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Hermione Granger slowly approached her parent's house. She had spent the majority of the summer vacation at the Burrow with one of her best friends, Ron. Well, that was before.

Hermione always knew Ron had a small crush on her, but what he did went too far, at least for Hermione's taste. He kissed her. It doesn't seem like much, but it was to Hermione.

It was a stolen kiss and something deep inside Hermione told her it was wrong and to get away. She promptly ran from his house and took a taxi cab to the Granger Residence.

She took a deep breath before knocking on her door three times.

"Who is it?" She cringed as her mother spoke.

The door in front of Hermione opened to reveal a smiling middle-aged woman. Her smile immediately faded away and was replaced by a scowl as soon as she saw who it was.

"Well, what are you standing out there for. Come in, we wouldn't want the neighbors seeing you, now would we?"

Mary-Anne Granger moved over, waiting impatiently for Hermione to get in and rudely slammed the door closed after Hermione was fully inside. She then rounded on Hermione, pointing her finger dangerously.

"You! How dare you! Standing out there for all the world to see, you should be ashamed! And you told us you wouldn't be home this summer! You're a lier! But what more would we expect from the Devil's child! You and your evil way! Not even a proper upbringing can over rife that evil! Jason was the same, and that is why he is dead."

Jason was Hermione's older brother. Six years older to be exact. She was five when Jason got a mysterious letter form one, namely Albus Dumbledore. Mrs. Granger promptly sent a deniel and within three days Jason turned up dead.

The police report said that he was mugged, killed, then the body was dumped in a dumpster, the killer was never found.

Hermione believed differently. She believed her parents did it. Hermione then became the favoite, showered with love and sorts. The Grangers were not a poor family.

Ah, then, six years later, Hermione got the same letter and her whole life went down the drain. Dumbledore then sent another letter of which she never learned the contents, but miracually she was allowed to go.

Hermione was suddenly snapped out of her musings by a sharp blow to her jaw. She looked up to see Christipher Granger looking at her with what could only be described as hatrid.

"Stupid Girl!"

And he immeadiatly hit her again and again and again. Hermione lost count of the blow she received as she waited in semi-contiousness, seemingly detached from her body, only pride keeping her contious.

Suddenly she was jerked back into full reality as Mr. Granger (Christipher Granger) brought out a butcher's knife and laughed cruely.

"I should have done this a long time ago. Did you know, Hermione, that you aren't our biological daughter. Kind of a little thing we forgot to tell you. There fore, I wont feel guilty about doing this."

He then proceded to bring down the knife. Hermione wasn't sure what happened next. One second the blade was coming down towards Hermione's heart, the next second it was lodged in Mr. Granger's heart.

Then form behind Hermione came schrill voice of Mary-Anne Granger.

"How dare you do that in my house!?!"

A gun was clearly evident in her hand and that was all Hermione registered before the sound of the gun went off and she feat a peircing pain in her shoulder.

Suddenly the knife lodged in the currently dead Christipher Granger, shot in the other direction and hit the center of Mrs. Granger's stomach and she kneeled over and fell to the floor.

Suddenly Hermione looked at her shoulder and saw the blood before looking at everything else and promptly falling into uncontiousness.

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Gem woke up to see the top of the midnight blue canopy and just veigly remembered laying down earlier that day.

She got up and looked out the window to revele a very beautiful full moon.

Full moon! She silently thanked her body's natural alarm clock as she remembered the protaction Spell she had to start that noght.

She had to do a different part of the spell on each of the three nights of the full moon, and in return, she would have a very strong, very long lasting, protection spell placed on her.

Gem went to open the window, but found that it was locked and wouldn't budge. Thinking nothing of it she went to the door and tried to open it. When the jiggling of a locked door was returned Gem's eyes widened in shock. Her previously sky blue eyes suddenly flashed to a purple just slightly darker than the blue.

She suddenly began looking around franticly before waving her hand in front of her and opening a portal. She went to put her hand through first, when quite suddenly, she yanked her hand out with all her strenth and just managed to get it free. With her other hand, she slowly closed the portal.

The hand that was previously in the portal, must have hurt quite badly, as the shin was being, what looked like, eaten off her hand. Gem bit her lip, drawing blood, in the effort of not making a sound, before ripping two strips of cloth off of the sheet on the bed. The first one she used to scratch the top layer of skin off, then she wrapped the other one around her hand like a bandage.

Gem put her hands in her hair, drew her knees up to her chest and proceded to rock back and forth. Her eyes were constantly changing their color, and with each new color her eyes got just slightly darker and darker. If you looked closely yopu would see that as her eye color got darker aand darker, the color of her iris (or pupil) got lighter and lighter.

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~EclypsCC1~

Chapter notes:

I'm sorry if this is off to what ever religion this is from and if you are part of it. But I have in my experience, met perople who insisted all magic was evil and only the devils work. I tend to disagree to that notion, but whatever.

I had to make Hermione's parents somewhat abusive, making Hermione contadict with their religion. It was important to the story.

By the way, now is when the real story starts, all before this was like a really long prolouge. I'm mixing in other characters and things.

There are of course, long lasting protection spells that must be completed on the three days of the full moon to be ful filled.

Look! Not as many chapter notes this time!

~CiErRa~