A/N: I tampered with Voldemort's age… He is now about four years older than Harry's parents instead of 70 Lol I actually figure out his age, its all in the books all you have to do is add up : P he facts Lol long story short 50 years plus 15 and then a few years till he dies. Im not going to update till thurs day after this, since i only have 2 chapters up on the site already and a third thats in progress... I PASSED THE HUNDRED MAK! YAY KEEP THE REVIEWS COMEING!

Chapter 16: Change.

Hermione was sitting on the ledge of the Astronomy tower, the exact spot where Draco had kissed her. She smiled at the memory as she watched the twinkling stars above her. Her life had just been so full of surprises, there were enough to last her a life time. She had only just found out a week previously that Lauren Granger was not her mother, Amethyst Holloway was. Well Holloway was her maiden name. Amethyst wouldn't tell Hermione who her father was. Hermione had asked only a million times but had never gotten an answer

"What are you thinking about?" A voice asked from behind her and she jumped.

"Drake! Do not sneak up on me!" She scolded as she turned to face him.

"I'm sorry, I thought you knew I was here." He chuckled.

"Well I'm glad it amuses you." She snapped turning her attention back to the cloudless sky full of stars.

"Hey, what amuses is me is how ridiculous weaslebee looked at that ball." He said trying to cheer her up.

"That was amusing Mr. Viktor Krum." She joked.

"Hey I played my part perfectly in my opinion." He gloated.

"Gloating isn't nice Draco, in this day and time it can get you avadaed." she said with a smile still plastered to her face.

"You the only one here to hear it, and I doubt you would kill me for gloating." He said sitting on the ledge next to her. She leaned her head on his shoulder.

"Hermione, I have only known you for eight years, but I think I just might love you." He told her as he put his arms around her waist. Her head jerked up and she looked into his silver blue eyes.

"Really? You love me?" She asked as a cheesy grin grew on her face.

"Yes, I do." He said smiling at her.

She kissed him suddenly as they sat there looking onto each others eyes. She put all of her feelings into this kiss, which made it like no other. "I love you to Drake." She said as she pulled her lips away from his, but then she kissed him again.

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"So," Hermione heard Harry say as her and Ron sat in the library with him as they tried to riddle out the eggs message. "Why were you talking to Malfoy last night?"

"WHAT?" Ron said loudly and looked at Hermione who looked like she was going to die.

"He didn't try to push you off of the Astronomy tower did he?" Harry asked as he clutched his wand.

"Harry I don't know what you are talking about." She turned the egg over in her hands.

"You are a terrible liar, that makes you sound even more suspicious Hermione." He told her. " I saw you to on the map."

"The map was wrong, lying even." She said. "Wait there aren't merpeople in the lake are there, what could they have taken from you?" She asked trying to change the subject.

"The map never lies." He said in a slightly creepy tone. "Tell the truth Hermione."

"I really don't know what your talking about." She said, still denying that she had seen him.

"Friends font keep secrets." He said.

"Fine, I…" she said as an idea hit her, "I thought he might know who my father is. Mum wouldn't tell me."

"That's a lie. Your parents are muggles, he wouldn't know a muggle." Ron scoffed.

"My mother is Amethyst Holloway." Hermione said looking at Ron with anger in her eyes, "I believe I told Harry that the other day."

"You did tell me that." He confirmed.

"Am I the last to know everything!" Ron shouted. "Wait Amethyst Holloway, she was real close with Harry's mum and dad. I remember dad telling me about her a few years back." He said looking at Hermione. "She's also the reason Voldemort hates Muggleborns."

"How can one person make someone hate so many people?"

"I don't know, why does Malfoy hate us so much? Oh what did you find out?" Ron asked after a few minuets.

"He doesn't hate us, He just… Doesn't like that Harry wouldn't be friends with him." Hermione said unconsciously as she sat down, she hadn't meant to say that, he had told her that in confidence. "Shit!" She cursed under her breath. "You didn't hear that."

"How would you know that?" Both boys asked.

"It's a guess, you shouldn't listen to what I say. Any ways you have bigger things to worry about."

"Miss Granger, Mr. Weasley, Professor McGonagall needs to see you in her office." The Librarian told them, it was perfect timing.

"Can you call me by my mothers maiden name, Holloway." Hermione asked when the woman finished. "Okay, we will head that way." Hermione said getting up.

" Of course, Miss Holloway, You look just like your mother dear, though there are other familiar features that I cant place, probably your fathers." The woman said smiling.

"I'm surprised I never realized it sooner, I always just assumed she was my aunt." Hermione said. "Its just so weird being called Miss Granger, since that's not my , though that would be weird as well. I don't even know who he is, she wont tell me."

"I am sure she will eventually." Madam Pince said before finally walking away.

"Come on Ron lets go." Hermione said picking up her bag and walking away.

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"It will be like being asleep." Professor McGonagall said. "And once you have resurfaced you will go back to normal. You are the only person of value to Mr. Krum."

"Fine, I will do it." She said in defeat.

"Good, Miss Holloway you and Mr. Weasley need to go to the hospital wing, Madam Pomfry will give you the underwater sleeping potion, you will be unconscious from the time you are given the potion until the time you resurface." McGonagall explained. Hermione had told the professor of her name preference already as well.

"Okay we will head there now. Thank you Professor McGonagall." Hermione got up and walked from the room a little quickly.

"You are aware that the Hospital is this way." Ron said as Hermione walked in the opposite direction.

"Yes Ron I am aware of that thank you." She said as she rolled her eyes. She didn't stop she just kept walking. Ron ran after her.

"Well were are you going then?"

"It is none of your bloody business. It's mine, no if you don't mind I have business to attend to." She snapped as she walked.

"I'll go with you, help you even." He said persistently.

"YOU CANT HELP ME! That would be weird Ronald!" She shouted at him. All she had wanted to do was kiss her boyfriend before being practically petrified again.

"Why cant I?" He demand.

"Ronald you don't want to help, trust me." She said to him and she pushed the door open and he tried to follow but he was repelled and fell to the ground. It had been a girls bathroom, one that was actually used. All of the girls bathrooms that were in use repelled wizards but allowed witches. It had been a policy ever since Errick Long, James Barron and Henry Stevens had been sneaking into them.

Hermione went over to a couch, she had no clue as to why there was a couch, and sat down on it. She pulled her Journal put of it.

Mi: I love you Drake.

D: I love you to Mione. More than air, more than gravity, hell even more than my family.

Mi: Haha Drake, nice to know. I was going to come see you but Ron decided to follow me. I hate that I have been included into tomorrows task. I don't want to be in it.

D: What! Hermia you could get hurt, or even die! Please don't.

Mi: McGonagall assures us we will be fine, that we cant get hurt. I will be fine Drake, I promise. I love you and I will see you tomorrow.

D: Well okay, I love you to, remember I hate the idea and you better keep your promise, if you don't I get to tell everyone about us.

Mi: Deal. I have to go, I will see you then.

Hermione got up and secured her books into her bag and place a charm on it and the bracelet that was secured around her wrist. She didn't want to lose that bracelet, she loved it way to much. Well not as much as she loved the person who gave it to her.

She walked to the door and wrenched it open to see a red faced Ron and she just stalked past him.

"Well you could of told me you had to go to the loo, I would have left you alone." Ron said turning even more red.

"I didn't, but seeing as I couldn't go see him in person I had to settle talking to him through book means." She said coldly.

"Talk to who?" He was outraged.

"Ron I don't have to explain anything to you." She snapped. " You have given me by no means even a minuet of peace since we left. I just wanted to talk to my friend, let him in on what's happening, because honestly it concerns him!"

"IT DOES NOT!" He trailed off as Hermione silenced him with a spell.

"There that is a lot better Ron. Its actually quiet now."

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Hermione felt the potion take effect, and it wasn't pleasant. She had the all to familiar feeling that she was dieing, it was the exact sensation she had experienced two years prior when she had seen the basilisk. She expected she would never wake up.

She felt herself moving and she soon felt her self being immersed in water, she knew that the potion would allow her to breathe under water, but she still feared that she would drown. Her lungs filled with water the soon disappeared. It was going to be a long night.

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Draco waited down stairs for Hermione but she never came. He wanted to wish her luck, he had no clue how she fit into the task but knew that this couldn't be good. He watched as Harry came down alone, looking like a lost puppy who couldn't find its way home.

"Oi! Potter." Draco said as he walked over to Harry who looked confused.

"What do you want Malfoy?" He sneered. Draco just ignored it.

"You haven't seen 'Holloway' have you." He was trying to hide the apprehension in his voice but failed miserably. "I need to find her, its important."

"Why do you need to find her?" He asked as Draco shifted nervously.

"Forget it, I'll just go find her myself." He said tuning around.

"Malfoy." Draco spun around again.

"I don't know why you want to know, but I cant help you. I don't know where she or Ron are. They went to see McGonagall last night but never came back." He said looking at the ground.

"Oh, well okay." He said "Thanks anyways Harry." Harry looked up clearly startled. "If I find Hermione I will hell her to find you." Malfoy continued, shocking the boy even more.

Draco turned on his heel and walked away leaving a confused, and shocked Harry behind him. Harry had a strange feeling that something wasn't right, that maybe Hermione and Malfoy got along and that maybe just maybe they were friends.

Ten minuets later.

Draco sat in the stands as he was silently having a panic attack, He hadn't been able to find her, what if she was hurt. He watched as Harry jumped into the water and sank like a rock. He waited in pure agony for an hour and watched as Cedric and Cho surfaced.

Shock hit him as he realized he hadn't seen Cho go under, she had already been there.

Next he watched as Viktor Krum rose to the surface with Hermione in his arms. Relief flooded through his body as their eyes met and she smiled at him. He felt like jumping with joy but then again his girlfriend was in Viktor's arms, and at the same time as that relief jealousy flooded through him, he wished that he could be the one holding her.

His bag suddenly vibrated and he pulled the book out.

Mi: I love you Drake, its done, I no longer am a participant.

D: I bet your having loads of fun down there with Krum.

Mi: Oh my god! Drake how could you ever think that I… I love you Drake not him, I kissed you not Viktor. I love you! You and I will never love anyone else, I would never hurt you!

D: I know that Mione, but seeing you in his arms, that's what hurt me. That's why I feel torn apart right now.

Mi: He's no competition, you are a billion times better looking than him, and you actually talk to me, you love me and you make me feel like the most beautiful pureblood and I'm not a pure blood or a princess, I am a half blood.

D: Your blood status means nothing to me. I loved you before I found out your parents were magical.

Mi: That's why you are so wonderful, Viktor doesn't care about my personality, he's tried to touch my ass five times now! I'm about to slap him.

D: I'll kill him. No one touches my girlfriend and lives to tell the tale.

Mi: I have to go, I love you so much Draco.

D: I love you to.

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Harry, Ron and Hermione all walked back up to the castle sopping wet. The two boys chatted away as Hermione walked across the grounds in what could be considered a love drunk haze. She was a love sick crack head minus the crack.

"Hermione!" Harry shouted pulling her out of her haze.

"What?" She said calmly.

"Are you okay? You seem to be a bit out of it…" He stopped as Ron snatched Hermione's arm form her.

"What in the name of Tom Riddle are you doing!" She shrieked trying to pull her arm out of his grip. Then she realized what he was looking at.

"WHY THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU WEARING SLYTHERIN COLORS!" He shouted.

"Ronald, it's a bracelet. I got it from a friend on my eighth birthday." She said turning it o that he could see the tiny writing on the clasp. Happy 8th b-day H, Sept. 18, from D. was what it said. And then she stomped away.

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"How does she know that!" Hermione said loudly in the great hall a week later at breakfast.

" 'ow does oh no hot?" Ron asked with his mouth full.

"What?" She asked "Please don't speak with your mouth full."

He swallowed, "How does who know what?" He asked again, this time making sense.

"That's better." She said "How does Rita know that Viktor asked me to visit over the summer, And I did not use a love potion!" She shouted glaring at Pansy. "I told him I couldn't." She said under her breath.

"Rita Skeeter is a lunatic." Ron simply said.

"You can say that again Hermione said looking at her food.

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"Harry this task will be difficult, worse than the others." Hermione told Harry as they sat with Ginny in the library.

"I know." He sighed as he let his head fall and hit the table. "Hermione can I ask you a question?" He said with out raising his head from the table.

"Since when have you had to ask, Harry?" She asked in return.

"Is there something going on between you and Malfoy?" Hermione looked at Ginny in horror. Ginny started laughing and Hermione followed suit as Harry looked up.

"Harry, If there was I wouldn't tell you." She said simply.

"I'm one of your best friends." He looked hurt.

"Not that I wouldn't want to tell you, but would you be able to keep something like that from Ron, he's your best mate." She said.

"I guess I can understand that." Harry said before getting up to walk down to the site of the last task, Hermione and Ginny followed a few minuets later.

"Ginny, I should have told him." Hermione said as they walked down the corridor.

"No, Hermione you did the right thing. In time you can tell him, but not now. He has a lot on his plate."

"I guess your right." She said. "Are we the last two in this place?" she asked when she realized they hadn't passed a single person.

"Maybe, I don't know…" Then they heard foot steps and a blond person walked around the corner.

"Hi Drake." Hermione said smiling at him. "Shouldn't you be with the other Slytherins at the maze rooting for Cedric?" She asked as he walked up to her.

"Yeah I should, But I wanted to see how you were doing. I know how much you worry about him." he said before kissing her.

They heard Ginny clear her throat and they jumped apart and Hermione blushed. "I'm sorry Gin." She said turning even more red.

"Hey don't be sorry Hermione, He's your, 'secret boyfriend.' the girl whispered and they all laughed.

"Ginny, I do believe you hair is a lighter color than it was at the beginning of this year." Draco said looking at the girl.

"Does it? My mum said the same thing over Christmas and then started crying uncontrollably. It was rather weird." Ginny said.

"It's just not as red. It used to look like Ron's and it was so obvious that the two of you were related but now the two of you look completely different." Hermione said.

"We really should get down to the Quidditch pitch, they should be going into the maze soon, we don't want to be late." Ginny said changing the subject.

"Ginny do you still 'like' Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, I do, no matter how much I try not to." Ginny said sadly. "He wont ever like me, I'm not pretty enough, I'm no Cho." She said.

"Ginny," Draco said before Hermione could saw anything, "Next to Hermione you are the prettiest girl here. Potter has to be stupid if he doesn't like you. Give him time, if you date guys who aren't him, he will come around."

"That could be true but I'm no Cho." Ginny said.

"Cho isn't that pretty." Draco said "She's just a bitch in disguise, her disguise being makeup." He said gaining the laughs of both girls.

"That's not very nice Draco." Hermione said.

"Now who on earth told you I was nice?" He asked.

"No one. We just know you to well." Hermione said kissing him lightly on the lips. "We have to go now, we don't want any suspicion now do we?" She asked and the she spotted it. It was small but she spotted it.

She pulled out her wand as she walked towards a beetle that was on the side of the Gryffindor hour glass. "Well, well, well what do we have here." She said holding up her wand as she looked at it with an evil grin on her face. She cast a spell that revealed all secrets of an object and the two people behind her gasped at what they saw.

In gold letters floating above their heads said: Rita Skeeter, Reporter for the Daily Prophet and Witch Weekly. Age forty nine. Unregistered Animagus.

"Accio jar." Hermione said summoning a large jar. "I think I just might keep you." Hermione said to the bug. "Until I know you wont tell anyone about what you just saw." magically sealed the jar.

"Oh my god she saw us kiss." Draco realized suddenly.

"Yes she did, but she isn't going to tell anyone. We know her secret, she could go to Azkaban." Hermione said handing Draco the Jar. " Can you hold on to this?"

"Sure, I will just go put this in my room." He said and he turned around and headed for the dungeons as the girls left the castle.

"He really likes you Hermione." Ginny said as they made it to their seats.

"He loves me." Hermione whispered. "He told me he loves me." She said smiling.

"Oh god Hermione don't turn into a lovesick crack head on us!" Ginny said dramatically.

"Sorry but I already have." Hermione joked as they watched Harry and Cedric enter the maze.

"What do we do now?" Ginny asked.

"We wait." Hermione told her.

An hour and a half later.

Everyone sat in silence as they awaited the results. No one knew what had happened by far except that Fleur had been the first one out, attacked by cursed vines. Viktor came next, he had clearly been cursed. It was a big let down for some. All anyone knew now, was that Harry and Cedric were the two finalists.

They suddenly heard the pop and everyone burst into cheers at the sight of someone holding the cup, but Hermione and Ginny both screamed. They saw it, what no one else seemed to see. They saw two bodies, one alive the other dead. People began to stop cheering as they realized something had gone horribly wrong.

"MY SON!" Amos Diggory's voice could be heard. Hermione clapped her hand over her mouth to keep from screaming as tears filled her eyes and she heard Ginny crying from beside her. He was a friend, not a best friend but a good friend, and it cold have just as easily been Harry.

Hermione and Ginny both left their seats and ran down to where Harry was nailing over Cedric.

"Harry, you need to go inside." Hermione said hugging her friend.

"Voldemort. he's back Hermione, He's back." Harry sobbed as they carried Cedric's body away. Hermione knew the truth of his words. She could feel it, pure evil was back. She watched in shock as Harry walked away with Moody.

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Hermione sat with all of the other students in the great hall. They were all there for a common cause, Cedric. He was laying in a casket at the front of the hall with flowers all around his casket.

"This, unlike others, has been a interesting year." Dumbledore began his speech.

"We played host to a tournament and invited other schools, an uncommitted name was selected from the cup, tricks were played, The Barty Crouch was murdered, Cedric was murdered, Voldemort reborn and there was even a death eater impersonating a teacher."

Everyone listened.

"Cedric Diggory was a fine young man, he had friends, family and acquaintances that all loved him. He was powerful and influential and he stood in the way of someone that he stood no chance against." Dumbledore's voice echoed across the room. "He will not soon be forgotten, and he will always hold a place in all of our hearts and when we remember him our memories will be of Bravery and kindness." Dumbledore finished.

All exams had been canceled in honor of Cedric. No one had felt well since he had died, especially Harry who had camped out in his room for the past two days.

"Hermione?" Draco's voice said from behind her as she had just left the great hall.

"What?" She asked quietly.

"Are you okay?" He asked hugging her once the were out of view.

"I'm fine, It's just horrible that he had to die, he's the first of the many, I just wonder who is next?" She said crying into him.

"Everything will be okay Mione. In the end it has to be." He told her and then another not normal year ended.

A/N: This chapter took longer to write then planned. I had a lot done and then I forgot to save it and had to redo it. Again I didn't have much time to update so please excuse errors. Review please. I have some ideas for future chapters and who i want Hermione's Dad and sister to be, but i dont know how people will react. I mean they arent horrible or any thing i just dont know... I guess it's just one of those things where you worry that with a little change, people will stop reading lol, I worry a lot :P .Does any one have any ideas as to who her sister is? I want to know what yall think...