Short chapter
"Hermione Walburga Black. That's your real name. Your parents were Walburga and Orion Black my aunt and uncle, my mother was your mother's sister" Narcissa wearily explained, her eyes downcast. "When you disappeared you had two brothers, Sirius was eleven he had just started Hogwarts and Regulus was eight still at home. My father was caught and executed because of me".
Tears of loss ran down her cheeks. "In my memory I was fifteen when he caught me and both boys were at home". Hermione's stomach muscles clenched painfully.
"I found you when we both were sixteen. Our birthdays were only a few weeks apart we were more like sisters than cousins". Running a hand through her hair. "My father had you kept here in this castle for over a year abusing you" Narcissa brushed her tear away unable to meet Hermione's eye. "I followed him one night and found you unconscious, bloodied and I thought you was dead. I told our head of house professor Talbot the moment I reached Hogwarts but when the professor with the headmaster went to investigate all they found were your bloodied clothes and wand you were nowhere to be found. You were presumed dead".
"I thought we can't leave here?".
"At the time magic was allowed on the island. It wasn't till a week after the authorities were involved my two sisters and I woke up here unable to do magic nor escape. Whatever my father did he made the island a dead zone for magic and our prison. He left a letter explaining that we would be safe here and it was all your thought".
Narcissa embraced Hermione resting her chin on her shoulder. "I have never blamed you please trust me on that. I have hated myself for so long because I couldn't save you because I didn't know what happened to you". Her tears of shame and guilt splashed Hermione's neck.
Hermione pulled back to look Narcissa in the eye her fingers trailing the blondes cheek. "I want to be able to remember who I really am without going back in that stone grave. I want to trust you I really do maybe with your help I will be able to have my past back and to reconnect with you".
"I will I promise you I will do anything to help you".
"Then tell me why you don't call me by my given name?".
Andromeda sighed stepping forward to intervene. "You and my sister were very close, so close in fact our family used to tease you both mercilessly. The running joke was marrying you off to each other". She fondly recalled the mattress dipping under her weight. "You used to call my sister Miss Cissy and she would call you Miss Mia".
Hermione gripped Narcissa's hand "then I rather you call me that after all I am no Granger". Narcissa's shy smile made her heart beat faster.
"Miss Mia that I can do".
Andromeda snorted unladylike earning a sharp look from her sister.
"I don't understand how I am this key though?".
"We believe it has to do with your imprisonment. You bled on this very land in this very castle and whatever our bastard father did to you to make you disappear caused the island to somehow cling to your memory absorbing the blood". Andromeda rubbed her eyes with the palm of her hands. "The moment you stepped foot here again the island remembered you alerting us to your presence".
Hermione watched in confusion as the older woman abruptly left the room just to return minutes later clutching a thick ancient book to her chest. Andromeda retook her seat the book open on her lap.
"This is the Black family book" flipping page after page. "This is what alerted us to your return". She gently laid the book upon Hermione's lap pointing to the second page.
The page was all about her. Hermione Walburga Black born seventh July fifteen hundred. Parents Walburga Black nee Black and Orion Black both deceased. A picture of her of then and now the only difference was her hair was darker back then. Siblings Sirius Orion Black and Regulus Orion Black deceased. Hogwarts house Slytherin.
Her heart momentarily stopped at the pictures of her brothers, two boys she no longer knew. A lone tear fell at the unfairness of the entire situation.
Below held her name she went by now. Hermione Granger formerly known as Hermione Walburga Black on nineteenth September nineteen ninety one appeared in London wool pack orphanage. The missing heiress to the Black line disappeared from the Azkaban island on nineteenth September fifteen sixteen by use of complex ritual performed by Cygnus Black.
The blood and essence of the heiress holds the key to the past present and future.
"What does that even mean?".
"You may be the key to collapsing our imprisonment Hermione". Andromeda tersely replied.