The Harry Potter books and the characters are all owned by J.K. Rowling. I own nothing. I have and will be adding first or last names those charters without them.
A/N: This is the first story I've done in a long time. I'm planning on making it a story where Hermione and the twins get together, but at this time it is undecided. I accept suggestions and if there is something you see as wrong please message me. I plan on sticking close to some things in the books, but other things will be completely different as you will see in this chapter. I will try and update at least once a week, but I am in nursing school and that comes first.
A young girl is sitting next to the fire place in the living room of her home reading her newest book 'The Hobbit'. Her mother Jane is sitting on the couch next to her also reading, her father John should be getting home with the pizza any minute.
There is a flash of light in the front window as a cars pulls into the driveway. "Hermione, mark your place. Your dad is here with the pizza, I want you to go set the table." Jane says, as she gets up and heads to the kitchen to put glasses of ice water on the table.
The front door slams open, and three men with masks over their face, rush in with guns out. "Freeze, and don't make a sound or I will shoot. We just want your valuables, and we will leave." Jane grabs Hermione and pulls her close. Two of the men come over and grab Hermione.
"Please leave my daughter alone. I will do anything, just don't hurt her." Jane pleads, one of the mean backhands Jane and her lip busts. Hermione screams, her hair starts wiping around her head, the three men collapse to the floor holding their heads. Jane rushes over to Hermione, by the time she gets her to calm down the men are unmoving.
John walks into the house and gasps. "What happened? Are you all right?" He wraps his arms around his wife and daughter.
Jane looks up with tears streaming down her face. "We are now. The men were going to rob us, they grabbed Hermione, and hit me. Then she started screaming and the collapsed. Go call the Bobbies." She then took Hermione in the living room where she held her in her lab.
"They are on their way her." John walks in and states, he then goes and checks the men's pulses, the men are dead. He walks out of the house to wait for the police.
Jane continues to rock the still crying Hermione. While doing this she is having flashes of memories from a life she didn't know she had. She knows that her daughter did accidental fae magic, and killed those men; that she herself has magic; and that Hermione is really the daughter of Sirius Black, not John Granger.
The police arrive at the house and are stunned at what happened. Upon taking of the masks of the three men, it is discovered that they are the ones caught on camera robbing houses all over Great Britain, and that they usually rape and torture anyone who is in the house. The coroner is called to take the men away.
Two police officers walks into the living room and bends down to look at Hermione. "Hello, my name is Sargent Wilkins and this is Officer Adams. Would you like to go into the kitchen and tell me what happened tonight, while Sargent Adams talks to your Mum?" Hermione looks up at Jane, who nods her head that it was okay.
Hermione slides off her mother's lap and leads Sargent Wilkins into the kitchen. "Sargent Wilkins, Mom and I were reading. I had started the eighth chapter of The Hobbit, when Mom seen a light in the window. We were headed into the kitchen to set the table. Mom thought the car was Dad's and that he was home with the pizza. Dad is sick and the doctors say he is going to die, and dad really wanted pizza. Then those three men mean came in the front door with guns, and told us not to move and that they were going to take our stuff. The tall and short guy came over and grabbed me and I started to get scared. Mom then asked that they not hurt me and they hit her. I started screaming and crying. Once mom calmed me down the men were on the ground not moving. Dad must have got back while I was still screaming, because I didn't know he was home yet. He was wrapping his arms around us. Finally mom asked dad to call the Bobbies and took me into the living room."
"Do you know why the men were on the ground not moving?" Wilkins asks her.
"Well when I started screaming I just wanted the men to leave us alone, and I think I made them fall asleep so they couldn't hurt mum anymore." Hermione says looking up at Wilkins with big teary eyes.
"Okay, let's go see if Officer Adams is finished talking to your mom."
"-don't know what happened to those men. They just fell didn't get back up. I didn't even touch them, I was worried about my daughter."
"Yes, Ma'am, but we have three men who are dead and we don't know why." Officer Adams growled out to Jane.
"Well, we'll have the coroners take a look at them and see what they can tell us. Thank you for your time. We should be out of your way soon." Wilkins said before Jane could start yelling at Adams. "Hermione is probably hungry and that pizza is more than likely getting cold. Why don't you go into the kitchen and eat while we wrap everything up and get any evidence we may need from the entry way."
John went out to get the pizza from the car and met Hermione and Jane in the kitchen. The pizza had to be re-heated and the meal was quiet. While they were eating the police had left. Once they were finished eating Jane took Hermione upstairs to have a bath and go to bed. That night Jane laid in bed with Hermione to help her daughter sleep. John got up many times that night to reassure himself that they were both safe and sound.
The next month was June and Hermione was released from school for the summer. She accompanied her parents to a dental conference in Paris. Jane and John took turns going to the different meetings, because they couldn't leave her alone all day. When John stayed with Hermione they would go to museums and tour around, and while he was at the conference Jane would take her into the magical district.
During their first visit to Rue de la Magie, or street of magic, visited the Gringotts France location to access her vaults and add Hermione so that if anything would ever happen to Jane, Hermione would always be able to get money out and go to any of the properties that Jane owned. While there she found out that both of her parents were killed the same day as James and Lily Potter. Next Jane went and got herself and Hermione a new wand. In France the wand was specially made for each witch and wizard; and allowed children to get them at a younger age, because there are so many with mixed magical heritages.
The wand maker was very polite and didn't ask if they had mixed blood. Jane's wand was a 12 3/4 inches cherry wood, with a core of unicorn hair and pixie feather, and Hermione's a 10 1/2 white maple, with a core of phoenix feather, and dragon scale.
On the other visits Jane showed Hermione the different types of pets, books, plants, and foods that were available in the wizarding world. Hermione understood this all was to be a secret between her and her mother.
Over the next several months John's health has diminished at an increasingly fast rate. It gets to the point where he is in longer able to work and Jane cannot even take care of him any longer, and they decide to move him into an assisted living home. At this time to the two decide to sell the dental practice, Jane tells him that she wouldn't be able to work their without him. During this time Jane teaches Hermione about their fae heritage, and why the magical government was unable to detect Hermione's accidental magic.
On March 19th 1989 John Granger dies of cancer. Since John had no family it was a small funeral with just Jane, Hermione, and a few friends. After John passed Jane packed up all of their things and moved with Hermione to their ancestral home. Jane does not sell the house though and rents it out to students going to school at the local university.
With John passed she feels that Hermione needs to meet her real dad, but has found out during the last several months that Sirius Black is in Azkaban prison. So she does the only thing she can do and sends her memories of James and Lily Potter changing their secret keeper to Peter Pettigrew, to Amelia Bones head of the British Ministry of Magic's Auror Department. Doing this she knows she may be revealing her existence to the wizarding world.
Amelia Bones is sitting behind her desk going over the watch rotations scheduled for her department, when an owl swoops in and lands on her desk, which is highly unusual. Usually the owls are sent to the auror on watch who goes through all the messages to determine which section of the department it needs to go to. After casting many spells to determine that the letter which is on muggle paper is not cursed or has anything dark she opens it, and out falls a few memory vials.
To the Head of Auror Department Britain,
It has come to my attention that Sirius Black has been held in Azkaban prison as a convict for the last seven and a half years. Considering that he has yet to be given a trial, I think it is about time. Attached is my memories of James and Lily changing their secret keeper to Peter Pettigrew, at the assistance of Albus Dumbledore on October 28th, 1981, three days before Voldemort attacked their home. Another vial is of the fact that Peter Pettigrew is an unregistered animagus.
Pettigrew was just as capable as Sirius Black to cast the hexes on the night of November the 3rd 1981, and then turn into an animagus so that it appeared the Sirius died that night.
The third and last vial is of the godparent ritual that Alice Longbottom (godmother) and Sirius Black (godfather) was in with Harry Potter. With this ritual Sirius could not have put the child (Harry Potter) or his parents (Lily and James Potter) in harm's way without dying himself. So the fact that aurors where able to arrest him and that he did not die on the night of October 31, 1981 means that he was not the person to reveal to location of the Potter's home willingly or not to Voldemort.
With that being said, I would greatly appreciate if you would keep my identity a secret. Days after October 31, 1981 the memory of myself, my daughter and I would assume anyone who knew of us was whipped clean. It was altered to the point that I thought my daughter was fathered by a man other than the truth. My magic was bound and I forgot everything about magic. I do not know who did this and I don't want this person to find out that I now have both my memories and magic, because they may just kill my daughter and me. If my identity must be revealed please inform me so I may take the necessary precautions.
Jane Granger nee McKinnon
Upon reading the name at the bottom of the letter some of Amelia's own memories were returned and she decided then that she would keep Jane's secret. She pulled Aurors Shacklebolt and Dawlish into her office. "Dawlish, grab parchment and quill and take good notes."
"Madam Bones, what is going on?" Kingsley Shacklebolt asked, standing at ease on the other side of her desk.
"We have some memories to look at, but first we need to find out if Sirius Black ever had a trial." Amelia stated, staring at the two aurors in front of her. Who stared back in shock.
"What do you mean did he ever have a trial? The man is responsible for the death of the Potter's, and killed Pettigrew himself." John Dawlish growled out, looking at Amelia like she was crazy. She continued to stare at the men.
"I'll check," Shacklebolt says, and walks out the door. The office is quite until he gets back. "Black was never tried or even questioned. He was arrested and taken to Azkaban, the papers were signed by Crouch and Dumbledore." Dawlish has a shocked look on his face and finally grabs parchment and quill.
Amelia takes the three vials of memories and dumps them into her offices pensive. An hour and a half later the three are out of the pensive and collapse into chairs around the office. Amelia is the first to speak, "This will not leave this office, and we don't want to alert Pettigrew if he is indeed alive. As much as I don't want to Black can stay in Azkaban for a little while longer and I'll apologize to him when he is released. Go find out how an owl was able to get around the alert that sends them to the Junior Auror on watch."
After the men leave her office, she puts up wards to keep this next meeting secret, and then presses a rune under the middle drawer on the right. There is a pop and a voice behind her asks, "Bones, what do you need help with today?"
"Croaker, I need to know if Peter Pettigrew is really dead. I've gotten some disturbing news today, that Sirius is actually innocent and I'm inclined to believe it." Amelia says, and there is another pop and Croaker is gone. While waiting Amelia looks through the notes Dawlish took and places them under a type of auror fidelius to keep anyone from revealing the information. Croaker pops back in and sits in a seat across from her.
"Well it appears as Pettigrew is not the only one who is alive. The Potter's are neither alive nor dead, they are in a type of suspension or another dimension. So is the entire Meadows family, Marlene McKinnon, and the Prewett twins to be short." Saul Croaker says. Amelia jumps at the name Marlene McKinnon. "What do you know about McKinnon?"
Amelia knows that Croaker will not reveal Jane's secret, "Marlene has a sister Jane, whose memories were wiped and magic bound. She didn't say how but she has both back now. She is actually the one to give me the information that I have."
"Well, I'll see what I can do about locating Pettigrew, and find out where the others are as well," then Croaker popped back out of the office, and Amelia penned a reply to Jane.
Jane,
It would appear my memories of you had been erased as well. Upon reading your name they came rushing back. We are working on getting Sirius released, but are trying to keep it quiet until we find Pettigrew. The only other person to know your secret is Unspeakable Croaker, and he will not reveal that to anyone. When everything settles down I would like to meet my goddaughter Hermione. Yes, my memories of that has come back as well.
Amelia
Over the next couple months her, Shacklebolt, Dawlish, and in secret Croaker searched high and low for Pettigrew and any other information they may need.
"Amelia, we need to find the person who is exploding these toilets on these muggles. Molly is going to kill me if I keep leaving at all hours of the night, pleaded a red-haired man named Arthur Weasley. He is sitting in front of Amelia's desk with his head in his hands. When he looks up he sees a picture of a familiar rat. "Why do you have a picture of a rat?"
"Oh, it is part of an investigation and the rat is probably nine years old at the youngest." Amelia says trying not to draw even more attention to it, then she changes the subject, "I'll see what we can do about finding out who is exploding these toilets.
That night the person that had been exploding the toilets was arrested, because he was knocked unconscious by a startled home owner, seconds later the toilet had exploded.
In a rickety home in Ottery St. Catchpole, in Devon England, Arthur says he is going to take the family pet Scabbers to the Magical Menagerie, for a check-up, because he looked a little ill. Arthur lied to his family that night, but he thought it was for the best. Percy his third son, put Scabbers in his cage, and placed it on the living room table so his dad could grab him on his way out in the morning. Once all the children where in bed, Arthur snuck down and placed a charm on the cage to keep the rat from escaping or the cage from breaking.
The next morning Arthur took the cage with him when he went to the ministry for work, and made a detour to Amelia's office. "What can I do for you today Arthur? We caught the guy exploding the toilets."
"Thank you for that Madam Bones. I'm here today, because I have this rat. It looks like the one from the picture that I seen yesterday, but it is missing a toe." Arthur unsurely replies.
Amelia's head snaps up to see the rat. "Shacklebolt, Dawlish, my office now," she yells. The two aurors in question come barreling in. "Check the rat, if I do I might just kill him."
The rat was squeaking and running around the cage, Dawlish waves his wand and it turns purple. "It is an animagus, it may just be Pettigrew." The squeaking got louder, Dawlish sent a stunner at the thing.
Peter Pettigrew woke up in his human form for the first time in many years. There was two people in front of him, a talk black man that he recognized as Kingsley Shacklebolt and a woman, Amelia Bones. He knew he was in trouble now.
"Peter Pettigrew, what have you been doing in the Weasley's home for the past eight years?" Amelia asks in a sweet voice.
"I was hiding from Black, he was trying to kill me. He went crazy, joined the Dark Lord, and betrayed James and Lily." Peter squeaked out.
"Now, Mr. Pettigrew, you wouldn't be lying to us would you now?" Amelia asks, with a smirk on her face. He shakes his head 'no'. "Peter, we know that the Potter's had their home under the fidelius charm. We also know that on October the 28th, 1981, that they changed to secret keeper from Sirius Black to you. Now would you like to tell the truth?"
"Black was the secret keeper, it was all him," Peter tried again.
"Maybe a day or two in Azkaban would get him to tell the truth," Shacklebolt suggested.
"NO," shouted Peter, "not Azkaban, please anything, but Azkaban." He was shacking in the metal chair he had been placed in. "Dumbledore made me secret keeper, he said that he didn't trust Black. The next day I was taken by Death Eaters and was tortured until I told them where the Potter's were located."
"So why do you have a Dark Mark then?" Shacklebolt asks. Then turns to Amelia, "I really think a night in Azkaban would do him good."
Peter whimpers, "Voldemort, said I would have power and that I would have women wanting to be in a relationship with me, instead of running the other way. That I would be able to live in a mansion and not my parent's basement. That my NEWT scores didn't matter, and when he was in charge of the country I could get any job I wanted."
"What else can you tell us? Right now you are looking at life in Azkaban. Either way you will be dying, but if you give us information you could choose between sitting in Azkaban, the Dementor's Kiss, or the Veil of Death." Amelia offered to Pettigrew, knowing he would cough up some information.
"You have to willingly take the Mark," Peter offered, he really didn't want to go to Azkaban. "The Dark Lords notes are in his manor in Little Hangleton. It used to be owned by a muggle family called the Riddle."
"If this information is correct, how do you want to die?" asks Amelia as she walks to the door with Shacklebolt.
"The veil, just let me go through the veil. If I ever see the light of day, I'm dead anyway," Peter replied, his head sinking to his hands. So on June 17th 1991, Peter Pettigrew was put through the veil, and Sirius Black was released from Azkaban two weeks after they found Voldemort's journals.
Amelia had Shacklebolt, but together a team of trusted aurors to infiltrate Riddle Manor. It included himself, John Dawlish, Amelia Bones, Alastor 'Mad-eye' Moody, Rufus Scrimgeour, and Edward Savage; the team was creeping up on the manor, checking for wards as they went. Surprisingly there were no wards, but upon reaching the front door, a trap was triggered and Dawlish was thrown ten feet away, down for the count. Dawlish's emergency portkey was automatically activated as a precautionary measure to St. Mongo's Hospital for Magical Maladies & Injuries.
After that the remaining five were on their toes, the team took down 125 more traps in the house and were ready for this mission to be over. Upon finally finding the journals they warded the house so no one else could get in, and so they could come back and do a more thorough search.
Each journal had a particular topic and the first one Amelia took was titled 'Dark Mark'. The summary of what it said was that to receive the mark, one must rape, torture, and murder five people within four hours, within a ritual circle. Upon completion the blood of the five victims was mixed into a potion, for the person to drink. Finally Voldemort would place his brand on that person's arm. With the ritual circle the person had to do everything willingly, so these journals proved that the people who said they were under the imperius curse could now be charged again, due to Magical Britain not having anything against double jeopardy.
The Death Eaters that were retried were Alecto and Amycus Carrow, Euan Avery (Jr. & Sr.), Vincent Crabbe Sr., Gregory Goyle Sr., Lucius Malfoy, and Theodore Nott Sr. to name a few. A few tried to bribe and beg their way out of Azkaban only to be informed that they would be going through the veil instead. With this they searched all the homes for dark items.
Shacklebolt happened to get a journal titled 'Life', only to find out that Voldemort had created horcrux and what exactly a horcrux was, and what objects he used to make them, but he didn't include where they were: a diary, the Gaunt family ring, Slytherin's locket, Hufflepuff's cup, Ravenclaw's diadem, and Gryffindor's shield.
One of the items they found in Malfoy Manor happened to be a diary with very dark magic and upon further inspection was one of Voldemort's hurcruxes.
On July 13th 1991, a little less than the month after Sirius Black was released from Azkaban, the man himself knocked on the door to 4 Privet Drive Little Whinging, Surrey; since he gained custody of his godson Harry Potter hours before hand. The door was answered by a women who was thin, blonde, and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck. Upon seeing a man in wizarding clothing she scowled, "What do you want?"
"I'm Sirius Black, and I am here to get Harry. I was told informed he lives here," Sirius replied.
"Siri.. Sirius Bla.. Bla.. Black. You're the one that killed my freak of a sister Lily. Leave I'm not interested in anything you have to say. Go"
"I was cleared of any crimes I was charged with. Lily was one of the nicest women I've ever met, and defiantly not a freak. Now where is Harry, I gained custody of him this morning, and will only leave him here if he wishes it," he let her see the wand in his hand.
"Boy! Boy, I said get out here," yelled Petunia Dursley over her shoulder.
Out came a scrawny boy, with messy black hair and eyes that reminded Sirius of the boy's parents. "Harry, is it really you?" questioned Sirius. The boy, Harry, nodded yes. "I was a friend of your parents, and I want to take you home. The ministry gave my custody of you today, because you see I'm your godfather. Would you like to stay here with your Aunt Petunia and her family or come with me? I completely under-"
"I'll go with you," Harry interrupts Sirius before he could finish, startling the man.
"Well let's get your stuff," Sirius says walking into the house and heading towards the stairs. Harry on the other hand walks to the cupboard under the stairs, opens the door and grabs the two shirts and one pair of pants sitting on shelf above the bed. Sirius walks over and looks in, then glares at Petunia. "What in the bloody hell is this?"
"That is where he sleeps," Petunia answers.
Sirius growls, then turns to Harry, and really looks at him and notices the clothes he is wearing are three times too big. "Put those clothes down. We are going to get you some proper clothes that are new and fit you."
"I don't have any money and these fit," Harry states.
"Harry, you have a lot of money in your vault at Gringotts, and even though you do I'll be getting you the clothes. This is no way for the heir of the Ancient and Noble House of Potter to dress. Let's go." Sirius informs him, walking out of the house. Harry puts his clothes down and follows Sirius. He grabs Harry's arm and apparates them to Diagon Alley.
Harry stumbles away from Sirius gasping for air, looking around unsure of what just happened. "I'm sorry Harry, I should have warned you. That was apparition, and this is Diagon Alley."
"But how did you do that? And what are these people wearing," Harry asks staring at the people around him.
"Well magic of course. How else do you think I did it? And they are wearing robes, it is all most wizards and witches wear."
