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Chapter Eighteen: Paving a Road to Happiness

Hermione headed towards the lake, hoping that her brother was still where Draco said he would be. As she got closer, she heaved a sigh of relief that he was still their, but that relief quickly vanished when she noticed that her brother was crying.

"Blaise?" She asked timidly, not sure how his reaction to her would be.

"Just go! Please just go! You've caused enough pain already!" He yelled at her, his eyes showing both sadness and anger.

"I can't leave, Blaise. Not with you in a state like this."

"I don't want your pity. I'd rather you hate me and my family than have your pity." He said harshly ask he stood up and began to walk away.

"I don't hate you! Ok? I don't hate you, or our parents, or even Uncle Serverus, as strange as that is to say." She said as she grabbed Blaise's arm.

"You misunderstood my silence earlier. Do I hate being a Zabini? The answer to your question is no. I don't hate it. I'm still getting to know everyone one, and I promise that I will try harder. I want to know our parents, honestly. It's just confusing. I lived all my life as a Granger and know I'm then I suddenly find out that I'm a Zabini. I won't to be a part of both families, but sometimes I don't know how I'm going to be able to do that."

"We expect you to remain a part of the Granger family, Ray. You've spent your whole life with them and we could never bring ourselves to tear you apart from them. We only want you to give us a chance too. We love you. And I don't know what I would do if I lost you again." Blaise said as he pulled his sister into a hug.

"You won't lose me, Blaise. I'm not going anywhere. But what about Christmas? It's not just my mum and dad that I'm worried about. I have siblings. What will they think if I don't come home for Christmas?" Hermione asked Blaise.

"You have other siblings?" Blaise asked, genuinely shocked. He hadn't even considered this.

"Yes, a twelve year old brother named Thomas, Tommy for short, and a seven year sister named Alicen."

"I'm sure that we could work something out. Mum and dad would do anything to make you happy. I just that they would allow the Grangers to stay at the Manor for Christmas if you wanted them too. That way you would have both of your families together." Blaise said, smiling as he thought of the idea.

"They would do that?" Hermione asked in shock at Blaise's suggestion.

"They would do anything to make you happy. It's kind of cold out here, do you think that we should head in now?" He said as his sister looped her arm through his and headed towards door.

"One more thing, I had a nice talk with Draco before I came out here. He let slip something about a marriage with him. Anything you have to say about that?"

"That git is dead." Blaise said shaking his head.

- x-

Up in Dumbledore's office the remaining members of the Zabini and Malfoy family sat in shock at what had just happened. They didn't know whether they should follow their sons' examples or stay where they were.

"Should we go after them?" Narcissa asked.

"I think that we have overwhelmed Rayanna. She seems to be having a hard time adjusting to everything that we have thrown at her. If anyone is going to be able to help her it is Draco and Blaise. They are her age and the closest to her. If we went after her, we would probably only cause more trouble than help." Thomas Zabini answered, after a few minutes of silence.

After Thomas Zabini's response, the room fell into silence once more. Not one occupant of the room knew what to say or do next. Fortunately, they were spared when the fire suddenly glowed and out shot Harry Potter, quickly follow by Ronald Weasley and Albus Dumbledore. Each boy held a smile on his face and a happy gleam in his eyes.

"He's free! He's free!" Harry chanted. Inside he was sad that his godfather was freed after his death, but the other part of his was overjoyed. Dead or not, no one could ever think of godfather as a murderer any longer. His name was cleared and that was all that mattered at the moment.

"Misters Potter and Weasley, I must get back to my meeting that was interrupted earlier. If you happen to run across Blaise and Hermione, please send them up." Dumbledore said as he opened the door for the boys.

Out in the hall of Hogwarts, Harry kept chanting "He's free", while Ron followed behind him smiling at his friend. It had been too long since Ron had seen Harry this happy. He didn't want to do anything to change his friend's mood. As they reached the staircase, the front doors of Hogwarts opened and Blaise and Hermione entered the school laughing at something that one of them had said.

"You two are suppose to go to Dumbledore's office." Ron said as he ran to catch up with Harry, who was skipping up the steps.

- x -

Hermione and Blaise made their way to Dumbledore's office, said the password and made their way up to steps. As they entered the room, all heads turned to watch Hermione as she sat down beside her brother with a smile on her face.

"Hermione, your parents and the Malfoys came to my office this morning to discuss you. There seems to be a problem and we where just getting to a solution when you and your friends interrupted," Dumbledore said as Hermione gave him a confused look. "The problem was whether or not the glamour should be dropped and if we should announce your identity to the public. With the events of today, we have decided that we will drop the glamour if you agree." Dumbledore told her leaving the decision to her.

Hermione sat thinking about the pros and cons of the situation. After several minutes of silence, Hermione finally came to a decision.

"Dropping the glamour could cause several problems. Voldemort would know that you had betrayed him and I would the center of everyone's attention at Hogwarts, something I really try to avoid," Hermione said, watching as her parents and godparents faces fell. "However, as I told Blaise earlier, I am a Zabini and that's not something that I want to change. I want to get to know my family. I want to remove the glamour. Whatever happens will happen, but I think it is time that I show the world who I really am." Hermione finished, and was soon enveloped in a hug by Blaise as everyone else in the room smiled at both her decision and the love that the twins already seemed to share.

A/N: Well that is all for now. Please review and let me know what you thought. I think that their will only be one more chapter after this, but we'll see after I write it. Sorry again for the delay in updating.

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