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"I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none"

-Macbeth

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Chapter 3 – August 2, 1997 (Part 2)

Once Hermione was done eating she quietly excused her self from the table and slipped out of the Great Hall. She then made her way out of the castle and strolled down to the lake and sat under her favorite oak tree. She leaned her back against the oak tree and looked out towards the middle of the lake where the giant squid was playing with a mermaid, who decided to come up to the surface to see the sunny day.

She didn't know how to explain to Harry why their aunt and uncle were so cruel to him. She had briefly gotten the anger from Vernon but Petunia and quickly taken her outside and explained everything to her. Hermione found their reasoning pretty justifiable. She just didn't know how to tell Harry that. Hermione was pulled out of her thoughts when Harry spoke to her.

"Hermione, can we talk?" Harry asked.

"Sure, Harry," Hermione said. She patted the ground next to her and waited for Harry to take a seat.

Harry wasn't even seated for more than thirty seconds when he started in on the questions. "Hermione, what happened? Were they rude to you? Did Snape do anything to you? Did they know who you were? Why do you need a phone?"

"Harry, chill," Hermione said, "nothing happened, we just talked about some things. Uncle Vernon was pretty rude to me but Aunt Petunia was actually pretty nice. Snape didn't do anything; he actually defended me to Uncle Vernon. Aunt Petunia didn't remember at first who I was but when I started talking about your birth and she remembered you having a twin. Everyone, including Dudley, mistakenly took me as Lily. And for your last question, I need the phone because I told Aunt Petunia I would keep in touch with her."

"You're going to keep in touch with those people? Hermione, what is your problem?" Harry snapped.

"Harry, give your Aunt and Uncle and damn chance to explain themselves! You don't know what happened so stop acting like they are just horrible people for no reason," Hermione snapped back.

Harry looked at Hermione and nodded his head. He didn't want to talk to his aunt of his uncle, but he had decided earlier that day that he would talk to them. He only wanted to know why Hermione would willingly keep in touch with them and he figured she was right. He needed to talk to them himself in order to understand fully what was happening.

"All right, Hermione, I'll talk to them tonight, but only if you call them. I refuse to call them," Harry said.

"All right, Harry, I will call them when we go back to the common room, OK?" She asked.

"Yeah, thank you. So did Vernon do anything to you?" Harry asked.

"No, not really, he just told me to get out. I guess when I started to cry Aunt Petunia felt bad and started talking to me. She took me outside and explained to me what happened. Then when I came back in, you'll never guess what Snape and Vernon were doing," Hermione said, looking at Harry.

"What were they doing?" Harry asked.

"Snape and Vernon were arguing over me and weather Vernon deserved to meet me. Snape was all over him and telling him I was ten times better than he will ever be-" Hermione started.

"Snape's wrong, you know," Harry answered.

"WHAT?" Hermione screamed, getting furious.

Harry smiled slyly and then answered her furious look. "You're 20 times better than Vernon will ever be."

Hermione looked at Harry in utter amazement. She thought he was about to tell her that Vernon was better than her. She would have been furious by then. She figured Snape and Harry were both right, Vernon would never compare to how nice she was. She didn't want to be conceited, but it didn't take much to realize when someone was right in this situation.

Harry smiled at Hermione and he was happy that they weren't fighting anymore. He was ready to beat himself up when Hermione left that morning with out him. He felt bad that he was sending his twin sister, his only sister, to go meet their mean aunt and uncle.

Harry and Hermione both sat outside for an hour or two and than they both made their ways back up to their common room, and stayed there for the rest of the, eating their dinner in their common room too. No one even bothered to come and see what they were doing, they left the twins alone.

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It was eight o'clock at night and Hermione finally decided that she would call Aunt Petunia. She picked up the phone and dialed the number that she was given, Vernon picked up the phone.

"Hello?" a gruffly, voice answered.

"Erm, hello, Uncle Vernon," Hermione muttered, Harry looked over to see her face turn pale. Harry laid a gentle and understanding hand on her shoulder.

"Hello, who is this?" Vernon snarled.

"Uncle Vernon, its Hermione, is Aunt Petunia there?" Hermione said, strongly.

"No, Hermione, Pet-" Vernon was cut off.

"Vernon, give me the bloody phone," Petunia said as she grabbed the phone from her ignorant husband, "Hello? Hermione, dear?"

"Aunt Petunia? Hello, Harry wants to talk to you. I figured it would be better for him to hear it from you," Hermione answered.

"All right, Hermione. How are you, dear?"

"I'm doing great Aunt Petunia, better than I was. Would you like to talk to Harry now?"

"Yes, dear, put him on," Petunia answered, as she sat down in the nearest chair.

Hermione then quickly explained to Petunia how she could get a hold of her through their wizarding network. Once she was done explained she said goodbye to Aunt Petunia and handed the phone over to Harry, who sat down on the couch, and she than proceeded to walk out of the portrait hole to have a talk with her parents.

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Hermione turned around and faced her parents, whom were both looking at her with semi-guilty faces. They knew Hermione was always the quiz-ative (that's not even a word, is it?) one, and they knew, from word of other portraits, that Hermione was very mad and wanted some questions answered.

"Get comfortable, dear, if you want to ask some questions, I believe me and your father have some explaining to do, don't we?" Lily asked her beautiful daughter.

Hermione nodded at her mother and conjured up a couch and decided to get herself comfortable on it. She curled her feet under herself and then looked up the portrait and asked the one question that they didn't want to be asked. "Why did you split us up?" Hermione asked.

Lily and James went on to explain to her why they decided to split them up. They thought that it would cause too many problems for them to be together and they didn't want their children to be targeted completely. They told Hermione that Harry and she had plenty of things to learn from each other and if their power, at such a young age, was built together than no muggle would be able to control it and therefore the both of them couldn't grow up together.

When Hermione asked why they couldn't have lived with another wizard, like Severus or Remus, she was simply told that they would have been too easy of a target.

Hermione had most of her questions answered, except for one. What was she to call them?

"What do I call you guys?" Hermione asked.

Lily and James both looked at each other before answering her, "We would like it if you would call us mum and dad, but if you can't then you can call us Lily and James."

Hermione nodded her head and stood up off of the couch and then flicked her hand and the couch disappeared. "All right, I must be getting back to Harry. I left him inside to talk to Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia on the phone. And before you give me that look, I think Harry needed to have this talk with Aunt Petunia for a long time."

"Honey, your mother and I both agree with you. There is more to Petunia and Vernon than what meets the eye. They are truly great people, they just need to open up again," James answered, looking lovingly at his daughter.

"All right, I will talk to you later, bye," Hermione said and then added, "Mum and dad."

"Bye sweetheart," Lily answered.

"We love you," James answered

"I love you, too. I will talk to you guys tomorrow," Hermione answered before they portrait opened and Hermione walked in to be greeted with a stunned Harry, who was sitting on the couch with his jaw dropped.

"What happened, Harry?" Hermione asked as she sat down beside him.

"She…she…she loves me!" Harry stuttered.

"Harry, she's our aunt, of course she loves you," Hermione answered.

"But, Hermione, they've always have been evil to me!" Harry said.

"Honey, go to bed," Hermione said as she stood up and kissed Harry on the forehead, "I love you, Harry. If no one else will be there for you, I will be."

Harry smiled, "Thank you, Hermione; you have always been there for me. I love you, too, goodnight."

Harry gave Hermione a quick kiss on the forehead and then headed towards his room where he fell into a steady sleep. Hermione went into her room and fell into a sleep also; she had never felt so content than what she felt now.

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A/N: ok I know this is pretty short, only 5 pages this time, and I'm sorry. I've been busy lately and I've had a lot of senior school work, and trying to figure out where I'm going to college. (Just so you know, I got accepted into 3 colleges. Albright College, Neumann College, Saint Francis University) Thank you so much for patiently waiting for this chapter to come, and I'm sorry you had to wait so long. But to make up for it, the Weasley twins will make an appearance next chapter!

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