A/N: You find out who her dad is in this one… Yay :P I know this chapter is short compared to the last one but o well. I think my home made prophecy sounds stupid… It was harder to write than it looks and I have spent weeks thinking about what to put… But then again I think I did pretty well… I changed a lot of stuff, hopefully you will like it…
Chapter twenty two: Daddy Dearest.
"Oh I hate Flying!" Hermione screamed as the thestral she and Harry were riding took off. She had hated flying since she was a little girl; flying had been the only class she had received a bad grade in.
"It will be over soon." Harry told her an hour into the ride when he saw the London lights. "I can see London!"
"Oh thank Merlin." she said opening her eyes for the first time since they had gotten onto the thestral. She was startled by how beautiful London was at night from the sky. There were thousands of twinkling lights and glistening buildings covering the landscape below like tin little stars that resided on the land.
"Wow!" She said in amazement. "I thought looking off of the Astronomy tower was wonderful."
"See why I love flying so much. It's like having wings and seeing things the way a bird would." He said smiling back at her as the thestral began to land in front of a telephone booth. They all hopped off of their thestrals and crammed into the tiny Telephone booth after making sure the thestrals wouldn't leave.
"Can whoever is closest to the receiver dial six two four four two?" Harry asked.
"Got it!" Luna said loudly just as a voice began to speak.
"Welcome to the Ministry Of Magic, Please state your name and business." The voice said cheerfully.
Harry did so quickly and the voice replied 'thank you' and let them into the ministry. They six teenagers didn't even bother grabbing their name tags but instead took off in the direction of the Department of Mysteries.
After getting off of the elevator they ran to the door, surprisingly with out any difficulty. There hadn't even been a security guard in the entire building, which was an ominous warning that they paid no attention to. Harry turned the handle of the large black door and pushed it open and they all stepped in.
The room in question was a large circular room that was made out of black stone; it had twelve doors, and torches lit with blue fire in between each door. Hermione stared at this room in awe.
"Wow, I never pictured it like this." Hermione said.
"Why would you even picture it at all?" Ron asked as Harry took a few steps forward trying to decide which door to go through.
"I want to be an Unspeakable Ron; it has been my dream for years. Ever since I was told about the Department of Mysteries. Surely I told you that." She said following Harry who had started walking towards the nearest door and opening it.
"This isn't the right room." Harry said looking at a strange tank full of something he couldn't quite make out.
"Dad said the Ministry was breeding Aquavirius maggots…" Luna said looking at the green water.
"No, Luna…" Hermione said "They are brains. We should get out of here." She said and they all did just that.
"I don't even want to know what they are doing with those brains." Neville said as they returned to the circular room and Hermione had marked the door.
"Some day, I will know…" She said knowingly.
Hermione marked the door so that the wouldn't waste their time on that door again. The room began to rotate, trying to fool them again and once it stopped they followed Harry to another door. The room they entered this time was bigger than the last, and made of stone. In the center of the room in a pit was a large stone arch that didn't seem to have a purpose, but it had to have one it wouldn't be there if it didn't. It was truly a Mystery
"I don't like this place, I hear voices…" Harry said quietly.
"I hear them too…" Luna said stepping forward a little and before they could say anything else they left totally freaked out, Hermione marked the door.
Harry reached another door and tried to open it but it wouldn't open. "It's locked," He said trying to magically open it, "Why won't it open?" He asked.
"Harry it's the Everlocked room." Hermione said, "It has been locked for hundreds of years and no one knows what even lies inside of it anymore, some say it's the ultimate weapon or that it is something that would create world peace." It was apparent that she had put thought into this.
Once the room stopped spinning he walked to another door and pushed it open, "This is it!" He said in excitement as everyone rushed forward to see what was in the room. The room was filled with beautiful, dancing, diamond- sparkling light. The room was full of clocks that filled every available space in this room.
Harry ran to the other side of the room and pushed open another door and excitement spread through him this was it. The room they entered was cold and had a high ceiling and was full of shelves that had dusty thousands of orbs filling them.
"Harry you said it was row ninety seven, right?" Ginny asked looking at a shelf.
"Yeah." He said "We need to go that way." He said turning to slowly walk down the row.
They went in different directions in groups of two, hoping to cover more ground and check for threats. Harry and Ron went straight, Neville and Luna went left and Ginny and Hermione went right.
As the two girls walked down the row they kept their wands out, and tended to look at the orbs. They saw names under each orb, Tabitha Anna Martian, Lorena Melissa Moore, Scorpiana Salara Smith, were some of the names they saw. The even saw a few familiar names such as Cedric Diggory. They thought that would be the only familiar one they saw but then Hermione froze when she saw one little orb.
"Ginny," She whispered in terror, "Look at this." Ginny walked over to where Hermione stood and also froze.
It said:
Melissa S. James to Unknown
(?) Hermia Lily Riddle, (?)Ginny Alice Riddle
July 6, 1900
"Oh god." Ginny finally had the air to say. "Hermione, what does this mean?" Ginny said panicking.
"There is only one way to find out." Hermione said as she grabbed Ginny's hand and picked up the orb.
Born under the full moon, four riddles two beliefs,
One of evil one of kindness, two sisters raised as another,
Unaware and victorious, one mother who only cared,
One father evil and cruel, Betrayal of trust once held sacred,
Defeat will come with the help of two riddles, five soles combined
With love, happiness and trust left pure
Will defeat all evil.
The moment the words were being said, Hermione knew. She knew that Ginny's Dream had been real, that what the painting had said had been true and why they knew he was back. She knew that she was Ginny's older sister and that Lord Voldemort was their father.
Hermione fell to the ground in terror, her mother had loved that evil man, she was related to the man that she sought to defeat, the man who had killed her best friend's parents as well as many other people.
Ginny just stood there grasping the orb in her hands not knowing what to think, except that she would have to help Harry defeat her own father.
"Hermione? Ginny?" Harry's voice said from beside them when he met up with them. "What are you doing?" He said looking at the orb and the two girls tortured expressions.
"Harry, you don't want to know." Hermione said as a single tear rolled down her cheek. "I know who my father is, I know why my mother wouldn't tell me and I know what that painting meant when it told Ginny and I that we look like our father."
"What? Who is it?" He asked curiously as he helped Hermione up off of the ground.
"He's only a person, He means nothing to us." Both girls said, "Titles mean nothing in this world, we won't ever be like him." They said and turned to go find the others and soon Harry followed in confusion.
"He was supposed to be here." Harry said when he finally reached row ninety seven.
"Harry this has your name on it?" Neville said as he examined an orb, and sure enough it said.
S.P.T. To A.P.W.B.D
Dark Lord
And (?) Harry Potter
"Harry don't touch it." Hermione said from experience. "Only you can touch it at this point, it becomes vulnerable the moment it leaves your hand." she continued as she felt hers and Ginny's orb weighing down her bag.
"Yeah Harry this is a trap. It has trap written all over it." Ginny said moments later but Harry didn't listen but instead he picked it up and then from behind them someone said.
"Very good, Potter. Now turn around nice and slow, and give it to me." They all froze and spun around.
They drew their wands quickly and faced the figures that had begun emerging from the shadows, blocking their escape.
"To me Potter." Lucius Malfoy said smirking.
"You know you want to. Hey and we might even throw in a cookie." Some idiot said from behind Lucius.
"Holly! What was the point of that?" Someone scolded.
"It was funny." The girl said.
"Give it to me boy!" Lucius said fiercely.
"Where is Sirius?" Harry demanded.
"Awwww the little baby thought what he dreamed was true…" A woman with messy Black hair, that could only be Bellatrix Lestrange, said from beside him.
"You have fallen into our trap Potter; now don't make me tell you again to give me that prophecy. If you refuse we kill the mudblood." The man said.
"What mudblood." Hermione asked and everyone stared at her as she used her new knowledge.
"You!" The Bellatrix said in a confused angry tone.
Hermione laughed at the comment. "That's funny, I actually believed that you thought I was a mudblood." it was a really good distraction cause she saw Luna, Ron, Neville, Harry and Ginny slip out of view.
"Um, has the cheese slid off of her cracker?" The girl named Holly asked.
"Oh my god! You think I'm a mudblood!" She laughed even harder as she took a step towards the opening.
"Daddy would kill you if he heard about that, calling his precious daughter a mudblood." The Riddle side of her was breaking through this would be fun. "Daddy would kill every single one of you if you harmed a single hair on my head." She said smirking and suddenly a shelf fell in the distance and every single death eater turned their attention to the crash and Hermione ran from the circle as fast as she could without making any sound and found the others. She was glad she had the Riddle charm.
"I can see it now, you have his evil intelligence, but you so just used it in a positive way unlike him." Ginny said quietly and the others looked confused.
"HEY WHERE DID THEY GO?" Bellatrix yelled "THAT STUPID MUDBLOOD!"
Hermione held up her wand and whispered into it 'I'm not a mudblood' and made the sound come from the opposite side of the room, but only louder.
"We will explain later, but now we have to go." Hermione said running in the other direction as she searched for an exit. They finally found one a few minuets later and it went back into the room with the clocks. They quickly left that room as a Death Eater saw them and called out for the others. The made their way into the room with the Brains and a few Death Eaters were already there.
Somewhere in all of the chaos Ron had decided to summon a brain thinking it would help them, or that it was only just a brain. He was wrong. The brain grew tentacles that started to wrap themselves around Ron and they all frantically began trying to free Ron, and after awhile they were successful.
They turned around quickly and made their way into the room with the arch in it, with Ron in tow. It was really too late for them to make any more false moves, the Death Eaters were upon them and had them surrounded once more. They were beginning to lose hope just a Bellatrix began to torture Neville and no one could do any thing about it.
"I will give it to you, just let us go." Harry said as five figures began flying through a door. All of the teenagers were glad to see that Tonks, Lupin, moody, Sirius and Kingsley had come to the rescue, especially Sirius. Harry decided to drop the prophecy. They all watched it shatter into a million little pieces and smoke rise up, the thing within it spoke and disappeared; Its words unheard.
"You kids need to get out of here." Sirius told them as he threw curses at Death Eaters.
"No, not with out you." Harry said grabbing his wand off the ground next to Neville, who was trying to get up.
Hermione was dueling Draco's father when it happened, she heard Sirius say "That's my James.' and then he was pushed though the vale by Bellatrix.
"No!" Harry yelled as Lupin tried to restrain him but he broke lose and chased after Bellatrix.
"HARRY NO!" Ginny and Hermione yelled abandoning their fights to chase after him.
"I KILLED SIRIUS BLACK!" She chanted, but had she really; he had only gone through a vale he hadn't been hit by the killing curse. They had seen two death eaters die, but none of their own really had.
"Hermione, Ginny, Don't!" Someone yelled from behind them but they didn't listen. They just ran as fast as their legs would carry them they were determined to stop Harry.
"Master, I am sorry." They heard Bellatrix saying to someone, both girls exchanged knowing looks, it was Voldemort."
"Bella, I am not angry at you, you are my most loyal servant." He said his voice so calm and collected. They saw the womans expression fill with pride and acceptance. "You are like the daughter I never had." He said and the woman's face fell slightly.
"Oh that's a load of bull." Ginny whispered they saw Dumbledore step into the atrium.
They watched in horror as Harry became subject to their fathers torture, again, he was invading Harry's mind telling him things as he battled with Dumbledore, and soon he was gone from sight, everyone in the atrium had seen him and The minister was saying : "He's back!" and Hermione, Ginny, Harry and the other three who were being brought into the room on stretchers all wanted to shout one word "DUH!"
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Harry felt pain that no one else could as Voldemort looked into his mind making him feel hopeless. Just as he felt he was going to die he began projecting every happy thought he could at Voldemort. Soon he felt Voldemort scream and he had his mind back again.
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Hermione stepped out of the fireplace of the Hogs Head soon followed by Harry and Ginny. It had been a long night and they couldn't wait to get back to the castle and sleep. They would be able to sleep peacefully for once, every one knew the truth.
"I still can't believe you two are sisters." Harry said looking at the two girls.
"We can." they said, "Our father is more of the shocker." they said.
"I guess your right. I wouldn't have guessed it in a million years." Harry said shaking his head. He had taken all of the news well, better than the girls had even, and he was one of the four people besides themselves that knew, and they wanted to keep it that way.
"You know you can't tell anyone right?" Ginny asked as they stepped outside into the warm air.
"Wouldn't dream of telling." He said smiling at his secret girlfriend as he squeezed her hand.
"I'm kind of glad it's not a Hogsmede day, it would be horrible to have people swamping us. I kind of wish the others were with us, but I guess their parents wanted to see them." Harry said as they walked down the little street. Hermione had stopped as was looking at the front of Honeydukes Sweets shop.
"Mi, what are you..?" Ginny started to ask but then she saw what her sister was looking at, Draco who was accompanied by Blaise.
Hermione and Draco ran towards each other, not caring who was watching and hugged each other tightly and then Draco kissed her. Luckily it was only Harry, Ginny and Blaise that were around.
"Do you know how worried I was about you?" He asked kissing her again.
"I can immagine." She said resting her head on his shoulder.
"You can't do that to me again." He told him with a smirk on his face. "I forbid it."
"Oh, you forbid it do you?" She teased "Then I guess it's a law."
"You bet." He said smiling cat her.
"I'm sorry about your dad." She said laughing, "I'm the one who broke got rid of all of the bones in his leg."
"Oh, really? I'm not mad, I laughed at the fact that he got his leg messed up.. I hate that man." He said hugging her again. Then he looked up to see Harry, Ginny and Blaise all smiling. "Harry doesn't seem very surprised."
"Neither does Blaise." She said to him with a smirk on her face.
"I told you he figured it out, so that doesn't count." He said to her and walked then over to them. "Why don't you look surprised Potter?"
"Because I'm not, I have known since the beginning of this year." He said smiling.
"AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME YOU KNEW!" Hermione yelled at him, she was slightly angry.
"It wasn't any of my business, plus I thought it would be better for you to tell me, instead of me telling you 'oh hi Hermione I know about you and Malfoy because I saw you two snogging on the staircase that first night back.'" He said.
"Well I guess that makes sense." She said and then they all began walking to the castle laughing and joking about how things couldn't be worse than the night before. Oh and how they were wrong, the madness was only beginning.
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A/N: What do you think? Is it any good? Please Review what do you think of them being sisters and Voldy being their dad , he doesn't know its them yet : )… I promise they don't turn evil… Lol now Please Review : ) I like some of your guesses… they are getting creative… More guesses please as to Mira~Bella is … Now you can review.