Chapter 05-Save the Parents
"I think I will be going to be now mum, dad?" Hermione said looking at everything and realizing she needed some time away from everyone.
"Of course, dear," Jane said, "Will you want dinner when I'm done fixing everything?"
"I don't know mum. I just want to go to my room and think," Hermione said "Just call when its ready. If I feel like it, I will come down."
Hermione did not want for her parents to responded just left with the trunk following her to her room. Hermione sat on her bed and pulled everything out again. This time though she focused on her mother's diary. Hermione went to the very last few page reading for understanding on what happened. The last entry was as followed:
September 15, 1979
These past few months have been such a joy. Most wizarding families see how useful muggles are, they just fear being exploited. Tom is right we need more education on each other. Let muggleborns' learn our traditions and history. While we wizards and witches need to learn a little about them. Let us start educating our young earlier. He is brilliant and I wish things could have been different, but I know they cannot.
Jane and George are such great honorable people that mean me no harm. They want what is best for me and my baby. They keep hoping that my improved condition means I will survive this to raise my precious child, but I fear they hope is in vain. It has been a blessing to make it this long. The curse Dumbledore hit me with is still in effect just working slowly. I think it is the babies magic helping fend it off.
I am saying it again like I have for month, I hate Dumbledore. We need to change our ways and not stay the same as years before. He calls himself a light wizard, but I think he is really a dark one hiding behind his hero status from Grindelwald. He is no better than Slughorn just not as noticeable.
I have dreams of my child. I dream it is a girl. A real beauty that will do great things in her life. That is my clinging hope that the girl I have been dreaming of comes into fruition. Her life has great potential and my dream is for to live life to its fullest.
I miss everyone. Lucius and Severus are my greatest regret. I hate that Bellatrix consorted with Dumbledore to get me away from everyone and make it were I could not return to my family in fear of getting them killed. I know my time is nearing and someday my child will read these words. I just hope that everything I have left for him or her will be enough to guide them through life in the wizarding world.
Not only was she the other sides daughter but her mother was killed by the supposed light. How could that be, and she did not see a problem with the school plan. She agreed that schooling should be earlier to help integrate muggleborns into their new world. There was so much she needed to understand before leaving her home that she did not. Maybe earlier education in traditions and society would help integrate muggleborns into wizarding live.
Hermione was so wrapped up in thoughts that before she knew it her mother called her to dinner. Hermione decided to go so she could talk things out with her parents. Once all of them were at the table and started eating Hermione spoke up "So it seems my friends are the same ones that killed my mother."
"What?" George exclaimed.
"Dumbledore was the one who place the curse on my mother. He didn't like that she was with my father and decided to kill her," Hermione explained.
"How do you know," Jane asked.
"I started reading her diary," Hermione said "Only at the last of it. Seems she had been set up by someone she thought was a friend. That friend was working with Dumbledore and they set up a trap to get her away from my father. It worked my father sent her out on a mission and she ran into Dumbledore who set the curse on her."
"Oh dear," Jane said realizing like her daughter that her hero really was a bad man "Honey what do you want to do?"
"That's tough I have been thinking of that for a while now," Hermione begin "I don't think you both are safe here any longer. With Dumbledore and the Dark Lord after me it will not bode well for us."
"You don't know that Dumbledore is after you," George interrupted.
"Dad, It wont take him long to turn against me when I refuse to tell him what I have found out," Hermione said "I refuse to tell him until I am for sure on the right side."
"Why wouldn't you be?" George asked.
"Because Dad my father is the Dark Lord himself," Hermione said.
"What?" George said.
"Yes, I am Lord Voldemort's daughter and I have a feeling that not everything is black and white anymore," Hermione said.
"Alright dear what do you want us to do?" Jane asked.
Hermione started her plan. Her parents had been wanting to leave for Australia for years and no one knew that. They hatch a plan and Hermione used magic to fix them new IDs. She then decided to have her house look like it was attacked and fake her parent's death that way both sides would blame the other and her parents would be safe. "What about you, Hermione?" George asked at the end of the planning.
"I have a plan and if that doesn't work, I will come find you and we will live out our lives in Australia," Hermione pacified.
Both her parents knew better but nodded all the same. It was decided that they would leave the next day all of them. Hermione would leave to join her friends again and the Grangers would leave for Australia. In a few nights, the house will be set ablaze and Hermione will be secure in their safety.
That night Hermione helped them pack everything they wanted and worked on having it shipped to a couple in Australia. Then she went about packing what she wanted, and they then went to bed with sad heart. All knew they would miss each other but knew this was best. The next few months of waiting for letters and everything will cause stress, but the family needed to be safe and hopefully Hermione knew what she was doing.
