The eagle among the lions

Chapter 1

Hermione looks up from her own breakfast to see Ron shovelling food into his mouth. Hermione glances over at Harry who is glancing back at her. The owls start to appear dropping letters and parcels from parents.

An official looking owl sweeps down in front of Hermione and drops a letter on to her plate and flies away. Hermione looks down at the letter and notices it has the seal of the Ministry on it.

Harry looks over at her very concerned "is that from the Ministry?"

Hermione nods and slowly rips the seal and slowly opens the parchment and reads the letter from the Ministry. She becomes confused about what was being said inside the letter.

Harry puts his hands on her shoulder "what does it say Hermione?"

Hermione hands the letter to him "it says that my uncle has died but the name that has been listed in the letter is not the name of my uncle, but why are the Ministry sending me a letter saying this instead of my parents sending me a letter."

Harry hands it back to her after reading it over a few times "You should show Professor McGonagall, the Ministry might have sent you the wrong letter."

Hermione places the letter into her bag "it doesn't make sense Harry, something doesn't feel right."

Ginny looks over at her brother and kicks him under the table "Ron."

Ron looks up and over at his sister "what?"

Ginny shakes her head "Is there a spell for not making that happen?"

Hermione and Harry laugh then Hermione replies "I haven't found one yet Ginny, sorry."

The three of them burst out laughing at Ron's expense; he just stares at them before going back to his big breakfast. Hermione looks down at her bag and could swear that the letter was burning a hole in her bag as the letter contained bad news for someone and Hermione knew she must have something to do with the bad news.

They all start to head off towards their lessons, Hermione manages to catch up with Professor McGonagall outside her office meaning she had a free period "Professor?"

Professor McGonagall turns to look at young witch "yes Miss. Granger, can I help you with something?"

Hermione nods and pulls out the letter "I received a letter from the Ministry today but the information inside it is all wrong."

They sit down in Minerva's office and Hermione hands her head of house the letter. Minerva nods as she reads through the letter.

Hermione takes this as a good sign meaning that Ministry had sent the letter to the wrong person "So the Ministry have sent me someone else's letter, because I have no relatives by that name Professor and if a relative of mine had died the news would be coming via my parents not the Ministry."

Minerva looks at her lioness with sad eyes "I'm afraid Miss. Granger that the Ministry has not made a mistake. I think we should take this meeting to the headmaster."

The Gryffindor witches enter the headmaster's office and when he notices the letter in Minerva's hands he already guesses what this meeting was about. The truth was about to come to light.

Albus reads the letter and realises that the Ministry had in fact made a mistake; the mistake is that they were meant to come to him FIRST before sending any letters to Hermione so that this did not happen.

Albus turns his attention to Hermione "Miss. Granger, I must apologise on behalf of the Minister it seems he has in fact made a mistake. I was meant to be told first of this and I was going to have this quite difficult talk with you before this letter arrived to you."

Hermione looks at the headmaster "Difficult talk?"

Albus nods and places the letter on his desk "I shall start from the beginning, what I am about to tell you might upset you and my dear that was never my intention."

Professor Dumbledore starts to explain everything to Hermione; she can't believe what she is hearing. Once Professor Dumbledore stops explaining everything to Hermione which took a few hours.

Hermione wipes the tears that had fallen "You mean that my real parents were killed during the war and you placed me with squibs."

Albus nods "yes, you are a very powerful witch Miss. Granger I am surprised you never thought about the reason why."

Hermione looks up at him "I assumed it was because of all the books I read, there must have been another muggleborn to be as powerful as me. What about Harry's mum?"

Minerva nods "Lily was a powerful witch but the heads of house with the exception of Severus of course monitor muggleborns and how powerful they are. You are more powerful than any other muggleborn we have had here however this new information explains why."

Hermione smooths out her skirt "this is a lot to take it, my birth parents, they refused to join Riddle and that is what got them killed?"

Albus nods "he sent his followers to do it and when they were about to leave the house where you were born, they heard you crying. Lucky for you we got to you first otherwise only Merlin knows what would have happened to you."

Hermione sighs "so Deatheater's killed my birth parents, I was saved from Riddle and was given to squibs. Am I missing anything else?"

Albus floats a book towards her "your mother's side of the family are connected to Lady Rowena Ravenclaw meaning you at the moment are the last heir to the Ravenclaw house."

Minerva squeezes Hermione's hand out of comfort "that would also explain your powerfulness. It would be your choice if you wanted to be rehoused into Ravenclaw."

Albus looks at Minerva and shakes his head "unfortunately once a student has been sorted they cannot be resorted besides Harry will need Hermione's help to defeat Tom."

Minerva looks at him and can't believe what he is saying, she turns her attention to Hermione "it is lunchtime now my dear, why don't you go have something to eat and enjoy your friends company. We will have to tell the heads of house that the last heir to the Ravenclaw house has been found however as you are under the age we will leave your name out."

Albus nods in agreement "if Tom was to find out, who knows what he might try and do?"

Hermione stands up "One last thing, why does it matter to HIM if I am the last heir to the Ravenclaw house."

Minerva puts her hand on Hermione's arm in a supportive way "because of your heritage Hermione, you are a very smart and powerful witch and HE is a power hungry wizard plus you are Mr. Potter's best friend. It would kill Mr. Potter if you were tied to the dark lord in some way."

Hermione leaves them two to talk and heads towards the great hall to fill Harry and Ron in on everything that was just said. Hermione was also hoping that Voldemort never found out about her.

As the heads of houses started to appear in the headmaster's office, not one person noticed the fat rat scurrying away back to its master…

Will Voldemort find out about Hermione?

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