DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING BUT THE PLOT…

16-year-old Hermione Granger woke up peacefully from a dreamless sleep. She dressed and decided that she would take a walk around the park. In her neat cursive handwriting, she wrote a note to her parents, just in case they noticed she was missing. It was Saturday, and her parents would sleep in.

Taking her time, she went out the door and around the park, enjoying the scenery. Suddenly, she was overcome with a feeling of dread. Rushing home, she wondered what had happened, or why she was imagining things.

After getting to her block, she gasped, and sobbed. There, above her house was the dark mark.

"NO!!!" she cried. "This is just a sick joke!"

"I'm afraid not, Miss Granger." That was Dumbledore, a faint part of her recognized.

"Why!" she screamed. "Why did he have to pick my family?"

"I don't know," Dumbledore replied. "None of my spies brought back any information about attacking your family…"

"I guess I'll be going to a muggle orphanage," Hermione mused sadly to herself.

"That's where you're wrong, Miss Granger."

"What do you mean?" asked Hermione, puzzled.

"I mean that you won't be safe in a muggle orphanage. I'm assuming that Voldermort came to kill you. It's the most logical explanation," he explained "and when he couldn't find you he decided to hurt you emotionally, killing your parents."

"Why?"

"I don't know, Miss Granger. It's only a theory."

A/N How was that? Should I continue? Please review!