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Chapter 9

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?"

Hermione was standing in the doorway of the headmaster's office. After she yelled to him he calmly looked up at her.

"Ahh, Mrs. Granger. I expected you to come by today. If you will please sit down, I will explain to you why we did not let you know."

Hermione scowled at him but sat down, nonetheless.

Dumbledore cleared his throat and looked her in the eye. "Well, where to begin. First of all, you need to calm down because your powers are tied to your emotions and if you start getting really emotional they might go out of control. Next, why didn't we tell you? I am guessing you found out about Damien. Well, after the last war was over we didn't want to bring this on you as you were training. We didn't want you to be stressed out while you were training or you might have not done as well as you have done. Would you like for me to start from the beginning?"

"Yes sir, please."

"Ok, well, none of us knew that Tom had a brother. We were all so concentrated on killing him and keeping Harry alive that we never noticed. So we killed him and for about a month we had peace. Then on June 6 there was attack at the ministry. He killed 102 people that day, including Mr. Fudge. When we got there, there was a note in the air that said, 'you may have killed him, but the Riddle name will bring fear to all who hear it again.' Well as you know, Tom's dad was a muggle and his mom died, so the only thing he could be was his brother. One week later, we found to be true. We came face to face with us. He came in to Diagon Alley and attacked Harry and a few of the members of the Order. He told Harry he wasn't going to kill him yet, he was going to let us quiver. He hasn't made a move yet but we fear he may be as powerful, if not more so then, Tom himself."

"So it is his brother."

"Yes."

"What are we going to do?"

"Well, we will keep training and we will have a day when all of the junior members of the order will meet with some of the senior members. Also you will be training with me and Professors Snape and McGonagall with Harry. We will keep at it until we have to fight again."

Hermione just sat there and nodded.

"Well, Mrs. Granger is there anything else that you need to know. I believe your friends are worried about you and are waiting for you to get back."

"Well, I just have one more question. Are you sure that you didn't tell me because you don't trust me?"

"Mrs. Granger, if you were not trusted then you would not be a member of the Order."

Hermione smiled at the old headmaster and nodded. Then she turned to walk out. Before she made it out of the door she heard, "Mrs. Granger, we will start with training tomorrow. Please meet with us in the Room of Requirement during your last hour. Thank you."

"So how did it go?"

Hermione looked up as she entered the common room. All of her friends were sitting on the couches and in the floor in a circle waiting for her. When she got in Draco jumped up and looked at her with an unreadable expression. Harry had been the one to answer the question.

"It went fine. I am sorry for yelling at you. I now know why you couldn't. He explained everything to me. So this guy, pretty tough?"

"Yeah, the son of a bitch is worse than his brother. He is a smart ass. He finds all these games funny. Hey, we need to show him what it means to mess with the Golden Trio, huh?" Harry winked at her.

"Well, to me, it seems like it is more than just a trio now. Look we have four more people now. We should really think of another name."

She looked at Blaise and Pansy and turned to look at Draco, but when she turned he wasn't there.

"Did anyone see where Draco went?"

Sorry it is soooo short. I am so tired and I wanted to post. I think that this chapter sucked. Thank you to all of my reviewers. Next chapter I will be writing to you personally but right now I don't think that I can stay awake.

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