I was sitting in my library at the safe house we had in France. Many years ago, Lucius found that we were in danger and told us to hide. We lived in this manor for the last eighteen years and I was happy to hear that the war was finally over. The Potter brat killed the madman nearly four months ago. I saw Blor entering our library and flying to my side. He had a letter on his leg and hooted softly.
"Nice to see you again Blor, did my son send a letter for me?" I asked him by caressing his head. "Stella, we have a message from our son."
"I hope we could go home," Stella said sitting next to me.
"I don't know love, we need to be patient. You know he had to play the loyal death eater to protect his family. We need to wait until he can prove them wrong." I said opening the letter.
'Father,
I hope this letter finds you well and safe. Tell mother that I'm preparing your chambers and Narcisa is preparing the rose garden for her.
The situation was complicated; Potter got rid of the snake face man and everybody was trying to understand what was happening. Severus almost die when Nagini bit him but the Granger girl saved him and he spent two weeks in saint Mungus. The school is very damaged and the minister is asking for some funds to help the reconstructions; they just told us that our help could prove that we are on the light. Politics as usual.
Dumbledore is trying to rally the entire magical world to unify our forces and to get rid of the last death eaters running free. The Potter boy and Weasley are training to be Aurors while the brain of the golden trio is coming back to school to pass her Newts.
When are you planning to come home? The Manor is calling you, father. I cannot enter the secret room anymore and Narcisa is having problems with the book of family recipes. Draco is asking for you because he is trying to find a suitable wife.
Send me your answer and I will have everything ready for you.
Your son,
Lucius Abraxas Malfoy.
I finished the letter and I saw that Stella was looking at me with her eyes full of tears. I knew this would happen and we needed to talk about how to tell our biggest secret to our family.
"Love, I know what are you thinking about and we will find her. We will search for her but before we need to tell them about her." I said taking her into my arms.
"I know; I just hope he will not hate us for lying to him all these years," Stella said burying her head on my chest.
"He will understand, he made a lot of things to protect his wife and son. It will be hard but he will understand. Go prepare our trunks and we can leave today if you want to." I said and she nodded leaving the library.
I sat on the desk and I pulled out my wand making my patronus appear. He was a powerful hound dog and he was waiting for my command.
"Go to the Malfoy manor and give this message to my son. 'Lucius, we are coming home today, you don't need to prepare anything just be ready with a nice dinner and a good glass of wine.', now go" I said and the dog left.
I went to our room where Stella was closing the trunks. She looked at me and smiled softly. After many years together, I finally fell in love with her and I cannot imagine my life without her. My father told me this could happen and I never wanted to believe it. I took her in my arms and I kissed her, tasting her and making her moan.
"Let's go, love, our family is waiting for us," I said holding her close and apparating us to the manor.
"Father, Mother, it's so nice to have you back," Lucius said looking at us. "Narcisa, Draco, my parents are home"
A lovely blond woman entered the room and a very handsome young man followed her.
"Grandfather?" he asked, "I always wanted to meet you but father said that it was dangerous for you."
"Yes, I will tell you everything after dinner over a glass of wine," I said and Lucius nodded.
"Dinner is ready if you are hungry," Narcisa said and we followed her to the dining room.
It was nice to be at home again, the manor was welcoming as and everything was full of light. The dinner was perfect; we have some meat with different kinds of side dishes and a very delicious chocolate cake. They told us about their lives and how they wanted to move on. Lucius was trying to open our company into the muggle world and the minister was glad for that. Narcisa was helping her sister to organize an orphanage and Draco was going back to Hogwarts to finish his scholarship before deciding what to do.
When we sat next to the hearth, I felt Stella getting tense and I hold her close kissing her head. Lucius looked at me raising his brow and I smirked. He did not use to this, so I took Stella chin and I kissed her soundly making him gasp.
"Well, during eighteen years, we were alone and we discovered that we love each other," I said and Narcisa smiled.
"Well, it's nice to see my parents in love. You said you wanted to explain something to us." Lucius said taking Narcissa's hand.
"This will take some time and will be difficult to understand," I said pacing near the fire. "When we understood that Riddle wanted to kill us, we decided that it was the best to flee and we did it. You told us to use the safe house in France and it was a good idea."
"I remember the day I had to tell him you left the country." Lucius said, "I had some crucio on me over that."
"I'm a sorry son, we never wanted that," Stella said, "When we arrived at the house, we were not happy about the idea of being alone but eventually we discovered that without all the family pressure, we were very compatible and we fell in love."
"I fell in love with your son over the years and everything we had to live together," Narcisa said and Stella took her hand.
"Yes, it was nice and we discovered after some months that there is a way to overcome the family tradition," I said
"What do you mean father?" Lucius asked looking scared.
"Well, normally the Malfoy only have a male heir, never in the family history, a couple had more than one son or had a daughter," I said.
"Are you trying to tell us that you had a second heir?" Draco asked surprised.
"Two months after we arrived in France, we discovered I was pregnant and I got birth to a very beautiful baby girl," Stella said and Lucius gasped
"Where is my sister?" He asked looking nervous," Why she is not here with us?"
"We don't know where she is," I said sitting down almost crying. "Some days after she was born, we heard that some death eaters were around the city and we decided to protect her. We sent her to a muggle orphanage with a letter telling that she would not be placed for adoption. A year later, when everything was calm, I went to this place and I found out she was taken by a muggle couple and we never found out who they were."
"So, are you saying that my sister, a pureblood, was raised as a muggle and probably she will never know about us?" Lucius asked, "How could you do this to her, to me?"
He was hurt and yelling at me; he never defied me before and I was upset about this but I could understand how important this was for him. I took him in my arms and he tried to pull away from me. I just held him stronger and he started to cry on my shoulder asking me again how I was able to put his sister away like this.
"Lucius, I cried for almost seventeen years with your mother. We looked for her and we never found her. We are telling you this because we want you to help to find her." I said and he nodded.
"Did you put a glamour over her?" Narcisa asked.
"Yes, she was easy to recognize as a Malfoy. Why do you ask?" Stella asked.
"Because the glamour will disappear when she will be on age." Draco said, "We need to know if she is magical or she is a squib. In addition, if she was a witch, maybe she was with me at school. When was she born?"
"19 of September, it was a very nice day," Stella said.
"You did not say the same thing during that day," I said smirking.
"Try to be happy after nineteen hours of labor, you asshole," Stella said shocking everybody.
"Love, try to keep that for our room. So, can you tell me who was a muggleborn in your year?" I said looking at Draco.
He went to the desk and took a book. It has all his colleges from school. I could see that only two witches were born in September. Miss Logan and Miss Granger.
"Can you tell me something about them?" I asked
"Well, Logan is a very beautiful witch but no very smart. She called the school broom and I hope she is not your daughter as it could be difficult to stomach having my aunt as my lover for a month. Granger is a bookworm, very smart, beautiful and with a very nasty temper. Very similar to my godfather but never let them hear that." Draco said.
"Ah Severus, maybe he can help us with the search. Can you call him?" Stella said.
"He will be here soon; he had a meeting with his healer this afternoon," Lucius said and looked at the fire.
Some minutes later, the fire roared green and Severus entered the room. He had a big scar on his neck and was tired.
"I'm sorry for the delay but unfortunately I had a meeting with the headmaster today." He said sulking.
"As usual my friend you are the joy of the room. What did he want this time?" Lucius asked.
"Horace wanted to retire and he needed somebody to teach potions. He wanted me to tutor the next potion professor after she took her Newts two months ago." Severus said closing his eyes and pinching his nose.
"Who is this lady that drive you so mad?" I asked and I hear Draco laughing.
"You have to be kidding godfather, he cannot possible asked this from you!" he said laughing.
"He did. 'We'll have to prepare her for next year'. Gods, Merlin hates me," Severus said and Lucius laughed.
"Did she ask you to fulfill your debt?" Narcisa asked.
"No, she was so embarrassed that she did not look at me. She just said she did not want to force me into this." Severus said, "Ok, I don't want to talk about this and you told me you have news for me, so tell me."
We spent the next hour telling him the news and he listened to us without asking any question. After we finished, he looked at the fire and sighed.
"This will be easier than you think and very complicated at the same time," Severus said
"Why?" I asked
"Dumbledore told me that she was adopted and she did not know who her parents were," Severus said and I nodded.
"So, could be that this girl is actually our daughter?" Stella said and I could see Lucius, Narcisa and Draco were very pale.
"What happened?" I asked
"During the war, she was brought here and my sister tortured her badly. She carved the word mudblood on her flesh." Narcisa said, "We saw her doing this and we couldn't do anything to help her. We talked with her after the war when she helped us during our trials and she became a good friend but she is scared of this house."
"Are you telling me that the girl, who is probably my daughter, was tortured in her own house?" I asked angrily.
"We were all tortured in this house. "Severus said and I calmed down.
"Yes, it's just that it hurt that I was not able to protect you," I said and they nodded. "What should we do about this?"
"Well, her birthday is close and she will have her true form revealed to her. I would tell you to wait until she'd talk with the headmaster." Severus said and we nodded. "Or I could give her a potion to discover her bloodline."
"Send me your patronus as soon as you talk with her. We will prepare everything for her at the manor." Lucius said
"Do you realize that you have a sister?" Severus asked and Lucius just nodded.
I looked at my family and I try to picture my little girl at the manor, sitting with us and talking about her Newts.
x
I woke up and I felt different, I took my shower and I got dress quickly. The breakfast would start soon and I needed to go to the dungeons to meet professor Snape to check the potion I let simmering for the night. The tutoring was difficult as he wanted me to go over the entire curriculum before the welcome feast.
I entered the lab and I saw the potion was perfect. I was proud of myself. He entered and sneered at me before looking at the cauldron.
"It's passable. Miss Granger, your anniversary is close and I want you to brew a very difficult potion that will not be in the curriculum and you probably will not have the chance to do it as a present for you." Snape said, "Is the necessitudinem recognition or it's known as relationship recognition. We will use very expensive ingredients and I had to use my connections to gather some of them."
"Thank you, sir," I said.
"I believe that I'm no longer your professor and that we are colleagues so you can call me Severus." He said and I nodded, "Hermione, for this potion we will use the heart of a white peacock, skin of basilik and phoenix's tears."
"This is very expensive to brew, thank you, Severus. What use have this potion?" I asked confused.
"Well, as your parents told you about your birth, I thought it could be interesting for you to find out if you have a family alive. I hope I don't offend you doing this." Severus said.
"Thank you, I wanted to see if I could look at this but I did not find anything on the library," I said tears in my eyes. "Can we start brewing?"
"Yes, as this is a long potion, we will eat here and brew together. Now, go to pick up the ingredients and I will prepare the base." Severus said and I went to the storeroom.
When I was back, the base was ready and he asked me to crush the basilik skin while he chopped the peacock heart. I took some aconite and I sliced it taking care of the dimensions. He told me to be careful and add the skin while he went to the storeroom and picked some pork liver that he chopped it before adding it to the cauldron.
The potion was green and was simmering beautiful. We had to wait twenty minutes so we sat on the desk and we ate some sandwiches while discussing the last potion review we read the day before.
When the potion was ready, he added the heart and the potion boiled before changing the color to a nice light blue. We took turns to stir, we finally add the phoenix tears and we stirred the potion until the potions were now golden.
"Ok, we need to wait an hour until we can test it." Severus said, "I wanted to ask you about your friends. Why are not coming back to school?"
"Well, Harry needs a break after the last seven years and the healer told him to take a sabbatical. He will move to the States for six months and he will come back to take his Newts before starting the auror training next year." I said and he nodded.
"What about the Weasley girl and her brother?" Severus asked
"Ginny is angry with Harry because she wanted to get married after the end of the war and he told her he only sees her as a good friend. I was supporting his decision so she no longer talks to me. Ronald wanted me to stop everything and be a stay at home mum so when I told him my plans, he just said I was only a 'know it all' and he would look after a real woman" I said looking down. "He told me a mudblood like me should be happy that a good wizard like him would lower himself to look at her."
"The bastard!" Severus said rage on his eyes, "Hermione, he is a dunderhead and I know you are far better than him so do not measure your value on his parameters."
We talked and he told me the changes I would need to do with the classes and that he wanted to have some joint lessons between potions and DADA. When the alarm went off, he put the potion on vials and handed me one of them.
"Hermione, this is important for your life; try to be open mind and talk with your biological family before you judge them if they are alive," Severus said and I nodded.
"I will try, please can you stay near me?" I asked and he nodded.
I looked at the vial, the golden potion was beautiful and smell like chocolate. I opened my mouth and I poured it down my throat enjoying the taste. I saw some lights around me and a parchment appeared on the desk.
Name: Liz Stella Malfoy
Father: Abraxas Orion Malfoy
Mother: Stella Malfoy
Brother: Lucius Abraxas Malfoy
Nephew: Draco Lucius Malfoy
Age: 18 years old
Glamour: hair, skin, color eyes
I was shocked, how could this be possible? I was a pureblood, a Malfoy! I was sure they would disown me when they would hear from me.
"Hermione, I need to confess something." Severus said, "Abraxas told me about his lost daughter and I thought it could be you. I wanted to discover this by yourself with a little of help. They had to protect you and they looked for you in the last seventeen years."
"Are you sure they would want to meet me? Draco and his father are nice to me but to accept me in their family?" I asked, "As far as I know Lucius's parents are dead."
"No, they were hiding in France; they are alive Hermione, your parents are alive," Severus said and I sat down. "I know is a lot to take but you need to know they want to meet you."
"What about the glamour, will you help me with this?" I asked
"You only need to put your finger on the parchment and the glamour will wear off," Severus said and I did it.
I felt my body changing, it was painful and I fell to the floor. Severus helped to sit on the couch and I tried to breathe slowly. I heard the door opening and the headmaster arrived running.
"Severus, I felt a very strong magic on the castle, what happened?" Dumbledore asked.
"We brew a potent potion to discovered her family and we found out they are alive. She had some glamour on her and she is changing now." Severus said.
"Who is her family?" Dumbledore asked.
"Just wait a few minutes and you will see this easily," Severus said and I felt the pains getting lower.
Dumbledore gasped and I stood up going to the mirror Severus charmed for me. My hair was white, my skin was like porcelain and my eyes were light greys like Lucius and Draco. I looked at them and they were smiling at me.
"Are you going to talk to them?" Dumbledore asked. "I heard Abraxas and Stella came back from France."
"Do you think they would want to meet me?" I asked looking down.
"I can send them a patronus and we could see their reaction. I will tell them to be careful and go slowly." Severus said and I nodded.
I was thinking about how my life would change so I did not listen when Severus send his patronus; I only saw a silver doe leaving the room. Dumbledore sat near me and served some tea. I sipped while eating some biscuits and we waited for a signal. A silver dragon entered the room and Lucius' voice roared.
"Severus, we are coming; tell Hermione to be calm and we will explain everything to her."
"I think they are entering the castle. I will go to my office. Severus, stay with them as you are practically family." Dumbledore said, "Hermione, my office is always open for you"
He left the laboratory and I closed my eyes putting my head on my hands. I could hear somebody walking on the corridors and the door opened slowly.
Lucius, Draco, Narcisa entered the room with a white hair wizard and a blond witch. He looked like an older version on Lucius and she was a fairy.
"How are you? I'm Abraxas and she is Stella, my wife." The wizard said walking near me. "We heard a little about you and we wanted to meet you."
"Ok, I just so confused," I said and I started to cry. The witch gasped and ran to my side taking me in her arms.
"Oh my baby, I missed you so much. We never thought we would lose you like this," she said crying on my hair.
"How? Why did you let me in that place?" I asked and Abraxas sat next to me looking into my eyes.
"When you were born, some death eaters tried to find us and we were scared for you. You are the first Malfoy girl, usually, there is only a male heir. You could be powerful and we thought the madman would take you for himself" Abraxas said and I shivered, "When we let you on that place, we put a note telling them that we would come back for you and not to place you for adoption. When we came back you were gone and we looked for you all these years."
"Don't be angry with Lucius, he never knew about you until two days ago." Stella said, "He was angry with us"
"And too afraid that you will not want to talk with me again for not protecting you in our home against Bellatrix," Lucius said looking embarrassed.
"I was so sad when I heard I was adopted and when the Granger told me to leave, that I was not welcome." I said closing my eyes, "I have a family, I got to know some of them in bad and good ways and I learned something from you. You care about your own."
"So, are you going to give us a chance?" Draco asked and I looked into his eyes.
I stood up and I walked near Lucius; he looked at me and I opened my arms to him, he held me tight and kissed my head.
"I have a sister, I have a sister," he said and I smiled.
"I have a nephew! Draco, don't you dare to call me aunty!" I said and everybody laughed.
"Will you come to the manor with us? We changed the room after the war and I want to show you your home." Lucius said and I nodded, "Narcisa wanted to go shopping with you and Stella wanted to teach you about the Malfoys rules."
We drank some tea before deciding to go to the manor. I would floo every day to the castle. Severus nodded and told me he would take dinner with us after telling the headmaster the news. I followed them to the apparition point and Lucius took my hand to help me into the manor.
Everything was different, there was a lot of light and the dark furniture was gone. The drawing room was now a ballroom and the sitting room was beautiful with white walls and light wood floor. We sat on the couch again and Stella was brushing my hair, telling me how beautiful it was. Draco was reading a book and asked me some question about the difficult equations. Lucius was talking with Narcisa about a party they wanted to hold in my honor and Abraxas was reading the newspaper.
An elf entered the room and told as Severus was there and that the dinner was ready. When we sat on the table, Severus pulled the chair for me and it was like a dream. I was eating, listening to Draco antics about his last year on Hogwarts and how much he needed a good broom to win the cup. We laughed when Narcisa told him he needed to find a wife before the end of the year and I choked when Abraxas told me I should do the same thing.
"Can I wait a little longer for this?" I asked nervously.
"We are not telling you to have to get married this year but could be good to find a suitor for you." Stella said, "You have to understand that after you are recognized as a Malfoy, you will have many wizards and witches after you, a good suitor could help you control this. I was engaged with your father for five years before we got married."
"Ok, I will think about this but you need to tell me what I should look in a potential suitor," I said
"Well, you need a good wizard, no need to be a pureblood but could be nice to join an ancient family. Powerful and devoted to his line. Also, you can look on similar interest, this can help a lot" Lucius said, "I can help you if you want."
"Yes, I cannot think about a single person on my age that could be interesting," I said and I blushed.
"Hmm, I think my little sister you have somebody in your mind, we need to have some girl time." Narcisa said smirking at me, "Tomorrow after you finish your tutoring, we will go to Diagon Alley and we will have our time to talk."
"Yes, that could be nice." I said smiling at her, "How are we going to tell this to the rest?"
"Dumbledore thought we can tell the Order together and Abraxas can put an announcement on the Daily Prophet." Severus said and we nodded, "Will you stay here tonight or are you coming back with me to the castle?"
"I will go with you so I can be free early if you don't mind," I said looking at him
"Ok, we will go now and tomorrow we will meet after breakfast. You only have to finish preparing the first session for the Newts class and you are done." Severus said standing up, "Abraxas, it was nice to spend time with you: Lucius, we will meet tomorrow. I wish you a good night"
I stood up fast and I said goodbye before running after him. We flooed to the dungeons and he left soon after telling me to go rest. I fell asleep fast, thinking about this crazy day. When I woke up, I was late for breakfast and I had to run to be on time. Dumbledore was sitting on the head table and all the teacher were looking at me.
"Friends, I want to introduce Miss Liz Stella Malfoy, formerly known as Hermione Granger," Dumbledore said helping me to sit down.
"Hermione?" Minerva asked.
"Liz now, yes is me. I know is crazy but I'm Malfoy now, I hope you will not hate me." I said sadly.
"Mione, ok Liz, you are our friend!" Hagrid said smiling and I felt better.
"So, this is why I felt so many glamours on you?" Remus said, 'You are our friend Liz. How they reacted?"
"Abraxas and Stella were happy, they hide me to protect me, Lucius was holding me muttering happily that he has a sister, Narcisa wanted to spend girl time with me and Draco was laughing about calling me aunty on class. The brat" I said and they laughed.
"They wanted to protect her as you know she is the first Malfoy heiress. Tom could have wanted to have her for him." Dumbledore said and they nodded.
"Well, your name is easier now and your hair is just gorgeous," Poppy said and I blushed. "When are you telling the order about this?"
"They will come for a meeting this evening at the hall. The Malfoy will be here also." Dumbledore said.
"Professor, Harry will be here?" I asked.
"You can call me Albus, yes he will be here," Albus said.
"Ok, now we need to go to the dungeons to finish our schedule before you meet Narcisa," Severus said and we left the table.
I was planning to start the year with a complicated potion to see how much I needed to catch up and Severus approved my approach. We saw different options and he told me to use the verasiterum potion. I wrote everything down and we looked at the files for the first year students. We had some students from France and some from Germany. They would use a traducer charm to understand until they could learn English.
He told me he needed to go to the apothecary so he would go with me to the Diagon Alley. I was happy to be able to speak with him a little longer. We met Narcisa in the library store and he left telling me he would buy the ingredients for the potions I planned for the Newts and the first year.
After Severus left, Narcisa took me to Madame Malkin where she helped me choose some robes to teach. She bought me some dresses for the diners at the manor and she chose a very beautiful robe for the meeting with the order. She took me to a very little coffee and she asked for a private booth for our girly time. I was nervous as I did not want to tell her about my crush. I was pinning after this wizard for almost four years now and it was embarrassing because I knew that he would never look at me in that way.
"So sister, as Abraxas said you need a suitor. He will help you and protect you from others wizards and I can tell you is nice to be in court." She said blushing, "I can still remember Lucius when he was courting me. He was so romantic."
"I know but I never thought about this before. When we were at school, I always planned to study and to have my masteries. I never thought a wizard could look at me in that way, the bookworm, even if I'm different now I'm still a very private person and I love to read more than playing the little girl for a wizard." I said.
"I have a feeling that you have an old crush and you are afraid of telling me about this, why?" Narcisa asked.
"Narcisa, I just don't know," I said blushing.
"Call me Cissy, I will not tell them about this but I could help you," Cissy said and I nodded.
"Ok, after my third year, I started to feel something around a wizard, he is older than me and he always protected me. He is tall and has beautiful eyes. He is snarky and very private." I said and she started to giggle like a little girl.
"Oh, this is so good, this is so good," she said bouncing on her chair, "He is perfect for you, he is powerful, a pureblood, very intelligent, attractive in his way and he will protect you."
"Do you know who I'm talking about?" I asked raising my brow.
"Wow, a very Malfoy way to look at me, you looked like Lucius. Yes, you are talking about our dear potion master. Severus is your perfect match, Liz." Cissy said and I blushed. "I will not tell them but I will help you. Severus is my friend and he deserves to be happy"
'Thank you, this will help me with my nerves. Today will be difficult, as you know the order have a lot of Gryffindors on it. The Weasley would not take this kindly and Sirius will be challenging." I said and she nodded.
"That is why we will be there for you. You are a Malfoy and we protect our own." She said, "You need to understand that before we knew this, I was dreaming of marrying you to my Draco. We always admired your courage and intelligence."
She came near me and hugged me leading me outside the coffee. We entered the leaky cauldron and we heard a laugh. Sirius!
"Cousin, did you find a little friend to play with?" Sirius asked Cissy.
"Sirius, as always a pleasure. My friend is very shy and we will meet you later. We need to run." Cissy said pushing me to the floo.
We arrived at the manor and Abraxas was waiting for me in the sitting room. He told me to get ready and that he wanted to talk with me before leaving for the castle. I ran to my room and I put the robes Cissy chose for me. It was a silver robe with green lights. I was wearing silver heels and I let my hair down. When I entered the sitting room again, they were all waiting for me and they gasped.
"You are so beautiful sister," Lucius said kissing my head.
"Little girl, I'm so proud of you," Stella said.
"I will have to protect my aunty in the castle from the rest of the students. How I will do to find a wife if I will be so busy?" Draco said deadpanned.
"Liz, come here," Abraxas said and I stood by his side, "This are the jewels that our family had for the first Malfoy heiress; they were made more than 500 years ago when a seer has a vision of a Malfoy daughter. Use them with pride."
He helped me to put the necklace, the bracelet, and the earring. They were made of platinum and had diamonds with onyx on them. He held me in his arms and kissed my head telling me to breathe slowly. I felt love and I felt I had a family, a real family.
It was getting late and we knew we had to go to Hogwarts. Severus told us to floo to his chambers and that we would go together to the meeting. Albus explained about Abraxas and Stella and the order was nervous about having the Malfoy on the meeting even when they helped us to win.
We walked together to the hall; Severus was walking by my side telling me that Harry was a worry for my absence at the last meeting in the headquarters. Abraxas was leading Stella and Lucius was helping Cissy while Draco was sulking behind us.
"So, we have the entire Malfoy family here, who is the new chit?" Sirius asked.
"I still don't understand Albus why they need to be here," Arthur said angrily.
"Where is Hermione?" Harry asked.
Everybody was speaking at the same time and nobody was listening. Albus told them to calm down and eventually, everybody sat. I was sitting between Stella and Abraxas and Lucius was standing behind me with his hands on my shoulders.
"So, what do you need to tell us?" Sirius asked and Ron looked at me sneering guessing I was a Malfoy.
"I invited the Malfoy here to tell you something they discovered this week. We need to be calm and Liz will tell you what happened." Albus said
"Thank you, Albus." I said standing up, "I was raised as a muggle, I spent all my life thinking I was a muggleborn until my parents told me I was adopted. They told me to leave them, they disowned me and I was left alone. Some days ago during my birthday, I found my biological family and they accepted me as one of their own."
"So, are you tell us you are a Malfoy?" Harry asked and I nodded.
"I'm the first Malfoy heiress on the Malfoy history. Because of this, my parents were afraid and hid me in an orphanage asking not to put me to adoption. Somebody just did not care, I was put into glamours and I was adopted." I said.
"I think I know you, I heard your voice before," Bill said and I smiled at him.
"I know my hair, skin, and eyes are different, I'm not anymore the bushy brown hair, golden eyes bookworm," I said smirking and they gasped
"Hermione?" Harry asked
"Well, is Liz actually," I said smiling at him.
"Wow, you are so beautiful," Harry said and Billy, Charlie, George, Fred, Percy, Sirius, and Kingsley nodded.
"So you are a Malfoy? How can you forget what happened in that house?" Molly asked
"I knew there was nothing they could do and Draco tried to help us. They helped us to win this war Molly," I said and she sneered at me
"I will try to accept this as you know I have a little feud with your brother," Arthur said
"I will be agreeable to talk about this and find a solution Arthur," Lucius said, "I know she loves your family."
"I imagine you are looking for a pureblood to marry her?" Sirius asked leering at me and I felt uncomfortable.
"No, she will take her time for this," Abraxas said and he took my hand. "We wanted to tell you about this before the rest of the wizarding world would know. We need your help to protect her."
"To protect her? Why?" Kinsley asked. "Because she is the only Malfoy girl?"
"And because she will be the most powerful witch of the age and she will be a good trophy for any bloodline," Lucius said kissing my head.
"Oh, the big bad death eater is worried for his little sister," Ron said and everybody glared at him.
"Next year, Liz will be our potion teacher while she prepares her mastery on potions. Severus will be her tutor and Remus will help her with Transfiguration as she is taking a second mastery." Albus said.
We talked about some death eaters who were running free and the new laws that the ministry wanted to pass. They talked about a marriage law, a procreation law, and even a dissolution law for the marriage without children. It was scary and I realize I needed to find a suitor fast or to try my chance with the dark potion master. I would need Cissy help for this.
After two hours, Albus said the meeting was over and Harry came near me asking me to have some minutes alone. I saw Severus frowning and leaving the Hall. I sighed and told Harry to follow me to my room. I told Abraxas I would send them an owl telling them when I would go to the manor and he nodded before flooing to the manor.
I sat near Harry and I could see he was nervous. It was difficult for him to see me like this, blonde and silver eyes. A Malfoy.
"Harry, it's ok; I know I changed and that even my name is not the same but I'm still your friend who was always by your side," I said hugging him
"Is just difficult to see you like this, I just remember when you were lying on that floor. How did you feel when you entered the manor?" Harry asked
"They changed everything; Cissy put more lights and changed the furniture. They had a room ready for me and Stella was telling me about the family history. Is amazing and I'm part of this." I said smiling. "Cissy was planning to marry me with Draco before she knew I was his aunt."
"Ok, I can see they really changed their ways if she was thinking about that. I'm leaving soon and I will be outside Britain for six months. I'm just worried about you; I could see Sirius' reaction when he understood you are pureblood now." Harry said and I nodded.
"I saw his eyes and I felt uncomfortable. Stella said I need to find a suitor to be protected from this kind of attention." I said.
"Sirius is my family but he can be an asshole with women. Be careful and do no stay alone with him." Harry said and I nodded, "Write to me often, you are the only real friend I have. I will miss you deeply."
"Me too Harry, I will be there for you as always." I said smiling, "Try to think about your life and what you need. Do you remember the conversation we had before I had to leave the Burrow?"
"Yes, I was thinking about this and I will try to do something about this. I will never thank you enough for your help when you made me see that she was only after my fame and my money." Harry said, "Ok, be carefully, write often, don't let Severus make you work too hard and enjoy your family."
"Have a good trip and I love you?" I said kissing his cheek.
He left my room and I went to sleep, the night was short and I woke up feeling tired. I went to the Hall and I sat to eat breakfast, drinking my coffee sighing.
"So, the wonder boy did not let you sleep?" Severus said.
"No, he left and I had a problem falling asleep. I had many things on my head." I said softly while pouring some bacon on my plate.
"Already missing him? he will be here soon." He sneered.
"Harry? Not really, I was talking with him as he has some things to think about like his future or what he wants to do after this trip." I said closing my eyes. "I was thinking how I would handle some of the older students and I realized that Ginevra Weasley will be here."
"Ah, yes, she will be here and you will have to deal with her." Severus said, "Why are you worried about that?"
"She used to be my friend and now she hates me so much as Harry broke up with her. She is stupid and she thinks I want him for myself; he is like a brother to me." I said and I poured more coffee on my cup. "Ok I have many things to do, see you later Severus."
"Wait, I need to go to the lab so I will walk with you." He said and I heard somebody chuckling.
We entered the lab, Severus went to check a potion he was brewing and I sat on my desk trying to finish my first lecture for the first years. I laughed and he raised his brow.
'You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses... I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stop death—if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.'
I said his little speech with a low voice trying not to laugh. He looked at me shocked and chuckled.
"Do you remember the first speech I gave to your class seven year ago?" He said and I nodded.
"It was a good speech and your voice was like silk," I said blushing and looking down.
"So, if my voice is still like silk, making this lasting impression on you, everything I'd say like this will stay in your head" Severus muttered in my ear and I shivered again. "Hmm, nice to see I can provoke some reactions from you."
I glared at him and I was trying to pretend reading my notes when I feel his breath on my ear again.
"Your pretense will not work if your notes are upside down." He said using his voice for a full effect. "Tell me, what could happen if I'd ask you to do something for me now."
I was still trying to ignore him and he was not taking this, I could see he was in predator mode and I was his prey. How was this happening? I never thought he could feel any inclination for me. I stand up and he turned my body forcing me to look at him. He put one of his fingers under my chin, making me look into his eyes. He had the most beautiful black eyes and I was drowning in them.
He bent his head and brushed my lips with his mouth making me stop breathing and closed my eyes.
"So, how do I make you feel?" Severus asked and I felt my Gryffindor courage waking up and I opened my eyes.
I closed the gap between us and I pressed my mouth into his, enjoying his soft lips and nibbling softly his lower lip. He moaned and deepened the kiss, licking my lips and I opened my mouth to him. His tongue caressed mine and licked the roof of my mouth making me moan with pleasure. He pulled away and I whined.
"I have my answer now. Are you sure you need to finish your lecture now or do you prefer to sit a little with me?" he asked nuzzling my neck.
"Hmm, I'm just" I started to say and he laughed pulling me to his lap.
"Dear god, I spent the last three month dancing around you thinking you would not want me and I'd only have to do this." He laughed, "Are you sure little one?"
"Yes, I had this crush on you from my third year," I said blushing and he smiled.
"I was so jealous of Krum when he took you to the Yule ball. You were so beautiful and forbidden." Severus said, "The last year, I was so afraid for you while you were in the run."
"Now, this is over, we are free and we can choose to be together," I said kissing him softly.
"I will love to court you if you let me but we can keep this quiet for a while or Stella and Lucius will start organizing the wedding." Severus laughed and I nodded.
"How do you feel about me?" I asked, "I'm a Malfoy now and I will be forced to respect the Pureblood laws."
"It will ok, I'm used to them because I'm one too. Just we will be carefully and everything will be ok." Severus said, "Now, how about a little kiss?"
He kissed me softly, playing with my hair and pulling me close to him. I felt I was in heaven and I moaned softly against his lips. I entangled my fingers in his long black hair and he smiled. It was so good to feel him holding me and smell his scent.
"And I was thinking I would have to convince you to court her," Lucius said and we jumped. "I'm happy for you, you are a good match."
"Thank you, Lucius," Severus said sitting me on his lap.
"No need to tell you that I would hurt you if you are an arse with her. She is my little sister after all." Lucius said sitting next to us and taking my hand, "I always thought you were so intelligent and smart. With Narcisa, we were thinking about proposing you a contract with Draco as we wanted you to be part of our family."
"Is nice to see that I have a family, with the Granger everything was difficult after we found out about my magic," I said and they nodded. "When do you think we need to go public about this?"
"Well, as soon as possible." Lucius said and I cringed, "We are talking about a long engagement, Abraxas will want you to study first and to be happy. The point of having a suitor is to protect you from some assholes like Black. I could see him leering on you yesterday and after he heard who you are, he was studying you."
"I was thinking about the same thing; the issue is how to do it. As you remember she was my student not long ago." Severus said.
"Yes, but you spent the last months working with her and she will be your colleague soon," Lucius said. "I'm in the board and I will be by your side with this."
"We only need to see where and how to show the others you are taken," Severus said and I nodded. "I will regret this but do you have an idea?"
"Oh, this is so good!" Lucius said. "Tonight we have a meeting with the order again. They invited us to be part of the order. I was thinking you could stake your claim entering the room holding hands. We need to talk with father first, but I think this will be ok. Just let me send him a message telling him that we are arriving at the manor soon."
He went to the hearth and flooed Abraxas telling him that we needed to talk with him. Abraxas told that he would be waiting for us in his study and we flooed there. I was nervous as I was presenting my potential suitor to my father that I discovered some days ago. A father who was rather conservative and wanted me to stand up to the Malfoy line. He told us to sit down and he offered some tea. He was looking at us, thinking and probably guessing what we needed to tell him. I was thinking he probably knew if I could take his smirk as a hint.
"So, you told me you needed to talk with me about something. Care to tell me if I have to be worry?" Abraxas said smirking.
"Abraxas, I was thinking about Hermione's situation and I realized that I could help with this," Severus said and Lucius snorted.
"You are telling me that you would sacrifice yourself to protect my heiress?" Abraxas asked raising his brow.
"I, I don't know what to tell you," Severus said and I blushed.
"Why don't you tell me that you want to be her suitor as you care for the girl?" Abraxas asked and Severus nodded. "it's ok, I just need you to be careful as I could see at the last meeting that some of the males were very interested in her. Especially Black and the younger Weasley."
"Father, we were trying to find a way to show them that my sister is taken," Lucius said.
"I can see your point, these Gryffindor need to be shown rather blunt or they will not understand." Abraxas said looking at me, "Do you have an idea? After all, you are a Gryffindor."
"Well, if we enter the room holding his hands, Severus would show that he claimed me and if you are near us, this would show that you approve us together," I said and they nodded.
"Sis, are you sure you are not Slytherin?" Lucius asked.
"Well the hat wanted to put me in Slytherin but he did not want to tell me why." I said, "I asked him to put me in Gryffindor as I was afraid to be a muggleborn in your house."
"I guess it was smart but as the people will know about you, they will ask you to be an honorific Slytherin or at least to go to our meetings. Also as his betrothed, you will have to be by his side as the head of the house." Lucius said.
"Yes, I guess you are right," I said cuddling against Severus.
"Nice, I always wanted you in the family, Severus, so I'm rather pleased," Abraxas said and we heard Stella entering the study. "Love, we have some news for you"
"So finally Severus decided to talk with Hermione?" Stella asked, "Yes, I could see your face when you looked at her over the meeting. Do not worry; we said long engagement so not wedding planning until you give me a go."
"Thanks, I hope you are happy with this," I said taking Severus's hand. "Tonight we are going to the Order meeting and I hope everything goes well."