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A Murder Amongst us

A 17-year old girl sat in her room pondering the thought of how her 7th year at Hogwarts would be like.

"TAP TAP!" Hermione snapped out of her thoughts as her attention drifted to her window. It was an owl. Hermione trudged to the window and opened it, letting the owl in. She gave it some water as she grabbed the letter. It had a Hogwarts stamp on it.

"Oh, the supply list!" Hermione thought. She opened the envelope:

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Welcome Ms.Granger to your final year as a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. We welcome you to a fabulous year ahead of you. Here are the following books you will need for the year:

Standard Book of Spells grade 7
Arthimancy grade 7
Muggle Studies grade 7
Herbolgy grade 7
Potions grade 7
Defense against the Dark Arts grade 7

You will need these supplies by September 1st, the first day of school. You may acquire them at Diagon Alley.

Albus Dumbledore
Minerva McGonagall
The rest of the faculty

Oh yes, and we are pleased to inform you that you are out new Head Girl. Congratulations!

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Hermione jumped and squealed with excitement.

"What happened sweetie!!" her mother asked out of breath from running up the stairs.

"AHHHHH!" Hermione yelled

"WHAT!"

"AHHHHH!"

"WHAT!!!'

"I'M HEADGIRL!!!"

"oh god honey, you scared me. "

"sorry."

"That's WONDERFUL," her mom said," We are going to celebrate by going out to eat. I'm going to inform your father." After her mom left, Hermione wrote letters to Ron and Harry telling them that she is Headgirl and to meet her at Diagon Alley August 27th .

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Harry laid on his bed in his room tossing and turning. He couldn't sleep. He kept thinking of Ginny, her beautiful red hair, her sparkly, green eyes. She was like an angel from heaven. Harry and Ginny had been going out for 1 and ½ years. He missed Ginny so much. He hadn't seen her for 2 months. That is the longest he had been away from her since they had been going out. Just then, there was a tapping at his window. He opened his window and let the owl in. He gave it some water and read the letter:

**************************************************************************** ********** Dear Harry,
I am Headgirl!! I just found out. I miss you and Ron and Ginny a lot. Let's all meet on August 27th. I have already sent a letter to Ron and Ginny letting them know. I hope the Dursley's are treating you right.

Lots of Love,
Hermione

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"Wow! Hermione is Headgirl! I get to see Ginny in 4 days!" Harry thought, and with that in mind, he fell soundly asleep.

"AHHHHHHHHH!! HELP! NOOOOOOOO!" Ginny screamed a piercing scream into the dark of the night.

Harry woke up with his scar burning.

"Why was Ginny screaming?" he thought. He went downstairs and was getting ready to tell his uncle to leave August 27th.

"Uncle Vernon?"

"What is it now boy!"

"Umm, I'm leaving for Diagon Alley on August 27th."

"That's fine, whatever. Just don't get any of us involved. It's your last time here anyways. When you come back at the end of the year, you are moving out!" Uncle Vernon yelled.

"Aww man," Harry said sarcastically, "I'm going to miss you all so very much. Be sure to keep in touch." Harry walked back to his room to start packing. He wondered what it would be like not living with the Dursley's.

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Hermione looked down Diagon Alley. It was full of life and bustling as usual. She headed off to buy her supplies.

"Almost done, just need to head to Flourish and Blots," she thought to herself.

"Hermione!" She looked around. Her name was being yelled, but from where? She looked to her left and saw Harry, Ginny, and Ron running toward her. Ron looked taller than Harry, but he was 6'2 and Harry 6'0. His red hair fell in his face handsomely and he was built due to training for quidditch. Harry looked lean and very cute. His unruly black hair fell casually into his face like rons but looked more natural. He, too, was very built from training. Ginny looked very grown-up and her red hair was pulled up into a high pony-tail and curled out and it looked very cute with her green eyes. Ginny, of course, had one of her hands interlaced with Harry's. Lately, you couldn't see the two of them apart.

"Hey 'Mione!" Ginny said as she hugged her," Congratulations! We got your letter about you being Headgirl."

"Thanks," Hermione replied," Hey Ron! Hey Harry!" she said hugging each of them. They stood around for a while talking and catching up and telling each other about their summers until all of a sudden someone knocked into Hermione's shoulder making her drop all of her supplies. She looked to see who it was to meet the piercing blue eyes of none other than Draco Malfoy. He looked tall and built. His hair was now dark blonde and wasn't slicked back.

"He looks cute," thought Hermione," WHAT AM I THINKING!"

"You stupid freakin' mudblood. Can't you watch where you're standing!" Harry and Ron were about to pounce on him but Hermione stopped them.
The slytherin girl beside him holding his hand told him, "Draco, sweetie, be nice. She wasn't doing anything wrong. Oh wait, yes she was, she was infecting the street with her dirty blood!" she smirked. She was a little shorter than Hermione and had black curly hair, almost in ringlets, streaked with dark red. She was very pretty.
Hermione looked at her with disgust and said with a fake smile, "Hello Cynthia! Nice to see you! I didn't you came out in the daytime! What's the special occasion?" Hermione smirked back at her.

"Let's go Draco. I don't like standing within 50 ft of a mudblood," Cynthia said as her and Draco laughed and walked off.
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That stupid git. Why didn't you let us beat the hell out of him!" Harry and Ron argued.

" He isn't worth it," Hermione said," Come on you guys, let's finish buying our supplies and then we will check into the Leaky Cauldron."

" but that stupid, motherf.." Harry started but was cut off by a kiss from Ginny. Ron looked awkwardly. After 5 seconds he said, "Ok Ginny, that's enough..alrite now, he is calm.GINNY STOP TOUNGING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET!"

"Relax Ron," Ginny said pulling away from Harry. Harry gave him a sly smile.

"You're dead Harry!" Ron exclaimed.

"It was worth it!" Harry said smiling.

"HARRY YOUR ASS IS MINE!!" Ron said.

" But Ron, you won't even let me have that," Ginny said giggling. Ron stormed off with anger.
Harry followed Ron and said, "Don't worry, I wouldn't do anything to hurt her, but we ARE going out. You have to accept that."

"Yea, I kno, but I just get so protective of her, but I'm glad she is going out with someone that I trust completely."

Harry smiled, "Let's go get our supplies."