Everyone Has a Dark Side

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Chapter 3: It's all in the name.

Hermione stared at him. She had so many conflicting emotions she could barely think. She was proud to be the daughter of well known, if not well respected wizards.

She was also scared. Was she going to have to go live with the Malfoys or become a Death Eater?

She was happy she was a pure blood and had something to her name. She was able to relate to Draco and the Slytherins suddenly, if very vaguely and confusedly.

She had not been greatly distanced from the Gryffindors, but except for Harry and Ron, she had never had any good friends among them. They disliked her a bit for her know it all attitude. Did that mean she might find respect from the Dark Side? They would certainly benefit form someone with her intelligence, she knew that. But she was a Gryffindor, opposed to everything Dark.

Suddenly, something she had heard Draco mention popped into her head. Resorted. Re-sorted. Oh, the first years were sorted into the four school houses, but she had never heard of any older person being sorted. She was already in Gryffindor. If the sorting hat had wanted to put her in Slytherin, it should have done so when she was eleven, shouldn't it?

A nagging thought inserted itself into the flow of confusion.

The sorting hat sniggered, "Well, well, what do we have here? You have great intelligence, like a Ravenclaw, Gryffindor's bravery, yet Slytherin's blood. Where do I put you?"

Hermione, like Harry, had thought not Slytherin since she had not heard anything good about that house. Because she had heard that Gryffindor was the best house, she asked the hat to put her there.

Hermione also felt angry toward the ministry. They had kept her identity, the fact that she was a pure blood, and who her parents were from her for fifteen years! They had no right to do that! She felt rebellious.

She glared at Draco, who was still watching her closely. "What makes you so sure I'm suddenly going to go over the Dark Side? Yes, I found out my parents were Death Eaters, but does that make me one? I never even knew them."

At that moment, Draco reached the end of the line. Ignoring her, he handed his key to a goblin. "Vault 630 please." The goblin led Draco off to a side door that Hermione knew must go to the vaults. She approached another goblin and gave him her key. "I'm vault 629."

Her goblin stopped Draco's goblin and told him to take her down too, since she and Draco's vaults were so close together.

Hermione resignedly climbed into a rickety cart with Draco and, which sped off at a break neck pace. After a fast journey down the winding tracks, the goblin's whistle brought the cart to a halt by a number of small doors set into the stony tunnel wall.

When Draco opened his vault, Hermione gasped. His vault was full of stacks of Sickles, gallons of Galleons and numberless Knuts. Draco smirked at her, but his cheeks were tinged pink. He scooped mounds into a leather bag, before stepping back to close the door.

The goblin opened the adjacent door for Hermione's vault and she gasped audibly again! It had a similar amount of money stuffed into it. "Oh my God! That's all mine? There must be some mistake!"

Draco smirked yet again. "Well, the Laviniers were well off, you know."

Hermione hid her scarlet face in the vault as she shoved gold, silver, and bronze into her bag. She climbed back into the cart quietly. She was stunned to see this solid proof of her real parents.

Once above the ground she asked "Mal – er, Draco, what do you know about my family? The Ministry," She spat out, 'When they finally got around to informing me about my family, only told me their names and that the Laviniers were well known. I suppose they meant infamous by that." While she did not especially want to talk to Draco, he was the only one who could possibly answer her questions.

"Well Granger – I mean Hermione, uh I mean Julia, er… Well, who are you? I suppose you could be either Hermione Granger or Julia Lavinier, but which do you want to be?" said Draco, unusually flustered.

After thinking hard with her forehead scrunched up amusingly, Hermione replied slowly, 'Well, it makes sense to call myself Lavinier not Granger, since I'm not a muggle, but I'm not sure I want to be Julia. I'm not really a Julia, am I? I'm more of a Hermione, don't you think?" Hermione looked down at herself. She wasn't quite sure how she could be holding a relatively calm conversation with one of her enemies, except that Draco was actually being really nice.

Draco was taken aback by being asked his opinion of whom Hermione looked like. 'Uhh, I don't really know."

"I think I'll stick with Hermione," she decided. "Most people know me as that, anyway. I'd like it if you could call me Hermione, too, you know. I'm not exactly a Granger," she said with a slight smile.

"Uh, okay - Hermione." Hoping to forestall any further name conversation, Draco said, " you asked me what I know about your family, but I was only about one too, when you supposedly, uh, died. The ministry has its own secrets, you know."

"My parents would probably be able to tell you all about your parents. They were best friends with your family, you know. Say, do you want to come meet them? They'd be thrilled to meet you, I mean now that you're a Lavinier. They are probably chatting in the Black Dragon in Knockturn alley. It's a pub there. Want to come?" he said hopefully, surprising Hermione. Thirty minutes ago, he had been smirking at her and calling her a mudblood.

"Okay." She replied quickly, eager to hear more about her family. "I'll get my books and stuff later."

A/N: Thank you gokusgal, paprika90, natyslacks, HermioneDraco4Life08, Samara, scholcomp25, and FandomAvenger for your reviews! I really appreciate it.

Look over the previous two chapters, because I figured out how to get bolds and italics, so I updated them. Next, she's going to go with Draco into Knockturn alley, which is not exactly the best side of town, and meet the Malfoys. Please email or write reviews with any ideas or suggestions you have. I'll try to put the next chapter up by Friday. Thanx!

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