Thank you, for choosing to read Deception this story was being co-written by Elfsquire90 and Alexia321. After the third chapter it will be written by Elfsquire and bettaed by Alexia. On behalf of Alexia and my self I would like to inform you that Harry Potter and its characters do not belong to us however this story and all original characters do. So please read, review and above all enjoy.
Deception
Prologue
This story is about Hermione Granger…no Lestrange…no Lupin…maybe Snape. You're probably confused right now. But don't worry, so is she or she will be when she finds out, that's right she doesn't know in fact she hasn't the foggiest idea as to the situation and although this story takes place now, in Hermione's fifth year, the whole mess started about 18 years before.
Sarai Snape was just you're average 7th year Hogwarts student she was smart, funny and very pretty with her long curly black hair and beautiful chocolate brown eyes. She could have gone out with any guy she wanted unfortunately, for the guys, she was in love with an older man. Not that much older, only two years. But it didn't matter; her parents were against her and her true love and would stop them at all costs. They disapproved of the Werewolf who almost killed there son and wanted her to marry Rabastan Lestrange, a typical pureblood male. They are focused on 2 things: producing heirs and pleasing the idiotic Dark Lord. Her parents arranged it so they were "engaged" and were to get married at the end of her last school year. And with no way out that's exactly what happened.
They were married and about nine months later Sarai and Rabastan had a son, Alastair William Lestrange. Rabastan, now satisfied he had secured an heir, he started doing a lot of work for the Dark Lord keeping him far from home, something Sarai didn't mind at all. Sarai was completely against her "husband's" Lord. In fact she had joined the Order of the Phoenix, the first secret organization set against Voldemort.
One plus side to being part of this (besides fighting the evil people like her "husband") was that she spent a lot of time with the man she really loved, Remus Lupin. While her husband was away on one of his "missions" for his master, Sarai had an affair. She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on September 19th, 1980. She was named Hermione Anne after one of Sarai's favorite Shakespearean plays, A Winter Tale, and Remus chose Anne because he was one for simple names.
Sarai was in love with her baby girl from the start. She thought she was perfect and that was exactly what she was. But Sarai was afraid that Rabastan would find out that the child wasn't his which was very possible because Hermione looked nothing like him and they hadn't tried to have another baby since Alastair was conceived. She reluctantly gave her baby girl up to a muggle orphanage making sure her child wouldn't be found for a while.
Soon after the fall of Voldermort, her husband, brother in-law, and sister in-law were captured torturing the Longbottoms and were sent straight to Azkaban. Sarai couldn't have been happier. She started spending more time with Remus out side of the Order comforting him after the loss of three good friends. Soon one thing led to another. Sarai and Remus had rekindled their relationship from before.
Sarai had had another child on December 9, 1983. She had another lovely baby girl. She was named Esmeralda Alyssa Lupin. Esme for short. Knowing Rabastan had a life sentence in Azkaban; Sarai knew her second little girl could be kept by her mother. But everyday she thought of her first little girl, Hermione, continuously wondering how she was.
So Sarai's three children grew. Two children knew their wonderful mother and one child lived a blissful life as the daughter of two successful muggle dentists. Alastair and Esmeralda got along wonderfully. Even though he knew Esme was not the child of his father, Alastair loved his little sister anyway. He watched out for her until he left for Hogwarts where he was sorted into Slytherin.
Two years later Hermione went to Hogwarts not knowing about her true parentage or her brother, Alastair, who became good acquaintances with any influential power in the wizarding world, quickly became the mentor of Draco Malfoy. If only he could get him to stop complaining about the mudblood Granger from Gryffindor and to stop him from whining, he helped Draco with a few minor "tips of torture". And so Alastair unknowingly helped make his half-sister's life a living nightmare for the past four years making it hard for the two of them to ever get along which could mean a lot of trouble later in this story. Well this pretty much catches you up to the present which is Hogwarts during the Golden Trio's fifth year.