I rolled casually out of bed to a light blue and white room feeling a bit out of place not surrounded by the usual scarlet and gold but finally at home with my muggle parents for the holidays. Harry is spending his break with the Weasley's both of our adopted wizarding family, although Harry is the only one who knows the difficulty of trying to fit into both worlds where neither understands the other. But if I wasn't raised a muggle I wouldn't understand the meaning of hard work like those self-centered Slytherins. With a loud sigh I got out of bed and got ready for the day and went to join my parents for breakfast.

"Good morning mom, dad." I said as I got my morning cup of coffee tinted an off white by the amount of cream I put in it.

"Oh, Hermione! One of those postmen owls came this morning with a letter! It's sitting on the table at your spot." John Granger exclaimed excitedly. "Those are really smart creatures can any owl do that?"

"Dad, that was a magical owl and they are postmen to wizards you can't expect us to send letters through the air like paper airplanes what would the muggles think?"

"They can do that?" "What are muggles?" both her parents asked at the same time. "Nevermind." It really was hard even for her to remember her parents don't know much about how the wizarding world works and after years of trying to explain things she realized it's best to just keep them separate so Hermione sat down at the table and opened the letter from Ministry of Magic Department of Magical Creatures thinking it's quite odd to be getting a letter from them.

Dear Miss Hermione Jane Granger,

I am pleased to inform you that you have been chosen as the veela mate to Mr. Blaise Zambini. Just last night he had the dream of recognition and has determined you as his mate. A port key will arrive later today to transport to you to the Zambini manner.

Best of luck!

Matilda Greencastle

Head of Magical Creatures Department of Ministries

What a load of rubbish! Sending me this letter to tell me I'm a veela mate like it's a good thing to a man I haven't spoken a word to in all of my years at Hogwarts and saying I have to be with him because he had a dream about me! OK, deep breath, think Hermione you are the brightest witch of your age there has to be a way out of this you learned about veela's last year but it was only about their nature incase a veela chooses you as their mate because although they are not common they are not uncommon either.

Of course, I'll write the Weasley's they might have an idea of what to do or how to get out of this mess. I quickly stood up rocking the table and causing both mine and my fathers coffees to spill over the table and onto the floor and sprinted up to my room hearing both of my parents call out after me in worried voices. I scrabbled through my trunk to find a piece of parchment and a quill and wrote the Weasley's about the letter I received from the ministry of magic and if they knew of anyway to reverse this veela magic even though I already knew it was a lost cause.

After writing the letter I leaned back in my desk chair and thought about what i knew about Blaise Zambini. Well he's a Slytherin so obviously self centered and will do anything to get what he wants so I must be careful around him who knows what kind of tricks the 'Silent Slytherin' has up his sleeve. I think I heard he's pure blood wizard so I don't know why he'd be interested in me I'd mess up his perfect bloodline. Oh and he's a veela a jealous creature who relies on my happiness to survive.

Of course! I could just tell him how I'm not happy with him and he'd have to leave me alone. Yes that's what I'll do unless the Weasleys can think of something better.

And with that last thought the port key arrived by owl. Hermione decided she'd wait until after Christmas to go to Blaise based on her limited knowledge of veela's, she knew he could survive a year before he died of heartbreak so she figured one week wouldn't hurt him plus it was inevitable that they'd run into one another at school and it's common knowledge that veela's rarely let their mate out of their sights the first few weeks of their 'relationship.' So Hermione grabbed a shirt out of her hamper and rapped the port key in it and stored it at the very top of her closet until she was ready to go to him.