Hermione glanced up at the high table only to find George gazing at her intently. Just then, the morning's post came in, and to everyone's great surprise, a Howler was dropped in front of George. George's ears flushed the famous Weasley red as he stared at the Howler lying on the table.
"Well," said Fred. "It's not going to go away, so the quicker you open it the quicker everyone will stop staring at you like you have bright red ears, which you do, but that's not the point." George blushed even redder, if that's possible. He finally opened the Howler to be met by none other then Miranda's screaming voice.
"George, we're through! I hope my next boyfriend doesn't cheat on me like you did, especially with low-life Quidditch scum!!"
George was sitting there with a stunned look on his face; while Fred was laughing so hard he nearly fell off his chair. "I don't see what's so funny," George said, shooting Fred a death glare. "Just that your girlfriend broke up with you, well, me!!!" Fred replied between bursts of laughter.
George tried to keep a straight face but failed miserably, and was soon in much the same state as Fred. Everyone else in the Great Hall found all this terribly strange, as they hadn't heard the exchange between the twins.
Oh well, George thought. Now I can go out with Hermione- if she'll have me. George decided he would ask Hermione out the very next day, at their weekly flying lesson. (Hermione had asked him to teach her when she realized she would have to pass flying to graduate)
But the next day, George was asked if they could cancel by a very upset Hermione. He agreed, of course, but when he asked her what was wrong she wouldn't say.
Hermione's PoVHe wouldn't understand, thought Hermione as she asked George if he wouldn't mind if she cancelled her flying lesson, as something had come up. And when he asked her what was wrong, she almost spilled, but only almost.
Another person had found out Hermione's secret, but as it also concerned him, that was to be expected. He remembered the night he found out. It was when his parents were having an argument. They always argued, but this one was different somehow, and so he had listened in.
*FLASHBACK *
"Well if you hadn't always been away," screamed his mother
"It has nothing to do with me being away, it has to do with your loyalty!"
"Don't give me one of your lectures, what's happened has happened, what I want to know is whether we should tell him!"
"Tell him? Are you mad, woman? Draco must never know that Hermione's his half sister, especially by Sirius Black! NO, no one must ever know, no one!"
*END FLASHBACK *
Draco couldn't believe Hermione wasn't a mudblood, let alone that she was his half-sister. But this opened a whole new window of opportunities for getting back at the famous Harry Potter. Yes, Draco thought to himself. This will do nicely.
After Hermione had seen George, she ran to the library and, using a note on which she had forged McGonagall's signature, quickly went into the restricted section and picked up a book which had all the illegitimate births since the beginning of the Wizarding age. And there in big, bold writing, under the year 1988, it read: Hermione Granger, daughter of Narcissa Malfoy and Sirius Black.
Hermione fainted dead away. When she came to, Hermione remembered how she had found out.*FLASHBACK *
"So Harry, how's Hermione?" queried Sirius.
"Good, but why the sudden interest?" Harry asked.
"Oh, no reason"
"Sirius, what are you hiding?"
Oh, just the fact that Hermione's my daughter, and Draco's half sister, that's all, thought Sirius, but to Harry he simply said;
"Listen, Hermione's a very special kid, please look after her."
"Like I never could," Sirius muttered under his breath.
Harry didn't hear this, but someone else did, and her whole world started crumbling.
*END FLASHBACK *
George was still wondering what had been wrong with Hermione when he bumped into her, again. She looked even more upset than before, so this time he didn't let her get out of telling him. Once Hermione had told George her story, he took her in his arms and let her cry. (Surprisingly, there were no romantic thoughts at all in his mind) George decided this was not the best time to ask Hermione out.
Meanwhile, Draco Malfoy was sitting in a room talking to someone who everyone thought was dead. But they'd made a mistake- again…