Title: Family Secrets and Hogwarts truths

Author: Carebear

Disclaimer: Sorry, forgot to include this earlier, but I don't own anything related to Harry Potter (Obviously) so please don't sue me. Only Kat and Fearchar are mine. And the name Lilith comes from the Jewish culture, I was reading in a book on the meaning of names when I came across it, it's a demon in the Jewish culture according to the book. But other than the name, the creature in this is mine.

Summary: Hermione's cousin comes to Hogwarts in their sixth year. Someone with a secret about Hogwarts and some of its professors.

A/N: This is my first Harry Potter story, so please let me know what you think. Also, Hermione's nickname, Ony, is pronounced awe-knee

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Three weeks into the school year the sixth year Griffyndors sat in their Defense Against the Dark Arts class with the sixth year Slytherins. Snape was sitting at his desk watching the students work. As usual, the Slytherins sat on one side, the Griffyndors on the other. Malfoy sat with one of his two lackwit followers, while Potter and Weasley sat together. Then there were the two Miss. Grangers. He hated to admit it, but they were the two best students this school had ever seen, and together they were unstoppable. Then again, he was actually quite proud of them. No one knew that they were related to him, he didn't think they were in to big a hurry to let the whole school know that though.

He looked up when he heard a slight noise outside the door. "What in the bloody hell could that be." He muttered to himself as he stood up. Everyone glanced up at him as he made his way towards the door. When he reached the door, he turned around and looked at the students. "Well. Back to your work."

He turned and opened the door. What the hell. He ducked in shock as a white blur flew over his head. He turned around angrily, to see what that was and who would get his lecture that day. Much to his surprise, the thing was perched on Miss. Granger's arm, Ekaterina to be exact.

"Miss. Granger. What is that thing doing here?" he growled.

"I don't know Professor." Kat replied before looking down at the owl on her arm, "She has a note for me, so she brought it here."

"Well Miss. Granger, take it out to the hallway, and from no on, that owl is not allowed in this room, no owls are. Do I make myself clear?" he asked looking at every student in the room. They all shook their heads wondering if Snape had lost it, while Kat walked out of the room.

"Alright, now we are going to start another lesson. How many of you have heard of the Lilith?" The other Miss Granger raised her hand and he rolled his eyes. "Anyone other than the Granger cousins?" No one made a move. "Fine, you can have a hands on training lesson. The Lilith is a small creature, the size of a Cornish Pixie, but if you use the wrong defense on it, it will grow ten times it size every time, and will grow in strength. The reason I am having you learn about it is because it quite enjoys the taste of wizard flesh. So, before we start, I will place a shield charm around each of you so you can't get eaten."

He performed the spell then turned to his desk and opened a drawer. Out pooped a small pink creature with blue wings. It rose up and made a beeline for the first student it saw, which happened to be Neville. When it reached him, it bounced off the shield, shook its head, then went for the next student, Crabbe. During that time, Hermione was quickly looking through her book for the spell that would work.

Student by student went around, all of them afraid to do anything, until it went after Malfoy. He raised his wand and let a spell fly. The Lilith went flying against the far wall, and landed on the ground. Everyone stared at the wall it had hit wondering what would happen, even Hermione had given up looking in her book for the answer. They all stood holding their breath.

"Ha, that wasn't so difficult. The stupid thing was easily killed, I think you're just trying to make us worry over nothing Professor." Malfoy said with a smirk.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and turned away from the wall, congratulating Draco. Snape shook his head at their arrogance only he saw as the Lilith began to rise, it's skin a darker pink almost red, and its wings a darker blue.

"Excuse me, but if I were you I'd duck Mr. Malfoy." Snape said pulling everyone out of their happy mood. They all turned and stared in shock as the Lilith charged towards Draco, all of them barely managing to move out of the way in time. When it turned for a second pass everyone panicked and started throwing spells left and right. By the time Hermione got them to stop, it was as tall as Snape, and a blood red with jet-black wings.

Snape shook his head as the entire class was huddled onto a corner, the Lilith across from them trying to figure out how to get them. He raised his wand to get rid of hit when the door opened. The Lilith whirled around to face the new arrival, at the same time he looked up. Oh my God! He muttered to himself. Ekaterina stood in the doorway, without a shield charm, or her wand, which was on her desk, six feet away, halfway between her and the Lilith. Before he had a chance to react, the Lilith charged towards her, and she closed the door behind her, effectively trapping herself in its path.

"Kitty!" Hermione cried and tried to run to her, but Harry and Ron grabbed her, holding her back as the creature raced towards her cousin.