Chapter 16: Long Live Princess Hermione
Hermione woke up in the infirmary at Hogwarts.
"What time is it?" she asked herself. She took her cell phone off the nightstand and looked at it. It was almost three in the morning. She got out of bed and walked to Madame Pomfrey. "Excuse me, ma'am. May I go now?"
"Oh, you're awake. Yes. Good night dearie." She said, not looking up form her papers.
"Thank you" Hermione walked back to the common room. She replayed tonight's events in her head. "Did it really happen? Or did I fall unconscious after Crabbe knocked me off the broom? Pixi-stix" the portrait door opened. "So it did happen" she stepped into the common room and walked up to her dormitory.
She took off her cloak and looked at the book on her bed. "Long live Princess Hermione" she said to herself as she drifted off into a deep, dreamless sleep.
Later in the Morning
BZZ! BZZ! BZZ!
Hermione awoke with a start. It was the first day of classes. That was when yesterday came flooding back.
She groaned at the memory that her mother will be one of her teachers. She got up and walked over to get dressed. After Pansy adjusted her outfit, Hermione decided to alter all of her outfits. She chose a skirt that she added a chain to on the top like a belt that was the same length as the other one. She took out a shirt with gold stitching to match the chains. She wore a plain robe open and wore her tie loosely. She wore the same shoes from yesterday (the converses). She put her hair in a half pony and put on a hat that matched the skirt.
Hermione looked at herself in the mirror as she put in her earrings and put on some clear lip-gloss. She looked HOT!
She grabbed her bag and quickly made her way to the Great Hall. The Gryffindors all became quiet, along with most of the room, when she sat down.
"Good morning boys. Terribly sorry that I did not go to you after I came back, but I did not get back to the common room until almost three in the morning" She explained as she reached for an apple. "What do we have first?"
"Um, DADA with the Slytherins, here's your schedule" Hermoine spit out her apple when she heard this.
"What!"
"DADA with-" Ron repeated
"No, that's not it. Listen, I have to tell you something, but you cannot repeat it to anyone! Do you understand? NO ONE!"
The doors to the Great Hall then opened and in walked Emma and Hermione's mother. Hermione saw the boys gaping at her mother and great great whatever grandmother.
"Woah, who do you think she is?" She heard Dean ask Seamus
"I don't know but she is hot." He replied.
"That is so gross. I did not hear that. I did not hear that. I did not hear that." Hermione said.
"Students, may I have your attention please?" Dumbledore said. The hall became more quiet. "I would like to introduce you all to the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Professor Riddle." Whispers erupted in the room.
"You guys, can we please leave?" Hermione asked Harry and Ron as Dumbledore continued to talk.
"But Hermione-"
"Please? I really need to talk to you. Now dive! Dive! Dive!" Hermione whispered. The three dove under the table and crawled out of the hall, unseen.
"What's the matter 'Mione?" Harry asked as they walked down the hall.
"That's my mother. Princess Cassara Riddle is my mother. Tell anyone and face the wrath of a Rald. And, to make it worse, DEAN AND SEAMUS SAID THAT SHE WAS HOT! EW!" Harry and Ron stood, dumbfounded.
"What?" Harry finally got out
"That woman is my mother. I just found out last night. And she's a princess. Do you guys remember in History of Magic class when Professor Binns mentioned Emma Rald?" They nodded in unison. "Well that woman walking with my mother is Emma Rald, my great great great whatever grandmother! But, to make it worse, there's more that they refuse to tell me, no the worst thing is that people think that they're hot."
"Woah, 'Mione, so that's why she was asking about you last night." Ron said
"I guess she was looking for me. Guys, I swear that if anyone calls them hot one more time I don't know what I'll do. It's so gross. My mother and grandmother hot? And p.s., my dad is a demon."
"That is so cool Hermione. You're a princess. And you're also half demon. What demon?" Ron thought that this was cool, as you can tell.
"I don't know, but this doesn't leave us, okay?" Hermione urged.
"Of course 'Mione" Harry said as he grabbed her in a bear hug. Ron nodded in agreement and joined in. "Let's go to class" they linked arms and walked to the DADA classroom.
"Welcome class" Casssara began the class with "to your first lesson of your sixth year here at Horwarts. Before we begin, I would like to say do not think of me as your professor, or an old lady, but as one of you. You can come to me for anything, and I swear that by the end of the week, this shall be your favorite class." Hermione placed her head in her hands "Now, I believe that we should go around the room discussing ourselves, well sort of. Now we shall begin by playing a game. Everyone will have to take a sheet of parchment and write at least five constructive sentences about themselves. That if the first part of your instructions. Please begin, and when you are done hand it in to me. You have five minutes."
Everyone began to write on the parchments. One by one they handed them in to their new teacher, who also wrote a little about herself.
"OK, five minutes are up and I see that only one person has yet to hand in their parchment, thank you" Goyle walked up and handed in his parchment. "Thank you. Now, I shall read each description and you shall have to correctly guess who is being described. The first one:" she closed her eyes and picked up one of the parchments "I have black hair. My eyes are green." Hermione's hand shot up. "Looks like someone already knows this one. Please tell us who was being described Miss Granger" even though Hermione was her daughter, she had to act otherwise.
"Harry Potter, ma'am" Hermione said.
"Five points to Gryffindor. Next one: My best friend was just kicked out of school." Hermione's hand shot up once more. "Yes Miss Granger"
"Gregory Goyle"
"You are on a role, another five points. Next: I am not the person I was last year. My hair is different. My favorite movie is Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. I love to dance. I love to read" At this everyone's hands shot up. "Who was the first person to raise their hand? Mister Malfoy I presume was."
"Granger"
"Three points to Slytherin."
"Wait, Granger got five for each of the questions she got correct. Why did I only get three?" Draco complained
"You gave me a last name. This is about getting to know each other, not our last names. If I am not mistaken, there is a set of twins in your year. What if they were in the same class? Then how would I know which twin you're talking about? Minus two points for questioning me. I am the sixth of seven children. Yes Mister Potter?"
"Ron Weasley"
"Five for Gryffindor. I am new here. My eyes are brown and I am a brunette. I am a prin-Hermione?"
"That would be you, professor"
"Five for Gryffindor. Now, what I was going to say was that the reason why I look familiar to many of you is because my name is Cassara Riddle, princess Cassara Riddle, ancestor of Emma Rald, who happens to be in the castle right now. She shall be sitting in on your History of Magic classes." Cassara finished the game. Slytherin received one point in the end because none of them made an effort, though they did suck up to Cassara more than they ever sucked up to Snape. "Now, we shall rearrange the seats, but they are not permanent. Every day the seating shall change until they are right, but in the beginning of the class please sit next to who I assign you to. Um, Dean and Pansy. Ron and Millicent. Leila (a Slytherin) and Seamus. Parvati and Goyle. Hermione and Blaise. Draco and Harry. Lavender and Todd (a Slytherin). Neville and, oh dear, there used to be the dame amount of Slytherins, Neville go sit with Leila and Seamus. Don't just sit there, sit next to your new desk buddy. You're all going to now have small duels. How about Hermione and Blaise first?"
The two unhappily stood up and walked to the front of the class.
"Excuse me professor, may I please speak to you for a moment?" Hermione asked Cassara. She took her outside the classroom. "I know that you're new at the mother daughter thing, especially since you're starting with a teenager, but by doing this, please tell me that it's only because you know that Harry and Draco will kill each other."
"They hate each other that much?"
"More than Harry hates Lor-your brother and more than Draco hates muggles and muggle-borns."
"Oh dear, then do you think that it would be wise to have them duel each other?"
"Well, in the second year we had a dueling club and Draco set a poisonous snake on Harry."
"Oh my"
"But Harry shooed him away and accidentally chased him to a classmate of ours. He's a parseltongue. Also, last year we had a little club in which Harry taught a group of us how to duel."
"Well, I do want this to be an inter-house thing."
"No, I was just making sure that this calling upon me first wasn't because I'm your daughter. I don't want special treatment"
"Of course. You know what, I have an idea. Tonight, don't go to dinner with your friends. Come to my rooms and we shall get to know each other."
Hermione smiled. The two walked back into the classroom.
"Now, I have been thinking, Blaise and Draco switch partners please" Hermione looked up at her mother and gasped.
'Please don't do this. I do want special treatment' she thought to her mother.
'To late Hermione' Cassara giggled.
"Draco and Hermione are the two top students in your year so they should be together."
"Please no professor. I'd kill him quicker than Harry would, and I'm not talking about skill" Hermione pleaded
"Face each other and duel."
"EXPELLARIMUS!" Draco said. Hermione dodged it with ease.
She focused on him and all of a sudden, an invisible force threw him back.
"Oops! Sorry professor. That was an accident, I swear"
Draco slowly got up. Everyone looked in awe. It took a powerful witch or wizard to perform wandless magic, either that or studying for an extensive amount of time. The only people to be able to perform it at such a young age were the Ralds/Riddles.
"Stupid mudblood!" Draco yelled in fury. "Rictusempra (A/N I got that from Harry Potter 2)" Hermione tried to dodge the tickling charm, but was hit. She doubled over in laughter. Her face then scrunched up and a light burst from her. She stood up straight.
"Tarantallegra (A/N HP2 also)!" Malfoys legs started jerking around in all directions, like a quickstep. He accidentally kicked Harry in the face.
"Blaise, please take Harry to the infirmary" Cassara asked. The two left the room.
"Serpensortia!" Cassara along with the rest of the class gasped. They had not heard this spell since the second year in dueling club when Harry first realized that he was a parseltongue.
Cassara froze. Ever since she found out what her brother had become she had been deathly afraid of snakes.
Along, black snake shot out of the wand.
Hermione stood still, trying to think of what to do. She slowly took a step forward.
"Hey there." She slowly said as she took a step closer. Instead of hearing herself, though, she heard hissing. OH MY GOD! THE GIFTS I GOT FROM MY ANCESTORS! VOLDEMORT IS A PARSELMOUTH! I GOT THAT FROM HIM! "I'm not going to hurt you."
The snake looked up at her with bright eyes. "Who are you?" it asked.
"My name is Hermione. What is your name?"
"Ida (A/N I luv u Ida! Uraq!). Where am I?"
"You are at my school. Please come here. Now to be rude, but you are scaring my classmates and mother. Would you like me to send you back home?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, thank you."
"Where are you from?"
Ida told Hermione where to send her. Hermione did so.
'Apparently I got being a parselmouth from your brother. Who would have thought that he would come to use some day?' Hermione joke thought to her mother.
"G-good job Hermione" The bell rang. "Class dismissed, Hermione, please stay behind."
"I'll meet you at potions" Hermione told Ron
"What just happened?" Cassara asked
"I sent Ida back home. Ida is the snake's name. This is actually the first time this has ever happened actually." Hermione said
"Oh, well good for you, doing the right thing. That's my girl. Do you mind if I say that?"
"Sure. This is weird, but for some reason I feel comfortable with this, like it's never been any different. Are you okay? You seem pale."
"Well, ever since I found out what your uncle did I've been terrified of snakes. Don't worry though. I'm perfectly fine. What do you have now?"
"Advanced potions."
"Advanced? I didn't even have high enough grades for that class, and I was in Ravenclaw. Your father was home schooled. I have free now, how about I walk with you and tell your teacher why you are late?"
"I'd love that. Maybe you can tell me about some of your school days on our way?"
Cassara's eyes sparkled with happiness. They left the classroom. "Well, I was in Ravenclaw, as I said before. Your father wasn't allowed into any schools. His parents wouldn't let him because he's a demon. I had one best friend other than Alexandra. Her name was Lily Evans. I had the biggest crush on this one guy, Sirius Black. He and James Potter were the bad boys of the school. They ran this place. Would your friend Harry happen to be related to James?"
"James was his father"
"Was?"
"He died. Harry is the ever so famous Boy-Who-Lived."
"Well all I can say is that good looks run in the family." Hermione felt her face redden.
"Mom"
"Hermione"
"Harry is like my big brother. Please don't say stuff like that. It's like hearing my classmates call you hot."
"Ooh, well I can't argue with that. Okay, I'm sorry sweetie, but I'm not an ageless like Emma, so I have to love my appearance while I still have it. You know, her's are the only powers not passed down?"
"Yes, I read about it. Did Oz really die in her arms?"
"Yes, she does not like to speak about it"
"I'm so sorry. That must really suck, I mean, if anyone I loved died in my arms-if anyone died in my arms" Hermione trailed off
"Well that was a good thing you did with Ida. We have so many reptiles back home. Do you want a dragon? (A/N not something you hear from every mother...lol)"
"Aren't they illegal?"
"Honey, I'm the princess. If I wanted a dementor as a jester I could have that"
"I think it's wrong to do that. I don't even believe that house elves have a good life. Dementors and giants can be easily persuaded because of what is expected of them and the life given to them by witches and wizards."
"You make an excellent point, but I happen to have found an egg in the forest last night. I searched for the mother or father for hours. It was a muggle snake egg, a red-bellied water snake I believe. There are no muggle animals in the forbidden forest. Would you like to care for the egg and the snake after it hatches? You may keep it in my room"
"I'D LOVE THAT! THANK YOU!" Hermione swept her mother in a hug.
"Well, we are almost there. Now what is your teacher's name?"
"Professor Severus Snape." Hermione informed her mother. Cassara giggled. "What?"
"Well, Severus was in the same year as myself. Lily, James, and Sirius. He had such a huge crush on Lily. That was one of the reasons he hated James so much, because James ended up with her, and not him."
"Really? What was he like?"
"Well, don't tell thins to anyone, well, you could tell it to your two cute friends-"
"Mother!" Hermione hissed
"Sorry. Well, Severus and I were close. We never dated or anything, but he was my best guy friend. If I wasn't hanging out with Lily or the boyfriend that I had at whatever time, I was always with him. He was so sweet. He had a pretty crappy childhood, don't tell this part to anyone"
"I swear, but mom, you and Snape? And what's this about boyfriends?" Hermione switched into mother/embarrassed daughter/shocked daughter mode
"Well, I hardly ever went without a boyfriend. I was, how would you say it, the school flirt. I had almost every muggleborn's number. The purebloods were always giving me their home names, for floo communicating. In fact, I dated James for a few weeks, but then I found out that Lily liked him, but refused to go out with him, even if we weren't going out because of his big ego. I was the one who hooked them up. I also dated Sirius for several months, but then I found out about something he was trying to do to Severus."
"You mean the whole Lupin being a werewolf thing?"
"How did you know?"
"Sirius was Harry's godfather. He told us"
"Was?"
"He was killed. By a Death Eater." Hermione said slowly. "At the Ministry last year. Harry saw it happen. I was a few rooms down."
"Oh my dear. That poor boy. You know what, invite him and Ronald to my rooms tonight also. We can all get to know each other."
"Mother,"
"Yes?"
"How did you know about Lupin being a werewolf?"
"Well, Severus told me, but I also dated him, though not until after the incident. He was not in on it, so I didn't feel as guilty about it"
"As guilty?"
"Well, Severus was-ah! Here we are." Cassara knocked on the door as she opened it.
"Yes?" a harsh voice answered. Snape turned to look at who interrupted his lesson. "Cass-I mean, Majesty. What business do you have down in the dungeons?"
"I-I was just bringing Miss Granger. I had to speak with her. Sorry that I took so long."
"No problem Majesty."
"Well, I wont interrupt any longer" She turned to leave, but Snape stopped her.
"If you would like to sit in on the lesson, you may do so." Cassara walked quickly to the back of the classroom. "Well, take a seat Miss Granger."
Hermione examined the room. There was only one empty seat, next to Blaise. She irritatedly sat down next to him.
"As I was saying, today shall be a practical to test you in order to see if you read what was expected of you this summer. Can someone please tell me which potion we shall be concocting today? Yes Miss Granger?"
"We shall be making a potion called the elixir of truth there is no real name for it, though. It is an old potion that goes back through the centuries. It is meant to reveal one's true self, like a truth telling potion. It never works the same for every person though." Hermione began.
"Thank you Miss Granger" Snape interrupted. "Ten points to Gryffindor"
Everyone gasped at this. Never had professor Snape ever given points to Gryffindors, only detentions.
"Now, this potion only takes an hour and a half to prepare so seeing how this is a double lesson, you shall all have to come up to the front of the classroom. Begin" he walked over to Cassara as everyone began
"So what do you think?" Blaise asked Hermione
"Excuse me?"
"The professors. What do you think? I think that there's something between them?"
"She's married!" Hermione was disgusted. That was her mother!
"Well I wouldn't mind if she was half her age" Blaise said to Draco, who was sitting behind them
"Ew! Ew! Ew! Don't want to hear this" Hermione accidentally said aloud
"Shut up mudblood. You act as though she's your mother" Draco said
"Well, they do look an awful lot alike" Blaise pointed out.
"Fuck off Zabini! I'm going to go get out ingredients. You prepare the caldron. We only need one"
"Aye aye captain!" Blaise mocked as she left the table "What an obnoxious bitch. But what a great body"
"What do you mean? And please tell me that you have seen her in nothing more than a uniform." Draco told his friend
"What do you mean? You've seen her in nothing but a thong and bra. Remember? On the train? Oh yea! I remember, you forgot. Well, you were playing a bunch of games and she had to strip, twice! Mudblood got a hot body. I only wish someone dared her to do a strip dance before Pansy asked who in the room tried to-did you get your ears pierced?"
"Tried to what?" A voice came from behind them
"Granger! Gods! Don't sneak up on people like that! Damn!" Zabini said. "What's the first thing we have to do?" he asked, hoping to have gotten out of revealing what he had seen yesterday.
After Everyone Finished their Potions
Snape walked up to the front of the classroom. "Now who shall out first show and tellers be? Zabini and Granger, front and center. Zabini, you go first"
Blaise drank the potion. He looked around with curiosity.
"Zabini?" Snape asked
"I wet my bed until I was ten. I shagged my sister the second I found out she was adopted. I envy Potter's exciting life. I like to suck my thumb. I have a toe fungus and two of my toes are webbed. Granger attemp-"
Snape put a spell on him to cancel the potion. "Granger, your turn"
Hermione drank the potion. She felt a glimmer go over her body. When the glimmer went away she was wearing an indigo princess gown with a tiara. She was wearing a Ravenclaw pendant that was once owned by Rowena Ravenclaw.
Harry sensed that people would start to put pieces together. "Hermione, we know that your parents treat you like a princess, but this is just crazy" he nudged Ron
"Oh, uh, yeah Hermione." He began to laugh. Harry joined in on the laughter. Soon, everyone joined in.
'Thank you' Hermione thought to her best friends in the entire world.
The glimmer soon faded and she was back in what she was wearing before.
Hermione woke up in the infirmary at Hogwarts.
"What time is it?" she asked herself. She took her cell phone off the nightstand and looked at it. It was almost three in the morning. She got out of bed and walked to Madame Pomfrey. "Excuse me, ma'am. May I go now?"
"Oh, you're awake. Yes. Good night dearie." She said, not looking up form her papers.
"Thank you" Hermione walked back to the common room. She replayed tonight's events in her head. "Did it really happen? Or did I fall unconscious after Crabbe knocked me off the broom? Pixi-stix" the portrait door opened. "So it did happen" she stepped into the common room and walked up to her dormitory.
She took off her cloak and looked at the book on her bed. "Long live Princess Hermione" she said to herself as she drifted off into a deep, dreamless sleep.
Later in the Morning
BZZ! BZZ! BZZ!
Hermione awoke with a start. It was the first day of classes. That was when yesterday came flooding back.
She groaned at the memory that her mother will be one of her teachers. She got up and walked over to get dressed. After Pansy adjusted her outfit, Hermione decided to alter all of her outfits. She chose a skirt that she added a chain to on the top like a belt that was the same length as the other one. She took out a shirt with gold stitching to match the chains. She wore a plain robe open and wore her tie loosely. She wore the same shoes from yesterday (the converses). She put her hair in a half pony and put on a hat that matched the skirt.
Hermione looked at herself in the mirror as she put in her earrings and put on some clear lip-gloss. She looked HOT!
She grabbed her bag and quickly made her way to the Great Hall. The Gryffindors all became quiet, along with most of the room, when she sat down.
"Good morning boys. Terribly sorry that I did not go to you after I came back, but I did not get back to the common room until almost three in the morning" She explained as she reached for an apple. "What do we have first?"
"Um, DADA with the Slytherins, here's your schedule" Hermoine spit out her apple when she heard this.
"What!"
"DADA with-" Ron repeated
"No, that's not it. Listen, I have to tell you something, but you cannot repeat it to anyone! Do you understand? NO ONE!"
The doors to the Great Hall then opened and in walked Emma and Hermione's mother. Hermione saw the boys gaping at her mother and great great whatever grandmother.
"Woah, who do you think she is?" She heard Dean ask Seamus
"I don't know but she is hot." He replied.
"That is so gross. I did not hear that. I did not hear that. I did not hear that." Hermione said.
"Students, may I have your attention please?" Dumbledore said. The hall became more quiet. "I would like to introduce you all to the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Professor Riddle." Whispers erupted in the room.
"You guys, can we please leave?" Hermione asked Harry and Ron as Dumbledore continued to talk.
"But Hermione-"
"Please? I really need to talk to you. Now dive! Dive! Dive!" Hermione whispered. The three dove under the table and crawled out of the hall, unseen.
"What's the matter 'Mione?" Harry asked as they walked down the hall.
"That's my mother. Princess Cassara Riddle is my mother. Tell anyone and face the wrath of a Rald. And, to make it worse, DEAN AND SEAMUS SAID THAT SHE WAS HOT! EW!" Harry and Ron stood, dumbfounded.
"What?" Harry finally got out
"That woman is my mother. I just found out last night. And she's a princess. Do you guys remember in History of Magic class when Professor Binns mentioned Emma Rald?" They nodded in unison. "Well that woman walking with my mother is Emma Rald, my great great great whatever grandmother! But, to make it worse, there's more that they refuse to tell me, no the worst thing is that people think that they're hot."
"Woah, 'Mione, so that's why she was asking about you last night." Ron said
"I guess she was looking for me. Guys, I swear that if anyone calls them hot one more time I don't know what I'll do. It's so gross. My mother and grandmother hot? And p.s., my dad is a demon."
"That is so cool Hermione. You're a princess. And you're also half demon. What demon?" Ron thought that this was cool, as you can tell.
"I don't know, but this doesn't leave us, okay?" Hermione urged.
"Of course 'Mione" Harry said as he grabbed her in a bear hug. Ron nodded in agreement and joined in. "Let's go to class" they linked arms and walked to the DADA classroom.
"Welcome class" Casssara began the class with "to your first lesson of your sixth year here at Horwarts. Before we begin, I would like to say do not think of me as your professor, or an old lady, but as one of you. You can come to me for anything, and I swear that by the end of the week, this shall be your favorite class." Hermione placed her head in her hands "Now, I believe that we should go around the room discussing ourselves, well sort of. Now we shall begin by playing a game. Everyone will have to take a sheet of parchment and write at least five constructive sentences about themselves. That if the first part of your instructions. Please begin, and when you are done hand it in to me. You have five minutes."
Everyone began to write on the parchments. One by one they handed them in to their new teacher, who also wrote a little about herself.
"OK, five minutes are up and I see that only one person has yet to hand in their parchment, thank you" Goyle walked up and handed in his parchment. "Thank you. Now, I shall read each description and you shall have to correctly guess who is being described. The first one:" she closed her eyes and picked up one of the parchments "I have black hair. My eyes are green." Hermione's hand shot up. "Looks like someone already knows this one. Please tell us who was being described Miss Granger" even though Hermione was her daughter, she had to act otherwise.
"Harry Potter, ma'am" Hermione said.
"Five points to Gryffindor. Next one: My best friend was just kicked out of school." Hermione's hand shot up once more. "Yes Miss Granger"
"Gregory Goyle"
"You are on a role, another five points. Next: I am not the person I was last year. My hair is different. My favorite movie is Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. I love to dance. I love to read" At this everyone's hands shot up. "Who was the first person to raise their hand? Mister Malfoy I presume was."
"Granger"
"Three points to Slytherin."
"Wait, Granger got five for each of the questions she got correct. Why did I only get three?" Draco complained
"You gave me a last name. This is about getting to know each other, not our last names. If I am not mistaken, there is a set of twins in your year. What if they were in the same class? Then how would I know which twin you're talking about? Minus two points for questioning me. I am the sixth of seven children. Yes Mister Potter?"
"Ron Weasley"
"Five for Gryffindor. I am new here. My eyes are brown and I am a brunette. I am a prin-Hermione?"
"That would be you, professor"
"Five for Gryffindor. Now, what I was going to say was that the reason why I look familiar to many of you is because my name is Cassara Riddle, princess Cassara Riddle, ancestor of Emma Rald, who happens to be in the castle right now. She shall be sitting in on your History of Magic classes." Cassara finished the game. Slytherin received one point in the end because none of them made an effort, though they did suck up to Cassara more than they ever sucked up to Snape. "Now, we shall rearrange the seats, but they are not permanent. Every day the seating shall change until they are right, but in the beginning of the class please sit next to who I assign you to. Um, Dean and Pansy. Ron and Millicent. Leila (a Slytherin) and Seamus. Parvati and Goyle. Hermione and Blaise. Draco and Harry. Lavender and Todd (a Slytherin). Neville and, oh dear, there used to be the dame amount of Slytherins, Neville go sit with Leila and Seamus. Don't just sit there, sit next to your new desk buddy. You're all going to now have small duels. How about Hermione and Blaise first?"
The two unhappily stood up and walked to the front of the class.
"Excuse me professor, may I please speak to you for a moment?" Hermione asked Cassara. She took her outside the classroom. "I know that you're new at the mother daughter thing, especially since you're starting with a teenager, but by doing this, please tell me that it's only because you know that Harry and Draco will kill each other."
"They hate each other that much?"
"More than Harry hates Lor-your brother and more than Draco hates muggles and muggle-borns."
"Oh dear, then do you think that it would be wise to have them duel each other?"
"Well, in the second year we had a dueling club and Draco set a poisonous snake on Harry."
"Oh my"
"But Harry shooed him away and accidentally chased him to a classmate of ours. He's a parseltongue. Also, last year we had a little club in which Harry taught a group of us how to duel."
"Well, I do want this to be an inter-house thing."
"No, I was just making sure that this calling upon me first wasn't because I'm your daughter. I don't want special treatment"
"Of course. You know what, I have an idea. Tonight, don't go to dinner with your friends. Come to my rooms and we shall get to know each other."
Hermione smiled. The two walked back into the classroom.
"Now, I have been thinking, Blaise and Draco switch partners please" Hermione looked up at her mother and gasped.
'Please don't do this. I do want special treatment' she thought to her mother.
'To late Hermione' Cassara giggled.
"Draco and Hermione are the two top students in your year so they should be together."
"Please no professor. I'd kill him quicker than Harry would, and I'm not talking about skill" Hermione pleaded
"Face each other and duel."
"EXPELLARIMUS!" Draco said. Hermione dodged it with ease.
She focused on him and all of a sudden, an invisible force threw him back.
"Oops! Sorry professor. That was an accident, I swear"
Draco slowly got up. Everyone looked in awe. It took a powerful witch or wizard to perform wandless magic, either that or studying for an extensive amount of time. The only people to be able to perform it at such a young age were the Ralds/Riddles.
"Stupid mudblood!" Draco yelled in fury. "Rictusempra (A/N I got that from Harry Potter 2)" Hermione tried to dodge the tickling charm, but was hit. She doubled over in laughter. Her face then scrunched up and a light burst from her. She stood up straight.
"Tarantallegra (A/N HP2 also)!" Malfoys legs started jerking around in all directions, like a quickstep. He accidentally kicked Harry in the face.
"Blaise, please take Harry to the infirmary" Cassara asked. The two left the room.
"Serpensortia!" Cassara along with the rest of the class gasped. They had not heard this spell since the second year in dueling club when Harry first realized that he was a parseltongue.
Cassara froze. Ever since she found out what her brother had become she had been deathly afraid of snakes.
Along, black snake shot out of the wand.
Hermione stood still, trying to think of what to do. She slowly took a step forward.
"Hey there." She slowly said as she took a step closer. Instead of hearing herself, though, she heard hissing. OH MY GOD! THE GIFTS I GOT FROM MY ANCESTORS! VOLDEMORT IS A PARSELMOUTH! I GOT THAT FROM HIM! "I'm not going to hurt you."
The snake looked up at her with bright eyes. "Who are you?" it asked.
"My name is Hermione. What is your name?"
"Ida (A/N I luv u Ida! Uraq!). Where am I?"
"You are at my school. Please come here. Now to be rude, but you are scaring my classmates and mother. Would you like me to send you back home?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, thank you."
"Where are you from?"
Ida told Hermione where to send her. Hermione did so.
'Apparently I got being a parselmouth from your brother. Who would have thought that he would come to use some day?' Hermione joke thought to her mother.
"G-good job Hermione" The bell rang. "Class dismissed, Hermione, please stay behind."
"I'll meet you at potions" Hermione told Ron
"What just happened?" Cassara asked
"I sent Ida back home. Ida is the snake's name. This is actually the first time this has ever happened actually." Hermione said
"Oh, well good for you, doing the right thing. That's my girl. Do you mind if I say that?"
"Sure. This is weird, but for some reason I feel comfortable with this, like it's never been any different. Are you okay? You seem pale."
"Well, ever since I found out what your uncle did I've been terrified of snakes. Don't worry though. I'm perfectly fine. What do you have now?"
"Advanced potions."
"Advanced? I didn't even have high enough grades for that class, and I was in Ravenclaw. Your father was home schooled. I have free now, how about I walk with you and tell your teacher why you are late?"
"I'd love that. Maybe you can tell me about some of your school days on our way?"
Cassara's eyes sparkled with happiness. They left the classroom. "Well, I was in Ravenclaw, as I said before. Your father wasn't allowed into any schools. His parents wouldn't let him because he's a demon. I had one best friend other than Alexandra. Her name was Lily Evans. I had the biggest crush on this one guy, Sirius Black. He and James Potter were the bad boys of the school. They ran this place. Would your friend Harry happen to be related to James?"
"James was his father"
"Was?"
"He died. Harry is the ever so famous Boy-Who-Lived."
"Well all I can say is that good looks run in the family." Hermione felt her face redden.
"Mom"
"Hermione"
"Harry is like my big brother. Please don't say stuff like that. It's like hearing my classmates call you hot."
"Ooh, well I can't argue with that. Okay, I'm sorry sweetie, but I'm not an ageless like Emma, so I have to love my appearance while I still have it. You know, her's are the only powers not passed down?"
"Yes, I read about it. Did Oz really die in her arms?"
"Yes, she does not like to speak about it"
"I'm so sorry. That must really suck, I mean, if anyone I loved died in my arms-if anyone died in my arms" Hermione trailed off
"Well that was a good thing you did with Ida. We have so many reptiles back home. Do you want a dragon? (A/N not something you hear from every mother...lol)"
"Aren't they illegal?"
"Honey, I'm the princess. If I wanted a dementor as a jester I could have that"
"I think it's wrong to do that. I don't even believe that house elves have a good life. Dementors and giants can be easily persuaded because of what is expected of them and the life given to them by witches and wizards."
"You make an excellent point, but I happen to have found an egg in the forest last night. I searched for the mother or father for hours. It was a muggle snake egg, a red-bellied water snake I believe. There are no muggle animals in the forbidden forest. Would you like to care for the egg and the snake after it hatches? You may keep it in my room"
"I'D LOVE THAT! THANK YOU!" Hermione swept her mother in a hug.
"Well, we are almost there. Now what is your teacher's name?"
"Professor Severus Snape." Hermione informed her mother. Cassara giggled. "What?"
"Well, Severus was in the same year as myself. Lily, James, and Sirius. He had such a huge crush on Lily. That was one of the reasons he hated James so much, because James ended up with her, and not him."
"Really? What was he like?"
"Well, don't tell thins to anyone, well, you could tell it to your two cute friends-"
"Mother!" Hermione hissed
"Sorry. Well, Severus and I were close. We never dated or anything, but he was my best guy friend. If I wasn't hanging out with Lily or the boyfriend that I had at whatever time, I was always with him. He was so sweet. He had a pretty crappy childhood, don't tell this part to anyone"
"I swear, but mom, you and Snape? And what's this about boyfriends?" Hermione switched into mother/embarrassed daughter/shocked daughter mode
"Well, I hardly ever went without a boyfriend. I was, how would you say it, the school flirt. I had almost every muggleborn's number. The purebloods were always giving me their home names, for floo communicating. In fact, I dated James for a few weeks, but then I found out that Lily liked him, but refused to go out with him, even if we weren't going out because of his big ego. I was the one who hooked them up. I also dated Sirius for several months, but then I found out about something he was trying to do to Severus."
"You mean the whole Lupin being a werewolf thing?"
"How did you know?"
"Sirius was Harry's godfather. He told us"
"Was?"
"He was killed. By a Death Eater." Hermione said slowly. "At the Ministry last year. Harry saw it happen. I was a few rooms down."
"Oh my dear. That poor boy. You know what, invite him and Ronald to my rooms tonight also. We can all get to know each other."
"Mother,"
"Yes?"
"How did you know about Lupin being a werewolf?"
"Well, Severus told me, but I also dated him, though not until after the incident. He was not in on it, so I didn't feel as guilty about it"
"As guilty?"
"Well, Severus was-ah! Here we are." Cassara knocked on the door as she opened it.
"Yes?" a harsh voice answered. Snape turned to look at who interrupted his lesson. "Cass-I mean, Majesty. What business do you have down in the dungeons?"
"I-I was just bringing Miss Granger. I had to speak with her. Sorry that I took so long."
"No problem Majesty."
"Well, I wont interrupt any longer" She turned to leave, but Snape stopped her.
"If you would like to sit in on the lesson, you may do so." Cassara walked quickly to the back of the classroom. "Well, take a seat Miss Granger."
Hermione examined the room. There was only one empty seat, next to Blaise. She irritatedly sat down next to him.
"As I was saying, today shall be a practical to test you in order to see if you read what was expected of you this summer. Can someone please tell me which potion we shall be concocting today? Yes Miss Granger?"
"We shall be making a potion called the elixir of truth there is no real name for it, though. It is an old potion that goes back through the centuries. It is meant to reveal one's true self, like a truth telling potion. It never works the same for every person though." Hermione began.
"Thank you Miss Granger" Snape interrupted. "Ten points to Gryffindor"
Everyone gasped at this. Never had professor Snape ever given points to Gryffindors, only detentions.
"Now, this potion only takes an hour and a half to prepare so seeing how this is a double lesson, you shall all have to come up to the front of the classroom. Begin" he walked over to Cassara as everyone began
"So what do you think?" Blaise asked Hermione
"Excuse me?"
"The professors. What do you think? I think that there's something between them?"
"She's married!" Hermione was disgusted. That was her mother!
"Well I wouldn't mind if she was half her age" Blaise said to Draco, who was sitting behind them
"Ew! Ew! Ew! Don't want to hear this" Hermione accidentally said aloud
"Shut up mudblood. You act as though she's your mother" Draco said
"Well, they do look an awful lot alike" Blaise pointed out.
"Fuck off Zabini! I'm going to go get out ingredients. You prepare the caldron. We only need one"
"Aye aye captain!" Blaise mocked as she left the table "What an obnoxious bitch. But what a great body"
"What do you mean? And please tell me that you have seen her in nothing more than a uniform." Draco told his friend
"What do you mean? You've seen her in nothing but a thong and bra. Remember? On the train? Oh yea! I remember, you forgot. Well, you were playing a bunch of games and she had to strip, twice! Mudblood got a hot body. I only wish someone dared her to do a strip dance before Pansy asked who in the room tried to-did you get your ears pierced?"
"Tried to what?" A voice came from behind them
"Granger! Gods! Don't sneak up on people like that! Damn!" Zabini said. "What's the first thing we have to do?" he asked, hoping to have gotten out of revealing what he had seen yesterday.
After Everyone Finished their Potions
Snape walked up to the front of the classroom. "Now who shall out first show and tellers be? Zabini and Granger, front and center. Zabini, you go first"
Blaise drank the potion. He looked around with curiosity.
"Zabini?" Snape asked
"I wet my bed until I was ten. I shagged my sister the second I found out she was adopted. I envy Potter's exciting life. I like to suck my thumb. I have a toe fungus and two of my toes are webbed. Granger attemp-"
Snape put a spell on him to cancel the potion. "Granger, your turn"
Hermione drank the potion. She felt a glimmer go over her body. When the glimmer went away she was wearing an indigo princess gown with a tiara. She was wearing a Ravenclaw pendant that was once owned by Rowena Ravenclaw.
Harry sensed that people would start to put pieces together. "Hermione, we know that your parents treat you like a princess, but this is just crazy" he nudged Ron
"Oh, uh, yeah Hermione." He began to laugh. Harry joined in on the laughter. Soon, everyone joined in.
'Thank you' Hermione thought to her best friends in the entire world.
The glimmer soon faded and she was back in what she was wearing before.