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Charaters (I.E Voldemort and slightly Hemrione) will be OOC i'm trying my best! :3 hope you like it, ENJOY!

Knox

Chapter two

Grimmwald place was full of happiness; everyone was celebrating Sirius's freedom, even though Harry was attacked by dementors and has to go to a trial for using the patronus charm to save himself and his cousin.

Hermione sat in her room, thinking. Why haven't she talked to Harry or Dumbledore about Voldemort kidnapping her? She was confused, but Dumbledore was equally acting suspicious. When Hermione was contacted by Sirius welcoming her to his home for the end of the summer with the whole Weasley clan and Harry she agreed. But when she arrived she learnt of the Order of the Phoenix a group Dumbledore made during the last war to fight Voldemort, but it wasn't that that got her thinking more, it was the while they were all there having a good time together, Harry wasn't, he was still at the Dursleys and Dumbledore forbade them to tell him anything that's going on. Hermione still sent letters, well tried to at least, every time she did Dumbledore would talked to her, telling her he stopped the owl, and gave her a meaningless lecture about it was for Harry safety that he didn't need to know anything. This made her weary, and with all Harry had to go through seeing Cedric die, he probably had a lot of questions and was confused about Voldemort's actions. Now that he's here, he was more than a little pissed off that no one talked to him, though with Sirius being free and never having to go back to the Dursleys again even if Dumbledore dragged him there made up for most of it.

Hermione sighed, and headed down to the kitchens, tomorrow is Harry's ministry hearing, she's gotta give Harry her support, even though Dumbledore would never let him get expelled.

"Ah, Hermione come, there's lots of food" Molly's Ron mother called her over, and sat her down shoving a huge bowl of soup in front of her, "Thank you Mrs. Weasley" she sat beside Fred and Tonks, who was here for the earlier Order meeting, which most of us underage (except the twins) listened in on, or tried to at least.

Hermione interacted with her friends as she normally would, but her mind wasn't in it still thinking of her time with Voldemort and Dumbledore's actions she was finally beginning to trust her enemy, Dumbledore was just keeping too much information from them.

That night Hermione fell asleep thinking of Voldemort's rustic eyes, and that amused smile. In the morning she blushed like mad, she couldn't be falling for the Dark Lord now… could she? She can't!

Harry's hearing was a success, he was cleared of all charges and Molly made a big dinner to celebrate. Hermione smiled and laughed along with everyone during the little party, Sirius partied the hardest, she was sure he drank a whole bottle of Fire-whisky himself.

But that night Harry called Hermione and Ron together as everyone was getting ready for bed, and Sirius was passed out on the kitchen table. "Something's up with Dumbledore, he's been ignoring me, and wouldn't even look me in the eye at the hearing…"

"Hum…" Hermione thought, he's up to something, but what…?

"I donno mate, maybe he's just too busy to talk to ya?" Ron guessed, though Hermione knew better, when Harry wasn't here, all Dumbledore did was talk about Harry and saying he needs all the help he can get but can't know any of it. This new information slowly broke the last of what Hermione thought was good in Dumbledore, if she finds out anymore, Voldemort really will be the one who's doing the right thing…. But she needs more information.

The rest of the month went by smoothly, the Hogwarts students and adults spent most of their time cleaning up Grimmwald place so it's actually livable, no one's been here for over 13 years anyway and there were lots of Dark items around. A week before it was time to go to Hogwarts, Sirius fought the order to tell Harry what they have been doing and won. She and the others that were left in the dark learned that Dumbledore thought Voldemort is after something that resides in the ministry, they think it's a weapon of some sort.

The night before the day to go to Hogwarts Hermione sat silently at the window of her and Ginny's shared room, Ginny sleeping peacefully.

A small rap came at the window when she was making sure Ginny was asleep, Hermione opened the window for a small black owl to sail through a letter tied on its leg, confused as to who might have sent it Hermione removed it wearily, when she opened it she immediately knew it was from Voldemort, who else did she know who talked like a lord and would actually send her a letter?

Miss. Granger,

How does your inspection of Dumbledore go, have you come to see the truth? Or do you still need to see more of how wrong Dumbledore is? Just wait until school starts and you will see. Or have you decided to join me already?

Hermione could feel the smirk in his writing, and couldn't help but roll her eyes at it.

This owl is Knox feel free to keep him so you can keep in touch with me. I hope to receive a letter from you some time.

You know who (isn't it such a weird nickname the people call me?)

Tom

She smiled, Knox. An owl of her own…. She petted the black bird, who cooed in delight. Tom is that what you go by now, not The Evil Dark Lord Voldemort is that name a lie concocted by Dumbledore as well? Hermione was confused she didn't know who to believe anymore, and was a bit scared she's leaning towards Tom, just how powerful is he to get an owl to go to a place hidden by almost everyone with a fidelius charm. And add all this confusion with being a prefect with responsibilities to Gryffindor house. It wasn't like she wasn't happy about it. She just didn't think she could handle it with all the new changes in her life.

Hermione finally fell asleep for a few short hours before Molly burst into the room waking everyone in the house up. Hermione, Ginny and mostly everyone except Ron had packed the day before and wasn't running around and causing everyone to wait for him as he packed. Dumbledore had cars for them all to drive in to the station, with order members acting as guards, Kinsley, Mad-Eye moody the real one, Tonks and Sirius were all escorting them to the train.

"Hermione, When did you get an owl?" asked Ron as they appeared on Platform 9 ¾ from the barrier.

"Really Ronald I've had him the whole time, I met a wizard in France last summer and we have been writing letters to each other, he knew I didn't have an owl so he got me one." Hermione lied and shook her head at him before continuing onto the train. Leaving him bewildered.

They found a compartment; the twins disappeared to find their friends as did Ginny, Ron and Hermione had to go for Prefect meeting, but promised to come back soon.

Hermione thought the meeting was very boring, the head boy and girl introduce everyone; And Hermione couldn't believe it when she found out Draco Malfoy became the Slytherin Prefect; he was a down right bully. They spent an hour working out schedules to patrol the train, Hermione and Ron had to patrol for another hour getting the first shift because of Ron being a git with his big mouth. The Lunch lady had already gone by when they got back to the compartment with Harry, thankfully he grabbed them something. Neville was also sitting with him and Luna Lovegood. A fourth year Ravenclaw, she kept to herself reading a magazine upside down. The ride after that was mostly quiet, Hermione introduced her owl Knox to everyone and other than Draco trying to harass them nothing happened.

When they arrived, Harry worried Hermione he was talking about winged horses pulling the carriages taking them up to Hogwarts, she herself couldn't see them, but Luna could.

When they took their seats in the Great Hall, Harry pointed out one of the new teachers as a ministry official who was at his hearing, a woman clad in an ugly cardinal, decked fully in pink. Harry named her Umbridge.

Then the Sorting Hat gave warning, that the houses should be undivided to fight a force that wants to break them apart. No one paid much mind to it other than Hermione. After eating Dumbledore welcomed the school back and introduced Professor Umbridge, who interrupted him when he tried to continue and gave a speech. Hermione glared at the toad like woman the entire time, she was spouting nonsense about the ministry wanting to have a more active role in education, nonsense. They just want to take over Hogwarts, what was Dumbledore thinking in hiring this woman? Hogwarts is a private institute it was supposed to be clear from ministry or political strife's it has always been since the school was first founded. That was the last straw that Hermione had, Dumbledore was crazy, bringing this type of things into a school, and his lack of finding teachers who can actually teach, Lockhart was just one of the many failures Quirrrell too could not stop stuttering to get his lesson through. That was it, there were too many things against Dumbledore that Hermione could think of to actually trust this man. She angrily explained Umbridge's secret meaning of her speech to her friends and marched the first years to the common room, letting Ron explain the dorm to them and marching straight up to her room, collapsing on her bed.

Knox was there, watching her silently, like he knew Hermione wanted to write to Tom explain her findings, even though she knew that he had known already, she just wanted to vent. She sighed in somewhat defeat, she will trust you-know-who, she might not like it but he had the best points about Dumbledore, he couldn't be that bad… could he? But she will demand for his plans on ruling Britain, if there was anything she didn't like or agree to she wouldn't do it.