*In the previous:
Similar memories of a family of three, a sandy haired, chocolate brown eyed man, his brunette, amber eyed wife and their brunette, chocolate brown eyed baby, went through Hermione's mind at that moment.
At that moment, while she was watching memories of her first few months of life, Ginevra realized that she was robbed of a happy childhood with her real parents, Severus and Lillian Prince-Snape. That's why she has always felt there was something wrong with her life. The one who did this was going to pay.
Fredrick and George McKinnon-Prewett wanted an explanation to what was going on, but first they had some memories to watch.
Yes, Fredrick and George McKinnon-Prewett, Ginevra Prince-Snape and Hermine McKinnon-Lupin were angry and whoever stole their families from them was going to pay dearly.*
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Fred, George, Ginny and Hermione woke up from seeing their childhood memories confused, cautious and amazed. The families that 'raised' them apparently weren't their families.
Ginny was happy. Molly Weasley had always been overbearing and controlling, more like a prison guard than a mother. She tried to force her to hate Slytherins and date Harry Potter. Hating slytherins in general was nonsensical, and after getting to know Harry, she loved him as a friend, maybe even a brother. Arthur was never really around and only raised Bill, Charlie and Percy before he suddenly found himself very busy and couldn't raise the rest of his 'children' and left them to Molly, who didn't do a very good job. But now she had loving parents, from what she had seen in her memories. She just hoped that Severus Snape, after removing the memory charms and/or compulsions that were on him, was nicer and kinder than he had been before and that he was a good father.
Fred and George were excited, they might have been of age, but they had always hoped and wished for parents that understood them, while with their other 'siblings' Molly was overbearing and controlling, with the twins she was still controlling but was also demeaning, making them feel like their dreams were stupid. They had to depend on each other for everything. If their real parents were any better than her, they were satisfied. From what they had seen, the Prewett twins were pranksters themselves. So, that's where they got it from.
Hermione was astonished. She didn't know how to feel about all of this. Her muggle 'parents' had always thought they knew best and that they had the right to tell her what to do and how to do it. They were what you would normally consider mentally and emotionally abusing. They were always forcing her to get the highest grades and then mocking her for being a bookworm, being bullied and not having friends. It started getting worse after she went to Hogwarts for her first year and actually got a friend, one Harry James Potter. They didn't believe she was capable of having friends and started calling her a liar and a freak for having magic. If they weren't her real parents, then she could finally be rid of their abuse and escape their house forever. That sounded amazing. Also the fact that her father was, as the memories she had just seen have shown her, Remus Lupin, one of the nicest people she had ever met and one of her favourite professors, was reassuring. She was excited at having parents that would hopefully take her opinion into consideration but she was still going to be cautious.
The adults were all waiting for the four Gryffindors to register all that they had seen and to arrange their thoughts. After fifteen minutes, Lyra finally spoke "So, do you believe us?"
"We do." They all said nearly at the same time.
Hermione walked towards her mother and they stared at each other, taking the other in. "You are my mother?" Hermione asked, hesitating after a moment. Ginny was also standing in front of her mother, staring at her. The twins were doing the same thing with their parents. All of them were trying to comprehend what was happening and trying to rein in their emotions.
"Yes, I am. And Remus Lupin is your father, Hermione." Alexandra McKinnon-Lupin confirmed for her, knowing her daughter would need time to adjust and comprehend everything.
"What's my full name?" Hermione asked intrigued, trying to collect her thoughts while getting an answer to a less relative question.
"Hermione Marlene McKinnon-Lupin. Your father named you after one of his favourite magical authors. Marlene is after my sister, the blond that looks like me, Marlene McKinnon-Prewett." Alexandra explained, smiling at her daughter and pointing at her sister, who was staring at her own twin sons.
Then she hesitated before asking, "Could I….uh….have a hug?"
At that, Hermione disregarded all her previous thoughts of being cautious and leapt at the women, who engulfed her in a hug, both of them crying hard. Mother and daughter were finally reunited after almost fourteen years of being apart.
At Hermione and Alexandra's actions, Lilly engulfed her daughter in a hug as well, crying at being reunited with her daughter, Ginny was also crying, she had finally gotten back the mother she had always wanted and had dreams of.
Marlene also got emotional at seeing her baby sister hugging her daughter like she was going to disappear. So, she did the only thing she could think of. She pulled her three boys into a giant hug, crying at seeing her twins all grown up. Fabian and the twins might have also shed a few tears, but if anyone asked them afterwards, they would deny the claim immediately.
Lyra and James might have also shed a few tears of their own, imagining being reunited with their own children.
After releasing her mother from their hug, because it was obvious the woman was her mother, they looked so alike, Hermione finally asked the questions they all wanted answered, "So, how did you all get here? Who put all of you under draught of the living death for fourteen years and put memory charms on practically everyone we know and why did that person do all of this? Is it a group or just one person?"
All of the adults looked at Lyra as she had always been their unofficial spokesperson. Lyra decided to start from the beginning, but the story was long, so she wandlessly conjured chairs for all of them to sit, and sat down herself. Seeing them all sitting down and getting comfortable, she started explaining. "Let me start from the beginning, alright? First, if you don't know, my name is Lyra Cassiopeia Black-Potter. Yes, Potter. The man to my right is Jameson Charlus Potter. Next to him in the order they are sitting in, are Lillian Caroline Prince-Snape, Fabian Prewett, Marlene McKinnon-Prewett, Gideon Prewett, Dorcas Meadows-Malfoy and Alexandra McKinnon-Lupin." The four young adults nodded at this, they had seen all of them in their memories.
"In one simple sentence, everything you know is false. What really happened was this, Lilly Evans actually married Severus Snape and not James Potter. They had a daughter, your friend Ginny here, her real name is Ginevra Lyra Prince-Snape. I married James Potter, and we had three children. Harry, of course. But his full name is Hadrian Jameson Black-Potter, he also has a younger twin brother, Draconis Sirius Black-Potter, who was obliviated into Draco Malfoy. And yes, I know you've been friends with him since after your third year behind your friends' backs, Hermione, and I thank you for that, he was very lonely before that moment. We also had a daughter, Luna Lillian Black-Potter, who was obliviated into Luna Lovegood. Most of the people in your lives have been obliviated by one man, Albus Dumbledore. He is the real dark wizard in all of this.
He made everyone believe there was a dark lord by the name of Lord Voldemort, but in reality, Voldemort is a figment of dumbles' imagination, created so he can have even greater control over the wizarding world by becoming their saviour again. Everyone that was supposedly killed by 'Lord Voldemort' was actually killed by Dumbledore to get the wizarding world even more afraid and malleable so, they follow him blindly. Tom Riddle's real goal was to change the wizarding world for the better. At a young age, he was subjected to the wizarding world's ignorance and bigotry. So, he started gaining followers to help him change the wizarding world. He wanted to get muggle-raised students inducted into the wizarding world earlier than normal, to get them used to our world and our customs before going off to Hogwarts. He knew they got bullied for not knowing wizarding customs. He also wanted to get magical-raised student to stop thinking that muggle-raised students were different than themselves, or that muggle-raised students were 'stealing their magic', among other things purebloods think. Old dumbles didn't like this. He hated muggles and muggle-raised students, so he wanted them to feel hated in the magical world, get their magical cores bound and leave the wizarding world forever or just move to another country. I'm a seer, so I saw all of this and what would have happened if he had destroyed Tom and the world had continued the way it has been. I told my family members and friends what I saw in my visions and they told their families. Our families joined his cause immediately, except my mother, but that's just because she hated everything muggle. And after graduating Hogwarts, we all joined Tom and started helping him make the British wizarding world a better place for everyone, including muggle-raised wizards and witches. Some of us were either lords and ladies or heirs of ancient houses that had seats in the Wizengamot, so we secretly used our political and social powers to help his cause.
We found out dumby was creating a group to stop us from changing laws, making them believe we, the people that were helping Tom, were the ones killing all the people that had died during our fight with dumby. They called us 'death eaters', and were trying to get rid of us, they were doing it fast, too. So, Tom sent some of us as spies in that group, you know them as the order of the phoenix, to get information on them. And we did. We became some of the group's most important members. It was going great. Until old dumby decided to create a fake prophesy that foretold of the 'defeat' of the 'dark lord', he used dark magic on the lines, and compulsed Severus to go tell the first few lines to Tom, and once Tom had heard it, he would fall under a compulsion to believe the lines were about him and try to kill everyone who matches the description of who would 'defeat' him. And that was how everything went to hell.
The lines he created were 'The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…'. Of course it wasn't real, because Tom was not a 'dark lord' but the words were cursed by dark magic to be believed, defied and to make the person that believed they were the 'dark lord' kill the people it might apply to as the 'defeater', it's a very dark ritual to use.
Dumby knew I gave birth to mine and James' first born, he didn't know we had had twins, and Alice gave birth to Neville near the end of July, he wanted the prophesy to be about mine and James' child, so the child would die and then dumby would kill Tom and get all the glory, and if we died 'accidentally' in the process, he would claim the Potter and Black vaults for himself.
He went to our home at Potter Manor to 'warn us', this was about two months after Ginny was born, and found me, James, our kids, Lilly, Severus, baby Ginny, Alex, Remus, two year old Hermione, Sirius and his girlfriend Amelia Bones, the current head of the department of magical law enforcement, Amelia's niece Susan, whose in your year in hufflepuff, whose parents died because of dumby, Fabian, Marlene, three year old Fred and George, Gideon, Alice and Frank Longbottom, their son Neville, Lucius and his wife Dorcas, Arthur and Narcissa, who are actually married but were obliviated, and their three kids, Bill, Charlie and Percy, Bellatrix and her husband Rudolphus and Andromeda, her husband Ted and their daughter Nymphadora, who goes by Tonks now.
Looking at us with known followers of Tom's, Lucius, Bella and her husband, he realised what was going on and used sleeping spells on everyone. Then he obliviated everyone and used draught of the living death on myself, Fabian, Gideon, Marlene, Alex and Dorcas. Then he made everyone believe James and Lilly were married and only had one son, Harry, who was glamoured to have Lilly's eyes, he sent Hermione to the muggle world and made everyone believe Arthur married Molly, who was disowned when Gideon took over the position of head of house Prewett, and his children weren't just Bill, Charlie and Percy, who originally had blond hair like his mother's but he was glamoured to have red hair, but also Fred, George, Ginny and Molly's son from a one night stand, Ronald, I think his name was. He also made it look like Lucius and Narcissa were married and Draco was their son, as Draco was part of the ten percent of the Black family that had blond hair like Narcissa, and that Lilly, James, Arthur, Sirius, Remus, Alice, Frank, Amelia, Andromeda and Ted hated the other 'known death eaters' and were loyal to Dumbledore only. He made Remus forget he ever got married or had a daughter, Sirius thinks him and Amelia never got married or that they adopted Susan after her parents were killed. Arthur thinks he loves Molly and he has seven children instead of just three, he also thinks he hates Lucius. He changed a lot of things you can guess, and so much more.
After that, he sent Lilly and James with Harry to hide in a cottage the Potters owned in Godric's Hallow, and made them put it under the fidelius charm and suggested their secret keeper be Peter Pettigrew, as he would be less obvious. Pettigrew was working as a spy for Dumbledore in Tom's ranks. So, after he became secret keeper, he went to Dumbledore and told him their location and then went to tell Tom on Dumbledore's orders. Tom went to the cottage and stupefied Lilly and James and then went to kill Harry but came to his senses. He had fixed Lilly and James' memories and was about to remove the glamour on Harry when Dumby entered the house and immediately used a dark curse that left the person as a spirit with no body, but they are able to return to a body using a complicated reversal ritual, on Tom. He then used draught of the living death on Lilly and James and carved a lightning bolt shaped scared on Harry's forehead and used a dark spell on it to make it hurt when Tom was around him. If you hadn't noticed already, Dumbledore uses a lot of dark magic.
He then went after the Longbottoms and put Alice and Frank under a magically induced mind coma. He sent Harry to the Dursleys after putting compulsions and loyalty charms on him and binding his magic. He put spells on him to hate slytherins in general and be loyal to Ron, Molly and old dumby. The Dursleys then abused him on dumby's orders to make him easy to manipulate.
The events after that are the same, except that every memory that has 'lord Voldemort' in it is fake, created by Dumbledore to make you hate Tom. He never tried to kill any of you, he was just trying to gain a body back and warn you about Dumbledore. Dumbledore is the one who killed Cedric Diggory and created the illusion of monster voldy. All in all, Dumbledore is the villain and Tom is the good guy. If I could have seen any of this happen, things would have been very different. But it's fate, I guess."
That was some overwhelming information for the four teens. They had been tricked most of their lives by one man, Albus bloody too-many-names Dumbledore.