Family Ties

by firehound60

Hermione was always different. She grew up knowing she was adopted and when she went to Hogwarts she thought everything made sense. Why she could do the things she did. her life at Hogwarts wasn't what she expected though, shes more powerful than all her peers and now she wants to find out why. (Pureblood Hermione) (Dramione)

1. Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I wonder what my life would be like if I was born a muggle. I sometimes wish I could give up my magic and live normally with my parents, maybe that would make everything better. Then I realise that that's impossible and anyway I would never truly want to give up magic and Hogwarts, even of sometimes its too much for me to handle.

I do dream about it sometimes though. I dream that McGonagall made a mistake, that my parents no longer looked at me with fear in their eyes and disdain in their hearts. I know they wish for it. They wish they had a normal daughter, or that they didn't waste their only opportunity for kids when they picked me out of the line up at the foster home.

I was always different growing up. Having magic manifest when your in the middle of a park or school makes kids not want to be friends with you for very long. I thought that when I got my Hogwarts letter things would be different. But I was still the outcast. I was leagues and bounds ahead of everyone else without even trying. That sounds like a brag but I swear its not. I wish I was less good at magic. That would stop the jealousy and the bullying.

I don't fit in with anyone anymore. The only people who talk to me are Harry and Ron. There both idiots who think they can manipulate me into doing all their work because I'm lonely and need friends. Harry's the golden boy, can do no wrong in Dumbledore's eyes, so he thinks he can get away with whatever he wants and Ron follows him around like a little lap dog feeding off his entrails. I tolerate it because as much as I hate it, its not much of a difference in school work for me and frankly its nice to sit next to someone in class and at meal times. No one wants to be the odd ones out.

All the other students ignore me. I'm too bookish and smart for the other Gryffindor's, not studious enough for the Ravenclaw's, too uptight for the Hufflepuff's and just plain old too Gryffindor for the Slytherin's

In all honesty, I think I could get on well with the Slytherin's. A secret I've never told anyone is that I could have been one of them, the only thing stopping the sorting hats decision being the fact that I'm a muggleborn. There cunning but intelligent. They have wit and humour and can actually hold a conversation that's not just about quidditch and wizards chess.

I'm sick to death of listening to Harry and Ron go on and on about the most mundane subjects. And I'm not particularly fond of receiving death glares from Ginny every time I so much as look in Harry's direction. Or Seamus's. Or any other boy in our year. Or any other year. God is she boy crazy. I don't really listen to gossip much, but sharing a room with lavender brown kinda makes it inevitable, and from what I've heard, Ginny Weasley gets up to a lot of things when lights go out.

I'm not gonna let her get to me this year. I'm gonna start fresh. I turned 17 this summer, I'm a full adult, I'm not under any laws or restrictions which means I am free to do what I want. And what I want, is to find my real parents.