My first story! Hope you al like it.

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Hogwarts

Minerva McGonagall sat looking out of her window down to the Lake. Tears were running down her cheeks while she turned around to her best friend and colleague Albus Dumbledore. "First, she leaves me to join Him and now she writes me that she gave birth to our daughter without me even telling she was pregnant to begin with." she said. "She died two days after being born due to a heart defect, and I never even got to hold her." She walked over to the couch and just slumped down.

"I'm so sorry, Minerva." Dumbledore said while trying to hold back his own tears. It hurt him to see his friend like this. Walking over to the couch, he sat down next to her en took her in his arms. "She said that they will bury her in a public graveyard. So in a couple of days we can go and visit her. I know it's not what you would like to be doing, but that way you can at least say goodbye."

"Say goodbye, Albus? I never even knew she existed. I just want to hold her." Minerva broke down crying even harder than before.

Malfoy manor

"Did you manage to get her out?" Bellatrix asked her sister.

"Yes, I left her at the first orphanage I came across. When I left her there, she was sleeping peacefully." Narrissa told her.

"Did you manage to convince the Dark Lord she really died?"

"Yes, he even told me to write her a letter. So she knows she was never able to protect me from him." Bellatrix laughs. Deep down, she felt the pang of anger and hurt at having to give up her daughter to keep her safe. Even if she had sent her to her other mother, he would have found out and killed her.

The funeral was held at a Muggle graveyard. Only Bellatrix and Narcissa were there. She hoped that the Dark Lord would never find out about their betrayal.

Eleven years later

Minerva was looking at the list of Muggle-borns she had to visit. Only one left, Hermione Granger. Walking up to the front door, she thought about the nice hot bath she was planning on taking as soon as she was back at Hogwarts. After ringing the bell, she only had to wait for about ten seconds for the door to be opened by a woman about forty years old. "How can I help you?" she asked.

"Hello, my name is Minerva McGonagall. I sent you a letter yesterday in which I told you I would be coming by today."

"Welcome, I'm Elizabeth Granger. Come in."

Walking into the house, she saw a girl standing on the stairs. "Mom, who is this?" the girl asked her mother.

"This is Minerva McGonagall, baby. She is here to speak to you, your father and me about something." her mother answered. "Why don't we go to kitchen so we can talk and have a nice cup of tea?"

While walking behind mother and daughter, Minerva couldn't stop thinking about how Hermione didn't look like her mother at all. As they walked into the kitchen, Elizabeth introduces Minerva to Hermione an her father, Edward. When Minerva looked at Hermione and she wonders where she has seen those eyes before.

When everybody had sat down with a cup of tea in front of them, Minerva started to explain. "I'm here to talk to you about Hermione and her future education. As I stated in my letter, she has been excepted at Hogwarts. The full name is actually Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Hermione here is a witch."

She was met with laughter from Hermione's father, Edward. "That explains why she was able to make things fly when she was a baby." Looking at his wife, he continued, "I guess this is what her mother wrote in that letter, about her being special."

Hermione, who had been quietly contemplating what she had just learned about herself, looked at her father while asking, "What letter, dad?"

"When we brought you home from the orphanage, they gave us a letter that was on your body when they found you, honey. There were two letters actually, one for us and one for you."

"Why don't we let Minerva explain everything about Hogwarts first and then you can read the letters later today. Okay, honey?" Elizabeth asked.

Taking this as her cue to continue, Minerva explained the rest and handed Hermione her list with school supplies she needed to get. She also explained how to get those supplies and how to get to the platform from which the train would leave the first of September.

"I know this is not my place, but do you have any idea what her mother's name

was?" she asked Elizabeth while walking to the front door.

"No, there was no name on the letter."

With that, they said their goodbyes and Minerva went back to Hogwarts.

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