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Chapter 2: Explanations
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The girls stared at each other for a few more moments before the one with mahogany hair stepped forward.
"Welcome home, my sister."
Now:
"Wh-What?" asked Hermione as she took a step back from the girls.
"Oh, silly me, allow me to introduce myself," said the girl with mahogany hair, "I am Magnolia Angel Jade Faith Crest."
"I am Morgan Ava Destiny Kaitlyn Crest," said the blonde girl.
"You are not Hermione Jane Granger," said Magnolia causing Hermione to gasp at the fact that they knew her name, or what she thought it was, "You are Hermione Vanessa Autumn Riley Crest."
"Care to explain all of this?" Hermione asked.
"Sure," said Morgan, "I don't know much seeing as I can not read the book nor can I hold it but I may write in it."
"What?" asked Hermione again, she hated not knowing and this conversation was starting to confuse her.
"Where to start, where to start…" Magnolia mumbled under her breath.
"The beginning is always best" Hermione replied quoting Sirius Black from when she, Harry, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny had used extendable ears to listen in on Order meetings. Sirius would always say that when someone had bad news. However, this would not be bad news to say the least. It would be a little weird but not bad.
"Well, we are triplets if you haven't figured it out. We were born December 19, 1959 to John Alexander Lestrange- yes we are related to those awful death eaters Rodulphus and Rabastan- and Victoria May Helen Magdalena Crest. All Crest women go by Crest, they have since the first Crest woman in 300 BC divorced her husband and only had three girls and for centuries they divorced after having daughters and never remarried. The Crest family is a powerful matriarchal family that is the most ancient pureblood family."
"Whoa, wait, I'm a pureblood?" exclaimed Hermione.
"Yes, now getting back on track, ah yes, so we are powerful. It's in our blood. Theses powers are a gift. Well, now they are our birth right but whatever, you get the point. Anyways we are part of an, well for lack of better words, extremely obscure branch of magic. I, as the oldest, am the keeper of The Book. You as the middle, Hermione, you are the reader of The Book (every wonder why you're such a bookworm) and Morgan, as the youngest, is the writer of The Book. Every Crest woman is different. Well that was phrased weirdly.
"Our mother had two sisters, she was a triplet. Our Aunts, Hermia and Valerie died fighting an evil figure in our branch of magic before we were born. Well Valerie died after we were born but they both died fighting an evil. Hermia is who you were named after, that's just a fun fact.
"Anyways, whenever a Crest woman gives birth it is almost always to triplet girls and the other two sisters (of the woman who gave birth) die. Very sad, very sad. Ok, so um, well, we are The Book children. The Book children are the most powerful- besides the evil- beings in this branch of magic. We are strong mentally and physically and emotionally. We are beautiful but we are deadly. Our blood is tainted-no not in the sense that a muggle has married in, but it is tainted."
"How?" asked Hermione, all of a sudden full of curiosity about the world she was pulled in to.
"I'm getting there. Our grandmothers: Piper, Paige, and Phoebe; were bitten by a basilisk. A Phoenix came and cried tears into the wounds. However, Paige and Piper died but Phoebe lived and gave birth to our mother and dead aunts."
"Wait, there is a muggle TV show called Charmed- I think it is- and the main characters…"
"Well, actually its based on their lives-very loosely mind you- because a muggle found Pipers diary and well, thought it was someone's made-up story and when the person couldn't find anyone who claimed the diary/book, the person took the credit for himself, tweaked it, and started the show."
"Oh."
"Yes well, that won't happen for a few more years." Said Morgan who had just started talking after her sister decided to take a breath.
"Wait, what do you mean by that."
"Well," said Morgan, "If you haven't figured it out… your, well our, birth year is 1959. So dear the room recognized you were ready and brought you back in time so we can save the future! Isn't that great?"
"Peachy," said Hermione sarcastically, "What more can you tell me?"
"Well there is loads to tell," said Magnolia, "I'll pick up where I left off. So when Phoebe gave birth, the triplets (our mom and aunts) had her blood running through their veins. So, now and forever, basilisk venom and phoenix tears will run through our veins, however, only the crest women will have that. So, we are to protect, add, and use The Book. That is our duty. You help us to use the book because only you can read from it. I help to protect the book because only I can touch it. However the exception comes in when Morgan has to write in the book."
"Wow, that's a lot to take in. Ok so what is the year exactly?" asked Hermione.
"It is December 19, 1976-our birthday- we're 17, YAY!," replied Morgan, "And today is the day that we will be sorted into out new houses."
"What do you mean? Don't you go to Hogwarts already Morgan? I mean I understand why I have to be sorted but…and also, ca you tell me a bit about yourselves and are we going to reveal that we are sisters or not?" Hermione rattled off in one breath.
"Ok Hermione," said Morgan, "To answer some of your questions, I went to Beaubatons under a false name- Morgan Brest. However, we knew this day would come so we have been planning this since our fourth year."
"Morgan and I were split up so, well we don't exactly know why. However, Morgan had to play the part of a Veela. Now she looks like one so this won't be so hard but there are many more secrets about us that we have to tell you. Ok, we will say that you went to school in America, Salem Academy for Witches and Wizards. Say that you were born and raised in England and that you only went to Salem because your mother went but now that she and your father were murdered, you have to come to Hogwarts because it is closer to your family.
"Now, to reveal another secret, we are part of a prophecy that even Dumbledore doesn't know about. We will help to bring the end to of Voldemort. Anyways, another secret that I should tell you is that we are all the queens of well, I'll just tell you.
"I am playful and fun-loving, carefree, but serious, I am queen of the Nymphs (both water and wood) and I am also queen of the mer-people. Morgan loves to have fun and is carefree but not as much as I am.
"She is also very serious and likes to tell or rather write stories making her queen of the Faeries and queen of the Ravens. Now, the Ravens are a lost group that most witches and wizards think to be myths, legends. However, Ravens are not that, they disguise themselves as ravens, that's were they get their name, however, they are a people that can fly without a broom, they have wings, because they are like faeries toady but they are full sized and are a more serious. They are like normal humans but they have their own language, like most other peoples do. Their language is the language that founded Latin.
"Now, you are serious and like to read but like to have fun every once in a while, you are really basically trapped and have a nice disposition but if angered, you are like a deadly snake with your words. You are the queen of the elves and queen of the Vampires. You were born only queen of the elves and Mother had no idea why fate didn't give you a full sized people to rule over. At first Mother thought that you would eventually die or that something that would inhibit your queenly-ness. Then Mother thought that you might become queen of the Wizarding world. When we were five months old, we were playing outside under a vampire moon (or what most people call a harvest moon) when the queen of the vampires came to you and bit you, then she died. It was then that Mother knew why fate didn't give you fully grown creatures. However, on September 19, 1960, you were kidnapped in hopes that you would not come back, you see without all three of us, we cannot use most of our powers and The Book stays blank.
"Now, you are the queen so you are not like other vampires and you are completely human. I think that is all for now but I am not sure." Magnolia finally took a deep breath and sighed. "We had better get to the Great Hall so the both of you can be introduced and sorted. Then we will improvise our 'first' meeting. We shall form a clique! Oh and we can be gossipy!! Come on Hermione, wipe that look off your face and quit being a spoilsport. This way we can hang out and it won't look suspicious," begged Magnolia.
"Fine, but you so owe me, Magi," said Hermione. Magnolia just nodded her head. It seemed as though Hermione had remembered her nickname. She would talk to her later.
"Well, come on," said Morgan, "we don't want to be late Magi, although the Headmaster doesn't know that we are coming."
"Dinner is going o start in five minutes, I'll leave first, then you girls follow and ask me for directions to the Headmaster, got it?" The girls nodded and Magnolia started to leave when Hermione stopped her.
"What are Morgan's and my names' going to be?" she asked.
"Well, Morgan is going by the name she went by at Beaubatons so why don't you go as Hermione West. There our last names rhyme," Magnolia declared with a laugh.
"Ha-ha, very funny Magi," Hermione replied sarcastically. The three girls shared a laugh and then Magnolia walked out of the room. "Wow, my life has been turned upside down all in the course of half an hour."
"Yeah," replied Morgan softly, "but, you'll get used to it and we'll have so much fun and we'll kick bad guy arse!" The girls laughed and walked out of the room. They walked for a while and people started to stare ate them. Then they 'coincidentally' bumped into Magnolia who showed them to the Headmasters office.
"In the Headmaster's office, the girls told him about themselves and asked for him to keep it a secret. Then they told him their alias and walked to the Great Hall for dinner and to be sorted.
As the girls walked down the halls, they talked quietly amongst themselves about their plan. Then Magnolia rushed into the Hall and took her seat and started to gossip away.
Albus Dumbledore walked to the front of the room and signaled for everyone's attentions.
"Good Evening, students. I hope you all had an enjoyable day of classes. Due to recent attacks we will be gaining two new students. I'd like to introduce Morgan Brest who comes to us from Beaubatons and Hermione West who comes to us form Salem Academy for Witches and Wizards. Please join me in welcoming them," Dumbledore ended his speech with clapping which the students followed and started to gossip about the two newcomers.
"Brest, Morgan," said a stern looking woman who Hermione recognized as Professor McGonagall. Morgan went up to the stool and sat down. The hat immediately went onto her head.
Hmmm not a bad mind, tons of courage, ahh a bit of a writer and an artist…not Ravenclaw material, you like to have fun…not very ambitious but very sneaky…definitely not Slytherin, you are too good at heart…very loyal but too out spoken so not a Hufflepuff…very courageous and brave I think I'll put you in…GRYFFINDOR! Good luck on your mission young one.
Everyone applauded and Morgan hopped off the stool and went over to stand by McGonagall.
"West, Hermione," Professor McGonagall called. Hermione took a deep breath and walked up to the stool to be sorted for the second time.
Ahhhh a time traveler, welcome home.
Thank you.
Well I see that everything I said last time stands the same. Very cunning, sly, and sneaky, however you are very brave and out spoken, loyal to your friends, ahh and you and your sisters have a mission. Well I stand by my decision from before. GRYFFINDOR! Good luck, may you succeed!
Thank you!
Hermione hopped off and joined her sisters at the Gryffindor table. Then the next part of their plan started.