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A/N: Thank you to everyone who reviewed! (That would be just Whatica then :P) Thanks for the great reviews and ideas and I'm glad you really liked Viktor's letter. Please review! I need encouragement to write people and I'll only get that if you guys say what you think about my story.
8th August
Days left until school: 24
No of books read: 14
No of owls received in total: 5
Here I am. Hermione Granger reporting for duty. Yes I know it's early to be writing again but what can I say.it has been the most eventful day all summer (not that it can even compare with anything at school though!)
So yesterday evening I left you to have tea with the neighbours. By the time I had finished and rushed down the stairs (almost breaking my leg in the process) everyone was already outside on the garden patio, sitting underneath the evening sky which was like a pure molten gold ocean with flecks of amethysts and rubies. But there was something wrong. An awkward silence because nobody had any idea of what to say.
There were three of them. The first was a girl who looked about my age. She had large chocolaty eyes, radiant soft brown skin and shining raven black hair that tumbled playfully about her shoulders. The other two, a man and woman in their early forties I assumed were her parents.
"Hi I'm Hermione" I said offering the girl my hand to shake. "Hi I'm Simran" she replied taking the proffered hand and looking a bit abashed. Having realized that we both did almost the same thing, we burst out laughing at the same moment! This managed to melt the distance between the adults too and at once I could hear my mum saying "So Mrs. Goyal do you take sugar?" and dad almost shouting "Really? I thought that I was the only one around here who played tennis we really should play together some time" and on and on.
Meanwhile Simran and I seemed to have exchanged with them, so we were sitting in silence not quite knowing where to start, but luckily it was only a temporary shyness.within five minutes we were jabbering away with the best of them! It was amazing because I've never made a friend so easily and after that evening it felt like I'd known her as my closest friend for my whole life even though we spent our time talking about absolutely nothing!
So anyway, later we agreed to go out the next day (that's today) so I could show her around town (or the village more like!) Mum thought it was great that I am now doing something in the holidays except for sitting around and getting bored out of my mind.
So today in the afternoon, I took Simran around to see the village.not that there was much to see. A café or two here, a grocery shop there, a cinema and the leisure centre. But it didn't really matter though. It turns out that talking with her is more fun than anything else anyway. We talked about absolutely anything we could think of. At first it was the normal "So you are from India.it must be pretty hot blah blah blah" until we got to stuff like the latest gossip going around with a few "What is blue and looks like a bucket?" jokes that normally no one laughs at but we somehow spent a good ten minutes rolling around on the floor for!
Seriously though I think I've found a true friend with whom I would love to spend the rest of the holidays with. It seems almost that we were almost meant for each other (not in that way!) and now I don't feel so bad about not going to The Burrow this holiday. In fact the thing I am worried about is how I'm going to be able to keep my magic a secret from her because I truly want to tell her everything, seeing as the rest of my closest friend are all boys who wouldn't have the patience for such a thing. I mean I know it sounds really stupid and girly saying that I want to tell her all my secrets and have sleepovers and stuff but that's what I really want to happen because I never really was able to do that with the other girls at Hogwarts.
Well anyway time to go again. I need to sleep because I'm going out with Simran again tomorrow.I can't wait!!
A/N: Thank you to everyone who reviewed! (That would be just Whatica then :P) Thanks for the great reviews and ideas and I'm glad you really liked Viktor's letter. Please review! I need encouragement to write people and I'll only get that if you guys say what you think about my story.
8th August
Days left until school: 24
No of books read: 14
No of owls received in total: 5
Here I am. Hermione Granger reporting for duty. Yes I know it's early to be writing again but what can I say.it has been the most eventful day all summer (not that it can even compare with anything at school though!)
So yesterday evening I left you to have tea with the neighbours. By the time I had finished and rushed down the stairs (almost breaking my leg in the process) everyone was already outside on the garden patio, sitting underneath the evening sky which was like a pure molten gold ocean with flecks of amethysts and rubies. But there was something wrong. An awkward silence because nobody had any idea of what to say.
There were three of them. The first was a girl who looked about my age. She had large chocolaty eyes, radiant soft brown skin and shining raven black hair that tumbled playfully about her shoulders. The other two, a man and woman in their early forties I assumed were her parents.
"Hi I'm Hermione" I said offering the girl my hand to shake. "Hi I'm Simran" she replied taking the proffered hand and looking a bit abashed. Having realized that we both did almost the same thing, we burst out laughing at the same moment! This managed to melt the distance between the adults too and at once I could hear my mum saying "So Mrs. Goyal do you take sugar?" and dad almost shouting "Really? I thought that I was the only one around here who played tennis we really should play together some time" and on and on.
Meanwhile Simran and I seemed to have exchanged with them, so we were sitting in silence not quite knowing where to start, but luckily it was only a temporary shyness.within five minutes we were jabbering away with the best of them! It was amazing because I've never made a friend so easily and after that evening it felt like I'd known her as my closest friend for my whole life even though we spent our time talking about absolutely nothing!
So anyway, later we agreed to go out the next day (that's today) so I could show her around town (or the village more like!) Mum thought it was great that I am now doing something in the holidays except for sitting around and getting bored out of my mind.
So today in the afternoon, I took Simran around to see the village.not that there was much to see. A café or two here, a grocery shop there, a cinema and the leisure centre. But it didn't really matter though. It turns out that talking with her is more fun than anything else anyway. We talked about absolutely anything we could think of. At first it was the normal "So you are from India.it must be pretty hot blah blah blah" until we got to stuff like the latest gossip going around with a few "What is blue and looks like a bucket?" jokes that normally no one laughs at but we somehow spent a good ten minutes rolling around on the floor for!
Seriously though I think I've found a true friend with whom I would love to spend the rest of the holidays with. It seems almost that we were almost meant for each other (not in that way!) and now I don't feel so bad about not going to The Burrow this holiday. In fact the thing I am worried about is how I'm going to be able to keep my magic a secret from her because I truly want to tell her everything, seeing as the rest of my closest friend are all boys who wouldn't have the patience for such a thing. I mean I know it sounds really stupid and girly saying that I want to tell her all my secrets and have sleepovers and stuff but that's what I really want to happen because I never really was able to do that with the other girls at Hogwarts.
Well anyway time to go again. I need to sleep because I'm going out with Simran again tomorrow.I can't wait!!