After years of hyperattentive awareness all four men in the room turned to the door to watch their princess, she seemed to be completely undecided whether she could approach them or not. Hundred of thoughts flew throw her head as she contemplated knocking on the door, she was completely unaware that she already held the attention of all the occupants of the office. All four men had sensed her presence the moment she approached the door, they were allowing her the time to gather her thoughts and make the decision on her own terms to approach them.

She knew that her father's study had always been his place of sanctuary. Although her parents always treated her with love and kindness, she was not allowed to disturb the adults in her life when they were in either of there offices. There offices were each adult place in the home where they could work uninterrupted, she remembered one instance as a child when she had entered the offices without permission when she was feeling unwell and had swiftly spanked then returned to bed.

This did not mean her family did not love or care for her, such affection was shown on suitable occasions and in a subtle manner. The family room they could be as carefree as they liked to read and spend hours together, however her parents were incredibly hard working, running their own Dental Practice was exhausting for them this meant that Hermione spent a lot of time in her own company or at one of the numerous bordering schools which she had been enrolled in, which were always abroad.

From a young age, she had to adapt and learn new languages to ensure she could fit in to each of the boarding school, each new school meant another language to learn at this point she was fluent in several languages not that she would tell anyone.

As she turned to flee back to bed not to disturb the adults in Professor Snape's office, but it was too late as Severus spoke up 'Little one, are you ok' she was clearly shying away from the people in the room and hiding something behind her back.

'Ummm… I am sorry but I had a nightmare and wet the bed, I really did not mean too, and I am so, so sorry, but I know the punishment' Hermione all but whimpered, from behind her back she pulled out an overly worn thick leather belt with a buckle which could only be described as medieval. With trembling hands, she approached the four men, she was unsure who exactly would be the one punishing her, she assumed it would be her Professor, but she was not certain whether her newfound uncles would take delight in helping.

'Little one, do not ever be frightened to tell us anything! There will be no punishment, it was an accident I would have been more surprised if it did not happen. Children like yourself who have experienced trauma are more likely to wet the bed, there is no harm done. Let us get you all cleaned up and you can snuggle up with your Uncles and I until you fall asleep.' Severus was incredibly swift at with a cleaning spell and transfiguring clean clothes onto Hermione, he quickly picked her small frame up and settled them both into his armchair.

'Kotyonok, your Daddy was just telling us how much of a spitfire you are! You sound like you have quite the temper, but that you are also rather resourceful, what is this that I hear about you brewing Polyjuice Potion in the bathroom?' Antonin chuckled he could see a spark of mischief in his nieces' eyes, which brought him great joy.

'Umm… well you see, Harry and Ron thought that Malfoy was the Heir of Slytherin and that he was responsible for petrifying students, he calls himself the Pureblood Prince. So, it was automatically assumed that this meant he was somehow related to Slytherin himself, you know with his pureblood ideologies. Both approached me and asked for help getting into the Slytherin Common Room so they could secretly interrogate Malfoy, so I came up with the plan to use some test sweets of the Weasleys to knock Crabbe and Goyle out. At this point I could collect hair samples from them to put into the Polyjuice Potion, Harry and Ron would assume their identities and asked their leader questions. Ron asked me to come along too as he believed if Parkinson were their then Malfoy would be further relaxed and distracted, leading him to slip up, but it turned out Ron was just trying to bully me, he added cat hair instead. It meant that I had to go the hospital wing and pretend I was trying to take my Animagus form and failed mid transfer.'

At this point all four men looked gobsmacked there was no way this girl should be in Gryffindor, she was much to resourceful and cunning, they knew they needed to ask for the first time in history for a student to be resorted.

'Technically Little One, both yourself and Draco are the heirs of Slytherin although neither of you speak parseltongue. You are both technically distantly related.' At this moment, all four men noticed their little dove was rather pale.

'I am related to Malfoy?' She stammered, looking fearful at the four men.

'Yes, Little one, I know it's a lot to take in, but he is your cousin.' Severus could understand why she was upset the pair of them held hard feelings against one and other, due to Draco's unfortunate hatred towards Muggleborns, he did know however that they would be the best of friends had they been sorted into the same house as they both were equally intelligent. Severus and Bellatrix's missing child was born just three months after her cousin.

Draco on the 5thJune 1980 and their Daughter on 17th September 1980, this would have meant that she would be in the year below her cousin due to the cut off point of the years in take, meaning she would be one of the oldest in her year group. Her and Draco had been so close as babies, she would babble to him and he would always babble back they were more like siblings.

'But I punched him in the face' Hermione exclaimed; he had deserved it for being so vicious to Buckbeak but if he was family, she did feel bad.

Regulus could not contain his laughter, he loudly started chuckling and it did not take long for the rest of the room to join in. Thorfinn decided this would be the perfect time to perform a spell which would map out Hermione's family tree and show her all her new family members as well as break the issue of her being Royalty amongst the sacred 28.

However, what he did not expect was her date of birth to appear to be wrong. Her full name new name appeared at the top of the parchment, along with the date of birth 17th September 1980 making Hermione a full year younger the documents held by the school, where had this mix up occurred, he knew one thing for sure not one person in the room would sleep peacefully or rest until this mystery was solved.

I am incredibly sorry for taking so long to update, I have been having multiple issues with my health which has meant I have spent quite a bit of time in hospital, I appreciate you all for sticking with me and I will endeavour to update as soon as possible.

Love Nat x