Selenity stared at the short brunette that stood in the door way and demanded answers. She waved her in. Hermione looked cautious at first, but went inside and quickly shut the door and locked it.

As she turned back to face Selena she demanded, "Well?"

Selena sighed as she poured some cool fresh water into her cupped hands and smoothed it over her red face. The cool liquid cleared her thinking for a moment, allowing her to reply.

She attempted a smile at the other witch. "You really are the smartest witch of our generation." She said quietly. Hermione's heart went soft at the look of deep sadness that was hidden inside Selena's eyes. "It would be better if you tell me; I mean I won't tell anyone." She said quickly. She padded softly over to Selena. "Maybe I can even help." She said softly.

Selena shook her head slowly. " You have no idea how much I wish you could" she sighed. "But it is a curse that I was born with." She looked like she was staring off into her distant past. "It was said quite a few years ago, that the child that would defeat Voldemort would be born to a muggle and a pure breed, but only a few know about the other part of the prophecy."

Selena paused to pull back her ropes to reveal a dark serpent, the size of two quarters put together, winding around a mole on her back. The serpent was high enough to not be seen when she wore a bathing suit, as long as she always wore one pieces, yet low enough to be hidden any other time.

"It was said that the woman would also birth the one that would end the world of magic, with stars for eyes, and a serpent's kiss on her back." Selena paused. "No one really believed that anyone could bring about the end of the magical world, not even Voldemort, so the 2nd part, for a time, was forgotten."

Selena walked away from Hermione and faced the many windows that were held in the upper wall in the room. They were enchanted, so nothing could look in, but they gave a perfect view of what was going on outside.

Selena sighed. "Then some paranoid full blood professor at the Windsor Collage of Magic and Muggles, came up with some evidence of a past witch who was said to be granted the same powers to end the magical realms existence. Except she didn't use it on magical folk, she used it on muggles. And if magical endowed people could be killed by it, you know she easily could kill Muggles. And she did, by the thousands. She was part of the "Black Plague Epidemic" that they used to cover up the war."

Selena now faced Hermione. "But before she died, she cast a spell for her soul to be reincarnated 300 years later." Selena softly patted her chest. "That what they thought the baby would be a reincarnate of a muggle slayer, who died for the murders she committed." She sighed. "The professor was convinced they should find the baby right away, because if Voldemort got a hold of her, there was not telling what he might do."

She smiled grimly at Hermione. "And then, when the baby was born, the couple was so scared that they hid the her, and cast spells on her, to make it look like their other child. For only the reincarnate of the witch would have the mark of the snake, and eyes of silver."

Selena started crying, "But that wasn't enough, so they sent the baby to a magical family who hid her and when Voldemort found out who her parents were and went looking for her……."

She started to sob, trying to hold it all in. "she lost both of her parents that night and almost lost her twin brother too, if it were not for her mother's quick thinking."

Hermione walked over to Selena and just held her, as the girl began to bawl now. " and if it were not for her, her brother would still have his mother and father to love him, not some aunt and uncle that hide him all the bloody time!"

"Shusssssh." Hermione said calmly and started to rock her gently as they both stood.

As her sobs subsided, Selena tuned towards Hermione. "Please don't tell anyone what I have told you, not even Harry." Hermione started to say, "He deserves to know………"

Selena interrupted her, "Know what? That his sister is the one destined to kill him? Or that I am the reincarnate of the daughter of Salazar Slitherin?" she gave a bitter laugh. "What a way to be totally convinced fate screwed you over when it came to family."