Disclaimer: I do not own, nor will I ever own, the Harry Potter characters, situations that occur in the HP series. They belong to the incredibly talented and now rich J.K Rowling. Thank you for bring them into existence or us to screw with them.
A/N: Thank you for my reviews… I loved every one of them. They made me happy while studying for exams. Now that they are over, I will hopefully be able to update more often. I will be going home soon, to the crappy dial up internet and hopefully will be able to write on there. If not, I am soooooo sorry but I will continue to write chapters during my break and will post them the second I return to my cable connection. So in short if I don't update over Christmas Hols, I am not dead and the fic will go on, as will life… in the Harry Potter world………
P/S: I know some of were in worried that this was going to be an O/C oriented fic… but it WON'T be. This is a HG/VK fic and that's the way it's gonna stay. I needed a way to introduce the fact that Herms isn't what she appears to be to the neighbourhood.
PPS: And to answer one of the questions in the reviews, Hermione is now 18, this is because of the time turner used… I should have stated that but forgot. So she can legally use magic outside of school. She shouldn't have used it in front of a muggle and I will incorporate something to this effect in this chapter.
Chapter 3: Leaving on a jet plane…oops… leaving in a old car…
Hermione Granger was not very happy with certain people who were at this moment in the kitchen discussing what they should tell their daughter, what they didn't know was that Hermione, taking a page from Fred and Georges book, was using a pair of Extendable Ears, which she had pinched the year earlier. She could hear them arguing about what to tell Hermione about the rumour which had been circulating around her home town for six years, that she was going to a school for the Criminally Insane. Hermione decided while listening to her parents that they sounded like another set of parents she knew of, these parents however were not good ones. Those parents were Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Durnsley, of number four Privet Drive.
Hermione heard her parents' chairs scrape across the floor of the kitchen and quickly rolled the Extendable Ears and stuffed them into the pocket of the jeans she was wearing. She was sitting on the settee when her parents came in and sat on the chairs in front of her.
"Sweetie, we really shouldn't have told the whole neighbourhood that" her father said.
"No, we really shouldn't have. But before you left there were odd things happening to you and the neighbours noticed. We told them you were going to a special school to sort of your difficulties and they assumed that meant something completely different" her mother said.
"Well, it's not as if you stopped them. Thank you again for being such nice parents, I LOVE you and will miss you. By the way, I am now going to pack and will be going to the Burrow for the remainder of the summer. You will be able to contact me through floo but that doesn't mean I will want to talk to you. I will then go to school and graduate, I may invite you to the ceremony…MAYBE. I will then find an apartment in the Wizarding World and will then start my apprenticeship with Professor Severus Snape. I will become a Potions Mistress and just maybe… I said maybe I will include you in my life- but that's not certain yet. Have a nice life" Hermione said sarcastically as she stood up and stamped her way up to her bedroom, where she flicked her wand and her clothes started to fold and pack themselves into her open trunk on the floor. She flicked her wand again and the books she would need packed themselves into a carry all bag Hermione had taken down from the closet while her clothes were being packed. Within ten minutes her entire room and life was lacked up into little bags which she had shrunk and put into her pocket along with the Extendable Ears.
Hermione grabbed her favourite flip-flops and her car keys and went downstairs to see her parents looking dumbfounded at the settee where she had been sitting.
"Goodbye." She said and left then house. She knew she wasn't being rational but she really didn't feel like it as her parents had lied to her and had lied to all the people in her home town, they all thought she was crazy, so why not let them think that by zooming off in her old car, never to been seen again.