Summary: The Wizarding World has begun to persecute the LGBT community, and a new homophobic law is about to pass through the Wizengamot, authorizing their capture and swift execution. Hermione, Harry and Draco must reach safety before they, too, are found. Where will they go? Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, to live with Hermione's half-brother Emmett of course! BKJT DMHP, MMLPHG, DBEH, TSBlake (BriTin, DraRry, MeLiOne, DreMmett, BlEo)

(Okay, I made most of those up, I admit, but some of them sound cool, like FUcKurtOfsky- Finn/Puck/Kurt/Karofsky)

WARNINGS: threesomes, slash, femslash

A/N: This chapter is pre-series for QAF, but post-series for HP. It is confusing at first, just try to keep up. It's also very different from what I've done before.

Rating: T

PROLOGUE

Hermione POV

I woke up the morning of April 18, 2004 with a feeling of imminent danger. Instinctively, in a self-preserving way, that the law prohibiting homosexuality, bisexuality, or transsexuality in the British Wizarding society. All of us were to be captured, rounded up like sheep to shear, and given the Dementor's Kiss or immediate death, depending on the severity of our "crimes against Magic". Without a trial, no less! This would affect all of us; Harry and his boyfriend Draco, and me. We all had our crosses to bear, especially Harry and myself. I had been raised in a devoutly Catholic household. I'm just lucky that my parents see me for me, and didn't prevent me from attending a magic school, or disown me for falling in love with Susan Bones in third year. Harry had been raised with those awful, hateful Muggles that thought anything not 'normal' was to be shunned, and tried to instill that in my poor best friend.

After Fourth Year, I was researching in the Black Family Library, when I found the original, still-self-updating first version of Hogwarts: A History, which was much more accurate than the drivel that the school assigns us to buy at the beginning of our schooling. The original stated that the Four Founders were not, in fact, married to those of the opposite gender, but bonded to those of the same, e.g. Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, and Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw. However, Potions research had not yet then found a way to make people pregnant without one or the other gender. Hell, it still couldn't happen! But, the Four still managed. Helga and Rowena each bore a son and a daughter, Helga from Godric and Rowena from Salazar. Helga's children were Lilith Gryffindor (the girl) and Ash Hufflepuff (the boy), whereas Rowena's children were Kestrel Ravenclaw (the daughter) and Wyvern Slytherin (the son). All four children married others, and birthed their own bloodlines. Wyvern was the forefather of the Prince, Malfoy, Black, and Riddle lines, Lilith was the mother of the Evans, Weasley, Potter, and McGonagall lines, Ash fathered the Diggory, Bones, Smith, and Abbott lines, and Kestrel was the mother of the Lovegood, Ackerley, Brocklehurst, and Carmichael lines. The most recent ends are Draconis Abraxas Slytherin-Malfoy, Severus Tobias Slytherin-Prince-Snape, Sirius Orion Slytherin-Black, Thomas Marvolo Slytherin-Riddle, Harry James Gryffindor-Slytherin-Evans-Potter (the magical heir of Thomas Marvolo Slytherin-Riddle), William Arthur, Charles Septimus Gryffindor-Weasley, Percival Ignatius Gryffindor-Weasley, Frederick Gideon Gryffindor-Weasley, George Fabian Gryffindor-Weasley, Ronald Bilius Gryffindor-Weasley, Ginevra Molly Gryffindor-Weasley, Minerva Tabitha Gryffindor-McGonagall, Luna Artemis Ravenclaw-Lovegood, Stewart Allen Ravenclaw-Ackerley, Amanda "Mandy" Alissa Ravenclaw-Brocklehurst, Edward "Eddie" Rowland Ravenclaw-Carmichael, Susan Amelia Hufflepuff-Bones, Zacharias Tobias Hufflepuff-Smith, Hannah Rebecca Hufflepuff-Abbott, and Cedric Edward Hufflepuff-Diggory, who was turned into a vampire and is currently living somewhere in the States under his middle name. He has a daughter and a wife, last I heard. But other than him, all of the most recent descendants were at least bisexual.

Anyway, the law has passed now, and I must prepare to leave. I have to send all of our secret community to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Greenwich Village in New York City, and other friendly cities across the Colonies. I, personally, will go to Pittsburgh to stay with my half-brother Emmett Honeycutt. He is my father's other child from a woman he almost married, before he met my mother. Em is only older than me by a year. My father didn't know about Em until he was born, and he had already married my mother, and she didn't want his bastard child, so Em got left in Mississippi with his mother and my dad's sister, my Aunt Lula. She was magic, too, but a different kind of magic. Aunt Lula contacted my father when she found out that Emmett was gay, when he was about three and started wearing subtle makeup and high heels that he stole from his mother. Apparently, he also showed excellent fashion sense, and was able to do his own hair by age five, before he went to school. When I learned to write, I started to write to Emmett, hoping he'd understand what I was going through. After all, he liked boys, so he could understand the feelings of my liking girls and boys. He became my confidante and best friend, after I realized that I only liked girls, and that liking boys was just spillover from the other girls talking about them. He didn't blame me - in fact, he just laughed - and he invited me to go to Mississippi and hang out with him over the summer.

It was nice. We ran wild over the town for two weeks, interspersed with etiquette and other lessons from Aunt Lula, while Abigail (Emmett's mother) worked during the day. At night, we would curl up on the old, raggedy couch to eat junk food and watch old movie versions of Broadway musicals on his old television. I wasn't lonely anymore. We were seven at the time, a month after my birthday and two months before his.

After that summer, at every school holiday, I went to his home, or he came over to mine. When he ran away to Pittsburgh, I thought I would never hear from him again, but I got a letter from him not two days later, asking me to go visit him there. He had already made a friend in Godiva, an African-American drag queen that had taken him in fresh off of the street. She was kind to him, and introduced him to Debbie Novotny and her brother Vic Grassi. Apparently, his nephew lived near Liberty Avenue and had room in his apartment, so I went to help Emmy move into Michael's apartment. Michael introduced us to Brian while I was there, and he seemed very… well, he was just Brian Kinney. There is no other way to describe him. He was very kind to me. Then we met Lindsay Peterson and Melanie Marcus.

*Flashback*

Em and I were sitting in the Liberty Diner with Michael and Brian. We were talking when two women, obviously a couple, walked up to us and started talking to Brian.

"Hey Brian. Would you like to introduce us to your new friend?" that was the tall, blonde woman, who obviously knew and liked Brian. The other woman glared at Brian. I guessed that she didn't like him much.

"Sure Linds. Lindsay Peterson and Melanie Marcus, this is Emmett Honeycutt and his lesbian half-sister Hermione Granger. Herms and Emmylou, the tall blonde is Lindsay Peterson and the short dark-haired one is her 'partner', Melanie Marcus" at the word 'partner', Brian grimaced. I thought there was something that they were hiding. And I was right.

*End Flashback*

So, that's when I first met, and fell in love with, Linds and Mel. They were two of the nicest people I had ever met, and knew what it was like to be ostracized from the community. Not that the boys didn't, but they were too much like the girls I had to share a room with in school, all boy-crazy. The girls were more down-to-Earth. Actually, the next time I saw them both, Lindsay was pregnant and Mel was like a mother hen! It was hilarious! I haven't seen them in a few years, though. I heard that Linds has had her baby already, his name is Gus, Mel even had a baby, with Michael of all people, her name is Jenny Rebecca (JR for short), and Brian actually met someone who will deal with him on a constant basis! I think Em said his name was…Jesse? No, it was Justin, I think. Justin Taylor. I believe Em said he was an artist, and a talented one, at that. I'm sure I've seen his work somewhere…Oh, that's right! I was there for his first art show, at the GLC a few years ago! He is really adorable, but in a childish, boyish way. I talked to him there, and we've been friends ever since. If I was male, and into men, I think Brian would have had a hard time fighting for Justin. From what I've heard from Emmylou, they had some issues with a violin player a couple years ago, but they've been cleared up since then. Not too soon, from what I hear. They even tried getting married! But they decided that they didn't want to get married unless they both wanted it, and canceled it. I think that that time will come soon, and they will actually get married for real.

But I'm going off tangent again.

With a wave of my wand, I had all of my stuff packed and shrunk, loaded into my beaded bag, that I still had from the Horcrux hunt a few years ago. Luckily, I had been lying low, so I didn't have much. I caught the one thing I still had from my school years, sending a message via my thoughts: "LAW HAS PASSED. GET OUT OF BRITAIN. GO TO STATES. PITTSBURGH OR GREENWICH VILLAGE ONLY. HURRY!" I finished just as a legion of Aurors Apparated into my front yard.

They banged on the door. "Open up, or we'll knock it down!" one of them yelled, I think it was Kingsley. Too bad I had to escape. I Apparated to a safe place, created a Portkey, and used it to go to the Pittsburgh airport. I was to meet Emmylou there.

A/N: So, that's the end of that chapter. I finished this without internet, so I didn't update it eventually. Next chapter is the airport and shopping!

Finished: 7-17-2011

Chapter Word Count: 1,735

Final Word Count: 1,735