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Chapter One
General POV
"Hermione sweetheart could you please go answer the door?", asked Tom Granger. "Sure, Dad", said Hermione. "Yes, how may I help you.", asked Hermione. "Ms. Granger may I speak to your parents" , said a tall, stern looking woman dressed completely in black and wearing a weird pointy hat. "Sure, come in. MOM !DAD ! someone has come to meet you.",yelled Hermione.
"Mr.& Mrs. Granger My name is Minerva McGonagall and this is for you Ms. Granger ", the woman said , " I'd advise you to read it with your parents before you ask me questions."
She handed Hermione a letter and it was made out of some kind of thick parchment paper with an old-fashioned seal bearing a coat of arms. It was addressed to Ms. H. Granger and below it was a very detailed address , right down to her room. Herrmione and her parents exchanged looks. Finally, Jean made up her mind and invited McGonagall in. The Granger family settled opposite her , as a unit and opened the letter.
HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY
Headmaster: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme
Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Ms. Granger ,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all
necessary books and equipment.
Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.
Yours sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall,
Deputy Headmistress
They were baffled when they read this. Everybody was speechless for a moment and then Tom Granger slowly said,"This is some kind of a joke. Now you can take off that pointy hat and announce which channel you are working for "
Jean began hyperventilating and Hermione just sat there. This was it. This was the missing piece, the feeling of not fitting in was finally clear. Instead of shock, surprise or even happiness, she felt...peace.
Tom and Jean started talking together, Tom angry and Jean near hysterical. Hermione met McGonagall's eyes and for the first time she saw understanding in them. "Mom, Dad.."she said quietly "It's true."
Tom and Jean stopped talking and looked at their daughter. "Baby , you are not a witch! We're dentists! This lady is lying and she is going to leave"
McGonagall stiffened. "Can you honestly tell me, Mr. and Mrs. Granger that nothing out of the ordinary had happened around your child?".
Hermione and her parents exchanged long looks again. They didn't need to talk. Hermione's weird incidents and weirder dreams were always in the back of their minds.
"It's true" , Hermione said again, "It's why I'm different."
The Grangers turned to Professor Minerva McGonagall who now had a kind expression in her stern face.
**Time Break**
"Mum, Dad look there it is Platform 9 ¾ and look at the train",exclaimed an awed Hermione Granger. Beside her stood her parents their mouths slightly agape and still wondering how their little girl turned out to be a witch.
"Honey, are you sure this isn't some kind of a joke and this Hogwarts place is safe and all", enquired Jean Granger with a hint of worry in her voice.
Hermione groaned and answered,"Mum, I thought we went through this already a million times and how can you not believe any of this after all we saw Professor McGonagall transfigure into a cat!".
Jean was about to reply when Tom Granger cut her off and said,"Let her be Jean, she has a point we did see her turning into a cat ." They'd also seen Goblins, gold, enchanted books and they had just walked through solid wall. They'd had a few weeks to get used to magic and "magical folk" but now that the moment was finally here Tom was feeling slightly ill.
They were both dentists. And their daughter was a witch. God , he thought, had a sick sense of humor.
Just then a whistle sounded through the mist . It was time to go. Hermione gave both her parents tight hugs and boarded the train. She waved until she couldn't see them and then dragged her trunk to find a compartment with a half-scared but determined expression . Just when she was about to go find a compartment she accidentally banged into a boy. He looked her age he had blonde hair and the palest face she had ever seen.
"Hi are you a first year too?",asked the boy."I'm Malfoy. Draco Malfoy.", he said.
"Hi, I'm Hermione Granger" She flashed him a smile.
"So, are you a pureblood", he asked.
"I'm sorry a what?"
He rolled his eyes and asked,"Both your parents are magic aren't they".
A little embarrassed she answered,"No, they are Muggles. They're dentists".
When she said those words his features hardened and he sneered at her and said,"Better watch where you are going then Muggle-slime and stay out of my way ".
He shoved past her and she stood there like a statue, shocked by his rude behaviour.
Trepidation she had kept bottled in front of her parents filled her. Had she done something wrong? Was she not really a witch then?
Just then another boy came by and gave her a nervous smile and said in a shy voice, "Don't get upset by what he said he's a Malfoy, I'm Neville Longbottom by the way".
He had shaggy brown hair and warm brown eyes and large front teeth like her. She gave him a small smile and said,"I'm Hermione Granger".
"C'mon you can share my compartment and this Trevor" he held up an ugly toad.
Though she was slightly put off by the toad, Hermione followed Neville gratefully.
"Why was he so nice to me one second and so rude when I told him that my parents are muggles? ", questioned a curious Hermione.
Then Neville went into a long explanation about how some people treated Muggles and Muggle-borns differently because they are so called Purebloods , wizards and witches who never intermingled with muggles since the dawn of magic.
"Will being born a muggle affect my magic?" asked Hermione anxiously, there had been nothing about this in Hogwarts: A History!
"Of course not!" Neville assured her, " The self-cleaning dish rag and the everlasting room freshener were both invented by muggle-born wizards!"
"Well that's reassuring." Hermione said dryly but Neville was too busy ducking under the seats to notice her sarcasm.
"I can't find Trevor!" he cried
"Are you sure?"
"My gran is going to kill me!" he moaned
Hermione looked at their half-open compartment door and sighed. "He must've have wandered outside. Come on then, I'll help you find him."
So they searched compartment after compartment, Hermione had already changed into her robes (robes! like a real witch!) so she observed the other students while keeping an eye out for Trevor.
"Has anyone seen a toad? A boy named Neville's lost one. ", she asked the two boys occupying a compartment. One had flaming red hair and freckles and the other had messy jet black hair and glasses.
"We've already told him we haven't seen it," said the redheaded boy. He seemed to have his wand in his hand like he was about to do magic so she was naturally curious
"Oh, are you doing magic? Let's see it, then."
She sat down in one of the seats and made herself comfortable and then he started chanting the strangest spell she have ever heard.
"Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow, Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow." He waved his wand, but nothing happened. The rat stayed gray and fast asleep.
"Are you sure that's a real spell?" she asked.
"Well, it's not very good, is it? I've tried a few simple spells just for practice and it's all worked for me. Nobody in my family's magic at all, it was ever such a surprise when I got my letter, but I was ever so pleased, of course, I
mean, it's the very best school of witchcraft there is, I've heard - I've learned all our course books by heart, of course, I just hope it will be enough - I'm Hermione Granger, by the way, who are you." , she said all of this in one breath.
They were silent for a minute and then the red-haired boy muttered, "I'm Ron Weasley."
"Harry Potter," said the other one.
"Are you really?" , she asked , suddenly very curious, she'd read a lot about him, he had survived the killing curse delivered by the darkest wizard known, a wizard so feared that he still wasn't called by true name even 10 years after his assumed death. Assumed because some believed that he was too powerful to go with Death.
"I know all about you, of course – I got a few extra books. for background reading, and you're in Modern Magical History and The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts and Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century." , she told him.
"Am I?", Harry Potter asked her, suddenly dazed.
"Goodness, didn't you know, I'd have found out everything I could if it was me,", she told him, Merlin's beard, the boy really had no clue how famous he was.
Merlin's beard. She relished saying that instead of Jiminy or Blimey or something nowhere near that wonderful-sounding.
"Do either of you know what house you'll be in?", she asked them. " I've been asking around, and I hope I'm in Gryffindor, it sounds by far the best; I hear Dumbledore himself was in it, but I suppose Ravenclaw wouldn't be too bad... Anyway, I'd better go and look for Neville's toad. You two had better change, you know, I expect we'll be there soon.", she told them that and rejoined Neville to go search for his toad.
Finally after searching for so long they found Neville's frog. Then she left him to go talk to the conductor.
"Sir, I was wondering how long do we have left of this ride.", Hermione asked the conductor
"We're nearly there love, will be there by 20 minutes, go sit in your compartment like a nice boy now.", the conductor replied without glancing at her.
"I'm a girl" , she muttered but the conductor ignored her again
Hermione was on her way back to her compartment when that Malfoy boy left Harry's compartment fuming along with his posse who were groaning in pain. The compartment was a total mess with sweets all over the floor and Ron was picking up his rat by its tail.
"What has been going on?" , Hermione asked them.
"I think he's been knocked out," Ron said to Harry. He looked closer at Scabbers. "No - I don't believe it - he's gone back to sleep-" And so he had.
"You've met Malfoy before?"
Harry explained about their meeting in Diagon Alley.
"I've heard of his family", Ron said darkly. "They were some of the first to come back to our side after You-Know-Who disappeared. Said they'd been bewitched. My dad doesn't believe it. He says Malfoy's father didn't need an excuse to go over to the Dark Side."
He then turned to Hermione and asked, "Can we help you with something?"
"You'd better hurry up and put your robes on, I've just been up to the front to ask the conductor, and he says we're nearly there. You haven't been fighting, have you? You'll be in trouble before we even get there!" Hermione then told them in an impatient voice.
"Scabbers has been fighting, not us." , Ron replied to Hermione indignantly
"Would you mind leaving while we change?"
"All right - I only came in here because I was worried about you.", Hermione in a sniffy voice. "And you've got dirt on your nose, by the way, did you know?"
Hermione made her way back to her compartment with a huge grin on her face. "Ha, there you go Mr. Holier-than-thou Malfoy, Harry Potter and a fat old rat put you in your place."
She hummed a merry tune and joined Neville.
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