The orphans were not kind to Hermione, calling her strange and running from her after she awoke the ward she slept on her with her screams. When she threw the door from its hinges, shattered several windows. At the time she did not know it was magic that made her do this, that she had a specialness within her begging to be let loose. But the orphans took it as a sign that she was something akin to the dirt beneath their shoe, that she was anything but extraordinary. And she almost began to believe them, until Tom arrived. Handsome and stoic Tom, who brought to her the world she truly belonged to, the world that someone had rudely cast her from.