Disclamer: i am sadly not the wonderful Mrs. Rowling and i do not own Romeo and Juliet
Chapter 2
Hermione's pov
At exactly 8:30 I heard the doorbell. This is it, I thought, summoning some Gryffindor courage, walking down the stairs. The sight that awaited me was somewhat awkward. My twin was standing in the corner of the room observing the scene and both my adopted mom and dad had tears in there eyes, talking to my real parents. I looked them over. My mom Aline, was gorgeous, about 5' 11" and skinny, she had tan skin with the most beautiful cerulean blue eyes, soft features, and long black hair that laden with natural curls. My father Jacques, with his ear length curly black hair and ocean blue eyes, stood over 6ft tall. Blaise had all the same features as my father with my mother's eyes, standing well over my mother. He was the first to notice me, speaking softly 'Soeur' and with that all eyes fell on me. Oh dear merlin, this is awkward.
'Darling Hermione' my real mother started with 'its wonderful to finally see you. We've missed you so much' I could see in her eyes tears of happiness, and it made me happy to. 'I'm Aline your mum, this is Jacques your dad, and I believe you know Blaise. From school.'
'I'm pleased to meet you, hi Blaise.'
'Hello, sister' came his short reply, as a smile came upon his face. Until this point my adopted mum and dad had kept quiet, then they looked over and came to give me a hug. Jean said 'Hermione please understand we love you and we want you to owl us whenever, but it is time that you live with you true family… I guess this is good bye.' And with that they gave me a large squeeze and left the room leaving me to stand there awkwardly. I looked over to my family and said ' Are we staying here for a reason, cause I was under the impression that we were leaving, to go somewhere.'
They looked at me and my dad spoke first 'Hermione, dearest daughter come over here, we have taken the liberty of taking the bags to the manor and your mum can apparate you there now if you wish.' So I walked over to her and grabbed her arm and she appparated us in front of a large brick building that had at least 6 floors and sat on a very large plain of grass, with trees sounding the border with a large flowerbed on either side of the stone walkway going up to the large front doors.
'Dear, when we get inside I can show you to your room and we can take off your glamour spells, which can tickle, or pinch. The house elves have been waiting for you to return and they have been updating your room since you were adopted.' She started
'Wait, we have HOUSE ELVES!' I yelped
'Yes, but we are as kind as we can be to them, those that wish to be paid are and they aren't treated horribly at all, we learned during your 4th year that you started the S.P.E.W. thing and we have taken parts to heart and we try our best to have them be as happy as they can be.'
'I guess that's ok, how many do we have, and what will I look like, will I get taller? Do you have a library? How many rooms are there? Where's my room? Do you guys have pets? What will my friend's say? Do you have a pool? What will happen when I go back to Hogwarts?' it all came out very fast.
Before she could continue Aline stopped her by saying 'There's lots of rooms, yes we have a 3 story library. You should grow several inches, your room is in the left wing, we have the house elves, several horses each, several cats, dogs and we have an owlery, we have a pool, with a diving board, several padlocks for our horses, stables, a gym, a music room and several other things that you will have to find out what they are, and we will send messages to Professor Dumbledore. To answer your questions.' She said as if she was talking to a adult, not kid thank Merlin for that. With the end of the question spiel we were at the door and a house elf came right away to take our jackets saying 'Little Miss is back, Maurice will have to tell all! Can I lead yous to little Miss's room?' the tiny thing said looking at us with green doe eyes. And at that we heard a crack from outside seeing Dad and Blaise coming up the path, when our attention returned to Maurice, Mum said 'Can you bring Hermione up to her room, Blaise will be up behind you, I have to go grab a few things before I come up.' With that the tiny house elf took my hand chattering cheerfully as she led me up to my room. It turns out that my room was on the fourth floor with a large double glass double door with three pathways from the main room. Maurice said that mum would be meeting me in a while and left me to explore. The left path way took me to a personal den area with a large bookshelf. It was painted the softest green I have ever seen, stocked with the books I have used at Hogwarts, many random background books on wizardry, some muggle books like Romeo and Juliet, and many CD's. I moved on to the right halls room, large and pink it held several couches and chairs, a T.V. and a stereo, after I wandered around I went into the middle room. In it was the best bedroom I ever saw, it had a king size bed with all white furniture there was my journal and a few nighttime books, and full length mirror with two doors on the right and left walls. To the right was a large bathroom and to the left was a closet filled with my clothes with spaces to fill. When I left that room I heard my parents open my doors and I heard my mom say 'darling where are you?' and I replied 'the bedroom' while they walked back I came out of the closet. Dad spoke first 'Dear, come over here, we want to help you adjust and would like to take off the glamour charms. '
'Ok, what do I need to do?'
'Well darling you should sit down and close your eyes. We will say the spell and then you will be to how you would be with out the glamour. ' So I sat down and let them say the spell I heard the soft incantation 'Aufero Pulchritudo(1)' then I felt a smooth water like feeling starting at the top of my head that moved down my body, and ended at my toes, when it finished I opened my eyes and saw my mom gasping at me and my dad had a proud smile, I stood up and looked in the mirror and saw that instead of the bushy brown hair I had long curly black hair, I was at least 4 shades darker and had the same blue eyes as mom and the same features as my dad and have grown almost 6 inches making me close to 5' 11". I gasped this is not the same Hermione that I was 2 minutes ago. I turned around saw mom, dad, and Blaise looking at me smiling.
….{}…. Few hours later ….[}….
Blaise and I were walking around talking about what has happened in the past several years as two owls came flying up to us, one was Hedwig most likely Harry's reply and the second was Pigwidgeon with the Weasley's reply. 'I need to read these can we go up to my room.' I asked. Blaise nodded and we walked up to my room and Blaise went to his room to wait for me. I read Harrys first.
Dear Hermione,
I'm glad to hear from you. I don't hate you, we can still be good friends, and At least you are with your real family now, for the Malfoy's accept the apology but tell Ferret he will need to lay off of us and leave us alone, you can get that right? Blaise has always been decent to us and I don't think you will have a problem with that. Have they taken off the glamour charm? If they have what do you look like? Could we visit anytime soon? I really need to get away from the Dursley's.
See you soon
Harry
I quickly wrote a note back to him saying that he should be able to come and what I looked like and sent Hedwig off. Grabbing at the Weasley's note, it was signed by mrs. Weasley and Ginny
Hermione,
We (Ginny, Fred, George, Charlie, Bill, Arthur and I) don't hate you. Ronald isn't quite so happy about the news. The rational ones in the family think that it's a good idea for you to take the apology and have young Mr. Malfoy give you the apology and you might be able to make peace between the families. Please tell us what you look like and maybe could you come over soon or have some of us over (from Ginny) and do live with them because they are your real family and they deserve to be given a chance.
Ginny and Molly
I quickly wrote their reply and went out to Blaise's room. She saw him in his den working on something. 'What you doing?' I asked as I came up behind him. 'Nothing' He said as he quickly hid what he was doing. 'What was that?'
'You'll see.'
'Can't I see it?'
'No.'
'Why not?'
'It's a secret that I'm planning.'
'Oh who's the secret for?'
'Our parent's.'
'What are you going to do?'
'You'll find out later today.'
'Come on why not now?'
'Because I'm not finished with it.'
'Why can't I help you plan it.'
'Because.'
'Because isn't a answer. Now tell me what it is!'
'Fine. I have to show it to you but not quite yet there is still a few details that I have to get planned out.'
'Oh, what's the plan?'
'I am not going to tell you it.'
'Fine I'm going to the stable's.'
'Ok see you later.'
'Fine.' That was the end of that so I called Maurice and she helped me find my way to the stables. Once there I saw dad and he showed me my own horse. It was a beautiful appaloosa mare named Serena. She had spots up her forelegs and hindquarters and spots from her neck to mid back. Dad said she was a great jumper and trail rider. He helped me saddle her and then got his own horse named Eliot and joined me out on the trail. He showed me one of his favorite paths that he often goes on by himself and we rode in a comfortable silence, while on the path I thought about Blaise's secret and my friends. What would life be like at Hogwarts when we go back?
Review… Please… What do you think Blaise's secret surprise is? What's your thoughts? Tell me.
