AN: So I had someone comment and say that the storyline hasn't changed much since I started. To that all I have to say is that it will take some time to start working the story in a new direction so that Harry and Hermione date. It would be really strange for two eleven year old to date (or at least to me it sounds weird). There will be changes to the story it will be small at first but they will become bigger changes the further the story progresses. Just give it some time guys it will be well worth the wait. Once again anything you recognize is JK Rowling's anything you don't is mine.
Hermione POV
Harry, Ron and I were sitting around one of the tables in the library with large stacks of books all around us. It was almost the Christmas holidays but we weren't doing homework, we were looking for Nicholas Flamel.
After the Quidditch game had ended the three of us had gone to Hagrid's to talk about all that had happened in privacy. Hagrid hadn't believed us when we told him that it had been Snape who had been jinxing Harry's broom. We tried a different track by asking him why Snape had been trying to get past the three headed dog (Harry had overheard Snape admit it to Filch the caretaker). Hagrid had been shocked and not to bother about it since Fluffy, the three headed dog, was hiding something and it was between Dumbledore and Nicholas Flamel.
Nicholas Flamel.
I frowned biting my lip. The name sounded familiar. I knew I had read it somewhere but I had read so many wizarding books already it was hard to know which one to look through first. But there was something that stood out about all of it. Harry said he recognized the name too. If he recognized it it would have to be in a book he had read. But we had already looked through all of our course books thoroughly. So we were now looking through every book we could think of.
Ron stood up and walked down a row of books and pulled three out at random. Harry was gazing longingly at the Restricted section when Madam Pince came out of no where brandishing a feather duster at Harry like a sword. He left shortly after.
I walked down row after row of books. Nothing really screamed, Here I am take me! But I was still hoping I could figure out who he was before I left for the Christmas holidays in two days.
My parents were extremely excited for me to come home and tell them all about the wizarding world. They had been afraid when I started that we would drift apart. I was afraid of that too. But I had a few things for them I knew they would like. I had found a book about how wizards deal with their teeth and thought they might enjoy looking it over during the holiday.
"Pssst! Hermione?" I jumped and turned where Ron was sitting. His finger was on the page and he looked hopeful.
"Did you find it?" I asked excitedly trying to keep my voice quiet. The last I wanted was to get kicked out of the library for talking to loud.
"Er, no but I might have found something interesting." He said waving me over. I crossed over to Ron and looked down at the page.
"Ron! Why are you reading about the Dark Arts? We're supposed to be looking for Flamel!" I snapped glaring at him. His ears turned red and he glared darkly at me.
"I was thinking maybe Flamel had something to do with the war." He said simply his lips pursed with anger.
"Oh! I never thought of that." I gasped nibbling on my lip thoughtfully. Ron had a triumphant grin on his face that I ignored. "Wait? Didn't you say you found something?"
"Oh! Yeah, here." Ron pushed forward the book and I smiled. I had seen this picture before and it always made me choke up.
"Harry and his family." I said looking at the picture. James and Harry looked so much alike it was uncanny but there were some differences. Lily was very beautiful. She had gorgeous red hair and almond shaped green eyes. Just like Harry's. Harry was little. Eight or nine months old at the most. He was smiling at whoever had taken the picture and laughed widely.
"Harry doesn't know what they look like." Ron said snapping the book shut. "I'm going to check it out and show him so he can see them for himself."
"I never thought of that." I whispered biting my lip.
"Yeah. Why don't you grab a stack of books and check them out." I flushed and looked away. "What?"
"I can only check out ten at the most." I said pulling on one of my curls.
"Why?" Ron asked raising his eyebrow slowly then laughed suddenly. "Oh don't tell me, you've almost hit the maximum checkout. How much is it anyway?"
"It doesn't matter." I said primly grabbing some books off the shelf that looked promising.
"No seriously Hermione, how many?" Ron asked looking curious. I mumbled a number and he froze in shock. "Did you just say thirty-four?!"
"No." I said quickly flushing.
"Okay good, I was going to say that's crazy!" I pursed my lips and grabbed up the books.
"Let's check out." I said walking to the front of the room placing the books on the counter. Madam Pince quickly checked me out but froze when the last book gave a little beep noise. Ron was frowning next to me but my heart was pounding in my chest.
"I'm sorry, you have too many books out and have reached your limit." Madam Pince looked shocked and cleared her throat. "I do believe that's a record. No student has ever had forty-five books out at once."
I groaned and dropped my head. "Thanks."
"Anytime." She said taking the last book away and put it on the reshelve pile. Dang, I had really wanted that book to read it over break. Oh well I could check it out when I came back from break. It was about older wizards who had made huge discoveries and changed the world. Hopefully it would be there when I came back for break.
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