Hermione woke up to find herself on couch with popcorn and candy all around her, the DVD play screen for cocktail still on the TV, and a very cheery Alex making pancakes. Hermione looked around, something was out of place. It took her a moment and remembered why she had cooked every dinner and breakfast for her and Alex. Alex was a terrible cook! Hermione jumped off the couch and began to walk toward Alex.
"What are you doing?" Hermione cried.
"Making breakfast!" Alex said, sounding hurt.
"You can't cook!" Hermione called as the smell of burnt beacon started to fill the air. She rushed over and turned off all the burners but too late, the smell of burnt beacon and pancakes took over the room. Hermione looked at the kitchen, batter everywhere, along with flour, eggs and a number of thing Hermione didn't want to know what were. Then as if not to add to the chaos, the toaster started to smoke, and catch fire, and Hermione noticed that bread wasn't in it, but it was filled with frozen strawberries. Hermione gapped at her roomate as her put out the fire, and turned off the smoke detector.
"What the hell were you doing" Hermione yelled
"I was cooking" Alex spat back.
"Well I'll go tell Marie were ok, becuase she would have heard the smoke detector, then get us some breakfast, and coffee, while you clean up this mess" Hermione said. Hermione wanted any reason to get out of the smoke filled kitchen. "OK?"
"Ok" Alex said quietly
Hermione rushed out of her flat and upstairs to the owner of the building and restaurant to tell her they were fine. Hermione had a very long lecture of how it was very early for us to have smoke dectetors going off, and soon was heading down the street to a nearby cafe. Hermione then thought she would take her time and walk through some shops to burn time so the flat was very smoke free. Hermione pasted through a number of souvenir and antique shops, then Hermione turned walked into a used bookshop. The bookshop was quite large, and she decided to take a walk in the shop.
There were all kinds of books in the shop, and Hermione was on cloud nine, she quickly passed the science and philosiphy books, and found the fiction section. She look through many books and spent quite a long time there, but her gaze fell on a book on the very top shelf, it was far away, but on the spine she could make out a crest with a H on it. She climbed the ladder and took the book from the self, she stared at the cover, it was a plain black book, but about too times the size of a normal book, the title was imprinted in to the cover and read "Seven years of wonder" Under the cover was a crest that was famillar, it had an H in the middle, and a Bager, Lion, Raven, and Snake in each corner..
"I found that book a while back, I did" Hermione heard a voice behind her, "You might be the first person to ever give that a second glance, you might be... odd book it is, very very odd, all written by hand. Odd story too."
"Where did you get this?" She asked but her gaze didn't leave book, she stared in wonder.
"I got that a while back I did, maybe 10 years, no no longer, long long time. Odd man gave it to me, he very very odd, very tall too."
"um.." Hermione said looking at the old shop keeper, "I'll take it"
Hermione left the shop staring at the book and walked all the way to the cafe with her head down, just staring at the cover, she was thinking one thing, Why was it there? When Hermione got her breakfast, she put the book carefully into her bag and quickly returned home shuffling with her breakfast and coffee.
When Hermione returned to home almost all the smell was gone, but Hermione didn't care. Alex calledher name but Hermione didn't answer. She put the breaskfast on the table, then went directly into her room and placed the book into the suitcase she would be taking tomorrow, covered it with some clothes and hurried into the kitchen the book still on her mind. She wouldn't be able to read it with Alex around, what if it contained whys to tell if someone a witch? Or something worse? She just couldn't risk it.
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