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Story of a Girl

Chapter 2

Hermione's parents took her to Platform 9 ¾ early the next morning. They were almost late because Hermione still couldn't find Hogwarts A History. She didn't know where she had put it. Finally her mother found it on the floor by the desk where Crookshanks had knocked it down. Hermione threw it in her trunk and ran out to the car. She didn't want to miss the train!

When she and her parents got to the platform, she said goodbye to her parents and started looking for Harry and Ron. She didn't see them, but the platform was very crowded and her parents had brought her a little early so maybe they weren't there yet.

"Hi Hermione!" Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil ran up to her. Lavender hugged her, but Hermione wasn't surprised because Lavender hugged everybody.

Parvati didn't hug Hermione, but she smiled. She looked a little worried. "I'm glad you got here okay."

Hermione didn't like the way Parvati was talking. "Why, what's going on?"

"You mean..you don't know?" Lavender looked worried too which made Hermione feel worse. Lavender was nice, but she was a little bit of an airhead.

"You don't get the Daily Prophet anymore?" Parvati asked.

"No," Hermione said. "They stopped sending it so I thought something was wrong with my subscription."

Lavender and Parvati looked at each other. "I think you should talk to Ron," Parvati said after a long silence.

"I can't do that if I don't know where Ron is!" Hermione said. She still didn't see him. She didn't see Harry either and she was starting to get very worried. She remembered that she had been thinking about sundresses yesterday and she felt very, very silly. There were more important things than dresses.

"We'll help you find Ron," Lavender said and she and Parvati began to drag Hermione through the crowd. Hermione didn't know what was going on. Lavender and Parvati were usually nice to her, but they had never been worried like this before. Had something..something bad happened?

She stopped following Lavender and Parvati and the two girls had to stop with her. "I think you should tell me what's going on," she said.

Before Parvati got more than a few words out someone else pushed through the crowd to them. It was Ron. He had gotten even taller over the summer so she was barely up to his chin and he needed a haircut.

"Ron!" Hermione grabbed her friend's arm. "What happened? Where's Harry?"

Ron looked at her and Hermione knew that something really was very wrong. Something bad must have happened and she felt awful because she had probably been out to dinner with her parents while it had happened and she had been worried about a dress...

"It's Harry," Ron said. "I got an owl from Sir...from Snuffles yesterday. Harry's aunt and uncle's house was attacked. His aunt and uncle and cousin are okay but.."

Hermione felt sick. "But what?"

Ron took a deep breath. "Hermione...Harry's missing."