Ch. 2

Hermione and Lyra Granger; were sharing Lyra's bedroom, making plans for the final school year. Hermione was saying, "Why don't you come to Hogwarts with me? We can finely go to the same school, even though it will be our last year. Plus I really need to go back to Hogwarts; I have to help Harry with the upcoming war."

Lyra smiled, she remembered all of the letters that she had gotten from Hermione throughout the years; her favorite was how she became friends with the Boy-Who-Lived, saving her from a troll that they had locked into the girls bathroom during their first year. "Alright Hermione, I will come to Hogwarts with you, if it's alright with your Headmaster."

So Hermione sat down and wrote to Professor Dumbledore:

Dear Headmaster Professor Albus Dumbledore,

I have a cousin who has been going to Ireland's School of Witchcraft for the last six years and I have asked her if she could come to Hogwarts with me for the final year. Her name is Lyra Granger; daughter of my aunt and uncle, Sheryl and Dave Granger of Ireland, she was born on March 1, 1980, if this helps.

The reason I am asking this is because we are both under the new Ministry's Marriage Law and we would like to spend our last school year together.

Please write back with an answer.

Thanks for your time,

Hermione Granger

Once the letter was finished; Lyra summed her owl, which was a snow owl that she named Hamlet. Hermione tide the letter upon one of his feet and he took off into the night's sky. The girls had gone to bed that night, tossing and turning most of the night, worried about what the Headmaster's reply would be.

Sometime in the middle of the night; an owl showed up back at Lyra's house, which tapped at her bedroom window. She woke up with blurry eyes and wobbled to the window and let her owl in, who just lifted her leg from the window sill. She took the letter and gave Hamlet a piece of toast, before he flow off. Lyra stumbled back to her bed and used her wand to use a soft light to show upon the letter that came for the girls.

She opened the letter, which said:

Dear Ms. Hermione and Lyra Granger,

Thank you for the information and the request before the upcoming school year. I see no problems of having Ms. Lyra coming to Hogwarts.

I will be getting her school information here soon, once I read over the information and then I will send you your school letters with the book lists that you will need for your classes.

I am looking forward to having two Grangers at Hogwarts this year.

As for the Marriage Law; I am sorry that is coming to the both of you dears, but cheer up. Strength in numbers and all that, and love will find away in all this darkness.

Sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Lyra could not help it but smile at her new headmaster's letter. She had heard stories from Hermione about the crazed but wised wizard. She really had hoped that Dumbledore's written words spoke the truth about loving finding its way in the darkness. She just could not see her life nor Hermione's to be worth living if their lives were always going to be in total darkness for a long time. With nothing else; Lyra had put her letter upon her night stand and waved her wand to bring the room back in the dark of night once more and fell back to sleep.

xXx

Outside of the house; a group of three men had been standing outside waiting, they had noticed the light going out for the second time that night just a few minutes after the owl had flew away from the window. One of them pulled up his sleeve of his left arm to bare the mark of a skull and a snake; which is known by many, as the dark mark. This same man brought out his wand and tapped it up the skull, to activate the link to their master, and then they wait.

The three men did not have to wait long; for their master had shown up in a cloud of darkness, and landed just before them. Standing in flowing dark robes that covered his body from his neck to his ankles, gracing the ground with bare feet, with a snow white looking snake like face, with his demon possessed ruby red eyes that glowed in the dark. The three men that had waited for him to show up had dropped onto their knees and waited for him to give the orders of what to do next.

The snake man spoke, "You can rise. Tell me what has happened, why have you called me so late?"

The most built of the three men spoke up, "Sorry my lord, but before they had gone to bed. One of them had sent out an owl, which had come back. The light was on for a couple of minutes before one of them had gone back to bed after reading a return letter."

Their master smiled with what lips he had to show, "Good work; Rabastan, now let us sneak into the house without a sound. I don't want any of the parents to wake up finding us taking the girls."

With the cover of darkness as their cloak; they made their way closer to the house, where one of the men had used the 'Alohomora' spell to unlock the back door. Where they snuck into the house from the gardens; then they used the stairs from the kitchen that would lead them to the girls' bedroom, they had to use 'Disillusionment Charm' to avoid being seen and also cast 'Silencio' upon their feet, so one would hear them moving around the house. The snake man used point me to find the girls. He did not want to be in a muggle house more than he needed to, nor did he feel like opening doors and have the muggle wake up and having to deal with them.

Once they had found them; he studied both of their sleeping forms, he knew the one to his right was the Miss Granger that young Mr. Malfoy had talked about many times about her well known knowledge to outshine her peers every day. She looked like a small skinny thing that needed to be fed more often than her friends. The Miss Granger on his left was the one he knew nothing about, except she was the cousin of the one who is best friends of Mr. Potter.

She had browed shoulders and wide hips, and she also had big bones. All in all; she looked like a short version of a Viking woman, she was neither fat nor skinny. She looked like she was 5'7"; with long flowing, curly, red-brown hair. He saw that she had a pixy looking nose, with short looking elf ears, and small hands and feet. To the snake man; she looked more of a woman that he would like to have, all because she looked like she could hold herself and not break just by looking at her, like her cousin would.

The snake man picked up the girl that was asleep on his left; while one of his men had picked up the Potter's friend, the other two had packed up their trunks of all the things that were in the bedroom. Together the four men traveled outside of the house and Disapparition from sight, without disturbing the Granger's parents.