**Disclaimer: I am not Mrs. Rowling, so I don't own any of the original ideas or characters from the Harry Potter books. **

Chapter 1

School had just started two weeks ago. Harry was walking up the stairs to the Griffindor dormitories. All of a sudden WHAM! Ron smashed into him, and they rolled down the stairs in a tangle of arms and legs. Finally, they landed roughly on the ground. Harry got up and began to brush himself off. Ron stood up, deep red all the way up to his hair, which was now more orange than reddish, due to the sunlight that he'd gotten over the summer.

"I'm so sorry," Ron began, but then he noticed that the boy he'd run into was, "HARRY!" I've been looking all over for you!" He was waving a newspaper, Harry recognized it as The Daily Prophet.

"Ron! What is it?"

"Oh, yeah, look at this." He held out the newspaper for Harry to read.

"Secrets at Hogwarts?"

By: Anonymous

We all know that amazing wizard who is currently the headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But, what we don't all know is that he had a daughter, who was killed in the devastating muggle disaster on September 11, 2001. He also has a granddaughter. Melanie Kess, 15 years old, has spent the past year of her life in foster homes, and orphanages, since her father also died on that tragic day. Until now she had no idea that she was of such influential, not to mention magical, blood.

There was more to it, but Harry didn't bother to read it, he just looked up, astonished, at Ron. "Dumbledore has a granddaughter our age?"

"I can see that you didn't bother yourself to read the entire article. IN short, it says that Dumbledore not only has a granddaughter, but that she's coming here!"

"Wow, when?"

Before Ron could answer, they were interrupted by footsteps behind them, it was Hermionie and Ginny. "Hey guys!" Called Hermionie waving, she and Ginny ran to catch up to them. Hermionie eyed the paper in Harry's hand. "Oh, so you've only just heard?" She rolled her eyes in a total Hermionie know-it- all way.

"What was that about?" Ron asked, turning to his 14-year-old sister, who was still relatively shy around Harry, although she'd been getting progressively better.

"She's just arrived!" Exclaimed Ginny. "We've been looking for you guys everywhere! C'mon!" She grabbed Ron's wrist and yanked him toward the Great Hall.

She flew into the Great Hall, with Ron in tow; Ron was getting pretty banged up, she wasn't being careful where she was going and he'd constantly run into suits of armor and doors that she managed to just pass by. They entered the Great Hall, only to find it surprisingly empty, save for a few ghosts floating through, mid-conversation. Ginny politely interrupted a pair of ghosts, "Excuse me." They totally ignored her, so she tried again, "Ahem!" Again the ghosts continued along, not a care in the world.

"HELLO?" Ron shouted, a bit tired of their rudeness. The ghosts just looked down at them, glared, and left; but not without first flying through Ron, who jumped up in fear then crumpled to the ground due to the freezing temperature.

Ginny knelt down to help him up. "Ron, are you okay?"

She'd managed to help get him halfway up before he replied. (a/n: Ginny's really one strong girl, I mean she's got six older brothers.) "O-, o-, oh, y- y- yeah. R- r- right." He replied sarcastically, his teeth chattering.

"Come on!" Ginny said exasperated, and dropped him the amount that she'd gotten him up.

"Ouch!" Ron muttered, but that was all that he could say before being dragged out of the great Hall, and out onto the grounds outside. He could barely see where they were going because he kept tripping over stones and roots, and was constantly trying to re-gain his balance. Which was why he flew into and crash-landed on top of his sister.

"RON! GET OFF ME!" Ginny exclaimed really irritated with her brother.

"Well SORRY!" He shouted back. "It's not my fault that I can't see where we're going!"

They both got up dusting themselves off. That's when Ron noticed that they were in front of Hagrid's hut. Ginny brushed off the front of her legs again before knocking. "COME IN!" Was the response that they got, so Ginny swung the door open.

Ron looked in over her shoulder and saw the back of a girl's head sitting in one of the chairs facing Hagrid. The girl had thick wavy brown hair, 'Oh, wow, Hermionie sure got here fast.' Thought Ron, what he said was "Hey Hermionie Where's Harry?"

The girl turned around, revealing pierced ears, and blue eyes; two things that Hermionie sure didn't have. "Who and who?" The girl asked right at the same time that good old Ron stated the obvious, "Hey! You're not Hermionie."

"Well DUH!" Ginny rolled her eyes and hit her brother on the back of the head playfully.

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