The REAL Me!
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Ch. 2 The Truth Revealed
In the middle of July 1991, I had received my Hogwarts letter. It read…
Dear Miss Granger,
We are pleased to inform you, that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins September 1. We await your owl no later than July 31.
Yours Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Minerva McGonagall,
Deputy Headmistress
As you can see, I received the same standard letter just like everyone else. However, everyone else did not get theirs hand delivered by Professor Albus Dumbledore himself accompanied by Professor Severus Snape.
I remember that day as if it was last week. I was upstairs in my room, reading as usual, when the doorbell rang. My mum had answered the door and less then five minutes later she was calling up the stairs, saying, "There is someone here to see you, Mione!" I was thinking to myself, 'Who would be here for me? I'm not expecting anyone, am I?' The moment I saw the two professors in the house, it was like a lightening bolt went off in the back of my head. I knew the two men from somewhere, but where? The tall man with black hair went very pale when I had entered the room. It was like he had seen a ghost. (That is just a figure of speech. Everyone knows ghosts are everywhere at Hogwarts.)
"Hermione Lillian? Wow look at you all grown up!" the old man with half moon shaped glasses had said, "It seems like only yesterday that you were just a baby" "Ok, this guy is really starting to freak me out. Why does Lillian sound so familiar?" I thought as I was looking at his clothes. He had on long silvery robes and a long dark blue clock. Not what you'd expect to see in London. He was defiantly, not from around here. The other man was wearing all black and still had not said a single word. Something inside of me wanted to run up to him, hug him, and assure him that everything was going to be ok now.
"Well, down to business," the old man had said pulling something out of his pockets. He had handed the contents to me. It was the letter. Again, something went of in the back of head. It was starting to come back to me. I took another look at the man in black; he looked as he if he was trying really hard to smile; as if he had forgotten how. I looked at him for a very long time. Everyone in the room was looking at me, waiting for me to say something. So, I did. "What's your name?" I asked the man in black. "Professor Severus Snape." The man answered with a hint of hope in his voice. I looked away from the man and everyone else in the room.
My eyes looked out the window. Many thoughts were running through my head. 'Severus Snape…..Hogwarts…..witchcraft…..Lillian…..this is all sounds so familiar.' My mind was trying to put the pieces of this mysterious puzzle together. I had heard that voice before. Then out of no where, I said out loud, "Hermione Lillian Snape!" It all fit. Everything was coming back to me. I remember being told that I had another family that would come back for me. All the memories that I had thought dreams were slowly finding there way back into my head. I looked at Severus Snape looking for a sign that my thoughts were correct. He answered with his arms starched out and a small tear forming in his left eye.
I ran over to him and gave him the biggest hug that I could. I had so many questions I wanted to ask. For example: "Where is Aunt Narcissa?" "Where is Draco?" And the one that really got to me, "Why did you leave me?" That is when my real dad, not my birth father, or my adopted father, but the one that loved me more then life itself, started telling me about everything. About my mother and her family, and the war that my cousin Harry had some how ended. He told me that Narcissa and Draco were fine and that I would get to see Draco at school.
He had left out that I was Voldemort's daughter and that being why I had to leave the Malfoys'. He just told me that Lucius Malfoy refused to take care of me while he was at Hogwarts and how Lucius was an evil man who didn't like me because of my birth mother. She was a Potter. He even told me about Lucius's memory being modified to forget me. He ended his whole story asking me for my forgiveness. I gave him a hug and then looked over to my adopted parents, who had tears in there eyes. "What about them?" I asked, "I can't leave them. No offence but they are the only family I had for a while." That is when Professor Dumbledore stepped in.
Dumbledore had told me that I would live at the school during the school year, but would return here during Holidays. He also told me of his plan to keep it all quite and how I was to remain Hermione Elizabeth Granger, the muggle born witch, while I was at school. Apparently, if people found out about me, it could be dangerous because there were death eaters out there who would hurt me just for being related to the Potters. I had to keep who I was even away from my own cousin. I could be friends with him if I wanted but nothing more until it was safe. I was also told that when Draco found out that I was real, that I was to bring him straight to Dumbledore to make him promise to keep it a secret as well. They were kind of hoping that he had forgotten all about me.
At the end of the day, Dumbledore and my dad (I love calling him that) had left. I would not see them again until September 1. My dad had already taken care of my school supplies except for my wand. He so badly wanted to go with me to get my very first wand, but he couldn't and you know why. I ended up going to Diagon Alley with my adopted parents two days before I left. Dumbledore had informed them on how to get there. The two days went by real fast. The next thing I knew I was at King's Cross about to say goodbye to the Grangers and head towards platform 9 ¾.