Saturn reporting for duty!! How was everyone's new year? Well, I hope you all had a good one--because I sure did!

Dimitri: You want to know what she did? ::evil smirk::

Saturn: I went cosmic bowling!! Fun, fun!! Midnight was even funner!! *BOOM*

Dimitri: ::grin:: that wasn't what I was suggesting

Saturn: Then what were you suggesting? That I did nothing else--because that's what I did ^___^

Dimitri: Wel--

Summary: They are in their fifth year and Hermione has changed over the summer--but is it for better, or worse? She no longer looks like Hermione and no one recognises her. Until she speaks to then, that is. Draco/Hermione forever!
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It hurt like nothing else and her parents did nothing to help, just stood there with shocked looks on their faces. Little did she know that the worst pain would come later. For now she would live fully: tail, ears and all. When it was bareable enough she gasped out to her parents something that shocked her parents even more, "What...the Hell...was that?!"

"W-well dear....it appears that you've grown...a tail and cat ears...."

"WHAT?!?!"
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"What? What do you mean I can't go to Ron's?! That's totally unfair, Aunt Petunia!!"

"Well, you snivelling, ungrateful little brat, I simply do not wish to pay for you to go there!!" she shouted back at Harry.

"Well, Aunt Petunia, if you must know, you wouldn't have to pay as I could just ask Ron to send me some Floo powder in his next owl! No hair off your back, although I must say you have plenty to spare," growled Harry bitterly, leaving the last part of his sentence for his mind only.

"Only, only if you don't do any sneaky business to do it--and no magic!" she said, giving in finally.
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Ron,
I'm really sorry, but I don't think I can make it--I don't feel the greatest currently. Really, Ron, but I'll see you all the 28th on the train( I can't believe they're starting so early!)--I hope you have a good rest of the summer! I know I will- especially since I prefect!

Hermione

She slipped the letter to the owl even as pain racked her frame once again. She could feel herself slowly dieing--the air being wrenched from her lungs, making it impossible to breathe. She whimpered clutching her desk and trying valliantly to make it back to her bed to ride out this awful feeling.

Her parents walked in with a-or was it two?-strange man at their heals. Her vission swam as the man kneeled before her, and she didn't hear her parents' startled gasp. But she did feel the warm, life-giving liquid enter her system and it didn't quite hurt as badly.
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"Harry!" shouted Ron when Harry appeared out of his fireplace, his clother slightly ruffled. "Welcome! Its been a long time, buddy!"

"Yeah," he said distractedly, trying to shake his head clear from the ride. "Where's Hermione?"

"Oh, she was feeling slightly under the weather, so she's just gonna meet us at the train station on the 28th. Can you believe we start so early?"

"No, its horrible. Hey, did an owl come for me?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, with your Hogwarts stuff? Of couse it did....somehow Dumbledore knows exactly where to send your stuff, Harry," Ron told him, handing over a packet that was bigger than most years.

"Hm....I wonder what's in here?"

"You probably made prefect, like Hermione."

"She made prefect? That's awesome--but I thought there was only one prefect per house."

"Fred and George say they try out new ways almost every year--maybe they'll do two this year. You won't know until you open it."

"Oh, well, let's see then. Supply list, another supply list, fines-what? Now they're fining us? Geez...hmm....Dear Mr. Potter, we're proud to inform you that you have been named captain of the Quidditch team....blah, blah, blah..."

"Harry that's great!! You're probably the youngest captain the schools had in...in...."

"23 centuries....that's a long time...geez, Ron, I don't know if I can do this...but...hm...letter from Sirius, Proffesor Lup--Sirius? Score!"

"S-score?"

"Muggle term, don't worry about it...he hasn't contacted me in ages!" said Harry quickly reading the letter.
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She couldn't stand the stares. They were all staring at her, many of the male species wistling. She continued to ignore them and loaded her things aboard the train with minimal effort, not even noticing the stares she got from her show of strength. She stepped onto the train in search of the two she hadn't seen all summer.
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OOOO!! I left you at a slight cliffy!! I'm proud of myself!! Hehehe....this is just the beginning of a very confusing thing!! I'm going for 1000+ words a chapter now, so If I just ramble for no coherent reason....you know what it is....I'll try to make the story as long as I can, though so as not to have to babble over and over. Aight? There're only 645 words in the actualy chapter, though....^____^ I hoped you enjoyed it, I really do!

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Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, but I do own characters that come in later. I think I'm the only one with this idea so far, so the idea is mine also, I just 'borrow' the characters to act out the stories in my head. I actually do nothing else.

So, love, piece, and lots of sweets for you all go to bed tonight--drive your parents nuts by eating chocolate and playing Kingdom Hearts non-stop!! That's the best game! And I love Riku and Sora....well...kinda Riku...he's being mean right now...stupid boy. .