Yo! Sorry this took so long to get up, I am the worst updater EVER. In the history of FanFiction! Anyway, here it is, chapter two! Dedicated to another of my old teachers, my elementary school's nurse, Mrs. Richards- whom I have also included in this story. Let it be said, this is not a correct interpretation of her character though. She's actually much nicer. :)

Disclaimer: Same as before, duh.

Hermione opened her eyes. Katie was looking down at her. "Hermione! Are you okay? That looked like it hurt!" As she finished saying this she sent a nasty glare over at Matt.

"I'm fine..." Hermione answered, when in truth she most definitely wasn't. She had scraps all over her hands and face and could feel that a sliver of tooth was missing from one of her front teeth. A good thing I suppose. she thought, They're so big...

"Oh my gosh! Hermione, you're so not okay! You're bleeding!" Mr. Starkmon finally came over. "Hermione, I think you need to go to the nurses' office."

"Yeah, umm okaaay..." Hermione swayed, she must have hit her head and now felt a bit dizzy.

"Ah, Katie would you please take Miss Granger down to the nurse's office?"

"Sure Mr. Starkmon. Common 'Mione" Katie took Hermione by the arm and half dragged her down to the nurse's office where Mrs. Richards was checking a boy's temperature.

"Oh, hello. Sign in please, I'll be right with you!"

Soon enough Katie was back in class and Hermione was laying on a cot in the back, waiting for her parents to pick her up. They were working on a root canal of a poor middle-aged woman, or so Ms. Furrow, their receptionist had said. Hermione was jolted out of her thoughts by a rather loud conversation.

"I'm sorry Mr. Umm..."

"Dumbledore."

"Right. Mr. Dumferbore. But however important this may be, I'm afraid it is against school policies for anyone other than a child's parent or one of us nurses to see a child while they are staying here in the health office!"

"I am also sorry Mrs. Richards," name tags are wonderful things thought Dumbledore, "but I must see Miss Granger. I am a ... family friend."

"I'm sure you are Mr. Dooblemore, but rules are rules and-"

"It's okay, I know Mr. Dumbledore." Hermione piped up from her make-shift bed. "Can he please have a short talk with me Mrs. Richards?"

"I, well I, you know it's...oh all right, as long as you know him, I see no harm." Mrs. Richards did looked as if she did saw harm, and plenty of it, in letting Dumbledore in. "I shall give you two your privacy," and although she did walk back to her desk she kept shooting glances back at the pair until Dumbledore shut the curtains surrounding Hermione's bed.

"Umm... hello." Hermione, though she had fought the nurse to talk to this man, now did not know what to do or say.

"Hello Hermione."

"How do you know my name? If you are a family friend I don't believe I have met you."

"No, we have not yet been introduced. I am Professor Dumbledore of Hogwarts School. I am here to see if you are qualified for this school," Dumbledore said, avoiding her question.

"Does this school have anything to do with the bump on my head?"

Dumbledore chuckled. "Not in the slightest."

Hermione looked carefully at the old man standing next to her cot and became aware of his bright blue eyes, piercing her gaze and seemingly x-raying right on through. "What kind of school is this Hogwarts? I already have a perfectly normal school."

"Yes," Dumbledore agreed peacefully, "perfectly normal. A little too normal for you perhaps?"

"I don't-"

"Ah, but you do. Haven't strange things always happened to you Hermione? Or the people in contact with you everyday?"

"Yes," Hermione breathed out, almost inaudible. Now that she thought about it, she was very very different from her friends and just about everyone else at school. "are you saying..."

"Yes," Dumbledore's voice too became much softer than it had before. "and this is no joke Miss Granger. Hogwarts is indeed a school of magic. The finest in England no less."

Before Hermione could say anything back or even get her reeling thoughts back in order the curtain flew back to reveal a rather angry Mrs. Richards. "Hermione, your parents are waiting!"