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Speaking in Riddles

Chapter One:

Hermione

Albus Dumbledore met Tom Riddle when he was nearly eleven years old. He had heard many stories from the women and children at the orphanage and how he could "speak" to the snakes and move things with his mind and could cause pain another person or creature. The transfiguration professor knew he had to keep an eye on the young man once in entered Hogwarts. Tom Riddle had already had dark tendences. He had a gray aurora around him.

Then as the time passed and Tom had been sorted into Slytherin. He had done some research and found out that he was the last living decent of Salazar Slytherin. Dumbledore knew he had to keep an even closer eye on the young wizard. Tom was extremely talented in potions, defense against the dark arts and the dark arts classes. It had Albus Dumbledore worried even more. He would turn dark the more he studied dark arts and defense against the dark arts.

Albus became really concerned when Tom had be-friended Minerva McGonagall, a brilliant Gryffindor. He watched the couple grow closer as they were teamed together for potions and began to study together in library at all times. He called Minerva into his office one after noon offered apprenticeship with him to get her masters in transfiguration. She was so excited and couldn't wait to tell Tom the great news.

Tom was weary of Albus Dumbledore to begin with when he first met the wizard. After he had entered Hogwarts, he did some research on the man and found out the he defeated Grindwald. He had done even more research and found out that they had been lovers for years and it was the death of Dumbledore's sister when he changed his way for thinking and broke things off with his lover. Tom couldn't shake the feeling that Dumbledore was up something big. That would affect his life as he knew it.

When Tom and Minerva or Minnie as he liked to call her started dating in their fifth year. He couldn't care less if she was in Gryffindor. She was brilliant and funny and loved her dearly, but was concerned about his Minnie spending so much time with Dumbledore. He wrote down all his suspensions in a diary. He told Minnie not to trust him.

Over the Christmas break Tom asked Minnie to marry him. She quickly said yes. The ring wasn't big nor was it a real diamond. Tom had made it out of glass. The stone was square with snake and lion carved into stone and it rested on gold band. It was lovely piece of artwork and Minnie treasured it.

But Minnie began to spend more time with Dumbledore due to her trying to finish up the year and began her three years of studying under the transfiguration master. She noticed how Tom was slowly retreating into his dark arts studies. She brushed it off as stress. She continued to work hard and Dumbledore grew closer to the witch.

By the time graduation rolled around Tom had broken off his engagement with Minnie. If he wanted to follow in Slytherin's footsteps they couldn't be together. She was heartbroken but kept the ring as a loving memory. She couldn't understand what could make the man she loved turn so cold towards her and others. They had been friends for six years and lovers for two. She retreated to Albus as an outlet and threw herself into her studies and earned her transfiguration masters.

When Albus Dumbledore was named Headmaster of Hogwarts he named Minerva McGonagall as the deputy headmistress and transfiguration professor. While Tom Riddle morphed into the Dark Lord Voldemort.

It had been years since Minnie had seen Tom, but she had been captured by her one-time love. She couldn't believe what he had turned into. An unloving soul. Minerva was hanging on the wall by a couple of chains, her robes ripped and her face bruised and battered. She narrowed her eyes when Tom entered the darken cell. He shut the door behind him and walked over to his one-time love. He ran his finger down her jaw line. He ripped opened her torn robes revealing her bruised body.

"Why are you doing this Tom?" asked Minerva. "Just let me go."

"And let you report back to Dumbledore. I think not. I'm going to keep you here. Do you remember when you use to scream my name out is pleasure?" asked Voldemort. "You're going to be mine." He removed the chains and took away from the cell. Only to find herself chained to the bed of Voldemort's private chambers.

Minerva had been captured for nearly six months and three of those months Voldemort's personal whore. He had fun breaking the witch and watched her over the months and watched her carefully. He noticed over time that she would make trips to the loo to throw up everything that she had eaten. he threatened to kill her if she didn't become well. He couldn't find it himself to kill because he still loved her so he let her go and returned her Dumbledore and his Order of Do Gooders.

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Minerva sat on the floor in front of the toilet and threw up everything she had eaten that morning. She buried her face into hands and cried. She had run the test that morning to conform her fears. She was pregnant with Tom Riddle's child. She was pregnant with Lord Voldemort's baby. She knew that he didn't need to find out about the baby. No one needed to know about the baby.

She went to Albus and explained that she couldn't work at the moment. She needed some time to self to recover from what Voldemort had done to her, and that she would return when she was ready. Albus had agreed to the terms and watched her leave the school grounds not knowing about the secret she carried.

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Minerva sat in the waiting room at the OBGYN office. She looked down and rubbed her large eight-month belly. She had already picked out the family that would take Hermione Jean as she soon a she was born. She gasped when she felt the pressure in her lower stomach. She got up and she noticed that her water broke. She walked up to the desk.

"Excuse me." Minerva said cradling her stomach. "My water just broke."

The girl that sat behind the desk looked up and nodded her head. "I'll tell Doctor Granger, try and relax. We'll get you to the hospital. It's good thing you went into labor here and that you're the last mom to be to be seen today."

Minerva leaned forward and groaned out of the pain and made her way to the closest chair. She breathed in and out. She bit her lower lip in hope to stop the scream from coming from her throat.

Jean Granger entered the waiting room. She knelt down in front of the young mother. She rested her hand on Minerva's swollen belly. "Don't worry Minnie everything is going to be ok."

"You'll have your daughter soon than expected. I'm sorry Jean. I didn't give you enough time to get her nursery ready."

Jean helped Minerva to the wheelchair and placed the feet flaps down. She got behind the wheelchair and pushed her out of the office. Jean and John were unable to have children due to her endometriosis and had to have a full hysterectomy at the age of twenty-three. Then Minerva showed up at her office knowing that she couldn't care for her baby. So, John and Jean jumped at the chance of adopting her.

"Hi, John meet us at the hospital. We're about to become parents." said Jean talking to John on the phone as they entered the elevator.

"All right dear. I'll be there in 30 minutes. I'm across town. I love you." John said and hung up his phone.

Minerva squeezed her eyes shut and breathed in and out through the contraction. She gripped the handles of the wheelchair trying not to scream out in pain. The tears rolled down her cheeks as they entered the maturity ward.

Jean helped Minerva into a gown and helped her into the bed. She washed her hands and checked on Minerva dilation. Jean looked over at the woman and smiled.

"Get ready to push Minnie. On the next contraction I want you to hold you breathe and push hard." Doctor Granger.

Minerva nodded her head and leaned forward and pushed hard screaming out in pain. She laid back and rested and she pushed again. Jean instructed her with each push. She told her that Hermione's head was out. Minerva pushed again hard a couple of more times and she heard the cries of the baby around the room.

Jean wrapped Hermione gently as she was cleaning off the baby. "Minerva meet Hermione Jean. I know you want us to have her and adopt her. I understand that. Do you want to hold her?"

Minerva shifted on the bed and gently took Hermione from Doctor Granger. "Jean the only thing I asked is love her for all that she is. She is a very special girl. And within time you know how special she is. Love her as if she was your own."

Hermione had curly brown hair, chocolate eyes, thin tiny mouth, a chubby body. She wrapped her tiny figure around Minerva's finger.

"We promise to love her and care for her as she was and is our daughter." Jean said as John walked into the room. She turned "John we have a daughter. Born on September 29, 1979 at 5:09 pm. Thank you Minnie for everything." She said looking at the baby in her arms.

Minerva handed Hermione over Jean and John. She smiled knowing that she did the right thing. She knew that they would love and care for the infant that was asleep in the muggle's arms. Tom Riddle would never find her.

"Minnie, we will never be able to thank you enough. You have made us parents, you made us family thank you." John said with tears in his eyes. "My beautiful baby girl."

The nurse rolled in with a bed. It was time for Hermione shots and bath. Jean smiled and laid the infant down in the bed. She left the room with the nurse. John kissed Minerva on the forehead and walked out of the bedroom.

Minerva eased herself out of the bed. She magically healed herself. She waved her wand and transfigured her gown into her normal green robes and looked at the door. She knew that Hermione would have a loving family, and she was gone with a pop leaving Hermione Jean Granger in the hands of her loving parents.

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Hermione Granger knew that she was different from the rest of her family, and got her wondering if she was adopted. She snuck into her father's office and began to dig through the paperwork. She found her adoption papers. She found out that she was adopted on the day she was born. She looked for the mother's name on the closed adoption and her eyes widen.

Minerva Athena McGonagall

Hermione couldn't believe it. Her mentor was her biological mother. She walked over to the printer and made a quick copy of the paperwork. She put the adoption paperwork back in the safe. She wasn't mad her parents at all. She was happy and loved. They accepted her magic and all the strange things that came with having a magical daughter. She knew something was missing. She wanted that connection with Minerva McGonagall. She wondered why McGonagall never told her the truth about being her mother. But now Hermione was seventeen and could seek her out without anything going wrong. She prayed that Minerva wanted a mother/ daughter relationship with Hermione Granger.

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