A/N: Hey guys. sorry to for keeping you waiting. I started this chapter a while ago, i just never got around to finishing it. well, obviously i'm done now. I hope you enjoy
Ellie
Prologue part one
Potter residence - 1965
The young Potter twins ran around the field that was behind their house, running through the trees and jumping over the fallen logs.
The younger of the two stopped to catch her breath and waited to let her brother catch up to her.
'Jamie lets play hide-n-seek!' The small girl said. She had long black curly hair that fell to her mid-back and blue eyes like her mother. She, like her brother, was 5, turning 6 in matter of months. She loved reading, but she loved playing with her brother more. Their parents always knew where they both were, because if one was sitting in the family room, the other would be no further than a metre away.
James, or Jamie, smiled at his younger sister and pushed his glasses back up to sit in front of his hazel eyes, ones that matched his father's. He had black hair that was constantly messy and he was always making sure that his sister was happy and safe. 'Okay Mia. I'll count first. You have until I count to thirty. One… two… three…'
Hermione, or Mia, squealed and ran off towards the edge of the property that their parents owned. James laughed at his sister's antics and turned to face the opposite direction.
'Twenty… Twenty-On-' James' counting was cut off when he heard a scream coming from the direction his sister had ran. He ran towards the scream, vaguely aware that the voice was screaming out his name.
He reached a small clearing that his parents had always told them to be careful around because it was right on the edge of the property.
What James saw made his blood run cold. Before him was his sister, trying desperately to get away from a tall man in a black coat and a skull mask.
'JAMIE!' James' observations were cut short when he rushed forward to try and help his sister. Before he was close enough to grab her hand, the man turned his wand on James and shouted a stunning spell.
James was his with the stunner, and the last thing he heard before he blacked out, was his sister's ear-piercing scream….
The Burrow- 1997
15th August. 7a.m Monday morning.
Hermione Granger sat up in her bed as the early morning sunlight hit her face. She groaned and fell back onto her bed, pulling her blanket up over her head.
She groaned louder when someone started banging on the door calling out her name as well as Ginny's.
'Come on!'
'Get up!' came the familiar voices of the Weasley twins.
'Bugger off!' Both girls shouted, but their voices were muffled by the blankets/pillows over their heads.
The twins continued to pound on the door until Hermione could take it no longer.
She threw back the covers on her bed and stormed over to the door and pulled it open with a look of pure irritation on her face, unaware that she had forgotten to put on her dressing gown.
'So help me god! If you don't fuck off right now, I will kill you both, bring you back to life and kill you again!' Hermione said, poking them in the chest to make her point known.
The twins were looking at her as if she had grown an extra head, with pissed her off more.
'What the hell are you looking at!?'
Both twins grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her in front of the mirror that stood at the end of the bed she used since she had come to live with the Weasleys after her parents were killed.
The commotion had made Ginny sit up in her bed, ready to laugh at her older brothers, but she stopped short when she noticed Hermione's appearance.
Ginny got out of her bed and ran over to Hermione and looked at her.
Hermione looked past Ginny and stared at her reflection and gasped. Instead of the bushy brown hair that fell just below her shoulders, her hair was black and fell in waves to her waist. Her brown eyes were now sparkling blue and her lips were full and red. Instead of her petite frame, she now stood at a good six foot, close to Ron's height and her hips were in a perfect hour-glass shape.
Last night when she had put on the night gown on, it just fell to her knees. Now it pretty much hugged her hips and only fell to her mid- thigh.
'What did you do to yourself?' Ginny exclaimed.
Hermione just gaped at her reflection and slowly turned to face the other three people that stood in the room and said slowly, 'this is not how I looked last night!'
'What ever you did…'
'You look bloody hot now!' the twins said, finishing each others sentence.
Hermione blushed and proceeded to push them out of the room and said, 'get out so I can get dressed!'
Hermione turned to Ginny who was still looking at her after she shut and locked the door after the twins.
'Gin, how the hell am I going to explain this to the others when I can't even explain it to myself?' Hermione asked as she fell onto her bed.
'We will work that out later, but for the moment, lets work out what you are going to wear okay,' Ginny said as she started going through Hermione's trunk.
Hermione just nodded and watched as Ginny threw clothes out of her trunk in search of something that she could wear.
After a while, Ginny stood with a large smile on her face, holding some clothes in her arm which she passed to Hermione.
Hermione took one look at it and pushed it back at her shaking her head and said, 'I am not wearing that!'
'If you weren't going to wear it, why was it in your trunk?' Ginny questioned.
'Uh…. Because my mum got it for me and I didn't have the heart to tell her that I wasn't ever going to wear it….'
'Well, you are going to wear it now.'
Hermione knew she was fighting a losing battle so she took the clothes with a sigh and went into the bathroom that the two girls shared.
Later that morning…
Hermione tugged nervously on the bottom of her shirt, but it was slapped away by Ginny, who was trying to put some light make up on Hermione.
'I swear if you don't stop squirming I'm going to poke your eye out with the eyeliner!' Ginny said impatiently.
Hermione sat quietly in the chair, screaming in her mind at the situation. Gods, she hated using make up, and here Ginny was, putting make up on her making her look even more different.
When Ginny finally finished, Hermione stood up and walked over the mirror again gaped at her reflection.
Hermione turned to Ginny with wide eyes and said, 'I can not go downstairs looking like this! This isn't me!'
'Well it is now!' Ginny said, grabbing her friend's hand and pulling her down, even though she tried to get away.
Hermione eventually gave up and let Ginny drag her down into the kitchen where the rest of the Weasleys (except Percy) and Harry were.
As they approached the kitchen door, they could hear laughter and chatter coming from inside. That changed to complete and utter silence the moment Hermione stepped into the kitchen behind Ginny.
She had her now black hair hanging freely down her back. She had a red halter neck shirt on that dipped down right above her breasts and showed her mid-drift. She wore low riding hip hugger jeans and black boots to complete it. She had a little bit of blush on as well as mascara and eyeliner and silver eye shadow.
Fred, George, Harry and Ron all dropped their fork and their mouths were agape. Even though the twins had seen her earlier, Hermione didn't look like she now.
Bill and Charlie, who were previously talking about quidditch, looked at her with wide eyes as they looked her up and down.
Mr and Mrs Weasley were a completely different story however.
Mrs Weasley was holding a fry pan when Hermione had entered and now that fry pan was on the ground with all the bacon strips that were inside scattered across the floor. Mr Weasley had been drinking his morning cup of coffee whilst reading The Daily Prophet and when Hermione had entered, he spat out his mouthful of coffee, spraying it over his paper.
Mr and Mrs Weasley looked at each other with frightened shock.
It was Mrs Weasley that broke the silence.
'Who's your friend, dear?' Molly asked her daughter, with a shaky voice, though no one really noticed.
Ginny looked at her mother and laughed. 'It's Hermione mum!'
That caused everyone to gasp and many of them say, 'no way!'
Molly looked at her husband with wide eyes then turned back to the girls and asked, 'What did she do to her hair?'
'I don't know what happened, I woke up like this,' Hermione said softly and the people in the room immediately noticed that her voice was not the same as it was yesterday.
Molly nodded absentmindedly, muttering, 'gods, Anna would kill me if she found out I knew where she was for last 6 years and not even realise!'
Molly turned her back to her family and everyone saw her shoulders start shaking.
Hermione quickly walked over to her side and pulled her into a hug, realising that something about the way she now looked had caused the Weasley Matriarch's abrupt sadness, but she could not like of a reason why…
The Burrow
16th August, 5a.m Tuesday morning
Molly and Arthur sat in the living room of The Burrow, trying to figure out what was going on.
'She looked so much like Anna, Arthur,' Molly said, putting her face in her hands. 'Gods, Anna would probably curse me for not realising earlier. I couldn't even see the hints that told me that it was Anna's little girl.'
'Molly, it's not your fault,' Arthur said as he wrapped his arms around his wife. He was about to continued when they heard a female scream 'JAMIE!'
They both jumped up and ran towards the stairs that led the way to the room that the girls were staying in. They weren't the only ones.
When they reached the room, Harry and Ron were just entering with the twins on their heels.
Molly and Arthur could hear footsteps pounding down the hall and knew that Bill and Charlie were on the way.
Molly ran to Hermione's bed, where Harry was trying to get his friend to wake up, though she just struggled to get away from him, continuing to scream out 'Jamie' at the top of lungs.
Molly quickly moved Harry out of the way, ignoring his protests, and sat next to Hermione's head and started stroking her hair in a comforting way.
'Mia, wake up please,' Molly said as she stroked the girl's hair. The Weasley children and Harry stood beside the bed, watching as the woman tried to wake Hermione up.
When Hermione opened her eyes, she sat up quickly and looked around, her eyes filled with fear.
'Where am I?' she said as she moved back so that she had her back up to the wall.
'Sweetie, you're at the Burrow,' Molly said, placing her hand on Hermione's shoulder.
Hermione spun to face the woman, the fear more evident as she said, 'Aunty Molly, why am I here? I was just playing hide-n-seek with James.'
The Weasley children and Harry gasped at what Hermione said, and they all wondered who James was.
Hermione turned and face the group when she heard their gasp and her face broke into a huge smile when she spotted Harry.
She jumped up and launched herself into his arms as she squealed, 'Jamie!'
When Harry didn't hug her back, she pulled away and looked him in the eyes and stumbled backwards.
'You're not James!' She said. 'Where is he? Where is James?'
Arthur, being closer to Hermione than Molly was, pulled the frightened girl into his arms and asked, 'don't you remember any of them? Ron? Ginny?'
Hermione looked up at him and he could see the tears welling in her eyes as she said, 'I want Jamie!'
'You need to calm down,' Arthur said softly.
'No! I want James!' Hermione screamed, pushing the Weasley Patriarch away from her. 'Take me to James!'
The Weasley kids and Harry just watched with mouths agape as Molly and Arthur tried to calm the girl down.
They all realised who James was when she called Harry by that name, but they all wanted to know how she knew James.
Hermione didn't stop screaming at Molly and Arthur until she saw herself in the mirror and everything flooded back to her.
She narrowed her eyes and turned to the two that were trying to calm her down.
'Why didn't you tell me sooner?' she demanded. 'Why didn't you tell me who I was when you saw me yesterday morning?!'
'We weren't sure if it was you,' Molly said, desperately trying to get the girl to understand.
Hermione was about to speak again when they heard crashes from downstairs.
Charlie and Bill were the first out the door, the twins and Molly following shortly after. Harry, Ron and Ginny took one last look at the hysterical girl before following Molly out the door.
Hermione went to follow, but Arthur blocked her path.
'Dave and Anna would kill me if I let you go out there,' he said clearly.
'I'm not leaving Harry to fight by himself!' Hermione screamed. 'He is not only my bloody best friend, but he is also my bloody nephew! So please get out of the way!'
'I'm sorry,' was the last thing Hermione heard and the last thing she saw before blacking out was Arthur's remorseful face.
A/N: Well thats the end of the first part of the prologue. I hope to get the second up tomorrow, if not it wont be until next week at the latest (hopefully)
Well please review and tell me if you like it.
Ellie
