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 reviews! I'm so happy! I hope you guys like this chappy! My chapters my be coming out a little slower as school is starting here, but in a few weeks they should be more regular. Oh, and Brownie Points to who knows what my new pen name (Five of Spades) means. On with the next chapter.
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Chapter 3: Welcome to the Wizarding World
"How does she do it, Remus?" Harry asked.
"I don't know, Harry."
"Our first lead in months, when we go to check it out it was obvious that she'd been in Diagon Ally and The Leaky Cauldron, but she hasn't been seen anywhere else in these past three weeks," Harry said disgruntled.
"Well, Harry, you are going to have to put your search on hold because the students will be here in a couple of hours," Remus said.
"I know, Remus, I have to put my search on hold," Harry said, looking as thought Remus had told him this about twenty times today.
"One other thing, Harry, and don't get mad at me for saying this, I know you love Hermione." Remus started.
"But?"
"But.if she wanted to be found she would have by now, it's been over eleven years, I think it's time you moved on," Remus said, expecting Harry to blow up at him at anytime now.
"I know," Harry said, surprising Lupin, "And I've tried, but I can't, not knowing why she left and where she is, if-when I find her I don't expect to get back together, though it would be nice, I just want to know that she is safe and why she left," Harry sighed, "if I drove her away."
"Harry, don't say that, it wasn't you," Remus tried to assure him.
"We don't know, but I will find out," Harry said.
"Harry, why don't you use your time teaching here to clear your mind about the search, it might help," Remus suggested.
"I'll try."
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"Mom?" Lily said, looking at her ticket for the first time.
"Yes?"
"My ticket says platform 9 ¾, there's no such thing."
"Lily, after all the things you've seen and heard about these last six weeks and you think there can be no such thing as platform 9 ¾?" Hermione asked.
"Good point," Lily said, pushing her trolley.
"Well, here we are," Hermione said stopping.
"Mom, I don't see platform 9 ¾, we're standing in between platforms 9 and -," Lily gasped as person walked in front of them and right through the wall between platforms 9 and 10, "Wow."
"That's how you get to platform 9 ¾."
"So, I just walk threw platforms 9 and 10?" Lily asked.
"That simple," Hermione said, "But if you're a bit nervous, it's good to go at a run."
"Okay," Lily said and started to run towards the barrier, expecting to crash, but she didn't, "Well, I'll be damned," she said.
"Language, Lily," Hermione said from behind her.
"Yes, mom," Lily said.
"Well," Hermione said, looking like she was about to cry, "um- I guess it's time to say good-bye, the train will be leaving soon."
Lily pulled her mother into a tight hug, "I'm going to miss you, mom," Lily said and she meant it, she had never been without her mother for so long.
"I'll miss you too, Lily," Hermione said, hugging her daughter back.
"Well, I'll see you at Christmas," Hermione said.
"Yeah, I'll owl you, mom," Lily said, getting on the train.
"Love you," Hermione said.
"Love you, too, mom."
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Lily was trying to find and empty compartment, and so far she was having no luck and this was the last one, she opened the door to find two redheads sitting there.
"Hello," Lily said, "Do you mind if I sit here? Everywhere else is full."
"Sure," one of the redheads said, "I'm Xander (A/N: I love that name), by the way, and this is my twin sister Allison," he said, pointing to the girl sitting next to him.
"But everyone calls me Ally," she said.
"I'm Lily," Lily said.
She stepped into the compartment and put away her trunk, before sitting down, putting her owl's cage next to her.
"Pretty owl," Ally said.
"Thank you, her name is Hathor."
"Hathor," Ally repeated, "I like it."
"Sounds kind of girly," Xander said.
"Well, Xand," Ally put an arm over her brother's shoulder, and said, in mocking importance, "considering that the owl's a girl and the person who thought of the name was a girl, it might sound kind of, well, girlyish."
"Wait!" Xander said, "I didn't know you were a girl!"
Lily laughed while Ally took her arm off her brother's shoulder and pushed him off his seat.
"So, Lily," Xander said, after getting off the floor and composing him self, "What year are you in?"
"This is my first year here."
"Ours too," Ally said, "What house do you want to be in?"
"From what I've read, I want to be in Gryffindor and Ravenclaw," Lily said, remembering what she read in Hogwarts: A History.
"In all likely-hood we're going to be in Gryffindor," Xander said.
"Why?"
"Our family has been in Gryffindor for ages, we think it's genetic, along with the red hair," Ally answered.
After talking about mindless things for a half an hour, the compartment door opened and a girl with white-blonde came in and sat down.
"Hey Ally, hey Xand. Who's your friend?" the girl asked.
"Oh, Nicki, this is Lily, Lily this is our cousin, Nicki," Ally introduced.
"Hello," Lily said, shaking Nicki's hand.
"Hello."
"You've been made a prefect, I see," Xander said.
"Yes, I have. Mum and dad we're really proud," Nicki said.
"So," Ally said, "how are Aunt Fleur and Uncle Bill?" (A/N: I bet you all thought it would be Draco's kid!)
"They're great," Ally said.
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A half an hour later Nicki left and an hour after that the lady with the food cart came.
"Anything from the trolley dears?" she asked.
The three of them went over a bought a variety of things.
"Wow," Lily said, "Wizarding candy is so much better then Muggle candy!"
"You're a Muggle-born?" Xander asked, "Not that we care if you're a Muggle- born or not, we feel that the whole purebloods-are-better-than-everyone- else thing is a piece of crap."
"I could tell you if I was a Muggle-born if I knew what that is," Lily said.
"A Muggle-born is a witch or wizard who has muggle parents," Ally explained.
"Oh, I'm not a Muggle-born, my mom and dad were a witch and wizard, but I was raised as a muggle."
A few hours later the train stopped and they got out when they heard someone shouting, "Firs' years! Firs' years over here!"
"Hello, Hagrid," Ally and Xander said.
"`Ello, Ally, Xander, who's yer friend?" Hagrid asked. (A/N: I'm REALLY bad at writing accents, sorry if Hagrid's sounds really bad.)
"This is our friend Ally, Ally this is Hagrid, he's the gamekeeper and the Care of Magical Creatures Professor."
"Hello," Lily said.
After crossing the lake (Xander started goofing off and would have fallen into the lake if Lily didn't catch him.) They had just walked into the Great Hall, Lily looked up at the ceiling, she may have read about it in Hogwarts: A History, but it was so much more amazing in real life. She looked up at the staff table when her eyes rested on someone who looked familiar, 'Where have I seen him before?' Lily thought, 'He looks so familiar, his eyes look a lot like mine... Oh crap! It's my dad! He looks just like he did in that picture except a dozen years older.'
An elderly lady with her hair in a tight bun came out with a stool and a hat she out the hat on the stool and to Lily's, and all the other first years' surprise, it started to sing:
(A/N: I don't feel like coming up with a song)
The same lady came back out and said "When I call your name please come put the hat on your head. Alter, Katie"
Lily zoned out looking at her father, knowing that either way this year would be a living Hell, Lily continued to out until she heard her name called; " Granger, Lily"
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Harry was only paying mild attention to the sorting when a name caught his hear, a name he had been looking for for the last twelve years.
"Granger, Lily" he heard McGonagall say, at the word Granger his head spun around to look at a girl that was a little small for her age, had slightly messy brown hair; she sat down on the stool and put the hat over her head before Harry could see what color her eyes were.
'She couldn't be Hermione's kid, that would be impossible,' Harry thought, 'Granger is a perfectly common name. Your just being paranoid because you want to find Hermione so bad.'
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Lily walked over and put the Sorting Hat on, "Hello," she heard the sorting hat say.
'Hello,' Lily thought.
"So, this is Potter and Granger's daughter, and yes Lily that is your father over there," the Hat said.
'Great,' Lily thought, 'I'm not even in the Wizarding world twenty minutes and I run into my father.'
"I'm having a hard time choosing a house for you, you would seem to do well in Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin, I'm not sure where to put you."
'I don't care as long as it's not Slytherin,' Lily thought.
"I think I know what house to put you in, yes, what you just said confirmed it, I think I will put you in-GRYFFINDOR!" the Hat shouted the last part to the whole hall.
Lily went to the Gryffindor table, but once she sat down she felt a pair of eyes on her, she turned around to see her father looking at her, 'Damn,' she thought, 'I hope he doesn't put two and two together, I really don't want to be the one that has to explain everything to him, considering there is so much stuff I don't know.'
"Congratulations," a voice said pulling Lily out of her thoughts.
"Oh, hi Nicki," Lily said to her new friends' cousin.
"If you don't mind me asking, what's your mum's name?" Nicki asked.
'Why would she want to know that?' Lily asked herself.
"Hermione Granger," Lily said.
Lily could've sworn that she saw Nicki's eyes widen, "And you dad?" Nicki asked.
'It probably wouldn't be good if I said one of my professors, not to mention one of the most famous people in the wizarding world, was my father.'
"Never met him," Lily shrugged, 'It's not a lie, you never said that you didn't know who he was, and you have never met him.'
Nicki looked a little disappointed and a few minutes later Lily hear a name her recognized, "Weasley, Alexander" Lily heard McGonagall say, Lily turned around and saw Xander walk over to the stool and put on the Hat, 'Of course, that's just my luck, I'm new to this school, my dad, who doesn't even know I exist, works here, and my new friends are related to one of my mom's best friends, I am doomed!'
After dinner (Xander and Ally had been placed in Gryffindor and Professor Dumbledore confirmed Lily's suspicions of her father working with her) she finally got to her bedroom and fell asleep.
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Unlike his daughter that he unknowingly had, Harry could not get to sleep, that girl had looked so much like him and Hermione Harry thought his and Hermione's daughter would look like that, 'Stop that Harry!' he thought to himself, 'DON'T get paranoid, Remus was right, I need to use these months to organize and clear my thought out about Hermione.'
But no matter what Harry said he still had the thought of Hermione and this girl-Lily- in the back of his head.
A/N: End of chappy three! Plz R&R!
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 reviews! I'm so happy! I hope you guys like this chappy! My chapters my be coming out a little slower as school is starting here, but in a few weeks they should be more regular. Oh, and Brownie Points to who knows what my new pen name (Five of Spades) means. On with the next chapter.
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Chapter 3: Welcome to the Wizarding World
"How does she do it, Remus?" Harry asked.
"I don't know, Harry."
"Our first lead in months, when we go to check it out it was obvious that she'd been in Diagon Ally and The Leaky Cauldron, but she hasn't been seen anywhere else in these past three weeks," Harry said disgruntled.
"Well, Harry, you are going to have to put your search on hold because the students will be here in a couple of hours," Remus said.
"I know, Remus, I have to put my search on hold," Harry said, looking as thought Remus had told him this about twenty times today.
"One other thing, Harry, and don't get mad at me for saying this, I know you love Hermione." Remus started.
"But?"
"But.if she wanted to be found she would have by now, it's been over eleven years, I think it's time you moved on," Remus said, expecting Harry to blow up at him at anytime now.
"I know," Harry said, surprising Lupin, "And I've tried, but I can't, not knowing why she left and where she is, if-when I find her I don't expect to get back together, though it would be nice, I just want to know that she is safe and why she left," Harry sighed, "if I drove her away."
"Harry, don't say that, it wasn't you," Remus tried to assure him.
"We don't know, but I will find out," Harry said.
"Harry, why don't you use your time teaching here to clear your mind about the search, it might help," Remus suggested.
"I'll try."
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"Mom?" Lily said, looking at her ticket for the first time.
"Yes?"
"My ticket says platform 9 ¾, there's no such thing."
"Lily, after all the things you've seen and heard about these last six weeks and you think there can be no such thing as platform 9 ¾?" Hermione asked.
"Good point," Lily said, pushing her trolley.
"Well, here we are," Hermione said stopping.
"Mom, I don't see platform 9 ¾, we're standing in between platforms 9 and -," Lily gasped as person walked in front of them and right through the wall between platforms 9 and 10, "Wow."
"That's how you get to platform 9 ¾."
"So, I just walk threw platforms 9 and 10?" Lily asked.
"That simple," Hermione said, "But if you're a bit nervous, it's good to go at a run."
"Okay," Lily said and started to run towards the barrier, expecting to crash, but she didn't, "Well, I'll be damned," she said.
"Language, Lily," Hermione said from behind her.
"Yes, mom," Lily said.
"Well," Hermione said, looking like she was about to cry, "um- I guess it's time to say good-bye, the train will be leaving soon."
Lily pulled her mother into a tight hug, "I'm going to miss you, mom," Lily said and she meant it, she had never been without her mother for so long.
"I'll miss you too, Lily," Hermione said, hugging her daughter back.
"Well, I'll see you at Christmas," Hermione said.
"Yeah, I'll owl you, mom," Lily said, getting on the train.
"Love you," Hermione said.
"Love you, too, mom."
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Lily was trying to find and empty compartment, and so far she was having no luck and this was the last one, she opened the door to find two redheads sitting there.
"Hello," Lily said, "Do you mind if I sit here? Everywhere else is full."
"Sure," one of the redheads said, "I'm Xander (A/N: I love that name), by the way, and this is my twin sister Allison," he said, pointing to the girl sitting next to him.
"But everyone calls me Ally," she said.
"I'm Lily," Lily said.
She stepped into the compartment and put away her trunk, before sitting down, putting her owl's cage next to her.
"Pretty owl," Ally said.
"Thank you, her name is Hathor."
"Hathor," Ally repeated, "I like it."
"Sounds kind of girly," Xander said.
"Well, Xand," Ally put an arm over her brother's shoulder, and said, in mocking importance, "considering that the owl's a girl and the person who thought of the name was a girl, it might sound kind of, well, girlyish."
"Wait!" Xander said, "I didn't know you were a girl!"
Lily laughed while Ally took her arm off her brother's shoulder and pushed him off his seat.
"So, Lily," Xander said, after getting off the floor and composing him self, "What year are you in?"
"This is my first year here."
"Ours too," Ally said, "What house do you want to be in?"
"From what I've read, I want to be in Gryffindor and Ravenclaw," Lily said, remembering what she read in Hogwarts: A History.
"In all likely-hood we're going to be in Gryffindor," Xander said.
"Why?"
"Our family has been in Gryffindor for ages, we think it's genetic, along with the red hair," Ally answered.
After talking about mindless things for a half an hour, the compartment door opened and a girl with white-blonde came in and sat down.
"Hey Ally, hey Xand. Who's your friend?" the girl asked.
"Oh, Nicki, this is Lily, Lily this is our cousin, Nicki," Ally introduced.
"Hello," Lily said, shaking Nicki's hand.
"Hello."
"You've been made a prefect, I see," Xander said.
"Yes, I have. Mum and dad we're really proud," Nicki said.
"So," Ally said, "how are Aunt Fleur and Uncle Bill?" (A/N: I bet you all thought it would be Draco's kid!)
"They're great," Ally said.
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A half an hour later Nicki left and an hour after that the lady with the food cart came.
"Anything from the trolley dears?" she asked.
The three of them went over a bought a variety of things.
"Wow," Lily said, "Wizarding candy is so much better then Muggle candy!"
"You're a Muggle-born?" Xander asked, "Not that we care if you're a Muggle- born or not, we feel that the whole purebloods-are-better-than-everyone- else thing is a piece of crap."
"I could tell you if I was a Muggle-born if I knew what that is," Lily said.
"A Muggle-born is a witch or wizard who has muggle parents," Ally explained.
"Oh, I'm not a Muggle-born, my mom and dad were a witch and wizard, but I was raised as a muggle."
A few hours later the train stopped and they got out when they heard someone shouting, "Firs' years! Firs' years over here!"
"Hello, Hagrid," Ally and Xander said.
"`Ello, Ally, Xander, who's yer friend?" Hagrid asked. (A/N: I'm REALLY bad at writing accents, sorry if Hagrid's sounds really bad.)
"This is our friend Ally, Ally this is Hagrid, he's the gamekeeper and the Care of Magical Creatures Professor."
"Hello," Lily said.
After crossing the lake (Xander started goofing off and would have fallen into the lake if Lily didn't catch him.) They had just walked into the Great Hall, Lily looked up at the ceiling, she may have read about it in Hogwarts: A History, but it was so much more amazing in real life. She looked up at the staff table when her eyes rested on someone who looked familiar, 'Where have I seen him before?' Lily thought, 'He looks so familiar, his eyes look a lot like mine... Oh crap! It's my dad! He looks just like he did in that picture except a dozen years older.'
An elderly lady with her hair in a tight bun came out with a stool and a hat she out the hat on the stool and to Lily's, and all the other first years' surprise, it started to sing:
(A/N: I don't feel like coming up with a song)
The same lady came back out and said "When I call your name please come put the hat on your head. Alter, Katie"
Lily zoned out looking at her father, knowing that either way this year would be a living Hell, Lily continued to out until she heard her name called; " Granger, Lily"
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Harry was only paying mild attention to the sorting when a name caught his hear, a name he had been looking for for the last twelve years.
"Granger, Lily" he heard McGonagall say, at the word Granger his head spun around to look at a girl that was a little small for her age, had slightly messy brown hair; she sat down on the stool and put the hat over her head before Harry could see what color her eyes were.
'She couldn't be Hermione's kid, that would be impossible,' Harry thought, 'Granger is a perfectly common name. Your just being paranoid because you want to find Hermione so bad.'
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Lily walked over and put the Sorting Hat on, "Hello," she heard the sorting hat say.
'Hello,' Lily thought.
"So, this is Potter and Granger's daughter, and yes Lily that is your father over there," the Hat said.
'Great,' Lily thought, 'I'm not even in the Wizarding world twenty minutes and I run into my father.'
"I'm having a hard time choosing a house for you, you would seem to do well in Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin, I'm not sure where to put you."
'I don't care as long as it's not Slytherin,' Lily thought.
"I think I know what house to put you in, yes, what you just said confirmed it, I think I will put you in-GRYFFINDOR!" the Hat shouted the last part to the whole hall.
Lily went to the Gryffindor table, but once she sat down she felt a pair of eyes on her, she turned around to see her father looking at her, 'Damn,' she thought, 'I hope he doesn't put two and two together, I really don't want to be the one that has to explain everything to him, considering there is so much stuff I don't know.'
"Congratulations," a voice said pulling Lily out of her thoughts.
"Oh, hi Nicki," Lily said to her new friends' cousin.
"If you don't mind me asking, what's your mum's name?" Nicki asked.
'Why would she want to know that?' Lily asked herself.
"Hermione Granger," Lily said.
Lily could've sworn that she saw Nicki's eyes widen, "And you dad?" Nicki asked.
'It probably wouldn't be good if I said one of my professors, not to mention one of the most famous people in the wizarding world, was my father.'
"Never met him," Lily shrugged, 'It's not a lie, you never said that you didn't know who he was, and you have never met him.'
Nicki looked a little disappointed and a few minutes later Lily hear a name her recognized, "Weasley, Alexander" Lily heard McGonagall say, Lily turned around and saw Xander walk over to the stool and put on the Hat, 'Of course, that's just my luck, I'm new to this school, my dad, who doesn't even know I exist, works here, and my new friends are related to one of my mom's best friends, I am doomed!'
After dinner (Xander and Ally had been placed in Gryffindor and Professor Dumbledore confirmed Lily's suspicions of her father working with her) she finally got to her bedroom and fell asleep.
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Unlike his daughter that he unknowingly had, Harry could not get to sleep, that girl had looked so much like him and Hermione Harry thought his and Hermione's daughter would look like that, 'Stop that Harry!' he thought to himself, 'DON'T get paranoid, Remus was right, I need to use these months to organize and clear my thought out about Hermione.'
But no matter what Harry said he still had the thought of Hermione and this girl-Lily- in the back of his head.
A/N: End of chappy three! Plz R&R!