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Princess of the Rising Sun
Chapter 2: First Day of Classes
Hermione woke up at 7:30 that morning. 'More than plenty enough time to get ready for
classes, and still get to work on that project for Dumbledore. Not sure why he'd have me do it,
though...' she trailed off in thought as she looked out the window before turning to the other girls
in the room. "Ginny! Lavender! Parvati! Get up! It's 7:35 already!"
A messy redhead poked her head out from under the coverlet. "Mione, it's too early!
Classes don't start until 9:00! Let me sleep!"
"Yyyeah..." yawned Lavender. "Let us sleep some more." With that, she and Ginny rolled
over and went back to sleep. Parvati hadn't even stirred.
"Fine, I'll be back at 8:00, then. You'll have to get up then." She didn't get a reply, though,
for the other girls were sound asleep.
She decided to get some clothes on and go get some breakfast. After finding a pair of jeans
and a blue tie-dyed halter top (they only had to wear robes to classes, and she'd be coming back
soon) she went down to the common room to see if anyone else was awake. She wasn't very
surprised to see no one else was. 'Fine, I'll go down to breakfast myself'
Sitting there in the Great Hall, pushing a piece of cold bacon around the leftover syrup her plate,
she tried to think of what she would write about for that assignment from Dumbledore. 'Oh,
forget it, I'll work on it tonight. Right now, I have to go wake up the other girls.'
Ginny's POV:I was walking through a rose garden, and he was standing there, waiting for me. He held
out a rose, and I was going to go to him, but out of nowhere, I'm being rudely shaken up and
down. It took me a minute to comprehend that Hermione was next to my bed, shaking it madly.
"What the bloody hell are you doing!?!" "Waking you up, wasn't that obvious?"
"Did you have to do it that way? I was having a good dream." "About who?" an ever
curious Hermione questioned.
"H- wait, why should I tell you? "Thought so. Now get your but outta bed. Classes start in
ten minutes."
"What! Why didn't you tell me so!" She scrambled out of bed and hurriedly threw on some
clothes.
"I was just kidding. You have 45 minutes. I just had to get you out of bed somehow.
Otherwise you would have rolled over again and went back to sleep."
"You're evil. You know that? You're really evil." Hermione just smirked.
"Don't do that, you look like Malfoy." "And you would know that because you spend a lot
of time near him, right?" Ginny made a face and Hermione just laughed and went to wake up the
other girls.
Harry and Ron's POV:
"Herbology first, with the Hufflepuffs. Then its, great, Potions with the Slytherins. Then look, we
have Divination with Ravenclaw and then Transfiguration with the Slytherins again this afternoon.
Could be better."
"Could be a lot better, Harry. I mean, come on! Divination and Potions in the same day!"
"Wait, remember, we chose Divination with Firenze this year instead of Trelawny. That's
why we didn't drop it." He said, answering Ron's unasked question.
"Bugger. Oh well, its gotta be better than Trelawny." "I wonder who's the DADA teacher
this year? It would be cool if Lupin came back."
"Yeah, it would. Well, we'll find out tomorrow."
Back to Hermione's POV:
"See you later, Gin! I have Herbology first, then Potions." "Poor girl, oh well. Hope you
live." Ginny was being a little sarcastic, understandably so since she was still a little upset about
Hermione's little time trick.
"Lighten up! It was a joke!" Ginny was preoccupied by something else, though, for at that
moment, Ron and Harry walked up.
"Ginny, get to class!" The ever-rude Ron greeted them. She replied by sticking her tongue
out at her older brother. "You can't make me." "You two, cut it out. Catch you later Ginny?" she
just nodded and sped of to class.
"Wonder why she left in such a hurry..." "Probably because you hadn't spoken to her since
last year. I think she still has somewhat of a crush on you, Harry."
"hmm" He wasn't really paying attention to what they were saying. He was thinking about
Ginny. 'She is really cute, and she's fifteen this year... maybe...'
"Hello? Earth to lover boy?" "Wh what?!? Who said anything about..."
"No need to say anything. I know all about it." "How does she know about things I don't?
She's my sister after all."
"Well, Ron, in case you hadn't noticed, she doesn't confide in you probably because of the
way you treat her. Try to be nicer, and she might open up more."
"Whatever. Lets just get to class, you two. I mean it, you two squabble like an old married
couple." Ron sputtered incoherently, but Hermione had the sense to keep her mouth shut as they
neared greenhouse 5.
They walked across the grounds in silence, but when they passed the Forbidden Forest, a
strange feeling swept over Hermione, as if she should be going in there, instead. As if she
belonged in the forest, like something was calling to her... but no, it couldn't be, could it? It was
the same feeling, only stronger, that she felt in her dream. She stopped and turned towards the
forest...
There you go, my pretties! A nice long chapter. A nice little cliffie, too, so that maybe you'll review! What is this secret assignment from Dumbledore? What's going on between Harry and Ginny? That one should be obvious, but it won't happen for a while. Also, will Ron be nicer in the future? What is Hermione doing and what correlation do those dreams have? Only I know! And you won't until you review my story!
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