Chapter 17
"Draco has found her! Draco found my baby Adora! Oh Merlin, let it be! Narcissa, Draco found my baby Adora!" Larissa was getting really excited.
"Yes, mother I know, but please keep it quite." Narcissa said hoping Lucius wouldn't walk in.
"Oh, I don't care if that bastard walks in or not. You need to leave him anyways. Get back together with Lupin, everyone knows you still love him."
"MUM SHUT IT!" Narcissa huffed walking out.
Back in Gryffindor Common Room….
Hermione couldn't sleep that night. What if Ron and Harry were right, what if she was Adora Aimee Potter. Don't get Hermione wrong, she'd love to be Harry's aunt. Hermione laughed at the thought of that. Hermione still wasn't any closer to the identity of her mother. Hermione wanted to know so bad, no matter who she was. Right now Hermione didn't care if her mother was Voldemort's lover. Eek, that was kind of gross. Hermione just wanted to know who was woman who had carried her, who was her birth mother. Hermione snuck into the Boys' Dormitory, and tapped Harry on the shoulder he sat up and started at her in disbelief.
"What is it?" Harry mumbled, "What time is it?"
"Harry I need to borrow your invisibility cloak, I'm going to the library and look through some books. I'm finding the true identity of Adora's mother."
"Not, without me your not," Ron spoke up.
"Ron, you can't…."
"If I'm not going then neither are you."
"Fine, Harry."
"I'd love to, but I've got a Quidditch Match, tomorrow."
Hermione and Ron left to go to the Library. They searched through tons of books, but everyone that had anything to do with Adora Aimee Potter. All of the books either said just said Adora's name or it said 'Baby Girl Potter'.
"This is useless! I don't even know why I'm bothering with this, there's no way, I'm Adora." Hermione said sitting down.
"You don't know that," Ron said putting his arm around Hermione. "There's a chance you just might be, and besides that'll give Rita Skeeter a real kick in her…"
"Ron!" Hermione hissed and Ron grinned devilishly. "But, you are right."
"But, love. Would you be able to go through all of the publicity?" Hermione nodded, and Ron went on. "With everything, the reporters, and all the crap you are going to get? Anthony Potter's love child, that no one knew about. Your mother, who we have no clue who this woman is. According to Sirius and Arabella, the reason they gave up Adora, is because they knew how much discrimination everyone from our world would give her. So are you really sure that you want to find out the truth, whether you are Anthony's youngest child or not?"
"Ron, I don't care how much discrimination I might get. I just want to know who my real parents are, I'd like to be able to know that I belong somewhere. Although, my father is dead, and we don't even know if my mum is still alive or not. I'VE GOT TO FIND HER!"
Malfoy was hiding in the shadows of the library, and that was exactly what he needed to hear. Draco would talk to her tomorrow before Potions and tell Hermione what he thought.
"Okay, alright. Let's go. You need your sleep," Hermione nodded and Ron put the invisibility cloak around them and left the library. After they left Malfoy snuck back into the Slytherin Common Room, and wrote his grandmother once again:
Dear Grandmother,
I snuck into the Library tonight, first time ever, to look if they had any of the adoption papers on file, or if they knew the true identity of Adora. But, I over heard one of the girls that I think is Adora, talking to her boyfriend. She said that she didn't care about the discrimination, she just wanted to know the true identity of her real parents. She also said even though her supposed father was dead, and her supposed mother was on her death bed. The girl I'm talking about yelled at her boyfriend that she's got to find her mum no matter what it takes. I have Potions with her tomorrow, so I'm going to talk with her tomorrow before Potions. To see if she'd want to take a D.N.A. test. Are you sure this is what you want?
Love always,
Draco
The next morning Ginny noticed that Hermione looked exhausted, "You look like the Hogwarts Express ran over you."
"Ha Ha! Ginny you so funny," Ron was irritable.
"Shut it, the both of you," Hermione growled. They looked at Hermione in surprise, but Hermione didn't pay attention to them she was still thinking a lot about this whole Adora Aimee Potter thing. Maybe Hermione was panicking, there was a one in a million chance that she was Adora.
Once, Ginny finally got Harry out of bed, by throwing water on Harry to get him awake they all went down for breakfast. They passed Malfoy on their way to the Great Hall, he looked really anxious. They all ended up eating breakfast in peace. First, because Harry was still half way asleep and Ginny was trying to keep Harry awake so he didn't fall into his cereal. Second, Ron was going nuts over this whole Hermione-Adora thing and wasn't saying a word. Third, Hermione was being real snappy this morning and also didn't say a word all through breakfast. To all of their surprise, right before they were due for Potions, Draco Malfoy walked over to the Gryffindor table, where the four friends were sitting. Harry and Ron sat up, waiting for Malfoy to start something.
To all of their surprise Malfoy addressed Hermione, "Um, Hermione….can I speak to you for a moment?"
"Sure," Hermione said shrugging uncertain.
Hermione got up, and they all expected it to be about Hermione tutoring Malfoy.
"I noticed that Ron and you were in the library late last night, and uh…so was I." Malfoy began.
"Oh, please don't tell on us…we were just trying to find something."
"Oh, I won't," Malfoy said shaking his head no. "I was looking for something to, but I couldn't find anything that I already didn't know."
"Same here," Hermione said nodding. Draco, what were you looking for?"
"The adoption papers, to find out what happened to my aunt. To find, where she was placed after my grandmother put her in an adoption agency."
"Really? Huh, well I was looking for something, somewhat like that. I found out that I had been put up for adoption when I was a baby. Pretty ironic, huh." Hermione said kind of sad.
'Oh Merlin! This girl is brilliant, knows all of the school books by heart, and yet she can't figure out what I'm trying to say! Okay, Draco get a hold of yourself.' "Hermione, what I'm trying to say is that your middle name, Aimee, and that is what my grandmother's child's middle name is. They only had two requests, First, to keep her middle name as Aimee, and Second to let her go to Hogwarts. There are only two muggle born here that are girls, that have been adopted, and that have the middle name Aimee. I don't think Hannah Abbott is, she doesn't look like a Crane or a Potter. You on the other hand have the Crane eyes, the Potter hair and attitude, you've got the Crane face. It's not that hard to tell."
"Wait," Hermione said blinking her eyes. "You said Potter…"
"Yeah?"
"Your grandmother is Adora's mum?"
"Yeah, you didn't know that?"
"No," Hermione said shaking her head no. "I've looked in every book and couldn't find Adora's mums name."
"So you want to do a test tomorrow?"
"I don't know Draco."
"Look, you look exactly how my grandmother looked when she was your age, except the hair. How much would it hurt just to take a simple D.N.A. test?"
"Nothing, I guess. When can we take it?"
"Tomorrow is Saturday, my mum can come and pick us up and bring us to St. Mungo's and we can get it done then. Okay?" Hermione nodded her head. Hermione and Draco Malfoy walked off to Potions together with a very strange look from the entire school.
"What was that about?" Ron whispered in Hermione's ear when they were doing their Potions project.
"He thinks, like we do, that I'm Anthony Potter's love child. God that sounds so sick."
"Okay. So what does Malfoy have to do with Anthony?"
"Anthony's lover was Larissa Boyle," Ron gave Hermione a puzzled look. "Okay, that was her maiden name. Larissa Crane."
Ron's mouth dropped, "DO WHAT!" Ron hissed at his girlfriend. "No, wonder they wanted to keep it secret a secret! Larissa's daughter is Narcissa Crane, now Narcissa Malfoy, she married Lucius Malfoy, and they had Draco Malfoy. That means…."
Hermione nodded, "That Narcissa is my sister, James was my brother, Lucius is my brother-in-law, Lily was my sister-in-law, Draco and Harry are my nephews. So Larissa and Anthony are my parents. That means that Harry would be my nephew on my father's side and Draco would be on my mother's side, but the two aren't related at all."
"Who's the other girl that Draco thinks is Adora?"
"Hannah Abbott," Draco said behind Hermione and Ron.
Ron looked at Draco shocked but Draco continued, "There's no possible way that stupid git is my aunt." Draco turned to Hermione, "I already owled my mum, she'll pick us up in Dumbledore's office tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Okay?" Hermione nodded speechless.
Ron and Hermione turned to look at Harry, he'd been quite too long. "So you could be my aunt, too?"