So I'm posting this chapter now because I suddenly got a shot of inspiration so I've been typing for the past hour now. Rate and review and most importantly enjoy!
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Ch.4
~Tap, tap, tap~ Hermione Granger awoke to the sound of her owl, Merlin, tapping on her window with his beak. After the death of her beloved feline, Crookshanks, during the war, she had had to get a new pet so when going through the book stores at Diagon Alley she happened across a chocolate brown owl with blue eyes, who had been staring at her. She quickly entered the shop and purchased him right away and named him after the biography of a wizard she had just bought. It had turned out that Merlin was exceptionally smart and was living up to his namesake. Although she missed Crookshanks, she was slowly beginning to accept his death.
The war had been a turning point for Hermione, no longer was she the scared first year that had hid under the girls toilets while she let Ron and Harry rescue her from the troll or the girl who cried when she was called a mudblood, she no longer felt the need to pause every time she cast a spell against a foe or the anxious need to live up to everyone's opinion of her. And although the war had changed her, she would always remember the people who gave up their lives to allow light to vanquish the darkness, and she felt proud to say that she had been part of the light, that she had helped, that she had made a difference.
Hermione shook herself of the last bits of sleep and opened the window to let the impatient owl in, shaking her head as he gobbled up the bits of bird seed she had given him. She slowly opened the letter to find the Hogwarts insignia; the letter she had been waiting for had finally arrived. She read the whole letter twice and only then did she notice another letter had fallen out of the envelope, reaching down to pick it up she read the first few lines, a smile slowly spreading across her face. Squealing while she jumped up and down, she ran down the stairs in her pyjamas and bed head, not caring who saw her. She quietened her excitement as she approached the lounge, hearing her parents deep in discussion.
Her mother's voice slowly drifted through the open door, "but darling do you think she's ready to go back to that world? After all she's seen and all she's had to sacrifice?"
"Now Jean, she is a grown women and we both know she is smart enough to make her own decisions, we ought to trust her enough to make her own way around in this crazy world we live in."
"Oh Robert I know that and I have faith in our daughter. It's just that she's no longer our little girl anymore and I miss the times when she used to come to us before making any important decisions in her life. It's a dangerous world she's decided to join and I can't help but worry about her." At this point her mother had become a little teary-eyed.
Hermione, not being able to stand hearing her mother cry, rushed into the lounge, pretending to not have heard their conversation about her.
"Good morning, guess what came today in the mail? My Hogwarts letter and guess who got made Head Girl?" she asked bouncing up and down in excitement, yet again.
"Oh sweetheart, I'm so happy to hear that, we wouldn't have expected any less from you. We're so proud of you," her mother gushed out while crying slightly.
"I agree with your mother, we are very proud of you, 'Mione," he father added, waking up to hug her.
"Thanks dad, I truly appreciate the trust that you both place in me," Hermione said, her sentence coming out slightly muffled because she was currently be sandwiched between both her parents embraces.
"I better go get ready, I have to leave soon," she said slowly stepping out of their hold, " I have to do some stationary purchasing at Flourish and Botts and then I'm going to stop by the Burrow, Harry will probably have arrived there by now."
"Sure sweetheart , but be sure to let us know before you leave. We want to spend a few more moments with our little girl before she goes away from us again," her mother reminded.
"Of course mum I would never forget to see you guys before I leave. I still need to get together all my things, and I want to pop by Flourish and Botts as well," Hermione said, enthusiastically, as her mind wandered towards all the books she could buy.
Hermione raced up the stairs to her room and began packing her trunk. She shrunk all her books and gently placed them into a corner of her trunk before she waved her wand and watched as the rest of her luggage flew into the trunk. Satisfied with her work, she tucked her wand into her pocket before going back downstairs to spend some time with her parents before she went.
The Granger family soon found themselves locked in a debate about the benefits of humour in medicine that left Hermione giggling. The debate lasted close to an hour and it was soon time for her to go to Diagon Alley. She sadly hugged both her parents farewell and promised to tell them one last goodbye before she left for the Burrow, before making her way through their fireplace.
Hermione quickly reached Flourish and Botts and made her way through the aisles of stationery and textbooks clutching her list in one hand and her basket in the other, she had managed to find all the items of her list and was trying to locate the last item, when she finally got sight of it *Aha!, I finally found it!* Hermione thought gleefully. She strode towards it quite briskly and when she just about had it in her hand, she noticed another person was also trying to get it. Shocked she stood back and the other person picked up the textbook, and when he slowly turned around, the only thoughts circling in Hermione's head were, "not him, not him."
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Ps: sorry for any spelling or grammatical errors.
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