Title: This Thing We Call Life
E-mail: i_am_protected_by_witchcraft@yahoo.com
Summery: PG-13, 11 years of secrets are about to come back and bite Hermione in the @$$, but what she's worried about most is how Harry will react when he finds out the secret she's been hiding from him the last 11 years; a daughter.
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Books 1-5 There is *slight* OotP spoilers in this chappy, nothing huge, and nothing about the death, yet, but it may come up in later chapters.
Disclaimers: I do not own anything and I am not making any money off this fic.
A/N: Thank you for the review! I'm so happy! I hope you like this chappy, it's much longer than my usual ones, I hope you enjoy it. And I'm looking for a beta-reader incase anyone is interested. FYI, I might be changing my pen name soon so the next time you read this story my PEN NAME will be different, but the title of this story will be the SAME.
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Chapter 2: Like Father, Like Daughter
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Three weeks later, after many sad good byes, Hermione and Lily were in England. They had found an apartment slightly bigger than the one back in California, Hermione was still looking for a new job, but they had enough money for now.
Hermione was finishing putting away her stuff, when she came across a picture of her, Harry, and Ron that was taken in front of the Hogwarts Express at the beginning of their seventh and final year.
"Mom," Lily said as she walked into her mother's room, "when are we going to get my school supplies?"
"We'll leave in a few minutes," Hermione said, still looking at the of photo, "But I want to show you this."
"What?" Lily said moving over to her mother.
"This is a picture of your me, father, and our best friend, Ron. Your father is the one with the black hair," Hermione said, handing her daughter the picture.
Lily's eyes widened in shock, "THE PICTURE'S MOVING!"
Hermione chuckled, "Oh, I forgot to mention that, pictures in the wizarding world move."
"Oh," Lily said, "Why's dad's hair all messy, did he forget to comb it?"
Hermione laughed, "No. With Harry's hair, no matter how many times you combed it, it would never lay flat, that's why your hair is always a little messy. You have his eye's too."
"Oh," Lily said, not sure if she should be happy or sad by this.
"You can keep the picture if you want, go get some shoes on, we're going to Diagon Alley," Hermione said handing her daughter the picture.
"Diagon Alley?" Lily asked taking the picture.
"It's the best place to go to get your school supplies. If a few blocks away, so we'll walk because I haven't got the floo network hooked up yet."
"Floo?"
Hermione sighed, knowing there was so much stuff the she had to explain to her daughter about the wizarding world, and explained to her daughter about the floo network as they walked to The Leaky Cauldron.
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"Here we are," Hermione said.
"This is Diagon Alley?" Lily asked.
"No, this is The Leaky Cauldron, behind it is Diagon Alley," Hermione explained.
"Okay," Lily said as they went inside.
"Hogwarts?" Tom, the barkeeper, asked.
"Yes," Hermione replied.
"Do you need me to open the barrier?" Tom asked.
"That would be nice, long time since I've been here," Hermione said.
"Okay, fallow me," Tom said moving out from the bar and taking them behind The Leaky Cauldron, he tapped the bricks and they moved to form an arch.
"Wow..." was all Lily could say.
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As they walked into Diagon Alley, heading towards Gringotts, Lily was looking around at all the different stores when one particular one stood out, "Mom?" Lily asked.
"What, Lily?" Hermione asked.
"What's Quidditch?" Lily asked still staring at the store that had a broomstick in the window.
Hermione laughed, Lily had never even met her father, yet she was so much like him, "Quidditch is like basket ball to the wizarding world. (a/n: I would have used football, but then we get into the whole American/British football/soccer thing and it confuses me way too damn much.) Everyone fallows it, I can't explain it that well. Unlike my friends, who were obsessed with, I never completely understood it, but we can get you a book on it when we go to get your school books."
"Okay," Lily said, this new sport looked interesting and that was just from looking at the shop.
When the finally reached Gringotts Lily looked at the building then looked at what was standing in front of it, "Mom, are those..."
"Yes, those are goblins."
Once Hermione and Lily were inside, Hermione headed over to the counter, "Good afternoon," Hermione said to a free goblin, "We've come to withdraw money from Hermione Granger's safe."
"Do you have the key, miss?" the goblin asked.
"Yes," Hermione said handing him the key.
The goblin looked at is closely, "Everything seems to be in order."
He led them down to the carts and after about few minutes they arrived at a volt and the goblin opened it.
"Wow..." Lily said.
"You seem to be saying that a lot today," Hermione said.
"Well, a lot of things I've seen today are 'wow' worthy," Lily said and looked around at the money in the volt, "THEIR MONEY'S DIFFERENT TOO!"
Hermione chuckled, "Yes," she said and then explained the money to Lily before putting some in a bag and getting back into the cart.
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After they left Gringotts, they headed towards Flourish and Blotts to get Lily's school books, after Lily got all her school books Hermione let Lily pick out two other books, she picked Hogwarts, A History and Quidditch Throughout the Ages; Hermione surpassed a laugh at this.
"Do we have everything, mom?" Lily asked an hour and a half later.
"No, we need to get two more things. Do you want an owl, cat, or toad?" Hermione asked.
"What would you suggest?" Lily asked.
"Well, they're all suppose to be pets, but with an owl you can send mail." Hermione said.
"Send mail?" Lily asked.
"Yes, Owl Post," Hermione said, "See in the wizarding world we send letters by owl."
"Kind of like carrier pidgins?" Lily asked.
"In a muggle since, yeah."
"Muggle?" Lily asked.
"Non-magical people."
"Oh...I think I want an owl," Lily said.
"Okay," Hermione said and the headed off to Eeylops Owl Emporium.
Right a way Lily saw the one she wanted, "Mom, can I have that one," Lily said, pointing to a snowy whit owl with bright green eyes.
Hermione smiled, "Sure," she said and bought the owl for her daughter.
"What's left?" Lily asked.
"The one thing a witch or wizard should never be with out."
"What's that?"
"A wand," Hermione said.
Lily's face broke into a huge smile as they headed for Ollivanders.
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"Hello," said a soft voice from behind the counter.
"Hello, Mr. Ollivander," Hermione said.
"Hermione Granger! Seventeen years since I've last seen you! Willow and phoenix feather, ten and a half inches, slightly springy." Mr. Ollivander said. (A/N: Did they ever say what Hermione's wand was made out of? Well if the do could someone e-mail it to me or leave in their review.)
"That's right, Mr. Ollivander," Hermione said.
"Ah," Mr. Ollivander said, looking at Lily, "this must be yours and Mr. Potter's daughter, correct?"
"Yes...How did you know?" Hermione asked.
"Well, Albus Dumbledore told me," Mr. Ollivander said, "And is there anything Albus Dumbledore doesn't know?"
"Yes, there isn't anything Albus Dumbledore doesn't know, but please don't tell anyone," Hermione said.
"Your secrets safe with me," Mr. Ollivander said.
He came out from behind the counter, got out the tape measure and it started measuring Lily.
"Which is your wand hand?" He asked.
"Umm..." was all Lily could say.
"Right," Hermione answered for her daughter.
"That will do," he said and the tape measure stopped and fell to the ground.
"Well, lets see if you take after your mother or father when it comes to finding your wand," Mr. Ollivander said before going to the back and coming out with a few wands.
"What about my mother and father?" Lily asked.
"Well, you see, your mother found her wand, or the wand found her because it's the wand that chooses the wizard, on her second try; but your father, well, we went through dozens of wands until we found one." Mr. Ollivander said before handing her a wand, "Oak and unicorn hair, thirteen inches, very whippy."
Lily waved it and Mr. Ollivander grabbed it out of her hand.
"No, that won't do. Here, try this one, Maple and phoenix feather, nine inches, rather bendy."
Lily took it and gave it a wave and Mr. Ollivander took it out of her hand. After about a half and hour, Lily felt like she had tried just about every wand in the shop.
"Like your father then are we? It makes me wonder..." Mr. Ollivander said be for going back into the back of the shop.
"Wonder what?" Lily called after him.
Mr. Ollivander returned about five minutes later with a box so dusty it looked like it hadn't been touched in over a hundred years.
"This wand has been looking for a counterpart of over a thousand years," Mr. Ollivander said.
"A thousand years!" Lily said.
"Yes, this shop has been around since 382 B.C. and this wand has just been sitting never finding the right match," Mr. Ollivander said, dusting off the top of the box and taking out the wand, "mahogany wood feather from the wing of a gryphon, ten and a quarter inches long, nice and supple."
Lily took the wand in her hand and a sudden warmth spread through her body she waved the wand and scarlet and golden sparks flew out of it. (A/N: sound familiar?)
Mr. Ollivander had a slight smile on his face, "Just like her father," Mr. Ollivander muttered, "Well, I'm glad that that has finally chosen someone, that will be seven Galleons and three Sickles."
Hermione paid Mr. Ollivander for the wand than she and Lily went to go get some ice cream.
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"Thanks, mom," Lily said as the left the ice cream shop.
"No, problem," Hermione said.
As they were walking out of Diagon Ally a store caught Lily's attention, "Mon, can we go in there?" Lily asked, point to a store that had a sign that said 'Weasley's Wizard Wheezes'.
"No," Hermione said flatly with a slight fear in her voice.
"Why?" Lily asked.
"Remember that redheaded boy in that picture I showed you?" Hermione asked, Lily just nodded, "His name was Ron. Ron Weasley."
"Oh," Lily said.
"His brothers own that shop and I know I will have to face my past sooner or later, but I was hoping for later," Hermione said.
"Okay," Lily said, and they left Diagon Ally and walked back to their flat getting strange looks at the owl Lily was carrying on the way.
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Harry was sitting at his desk in his office looking over some papers when he heard a knock on the door, "It's open," he said, not looking up from his papers.
"You know, Harry, you can't continue this search when classes start," Harry's friend, Remus Lupin, said.
"Good thing I have about three more weeks," Harry said, still not looking up from his papers.
"Harry, she's been gone for eleven years, twelve this December, I've got the feeling that if she doesn't want to be found, your not going to find her," Remus said.
"Try not to be too optimistic, Remus," Harry said sarcastically.
"Harry, how long has it been since you've had any sort of a lead?" Remus said, knowing it had been months since Harry had told him about the last lead.
"About ten minutes," Harry said.
"What?" Remus said crossing over to Harry.
Harry finally looked up from his papers, "I got an owl ten minutes ago from Fleur, it seems that some money was taken out of Miss. Hermione Granger's Gringotts account in Diagon Ally this afternoon, the first time any money has been withdrawn since a week before Christmas almost twelve years ago," Harry said, showing Remus the letter.
Remus looked at the letter, "Don't get too hopeful, Harry; we've had bigger leads and we've never found her before."
"I'm not being hopeful, I'm being optimistic," Harry said.
"Harry, optimistic and hopeful mean the same thing," Remus said.
"Who gives a damn! I've been searching for her for over eleven years; I'm not going to give up now. I'm going to floo to Diagon Ally ask around, see if they found her," Harry said, getting up and leaving the room.
Remus didn't even make a move to stop him, Harry loved Hermione so much and he was so determined there was no point to try and stop him, there was nothing he could do, Harry was an adult now and could make his own decisions and he would just get mad at Remus for trying to stop him.
A/N: Thanks for reading plz review!
E-mail: i_am_protected_by_witchcraft@yahoo.com
Summery: PG-13, 11 years of secrets are about to come back and bite Hermione in the @$$, but what she's worried about most is how Harry will react when he finds out the secret she's been hiding from him the last 11 years; a daughter.
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Books 1-5 There is *slight* OotP spoilers in this chappy, nothing huge, and nothing about the death, yet, but it may come up in later chapters.
Disclaimers: I do not own anything and I am not making any money off this fic.
A/N: Thank you for the review! I'm so happy! I hope you like this chappy, it's much longer than my usual ones, I hope you enjoy it. And I'm looking for a beta-reader incase anyone is interested. FYI, I might be changing my pen name soon so the next time you read this story my PEN NAME will be different, but the title of this story will be the SAME.
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Chapter 2: Like Father, Like Daughter
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Three weeks later, after many sad good byes, Hermione and Lily were in England. They had found an apartment slightly bigger than the one back in California, Hermione was still looking for a new job, but they had enough money for now.
Hermione was finishing putting away her stuff, when she came across a picture of her, Harry, and Ron that was taken in front of the Hogwarts Express at the beginning of their seventh and final year.
"Mom," Lily said as she walked into her mother's room, "when are we going to get my school supplies?"
"We'll leave in a few minutes," Hermione said, still looking at the of photo, "But I want to show you this."
"What?" Lily said moving over to her mother.
"This is a picture of your me, father, and our best friend, Ron. Your father is the one with the black hair," Hermione said, handing her daughter the picture.
Lily's eyes widened in shock, "THE PICTURE'S MOVING!"
Hermione chuckled, "Oh, I forgot to mention that, pictures in the wizarding world move."
"Oh," Lily said, "Why's dad's hair all messy, did he forget to comb it?"
Hermione laughed, "No. With Harry's hair, no matter how many times you combed it, it would never lay flat, that's why your hair is always a little messy. You have his eye's too."
"Oh," Lily said, not sure if she should be happy or sad by this.
"You can keep the picture if you want, go get some shoes on, we're going to Diagon Alley," Hermione said handing her daughter the picture.
"Diagon Alley?" Lily asked taking the picture.
"It's the best place to go to get your school supplies. If a few blocks away, so we'll walk because I haven't got the floo network hooked up yet."
"Floo?"
Hermione sighed, knowing there was so much stuff the she had to explain to her daughter about the wizarding world, and explained to her daughter about the floo network as they walked to The Leaky Cauldron.
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"Here we are," Hermione said.
"This is Diagon Alley?" Lily asked.
"No, this is The Leaky Cauldron, behind it is Diagon Alley," Hermione explained.
"Okay," Lily said as they went inside.
"Hogwarts?" Tom, the barkeeper, asked.
"Yes," Hermione replied.
"Do you need me to open the barrier?" Tom asked.
"That would be nice, long time since I've been here," Hermione said.
"Okay, fallow me," Tom said moving out from the bar and taking them behind The Leaky Cauldron, he tapped the bricks and they moved to form an arch.
"Wow..." was all Lily could say.
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As they walked into Diagon Alley, heading towards Gringotts, Lily was looking around at all the different stores when one particular one stood out, "Mom?" Lily asked.
"What, Lily?" Hermione asked.
"What's Quidditch?" Lily asked still staring at the store that had a broomstick in the window.
Hermione laughed, Lily had never even met her father, yet she was so much like him, "Quidditch is like basket ball to the wizarding world. (a/n: I would have used football, but then we get into the whole American/British football/soccer thing and it confuses me way too damn much.) Everyone fallows it, I can't explain it that well. Unlike my friends, who were obsessed with, I never completely understood it, but we can get you a book on it when we go to get your school books."
"Okay," Lily said, this new sport looked interesting and that was just from looking at the shop.
When the finally reached Gringotts Lily looked at the building then looked at what was standing in front of it, "Mom, are those..."
"Yes, those are goblins."
Once Hermione and Lily were inside, Hermione headed over to the counter, "Good afternoon," Hermione said to a free goblin, "We've come to withdraw money from Hermione Granger's safe."
"Do you have the key, miss?" the goblin asked.
"Yes," Hermione said handing him the key.
The goblin looked at is closely, "Everything seems to be in order."
He led them down to the carts and after about few minutes they arrived at a volt and the goblin opened it.
"Wow..." Lily said.
"You seem to be saying that a lot today," Hermione said.
"Well, a lot of things I've seen today are 'wow' worthy," Lily said and looked around at the money in the volt, "THEIR MONEY'S DIFFERENT TOO!"
Hermione chuckled, "Yes," she said and then explained the money to Lily before putting some in a bag and getting back into the cart.
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After they left Gringotts, they headed towards Flourish and Blotts to get Lily's school books, after Lily got all her school books Hermione let Lily pick out two other books, she picked Hogwarts, A History and Quidditch Throughout the Ages; Hermione surpassed a laugh at this.
"Do we have everything, mom?" Lily asked an hour and a half later.
"No, we need to get two more things. Do you want an owl, cat, or toad?" Hermione asked.
"What would you suggest?" Lily asked.
"Well, they're all suppose to be pets, but with an owl you can send mail." Hermione said.
"Send mail?" Lily asked.
"Yes, Owl Post," Hermione said, "See in the wizarding world we send letters by owl."
"Kind of like carrier pidgins?" Lily asked.
"In a muggle since, yeah."
"Muggle?" Lily asked.
"Non-magical people."
"Oh...I think I want an owl," Lily said.
"Okay," Hermione said and the headed off to Eeylops Owl Emporium.
Right a way Lily saw the one she wanted, "Mom, can I have that one," Lily said, pointing to a snowy whit owl with bright green eyes.
Hermione smiled, "Sure," she said and bought the owl for her daughter.
"What's left?" Lily asked.
"The one thing a witch or wizard should never be with out."
"What's that?"
"A wand," Hermione said.
Lily's face broke into a huge smile as they headed for Ollivanders.
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"Hello," said a soft voice from behind the counter.
"Hello, Mr. Ollivander," Hermione said.
"Hermione Granger! Seventeen years since I've last seen you! Willow and phoenix feather, ten and a half inches, slightly springy." Mr. Ollivander said. (A/N: Did they ever say what Hermione's wand was made out of? Well if the do could someone e-mail it to me or leave in their review.)
"That's right, Mr. Ollivander," Hermione said.
"Ah," Mr. Ollivander said, looking at Lily, "this must be yours and Mr. Potter's daughter, correct?"
"Yes...How did you know?" Hermione asked.
"Well, Albus Dumbledore told me," Mr. Ollivander said, "And is there anything Albus Dumbledore doesn't know?"
"Yes, there isn't anything Albus Dumbledore doesn't know, but please don't tell anyone," Hermione said.
"Your secrets safe with me," Mr. Ollivander said.
He came out from behind the counter, got out the tape measure and it started measuring Lily.
"Which is your wand hand?" He asked.
"Umm..." was all Lily could say.
"Right," Hermione answered for her daughter.
"That will do," he said and the tape measure stopped and fell to the ground.
"Well, lets see if you take after your mother or father when it comes to finding your wand," Mr. Ollivander said before going to the back and coming out with a few wands.
"What about my mother and father?" Lily asked.
"Well, you see, your mother found her wand, or the wand found her because it's the wand that chooses the wizard, on her second try; but your father, well, we went through dozens of wands until we found one." Mr. Ollivander said before handing her a wand, "Oak and unicorn hair, thirteen inches, very whippy."
Lily waved it and Mr. Ollivander grabbed it out of her hand.
"No, that won't do. Here, try this one, Maple and phoenix feather, nine inches, rather bendy."
Lily took it and gave it a wave and Mr. Ollivander took it out of her hand. After about a half and hour, Lily felt like she had tried just about every wand in the shop.
"Like your father then are we? It makes me wonder..." Mr. Ollivander said be for going back into the back of the shop.
"Wonder what?" Lily called after him.
Mr. Ollivander returned about five minutes later with a box so dusty it looked like it hadn't been touched in over a hundred years.
"This wand has been looking for a counterpart of over a thousand years," Mr. Ollivander said.
"A thousand years!" Lily said.
"Yes, this shop has been around since 382 B.C. and this wand has just been sitting never finding the right match," Mr. Ollivander said, dusting off the top of the box and taking out the wand, "mahogany wood feather from the wing of a gryphon, ten and a quarter inches long, nice and supple."
Lily took the wand in her hand and a sudden warmth spread through her body she waved the wand and scarlet and golden sparks flew out of it. (A/N: sound familiar?)
Mr. Ollivander had a slight smile on his face, "Just like her father," Mr. Ollivander muttered, "Well, I'm glad that that has finally chosen someone, that will be seven Galleons and three Sickles."
Hermione paid Mr. Ollivander for the wand than she and Lily went to go get some ice cream.
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"Thanks, mom," Lily said as the left the ice cream shop.
"No, problem," Hermione said.
As they were walking out of Diagon Ally a store caught Lily's attention, "Mon, can we go in there?" Lily asked, point to a store that had a sign that said 'Weasley's Wizard Wheezes'.
"No," Hermione said flatly with a slight fear in her voice.
"Why?" Lily asked.
"Remember that redheaded boy in that picture I showed you?" Hermione asked, Lily just nodded, "His name was Ron. Ron Weasley."
"Oh," Lily said.
"His brothers own that shop and I know I will have to face my past sooner or later, but I was hoping for later," Hermione said.
"Okay," Lily said, and they left Diagon Ally and walked back to their flat getting strange looks at the owl Lily was carrying on the way.
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Harry was sitting at his desk in his office looking over some papers when he heard a knock on the door, "It's open," he said, not looking up from his papers.
"You know, Harry, you can't continue this search when classes start," Harry's friend, Remus Lupin, said.
"Good thing I have about three more weeks," Harry said, still not looking up from his papers.
"Harry, she's been gone for eleven years, twelve this December, I've got the feeling that if she doesn't want to be found, your not going to find her," Remus said.
"Try not to be too optimistic, Remus," Harry said sarcastically.
"Harry, how long has it been since you've had any sort of a lead?" Remus said, knowing it had been months since Harry had told him about the last lead.
"About ten minutes," Harry said.
"What?" Remus said crossing over to Harry.
Harry finally looked up from his papers, "I got an owl ten minutes ago from Fleur, it seems that some money was taken out of Miss. Hermione Granger's Gringotts account in Diagon Ally this afternoon, the first time any money has been withdrawn since a week before Christmas almost twelve years ago," Harry said, showing Remus the letter.
Remus looked at the letter, "Don't get too hopeful, Harry; we've had bigger leads and we've never found her before."
"I'm not being hopeful, I'm being optimistic," Harry said.
"Harry, optimistic and hopeful mean the same thing," Remus said.
"Who gives a damn! I've been searching for her for over eleven years; I'm not going to give up now. I'm going to floo to Diagon Ally ask around, see if they found her," Harry said, getting up and leaving the room.
Remus didn't even make a move to stop him, Harry loved Hermione so much and he was so determined there was no point to try and stop him, there was nothing he could do, Harry was an adult now and could make his own decisions and he would just get mad at Remus for trying to stop him.
A/N: Thanks for reading plz review!