Chapter 1

Hermione was sitting on her bed crying. There was a head girl badge sitting on the table and three letters were spread across her bed: one from Harry, one from her parents, and one from Ron.

Harry's letter was asking her if she was ok and everything. After all, with the war going on you would never know. Ron's letter was asking her to come over to his house for the rest of the summer. Her parent's letter was the cause of her tears.

Dear Hermione,

We have something important to tell you, so we are just going to tell you. We are not your real parents. Your mother remains unknown but your father is the one wizards call Lord Voldemort. You are Hermione Riddle, the only heir to Salazar Slytherin. We will not be coming back home till October. Your father will be coming to pick you up sometime before the summer ends.

Love,

Who you once called

Mum and Dad

'How could I be HIS daughter?' she thought. 'And why am I in Gryffindor? Shouldn't I be in Slytherin? Harry would know.'

Unlike Ron, she knew how to use a telephone. In his letter, Harry had said that his "family" would be out that night until 12:00. It was 9pm so she figured that it would be ok to call him. She picked up the phone and dialed the number he had given her at the end of 2nd year.

"Hello." A male voice said

"Hello, Harry?" she said back. Then she froze. She wasn't going to tell him her secret.

"Yea?"

"Um…I remember that sometime in second year you said that the sorting hat almost put you in Slytherin. Um…do you know why you're in Gryffindor?"

"Dumbledore said that I made the choice to be in Gryffindor?" his voice was cracking and she could tell that he was trying to hold back the tears. Hermione let her tears fall freely. She finally wiped her tears.

"No point crying about it now. He's gone from the world," she said

"Yes, but he lives in our hearts. Remember what he said in second year?"

"I will not be gone from Hogwarts until those here do not remember me" they said together (a/n: I'm not positive that is the quote but I'm not going to go look it up now. If someone is really annoyed by this they can give me the quote and I'll change it.)

"Well nothing is going to stop me from talking to you right now. It feels better for me to talk about it with someone else"

"Yes." Suddenly she started loosing connection. 'Touchwood' she thought

"Harry! Harry! Are you there? Harry I'm loosing you!"

"Hermione! It's coming from your end. There is some powerful magic on your end that is…" the rest of the message was lost but Hermione had gotten the picture.

BOOM! There was a thud on the door and the whole house shook.

HE was here.