Hermione opened her eyes and looked around. Sunshine was streaming through her bedroom window, birds were singing. Summer. Lovely season. She though how great it would be to meet up with her friend and hang around in Diagon Alley. Well, she was going there that day with her parents but she wasn't sure that she would meet them. She tossed in her bed for a little while more time remembering what was yesterday…

Oh, she remembered writing to Harry and the horrible dream…how gross is that, Malfoy and her making out! Yew! She though about that with a shudder. And WHY was she even thinking about that? About him?

"Well, actually he is can be called kinda cute", she said to her self.

"Yew, what am I thinking about? This creep, Malfoy, just gets on everybody's nerves".

She decided to get him and this dream out of her mind and think about what she should get Harry. With those thoughts she went to take a shower. She pinned her hair back, looking into the big bathroom mirror. She wasn't a show off type but she actually looked good with her now wavy not anymore bushy brown hair, she also did honey-blonde highlights a couple of weeks ago, it defiantly looked good on her, she had a flat tanned tummy and her breasts had quite grown over the summer. Suddenly she noticed something on her neck…it was little purple smooch…she remembered her dream.

"No, that can't be, even in wizard world, that is impossible. Oh, probably Crookshanks fooling around, must be just a scratch", she thought aloud, frowning.

She finished admiring herself…she admitted to herself that she was actually admiring because she liked the way she looked now. She got into the shower. How wonderful the cool water felt on her skin, if it was for her she would stay there forever but she had to get ready for the shopping trip to the Diagon Alley. Hermione dried herself with a towel and approached her wardrobe. Hardly having time to open the door of her closet she heard the phone ring, so Hermione had to run down stairs as she was, wrapped in a towel. She got to the phone and picked it up…

Hermione was really surprised to hear her mom's voice, she thought her parents were asleep, and she wondered what the time was.

"Hi, honey, we are so sorry that we can't go to purchase your school things with you. In the morning about 8 o'clock your aunt Lydia called, you remember her, don't you, from Finland, you last saw her when you were 3 years old. Oh, and she got into a car accident not long ago and she called to ask if we could stay with her the rest of the summer and look after her while her own children are on vacation, they don't know anything about it and she can hardly walk but the doctors say that she'll be ok and recover until September. We are at the airport now, waiting for the plane. So, how are you, dear? Did you have breakfast?"

"I am fine, mom, I just had a shower and I didn't eat anything yet. How is aunt Lydia? Say my regards to her, will you? I hoped to spend the rest of the summer with you and dad, but oh well… Will I stay in the house?

She hoped that mom would say something about Ron and Harry talking her to Sirius' house.

"Oh, Hermione dear, you'll have to stay at the Leakey Cauldron, because I am afraid to leave you alone in the house, but that place is always full so you will be alright there…"

"How am I supposed to get there?"

"Oh, I am sorry, dear, the registration to the plane has began, so your father and I have to hurry, I wrote everything in the note I left in the kitchen, love you, honey, bye, have a great summer, we will write to you, bye".

"But mom…"

But the phone went off already and she stood there for a couple of seconds listening to the annoying beeping inside the receiver. Okay, she had to find the note. She shivered a bit, being still in the towel.

"The note, the note…oh, here it is…found it… "

But before she could read it the doorbell rang. Hermione wondered who it was. She couldn't just open the door like that! She slowly made her way to the front door, reading the note. As her eyes run through the text they got bigger and she franticly searched for the time and when she looked at the clock on the dinning room table and it said 12:35, she winced in desperation. There was the doorbell again. Hermione reread the note once more to make sure that she wasn't making anything up.

Hermione, the Weasleys called just before we went to the airport. They called from Harry's house and they said that they are going to take him to the Diagon Alley today and they will come for you. We didn't want to wake you up so you could sleep a bit more. They said that they would be arriving at 12:30.They will drop you off at the Alley so you could purchase your school things. They apologized that they can't take you and Harry to stay over this summer. They didn't say why and I didn't insist they do. Be a good girl.

Love, mum & dad

Hermione heard the impatient knocking and ringing again and Ron's voice, "Hermione open the door or I am gonna open it myself! Don't worry it's just me and Harry now".

She sighted with relief, forgetting about her "clothes". And she happily went to the door.