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Hermione and Blaise are Heads

Ginny and Draco are the guests living in the common room for the year.

Hermione just found out that she is a Zabini.

Her cousins are Theodore Nott, Hallie and Hailie Zafrence (twins) and her uncle is Professor Snape.

She found out that both the Zabinis and the Malfoys are on the light side.

Harry and Ron have just fainted after Hermione tells them that the Zabinis are her family.

Chapter 11: Harry and Ron's Reactions

Realizing that she should have explained her situation better, Hermione magically maneuvered her two friends onto the couch before she woke them up. She did not know exactly what she was going to say to her friends, but she knew that she was going to be in for a long night. She knew that Ron wouldn't want to listen to anything that she had to say. He would claim that she was under some kind of spell and that they were using her to get to Harry. Just another plot developed by You Know Who. Harry, Harry was another story. She didn't have a clue how he would react to the news. After all, Lucius Malfoy had tormented him so much through the years. The three of them had thought that they knew everything about Lucius Malfoy over the last few years, but in a matter of hours, Hermione had learned that they really knew nothing about him.

Knowing that she would have to explain the story to them sooner or later, Hermione just decided to wake her two friends up with magic. Besides, she didn't know how long it would take before Harry and Ron finally accepted the truth. It was better to have more time to explain instead of not enough.

It took a few minutes for the spell to work, but soon all occupants of the room watched as Harry's eyes slowly flooded open. Slowly he looked around the room, nudged Ron awake, and together they drew out their wands.

"Hermione, get way from them! Don't you see that they are up to something. They're probably going to try and kidnap us or something." Ron yelled when he noticed the Hermione was seated next to Blaise.

"Ron, they are up to no such thing. If you and Harry would just lower your wands, I will be able to explain what is going on." Hermione said calmly trying to persuade her friends to do what they wanted.

Hearing the pleading tone in his best friend's voice, Ron lowered his wand, but beside him he noticed that Harry would do no such thing.

"Harry? Please, If you can't trust them, then trust me!" Hermione pleaded hoping that Harry would lower his wand. It would be so much easier to explain the situation to her friends if she wasn't constantly worrying about hexes being sent across the room.

"I want to trust you, Hermione, but I can't. Who knows how long you have been in a room full of deatheaters. They could have placed a spell on you for all we know." Harry replied as he scan the room, checking to see what everyone was doing.

"Fine, If you want to keep your wand out than go ahead. I am going to explain what happened here tonight and I really don't care whether you listen or not. My only request is that you do not hex anyone in this room. No one here will cause you any harm." Hermione said frustrated with her friend. She had expected Ron to act like this, not Harry. Harry was always the level headed one, but apparently tonight that role had been switched around.

Harry was about to comment on Hermione's little outburst when he was nudged in the ribs by Ron. He didn't trust any of the Slytherins in this room no matter what Hermione said, but he figured he would go with it because Ron's elbow was really starting to hurt.

"Fine, I'll be good and not hex anyone unless they really deserve it." Harry replied while looking directly at both male Malfoys.

Figuring that that was the best the she was going to get, Hermione nodded her head and began to tell her story, starting at the beginning for the second time that night.

"Earlier this summer, I found out some news that really shocked me. This news was the real reason that I didn't come to the Burrow this summer. It wasn't because my parents wanted me to stay home, we had already taken our annual summer trip for the year. The reason I decided to stay was because I needed time to processes the news that I had learned and I needed to decide what I was going to do about it." Hermione began, but was soon interrupted by Ron.

"What did you learn that would cause that much thought?" Ron asked not liking the fact that he had been lied to. Why couldn't Hermione have told him the truth when he sent her a letter asking her if she was going to join him and Harry at the Burrow this summer?

"I learned that I was adopted." Hermione said quietly, but loud enough that both Harry and Ron heard him.

At this both Harry and Ron's jaws opened. It was clear that both boys were shocked by this. That was probably the last thing that they would have thought she would have said. Harry seemed to recover first, but he only nodded his head at her. Hermione took that as her cue to continue and started her story once more.

"It came as a huge shock to me, but I didn't feel any different towards my family, the Grangers. They had raised me since a baby and loved me like their own. To me they deserve the right to be called mum and dad. That however did not stop be from thinking about my biological family. I learned from my parents that Dumbledore had paid them a visit only days after they had brought me home. It was then that they learned that magic existed and that I was a pureblood witch." Hermione said before stopping. She watched as her friends took in all this news before she started again.

"The necklace that I wear around my neck was a present from my biological family. They gave it to me when I was born. The RKZ are, in fact, the initials to my birth name. That night that I learned the news of my adoption, I was playing with the necklace when the image of a male with black hair and blue eyes flashed in my mind. I didn't know it then, but that guy was actually my twin brother."

"Twin? You have a twin too?" Harry asked, talking for the first time after he had argued with Hermione about his wand.

"Yes, Harry, I said twin. I have a twin and we all have known who he was since we were sorted in first year." Hermione stated.

"Who is he then?" Ron asked still confused as to what was going on. Silently, he prayed that Hermione's twin was not Malfoy. What would his family think if they learned that he had been friends with a Malfoy since he was eleven years old?

"Blaise, of course. And if you don't mind, I think that it is best that we get back to the story." Hermione said as she got nods from the two boys on the couch.

"I spent the remainder of my summer thinking about the boy I had seen. I didn't know why I had suddenly seen him, but I figured that it had something to do with the necklace. No matter how many times I tried, though, I couldn't get the necklace to show me the image again. I started keeping a diary after that. I would write down my thoughts in it and I kept it to help me make decision regarding my adoption. When I left home this morning, there were a million thoughts running through my mind. I wondered if I would run into a family member and not even know that we were related. All I could think of was all the strange things that could happen this year. I thought I had actually encountered the strangest earlier tonight when Draco Malfoy proposed a truce, but I guess I was wrong." Hermione said.

"Wait! Malfoy called a truce?" Harry asked.

"Blimey! This story just keeps getting stranger and stranger!" Ron added.

Ignoring both of their comments, Hermione just continued on.

"I accepted Draco's offer thinking that the year would be easier if the two of us were not constantly at each other's throats. Things went along fine and in the Great Hall tonight I met Hallie and Hailie Zafrence, who I later learned were in fact my cousins. When the four of us entered our common room, we all went our separate ways so that we could look at the rooms we would be sleeping in all year. After everything had settled down, Ginny had went off to take a shower and Blaise went to bed, leaving only me and Draco in the common room." Hermione said when Harry interrupted her.

"You actually stayed in a room with that Deatheater?" Harry yelled before pointing his wand at Draco.

"I am not a deatheater, nor will I ever be!" Draco shout back disgusted at the thought.

"Sure, whatever you say." Harry said with his eyes now watching Draco and Lucius.

"Harry! Please, if you let me continue you will learn that Draco is telling you the truth. He is not a deatheater and he doesn't ever want to become one." Hermione interjected.

"Fine, continue on with your story, but I don't think that anything that you say is going to make me change my mind." Harry said without breaking his gaze from the two Malfoys.

"In the common room is where this all started. Draco asked me a question and at that time I thought that he was just trying to play a cruel joke on me. He asked me whether I knew any adopted Gryffindors. I just thought that he had somehow learned that I was adopted and was just trying to hurt me. I later learned that he was just trying to figure out where to begin his search for me. Anyhow, I took the question badly, yelled for a bit and ran up to my room. Somehow, Draco had figured out who I really was and told Blaise, who came running into my room, tackled me to the ground and sprayed me with kisses." Hermione said.

"Blaise Zabini! You did what?" His mother asked in disbelief.

"Hey! That wasn't nearly as bad as what Lucius and Uncle Sev did. She had always thought that they hated her, yet both of them came running into the room and hugged her. You can guess how she reacted." Blaise said chuckling a little at the look on Harry and Ron's faces.

"You scared my little girl?" Tom Zabini asked as both Lucius and Severus looked away clearly embarrassed.

"You actually let the slimy git hug you?" Harry asked while Ron nodded his head in agreement.

"Contrary to belief, this 'slimy git' does have emotions." Professor Snape said while his eyes narrowed at the two boys.

"Besides, let wasn't really an option. He kind of swooped me up; there wasn't much that I could do to stop him." Hermione said.

"You're a witch, Hermione. Did you ever think of magic?" Harry asked.

"At that time I was too confused to think. Would anyone mind if I got back to the story now?" Hermione asked and when she got no reply she took the silence as a yes to continue.

"While Blaise was in the room, he whispered my real name and my appearance began to change. I guess that all the spell needed was to hear my birth name to change me into my real appearance." Once again, Hermione was interrupted by Ron who had yet another question.

"What is your real name?"

"Rayanna Kaydence Zabini." Hermione's biological mother answered saying the name with love.

"It wasn't long after my appearance changed when Professor Snape came into the room. He was closely followed by Draco, Theodore Nott, and the Zafrence twins. It was there that Draco gave me a blunt explanation as to what was going on causing me to faint in front of all those that I had considered enemies."

"You caused her to faint? What exactly did you say?" Lucius asked his only son.

"I just told her who she was. That's all." Draco said defensively.

"That's all? That's all? Don't you think that you could have taken more time? Explained things bit by bit so that you didn't scare her?" Lucius berated his son.

"Don't worry about it, Lucius. Blaise and I gave him what he deserved for doing that." Theo said as he and Blaise chuckled at the memory of beating Draco.

"Yeah, and I will get you back for that too. Damn, my arm still hurts." Draco added as he saw their smiling faces.

"DRACO XAVIOUS MALFOY! WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE! DID YOU NOT SEE THAT YOUR LITTLE SISTER AND ALDEN ARE IN THE ROOM?" Narcissa yelled the moment she heard her son cuss.

"Sorry mum. It won't happen again." Draco answered with his head down.

In front of her, Hermione noticed Harry and Ron laughing at Draco getting scolded. Thinking that she should start again before Draco noticed and they started fighting, Hermione started to talk and the room quieted down as everyone listened to her.

"Once I was revived, Blaise began to explain things to me. He told me how Lucius was the one that left me at the adoption agency when I was eight months old and he told me how much they had all loved and missed me. He told me that the family had been looking for me and that he was thrilled to finally have found me. He even showed me the matching necklace that he wears around his neck. I was okay with everything, until Lucius Malfoy showed up and hugged me. That was when I lost it. I ran from the room with Ginny planning to leave the Heads dorm, but it was blocked seeing as how my biological parents were coming in through the portrait."

"You were the reason that my daughter was running out of her room? Didn't Narcissa just get done telling you not to do something rash and what do you do? You go and scare the living daylights out of my only daughter!" Chloe Zabini yelled at Lucius.

"I'm sorry, I just couldn't help it." Lucius said before looking away from everyone, especially Harry and Ron who were once again laughing as a Malfoy was being yelled at.

"In the common room, I gave up. That was where my parents and the Malfoys explained things to me. They told me that Theo, and the Zafrence twins were my cousins and I learned that Snape was my uncle. It was in here that I also learned that neither the Zabinis nor the Malfoys were evil. Lucius Malfoy is in fact a spy for the light. He only joined the Deatheaters to save his and my family. He doesn't believe in You Know Who's beliefs and everything that he does is an act. He doesn't want to hurt us and never has." Hermione said even though she was still a little scared of Malfoy senior. She had to right to be scared didn't she?

"How do you know that this isn't all a trick? They all could be lying to you. Did you think of that?" Harry asked as he raised his wand even higher.

"I did in fact thing about that, Harry, but my suspicions were dropped when Professor Dumbledore came to the room. He even confirmed that Lucius Malfoy's story about being a spy was true. I trust Dumbledore, Harry, and he wouldn't have left me here alone with them if he had thought I was in danger." Hermione answered.

"Why was Dumbledore here?" Ron asked all of a sudden.

"To resort Hermione, of course." Ginny answered his own brother, enjoying the look that passed on Ron's face.

"Resort her? You were resorted? Please, please tell me that you are not a Slytherin." Ron asked really hoping that his best friend had not been placed in Slytherin.

"No, Ron, I am not a Slytherin. I didn't change houses. Just because I found out who I really was doesn't mean that I am any different. I am still the same girl that you and Harry saved from the troll six years ago." Hermione answered.

"They saved you from a troll? How come I never knew that you had been up against the troll that entered Hogwarts in first year?" Blaise asked his sister.

"Yes, a troll, but that is a different story. I'll tell you about it later." Hermione said before turning her attention to Harry.

"So what do you think now?" She asked hoping that his opinion of her wouldn't have changed now.

"I know that you are the same girl that I became friends with years ago, but I think that I am going to need a little more time to think over this. I still love you, Hermione. You are like a sister to me. Its just that I found out that my best friend is a pureblood witch in a family that I am suppose to hate. Everything that I thought I knew about your family and the Malfoys was completely wrong. Give me a day or two and I will be fine. I'm sorry." Harry said as he lowered his wand and placed a kiss on Hermione's cheek before exiting the through the portrait hole.

Slowly tears fell from Hermione's eyes. She didn't know what she would do if Harry never came around. Could she really give up one of the best friendships she ever had if he couldn't accept who she really was.

"It will be alright, Hermione. Just give Harry a day to think. He's had to face things worse than this. You know he loves you like a sister and could never abandon you. It's a lot to take in and I don't know about befriending all these Slytherins, but if it something that you want me to do, than I'll do it." Ron said when he noticed Hermione's tears.

"Thanks, Ron. That really would be great. We could all get to know them together." Hermione said before she leaned back into Blaise's lap and gave him a smile.

A/n: Well that is chapter eleven. I am sorry that it took me so long to write this. I had writers block at first and then I just put the story on hold. I wasn't going to continue this until I finished "Unknown", but I recently got so many people asking me to update that I thought I would do so. I'm aware that I have probably lost most of my readers and I know I deserve that. I hope that this chapter was to your likings. I tried to make it longer than the rest. Please review and let me know.

A/n 2: I went back through and edited all the old chapters so they should be easier to understand. Also I changed one thing. Blaise is the Head Boy and Draco his guest. Just thought you might want to know that. Another thing is that updates will be spread out because I have to work on "Uknown" and "To Live in Azkaban" too. Also I will answer all signed reviews.

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