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Authors Side Note : This part of the story is taken a year before the major part of the story takes place. It is short, I am sorry for that but have fun please read and review that is what keeps me going on and on with my stories. If you see any mistakes then please inform me and don't be afraid to give me any pointers or such. Critique me loads please, I will write more, long chapters with more detail and get them up a few chapters at a time!

one year earlier

Chapter One: letter that ruined it all

"Ron, take a look at this!" Harry bellowed racing down the stairs in the Burrow. Five sets of red heads looked up from the kitchen table, all with questioning looks upon their faces. Mr. Weasley had only just gotten in a few hours before from working late at the office so the group was ordered to get up around seven-thirty for breakfast. As always the cheerful looking Mrs. Weasley stood in the kitchen cooking scrambled eggs, toast, and many other delicious delights. Ginny was no where to be seen but it didn't bother Harry, ever since their fight back in the beginning of the summer they saw each other in a different light. Fred and George were going over business plans, only to be shooed by Mrs. Weasley.

"Wha' do you have there?" Ron said as he snatched a piece of paper out of Harry's hands, the tall sixteen year old standing up to leave the room with Harry. The two of them made their way back up to Ronald's room, Ron curious and Harry silent.

"What in the bloody hell…" Ron trailed off; a set of questioning eyes looked up from the piece of parchment at Harry.

"I don't know, but the owl that brought it was unlike any bird I have ever seen in my life. It was small, bigger then Pig but was a creamy white color, with blue eyes and a snappy attitude, especially when I opened up the letter." Harry told as he held up his finger, which has a gash in the mysterious form of a beak bite. "How was I suppose to know who it was too, there was no name on it!"

Harry was a growing boy, standing up to five foot nine inches. He had molded out this past year, working with Quidditch extra hard, the muscles in his arms, abs, and legs were starting to tone out. His hair was shaggier then ever and his emerald green orbs still stole the hearts of millions, especially at Hogwarts. Ron was only an inch or so taller then Harry, his hair grown out shaggy, but more kept than his friend. His blue eyes stood out incredibly with the clash of his red hair, which girls couldn't seem to resist. He had been remarkably getting better each and every day on his broom, which also lead him to a great body.

"Hey boys what are you up to?" Said a mysterious voice as an unmistakably brown haired head peaked through the threshold to Ron's room. She looked completely different and right then the letter would explain why. She was still only standing around five foot four and a half inches, but her skin had bronzed over the summer vacation and her once puffy brown mop for hair was loose with curls. Ron who had always had a thing for her allowed his jaw to drop, his eyes scanning over her body, going over a few places more then once.

"Maybe you should be telling us what you have been up to this past summer Hermione!" Harry said tensely, allowing his voice to rise a bit as he shoved the letter towards her. "Go on, read it out loud."

Immediately Hermione's high spirits dropped and the bright sunny day outside didn't seem so fun. Her deep, chocolate eyes scanned over the paper a few times, looking up to Harry and Ron only once before gulping. "It's nothing it's just a joke with a… cousin!" Hermione allowed a fake laugh to roll out of her vocals.

"Read the letter out loud Hermione!" Harry demanded. Ron just glared at Hermione, as Harry yelled at her, knowing that it meant more than saying anything.

Reluctantly Hermione allowed her eyes to swivel back up at the top, her mouth parting and a not so cheerful voice escaped.

Herm,

Hey girl, oh man it has been so long since I have seen you! Krum says hi and thanks for bringing him to the states with you! How is your act at Hogwarts going? I hope it's coming along just fine, wouldn't want your friends Harry and Ron to find out now would you! Lol well Geona says hi, don't spoil Cheese Puff while he is there, yes I'm talking about that damn owl, borrowed him from a first year here at Hedrick, he still bites, so don't take too long in trying to get the letter away or try to pet him. I still wish you could be back here in Hawaii with us but we know you are under strict orders… hope to see you this Christmas and send me another picture of that Draco fellow, he just seems to be getting hotter every time!

-Akkiella Lupin

Her voice slowed to a stop, as she dared to look up at her two friends who had screwed up faces, she took a breather as she waited for them to do something.

"What is that letter about Hermione, and what in the bloody hell are you doing taking pictures of Malfoy?" Ron's voice snapped out in demand.

"Nothing I just went back to the States to visit my grandparents and well, ran into some old friends of mine." It was a clear lie, she had never told simple little lies. About her life in the scheme of things was different, it was easy to put on a face and smile like everything was fine and that the world was beautiful. "You don't believe me do you?" Hermione whipped her hair out of her face and tucked the few strands behind your head. Harry and Ron allowed their heads to shake back and forth stating that they didn't and then sat down upon their beds.

Harry had moved in with the Weasley's for the summer, so they had moved Percy's old bed up into Ron's room. Hermione stared at them for awhile, not believing that this could be happening already. She took a few sets forward and then stopped at the window. "I suppose you two sitting down would be the best thing as I tell you this." She cleared her throat, not daring to look back into the questioning eyes of her comrades, her partners in crime for the past six years. "When I was born, my mum and dad, well they left me in an orphanage back in the states. They weren't muggle's either, they where purebloods, but I never got to know their names. I wasn't the only one left that night; you see my mum had two best friends, Anna Robinson and Kit Cortez. They dropped off their two daughters with my mum because they where on the run, trying to get away from something…trying to get away from someone…" Hermione trailed off as she leaned up against the wall.

"You're a wha… wait why do you let Malfoy push you around and call you that shit?" Harry exclaimed. He had learned to trust this girl with his deepest and darkest secrets, with his past and she was coming out telling them she wasn't the girl they thought she had been this whole entire time, betrayed and pissed didn't even begin to describe his feelings.

"Harry don't you get it?" Hermione began, "If I was a Muggleborn, you know it as well as Ron that I would have never let it bug me like it does. I'm not a mudblood; I am a pureblood, more pure then that stupid git could ever dream of being. I wanted to put him in his place, show him who was worthy of being called a pureblood and who wasn't, even if they weren't that of real magical blood." Hermione exclaimed, her patience running thin. She wanted to run and get out of the trap she had set up for herself. "I grew up with Geona and Akkiella until I was around the age of ten when Muggle parents from London came and adopted me. I couldn't say no because I wished to go to the school back in Hawaii, and I couldn't tell the orphanage care taker. I can't and I won't tell you about Gia and Akki, you won't get a word out of me because word can't spread. I go back to visit them every year, visit Hedrick and everyone else who I had become friends with while I was there."

"Now why couldn't you tell us this before, when you first met us Hermione? That isn't anything big, I mean I am still adjusting to the idea of you, well you know, but still it isn't as big as some other things could be. What about Krum, you told him and not your own best friends, what are we old pumpkin juice?" Ron questioned scoffed as he stood and started to walk to the door.

"You don't get it! You're all so immature I just can't..." Hermione trailed off, her eyes becoming dewy as she thought about her past, "I'm sorry that I have been put in my situation and I am sorry that I lied. No, Krum doesn't know a thing and I wouldn't have told him anyways; he just thinks that it's my old family friends." She allowed her eyes to narrow as she turned to face the two of them.

The next few hours were spent with yelling, cursing, and fighting which ended up in the permanent separation of the golden trio. Harry and Ron didn't understand what the big deal was and Hermione, being the forever actress, hid everything of importance from the story from them, and the fight brewed till it was too much. As she stormed down to the fireplace she had no second thoughts as she threw the floo powder into the fire. Without even looking back she stepped in allowed the words "Shatali" roll from her tongue disappearing from the Burrow.

Ron uttered good riddance under his breath as he gazed at the floor helplessly, while Harry tried to piece everything together. As they looked at each other shaking their head they decided to go upstairs, turned on their heals and walked out of the room, leaving the rest of the Weasley family to question and wonder what had just went on.

She lay there, staring up at the ceiling boredly with a million thoughts racing throughout her head. Hermione could not believe that she had been so reckless… she should have told Akkiella and Jade to not contact her, yea Voldemort was gone and out of their lives but that didn't mean that there wasn't still a possibility that he had millions of supporters out there in the world that could be after her at any point in time.

3 always
Akkiella Lupin

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