The Boy Who Lives
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the stories characters yet. They all belong to J.K. Rowling. The bit where Hermione can talk to animals is my plot but not my idea. It is Tamora Pierce's idea.
Chapter 3: The Third Friend
A couple of minutes before this, near the boarder crossing in-between Scotland and England a young girl, about the same age as Ron, with amazingly bushy hair was having a heated argument with her mother.
"Do you have to go mum?" the girl asked quite annoyed at loosing the argument. "I mean it's the holiday and every thing, and you're supposed to have fun on holidays not work!"
"But dear, the dentists short of staff and I know that I'll get extra money for working when it's not my shift. Plus you'll get your father to yourself and you won't have me in the way."
"But I don't want dad to myself. You promised me we'd go shopping today and dad is never good at sho-"
Tap tap tap
"Holy shit," the girl shouted after seeing a huge eagle-owl (N/A I love owls, they are so cute.) tapping at the window with a tiny letter tied to its talons. (well the letter wasn't really tiny but it was small compared to the owl)
"Hermione Granger, will you watch that mouth of yours!" Hermione's mum said deadly calm. "If you don't then I'll make you go and wash your mouth out with soap and see if that clears that foul language out of your mouth." Hermione shut-up after this, she didn't want to wash her mouth out with soap. Soap tasted nasty. If she had to wash her mouth with soap then she would be tasting soap in her food for days to come.
"Though it did give me a scare as well. It's probably just a bird from the sanctuary that got lost on a show. We'll just wait and see where it goes." Mrs Granger said.
They waited for about two minutes when Hermione finally said.
"I think we should let her in."
"Honey, I don't thing we should and who said the owl was a she." Said Mrs Granger.
"Hoot hoot hoot."
"Uhhhh mum….. she's talking to me. And I can understand her. It's soooo weird. Hey pipe down a bit will you miss, I know you've been waiting a long time and that we're talking through a window but I'm not deaf!" 'Mione said.
"Errrrr Hermione dear, maybe we should leave the bird and take you to the hospital to get you some ….. errr help." Mrs Granger said shifting from one food to the other.
"Mum there is nothing wrong with me." 'Mione walked over to the window muttering "Yeh, yeh, yeh." She dragged up a chair to the window, kneeled on it, unlatched the latch for the window and opened it. In swooped Wiggy (the eadle-owl) and she dropped the letter into Hermione's hand and glided away. "Don't forget to say goodbye!" Hermione said sarcastically waving her hand.
Hermione looked at her hand in which the letter was lying in.
"Errr mum, this letters got my name on it. What should I do?" Hermione asked.
"Do what you do with every letter. Open it." Said Hermione's mum still considering Hermione with caution.
Hermione turned the letter over in her hand and saw a red, wax seal with a weird symbol on it of a snake, a lion, a badger, a bird (N/A sorry people but I have forgotten what type of bird it is.) and a big H in the middle. Hermione broke the seal and started taking the letter out of the envelope……..
(N/A so how do you like it? Love it? hate it? please read and review.)