A/N: Before we start, I would like to say thank you and give everyone a super tight cyber hug for putting my story on their favorites and for following and for the people who left reviews :3! Anyway, I won't keep you any longer! Enjoy this second chapter and please, please, please review!

P.S. Please be gentle on me I don't have a beta so if you see really cringe-worthy grammar errors, trust me when I say, I hate myself too.

2nd year

Dan didn't know what to think, or say. His daughter—his precious princess—had been in a serious danger and he didn't get the chance to protect her.

Because he wasn't there.

Because he wasn't magical.

When he and his wife learned about the incident that led to their daughter being bedridden for weeks from the headmaster, they immediately exploded in fear, resentment towards themselves, and anger. Fear because they don't know what kind of evil would do that to a 12 year old. Resentment towards themselves because they can't do anything to protect their child, and mostly anger because how could the headmaster—who was supposedly to be the greatest wizard of all time—let this kind of disaster happen under his tutelage.

Looking at their daughter now, they could feel the weight of the school year in her presence. Her lips pursed in a straight line, her eyes set on the window and unblinking, and her hands on a tight ball that makes her knuckles turn white. They don't know what she was thinking and they are desperate to hear her voice, and see her smile and bounce on her seat just like she did last summer.

"Darling," Jean started, glancing over Dan once before turning to her daughter again with a concerned look. "It will be easier if you tell us what really happened," she continued.

Hermione looked at her mother and smiled. "I'm okay, Mum. It was an accident, and it will never happen again," she assured both of her parents. She couldn't well tell them her involvement with everything that has happened this year. Just like last year, she'd pretend that everything was alright and forgotten.

"So," Dan finally spoke. "Can you tell us about your year?"

Hermione smiled and finally relaxed. She was grateful for her father's change of topic. "My classes were great! Of course I made sure I would be ahead of all my school works…"

Dan and Jean let their daughter talk about her studies, their school sport, and how Harry and Ron made her year bearable for her. They were grateful for the two boys; there was no doubt about that. It sounded like the two boys took care of her while she was at school and while she was hospitalized.

"Are you inviting them this year?" Jane suddenly asked.

Hermione stopped talking and shook her head sadly. "Harry would not be allowed, and Ron and his siblings got a mail from Mr. and Mrs. Weasley that they will be going to Egypt this summer."

"Wow!" Jean exclaimed. "Didn't you say you've always wanted to go to Egypt and see the historical places?"

Hermione nodded enthusiastically. "I did! Ron and his family are so lucky! They won that trip from the Ministry. Mrs. Weasley said they would be visiting Bill there."

"Oh, right! She told us one of her sons work there. What does he do exactly?" Dan asked.

"He's a curse-breaker," Hermione replied.

"Is that dangerous?" Jean asked.

Hermione nodded. "In a way, yes. He works for the goblins, and they're terribly strict when it comes to what they want wizards to do for them. Curse breaking is equally taxing too. One wrong move and he can die."

Dan raised both his eyebrows in an impressed manner, "Molly is lucky to have a brave son!"

Hermione grinned. "Do you even know what their second child do for a living?"

"What?" Both her parents asked.

"Charlie trains dragons!"

"WHAT?!"

Hermione hummed, and laughed at her parents' gaping mouths.

"I don't even know what I'd do if you choose a field that involve dragons!" Jean panicked.

"That will be a looooong way, Mum! No need to worry yet!"

"She's right, Jean! I don't even want to think about that now, it's too stressful!" Dan exclaimed.

Of course, both parents wish their child to stay at her current age forever and be dependent to them, but they know she's already independent now that she goes to a boarding school, and another world. All they can do is support her, and beg to which higher being is up there to take care of their only daughter.

Jean suddenly perked up. "We should go to France this summer holiday!"

Hermione squealed. "Really, Mum?" She bolted up from her seat and grabbed her Mother's hands and squeezed tight.

Jean laughed. "Yes! I bet you'll enjoy both our world and the wizarding world's history in the country."

Hermione jumped for joy, still holding her Mother's hand. She looked up to her father and found him smiling up at her. Dan couldn't disagree because he liked the idea too. It was a good thing that they were kind of well off and can have holidays out of the country because he knows what kind of voracious shoppers his wife and daughter are.

Hermione hugged both her parents before saying, "I need to write Harry and Ron! They're going to be so excited!"

Jean and Dan can only shake their heads in amusement.

A/N: I hate this chapter