I don't own Harry Potter and I have adopted this story from Andrearose1990. This is where I begin with my own writing, though some things are going to be kept the same as she wanted them as a respect to her. Have fun reading it.

Chapter 4

Hermione thought about Draco said and agreed, and was happy she finally said something, as she was relaxing she fell to sleep.

Ginny then sent an immobile spell at them so they couldn't move from the hilarious position they fell into, and they would be laughed at, turned around to grab Luna and they walked away. They found a corner to cool down and Luna sat Ginny down to explain everything to her now that Harry and Ron were away because she never liked them or trusted them.

With Draco:

Draco was walking to his class and smirking at the turn of events. He was enjoying Potter's and Weasley's complete and utter failure, because he knew not only did they lose their friendship with Hermione, which he knew they didn't deserve, but he knew that they were only sent there to get answers that Dumbledore couldn't get. He would have loved to mail his father telling him of the recent events, starting out with the fact that Potter and Weasley now were going to be failing, but Dumbledore had stopped the owls from getting in and out, and he wished Dumbledore tried to punish Luna, so that the board would have reason to get rid of him because Luna only did what she had to, to save a life.

He met up with his friends in class after using the excuse that he was making sure Granger was back in the head dorms and the teacher asked how she was doing and tried to get answers but besides that she was doing fine, he let nothing out, and then the teacher started class. After class he went with his friends down to the Slytherin common room.

They headed down to the dungeons passing the potions classroom, waving to Snape who was letting his class go. Heading farther down into the dungeons, coming to a blank stone wall, looking around to make sure no one but Slytherins were around, after confirming they were alone Pansy said the password, "Ex Purissimis Sanguinibus." (AN: It's supposed to mean Pureblood in Latin)

They all head into the common room which was designed regally. It has a quite a grand atmosphere but it is also a quite cold one. The common room extends to under the Black Lake giving the light in the room a green tinge. The common room is like a dungeon with greenish lamps and lots of low backed black and dark green button-tufted, leather sofas; skulls and mirrors; dark wood cupboards.

"You'll never guess what happened in the Head Dorms." Draco said smirking. "Granger finally told the idiotic duo to sod off." He sat down on a sofa, as did everyone else.

"What happened?" Daphne said intrigued like everyone else was because no one believed she would leave the trio after so long of letting them walk all over her, crossing her leg on her knee.

"For starters, they were more upset that she didn't tell them her dark family secret than her being injured, and they fought over that, they couldn't understand why she didn't tell them the secret either. Morons couldn't understand that it was for her safety. And they said they deserve to know because they were her best friends. She told them what every Slytherin has been thinking, that they were treating her horrible as if she were a lackey they could use for homework. She told them never to talk to her or head up to the dorms ever again."

"Finally." Blaise and Theo mutter shaking their heads.

"I think it is a good thing as long as she doesn't take them back like always." Pansy said.

"She said they would have to change and I told her they would have to be smart enough to change." Draco smirked and everyone laughed at that.

"Well that is never going to happen unless someone else writes down what they need to do for it but even still Weasley isn't going to, he is too hot-tempered, and Potter is too attached." Theo said.

"10 galleons says Potter is gay for Weasley, and Weasley may be gay for him." Draco laughs out.

"Potter maybe but Weasley maybe bisexual with the way he shoved his tongue down Lavender's throat." Theo said, and the rest shudder.

"What do you think will happen with the other Weasleys? Who would they side with?" Daphne asked trying to move on.

"Percy would be on Weasley's side maybe, he was a tosser afterall, the twins and She-weasel is a tossup. But the Weasleys older children don't know. Mrs. Weasley would be on her son's side but Mr. Weasley may be on Granger's side, since he would be able to understand that Granger needed to keep quiet about it for her safety, he most likely knows what it means to need to keep secrets." Theo said.

"She-weasel may side with Granger, Potter and her brother seemed to piss her off too much, even though she doesn't show it." Astoria said finally with an input since her and Ginny are in the same grade. "I hear her muttering about them under her breath angrily all the time."

"Well anyone want to bet on it?" Draco asked.

"Weasley twins, She-weasel, Percy and their father on Granger's side. Their mom on Weasley's side. " Blaise bet. "Percy loves his job in politics and in politics you have to hide and keep secrets that would harm your career." Everyone agreed with that and so they couldn't bet on the same terms.

"I have a question and I want everyone's honest opinion on the matter." Pansy said while looking at everyone in the eyes and seeing that they would she continued. "No matter who sides with Granger she put a target on her back for those who don't, she is going to be pressured for answers, hated for lying about herself. Do we just let her have no one? If this happened to us, she would help to the best of her abilities."

"You're right, she would try to help, and we just didn't give her an opening to do that." Daphne said nodding along with Pansy.

"What's the question?" Vince Crabbe and Greg Goyle said.

"Do we become friends, or just be there or do nothing?" Pansy muttered.

"I don't mind becoming friends. If she allows us to, she will be on guard now so she may not want to because she may see it as trying to get answers." Daphne said.

"I don't mind either; she is easier to work with than I thought when I first started as Head Boy." Draco said.

"You just want to see what's underneath like you have wanted to do since the Yule ball!" Theo laughed out. "But yea, I agree."

"I do too. But everyone does as well, she hardly wears something fitted to her, and even that dress which was more fitted than her regular clothes, it still didn't show how her whole body looked." Blaise said after seeing Draco glare.

"I do too." Astoria said.

"What about her blood?" Vince asked pushing his eyebrows together in thought.

"After what we saw I don't think it matters. Her father is magical but her mom and dad are muggles. Biologically she may not be muggleborn, but really it doesn't matter, she is intelligent, magically strong, and physically strong considering Draco's nose in third year, and has stronger abilities in magical compared to some purebloods." Greg said.

"I agree with that." Adrian, Marcus, and Terence said at once coming into the conversation late but picking it up. They were visiting for letters of recommendation during the attack and not allowed back out.

"So if we have a chance to be her friends we take it?" Pansy asked everyone nodded. "Good, after being paired with her for the project, I wanted to get to know her a bit better but I was always scared of her friends, and thought she would turn me away." Pansy shrugged sheepishly.

The group of Slytherins noticed it was time for dinner and they went up to the Great Hall to eat. Pansy went up to their head of house, Severus Snape, to tell him their plan to befriend Granger if they could and to politely ask if whenever they are to be paired in potions to pair her up with one of the Slytherins, and to be sure he knew which ones, she whispered all of their names that were in agreement to the plan. He raised his eyebrows but he agreed with them, he was also aware of how she schemed around Dumbledore, and knew what it means to keep secrets as he was in Slytherin and he had to keep secrets.

Daphne was the one to discreetly scour the Gryffindor table for Hermione, and realizing that she didn't see her, she scoured for Weasley and Potter, and she found them looking angry and pissed off. They looked even worse when they spotted Ginny and started to talk to her. Ginny looked angry and made it a point to tell them something to shut them up, and then they ate silently glaring at her.

"Granger isn't at the Gryffindor table." Daphne muttered.

"She probably lost track of time reading or doing homework." Theo said.

"I'll make sure to bring something up for her." Draco muttered. Once finished he grabbed some food for Hermione, leaving at the same time Ginny got up and stormed out, she nods her head at the Slytherins, who raise their eyebrows at her, and they watch her walk out of the castle.

After that the group separated with Draco, they went to the Slytherin dorms to head to bed, and Draco went to the heads dorm. He muttered the password and looked around realizing that only the fire was lit in the common room he flicked on one light, and realized that Theo was wrong, that Hermione fell to sleep on the couch in the common room. He tried to gently wake her up but she snuggled further into the couch and his hand, so he called a house elf to bring the food that he brought up to her back to the kitchens, and asked it to pull back her bed sheets, he removed her arm from her body to place around his neck and carefully lifted her bridal style in his arms and brought her up to her bedroom as it was dark he didn't get a good look but he got her into bed and tucked her in. Then he went to his own room to take a night bath before heading off to bed.

The next morning Hermione wakes up in her bed, slightly confused as she remembered falling to sleep on the couch, she gets dressed quickly and heads down for breakfast, since she skipped dinner because she had fallen to sleep and hadn't woken up for it, she was starving. Hermione sits down to breakfast as everyone whispers all the rumors being thrown about the school. Ginny comes into the Great Hall and everyone is waiting with bated breath about what will happen.

"Hermione, how are you?" Ginny asks smiling down at her friend happy that her friend was out of the Hospital Wing, giving her a big strong hug, pulling away once finished to sit down right next to her, turning so she could easily have a conversation with each other.

"Better without the hole in my body. Did the boys not blow up at you yesterday?" Hermione asked confused as to whey Ginny was still talking to her, let alone hugging her.

"Yes they did, and it was stupid of them, Harry and Ronald kept going on about you being a liar, that they were good friends and that they deserve to know. I informed them that you were protecting yourself considering what happened when people did find you, that they didn't deserve to know because they were your friends, and that them being good friends was debatable. But they didn't listen to me, Luna was of course nearby when they did it and she hexed them after they called you a really bad name. I hexed them next with my bat-boogey hex. Then she re-explained it was a family secret, and that she had an unannounced visit with you while they were there. I am not angry that you didn't tell me just make sure not to get injured again. I know what secrets should be kept and that is definitely one of them. And don't worry, I was able to sneak out to Hogsmeade and asked Rosemerta about sending letters, I wrote one to Bill, Charlie, Percy, and the twins and I paid her to send them. Apparently Dumbledore forgot about her in Hogsmeade, so she sent them for me." Ginny looked smug about going around the rules. Hermione laughed with her after awhile.

"Sorry about getting blown up at."

"My brother and Harry are morons." She said shaking her head. "They should have stood by you like you did for them, as you always did for them. It's just stupid how they think they deserve to know, and it's horrendous how they haven't been treating you as a friend in so long, and you have no idea how hard it was not to say something about their actions earlier and how hard it was not to knock sense into them for not only treating you like that but to try to make it better, but I knew I had to wait for you to decide, and I know it wasn't going to get better, right?"

"Probably not. I told them not to contact me again but even if I wanted to get them back they would have to change before I truly considered it."

"Which will never happen because they are too stubborn and stupid to realize the truth, and even if they realized it they wouldn't be able to figure out what they need to change to get back with you. I need to talk to you in private sometime with Luna in the Head Dorms, please."

"Sure."

Ron and Harry walked through the doors of the Great Hall and looked around at the Gryffindor table as if they were looking for somebody. Ron and Harry came up to her again while she and Ginny were eating breakfast in the Great Hall acting as if she was still their friend and as if what happened the other day didn't happen and sat down.

"Ronald, Harry" Hermione frostily scolded at the two of them.

"Come on Mione, talk to us. We deserved to know why you lied and all the facts that you are keeping from us," Ron whined.

"First of all as I stated before I never lied." Trying not to say anything over that horrid nickname by breathing and counting again.

"Yes you did." Ron shouted back loudly enough to gain everyone's attention making everyone quiet down to hear the gossip, "You lied about who your father was."

"Listen very closely to what I am saying because obviously you didn't get what I said yesterday when you tried to force answers out of me without caring about the fact that I was injured. A person's father and dad can be different, I consider John to be my dad because he is the one that raised me my entire life, and has been there for everything, so he gets the honor of being my dad. The man you saw loves me, and I love him but he did not raise me." She explained.

"Come on, you could have at least told us you had a biological father that wasn't what we thought." Harry came to Ron's defense like always even though he hasn't listened to a word she said the other day.

"We are your best friends, the fact that you kept this from us hurts, you told Luna but not us." Ron yelled.

"Second of all as I stated yesterday only for you two gits to ignore me or most likely you did not understand that I never told Luna, she came by my house unannounced when they were there. Third of all as I stated yesterday, I was and still am under no obligation to tell you two every little dark detail of my life, I had a life before you two, and I have aspects of my life that has nothing to do with either of you."

"So we are just supposed to be ok with this that you lied to us about your father, and having a random man as your father that you decided to never tell us about. We deserved to know." Ron said his face getting redder with each word, waving his hands around.

"UNDER WHAT RIGHT! UNDER WHAT AUTHORITY! NEITHER OF YOU ARE MY BOYFRIEND AND EVEN THEN IT IS STILL NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" Hermione accused standing up slamming her hands on the table, so hard it shook a bit, to prevent her from grabbing her wand, her hair was already frizzy from magic but now it started to emit blue electrical sparks, people that were sitting around them started to scoot farther away.

"Merlin! We're your BEST friends Mione, you should have told us!" Ron bellowed.

"YOU WILL WATCH HOW YOU SPEAK TO ME RONALD BILIUS WEASLEY!" Hermione slamming her hands down onto the table shaking everything on it from the force and magic. "I AM NOT SORRY I NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS FACT NOR WILL I EVER BE SORRY ABOUT HIDING IT AWAY FROM YOUR GOSSIP SPEWING MOUTH, IT WAS A PRIVATE FAMILY SECRET THAT NO ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT! FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE NO ONE KNEW WHO MY BIOLOGICAZL FATHER WAS BESIDES MY MUM, MY DAD, MY FATHER, AND MY HALF-SIBLINGS!"

"But Luna!" Ron insisted also standing up waving his hands in Luna's direction, who was watching with stern looking eyes and slowly reaching for her wand.

"ARE YOU DEAF, YOU BLOODY OAF!? LISTEN TO ME RONALD BILIUS WEASLEY! SHE ONLY FOUND OUT BECAUSE SHE DROPPED BY UNANNOUNCED! I HAD NO INTENTION OF TELLING HER! IT WAS AND STILL ISN'T YOUR BUSINESS TO KNOW AND I WAS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO TELL YOU ANYTHING, SO DON'T COME OVER HERE ONCE MORE TRYING TO MAKE ME FEEL BAD ABOUT KEEPING A DANGEROUS FAMILY SECRET A SECRET! A SECRET, ESPECIALLY A FAMILY ONE, IS JUST THAT A SECRET! AND THE MORE PEOPLE WHO KNEW, THE MORE LIKEYLY IT WOULD GET OUT, AND YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SOMEONE FOUND ME THEY TRIED TO KILL ME!"

"But Mione…" Harry started also standing up.

"NO!" she stressed. "I AM NOT DISCUSSING THIS WITH YOU TWO ANYMORE OR EVER AGAIN, NOW LEAVE AND ACCEPT THAT I WILL FOREVER HAVE SOME PARTS OF MY LIFE THAT I JUST CAN'T TALK ABOUT!"

"THAT'S NOT FAIR, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR BEST FRIENDS AND YOU'RE TELLING US WE CAN'T KNOW CERTAIN PARTS ABOUT YOUR LIFE THAT WE ARE JUST SHUT OUT OF!" Ron whined. "WE HAVE AND WOULD NEVER TREAT YOU THAT WAY MIONE!"

Hermione laughed loudly and cruelly at them. "THIS AGAIN. REALLY! AS I TOLD YOU LAST TIME WE TALKED YOU HAVE ALREADY AND ALWAYS TREATED ME THAT WAY RONALD AND EACH AND EVERYTIME I HAVE LET IF PASS BUT BECAUSE IT IS NOW REVERSED, YOU PIG HEADEDNESS DOESN'T ALLOW YOU TO SEE THE SIMILARITIES!"

"WHEN HAVE WE EVER SHUT YOU OUT, MIONE?"

"ALL THE BLOODY TIME! AND STOP CALLING ME THAT BLOODY HORRENDOUS MERLIN AWFUL NICKNAME! YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I HATE YOU TWO CALLING ME THAT RONALD BILIUS WEASLEY AND HARRY JAMES POTTER!" She screamed. "YOU TWO SAY YOU'RE MY BEST FRIENDS BUT HONESTLY YOU TWO NEVER ACTED LIKE IT! YOU DON'T EVEN ABIDE BY MY WISHES OF NOT CALLING ME THAT HORRID NICKNAME AND YOU DON'T EVEN LISTEN TO ME WHEN I TALK ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU WANT TO HEAR! YOU COME TO ME WHEN YOU NEED HELP WITH YOUR HOMEWORK, AND IF I SAY I CAN'T HELP YOU, WHAT DO YOU DO, YOU THROW A BLOODY TANTRUM LIKE THE CHILD THAT YOU ARE! WHAT KIND OF MAN THROWS A CHILD'S TANTRUM WHEN THEY DON'T GET HOMEWORK HELP! MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED IN OUR CLASSES AND DID WHAT YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO INSTEAD OF JUST USING ME! YOU NEVER INVITE ME TO OUTINGS AT HOGSMEADE, IF MERLIN FORBID THE FEW TIMES I MAKE PLANS YOU POUT LIKE A BABY OR SHOUT AT ME UNTIL I CHANGE THEM OR YOU STOP TALKING TO ME! YOU HAVE BEEN AN ARSE SINCE FIRST YEAR WHEN YOU INSULTED ME BECAUSE I ACTUALLY HAD A BRAIN! AND THEN YOU REALIZED YOU NEEDED THAT BRAIN FOR HOMEWORK HELP! THIRD YEAR YOU KEPT YELLING AT ME BECAUSE THE FAMILIAR I FINALLY GOT KEPT CHASING YOURS, IT WASN'T MY FAULT YOU KEPT THE BLOODY RAT WHEN IT WAS USELESS AT THAT TIME! FOURTH YEAR WHEN YOU TRIED TO USE ME AS A LAST RESORT FOR A DATE ONLY TO NOT BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAID I DID, AND THEN GET PISSED OFF WHEN YOU SAW WHO IT WAS! WHO I DATE IS NONE OF YOUR CONCERN JUST LIKE MY SECRET IS NONE OF YOUR CONCERN! REMEMBER LAST SUMMER WHEN I MADE PLANS TO GO AWAY WITH SOME OF MY FRIENDS, YOU GOT SO MAD AT ME YOU ORDERED HARRY TO STOP TALKING TO ME AND HE DID UNTIL WE CAME BACK TO SCHOOL, THEN YOU DECIDED TO ACT LIKE NOTHING BLOODY HAPPENED BUT WE BOTH KNOW YOU JUST WANTED HOMEWORK HELP AGAIN! AND NOW YOU'RE ANGRY AT ME FOR TRYING TO PROTECT MYSELF AND MY FAMILY! AND WHEN YOU DIDN'T GET WHAT YOU WANTED YESTERDAY, YOU TRIED AGAIN NOW EVEN THOUGH I SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU NEVER TO TALK TO ME AGAIN! AND YOU HARRY JAMES POTTER!" She turned to him, and pointed at him. "I WILL REPEAT THIS ONCE AND FOR ALL HARRY JAMES POTTER! YOU ARE JUST AS BAD! YOU NEVER ONCE STAND UP FOR ME, YOU NEVER ONCE TAKE MY SIDE EVEN WHEN I AM NOT THE ONE AT FAULT FOR WHATEVER IT IS RONALD HAS A ACCUSED OF ME! YOU ALLOW RONALD TO DICTATE THIS ENTIRE RELATIONSHIP AND I AM TIRED OF IT! TIRED OF IT! AND AS I STATED THE OTHER DAY I AM DONE! DONE! BOTH OF YOU ARE NOT ANY TRUE FRIENDS!"

"Hermione!" Harry trying to fix the situation.

"NO! I WILL NOT HEAR IT! YOU ARE NOT TRUE FRIENDS! I WAS JUST RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL WING AFTER BEING SHOT WITH A BLOODY FREAKING ARROW A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO AND ALL YOU CARED ABOUT YESTERDAY AND TODAY WAS WHY I NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT WHO FATHERED ME!" She slammed her hands down on the table once more and everyone, but the Slytherins, Ginny, and Luna, looks away guilty because they too hadn't bothered to ask how she was before asking what they wanted to know. "DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW LUNA HANDLED IT WHEN SHE FOUND OUT, SHE TOLD ME SHE UNDERSTOOD AND RESPECTED MY WISHES TO KEEP IT A SECRET! YOU TWO HAVE NOT BEEN ACTING LIKE MY BEST FRIENDS IN A LONG TIME; HELL NOT EVEN AT THE BEGINNING HAVE YOU TWO BEEN ACTING LIKE FRIENDS, YOU TWO BARELY TREAT ME LIKE A FRIEND, A BETTER WORD WOULD BE LACKEY SO GET OUT OF MY LIFE AND DO NOT COME BACK INTO MY LIFE EVER AGAIN!" She screamed storming out of the Great Hall, Ginny following behind her without anyone but the Slytherins noticing, everyone noticed Luna follow Hermione though, leaving the whole hall speechless, including the teachers, excluding the Slytherins and Snape, who were all smirking into their breakfast plates.

With Slytherins:

"Well, that was interesting. Seems the Golden Trio isn't looking so good for sure." Blaise commented chuckling at the Harry and Ron.

"I think it's a good thing Hermione finally broke it off with them. She's too smart for them, and she deserves better." Daphne said.

"What do you think She-Weasel will do?" Theo asked.

"I don't know. But she seemed to be treating Granger the same as before." Draco said.

"Hopefully she is better at understanding than her brother." Pansy said. And everyone starts to eat again so that they had enough before class.

With Hermione, Ginny, and Luna:

Since her temper was about as legendary as her grades, most people knew to avoid her when she came into sight with that particular look on her face, snarling under her breath. With flushed cheeks, sparks shooting from her eyes, her hair all-encompassing like a mane of a lion that her house is symbolized by and the electrical sparks coming from the ends, she made for quite a sight as she stormed down the corridors of Hogwarts.

"My brother and Harry are morons. I thought we established that already." Ginny commented smartly after Hermione stopped breathing heavily, looking like a cat ate the canary.

"Yes. They are quite impossible." Luna said airily even though she looked like she was ready to blow up at the boys as well. Hermione takes a deep breath trying to calm herself down.

"What did you want to talk to us about?" Hermione turns to Ginny, and Luna does as well.

"I am not in love with Harry so much anymore and I want to break it off with how he's been acting. Besides how he is acting now, it's always him choosing my brother over me when it's Hogsmeade, and he hasn't really been a boyfriend, well since the beginning of the relationship. I have had a secret as well, not as dangerous as yours Hermione, but it isn't good for my family to know. I have fancied a certain Slytherin and its becoming more and more prominent, which is also a reason I want to break it off with Harry." Ginny whispered only loud enough so that Hermione and Luna could hear.

"Well, him not being a good boyfriend is certainly good reason enough to break up with him, and you should if he isn't treating you right, then he doesn't deserve you." Hermione said. "And if you like someone and it can turn into the type of love you want you should go for it."

"You never know when love will find you." Luna said airily while nodding with a smile, thinking of her own boyfriend. "But I think it would be good for you to date someone from Slytherin; they would be able to appreciate you better than any other house."

"So I should break up with Harry?" Ginny asked looking around to make sure no one was listening.

"Let us ask you this, are you happy?" Hermione asked, and before Ginny responded Luna and Hermione kept adding.

"Does he make you happy?"

"Does he go out of his way to show you he loves you?"

"Does he go out of is way in general?"

"Does it feel like being with him is a chore?"

"No to all the questions except the last one." Ginny said.

"Then he isn't treating you right, and he doesn't deserve you." Luna said.

"Then yes you should dump him, but I want you to promise to follow your heart. Just because he is a git now and you want to support me doesn't mean that you should break up with him. You have to follow your heart." Hermione said. And Ginny nodded. Luna, Hermione, and Ginny shared a group hug, before Ginny and Luna left Hermione to go to their classrooms. Ginny had DADA, and Luna had Herbology, and Hermione had Potions.