By Lady Terayne
PrologueEleven-year-old Hermione Granger yawned and stretched as she descended the stairs to breakfast on a beautiful July morning. She sat down to eat her usual oatmeal, and noticed an odd letter next to her bowl. It was addressed to her, and even the room she slept in was inscribed in the odd green ink. She opened the thing, and was at first very skeptical of the message: It was asking her to come to a wizarding school! Hermione showed it to her parents, who immediately burst out laughing. It had to be a joke.
Many miles away, in the Wizarding School of Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall was checking her books of first years that would be attending the school. So far, there were only two children who hadn't confirmed that they would be attending: Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. The Professor had only one person to send out to find these first years, and that was Hagrid. She figured that it was much more important for the famous Harry Potter to learn wizardry than a Muggle, so she sent Hagrid to one house only that evening. In fact, Hagrid could easily have stopped by to meet and persuade Hermione to come, but Professor McGongall was a busy woman and overlooked this.
Hermione wasn't exactly "popular" at the school she currently attended, and assumed it was just a prank. She never went to Diagon Alley, never rode the train to Hogwarts, and never met or became partners in crime with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
A/N: I'm planning to "introduce" Hermione to Harry and Ron sometime in the near future. Just for everyone's information, I'm an avid R/H fan, and that may or may not become part of the story. This was just the prologue, and all my other chapters (heh, wishful thinking…) will definitely be much longer. Well, review! Tell me what you think! Reader reviews can sometimes influence the way I write… Thanks!
