A/N: To tell the truth, I dunno where this story is going.
Chapter Three: Hermione Meets RincewindHermione felt as if she were in heaven. She stood in the center of the University's gigantic library. She had a rather bad sleep that night, seeing as she had to sleep in one of the housekeeper's bedrooms because she was a lady.
The headmaster, Archancellor Ridcully, was rather rude, in Hermione's best opinion. Sure he had given them the hospitality, and she was very grateful of it. But when she was told that anything she needed answering, she would have to ask the headmaster. However, when Hermione was told this, she expected the headmaster to be more like… well… Dumbledore. What she hadn't expected was a grouchy old man who just yelled.
Nobody was up, so Hermione thought she would just go and check out the University's library. It was nothing like the one back at Hogwarts. This library looked as if it owned every book on every subject.
Hermione did some research about Ankh-Morpork, and the rest of the Discworld. She found it terribly fascinating. Hermione also discovered that there was no restricted section, and the University's library was also a public library, sort of. It made her wonder why Ridcully wasn't cautious when it came to letting muggles read the books. After a little more research, Hermione discovered that there wasn't actually any muggles on the Disk. Everyone knew about wizards and what happened inside the University wasn't any of their business.
At first, Hermione thought it was rather nice not having to keep the wizarding world a secret, but after some serious thought, she discovered that on the Discworld, if you got turned into a frog. Well… you got turned into a frog. No Ministry would come and revive you to your normal form and make that wizard pay justice. Here, however, you remained a frog until the wizard felt like turning you back again. That's if he remembered, of course.
Hermione flicked through some books when she heard someone say, "Ook." She looked up from her book and saw an orangutan knuckling through the shelves. She searched the library until she found a wizard. She knew he was a wizard because of the hat he wore, which said: WIZZARD.
Hermione tapped him on the shoulder, causing the wizzard to jump.
"Are you the librarian?" She asked.
The wizzard peered at her suspiciously. "I'm the librarian's assistant." He said hopefully.
"You'll have to do." Hermione said in a bossy tone.
The assistant librarian panicked. "I have to do what?" Nervousness wrung through each word.
"Did you know that there is a monkey wandering around here?" She asked questioningly.
The wizzard looked slightly surprised. "There is? Which way did it go?"
Hermione pointed towards a row of books. "That way."
The wizzard and Hermione walked along the row of shelves until they saw the orangutan reading the spines of various books. The wizzard seemed to ignore the monkey completely and was searching the rows of books.
"Hang on," He said to Hermione when he finally noticed the orangutan. "I'll go ask."
The wizzard walked up to the ape, and to Hermione's great surprise asked: "Have you seen a monkey around here? This young lady seems to claim she's seen one."
The monkey shook his head. "Ook." It replied.
The wizzard walked back to Hermione. "He says he hasn't seen one."
Hermione just gaped at him. "He's standing right there!"
The wizzard looked over his shoulder. "Oh, him." He looked at Hermione again. "That's the librarian."
Hermione continued to stare. "That's the librarian? But it's a m-" The wizzard clamped his hand over Hermione's mouth.
"Whatever you do, don't call him the M word. He doesn't mind ape, and try not to do bad ape impersonations… he doesn't like that either."
Hermione stared at the Librarian. "But… but…" She stuttered once his hand had been removed.
"If it makes you feel any better, he's actually a wizard."
"The how did he get like this?"
The wizzard waved vaguely. "Working in this library. These books are very powerful. They accidentally turned him into an orangutan. We didn't fire him because he's the only one here who knows how the library system works."
Hermione nodded, she thought of what the Hogwarts librarian, Madam Pince, would say if she found someone in the like the Librarian in her library.
"Oh, I haven't introduced myself," She said. "I'm Hermione. Hermione Granger."
The library assistant was slightly taken aback by this sudden introduction.
"Rincewind." He grunted.
Hermione smiled, Rincewind winced. Nothing good happened when someone smiled at him.
"OY! HERMIONE!" Someone called. They turned to see Ron and Harry standing in the doorway.
"Oh, I have to go!" She flashed him another smile. "Nice to meet you, Rincewind." She ran off towards the other two.
Rincewind just stood there in shock. Someone had smiled at him without, in fact, trying to kill him, push him over the Edge, or transport him all the way across the Disc.
"Great. Another Twoflower." He said weakly before fainting.
A/N: I know you've all been reading this so for the sake of my sanity, please review. Actually, if you don't review I won't really care coz if I were reading this story I wouldn't bother to review. But review anyway coz I don't care if you haven't got anything nice to say, just give me something to work with people!