A/N: I'm on exam leave just now so I've been doing some writing. Please read and review, but keep in mind that it hasn't been betaed. Anyone who is brave enough to want to beta this story pleasecontact me. I will try to update regularly.
Carol
Turning Point
Chapter 1 The frizzy-haired, know-it-all
It was the summer before her seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the war with Voldemort was finally over. Harry had, with Ron and her help, vanquished the evil tyrant for good after destroying his horcruxes. They had spent weeks celebrating and now for the first time since the end of the war she had peace and quiet.
Ron had gone with Harry to collect his things from the Dursley's as he isn't going back there now he doesn't have to. He, Ron and Draco have rented a flat between them a couple of streets from where she lived with her parents. Draco had turned to the side of the light the night Dumbledore had been killed and soon a friendship was made between them all. Draco was clearing Malfoy Manor and Hermione was using her free time not to read or do homework, but to contemplate her life so far.
Ever since she was small she had been teased about being an ugly frizzy-haired, know-it-all bookworm. She remembered being called that from her first day of primary. It was during her time of reflection that she decided to do something about her frizzy hair. She remembered how she had tamed it for the Yule Ball using one of Lavender's books on magical makeovers.
She decided as these spells were not really her area of expertise that she would floo Ginny or Tonks. She took a tub of floo powder out of her drawer, crept forward on her knees, sprinkled some into the flames, put her head in afterwards and shouted the burrow, as it was about 3pm and Tonks would be at work.
She looked around the kitchen in the burrow from the fireplace about to shout for Ginny when she heard voices. The voices seemed to belong to Molly and Arthur Weasley, Minerva McGonagall and Severus Snape. They seemed to be having a heated discussion, so she kept as quiet as possible not wanting to be noticed.
"Severus, you have to tell her. The concealment charms will be wearing off any day now. You have to tell her she is your daughter.", scolded Professor McGonagall. A daughter, Hermione thought to herself, Snape has a daughter, poor girl.
"Minnie, you know it's not that simple. Not after the way I've treated her the last six years. She won't want anything to do with me.", he retorted bitterly. Minnie, Hermione thought, I can just imagine Harry and Ron's faces if they knew what McGonagall gets called.
"Now, now Severus,Minnie is right, she isn't judgmental, she'll understand. You had to act that way to keep your cover, she can't hold that against you.", Arthur chastised.
"He's right there Severus, she's a bright girl, definitely your daughter, she can be just as stubborn as you that Hermione.", Molly said fondly.
That's when Hermione pulled her head out of the fire and back into her bedroom, feeling slightly sick. Could they have been talking about her. Snape had been awful to her for six years, she was bright, stubborn, and not judgmental, and her name was Hermione.
