Chapter Two:

A Shocking Revelation.

I woke early to the smell of bacon and garlic mushrooms my favorite breakfast. When I got downstairs everyone was already ready with the exception of Fred and George who had already graduated. Our trunks had been packet the night before and waited with our beloved pets to be taken to platform 9 and 3/4we ate quickly and made our way to the Weasley's new car a ford mustang convertible and before we knew it we were seated in our compartment.

It was only when Harry Ron and I were seated in our compartment when suddenly I remembered through my green haze that I Hermione granger was head girl.

"Hey guys," I laughed merrily, "I got so bent I had completely forgotten I was head girl!" Ron and Harry both got up and hugged me tight making a sandwich of me.

"Blimey well done Hermione!" Ron smiled finally releasing me from his grip of death. Harry kissed me on the cheek and also congratulated me.

"Well I have to meet Professor McGonagall in the head carriage, see you later boys!" I waved them off before they could see the color coming to my cheeks after Harry had kissed me.

"See Ya senorita!" they laughed in unison as they waved me off.

"Muchas gracias per favor!" I replied over my shoulders.

I walked to the head carriage as another wave of my stupidity had hit me, how was head boy? I snorted knowing all along whom it would be he was only the second smartest student at Hogwarts after me of course. He hated the fact I was smarter than him and when ever he called me mudblood I always made a point that I was smarter and far better at him at almost anything except flying of course but I was working on that one, but I could always say that I may be a mudblood but I'm smarter and a much better wizard than him and he knew he was only second place to me. He never had anything to say to that. I chuckled to myself at the thought of the fights to come and I wondered how far I could go without getting into trouble for making his beautiful blonde hair stand up on end like Einstein!

"laughing at yourself granger?" a nasty snarling voice mocked me with no sincerity, "I would have thought the whole school would do that enough behind your back without you contributing. The mudblood girl who loves the half blooded prince while he loves every other girl in school." was that a hint to boredom in his voice? Malloy never I dismissed the thought as the thought entered my mind. I opened the door and his voice paled yes actually paled (well more of a grayish tinge really) and walked in ignoring his sullen face and trudging feet as he flopped himself with no grace whatsoever onto the far end of the sofa far as possible away from me. His red swollen eyes made him look as though Draco Malfoy the king of slytherin had been crying his big blue eyes taking on a purple tinge.

"Whatever is with your eyes Mr. Malfoy? McGonagall asked receiving a dirty look from Snape who was standing as much as he could in the shadows behind her.

"It's none of your business but crying if you must know," He grumbled at the door, "and no I don't want to talk about it." He turned his face to hide his eyes as much as he could behind his bangs.

"very well," she replied curtly, "you two will be in charge of the patrolling roster with the prefects. The prefects are there to do ninety percent of your work you just have to plan everything. There is a Halloween ball a Yule tide and valentine's ball and anything else you wish to add to that, you are also in charge of when we take hogsmede trips and must meet with your prefects the first Friday of every month. We have listed all your responsibilities in here," she handed them each a book about the size of their heads; "You do not have to patrol the trains today as the prefects have already been administered rosters to do so. To get to your rooms you... oh the map is in the book of yours so just use that. You are free to go if you like but if you would prefer to you can stay here with us." Malfoy stood abruptly his book weighing him down significantly.

"I think I'll pass thank you," he muttered and shuffled himself out the door.

"That boy has been funny ever since what happened to his sister," McGonagall sighed as Snape went out to find something more interesting than two chatty Gryffindor girls. for a second I had not registered what she had said until it hit me she had been talking about Malfoy.

"wait Malfoy has a sister? I never knew that he has a sister."

"Had miss granger he had a sister." she corrected me.

"what happened?" I asked now stupid and curious about this tid bit of gossip on Master Draco Malfoy.

"I shouldn't have even told you that miss granger but now I have you must promise me you will keep this to yourself. I believe you can keep a secret cant you Miss Granger?" he blue eyes pierced into me like she was a laser and I was just a simple piece of aluminum tin foil...

"Yes Professor McGonagall," I swallowed nervously.

"Well it all started eighteen years ago when Lucius had just lost his sanity to the dark lord his wife and he has conceived a child. Unfortunately wizarding law dictates that the estate was to be left to the eldest child and in a pureblooded family it was unacceptable to have a first born daughter when you also have a son. So after he had his dark mark in place he found it out that his wife was carrying a girl and for two years he kept her inside to hide the pregnancy poor woman had no one to talk to about what she was about to go through anyway this girl was born and they hid her from the wizarding society sent her to a muggle school and raised her as a muggle with a completely different last name. I never found out what they called her but trust me Dumbledore and the rest of us knew of our exisistence and I only wish we had done something."

"About what get to the point," I tapped my toes an obvious itch of my irritation at the suspense and the waiting I had to do to get the truth of the story. I didn't expect the things she was about to say.

"Yes yes miss granger patience is a virtue." she rolled her eyes at my impatience and continued, "Well a year later young master Malfoy was born and so it meant that his sister could no longer exist but instead of doing then and there they waited until the summer just gone do commit such a grotesque crime."

"What happened damn it!" my patience was on a string now I wanted my imagination to stop running wild and I wanted to know the truth but before she had even told me I knew what she was talking about but still I had not anticipated the shock of true revelations.

"He would only ever let one person get close to him really honestly close to him and that was his sister so naturally he is furious as I would hope about what happened to her. You see his father and mother weren't much in the way of parent's cold and calculating to the last minute they did it for a reason I just wish I knew what it was. Miss granger sometime this summer mister Malfoy's sister was raped and murdered. Not many know of this except for the staff and none of the students and we don't want words leaked and if we hear a trace of a rumor I will follow you up understand? anyway in a way it was a blessing for Mister Malfoy no matter how hard he is taking it his father was sent to Azkaban for his crimes and the dark lord spares the children of the damned those who receive the dementors kiss it is the highest honor in his society, no matter the plans he had for Mister Malfoy he now has to give him pardon for his father's crime. Tea or Coffee?" she asked as if she had not said a word of Malfoy's predicament.

"No I suddenly don't feel all too thirsty but thank you anyway," I got up to leave my legs beneath me feeling like jelly.

"Cake?" She asked as I rose."

"No I am not particularly hungry either thank you. I think I should be finding my friends on patrol anyway."

"Remember Miss Granger not a word to a single soul breathing or not, not a word, you have to promise me this. Especially master Malfoy if he was to know that we know well honestly I'd be scared of the consequences as I should be of course."

"I promise," I turned and slid from the carriage, it would be hard to bite my tongue but if Malfoy could do it so could I and he had, had to endure so much over the summer that it would be dirty and low to go spreading this gossip all over school.

I went to find an empty carriage as the boys were patrolling the train after much debate Dumbledore had thankfully picked Ron as my replacement prefect because all the girls in my class were tramps who were never responsible enough for themselves let alone the rest of the students and Ron had actually been doing his own homework instead of copying mine in his own words and handwriting not to mention his maturity going through the roof! I had run into the boys on my way to an empty carriage and after insisting I had enough responsibility being head girl without having to help them with their job (Separating a pair of second year students who has managed to jinx themselves into Siamese twin hood) and leaving to get on with it a smile plastered all over my face.

After finally managing to find myself an empty carriage I pulled out my old worn copy or Piratica and started to read trying to ignoring the drama queen bawling in the carriage behind me. Finally it became too much and I had to tell the mystery sobber to shut up before they drowned in their own tears like Alice in wonderland would have if she hadn't been small enough to fit into the glass bottle. I opened the carriage to find Draco Malfoy to be the drowning drama queen sobbing his eyes more blood shot than before I was so surprised to see it was him that I walked to his side lifted up his chin and smacked him fair and square over the face. I couldn't tell anyone about what had happened to him over the summer but this would have been to priceless to keep to myself except for the fact that he was just sitting there staring at me, I figured he too was in shock.

"Leave Granger...please." If slapping him hadn't shocked me I actually fell on my ass when he said please.

"Wow Malfoy has manners who'd a thunk it?" but he didn't reply he just turned to stare out the window so I sat down and again pulled out my book just happy to be able to read in peace. We stayed like this until the train stopped. Even then I felt weird because Malfoy just stood and walked out without a word backwards and he had never had a comeback to my last nasty comment. I felt like the wizarding world as I had known it had been dropped on its head or something of the like now that Malfoy wasn't rude I didn't know how to be towards him.

I left the train to find Harry, Ron and Ginny all running for their carriage and I got there just in time laughing at Harry's head popped out the window looking for me and he waved me over as soon as he saw me.

"How'd you go with the ying yang twins?" I laughed.

"We had no idea how to fix it they are just going to have to stay that way until Dumbledore fixes them I'm glad we were never that stupid I mean impersonating Crabbe and Goyle was bad enough I would hate to be a Siamese twin!" Harry laughed sitting next to Ginny

"Who got head boy?" Ginny asked ever curious her beautiful eyes wide open with ever untold expression and wonder.

"Draco Malfoy," I slumped into my couch beside Ron dreading having to face the new weird guy at school. Even more was I would not be used to not being the weird one. I wasn't sure which was worse.

"Blimey Hermione, you poor thing," Ron put a brotherly arm around my shoulder to comfort me. I wrapped my arms around him hugging him with only a fraction of the force he had used against me earlier having no luck of making mince meat of him.

"You stoner Ronnikins," I giggled using his least favorite nickname given to him by his ever irritating muggle girlfriend who was forever mailing and trying to call him, "You sure are saying Blimey allot."

"Blimey," he joked nudging me.

The way to Hogwarts was pretty much the same; we sat through another sorting, another speech and another feast, our last. I looked around knowing in my heart I would sure miss this place after the year was finished. Harry slipped his arms around my shoulder.

"its gunna be strange not coming back next year," as if reading my thoughts he sighed in my ear.

"Yup sure is, I was just thinking I'll definitely miss this place," I sighed in return burrowing my head into his shoulder until I remembered what Malfoy had said before we had entered the heads carriage was he being nasty and lying or was he telling the truth bored with his imagination? I pulled away suddenly trying hard to hide the red blush on my cheeks growing redder and hotter the closer Harry came to me.

"Are you okay Hermione?" he whispered in my ear making me feel even redder and even hotter and more uncomfortable. My eyes shot of over to the slytherin table trying to find my partner in accommodation and accommodation only for the year. I found him looking sullen pushing his food around his plate while his friends nagged him insistently. I had a feeling they too knew what I had only learned this afternoon. he looked up and caught my eye held it for a moment and then turned away as suddenly as he had looked up.

"I'm fine Harry," I replied once I had composed myself, "I'm going to go check out my new dorm I share with ferret boy." I got up and calmly walked out of the great hall, when I was finally out of sight I stopped and quickly memorized my map and ran to my new dorm never noticing the shadow following me.