Chapter 1 – Of Reunions

Hermione Granger, undersecretary to the Minister for Magic, sat at her desk and stared at the large teetering pile of mail that waiting in her inbox, and still the owls kept on coming through the door, depositing more and more post until the pile finally gave way to gravity. It hit the desk and scattered everywhere, Hermione just looked as the wave of paper came towards her with defeat and accepted her fate as she was engulfed in parchment. Oh why had she come in this morning, why hadn't she taken the day off like her friend's had suggested, she hadn't been feeling well, but being the person she is, she had battled on and was determined to come into work.

She huffed, looking around at all the papers, pulled her wand from her inner robe pocket she gave it a simple yet elegant flick and they soared into the sky, obediently sorting themselves into piles, depending on the topic they held within. A pile for Ministry related matter, a pile for junk mail and a pile for her personal mail, which has always had sent to the office, that was she was sure of receiving it. Hermione started on the smallest of these piles, her personal mail, a letter from Ron telling her all about his latest matches, he was a keeper and team captain now for the Chudley Cannons, a letter from Ginny, telling her all that they needed more girl time and should meet up for coffee, gossiping and shopping. She was half way through reading this letter, not completely paying attention to its contents when she noticed something out of the corner of her eye. A thick yellow parchment envelope with familiar writing on the front of it, she picked it up and turned it over and there it was, the same red was seal. Hogwarts had sent her a letter, more precisely Professor McGonagall had sent her the letter, for that was who the Headmistress was now.

"I wonder what this could be about," Hermione wondered aloud to herself, sliding her finger underneath the fold and breaking the seal. Pulling out the piece of parchment within she read.

"Dear Miss Granger,

It has been exactly five years since you graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And here we feel that a reunion is in order, for you all to meet your fellow classmates once again and discuss what you have been up to in this intervening time.

Therefore you and one other person if you so wish, are cordially invited back to Hogwarts Castle for a meal in the Great Hall and evening drinks on the 20th June at 5pm. Dress code for the event is evening formal wear.

It will be a delight to see you all once again.

Yours,

Professor McGonagall

Headmistress "

Hermione put the parchment down on her desk and immediately grabbed a clean piece of parchment from the top drawer of her desk, picked up her quill and began writing her reply.

"Dear Professor McGonagall,

Thank you very much for the invitation, I shall be very pleased to attend on the 20th of June and to once again speak to you.

Yours,

Hermione Granger"

Hermione paused for a moment, thinking about if she should or should not be adding her personal title of undersecretary to the Minister for Magic on the bottom of her letter. Thinking on it she decided against it, it simply sounded big headed and rude, something she didn't want to present to Professor McGonagall.

Sealing the letter away and stamping it with her own wax seal, she passed it into the possession of her barn owl ,Elisabef, who took the letter gently and swooped out of the door on her newest mission for her mistress.

Looking at today's date on her calendar Hermione noticed that the Hogwarts reunion was only a month away! She dashed off another letter, this time to Ginny asking her if she was available the next day for some shopping, she needed new dress robes for the reunion, deciding to give it to her owl when she returned.

Now that the excitement for the day was done, Hermione turned again to look at the piles of paper on her desk and began on the next pile, today was not going to be a fun day she thought to herself. However this newest development was something to look forward to and definitely something to discuss with her friends Harry and Ron when they had their weekly meet up in a few days time.

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