(A/N: thanks for all your reviews, guys. Oh, thanks for the spelling lessons, too. ( review more plleeeeeaaasssseee!! )

Hermione raced back to Gryffindor tower, a heavy book in her bag, like always. She nearly yelled the password, ran up the dormitory, and flung open the fifth year boy's dormitory door, and saw that Harry and Ron weren't there.

"Dean! Dean, where's Harry and Ron?"

"Harry has Quidditch practice on Tuesdays, Hermoine.." Dean said, although he was worried about her sanity. "and Ron's gone to watch."

Hermione didn't even say thank you, she darted out the front oak door and sprinted over to the Quidditch pitch. She dashed up the bleachers to where Ron was sitting. She threw herself down next to him and opened a large and dusty book.

"Hermoine…" Ron began.

"Shh! I'm looking for something!"

she found the chapter she was looking for, "FAMOUS FAMILIES" and started flipping through it, muttering to herself.

"the Moodys, Moch…they must be German…Saladinis…they must be Italian….ah! Potter!"

Ron leaned in closer to get a better look. It was a large and old family tree.

"Look!" Hermoine gasped, her finger tracing over all of the Mary's and Sarah's, Ryan's and Jason's, then finally found what they were looking for…the subsection marked "Godparents".

"If Alicia said her grandfather was Nicholas Flamel...but that doesn't fit. There's no grandparents by the name of Flamel. But...there is a godparent by the name of Flamel…" she trailed off, looking at Ron, confused.

"That means that…" Ron prompted.

"if her full name is Alicia Madelyn Flamel-Potter, like it says in the book, then…she's been hiding under Nicholas Flamel's name!"

"But why would she do that?"

"I'm betting that Harry's mum and dad gave Alicia to the godparents, Nicholas and Pernelle Flamel to keep until You-Know-Who passed! But then, he came and killed them, tried to get Harry, but didn't succeed! No one knew about the second child, seeing as she was a newborn. So the Flamel's kept Alicia, put her under their name, unless You-Know-Who returned, and wanted to find and kill all the Potters! So, that's how Alicia knows about the Sorcerer's Stone, and who 'rescued' it, per say. But Lily and James wanted Alicia to keep the family name…it all fits!"

"So what does that mean, exactly?"

Hermione paused dramatically.

"Harry has a sister."

She slammed the book shut and ran out onto the field. She waved for Harry to come down, and Ron followed. Harry pulled his broom down so he could hover five feet in the air to see what she wanted. Suddenly he fell straight to the ground, with a sickening crunch. He sat, his hair even more untidier than usual, staring up at Hermione with a look of disbelief on his face. He straightened himself up and repeated the story to Hermione. She nodded, and Harry fell again, in a dead faint.



Several hours later Harry awoke in the hospital wing, massaging the top of his head and looking around, blurry-eyed and confused. She could just barely make out the silhouettes of Ron and Hermione. He reached over for his glasses and everything came into sharper focus.

"Hermione? Ron?" he said groggily. "what happened?"

"You passed out, Harry," said Hermione softly, as Ron went for water.

"Why?"

"because I told you something that shocked you."

"What did you tell me?"

"That you had a sister, Alicia."

Silence.

Ron came back in.

"he's passed out again?"

"Yes."