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Chapter 2: Who Are You?
After overcoming her joy of having a secret admirer Hermione had gotten up and went in search of Ginny. As Ginny was her only girl friend (well girl best friend) Hermione felt she had to tell her about her secret admirer. She knew she couldn't tell Harry or Ron, they'd freak and think it was Malfoy or something and you know how crazy that would be! Malfoy being her secret admirer, HA, like she would even want him to be! That would be completely and utterly impossible.
At this moment Hermione was at the Quidditch pitch where she had found Ginny just getting off her broom. Once Hermione showed her the letter Ginny went into automatic questionnaire mode. Hermione really thought Ginny would make an excellent talk show host.
"Do you have any guesses as to who it could be?" Ginny asked excitedly.
"I truly have no idea. I never really thought anyone could like me that way." Hermione answered rather dejectedly.
"Oh come off it! Everyone knows Ron's fancied you since, like, ever!" Ginny exclaimed.
Hermione starred at her rather unattractively. "What do you mean Ron's liked me forever? I never knew that."
"Ya, you're the only one who didn't. Everyone knows he likes you. It's so obvious! Even my mum and dad know!" Ginny sighed and shook her head at Hermione's incompetence. And she was supposed to be smart!
"Oh..." Hermione looked away. "Well it can't be him because the letter says everyone would be surprised to know he likes me. Nobody I guess would be surprised about Ron, well nobody except I guess I me. It has to be someone no-one would suspect."
Both girls looked at each other and said at the same time, "a Slytherin."
Later that night Harry, Ron and Hermione were sitting in front of the fire in the Gryffindor Tower. Harry and Ron were playing Wizards Chess and Hermione was reading, as usual. Ginny had disappeared somewhere saying that she was meeting up with a friend from Ravenclaw, but she had secretly told Hermione earlier that she had a date with a VERY hot male, she didn't say what house though or who it was. Just as Ron took Harry's king, as usual, the portrait hole opened and a girl with waist length curly bleach blonde hair walked in followed by Professor McGonagall. She looked rather nervous and kept looking around rather nervously. McGonagall walked right over to Hermione with the girl following her timidly.
"Ms. Granger, as Head Girl it is your responsibility to help all students. As it is this young lady," at this she made the girl come in front of her, "is Ms. Jennessica Sanders. She is a transfer student here from the American school Grimond's Academy. She is a sixth year Gryffindor now and it would be very appreciated if you would help her adjust."
Hermione smiled kindly at the girl, Jennessica, and held out her hand. "Hi, I'm Hermione Granger and welcome to Hogwarts."
The girl smiled slightly and hesitantly shook her hand. "Pleasure to meet you" She said in a quiet voice.
"Well then I'll leave you two at that" The professor then turned on her heel and left the common room so she may return to her own quarters.
Jennessica sat down on one of the sofas and starred into the fire. Hermione took this time to study her. She had two piercings in each ear, foggy grayish-blue eyes that had a shiny eye shadow above them. Though she was thin it was obvious she was strong. She had to have been just an inch or two shorter than Hermione herself. Hermione looked closer at Jennessica's hair, noticing that it seemed to shine more than what was natural and noticed that diamonds were in her hair. Obviously this girl was no-where near short on money.
"So…um… well these two clueless idiots over here playing Wizard's chess are Harry Potter and Ron Weasley." The two boys mentioned looked up and finally took notice of the new girl. Harry was the first one to get up to confront her.
"Hi, I would be Harry." He held his hand out to her whilst smiling kindly to her.
"Jennessica Sanders, It's a pleasure to meet you Harry." Jennessica said, seemly more courageous though still quiet and timid. She shook his hand and blushed profusely when he lightly kissed her hand.
Ron then came over and also introduced himself though not nearly as charmingly as Harry. All Ron could do was nearly drooling over her. Jennessica gave him a disgusted look and was VERY hesitant to shake his hand and when she did it was only for two seconds.
Upon awaking the next day Hermione knew that that day would be very interesting. She could just feel it. Hermione got dressed in a short pink skirt and a tight black t-shirt. She put on her pink stilettos and exited her room. Once entering the common room she saw Jennessica trying to get away from the crowd of boys trying to get her attention. Jennessica's attire included a black thick strapped tanktop (can't remember what they're called) under a silver tanktop and black miniskirt. She had black lace up stiletto boots also. Her long hair was up in a sophisticated yet fun bun with shorter strands framing her face. Hermione rushed over and helped her leave the common room and get down to the Great Hall. Just as the two were about to sit down someone came up behind them. Both turned around and had opposite reactions. Whilst Hermione was upset to see him there, Jennessica seemed overjoyed.
Draco Malfoy smiled at the new girl and hugged her in a, surprisingly brotherly way, swinging her around three times before putting her back down. Hermione looked back and forth between the two until she figured it out.
"Are you two related?" She asked.
"Yes actually, Draco's my half brother." Jennessica replied suddenly very confident and not the least bit timid or quiet. Her voice was actually at a normal tone, but of course when at Hogwarts everyone hears something like that and the hall became suddenly quiet until finally someone said. "Malfoy has a sister?"
"Ya you got a problem with that?" Draco replied glaring at the boy who said that. He then looked down at Jennessica and smiled at her. "It's been a while, Jen. You get sorted into Gryffindor?"
Jennessica nodded and Draco sighed. "Well then no more makin fun of them."
Jennessica hit him lightly on the arm and giggled. "You're so cruel Draco." Draco just smirked at her and put an arm around her shoulders and steered her over to the Slytherin table, but not before turning to Hermione and smiled a thankful smile.
"Thanks for takin care of my lil sis." At that Jennessica and Draco sat down between Blaise Zabini, a 7th year Slytherin with tan skin, spiked raven hair with blonde tips, misty grayish-green eyes and was roughly 6'2 and muscular, and Theodore Nott, another 7th year Slytherin that was only an inch taller than Blaise so was 6'3 and was muscular, he had spiked light brown hair with black and blonde tips, (see a pattern here?) ocean blue eyes and tan skin. Long gone were Draco's two thugs, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. Blaise and Theo, as he was called, were the best friends Draco could've ever asked for.
Hermione sighed and sat down at the Gryffindor table. She had been right; today was going to be an interesting day. Harry, Ron and Ginny came and sat down with her. Automatically Ron began stuffing his face and Harry too began eating right away though neater than Ron. Hermione shook her head at the two and concentrated on Ginny who began telling her about her date with the quiet Blaise Zabini. Of course they talked quietly so as not to let Ron know that she had gone on a date. We all know how he would react. Hermione then told all three of them about how apparently Jennessica was Draco's little half-sister. All three of them were surprised about this but Ron and Ginny were the most surprised.
"You would think we would've heard about this! I mean we've grown up in the wizarding world!" Ginny finally said after a couple of seconds.
"I've heard all about the Sanders. They're a really old and rich family. They're actually known for being associated with whatever Dark Lord there is at the time. I wouldn't be surprised if we found out that Jennessica over there is a supporter of his. The Sanders family used to be really well known too. They're most known for their upbringing of serpents, mostly the large and dangerous ones like the basilisk. They're also well known for their incredible sword fighting. No one has ever been better than them. They know every trick there is! They're the only ones who have been able to master some of the more difficult ones. They make up most of their moves. I also know that they're known to have the knowledge of every language there is, the histories of the languages and how to speak them. As I said before, they're a really old family so they have a long history in every place there is. Out of my knowledge the only heir to the Sanders name, other than Jennessica over there, is Margarette Sanders and Nicholas Sanders. By the looks of it I'd say she's Margarette's daughter for now that I look at her she does look somewhat similar to Lucius Malfoy. I'd sat that Margarette was Lucius' mistress and she accidentally became pregnant. Most likely Lucius wanted to hide it so he left her permanently and made her have their daughter's last name be Sanders, not Malfoy. Somehow Malfoy must have figured out that he had a half sister and discovered her. I doubt Lucius knows that Malfoy knows about her though." Ron said. The other three starred at him blankly, surprised that he could show so much knowledge on a topic, especially one on some ancient family. "What?"
"Wow" was all Hermione could utter. Harry and Ginny both nodded in agreement to Hermione's utter and Ron blushed incredibly. "Well that was a nice peace of information.
Well? What do you think? I hope you like it, I worked hard on it. I'm really inspired to work on this story and hope it's a success to you all. Just so you know don't expect the Draco/Hermione relationship right away. I plan on having this take a while before they get together because I don't want it to be rushed. Many of you probably already have a guess as to who Hermione's secret admirer is, but don't be to sure of yourselves! It could or could not be!
Well R/R!