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An: I've decided to re-write the story and make it more up to par.
"With more and more body counts on the rise and even more wizards swearing allegiance with the dark lord it looks as if we are heading into some troubled times." A wizard with dark brown hair and chocolate eyes told the woman sitting across the table from him. She held her hand out and he handed the paper to his wife.
He watched as her eyes scanned the paper, and then finally they clouded over slightly. He knew she was having a vision of what was to come. The fear, shock, and defiance on her face, he knew all too well.
"Alexander, its time." Her voice came out in light musical tones, but held great emotion in it as well. Before he could reply to his wife the sound of an infant crying broke the tension.
Alexander watched as his wife breast fed their only child. The small three month old baby already had a head of bushy brown hair and the same chocolate eyes her parents shared.
"Andromeda, are you positive it will happen tonight?" he asked his eyes and voice hardening at the thought of someone ripping his happy family apart. The brunette looked up from her child and smiled slightly to her husband, "Have I ever been wrong before Alexander?" she then looked back down to the baby who had fallen back asleep at her mother's breast.
"Let us call Dumbledore and Lucius we must act fast, we need to get little Hermione away from the wizarding world as soon as we can."
"Are you sure there isn't another way we can do this?" Alexander begged his wife.
"This is our fate, Alexander; we cannot run away from it. I've seen the future of both choices, and I've seen Hermione's future if we choose the other path. It is our duty as both parents and members of the order of light, which we shall complete tonight."
At exactly 8:05, Alexander and Andromeda Verona stepped into the forbidden forest where Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy and Albus Dumbledore awaited.
Narcissa ran over to Andromeda and pulled her into a tight hug, "I've missed you so much!" both women held onto each other since they knew it would be the last time they ever got to see each other again.
Alexander and Lucius spoke softly to each other while holding two little bundles.
When the two women pulled apart, Alexander spoke "Lucius I want you to swear to me that Draco will always look over my Hermione, he will be her protector and put her life above his."
Lucius looked down at the baby in his arms, and then to the baby in Alexander's arms. "I swear to you that not only will Draco protect her but I will as well. Hermione is the key to saving us all, and I promise you she will never be in danger."
"So are you going to tell us what the problem is?" Narcissa asked her childhood friends.
Alexander looked to his wife who spoke softly, "Tonight Riddle will come for us and Hermione, as members of the order of light, and we have sworn to protect Hermione from the darkness. We are bonding Hermione and Draco so that Riddle will never be able to track her down; we are sending her to live with one of my Muggle friends." Andromeda sighed heavily to the people surrounding her.
"Tonight Riddle will come to us, and he will kill us." She finished keeping her eyes trained straight in front of her.
Before anyone could respond Dumbledore quickly walked over to the four adults and two children.
"We must hurry, it's almost time." He then grabbed what would be Hogwarts two most prized students and took them into the sacred circle.
"We come here in the darkness and safety of the wood to bond these two children so that neither shall fall into harm. Her power will be his power, his power shall be her power, her pain is his pain and his pain hers. Forever connected in mind body and spirit. l'esprit, corps, et l'esprit, se sont reliés jusqu'à la mort. l'esprit, corps, et l'esprit, se sont reliés jusqu'à la mort."
Dumbledore then made a tiny cut into both children's feet and took Hermione's blood and drew two crescent moons back to back on Draco's back. Taking Draco's blood he did the same thing on Hermione's back. Both children glowed brightly and a burst of power shot out knocking everyone to the ground.
Dumbledore quickly stood and handed Draco to his parents, "Go back to your manor and forget everything of this night." Scooping up Hermione he turned to Andromeda and Alexander, "The sacrifice you two made was great, you will both be rewarded after death. I will take Hermione to the Granger's, you two must head home."
With that each person went their separate ways and the forest was left quiet in its isolation.
Alexander and Andromeda sat in their study each awaiting the death they knew would soon come. They nervously looked up at each other and jumped slightly when a loud crack erupted.
Tom Riddle stood in the center of the room, "Why hello Alexander. Andromeda." He then took a seat in the chair that allowed him to view the couple perfectly.
"Hello Tom, or should we call you Lord Voldemort now?" Alexander growled. Riddle smiled to the wizard, "Now now Alexander, I've come to offer you one last chance to join my side."
"We will never side with you." Andromeda hissed glaring Tom Riddle down.
Tom walked across the room and sat down next to Andromeda; he cast a binding spell on Alexander, and then placed his hand on Andromeda's thigh.
"Now Andromeda dear, I really would hate to hurt you, but I'm going to be nice and give you another chance. Tell me where your child is and I'll let you live."
Andromeda pulled her wand out ready to hex the dark lord, but in a matter of seconds her wand was gone and she was in a full body bind. "Now now, see what you made me do."
Then a look came across his face that could only be described as sinful, "Imperio." He cast upon Andromeda, he watched as her eyes clouded over with his command.
"You defied me, so now you must pay the price." He smirked evilly to Alexander.
Alexander watched in horror through his body bind as his wife grabbed a knife and began walking slowly towards him, he could tell the horror in her eyes as the knife slashed his flesh over and over again.
Voldemort smiled darkly. "If you would've been cooperative this wouldn't have had to happen." He then made Andromeda set the blood splattered knife down and get on her knees in front of him.
"Bow to me." He demanded, and to the horror of Andromeda and Alexander she did so.
"Excellent, so tell me where the child is."
Voldemort watched as her mouth tried to answer but nothing would come out. He hissed in irritation. "Not many people can resist the Imperius like that. I guess I'll have to find information elsewhere."
Then a burst of green light and a deep crack Andromeda and Alexander Verona were dead.
Five years later
A small girl with long bush brown hair and chocolate eyes was playing in a very large perfectly green lawn with a large German shepherd.
Eliza Granger watched as the five year old tripped and the dog jumped on her and licked her face. She smiled slightly; it had been five years since Hermione had been left in her care. Five years and she loved the girl more than anything in the world.
Jack Granger came out of the large house carrying two iced teas, he handed one to his wife and followed her train of sight.
He laughed as he watched the small girl squirming to get out from beneath the dog who was just happily licking the ice cream off the girls face.
Jack watched as a frown appeared onto his wife's face. "What's wrong?" he asked grabbing her hand.
"I'm worried, she isn't like us Jack." She turned back to the girl who was now chasing the dog. "We can't protect her. Not in the way that's needed. When she turns 11 and goes to that school, she is no longer our sweet little girl; she becomes a completely different person. She becomes a witch."
Eliza and Andromeda had been friends since they were very young, and once she turned 11 she knew something was changing with her best friend, Andromeda had never actually told her until they were sixteen. It was a shock to say the least. But it had brought them closer together, and when a strange old wizard had shown up with Andromeda's only child she knew she couldn't deny the poor infant or her best friend.
Jack spoke interrupting his wife's thoughts. "Honey, we can tell her the truth about everything when she is older, I mean the final bonding process won't even happen until her seventh year, and by then she will be 17 and plenty mature enough to handle it."
"I hope so." Eliza replied. Moving vans and trucks caught the attention of the family of three as they watched them pull into the larger home across the street. "They're here." Jack sighed and watched as another family of three with white blonde hair began unpacking.
"Can we trust them?" Eliza asked, watching the new neighbors.
"They were there during the bonding process, and they were there those seven years at Hogwarts learning how to protect Hermione better then we could." Jack watched as Draco and Hermione somehow managed to find each other and begin talking. "I don't think we have any other choice." He sighed.
"I guess." Eliza replied and then huffed when she saw Draco and Hermione rolling around in the dirt fighting. "And they are to be betrothed." she sighed making her way over to the fighting kids.