Chapter 11: Facial expressions

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Hermione's POV

I watched as he ran out of the room. I looked at my finger. I was still wearing the ring. I still hadn't taken it off.

'Whatever, I don't need to beg for him.'

I got up and walked out of the room. My feet dragged me to the portrait of the fat lady.

'I wonder what her name is' I wondered, we always knew her as the fat lady, but never bothered to find out what her real name was.

"Excuse me," I began

"Yes?"

"I was wondering, what is your name?"

She looked at me with curiosity.

"No one has ever asked me, it is Rose, and you are Hermione, but as the portraits are

saying, your real name is Emma."

"Yes, but only one other person knows that, and he won't even talk to me"

"How does he know, were you friends, or did he overhear? Because he isn't worth looking that upset over if he won't talk to you. Now is this person a Mister Malfoy?"

"How did you know" no one knew that Draco and I had been friends.

"Since we portraits just do what we were painted to do, Violet and I pass the time by gossiping, you would not believe what goes on in this school."

"Oh, what does go on in this school, I mainly spend my time with Harry and Ron and they're no much of gossipers"

"Maybe another night, I think you had better go in the common room, and be careful."

I stepped into the common room and saw people running, hiding, or standing on a table.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"SOME IDIOT THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY TO PUT A LION IN THE GIRLS' DORMITORY!" Parvati yelled from on top of a table.

"I bet it was a Slytherin, there was a snake coiled around its neck!" Neville yelped.

"Where are they?" I could tell that they were talking about Athena and Artemis

"WE DON'T KNOW!" Dean screamed

"GO GET FILTCH!!!!" Lavender screeched!

"Where are Harry and the Weasleys?" I asked

"Quiditch practice, why, there's a LION IN OUR ROOM!" a fifth year cried out

"In the dark? Whatever, did you do anything to them?"

"No, we all ran down here!" Seamus screamed

"I'll be right back" I walked upstairs to find Artemis and Athena asleep on my pillow. I tapped them lightly and prayed that I was about to speak in parseltongue, for once.

"Did you two scare everyone?" I asked when Artemis opened one of her eyes. She lifted her head and tilted it to the side, signaling an, 'We did, but look at how innocent and cute we are' face.

"Did you two think it was funny?"

She nodded her head. Athena got up and did the 'but look at how cute we are and forget about being mad at us' face.

I heard a gasp from behind me. I whipped my head around and saw Ron and Harry

behind me, and behind them was the rest of the house.

'SHIT! FUCK! CRAP! DAMN!'

"H-hey guys (gulp) how was practice? He, he" They all looked shocked.

Harry took a step forward with Ron right beside him.

"Mione, are you feeling alright?" He asked. Ron was looking at my face, petrified.

"H-h-harry! Look at her eyes!!!!" He screamed.

I turned my head away, I knew what he saw. My father's eyes. It turns out that I'm also my father's daughter.

"Mione," Harry started. I got up and ran out of the room, which wasn't easy. I ran out of the common room and down the halls. I could hear someone behind me.

"Mione, wait!" That was Harry's voice. I knew that I could talk to him about this, or part of it. I turned around, no one was with him. When he got up to me, he grabbed me by the arm and pulled me into the closest classroom.

"Mione, what's been going on? First you change your appearance, then your identity, and now you're speaking in parseltongue!"

"Oh Harry" I cried out "If I tell you this, you have to swear that you will never reveal this to another soul, you will never even repeat it!"

"Of course, what is it" his eyes softened

"Last year, I found out that I was adopted, I found out who my father was, but to be his daughter, I would have to go against everything I believe. And Malfoy was the only person who knew about it, but he didn't know it was me, so he was nice and now that he found out, we're in a big fight and we're not talking!"

"Come on Mione, it's ok" He said. I rested my head in his shoulders and began to cry. All of this was coming so quickly and all of a sudden.

"Harry, can you please take me to Dumbledore?"

"Of course"

We walked to Dumbledore's office.

"Do you know the password?"

"No, but aren't you a prefect? Don't they tell you these things?"

"Um, I know! This is my favorite candy and anyone with a sweet tooth would know this"

"What is it Mione?"

"Cookie dough bites" I said to the gargoyle. It began to turn and form a spiral staircase.

We walked up the staircase and into Dumbledore's office to see him eating lemon drops.

We told him what happened. He looked at my eyes and gave me a mirror. My eyes did look like my father's.

"Do not worry, you were at a potions detention tonight, were you not?" He said

"Yes"

"Well, before you left, you tripped and a couple of vials broke. The parseltongue was caused by the mixture of the two potions and Poppy gave you an antidote"

"Yes sir" Harry and I headed for the door when Dumbledore called me back

"Oh, and Miss Granger?"

I turned around

"Have you ever worn contacts?"

"No, I don't like things touching my eyes"

"Well, now you do. Your eyes are the newest fad in America" His eyes began to twinkle. I knew what he meant. He wanted me to tell everyone that my eyes were like this because of contacts, but I'm not a good liar so I asked him if there was a spell you could use so that I didn't need to put anything in my eyes or lie.

"Just tap your left temple and say 'Pupiris' if you do not want questioning though"

I thanked him and Harry and I went back to the common room. When we got there, we explained what had happened with the potion and how my eyes must have been a side affect. We went to sleep, but I was sure that not everyone believed me.