A/N – YAY!! Chapter 8 is here!! Chapter 28 should be coming up sometime this week… *crosses fingers* =) hehe – sorry for the delay!

Disclaimer – I own none but the plot, JKR owns everything else

THANK YOU TO – Kittyluver87 who encouraged me to keep the twist identity of Emily lol… instead of changing it….. and to Rangerprincess who ''let'' me add her (being Rangerprincess) to the story, making another character – EMILY! ;)

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CHAPTER 8!!

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Hermione woke up to an empty bed again this morning. She frowned, but got up and went outside of her room to only be stopped by Sirius.

"Hi Hermione, oh Congratulations on the Baby!"

"How did you know?" She asked surprised.

"Harry told me this morning before he left."

"What time did he leave?"

"Oh, about 6 o'clock, he didn't want to wake you."

Hermione frowned, "I wish he did."

"He said you needed your rest."

She shook her head but smiled, Harry was always very sweet to her.

"Well, if you don't mind, I got to go, err… meet a friend. But don't ever hesitate to call on me if you need anything." He added, giving her a short hug, and she kissed him on the cheek. Sirius smiled at her and then hurried down the hall.

Heading towards the Great Hall she saw someone she hadn't seen in a long time. Hermione ran towards the half giant and he hugged her when he turned around.

"All right there Hermione?" Hagrid asked looking down at her.

Hermione smiled, "Yes I'm all right Hagrid! Its been a long time! Where have you been?"

"Hogwarts business, strictly speaking." He responded shuffling his feet a little and looking down at the ground.

Hermione laughed silently, Hagrid was always off on 'Secret Hogwarts business' but Harry, Ron and her found out that he was off with Madame Maxine quite often around those trips every since their 4th year. Hagrid bid her goodbye quite soon after mentioning that Harry told him about her expecting and all. Hermione began to wonder who all knew. She really wished Harry had woken her up and she had to keep reminding herself that she at least had a good day yesterday with him.

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"Ah! Congratulations Mrs. Potter!" Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eye as she sat down at the teacher's table. Hermione seemed shocked at first that the headmaster knew, but he knows more or less everything that goes around at Hogwarts. She smiled at him and helped herself to breakfast.

Remus wasn't there today because it was the day of the full moon, and he was busy getting his affairs in line before nightfall and Sirius was still absent from the table. This reminding Hermione of something turned towards the Headmaster.

"Professor, can you tell me who the lady with the long black hair and always wears blue robes is?" Hermione asked Dumbledore with curiosity.

"She is yet our new Divinations Teacher, for Sybil had a very traumatizing occurrence with her last prediction she has hidden herself away yet again."

Hermione seemed confused on two accounts, what he meant about Trelawney 's last prediction and what he meant by her hiding again. It also confused her about who this lady was -- why wasn't she aware of what happened?

Before she could ask Dumbledore this question he stood up and announced the Professor Emily would be the new Divinations Teacher to the Hall. There were some murmurs and whispers, and a couple of scattered applause. Not many people had seen her, and the older students didn't know what happened to Trelawney, not that they missed her.

Finally Sirius and the mystery women, as Ron, Harry and Hermione started calling her, walked in and briefly gave an introduction of herself. Emily turned motioned towards Dumbledore when she mentioned him, letting Hermione look into her eyes. Something about her eyes sent a shiver down her spine, so she looked down at her plate while the girl said that she lived in America, but lived in London and was taught at Hogwarts when she was younger. Everyone was enthralled by this new faculty member and clapped heartily as she sat down next to Hermione and Sirius at the Teacher's Table.

Hermione managed a weak smile, but excused herself and asked Sirius if she could talk to him. He looked at her confused, but nodded then excused himself politely from the table after glancing at Emily.

"What do you want Hermione?" he asked after they exited the Great Hall. Hermione bit her lip a little trying to think of how to phrase what she was going to say.

"Are you okay? Are you feeling sick? Do you need me to get you something?" Sirius asked, a sudden spell of concern flooding over him.

"Oh no, its not that!" Hermione said smiling.

"Then?"

"Well, who is this Emily?"

"I suppose I can tell you since I told Harry this morning…"

"Goodness! How much went on while I was asleep? And to think I still got up at 8:30!"

"Well, we knew each other back in Hogwarts, James and her didn't get along very well." Sirius said ignoring her remark.

"And…."

"She and I were dating then and secretly got eloped. That caused James and I to get in a huge fight, but luckily Lily was there to pull us back together, and to get over our differences."

Hermione gasped and put a hand over her mouth.

"Yea, and then when we wanted to move in together, was when the whole Voldemort threat came into affect, I made Emily go away from me so she wouldn't get hurt, and she went to America. We were planning on getting back together after the ordeal, and after Lily and James got out of hiding." Sirius's voice was getting squeaky with remembrance, "Then you know the rest."

"Why did she come back?"

"Well she told me she has been back for a long time, in the disguise of a very noisy reporter, Rita Skeeter I believe."

"She is Rita Skeeter?!?!?! You've got to be kidding!"

"It was a disguise, she wanted to get closer to Harry…"

"But the deal with Hagrid?"

"She never did like Hagrid. That was another reason James hated her…"

"But how did she become this girl?"

"Well as you know Rita Skeeter is a master of disguise!"

"Yea, she can turn into a bug," she said rolling her eyes and remembering their 4th year, "Does Harry know she is Rita?"

"Err… no… and if you wouldn't mind, not telling him that, I think he would kill her if that were the case."

Hermione giggled, "I doubt that, it may cross his mind though…"

"You never can tell!"

"I suppose, no offense, but why would you want to marry a girl like that?"

"Well, she wasn't like that in Hogwarts, she became the complete opposite in order to disguise herself."

Hermione turned slightly paler as she watched a beetle scurry past her as if in anger.

"Are you alright Hermione?" Sirius asked noticing that she looked pale, "Maybe you should go lie down?"

"Actually I don't think that is such a bad idea…"

"Want me to walk you?"

"No I think I'll be fine."

"You sure? Yes, go back to breakfast and Emily…"

Sirius gave her one last smile before walking into the Great Hall to see that Emily wasn't there any more.

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Hermione went back to lie in her bed, she was glad it was Sunday and she didn't have to teach today. Leaning back into the pillows she waited patiently as a small beetle scurried into her room.

"Hello Emily." She said calmly.

The beetle just looked at her like she was crazy.

"I know how to transform you into your Human form, I learned from watching Remus and Sirius in my 3rd year, it is a complex spell, but I think I could do it by myself now."

She watched as the beetle slowly transformed into the very slender and petite Emily who came and sat on Hermione's bed.

"See that wasn't too hard, now was it?" Hermione said coldly.

"Mrs. Potter, you know I don't mean any harm by this anymore, you knew my old self, and thanks to you especially I was able to return to being Emily again, instead of Rita."

"How did you come up with the name Rita Skeeter anyway?" Hermione asked shrugging off her apology.

"I always liked the name Rita when I was younger, and my mother's, mother's maiden name was Reteeks… so I just reversed that to become Skeeter… wasn't very hard."

"Yea, you'd think that they would be able to recognize who you were because of that."

"Yes, well no one knew of an Emily Black, just a Amelia Belie. I just went by Emily for a nickname."

Hermione raised her eyebrows, she never would've dreamed to find out all of this from Rita, a.k.a. Emily, so freely.

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A/N – Sorry that this is sorta short, I just wanted to get this up! =) hehe, and I think it sorta left you thinking, but not really with a cliffy! =) right? ;) yea, that's what I though! =) lol… well thank you SOOOOOOOOO much for all who reviewed!

Rangerprincess - Yea, you shall not say a word, for all I know you told everyone! ;) I had fun with your character! ;) hehehehehehehehe – I bet you never guessed my little added surprise! ;) muhahahahaha! ;) =) – Yea, I like that the Trio's still have a good friendship! =) and Harry is just a doll isn't he? LOL!

ChocolateFrog17 – *grins* I'm not going to tell you who Harry saw!! =) lol that is my little cliffy treat for all of y'all! =) hehehehe, you wrote 2 reviews! =) and I told you who Sirius is dating… well… sorta… you probably get who she is now ;)

E. C. R. Potter - LOL, yea… Hogsmeade first came out in PoA, unless she mentioned the station in earlier books, I don't think so… hmm… =) lol… no there was no hint whatsoever, it was just a spare of the moment type deal! =) – Oh btw, I read your story, the one about them in Medieval times, that was REALLY good! =)

Dana Dancer - Thank you for the great names! =) I do like Claire, and Holly… and Steven… hmm.. Mark.. I am not sure but still =) cause I have something agaist a Mark I knew! ;) LOL

Satans Little Princess - Cause she just is, she is Lavender, she is just mad, cause Ron sorta stuck up for Hermione, instead of sticking up for her…

Hermione Megami Potter - You never fail to give an entertaining review now do you? =) yea… MEGAMI ;) not Meghami or however you spelled it last time… hehe, it must not like you! ;) lol

Amy Potter - Hmm… an old friend from school… sorta like a girlfriend, a little more… yea.. related to him in a way… you hit it all! ;) LOL =) yuppers, Hermione is finally pregnant, now everyone can stop bugging me about that! =) LOL

Lolo - Glad you think it keeps getting better! =) that tis a complement, maybe my writing is just improving, I mean.. there is a difference between chapter 1 of Crush and this last chapter 8 of LY! ;) and a bigger difference is between my first story (Struggling S'pore) and this story! ;)

Anime - Yup, and there are just more, and more surprises on the way hehehehehehhehe… yups, lots more ;)

Draco's princess - Goodness, no you did NOT reivew the 6th chaper -- *tisk, tisk* I am very dissapointed in you! ;) LOL

Chrissie - Yups you are my evil reviewer, who always says Muhahahaha.. why I don't really know ;) – yes, you are the '''chosen one''' – LOL, and very ""special"" in your own ""special"" way ;) LOL – for the record – MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ;)

Flamegaruru - Yea, I was thinking she'd have twins, but I am not sure about them looking like James and Lily, I don't know that is used a lot… =) – but it will probably be twins! ;)

Kittyluver87 - Glad you still love this ;) LOL… you need to get more information on Torn, and you need to get up all the chapters for your prequel to Gone, and Gone… and yes, your sequel to 7th child needs to come soon… goodness, you have a lot to do! =) – 16 lines?? Only? ;) JK! =) hehe thank you for the LOVELY long review! =)

Hermioneharry4ever - LOL it was easy to figure out what Hermione was hiding?? I didn't even know! =) LOL! Someone just gave me that idea, so I decided why not… lol.. I think that is funny that you knew before I did! ;)

HERMIONE ELIZABETH POTTER - Yea, it was one of those things that is expected but is still a shock when it happens, I know… I think you are talking about the pregnancy thingy? :-D I hope, cause that is what I am talking about! =)

Noodlejelly - LOL – I love that --- "why can't Voldemort go boil his head in one of Snape's cauldrens so we can concentrate on the wholesome H/H romance?" – I love that idea ;) LOL… hehehehe.. tis good ;)

Quidditch Gurl - Calm down, take a deep breath! ;) jk! – you seem excited, I hope its cause of my story! ;) hehe, glad you liked the ending to the 7th chapter, I liked it also sorta…. :-D *grins

Katie janeway - LOL – there is an idea, the trio never knew about Hogsmeade cause they kept getting themselves in trouble, good.. lol =) – To be honest, I am trying to fully know who I am going to make those people Harry saw… =) I do gots ideas though! =)

Clara - Sorry that it took you awhile to find this story =( -- and I am sure Ron and Lavender will get back together… =)

RACHEL - Ah.. yes I know what s'il vous plait is.. just didn't know what SVP was! =) hehe… good job – and of course it is you, tis ALWAYS YOU! =) – JK! ;) great to see ya! =)