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Hermione and Severus were one of the last to arrive at the staff table that morning. Hermione had a very contented look on her face when she entered the room and Severus looked like a cat that had just finished a bowl of cream.

Ginny realized at once that Hermione was no longer a virgin and that her bed mate had satisfied her immensely. Harry realized that Hermione looked happy; he wasn't sure what caused it, but was worried about her.

Hermione had all of her classes that day so she didn't have much time to spend with Severus. He walked her to the dungeon where she went back to their room to gather up her books.

By lunch time Hermione was exhausted and glad she just had a 2nd year class to teach and then some papers to grade. This was the longest they had been apart since the weekend. So she was really looking forward to lunch. When she arrived at the Great Hall Harry was waiting for her.

"Hermione are you ok? You looked strange at breakfast this morning kind of on edge and I don't know different?"

"I'm fine Harry I just over slept and it took longer to get ready with just the one loo."

Harry really didn't want to hear Hermione talking about one loo and the fact that she shared quarters with the bat; but, he had learned to not say anything about the Professor after yesterday. "Oh ok I was just worried I won't keep you."

Hermione hurried into the hall where she saw Severus sitting; when he saw her he rose and pulled out her chair. As Severus pushed her chair in he whispered in her ear, "I have missed you my beautiful wife."

Hermione shivered and smiled at her husband; once he was seated she reached for his hand under the table. It shocked Severus so much he actually jumped slightly and then he relaxed and started running his thumb up and down her hand.

After lunch Severus escorted Hermione to the dungeon classroom and then left to go to his office and grade papers. Hermione had a terrible time keeping her thoughts on her potions class and finally the last ½ hour of the class had the students start on their essay for homework.

Severus had 5th years for the next class and Hermione had a double period free to grade papers and work on homework. She decided to go to their room and work at the desk in there. When Severus came in after his class he found her just finishing up the last of his 6th year essays he had started on that morning.

"Well my beautiful wife since you have finished part of my work for me I would like to do something a little different tonight. I really don't trust the information the Ministry gave me about my blood line. I would like to redo the testing; would you like to help me brew the potion?"

Hermione was very excited this was a complex potion that required charming also. "I would love too, why do you think the Ministry was not right?"

"I don't really think it was wrong but I don't think it was completely correct either, they didn't ask for a fresh blood sample so I don't feel right about it."

"OK, I can't wait to get started. Has anyone ever used the potion on a muggle with magical power?"

Severus looked at Hermione like he wasn't sure what she was getting at. "I don't understand why do you ask?"

"You know me I like to try everything; do you think we could test my blood also?"

"Well on a true muggle with no prior magical family you get nothing. If there has been any magical family in the past it will show that even if the magical family was squibs."

"Then could we do my blood also I would love to know if I am truly the only magical person in my family."

Severus looked at his wife and laughed, "Hermione you are the most amazing woman! Of course we will check your magical line also."

Hermione laughed at her husband and took his arm as they headed to dinner. They visited during dinner with each other and the other professors and then excused themselves to head to the lab.

Severus pulled out the potions book that had the correct recipe in it and set Hermione to gathering the supplies while he got out the proper caldron. Because this was a potion to determine who your family was you had to use a silver caldron; a brass or pewter caldron would react with the ingredients.

Severus asked Hermione, "Can you please go get both of our other wands out of our safe."

Hermione hurried to their quarters and opened the safe where their extra wands were kept and brought them out. He also had her begin to study the charm that was required for the potion since he couldn't do the charm for his family scroll and she couldn't do it for her family scroll.

The potion was rather complex but the charming was the most important part of the whole thing. Severus knew that Hermione was a strong witch and would have no problem with the charming. But, he also knew that she wasn't used to her new wand and especially not used to using it in her left hand. So he gave her time to work on the wrist movements while he began the brewing.

By 9:00 the potion was ready and it was time to separate it into special glass bowls and had to add their blood to them. Severus pulled his silver dagger from its sheaf and handed it to Hermione. He had her slice the palm of her hand and drip blood into her bowl, and then he healed the cut. A moment later he did the same to his palm.

Each of them dropped a quill into the other persons bowl and began the charm. A few minutes later they laid each of the quills on a piece of parchment and watched them begin to write.

Hermione was amazed when hers began to write first with her name and then began to draw a family tree onto the paper. Once it finished drawing the tree it put Severus's name next to hers in a box then she passed out when she saw the name that was listed under her mother's name.

Severus looked over when he heard Hermione crash to the floor. He quickly ran to her to make sure she was ok. Then he did a quick revenotrate to wake Hermione up. She sat up and shook her head then started crying. Severus was so shocked he didn't know what to do. Finally Severus picked her up and carried her to their room and held her on the couch till she stopped crying. "Hermione please stop, what's wrong? Is there something I can do are you hurt?"

Finally with a last sob Hermione started talking, "I was watching my parchment and under my mother it showed Minerva!"

Severus was sitting with his mouth open something he had never done in his life. "Hermione what?" and he picked her up and hurried back into the lab.

He looked at Hermione's parchment and sure enough there in black and white was Minerva's name as mother, the fathers name was Castor Granger; Hermione knew Castor as her uncle. He was her father's older brother who had passed away just 2 years earlier. As Hermione and Severus read further down the list there were more and more names they knew all of them pure blood witches and wizards. Hermione wasn't a muggle born witch after all she was a ½ blood witch. Severus didn't know what to say to Hermione, he just gathered up each of the parchments and waved his wand to clean up the mess.

They walked back into their room and discussed what they should do. It was finally decided that Hermione would make an appointment to talk with Minerva tomorrow and that Severus would go with her.

After they went to bed and Hermione had fell asleep Severus realized that he hadn't even looked at his parchment. He got up and read his; it was exactly the same as the one the Ministry gave him so he had no new news. But, he still couldn't get his head around the fact that Hermione was Minerva's daughter.