The house was a light blue with some bricks on it. The thing that made her think this house needed work was the yard. They needed to landscape, bad?
The inside of the house looked a lot better. It was clean, and reminded her of being at school. Hermione walked into the closest room and was reminded of her room back at home. The walls where red, the furniture was white leather. Then to her satisfaction she found a big screen TV.
"You have a really nice house Mr. Banks," Hermione said. She saw him give her a smile and then walked to a staircase that she had over looked.
"John, I have someone over do you want to come down and meat her?" Banks yelled up the stairs.
"Yeah, I'll be right down, I have to finish cleaning my room really quick," a voice yelled back down the stairs. Hermione guessed that it was John, Mr. Banks son.
They had to wait there only a couple of minutes until a boy around her age came bounding down the stairs. He looked a lot like Draco Malfoy just with green eyes instead of stormy gray.
"John this is Hermione, she'll be staying with us for the night. I have to take her to an orphanage tomorrow around twelve," Mr. Banks said.
"Oh, Hi, do you want to come upstairs or would you like to stay downstairs," John said.
"I'll go up there," said Hermione, "Where do you want me to put my stuff?"
"Just set it down right here, you can get your stuff when your ready to leave or change, I have to go back to work now, see you guys later," said Mr. Banks and he walked out of sight.
Hermione walked up the steps and followed John into his room. He closed the door behind her.
"What happed to your parents," John asked. Hermione was kind of shocked for him to be so forward, but she answered.
"They died in a car accident today, I don't have any family that will take me in either," said Hermione, she knew he would ask why she just didn't go live with relative, so she just put that in there with the first question.
"Oh, I'm sorry I shouldn't be noisy like that," John said. He looked down at the floor and she noticed that he was slightly built.
"No, its okay, you where just curious. Do you work out at the gym," Hermione asked.
"Sometimes, it's a good way to relieve stress," he answered. John looked back up at Hermione; she just couldn't help but think of Malfoy.
"Where do you go to school," Hermione asked she didn't know if Mr. Banks had told him about being a wizard and she didn't want to tell him, without his parents consent.
"Jude High, where do you go," he asked. I knew it they haven't told him. Oh well he's going to find out one way or another, but I'm not going to be either of the ways.
"I go to a private school, I don't know where it is, they put us on a train and that's how we get there. The name is Hogwarts," Hermione said, she didn't want him to know what she was, it was very important to her to keeping that she was a witch a secret. It's not like he would ever find out what Hogwarts was.
"That's a strange name for a school," John said.
"Yeah I know," said Hermione and for the first time that day she smiled.
The rest of the day the two kids sat around and watched TV. They told each other stories about their friends, and then they pigged out on junk food. Hermione despite how horrible she was feeling that her parents died she was having fun.
"Do you have to go tomorrow," John asked. During their time together John and Hermione became friends and from Hermione got off of his stories of his friends he didn't have many.
"Yeah, I do, it's not like a have a choice. I have to go, you never know I may see you around some time," Hermione said trying to hit that he could go to her school, if his parents would tell him what he really was.
"True I may see you again soon. Maybe sometime during the summer you can come over, that's if you have a new family by then," John said the last bit he said more to himself then Hermione. There was the sound of the door closing then a woman's voice carried through the house.
"John, I brought home chicken," she said.
"Thanks mom, did Dad tell you that we have someone staying the night," John yelled back.
"Yes, where is she," she said.
"In here with me, you'll like her I promises," John said.