her eyes slowly, she had never flown before… and with that, her eyes shut again.

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She started sniffing again, an orphanage. She was going to an orphanage; even at the age of eight she knew what it was. A place where unloved children went. He sobs were however not unnoticed.

The man, Albus he had said to call him, had promised her that he would locate her family as quickly as he could, after all, how hard would it be to find a family, last name granger, who both worked as dentist?

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