Chapter 4: The Truth
"Oh yes Ms. Granger and Ms. Granger why don't you come to my office," said Dumbledore. So they followed him to his office, "Now, girls before you ask I'll tell you that you are indeed sisters and both your parents are indeed pure blood. Yes Hermione the muggles you live with are not your parents you where accidentally given to the wrong parents because they have the same name as your original parents I'm sorry about this but I didn't know until I enrolled Miss Nicollette Granger over the summer now any questions?" Dumbledore said this way to fast for the girls so the sat there in silence until Hermione finally spoke, "Then were is the girl that is really my paren- I mean the muggles child?" "She went to a foster home as a baby but we are working on getting back to her real parents and at the end of the semester you will go to live with your sister and you parents," replied Dumbledore. "Umm Professor? Can I sleep in Hermione's dorm I want to get to know her better," "Certainly, we have already arranged it you will be in the empty bed next to hers, now if you don't mind it's getting late and an old man like me needs to sleep," said Dumbledore and with that the girls got up and left.
The girls walked back to the Gryffindor Tower in silence, none of them knew what to say, Hermione had just learned that all her life she had been living with people she thought as her parents but her parents were all along living happily with her twin sister, Nicollette Granger. They both had way to many thoughts running through their heads to have realized that they had long before passed Gryffindor Tower, they were now walking down a dark dusty passage that they had never seen before.
"Where are we?" asked Nicollette, "I don't know I've never been here before," answered Hermione. The passage went on a little ways then went strait down with a rusty latter. "Lets go back the way we came shall we?" suggested Nicollette, "Yes I think that's a good idea," Hermione agreed. So the girls turned around to go the way they came but the passage was blocked there was just a wall, "What's going on here?" asked Nicollette panic running through her voice. "I have no idea," answered Hermione who was now patting the wall to see if it was liked the barrier at the Kings Cross, but it appeared to be solid.
"What do we do?" asked Hermione, "I think I know, maybe we should just follow the path and maybe it will lead out into a place that you know of, and just in case there are any obstacles on the way we should keep our wands out," said Nicollette, Hermione nodded in agreement.
So the two girls pulled out their wands and cautiously set down the passage. The stones on the walls had mold growing through them, the candles were barley lit to were the girls had to squint to see five feet ahead of them, and to the girls horror there were little bugs crawling all over the floor. It was impossible not to step on the bug so the girls allowed them to crunch under their feet.
When they finally came to the tunnel that went straight down in which a latter went through they both looked in it afraid of were it might lead and what might be down there.
"I'll go first," said Nicollette. Well, she isn't in Gryffindor for nothing that's for sure, thought Hermione. "Alright if you want to," replied Hermione but then added not wanting to sound like a wimp, "I mean, I'll go if you don't want to, it doesn't matter to me." At this Nicollette snickered, "Ooh no I'm fine it's not a problem."
So the girls went down the latter, Nicollette in the lead. There were no candles in the tunnel so it was pitch-black.
After what seemed like hours their arms and legs started to ache then finally Nicollette felt the floor and stepped off of the latter, "Finally floor I thought we'd never come to the bottom of this thing," commented Nicollette.
"I know, I was beginning to get worried myself," added Hermione.
The floor seemed to be dirt but the girls weren't sure due to the fact that it was still too dark too see.
"How are we ever going to find our way in the dark?" asked Nicollette, but she quickly realized what she had said and slapped herself in the forehead while saying, "Duh." She then said, "Lumus," and the entire passage showed up with the light coming from her wand.
"Well, well, well is it not the Grangers," said the cold voice of a woman behind them that Hermione recognized all to well. The girls slowly turned around and gasped at what they saw.
There were at least a dozen hooded men and women, which meant a group of Death Eaters including Bellatrix, had come to get them.