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Chapter 12
The next morning Hermione woke up and went downstairs. She was the first awake, that is after Mrs Weasley.
"Oh hello dear. You're up early" greeted Mrs Weasley, "Would you like some breakfast?"
"Yes please" said Hermione before yawning and sitting down
"So what are you going to do today?" asked Mrs Weasley as she put some bacon on and poured herself and Hermione some orange juice. Hermione took the juice and had a gulp before answering
"Well I was wondering if I could maybe go and visit my parents. I've not seen them since the beginning of the summer, and I sort of miss them. Would that be OK?" Hermione asked
"Of course it would. Not a problem, I'm sure they miss you just as much as you miss them" said Mrs Weasley as she put the bacon on a plate and buttered some toast and handed it to Hermione, who thanked her and began to eat, "What time would you like to go?"
"Erm, I thought maybe just after lunch" said Hermione slowly. Mrs Weasley then made herself some bacon and toast and sat down across from Hermione. They sat talking while they both ate. Once Hermione had finished, Harry, Ron and George made an appearance at the bottom of the stairs
"Morning you three" said Hermione happily, all three boys groaned at her cheerfulness, it was too early for them, "Is Ginny not awake yet?"
"She won't wake up for at least another hour, and none of us are going to wake her. She is not a morning person" said Ron as he sat down. Harry and George both grunted in agreement. Mrs Weasley placed three plates on the table, one in front of each of them and all three immediately began eating.
"So what are you doing up so early, Hermione?" asked Harry as he took a sip of his orange juice
"Just woke up and couldn't sleep again. Plus I don't need a lot of sleep, this is about when I normally get up at home, and at Hogwarts" said Hermione
"You're crazy" said Ron with his mouth full,
"Oh well, I like having a full day, not half a day because I was sleeping. Anyway, what are you all planning to do today?"
"Well we'll probably play chess, and Quidditch, and just anything really" said Ron
"Yeah. He wins chess, and i win Quidditch. Equal. I don't mind losing Chess if I can beat him at something else" said Harry smiling and sitting back in his seat
"Yeah, I don't mind losing Quidditch, if I can win at Chess" said Ron, holding his plate up, "Can I have more mum?" Mrs Weasley then piled more bacon and toast onto his plate, "Thanks. What about you Hermione?"
"I wanted to go visit my parents. Seeing as I haven't seen them since summer. I'm going to go after lunch. So until then I can hang out here with all you guys and watch you play Quidditch and Chess"
"Why don't you try flying again Hermione?" asked Harry
"I don't really feel like it today, plus I don't think George would be up to it. Also I don't want anyone to tease me anymore" said Hermione
"George wouldn't tease you...will you George?" asked Harry, "George?" Hermione looked over at George and laughed. George had fallen asleep with his fork of bacon half way to his mouth, his mouth moth was gaping open, and he was snoring.
"Wow, he must be really tired" commented Harry, Hermione leaned over and squeezed George's sides where it would tickle him. Once she squeezed George jumped up, and stared around him, holding his fork of bacon like he would with his wand. Harry, Ron and Hermione all burst out laughing
"Hello sleepy head" said Hermione in a baby voice. George scowled at her and put his bacon in his mouth, "Yay! You got it in!" chuckled Hermione
"Very funny 'Mione. I unlike you am not the happiest person in the world at this time" said George gulping his orange juice
"Oh, I'm sorry Georgie. But maybe you should have stayed in bed if you were this tired" answered Hermione
"Maybe. Well, what's the plan today?" he asked sitting back in his seat
"Well as I was saying to Harry and Ron, you must have been asleep when I said this, but I'm going to visit my parents. I miss them, and I want to see them" said Hermione
"That sounds good. You want me to come?" asked George
"You can if you want. But my dad might go psycho on you, or my mum could. Who knows which way it is with them" smiled Hermione. About an hour after breakfast, Ginny showed up. Harry, ROn, Hermione and George were all in the livingroom listening to the Wizarding Wireless Network, while talking about different things going on in their lives and the wizarding world.
"Hello Ginny. Good sleep?" asked George loudly and happily
"Oh shut up!" answered Ginny, before walking into the kitchen and getting her breakfast. After a while Ginny came into the livingroom and sat on the couch, "What are you all doing up so early? When I get up you are all sitting at the table eating breakfast so slowly and look so sleepy cause you just woke up"
"Hermione was first up, like mum time. We got up just as she finished, and George fell asleep while eating bacon. But I don't know why we woke up so early. Hermione says she gets up at that time all the time, but me? I get up just before you" said Ron, Ginny just shrugged and curled up into a ball.
When lunchtime arrived, everyone was wide awake, but still in their pajama's. Once Hermione finished she ran up stairs and changed into a pair of dark blue skinny jeans, and black t-shirt, with her black winter boots on. She put her cloak on over top, she ran back downstairs after she put her make-up on and fixed her hair. When she ran back down George was standing next to Harry and Ron laughing, Ron and Harry were still in their pajamas but George was dressed in a pair of jeans and t-shirt with an open shirt on top, and then his black cloak.
"How did you get ready so fast? When I left you were only half way through your lunch" said Hermione as she walked towards them
"Oh hi gorgeous. Well, you took about twenty minutes to get ready, and once I finished my lunch I apparated t save time. I changed and apparated back down here. I've been down here for ten minutes. It doesn't take me long to get ready" said George leaning against the counter
"Oh, well I had to make myself presentable for my mum and dad. Plus I'm a girl, we take a while getting ready, and I can't apparate yet. So don't complain" said Hermione
"I wasn't complaining" said George, "Well what are you two going to do while I go and get a beating from Mr Granger?" George asked winking at Hermione
"Probably just play chess, maybe get Ginny to play Quidditch with us, or whatever" said Ron
"Why don't you start on the homework that Snape set? And Flitwick, and McGonagall, and every other teacher we have" said Hermione
"Och! Please Hermione, don't make us do homework. We've been good boys this past couple of weeks. You can't punish us for being good" whined Harry, he then knelt down on his knees and faked pleading, "I want to forget about Snape's ugly face, and slimy hair. Doing his homework will remind me of how ugly he is! You can't make us do this, we'll do anything! Pleeeeaaaassee" moaned Harry with a big smile on his face, Hermione, George and Ron all burst out laughing
"Come on Hermione, you can't punish a boy with this look on his face can you?" George asked nodding towards Harry's pouting face and pleading eyes
"Oh ok Harry, you don't have to do your homework, but you will have to do it sometime. You too Ron. And Harry? Don't think I'm letting you off because of that pouted lip, and big puppy dog eyes. That will never work again" chuckled Hermione
"Alright then" said Harry as he stood up, "at least it worked this time. now Ron, we can do whatever, without worrying about being pestered about homework today. I'm going to go and get changed" said Harry walking away
"Yeah me too. Thank's 'Mione" he said as he turned away
"Erm, Ron? Why are you thanking me?" asked Hermione
"For not making us do homework, and not getting us diaries telling us to do it" said Ron smiling and walking away
"You really got them diaries telling them to do homework?" asked George putting his arm around her shoulders
"Yeah. But remember that that was when O.W.L.s were, so I was a study freak, worse than normal. But even when N.E.W.T.s come around I won't be as crazy as then, even if they're more important" said Hermione, "Now come on, I want to go and see my parents. How are we getting there?"
"We can either Floo, or I can Apparate us there. Your choice" said George
"Can we Apparate? I don't think I could handle being spun around and get all dusty" said Hermione
"All right, hold onto my arm" said George. Once Hermione took hold, George spun around and blackness consumed them. A second later they popped into existance outside the Granger's front door.
"Alright, here we are. So my parents have never actually met real wizards, thats not me, they've met your dad, but they would always talk about muggle stuff. So they might ask a lot of questions, or something. Don't be intimidated by my dad, and don't make too many of your Weasley twin jokes. OK?" Hermione said
"Hermione, don't be nervous. I'll be a good Weasley boy, I won't embarrass you or me, or make wizards seem like horrible people. Don't worry, now are we going to stand at the door all day? Or are we going to actually let them know we're here?" said George
"Oh right" said Hermione slowly, she lifted up her hand and knocked the door, after a few moments she knocked again and opened the door., "Mum? Dad?" she called out. A couple of seconds later her mum walked out into the hall from the kitchen
"Hermione? What are you doing here?" she asked
"Well, its Christmas break, and I thought I would come and visit. Where's dad?" asked Hermione
"Your dad? Oh well, come on in dear. You might want to sit down" said Mrs Granger walking into the livingroom, Hermione looked at George nervously. They walked into the livingroom and sat down on the couch, George took Hermione's hand and they both looked at Mrs Granger, "Hermione, your father and I have separated. The Divorce papers have come in and it'll be finalized next week"
"What? No, you can't divorce! You can work it out! You can't do this to me. I can't deal with you two not being together! Not just because you're my parents and I love you being together, but for your safety. There's a war coming mum, a wizard war. And the one we are against kills muggles, and muggle-borns for fun! I can't lose you! You need each other to be safe, I need you two together to be safe!" said Hermione loudly
"Honey, I know this is hard. And if there is a war coming we will help each other protect you, but we can't be together as husband and wife. We haven't been getting along, and your father has been- well he's been having an affair" said Mrs Granger sadly
"No! Dad would never have an affair! Why?" said Hermione angrily
"He has sweetie. With some woman at work. But I don't care Hermione. If he doesn't want to be with me, but with some women then he can do as he pleases. But I didn't want you to find out, this soon. That's not the only problem" said Mrs Granger slowly
"What problem? What else? Have you been having an affair too? What is it?" said Hermione with tears in her eyes from anger and sadness
"I don't think I should tell you now. Not with your friend here"
"George isn't just my friend, he's my boyfriend. We love each other, so what you can say in front of me you can say in front of him" said Hermione angrily
"Oh" said Mrs Granger a bit taken aback with this piece of news, "Well hello George, we've met haven't we? In the summer?" she asked holding out her hand
"Yeah" said George shaking her hand
"Well hello again"
"Mum?" said Hermione impatiently
"Oh yes. Well honey, I never wanted to tell you this, especially without your father, but I can't not tell you. Well Hermione, you were adopted. Your birth parents were never revealed to us, but we love you. Even if you aren't ours" said Mrs Granger, once she said this she burst into tears, "The problem is that since your father and I are divorcing, we need to know who would get custody and since you were adopted this complicates matters"
"So, I'm not your daughter? I'm not a Granger? I-I-I have to go" said Hermione standing up, and letting go of George's hand. She walked out into the hall and out the front door. Mrs Granger burst out crying again and George left quietly and followed Hermione, but when he got outside he couldn't see Hermione anywhere. He didn't know where she was, but she couldn't have gone far. So he tried the back garden but couldn't find her. After searching frantically he found her at the side of the house sitting on a bench.
"Hermione?" he asked quietly, Hermione looked up at him and he saw tears falling down her cheeks
"I don't know who my own parents are. I thought I knew them, but they have been lying to me all these years. I thought I was their daughter, and I've been fighting against wizards to show them that I can be brilliant even if I'm not pure-blood or even half-blood. I've been fighting for a fmaily I don't even know"
"Hermione. Just because they aren't your real parents doesn't mean you don't know them. You grew up with them, they're your parents, not your birth parents. They gave you shelter, food, and a loving home, where they cared for you. Even if they aren't your real parents you still love them don't you. Harry lost his parents, he may know who they are but he never met them, like you, but you were taken into a home of people who loved you and treated you like their own flesh and blood, where as Harry was taken into a home of his own blood but treated like shit" said George, "I know this must be hard, but your parents did what they thought was right. There are thousands of adopted children around the world, if it weren't for you parents you may never have found a home where you would be loved, and I'm going to make a selfish comment here. But if it weren't for your parents I would never have met you and I would never have been this happy. You may never have met Harry or Ron or even gone to Hogwarts. Who knows? What we do know is that your parents took you in and loved you and treated you the same even when they learned you were a witch"
"Oh George!" said Hermione happily, she lunged at George and gave him a big hug, "you always know what to say! You make me feel better when I feel like crap. I'm so glad you're here! I love you!" said Hermione giving him a kiss
"No problem, I couldn't bear to see you that upset. I had to do something. Now what do you want to do?"
"I want to go and see mum again. I bet she's upset at seeing my reaction, or even having to tell me" said Hermione standing up and pulling George with her into the house.
(A/N: Well hope you liked it...one of my shorter chapters..but I actually like this chapter...thanks gossipgirl101 and amrawo for the brilliant ideas...they really helped...and thanks the rest of my reviewers..if it weren't for you I probably wouldn't continue this story...hope you like this new chapter R&R)
