1 The Hidden Barrier

15-year-old Hermione Granger stumbled out of her bed. She smoothed down her hair that she had managed to straighten that summer and looked over to the other side of the room. On the other side of the room lay her younger sister, Lilly.

Lilly looked nothing like Hermione or her mom. She knew why because she knew that they had adopted her when she was 4, on her birthday, the day Lilly was born.

Lilly had long blonde hair with natural brown highlights, silver-blue eyes, a fair complexion, and the cutest personality in the world, unlike her half- brother, Draco Malfoy. He had visited the day before and actually acted nice to Hermione. He had started to be nice to her for a while, starting in their fourth year when they would talk together as they watched Lilly play in the backyard. He actually called her Hermione and she called him Draco. They were friends in the inside, but during school they put up a little play as if they hated each other.

She grabbed her clothes and went into the bathroom to change. She slid on her flared pants and her light blue shirt. She threw on her sweater and applied the tiniest bit of make-up. She pulled her hair into a neat ponytail and went back into her room. She jumped onto her sister's bed trying to wake her up. Fortunately, she did, and she almost fell out of her bed, too. The two sister's giggled loudly until Hermione reminded Lilly that she had to change soon because they were going to go the King's Cross station in a few hours. Lilly grabbed her planned outfit and slid in the bathroom. Hermione drag her trunk over to her and opened it up. She checked through it making sure she had everything. She had her wand, her books, her robes, parchment, and a lot of quills. She closed it up and looked though her sister's. She had everything too.

Hermione felt nervous as thoughts flew through her mind. What would Harry and Ron say about her having a sister? What would they say when they find out she's also Draco's half-sister? A lot of what if questions flew through her mind but remembered that Draco would be there with her the whole time, and then Lilly walked through the door.

"Can you please put my hair in pigtails, Hermione?" Lilly asked her sister.

Hermione giggled, "Of course, sis! Sit right here." She said as she patted the spot on Lilly's bed. Lilly made a quick grab for two rubber bands and handed them to Hermione. Hermione brushed her sister's hair and pulled them into tight ponytails, making sure that they wouldn't interfere with her hat.

"Hermione! Lilly! Get down here now!" Their mother yelled from the kitchen. The two sisters's grabbed their trunks and dragged them to the door. Lilly opened the door, but soon stopped, because a tall man with sandy hair stood in front of them.

Hermione gasped, "Professor Lupin?" Hermione hadn't seen him since her third year and she missed him dearly since she found herself very close to him.

"That's Uncle Remus to both of you." He said sternly, but soon he smiled and opened his arms as the two girls ran into them. Hermione remembered the times when he would play with her when she was little and how he would baby- sit them…once in a while.

"Don't worry! I'll get your trunks for you!" he said happily as he unblocked the doorway to let the two girls go down stairs.

He levitated their trunks and brought them downstairs to the living room. Hermione and Lilly were eating cereal and gulping down their orange juice. They soon finished and they ran to the bathroom to brush their teeth.

Once the two came out, Remus levitated the trunks again and put them in the trunk of Judy's car. He climbed in the passenger's seat as the two girls made them comfortable in the back seat. Judy came out of the house and locked the door. Then, she jogged to her car and slid into the driver's seat. She started the ignition and they rode off, the same way she had used the day she went to visit Narcissa in the hospital, through the vortex and into the parking lot.