The eagle among the lions

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Chapter 2

As the heads of houses started to appear in the headmaster's office, not one person noticed the fat rat scurrying away back to its master.

Albus looks at the heads of house "I have asked you to all be here as it appears that the last heir of Ravenclaw has been named as the last relative of the heir has passed away."

Filius looks at the headmaster "May I at least know the identity of the heir to my house?"

Albus looks at them with a sad look "unfortunately right now it is not safe for the heir to be named. I have advised them against announcing their position however it is their choice if they want to announce it."

Filius nods in understanding why "Are they at least safe? They aren't in a house where they will be in danger if they are found out." As Filius glances over towards the dark haired potions master.

Albus looks at his charms professor "Your heir Filius is perfectly safe for now, if that changes I will personally announce their identity and place them in to Ravenclaw."

The heads of house start to leave but Minerva stays behind; Albus looks at her and already knows what the deputy head is going to say.

Albus holds up his hand "Miss. Granger will be safe Minerva; I know that her head of house will keep her safe and give her guidance whenever she may need it."

Minerva faintly smiles "I just hope her friends stay by her side. You need to deal with Dolorous before someone gets hurt Albus, I do not like the rumours that I am hearing about her detentions."

Albus nods "I will try to keep my eye on Dolorous."

~ Hermione ~

Hermione walks towards the great hall trying to think about how she would break the news to her friends and how they would then take the news. She didn't want to find out that they would leave her after she told them her news.

Hermione sees them and knows it is now or never, she glances over to the Slytherin table before someone else finds out and tells her friends.

Ginny smiles at her "How did things go with Professor McGonagall?"

Hermione stands behind them "I actually need to talk to you guys about it, just not here, the common room please."

Ginny and Harry nod and start to leave but notice that Ron is still eating. Harry walks over to him and nudges him "are you coming?"

Ron shrugs "you'll just tell me later, I'm hungry."

Ginny puts her arm through Hermione's "c'mon he values food more than friendship and family."

Harry and the girls head towards the Gryffindor tower, the girls make sure that no one else was present and as it was lunchtime the common room was empty. Harry comes down from the boy's dormitory with his invisibility cloak.

Ginny points at it "do we really need that?"

Harry holds it up "you never know who could walk in."

Hermione nods "fine, sit over in the corner where we won't get disturbed and I'll cast a silencio so that we won't be heard either."

They sit down under the invisibility cloak and wait for Hermione to cast the silencio spell. Hermione holds her wand and quickly thinks about how to break the news to her friends.

Hermione sadly looks at them "I know that if Ron had of joined us I would have to ask for an unbreakable vow but I trust you both not to tell anyone about what I am going to tell you."

Ginny looks at her friend "This sounds very serious Hermione, but you can trust Harry and me you know that."

Hermione nods and sighs "The letter from the ministry wasn't sent to the wrong person. The Grangers according to the headmaster and Professor McGonagall are my adoptive parents; my birth parents were killed by Riddle when my father rejected his offer to join him."

Hermione waits to tell them the rest, she wants to all the information to sink in first and besides she wants to know if they will stick by her and continue to be her friends.

Harry puts his arm around her shoulders "I'm sorry Mione, we'll beat him when the time comes you know that."

Ginny holds Hermione's hands "we're still your friends Hermione. We love you but I get the impression that you have more to tell us."

Hermione nods "my mother was a descended of the Ravenclaw House, meaning that I am the only living named heir now. You can't tell anyone because if the wrong person finds out I could be in more danger than just being your friend Harry. Professor Dumbledore isn't going to tell my name to the heads of house but he has to warn them."

Hermione sighs and carries on explaining "When I was placed with The Grangers Professor Dumbledore altered my magic sort of so that when I came to Hogwarts and the sorting hat was placed on my head it wouldn't put me in Ravenclaw as Dumbledore knew that Riddle was never truly gone and it wouldn't be safe for everyone to know who I truly am."

Ginny hugs her this time "I thought the heir would be protected by the house they represented."

Hermione nods "Ravenclaw House will protect me but Professor Dumbledore will only put it into that house if Riddle finds out. He says that I have to stay in Gryffindor to help Harry save the world."

Harry tilts his head at her "Something doesn't feel right, I would still be your friend if he moved you to Ravenclaw and I know you would still help me beat Voldemort."

Hermione tilts her head at Harry "You're right Harry, something is being kept from me and I don't like it."

Hermione shows them her memories of the talk so that they could all fully understand what had been said earlier on, Ginny stands beside past Hermione and just wants to hug her and say that everything is going to be alright.

Harry on the other hand notices something rat like in the corner of the office "err Hermione; we need to come up with a plan because this rat over here looks like he's missing a toe."

Hermione walks over to Harry and looks at where he was pointing at "are you serious? Pettigrew heard everything and now I bet so does Riddle."

They leave Hermione's memory; they remove the silencing spell and the invisibility cloak. Ginny hugs Hermione while Harry looks at the map to find out if Pettigrew was still scurrying around the castle.

Harry grabs his wand and looks at the map again, the girls notice and go to his side and read the map.

Ginny points out what they were all looking at "He's still here, why would he still be here?"

The three of them head towards the dungeons where Pettigrew was with Professor Snape. As they reach the potions classroom, they could hear the two wizards talking and from what the three could hear Snape wasn't happy to see Pettigrew sneaking around his classroom.

Pettigrew snivelled "our master wants to know what the boy is up to."

Snape looks at the snivelling rat "as Potter is not a member of my house, there is no need for you to be in this part of the Castle."

Pettigrew twirls his wand "I heard about the new Eagle heir, the dark lord will be very pleased to hear. She is a powerful witch after all and very smart, everyone can be brought to the dark side Severus."

Severus smirks at him "Not everyone rat, that is how she got into this mess."

Pettigrew grins "I want to be here when she hears the news of her engagement, he likes them smart and powerful that was just one of Bellatrix's downfalls and that she was already married."

Severus looks at the rat wizard actually confused, he had no idea what the dark lord had planned for Hermione but he didn't like the sound of anything that Pettigrew was saying.

Pettigrew grins even wider "the dark lord can be very persuasive."

Severus nods finally understanding what was going to happen "and so can the imperius curse, leave rat before I feed you to something or use you in a potion."

The trio wait for the fat rat to scurry past them; Ginny raises her wand and whispers a spell that puts Pettigrew to sleep in mid scurry. Hermione transfigures a cage and hands it to Harry.

Ginny looks at him "what are you going to do with him?"

Harry smirks "Aurors, then Sirius will finally be free."

Hermione places her hand on Harry's shoulder "that is what we all want Harry but Riddle will just free Pettigrew. But I have an idea that could work in everyone's favour, I just hope it works."


What is Hermione's plan?

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