A/N: Hello everyone! I'm sorry I needed so much time to update (almost two months!). You see, school started back, then I lived at a friend, then I got my flat but I can access Internet only at my parents! But I'm finally back, and this is Chapter Nine! By the way, if you are wondering (or have guessed!)who is Hermione's twin, read the note at the bottom of the chapter.

"You may enter!"

Hermione cautiously step a foot into the special ward reserved to muggles in St Mungos. This room wasn't permanent, but with the increase of attacks upon muggles by Death-Eaters, it was pretty large now. The room was divided intwo parts: the left one, hidden by a white curtain, was for muggles who didn't know about the magical world. In the right side, in plain view, were witches' or wizards' families who had been attacked by Death-Eaters. And there were far more people in this part than in the other.

Hermione gestured to Harry, Ron and Ginny tostay out of the ward, and went to a light blue curtain which was giving her parents some privacy. The healer told Hermione about their states, which was stable for the moment.She slowly opened the curtain, and was relieved to see that, even if they seemed to have suffered a lot, her parents wee reading, their favourite occupation that they passed on their daughter.

"Mummy! Daddy!"

Alex and Jenny looked up and smiled broadly to her, relievedto see that their little girl was alright. Hermione rushed to her mother but, remembering the healer's warning, hugged her gently, then did the same to her father. Then she sat down on a chair between the beds, holdinga hand of each of her parents.

"Hermione, dear, how are you? Look like you were worrying about something!"

"Daddy, that's not funny! Those Death-Eaters are so dangerous! You could have been hurt quite worse! You could have died! You..."

She burst into tears, resting her head on her mother's lap, while her father was stroking her hair. He rose off his bed and went to sit by his wife.

"Daddy, no! That could hurt you!"

"Don't worry honey! I can move as long as I stay in this room. I...I'm sorry to say that, but your mother have been hurt worse than me."

Indeed, only his arms had bandages, while his wife had both her legs put in plaster, and quite a bad bruise on her back that went from one shoulder to the other.

"Oh Mummy! I'm sorry, I must be hurting you!"

Crying even more, Hermione got up so quickly that she fell on her bottom. Jenny couldn't help but laugh at the sight in front of her, shocking Hermione to the point that she stopped crying. Jenny quickly reassured her daughter.

"No honey, you weren't hurting me! This plaster" knocking on it "is so thick that I don't feel anything."

Hermione hugged her mother again, smiling and sighing in relief.

"I'm just so worried! I love you so much!"

"Of course! Besides, you don't need anything to spoil your wedding planning, right? Engaged at seventeen, honestly!"

Alex was trying to scowl, but actually he was having trouble to hide his smile.Hermione looked down in embarassement, her face a nice red. She didn't see her father getting on his feet, nor that she saw him coming by her. However, she felt it when he engulfed her in a bear hug.

"My baby! My tresure! I can't believe how quickly you grew up! Yesterday I was bouncing you on my knees, and now you are a wonderful and gorgeous young woman who not only helped to save the world, but in addition is engaged! I'm so proud of you!"

Hermione burst into tears once more, glad tha her parents accepted her decision so fast. Her mother opened her arms, and Hermione went hug her. Alex kissed her daughter on her forehead, whispering words of love, and... hugged the women of his life.

"Ok! Ok baby! That's alright! I just hope we'll be able to see this Ronald you are always talking of soon!"

"Of course Mummy! He is here! Ron, Ron! Come in! You too, Harry, Gin!"

The three of them came slowly by Hermione's parents' corner. Harry and Ginny were ahead, smiling broadly, while Ron seemed about to be sick and was trying to hide behind his friend and sister.When they came by the bed, Hermione rolled her eyes, and took Harry's hand.

"Mummy, Daddy, this is Harry Potter, my best friend." Then grabbing Ginny's hand "And this Ginny Weasley, my other best friend, and future bridesmaid. Harry, Ginny, this is Jenny and Alex, my parents."

Smiling broadly to each other, the four of them shook hands.

"Nice to see you, Mrs and Mr Granger!"

"Nice to meet you too Ginny. You too, Harry! And please call usby our name! Hermione said so much about you, it's like we have known you for a long time! Harry Potter, saviour of the world!"

"Hum,Hum,yeah! I bet she didn't tell that we couldn't have done anything without her!"

"I know I know! She is so modest! Tell me Harry, how does she really do at school? She is always saying that she is just kkeping with the others!"

"Are you kidding me? Mrs...Jenny, sorry! She is far ahead of all of us! Well, maybe except Malfoy a boy who is in an other house. But even if you count him, she has always been on top of the class! Almost everyone says that she is the cleverest witch of her age they ever met!"

Meanwhile, Hermione managed to grab Ron's arm and was dragging him to her parents. Ron was intently studying the floor, while Harry and Ginny were red trying to contain their laugh.

"Ron...Ron...Ronald Weasley, your shoes are clean, look up!"

Ron slowly raised his head, and met the lenient smile of Jenny.

"Ron, this is my mother, Jenny. And this is my father, Alex. They've waited for so long to meet you, so don't be a coward!"

Harry had to put a fist in his mouth, seeing Ron so mortified before his future parents in law, while Ginny was laughing in her hands.

"Mummy, Daddy, this is Ronald Weasley, Ginny's brother, Harry's best friend, as well as the Gryffindor's keeper,one of the bravest man I have ever met...normally... And it appears that he is also my fiancé!"

Ron shook the hands in front of him, then went back on examining the floor. Hermione rolled her eyes to the ceiling again.

"So, Ron. You are the guy who thinks he can win my daughter. Well, seeing your biography, I believe that you are a good candidate. I'm just wondering; why so quickly?"

"That is to say Mr G..."

"Alex, please!"

"That is to say, Alex... hum, you know about the war in the wizardring world. And I... my brother got married this summer, and I realised that I didn't want to wait to prove my love to Hermione. I know that one of us can die, I'll die to save her, if need be. But I don't want to die without her knowing all that she means for me. And I know that I'll never love someone else so much."

Though he was four inches taller than Hermione's father, Ron felt like a little boy under Alex's scrutinizing gaze as he spoke. However, he was looking straight into his soon-to-be father-in-law's eyes to show him that he was not lying. And that seemed to please Alex, because he hugged Ron, pleased to see that his only daughter found a man that loved her and would give the world for her.

"Very well, young man! I see that my baby once again succeeded in what she was doing, and this time, for life long."

"Naturally! I'll never leave her! I love her too much!"

He smiled to Hermione who was glowing with joy, seeing how fast her parents accepted the man of a life. Jenny couldn't help but noticed it, and she opened her arms to Ron.

"Welcome in the family, Ronald!"

"Thank you, Mrs Granger!"

"Jenny, please!"

"Ok, so call me Ron! Ronald is for my mother,when she is angry at me!"

Hermione and her father joined the hug, which made Ron blushed a bit, as he wasn't accostumated to the Grangers manners, but he still smiled. At this sight, Harry and Ginny couldn't help but smile, and clapped to the new family. The four in the hug smiled, then separated, and they all sit to have a nice chat to get to know the others. Alex liked particularly the conversation that he carried with Harry about muggle politics (which Harry found completly outdated, and Alex tended to agree; basically, they mocked it for twenty minutes, while Ron was astounded as how much Harry could know outside the magical world), and Jenny insisted that Ginny would be always welcome if she'd like to come to their home with Ron.

After two hours or so, they decided it was time to a cup of tea, that one of the nurse kindly accepted to bring, after Harry asked her with his most seducing smile. While they were waiting for it, alex and Jenny let the teenagers talked , and looked at each other; the time for truth had come, they knew it: not only their baby was getting married, but they almost died, and they didn't want truth to die with them. So, once everyone had a steaming cup of tea in their hands, Jenny spoke in a very serious tone of voice.

"Hermione, look, there's something that your father and I want you to know. You are mature enough to understand it, now. And I suppose your friend want to know too. It's your choice whether they stay or not."

Hermione immediately thought about her dreams, knowing that she was about to learn that they were real (because deep inside her she knew they were); as her friends (and boyfriend) already knew about her dreams, she wanted them to stay and support her.

"I want them here, I have nothing to hide from them."

Hearing her quivering voice, Ron enlaced her waist, Harry, who was sitting on her right, put a hand on her shoulder, and Ginny, on Harry's right, managed to catch Hermione's right hand. The four of them were on Alex's bed, and the parents on Jenny's. Both smiled weakly, knowing that their daughter would never be left alone.

Jenny started, hesitating a lot.

"Look, Hermione, you know that we have and will always love you...but there's... We want you to know... You are our treasure, but we... you are..."

"What Jenny is trying to say, it's that you...you..."

But Alex's voice broke too, and he shut up, fearing that their daughter might reject them, and leave for ever. Hermione came to them, took a hand of each of them.

"Mummy, Daddy, please! Tell me! If it's so important, you have to! I... I'll love you anyway! I almost have an heart attack when I heard that you were hurt! Please tell me!"

They hesitated a bit more, then Alex seemed to find his voice back, though it was strangely hight-pitched.

"Well, Hermione, what you have to know is...well, eighteen years ago... we...we found out that...that I was sterile... So we... we apply for an adoption" Hermione was crushing their hands, but they couldn't feel it. "A year later, they called us to announce that our request have been accepted, and a baby, a cute little girl was waiting to be adopted." Tears were rolling on Hermione's cheeks but she didn't let go of theirs hands, she couldn't let go of her family. It's something thinking that you were adopted, but it's completly different to learn that it is the truth! Her mother was crying too, but she managed to spoke anyway.

"When we saw you for the first time at the orphanage, we immediately fell in love with you. You were not even two months old, with that mop of brown hair. You were so tiny, so cute. I took you in my arms, and I... I thought 'There I am! I'm a mother!' That was the happiest day in my life! You are not our biological daughter, but we have always love you as our only child." Then her voice broke once more, and she cried on her daughter's head, which was on her father's knees, tears flowing like they were never be able to stop. Ginny was also crying on Harry's lap, while both boys looked at Hermione with the same pained faces. However, they didn't move, they knew that Hermione had to deal with it alone.

When her tears stopped a bit, she looked at her paents with teary eyes.

"But why did you never told me?"

"We were afraid that ...that if you learned it... You... You will hate us. We wouldn't have been able to stand that. We almost told you when you were eleven, but... we didn't want to loose you!"

"Oh Mummy! I love you! You will always be my parents! I just wish you told me before! That would have spared me..." She then thought about something "Did they told you something at the orphanage? About my... parents, other parents I mean? Or the person that brought me?"

"Just that it was a blonde woman with brown eyes, and she said that your life would be in danger if she kept you. Why? You want to know her? You want your true parents, right?"

"You are my true parents! But I have had dreams about them..."

"Dreams?" They said together, all tears gone.

"Yes, dreams. I was in danger because... well, I told you about Death-Eaters, remember?" They nodded. "Well, I think my ...father... was one, and he wanted only one child, a boy. And in my dreams, he's threatening to kill me and my mother if she don't get rid of me."

She went on crying, hugging both her parents in the mean time. She looked so weak, so sad... Ron couldn't help this time, and went behind her, stroking her back and whispering words of comfort in her ears. Everyone was crying even Harry who was crying in Ginny 's shoulder.

Alex and Jenny were trying to comfort Hermione, saying things like 'it will be alright', 'we'll always love you"... But Hermione was still crying

" Do you realize that maybe my father is one of those who are tried to kill me when I was helping Harry?"

"Hermione, he doesn't deserve to be called your father after whet he did to you, your mother, and to... As long as I am alive, nobody will get to you, and if I die, Ron will defend you! Believe me, that stupid man will be dead before he'll get to you."

Harry's anger was so impressive that Alex's failed to notice the little hesitation in his voice. However, Jenny didn't.

"What were you about to say, Harry?"

Realizing his blunder, Harry shut up, but it was Hermione who answered her mother. She never intended on hiding it from her parents.

"I have a brother."

"What?"

"I have a brother. And he doesn't know that I exist. And I don't know who I am. And it's probably one of those pureblood believers who thinks that I am dirty because I'm not like them!"

She cried even more, and all of the others came to her and hugged her. Her tears stopped suddenly, and , even if they were a bit surprised, they thought that she finally was the good old Hermione again, strong, brave, and who never let go. What they couldn't know was that her grief was so strong that her brother felt it through the distance. The pain was unbearable, and he knew why she felt it. So he send feelings of love that he knew (how he knew it, he couldn't guess) would be interpreted as 'No matter who I am, you are my sister and I love you'. The sudden warmth in Hermione's heart made her stopped crying. She revelled in the feeling of being safe, surrounded by all the people she loved. Only one was missing, but she knew that one day, he will be there too.

A/N: Yippee! End of the chapter! I hope it wasn't too cheesy!

Thanks to Luna Moonlight Fawn, my lonely reviewer for 'I'll find you!'

And if you'll kindly review this one, I'll be really happy.

By the way, I decided that a little contest was in order. This is it: to celebrate the soon-to-be tenth chapter, the name of Hermione's brother will be given. I'll post it in a month. Meanwhile, you'll have to guess who he is. Some of you already made their mind, some not. But, the award is: if you guess is right, your name will be part of the story. So, are you interested? I'm waiting for your answers!