You're My Nirvana

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Hermione stepped of the train only to see huge black horses, although, they weren't horses. they had what seemed to be black leather stretched along their skeletal bodies, their wings were tucked neatly into their sides, but if they spread them they would be, at the least a couple feet long. they were Thestrals. Harry had told Ron and Her about them about four years ago but they hadn't believed him.

Ron

shaking her head she climbed into one of the carriages, and saw Neville and Luna were sitting together. they welcomed her into the carriage.

"Hey Hermione, how've you been? how was your summer?" Neville looked positively delighted that she had joined them.

"hello Hermione,how are you?" Luna looked, well like Luna, as misty as ever,but slightly happier than she had looked.

"oh my summer was fine, just got over a slight cold though, how about you guys?"

"oh me? well, gran and I went to Alaska and studied the history and stuff. but i got to say, i quite enjoyed it. more than i thought i would!" he finished with a shy smile and nodded at Luna.

"me and my father just stayed home for the summer, plant some new trees, but other wise that's all." she stared of into the distance for a couple seconds, but then came back to earth. "what do you guys think will happen this year?"

"oh i don't know, well actually gran said that there might be a new law passed that involves us seventh years, but you know gran, once she hears gossip that gossip is fact." Neville muttered some other things under his breath but the weren't very audible and hermione preferred not to hear what he said,

by that time, their carriage had arrived at the entrance to Hogwarts. they stepped out and into the castle, followed with a couple gasps coming from a few second years, who had not seen the school this way before.

everybody except for the first years were crowding into the great hall, which as usual,was lit with floating candles. A few of the second year boys reached to grab the candles but as soon as it looked like they were going catch it it floated out of their reach, a couple of the second year girls laughed at their attempts.

once everybody had sat down Professor McGonagall ,(now Headmistress)stood up to great them all, "welcome students to another year at Hogwarts, i hope your summers were filled with joy and if not i hope that your school year will make up for that. as per usual the forbidden forest, is and the name explains, Forbidden. now at the end of the sorting i would like the seventh years to stay for an extra announcement. that is all!"

looks like Nevilles grandmother heard right

the first years, all filled into the great hall with Hagrid at the front, leading them. he dropped them of before McGonagall, where she called of their names from a scroll, 'Abby Fairweather.", was the first name of the list, she was sorted into Ravenclaw.

Hermione heard shuffling coming form behind her and turned around to shush them. it was Harry and Ginny, Ginny leapt out onto hermione and grabbed her in a bear hug, "hermione!you didn't owl me all summer! i was worried! and then i couldn't find you on the train!" Ginny was practically yelling at hermione.

"Ginny shush. i'll tell you about it later, but right now the sorting's happening!"now was the time to think of how she was going to tell Ginny what had happened, without her going to try and murder Ron, not that she would care but she didn't Ginny want to be convicted of murder.

soon after the sorting had ended, and the feast had started. Ginny had decided that this was her time to pounce.

"so why didn't you owl me hermione?" looked at hermione expecting an answer, but as hermione was trying to come up with an explanation she ponced again, "Ron said he had owled you a bunch this summer but you hadn't responded back, you cant do that to me I've been really worried all summer! you could have died and i wouldn't have know it!" by the time she had finished hermione had her explanation.

"Ron and i broke up" she sighed, " that's why i wasn't responding to his owls, they were all apologies."

Ginny looked heartbroken. "but,you guys were so in love, what happened?"

lavender was going out with Ron when me and him and broke up." she told a play-by-play of what had happened that night. by the time that she finished Ginny was looking murderous.

"that prick! i'm going to get him if that the last thing i do" she stood up to go and attack her brother. but hermione grabbed onto her and whispered, " you are not going to do that until i tell you that its okay, alright?"

"yeah yeah, okay whatever you want..." she grumbled and sat back down, the feast went on for about another twenty minutes and then Professor McGonagall stood and almost bellowed over the noise.

"everybody. tut tut, of to bed! and seventh years please stay seated, there is an announcement to be made by Remus Lupin."

with an air of excitement people talked about what the announcement was and what the minister was going to say.from across the room hermione could feel someone was staring at her, she turned her head to see who it was and from across the room she saw malfoy move his head away from her direction.

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