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Chapter 9: More Explaining

"GET OFF! GET OFF! GET OFF!" Hermione screamed before push the blond hair man off of her, grabbing Ginny's hand and making a mad dash out of the room. However, she had only made it to the portrait hole, when it suddenly flew open. Entering first were two women, who were followed by a young boy and girl. Next came a tall man with a huge smile upon his face. Hermione turned to flee in the other direction, but then she noticed that the Slytherins had made their way out of her bedroom and we now blocking any possible escape. Giving up, Hermione fell to the ground; bringing Ginny with her, hoping that she would receive an explanation for the huge group of visitors she had received that night.

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Chloe Zabini gasped when she first laid eyes on her long lost daughter. She looked just like she imagined she would. Rayanna had inherited her tan complexion, her small nose, and her petite form. Form her father she had received her height, lips, the black hair and her blues eyes; more commonly known as Zabini eyes. Seeing her daughter now, Chloe felt overjoyed, but also guilty from the scared look on Rayanna's face. She felt that if she had never given up her daughter then they wouldn't be in this situation, but deep down she knew that giving up Rayanna was the best thing they could have done for her at the time. If the had not given her up, she couldn't guarantee that her daughter would even be alive at this point.

Not wanting to scare her daughter anymore, Chloe slowly walked towards her and kneeled in front of the helpless teenager. She was quickly followed by Blaise and her husband. Not knowing where to begin Chloe said the thing that she had wanted to since she first set eyes on the teenager.

"I want you to know that we loved you and thought about you everyday that you were gone. Giving you up was the hardest thing that any of us ever had to do and we only hope that you can understand our reasoning. I hope that one day you can find it in your heart to forgive us, but if you never do, just know that none of us will ever stop loving you." She finished with tears flowing down her cheeks.

"I know that you probably have many questions and mostly likely do not understand most of what has happened tonight. Like my wife has jut told you, we do love you and always will. We have spent years searching for you, but have always come up empty handed. Finally finding you has caused us to have hysterical actions." At this Thomas Zabini paused and turned to look at Severus and Lucius, only imaging what they could have done.

"We are willing and ready to explain everything to you and we can answer any questions that you may have." He finished, struggling to remain where he was and not hug his daughter, knowing that if he did so then she may decided to not listen to anything that they were going to say.

Hermione nodded her head before asking her first question. "Why is he here?" fear evident in her voice as she pointed toward Lucius Malfoy. "He has always hated me and now he just comes rushing into my room and hugs me. Why?"

"I have never hated you! No matter who you were, I didn't hate you!" Came the soft reply from Lucius with his head bowed.

"Never hated me! Never! What on earth are you talking about? You and your son have always looked down on me because I'm a muggleborn or at least I thought I was! You have always referred to me as a Mudblood. Then of course, there is the fact that I'm one of Harry Potter's best friends, so yet another reason for your torment." Hermione exploded, now more angry at the pale, blond haired than she was scared.

From her outburst, Lucius began to understand more. He knew that most of the wizarding community was in fear of him and most didn't like him, but he now knew why Rayanna felt such strong feelings for him. She hated him because she was the one muggleborn that he had made fun of the most. Being Potter's best friend had made her the prime target of his comments.

"You don't understand everything yet. I said those things not because I wanted to, but because I had to. If I wanted to protect my family and yours I had two choices. The first was to become something that I hated or the second, act like I was had become that person and help out the light side at the same time. I choose to become a spy against the Dark Lord and to this day I remain one. I don't hate you and never have. I have never seen the difference between a muggleborn witch and a pureblood one. It was an act. All an act. I hated doing it and I absolutely hate referring to anyone as a mudblood." Lucius said while spitting out the last word as if it was a horrid curse.

During his whole explanation, Hermione had her eyes boring into his. She saw as the emotions change and she began to believe what he was saying was true. She turned to the man that was said to be her biological father and saw that he nodded his head to conform that everything that Lucius Malfoy said was true. She sat for a moment in silence thinking over what he had just said. Everything she had believed to be true was a lie. She was not a Granger, she was a Zabini. Lucius Malfoy, nor Draco for that matter, was Dark. They didn't believe in Voldemort's beliefs, but instead in the Order's purpose. The Zabini family that she had believed to be dark and emotionless was really on the light side and cared very much for one another.

"Blaise already told me who I was and a little about my past, but why exactly did you give me up?" Hermione asked the question that plagued her mind since the beginning of summer when she had found out that she was adopted.

"You were born in the darkest of times. Voldemort was at his most powerful point and continued to gain power. He had come to both Lucius and me while your mother was pregnant and asked us to join his side. At that point we were able to ask that we join after our wives gave birth. He accepted on the terms that each family only have one heir. When we found that we were to have twins, we didn't know what to do. After you were born we took you both home, but as far as the public knew we only had a baby boy. We feared what would happen if the Dark Lord found that we had you too, then he would come to our manor and kill you. So after much debating, it was agreed upon that you would be taken to an orphanage. It broke our hearts, but we knew that by doing so we were allowing you the chance to live. Neither your mother nor I was strong enough, so the task was left to Lucius. He took you and modified your looks so that no one would be suspicious of you when you went off to Hogwarts. When he returned to the manor he was heartbroken. I think that that was the worse I have every seen Lucius. He loved you and to have you taken away from him was too much. He stayed in the nursery for a week after that just remembering all the time he had spent with you in the short months that we had been able to keep." Thomas explained with heavy feelings.

"So you never wanted to give me up? And you do not share Voldemort's beliefs?" Hermione questioned making sure that she got everything correct.

"No we love you and never wanted to live a day without you. As for Voldemort, everything we do in public has been an act. We only acted that way to protect ourselves. We have always hated doing these things because we don't believe in them. If you saw any of us at home you would think that we were completely different people." Blaise answered looking lovingly at his younger sister.

"What are you going to do about my appearance now? And what about my name?" She questioned.

"Your appearance can't be changed now that the spell has been lifted. By looking at you most people will able to tell that you're a Zabini because of your dark hair and your blue eyes. So the public will know that you are a Zabini. As for you're name, we would love for you to go by Rayanna, but we understand that you have grown up being called Hermione, so you probably will want to be referred to by that. Maybe we could refer to you as both Hermione and Rayanna until you get used to it?" Her mother explained.

Hermione nodded her head satisfied with the answer when another thought popped into her head. "What about the Granger's? They are my family too!"

"We understand that, Hermione. And we would never think otherwise. You grew up with this family, so they have become a family to you even if they are not blood related. We are willing to and only if you agree, to share you with your other family. We want you to feel comfortable, so we will not force you to live with us, but if you are willing maybe you could live with us and visit them or take turns living at both homes." Her father explained to her.

Hermione was satisfied with the response she got, but was still a little surprised to learn who she really was. It was a lot of information to take in at once. She had learned the truth of who she was, the truth of her family and the Malfoys, that she was related to the Notts and Professor Snape. She thought that she had finally got all the information she needed when the little boy she had seen in her mother's arms earlier had come bouncing over.

"Blaise" he cried as he climbed over to the dark haired, teenage boy.

"Who is that?" Hermione questioned.

"That would be your little brother." Her father said as her eyes grew wide. She was about to comment on having yet another sibling when Professor Dumbledore stepped into the Head's Common Room.

"I hope that I am not interrupting anything, but I thought it was best if we did Ms. Zabini's resorting before she begins her final school year.

Well that is chapter none. Not my best chapter, but it was the best I could do at the moment. I hope that it was ok. Tell me what you think of it in a review. Hopefully I will be able to update again soon.

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