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I woke up to screaming coming down the hall from my parent's bedroom. Hastily I grabbed my wand from the night table and ran from the room. Down the hall Death Eaters were standing in my parent's door way. Deafening shrieks echoed through the house until finally there was silence and I knew that they were dead. In the few seconds that I had hesitated to look their way, I was pulled back into my room with an unfamiliar hand muffling my mouth. I struggled against my captor until I heard him say, "Miss Granger, I need you to be quiet. Can you do that?"

I nodded uncertainly. Slowly the hand moved from my mouth and I whispered, "Professor Snape?"

"Yes. Now I need you be a good girl and come with me so we can get out of here."

"Where are we going?"

"Why, Snape Manor of course," and he disapparated the two of us from the middle of my bedroom.

I was trying to hold in my tears as best as I could, but they slowly started falling down my cheeks. Still, I refused to make a sound. Professor Snape had been nice so far, but then I hadn't been in his care for long. I was beginning to wonder when his niceness would come to an end, but he remained pleasant as he showed me to my room so that I could shower and then get changed. I was surprised to find that he had packed some of my clothes, and what little he had taken was in the drawers of the bedroom armoire. Showered and changed, I found myself sitting on the bed crying silently for the death of my parents. The next day was my birthday and we were all supposed to go out to eat at Olive Garden, my favorite place.

"Miss, Tipsy is here to take you downstairs to the library. Master wants to talk with you before you go to bed, Miss," a house elf said meekly.

"Thank you Tipsy. Please, call me Hermione." The house elf nodded and walked out as I followed her.

We finally reached the library where Professor Snape sat in front of the fire place reading a book. As we came in, he quietly closed the book and placed it on the coffee table in front of him. Standing, he motioned for me to take a seat and ordered some tea for the both of us. Once the tea arrived and the house elf left, he poured two cups and began to talk.

"Miss Granger, I am sorry about your loss. I wish I could have stopped it from happening but my cover would have been blown."

"Why were you sent? Why did you save me?" There were so many questions I was dying to ask, but those two were the main ones I needed to know the answer to.

"What I am about to tell you will change your life forever Miss Granger," he said certainly. I nodded for him to continue not at all sure of what he could possibly say to me that would change my life more then the death of my parents. "Many years ago Tom Riddle fell in love with a woman named Marsha Whitfield. They got married and within a few months, she became pregnant. This happened just as he was rising up and becoming what we now know and call him