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A/N Takes place in the Deathly Hallows timeline, starting between escaping from Malfoy Manor and breaking into Gringotts.

Hermione woke with a start. She'd had the same dream that she'd been having night after night. She'd be laid on the floor of the manor with that crazy witch carving into her arm.

Looking out the window, she saw the sun was beginning to rise; she might as well get up now as they had a big day ahead of them. Today was the day they were going to break into Gringotts and search Bellatrix's vault for a horcrux.

Everything was ready: the polyjuice potion, her outfit and Bellatrix's hair. All she had to do now was wait for the boys to wake up.

Once the boys eventually got up, and after a filling breakfast, they apparated to Diagon Alley. Unsurprisingly it was deserted. Hermione drank the polyjuice potion and they all headed inside, with Harry and Griphook hidden under the invisibility cloak.

It didn't take them long to be heading down to the vaults. One thing they had not accommodated for was the Thief's Downfall, it washed away all enchantments, and Hermione felt the potion's effects wear off, but she still looked like Bellatrix.

When they we on the floor, after a handy cushioning charm from Hermione, the boys realized that Hermione no longer looked like Bellatrix, but she also didn't look like herself, as she should. In fact she looked an awful lot like Bellatrix, but as if she was younger, like Hermione was. Another major difference was that Hermione now had cold blue eyes, in contrast to the brown eyes that both she and Bellatrix possessed.

They felt it was not a good idea to mention this to Hermione at this moment and focus on the task at hand. They would solve this problem later.

Once in the cell they noticed everything Hermione touched didn't burn and multiply only Harry and Ron, so she got sent in search of the horcrux. They retrieved it and escaped on the dragon, before apparating to Hogmeade.

Harry and Ron had completely forgotten about Hermione's image until they turned up at Aberforth's door. Aberforth instant reacted turning Hermione away and into the hands of two nearby Death Eaters.

The Death Eaters instantly called their Lord about the girl, who they believed was trying to impersonate Bellatrix Lestrange. They believed that she was impersonating her in order to try and enter their rank, and attack the inner circle.

The Dark Lord took Hermione back to Malfoy Manor and questioned the girl who didn't seem to know anything. Although he did find out that she was Harry Potter's mudblood best friend, Hermione Granger, so if nothing else he could blackmail Harry with her. Voldemort then decided to call Snape and make him bring veritaserum, a revealing potion and a linage potion. When Snape arrived, he immediately administered veritaserum and once again questioned Hermione, when the results came up the same, he administered a revealing potion, which caused no changed in the girls appearance. This confused the Dark Lord even more. Finally he ordered Snape to take the girls blood, and add it to the linage potion. This shocked Voldemort, but not in a bad way. He instantly dismissed Snape and sent him to find Bellatrix.

As soon as Snape had left the room, he rushed over to Hermione and pulled her into his arms. At first she was surprised by this, but soon relaxed into his embrace.

Their embrace was only broken by a quiet, "Tom?" from Bellatrix, who was stood, confused, in the doorway.

"Bella, come here and read this. I've found her, we've found her." exclaimed Voldemort, grinning. This disturbed Hermione more that she would like to have admitted.

Hermione then chose this moment to speak up, "Any chance someone could explain what's going on? You tortured me Bellatrix but we escaped, and yet somehow I've ended up here again being tortured, not by you but by VOLDEMORT, and then after I've drank two potions and had blood taken and added to another, I get hugged…HUGGED by VOLDEMORT, now you are both grinning like you killed Harry Potter, which can I check, you've not done right? So can someone just explain what's going on?!"

"Well, first of all Harry is alive…for now. Second, you're a pureblood and your name is not Hermione Jean Granger, it is in fact Lyra Bella Riddle and we are your parents. We thought you were dead. We thought… Anyway none of that matters now; your back and we've missed so much of your life." Bellatrix said.

"How am I pureblood when you're a half blood?" Hermione asked her father.

"Nope. A few years back I used a potion to test that, just to check whether that filthy muggle really was my father, and it said I was pureblood. So either the Slytherin/Gaunt gene overwrote the muggle one, or some unknown pureblood is my dad." Voldemort replied.

"But what about the war?" Hermione asked.

Her father replied, "The war doesn't matter now. Everything you've been ever been told about the war is all lies. Yes I started the Death Eaters, but I realized that I was going about everything wrong, and by that point it was too late to stop it."

"But Lily and James?" Pleaded Hermione.

"They were my friends. I went to visit them that Halloween Night, because I was looking at running for Minister of Magic, but your mother contacted me telling me that aurors had attacked the manor and kidnapped you... I'm sorry for what happened that night. James was an auror and I thought he would know but he said he didn't know and they both said that the Order wasn't involved. That's when j started threatening Harry...I didn't mean it but I wanted them to see it from my perspective. How would they feel if their pride and joy was taken away from them like that?" Hermione's father was crying by this point. "Severus then came by the following week and said that the Order had 'dealt' with you and your mother and I feared the worst. We really are glad to have you back Lyra."

"Is there a way you can reapply my glamour?" Hermione asked to which her parents nodded and did so, "Good cause we have a war to end."

With that they headed to Hogwarts to stop the war before any more deaths took place.

A/N: Review please and let me know what you think. I will hopefully update this soon but school is priority. Hope you enjoyed! Also I'm not sure who to pair Hermione with, I'm thinking: Severus Snape, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott or other so thoughts would be helpful (if other could you let me know who please). Thank you.