Chapter 04-Mother's Secret

She felt like her life had done a 360 in the last hours. Her life has changed forever. Everything will be quite different now. Her appearance change was striking. Her mother's letter has explained everything. What did shock her was that her growth was powerful enough to counter act her mother's powerful glamour. The glamour was what troubled Hermione. Her mother must have been in a lot of fear to place it on her at such a young age and to place one so powerful that it would last indefinitely. She feared what this will bring for her.

She decided to continue checking out the trunk. She puller out the diary and flipped through it. She was surprised it did not seem like such a large book, but the first page was from a week before her mother started Hogwarts and lasted till the day she died. She pulled out the jewelry box and studied the wooded craftsmanship. It was beautiful a silver rose surrounded by a garden and snakes. Truly show of her mothers' fondness for her house. Then she pulled out the photo album. One of the pages was marked with her mother's wand.

Next, she pulled up the top shelf and noticed a latch. Hermione touched the latch and opened the bottom compartment but what meet her was amazing. It was a study a room in a trunk. Hermione closed the latch from surprise at seeing the room. She touched it again and reopened the latch and noticed the room had changed it was now a closet of sorts more like a dressing room full of garments. Her mum was nosy and looked over her shoulder. "Oh my, that is amazing," Jane Granger exclaimed "Is that a room."

Hermione chuckled. "Looks like the trunk is extremely useful. My mother said it would be what I needed when I needed it. I think it works like a room of requirements, but it had some already set up rooms. Mum well have to check out that wardrobe."

Jane Granger had an arrange of emotions play on her face. First with Hermione calling Diana mother and then still calling her Mum. She realized things were changing in Hermione and she needed to support her but also make sure she is the person we raised.

After playing with the trunk some more Hermione noticed a Potion Lab appear, and a bedroom. Hermione would have to see later if the rooms were from her mother or the trunk gave her some rooms of her own. Hermione reached for the photo album it was leather bound and held lots of photos. A little blonde girl playing tea with an older blonde boy who looked like Draco. The photos were plentiful from little baby pictures of her mother to Hogwarts pictures. It was the last few pictures that interested Hermione so much. One was a family photo full of elegant blonds. Two tall statuesque men with long blonde hair and three beautiful blonde women all in glamourous dress robes. One of the men was obviously Lucius Malfoy and the women he was holding was Narcissa. That meant the other young blonde was Diana and the older couple was Hermione's grandparents. All in the wizard photo were talking together but the women were smiling beautifully, and the men stayed in stoic character. The last picture Hermione saw was her mother decked out in another dress robe in the arms of a tall, handsome brunette man. They were smiling, kissing and the women was holding out her hand showing off a beautiful ring.

"What a beautiful ring?" Jane gasped when Hermione showed her the photo album "And those men."

"Mum," Hermione laughed "That is Lucius Malfoy you've meet him before and the older couple I think is my grandparents."

"I knew I've seen him before but what stock you come from," Jane said admiring the two blonde men.

"Jane, I'm right here you know," George said.

"I know dear," Jane smiled "Diana said her brother was a looker, but she never described them as being Fabio's."

George just shook his head and Hermione looked at the picture wondering why did not Diana return to the Malfoys. Were they the reason she ran? She had never seen the man in the photo maybe they were hunted because of their want to be together. They looked so happy; Hermione wondered all these things as she started looking through the jewelry box. There was not a lot in the box, but it had one ring and one set of jewelry. The ring was the engagement ring her mother wore which was a cushion cut emerald haloed in diamonds set in goblin platinum. The matching set were also emeralds to match the ring, but they were a choker, tear drop earrings, and a tennis bracelet with every other stone being an emerald. There was also an envelope in the box.

In the envelope was a vault key, Diana's will, adoption papers, and a birth certificate.

Ministry of Magic Records of Birth

Congratulations on Your Child

Name: Hermione Jane Malfoy Riddle

Sex: Female Date: September 19, 1979 Blood Status: Pureblood

Mother: Diana Marie Malfoy

Father: Tom Marvolo Riddle

Record Keeper: Borus Crouche

Hermione was shell shocked. Her father was none other than Lord Voldemort her best friends' enemy. That means her father is also her enemy. She was also his enemy in fact he had a price on her head. Wow I am the Dark Lord's daughter, Hermione thought, how is this going to work.