Hermione's Diary

01/08/07

Dear Diary,

Today I found out that I was adopted. It was an accident. It was around 6 in the morning and I woke up because I was nervous about being Head Girl along side Draco Malfoy. I know there's still a month before we go back but I got my letter yesterday. Well anyway, I couldn't get back to sleep so I went down-stairs to get breakfast.

I heard sobbing from the lounge and went to investigate, I'm usually the only one who cries at home and it's all because of HIM. I went into the lounge and saw the dark outline of my mother. She was bent over a piece of paper on the coffee table. I have the ability to turn invisible without my noticing when I don't want to be seen, this was one of those moments. I crept up to the other side of the coffee table, what was on the paper made me want to scream. They were adoption papers.

I came out of my invisible state and made mum jump. She almost fainted from shock, but not as much as I wanted to. I saw the name on the piece of paper and nearly screamed. The name was 'Juliet Rose Granger'. My middle name was Juliet. I was just about to ask mum what the meaning of this was, but she had already started explaining that when I was born my birth parents weren't expecting a girl and didn't want me, so they gave me up for adoption.

As she said this I remembered something I had read on the back of a chocolate frog card. The card was for Mr. And Mrs. Granger. It said 'The Grangers are widely known for their abilities to turn in invisible when they don't want to be seen, do magic without a wand (another one of the many things I can do), remember knowledge by running their fingers over it then copying the knowledge onto another piece of paper by running their fingers over a blank piece of paper (I can do that too) and finally they are known for being Pure-Half-Blood's for at least 2 centuries more than the Malfoy line.' Oh. My. F-ing God.

After I had come out of my trance I ran up to my room and magically packed my whole room, everything except the walls, door, and windows, into a rather small suitcase that was more like a make-up bag, grabbed my broom, the latest model (Kently Twister 5000), and flew out my open window. I had to use about a million shrinking charms on my stuff to make it fit, I mean do you know how big a double four-poster bed is? I didn't know where I was flying but it turned out that when I stopped I was here, in Hogsmeade. I remembered something when I stopped in front of The Three Broomsticks. I remembered that the Grangers owned a small ladies and gents fashion shop right here in Hogsmeade. I went into the 3B's and asked Madam Rosmerta if there was a spare room. She said there was and showed me where to sign the form saying it was my room until I felt the urge to leave. She then showed me where the room was so I could put my stuff down. I told her I would only be here for a month at the most.

After I had put my stuff down and had some breakfast, on the house might I add, I went out into the street and started looking for my favorite fashion shop I went into everyday with my best friends, Pansy Parkinson and Blaise Zabini. I found the shop and went up to the counter and rang the bell. As soon as I rang the bell a nice lady in her mid-thirties came to the counter. I asked her if I could speak to the Grangers and she said she was Mrs. Granger. I could see the resemblance in our features.

Mrs. Granger was just staring at me, wandering what I wanted. I came out of my trance when I heard her call back to Mr. Granger that she wanted him to come have a look at me. When he came out he almost fainted.

It's getting late, my hand hurts from writing so much and I'm really tired so I'm going to continue this is the morning when I get up.

Yours always,
Hermione J. Hamilton.