The headmaster had looked very serious and very sad when he said this, and Hermione had felt the distressing, sinking feeling that he really didn't think she had a chance of coming back at all. She supposed she was probably not the first Muggleborn he had seen withdrawn from his school by parents who didn't understand, and she probably would not be the last. What was she going to do? She had been so excited to go to Hogwarts, to learn to do magic, of all things -