Originally Posted: May. 27th, 2008
Length/Rating: 100 words, PG, Gen
Pairing/Warnings: none
Summary: Written for hp100 challenge Drip, but missed the deadline (woe!).

HARRY POTTER is trademark and copyright JK Rowling, her publisher Bloomsbury, and, to some extent, Warner Bros. All rights reserved. No copyright infringement is intended nor implied.

It’s one thing to be born a wizard in a wizarding family, quite another to have muggle parents and a muggle world. Only fairy tales.

Most children stumbled from one existence to another, stepping from wading pools into deepwater tides, but not Hermione. She knew –folk tales– just how much her world was changing. Legends.

Out of place, out of depth, she reads to stay afloat. Just myths.

Soaking it in, hoarding every scrap of information, every drop of knowledge, determined to protect her family, her friends. Because she knew what was waiting in the dark…