Okies, here's the next chapter; hopefully it is at least a little more interesting than the first and inspires more people to review, cause that would make me really happy. Enjoy!!
Obviously, Hermione was really depressed. And she stayed that way for a really long time. She didn't eat a whole lot, because she lived really far away from the nearest store and she didn't have a license and her mother never got food, except for liquor, and her father ate out for every single meal of the day, as far as she knew. And then the wonderful new finally arrived, well, the one other than the notice telling her that she was Head Girl. It too was from Hogwarts! Professor McGonagall was writing to tell her that since Harry didn't get to see Sirius very often, since he was both on the run from the Ministry AND he was busy most of the year and even the summer doing lots of stuff for Dumbledore, because the war was raging everywhere, that Dumbledore had said that they could all go and stay at Hogwarts for the last two weeks before school started. 'All' meant she and Harry and Ron and Siriuis, plus, she was assuming, some of the teachers would be there as well. And then she read more of the letter, and found out that actually, she and the Head Boy would have to be there three weeks early, because there was a lot of training and stuff that had to be done. Hm, she wondered. Who was the Head Boy this year? She would have thought that maybe it would be Harry, but not only had Harry not said anything to her, but it probably wouldn't look very good for the school, especially at wartime, to have a Gryffindor Headmaster, Deputy Headmistress, and Head Boy and Head Girl. So probably someone from another House. Hermione thought about all of the guys who had been in the top of the 7th year, and other than Harry there was Terry Boot, Alfred Pennywick, another Ravenclaw, Jon Sigur, yet another Ravenclaw, Draco Malfoy (ick ick and double ick!), and Carl Calvine, a Hufflpuff. The remaining four from Hermione's list of top ten students were female. Still, even though she had just listed all of the guys who were really good academically, she had no idea who they would actually pick as Head Boy. Or who they already had, she corrected herself. This is the point at which our story really begins, and is the reason why Hermione was so excited about her 7th year, and thought that the year was going to be so great. She was going to go to Hogwarts in a week, and she couldn't wait. She had told her parents, but they hadn't been very interested, although her father had been a little bit exasperated at the fact that he was going to have to take some time off of his summer work schedule to drive her to the 'freak school'. But she just brushed it off and bounced out of her room to do something that she hadn't done before because she had gotten depressed.
Hermione, once she had found out that she was Head Girl, would normally have done a ton of research on it, but she hadn't since she had gotten all depressed. So now that she wasn't depressed any more, she resumed her normal characteristics which meant; you guessed it! A trip to the library. Right before school had ended Hermione had realized that she was going to want access to lots more wizarding books than she could buy with the sort of small amount of money that her father was willing to spend on her, 'only so that that nosy old snoop of a freak that had come and explained that freak stuff to them didn't try anything funny with him'. So Hermione, being the really smart girl that she is, had gotten a 'magical library card' and Madam Pince had made sure that it had Portkey capability because she couldn't use magick during the summer. All she had to do was touch it and say her password (Peanut Butter) and it would whisk her off to the Magical Library of Britain, where she could peruse the selection of books to her heart's content. She had only used it once since she had gotten it, but since she had finished her homework, she decided that she could start research during the week before she was going to start her duties. After all, it would certainly help to have at least SOME idea of what she was getting herself into, she thought with a laugh. But it was a quiet laugh, because her mother was upstairs with a hangover again. So she didn't make any sounds as she pressed her hand to the small card that looked just like a muggle library card and said the random word that she had chosen.
Hermione opened her eyes and smiled as she looked around at the library. She really liked libraries, and this huge magical one was no exception. There were tons of tomes lining the huge panels of shelves on the walls and she itched with the need to go through them and start getting some of their knowledge. So she started by going over to the magical card catalog and telling it what she wanted to research. It was like a magic mirror, except that it was a card catalog and instead of telling her how pretty she was or whatever, it told her what books she might want to look at. And then when she had that, she would find the library 'dog', which was another magically enchanted object. The 'dog' would listen to the titles of the books and then go and fetch them, hence it's name. Hermione used the tools to figure out what books she would want to read for research into the position of Head Girl. She wanted to know it all; where she would be staying, and what her duties would be, and what her privileges would be, and who the girls were who had held the position in the past and what they had done with their lives. Hermione began to flip through the thick and dusty tomes with a relish, heedless of the person lurking in a dark corner of the room, looking at her with bemusement.
OOH, who do y'all think the mysterious stranger is? Heehee, well I hope someone guessed right. Speaking of which, I wish more people would review!:( No one seems to like my story very much, cause I only have one review right now; thank you very very much, by the way. I really appreciate it! The next chapter should start getting good, and it was really weird, cause I totally hadn't meant to go down this path yet, but there you have it. I'm going to try to post a chapter a day, but I don't know how successful I'll be! Bye.