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*OUR DESTINY*

Chapter 1 : Letting go & The truth

As Hermione lay awake in her bed deep in thought, then she realized that from this day on her life will be different. It has been two months since the fall of Lord Voldermort and it still hurts to think of she has lost during the war. Not only her friends and parts of her wizarding family, but her own parents.

Three days after the final battle she made her way on her own to Australia to retrieve her parents. She knew where they were located it was getting to them and reversing their memory charms. However, as she was standing in the doorway of her parents home she didn't have the heart to reverse the charm. "They moved on and they are so happy!" she thought as gave upon the new born baby in her mothers arms. She never saw her parents so happy until that day. So Hermione did the most difficult thing a sixteen year old to do, she walked away from her family. That night in her hotel room she cried herself asleep.

As she lays in her bed starring at the ceiling early the next morning just thinking. In two weeks she turns seventeen and she was so excited. She felt that she was starting a new life, her life. Voldemort is dead, her best friends have survived, and she going back to Hogwarts for her seventh year and to take her N.E.W.T.S. . But she kept thinking "I should feel worse about my parents," but she just didn't. Through her life she never had a real connection to them, for some reason they never felt right as her parents.

Well it has been almost a week since she returned back to England. Her parents house has been packed and was up for sale. All their furniture has been given to charity, and the rest has been put into storage. She was headed to the Burrow that day, but she had one more stop before she would officially set out. She was now standing in her parents bank waiting for their safety deposit box. As the bank manager handed to her she noticed how heavy it is. She opened the lid slowly, nervous at what might be inside. She was shocked to see what laid within the box. There's over 5800 pounds in there, a letter, a locket, and something that made all her feelings towards her parents make complete since.

"I AM ADOPTED!" Hermione finally said out loud after yelling it in her head around a thousand times. She read through the paperwork trying to memorize it. Apparently, she was left on the doorsteps of an muggle orphanage. The only thing that was a clue to her family was a gold ornate locket that was placed around her neck. But no one could figure out who they were. She was adopted at six months old by the Grangers. She picked up the locket, it was beautiful, and it was the size of a sickle. It was a yellowish gold color and perfectly round. The front of the locket had two serpents circling the outer rim of the locket, the serpents were covered in white diamonds with emeralds for eyes. In the center of the serpents was an old English Z. "Hmmm...I wonder if that is what my real last name starts with," Hermione thought. She turned the locket over and in the same writing she saw I.S.Z. below the initials it said "Our Cara." At that moment she had a rush of happiness through her body. For some reason she felt complete holding that locket and reading those words.

She then picked up the letter and read the envelope, which stated " I.S.Z. Please open on your you seventeenth birthday, Cara." At this point she looked up at the clock and noticed it was getting late so she gathered everything and placed them in her back. Then she headed off to the nearest public floo.

Hermione Granger is making her way to the Leaky Cauldron to floo to the Burrow. She could hear every one of her footsteps on these old roads of London. Questions kept running through her mind "who am I? Am I a pureblood? Why did my family give me up?Oh Merlin, I might be related to the bouncing ferret Draco Malfoy?" Hermione whispered to herself. Hermione finally walked into the Leaky Cauldron and sighed as she heard Tom say, "Good Day Miss Granger."

"Hello Tom, may I please have a Butterbeer?" Hermione said with a smile.

"Coming Up!" he yelled as he handed it to her.

"Well if it isn't the Bookworm Know - it - All in the flesh," a familiar voice drowled behind her.

"What no Mudblood today Ferret," Hermione questioned as she turned around to face him.

"Not today Granger, not today." Malfoy smirked.

Hermione finished her butterbeer quickly and paid Tom, and then turned to Malfoy.

"Oh, well look at the time Mr. Malfoy, Good Day!" Hermione said as she smirked.

"Hey, you aren't allowed to smirk that is my thing," he yelled to as he watched step into the floo and yell out "the Burrow."

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