Everyone Has A Dark Side

A/N: If you read my last chapter, thanks. I hope you like this story. I know Draco will seem mean here, but he gets nicer later. Please R/R even if my story sucks!!!!!

Chapter 2: A Death Eater's daughter.

Later, Hermione sat at her desk, scribbling on scraps of parchment. She was writing to Ron Weasley, who's father worked in the Ministry of Magic.

Ron,

I've just been told I'm a pureblood, my real name is Julia Lavinier, and I have inherited a fortune. Please, can you ask your dad what he knows about the Laviniers? The letter from the Ministry my parent's gave me didn't tell me anything except that my parents died when I was about a year old and I was given to the granger's to be raised by them. I'm so confused, I don't know what to do. Please help me!

Hermione

She had to wait until Hedwig or Pig came with a letter, so she could send Ron's letter to him.

Luckily, the next morning Pig arrived with a letter from Ron. Hermione immediately snatched her letter off the table and bound it to Pig's leg, shooing him quickly back out the window.

Two day's of confusion later, Hermione received a reply from Ron.

Hermione,

I'm sorry, this will be a huge shock to you, but your family, the Laviniers, were in with Voldemort. Charles Lavinier was a Death Eater and your parents died when Aurors raided their house.

You were taken to the Ministry, where it was decide that you would have to be given a foster home until you were of age. No wizards wanted anything to do with a Death Eater's child, so you were given to a muggle home where it was hoped you would grow up to be good, and not a Death Eater.

I'm sorry, but your parents were right in with the Malfoys. If your parents had lived, you could be engaged to Malfoy or some young Death Eater! I can't believe this is true, except that dad assured me that it was after he asked some of his contacts at the ministry. Still, at least Malfoy can't call you a mudblood any more, if that's any comfort. I hope you are okay.

Ron.

Three days later, a quiet and upset Hermione received her book list from Hogwarts. She was again a prefect.

That afternoon, she visited the Ministry of Magic. While her parents chatted with wizards in the atrium, Hermione visited the International Magic Office of Law and; after presenting her letter, was given the key to her Gringotts vault, number 629.

"Are you sure you don't have any questions, Julia?" Asked the anxious man who had given her the key.

"Um, yeah. Were my parents really Death Eaters?" Asked Hermione nervously.

The man looked a little worried, "Well, yes they were. But you never knew them, so that isn't a problem, is it. It's not like you are a Death Eater or anything, is it?"

"No." said Hermione. She did not want to talk to the Ministry people either. She had spoken to the Minister of Magic before, but he had never mentioned any of this. Why had she been left in the dark?

Later, the Grangers paid a visit to Diagon Alley. Her parents gravitated towards the Leaky Cauldron, while Hermione headed for Gringotts to empty some galleons from her vault.

As she approached the counter, Hermione caught sight of a familiar face: Draco Malfoy, a good-looking Slytherin boy who she did not get along with very well. His parents were also Death Eaters.

"Why, if it isn't mudblood Granger. What would you be doing here? If I recall, you are a muggle. Tell me, Granger, do muggles have vaults of gold in a wizard's bank?"

Hermione, upset as she was, couldn't bear his taunting and burst out, "Watch who you call mudblood, Malfoy. I'm no more a mudblood than you are! Do you know who Charles Lavinier was?"

Draco narrowed his eyes at her, "Why, of course. He was a great friend of father, but he died 15 years ago. What could he possible have to do with you?"

"Did you know he had a daughter called Julia?" retorted Hermione.

"Yeah, she was their kid, but she's dead," snarled Draco.

"Wrong!" Hermione spat at him, "The Ministry saved her and gave her to a muggle family."

Suddenly a look of comprehension dawned on Draco's pale face. It was immediately replaced by shock, "WHAT! I don't believe it. You cannot be saying that you are Julia Lavinier!"

"I am! I'm Julia Lavinier, daughter of a Death Eater," said Hermione smugly, smirking just like a Slytherin. She wasn't sure why, but she was strangely proud to be equal to Draco.

"But than that means that you're one of us!" choked Draco.

"Pardon?" asked Hermione, now puzzled.

Draco sighed, "All the Dark Lords followers and their families are mysteriously tied together. For example, no Death Eater or their children have ever been in any house except Slytherin. Wait! If you are a Lavinier, why are you a Gryffindor? Are you going to be resorted now that you know who you are?"

"What!" cried Hermione, "I'm not on the Dark Side!"

"That's what you think, Julia!" drawled Draco, "The second war's started, you know. Only the Dark Lord's followers are safe now!"

A/N: Okay, that chapter went okay. Coming up, Draco is less hostile and Hermione meets the Malfoys. Email me or write any ideas you'd like to suggest in your reviews. Should Hermione get friendly with the Slytherins now or later on? Please R/R!!!!!!!!!!

Alianne