A/N: First and foremost, I am so sorry for the delay, things a bit hectic at the moment but don't worry everything's fine. And secondly thank you so much for the support of this story, I am so happy with the responds of this story, the reviews, those who followed and favourited this story, thank you so much. Thirdly I would like to thanked Undertaker is the queen for being an amazing beta and thank you so much for the help and everything you had done for this story.

And for those who had asked about Hermione's Godfather, you will find out in the next couple of chapter =D unless you can guess who.

And now the vote for Hermione pairing, so far Kyoya Hibari is leading and seems that he's winning, while Harry is not far behind. And since that those who wishes to vote for this you got until the next chapter and after that I will close the poll and vote. And for those who had voted thank you so much.

I also would like to inform that the next chapter for Skylark and Dying Will and a few others might taken some time because at this moment I am preparing for my cousin's wedding in a few weeks so I am going to be a bit busy at this time, so apologies for the delay.

Warning: Some swearing and maybe some spelling error or grammar that maybe either my beta or myself may have not noticed it.

Disclaimers: HP and KHR are not mine, there happy.

Chapter 8: Harry Meets The Mafia and Ally From The Snake Lair

"So, you are Harry Potter, the famous friend of our dear Mya here," Squalo spoke as he stared dangerously at Harry who had a little bit of trouble trying to swallow whatever saliva was left in his mouth and at the same time tried not to tremble due to a slight fear of the deadly man in front of him, the one Hermione called Squalo Superbi, one of those deadly men who had threatened Ron yesterday.

"Ye…yes sir, nice to meet you sir," Harry replied stuttering as he glanced at Hermione who looked at him with sympathy. He knew that she would likely help him but he needs to prove that he is worthy of her friendship, while having her large 'family' trying to scrutinise him at the moment, especially those three men who seemed to be quite protective of her, the handsome blond, the brown haired and the one with the scar. And yet at the same time he began to wonder what Hermione had told them about him, hopefully nothing bad and that she only told them about him being just Harry Potter, not that Boy-Who-Lived crap.

"Hmmm…so I take it that the princess over there has forgiven you, since you are here," Squalo spoke again as he pointed towards Hermione and Harry nodded frantically as the rest of Hermione's family and friends look at him calculatingly. Though, deep in his mind he didn't actually remember if Hermione had said the word forgiven, it's more of him asking her all over again to forgive him, and with that he slightly cringed, what if Hermione didn't forgive him yet and just go along with his demand. If he lies to them he'll be dead just like Ron.

"Well…actually…"

Harry flinched when most of them suddenly glared at him, while Hermione looked at him apologetically.

"Yes?" Came the question from the handsome blond who sat next to Hermione, his arm wrapped around her protectively, and Harry felt some kind of jealousy arising in him. He wished that someone could treat him just like this, to feel protected and all.

"I'm kind of asked, or forced her to forgive me, and I actually don't know if she had forgiven me," Harry said almost too quiet as he braced himself for any kind of attack coming from them.

"I've already forgiven you Harry," Hermione spoke softly. This had Harry to look at her and she could see how relieved he felt, though some of her family looked at her in disbelieve. She could swear that she saw Reborn slightly smirking.

"Hmmm…just like that?" Hibari spoke as he glared at the green-eyed wizard with his steel eyes, and this had Harry slightly cringing, he could feel a deadly aura coming from him. How the hell does Hermione know and is even related to some of these people, most of them are way too scary, like the one with scar and the long haired one, in fact the infant in suit and fedora hat looked quite intimidating as well.

"Yeah…well," Harry seemed hesitated for a while, in fact he had no idea how to answer that actually.

"Yes, I forgave him just like that, because he's my friend," Hermione answered on his behalf. Harry was so thankful and promised himself that he will treat her better after this.

"Hmmm…. there's no fun in that, I wish I could do just like what Boss had done yesterday, and that would have been so much fun," Bel said with that huge, creepy grin stuck on his face as he played with his dangerously sharp knives.

Harry slightly glanced at the eccentric blond and shivered, there's no way in hell he would go near that creepy man even if his life depends on it.

"Well if that's the case then our little problem is settled, and I hope that you, Mr Potter, have learned your lesson with what had happened yesterday to that stupid redheaded friend of yours, you are lucky you didn't end up like him, because we are not that forgiving should this happen again," the infant with suit and fedora hat spoke, and Harry stared at him with his eyes widen wide in disbelief.

Reborn sighed, these people here surely share the same sentiment whether they are adults or children, or teenager in this case.

"Yeah okay, thanks," Harry replied quickly as he stole a glance at Hermione who was smiling at him while the two handsome men besides her grinned at him, though Harry could see that the warning sign is still there should he repeat that mistake again.

As everyone in the living room started moving around and doing whatever they had in their minds, Harry joined Hermione at the study table and she was also joined by her cousins and uncle and also the infant in suit. Harry noticed that apart from their given assignments

Hermione was also doing some reading and studying on some organisation's financial report and economic status which baffled him a lot, some mundane history, physic, mathematics as well as mundane literature and a few others to name, man this girl really needs some self-control on her love of learning before she drives herself mad.

And although he would want her to take some break from some of those subjects she is currently learning, especially the mundane ones, but Harry knew that he wouldn't be able to do so, especially because she had her uncle and the infant watching over her when she studied and they were making sure that she had a proper understanding on those subjects, especially the financial and economy report as well on her mathematics.

And because he is no longer around his 'family' who would likely to have scolded him in such brutal way should he be doing well in his studies and also Ron who would be jealous and try to drag him down to the path of stupidity, Harry finally had the chance to learn and do well in his school subjects and also in Math again as it was one of his favourite subjects in primary school before he entered Hogwarts.

Starting from that moment, Harry began to realize that Hermione was right, not all muggles are as bad as the Dursleys. Heck, he had even met Mr and Mrs Granger before in his second year and he silently cursed himself for his stupidity and forgetfulness. They were kind and nice to him and very polite too, and in fact he still remembered when Mrs Granger hugged and thanked him for being such a good friend to Hermione, it was nice and not as suffocating and forceful as Mrs Weasley's, whom were in his mind an overbearing woman.

All and all, he also realised that he had let Ron to controlled him too much in almost every aspect of his life, of who he should be friends with or what he should do, hell he even listened to that redhead too much, believed him too much and not even tried to look into these aspects himself, whether it is right or wrong. He could guess that the fault was his as well, holding onto Ron too much because he was his first friend and he didn't wish to lose that, in return he had turned slightly blind towards other things that would eventually help him in many aspects, mostly surviving the Wizarding world, and also from his sworn enemy.

Harry blamed it on his blindness on many other things, but he then realised that he had depended too much on Hermione to help him by bailing him out of trouble though the school years, and while Ron was fun he was just a lazy git who thought that he would eventually get everything just because he was born a pureblood wizard. And Harry realised that without Hermione's help both he and Ron would eventually have failed their exams and studies a long time ago, well more Ron then Harry because Harry knew that although he is not as smart as Hermione, that would be impossible, he at least had done well in his studies compared to Ron. Besides, in comparison between Hermione with the rest of them, she is the only person who treated him as him, as Harry Potter, not the Boy-Who-Lived crap.

With Hermione had finally forgiven him, Harry swore to be a better friend to Hermione and he promised to be by her side and never leaving her or hurting her feelings again.

Few days had passed since Harry had mended his friendship with Hermione and he eventually started to hang out with Hermione's family and friends. Despite that, Harry could tell that there was something amiss between them, he didn't speak it out loud but the sense of a strong friendship and trust between them had changed, as if Hermione is still wary of him, and it does hurt his feeling a little, and yet he couldn't blame her at all. He guessed that their friendship might need some time to repair and mend the way it was before.

And then, some of her family and friends are quite unnerving, especially the one she calls Uncle Xanxus and his merry men, the Varia, Harry had no idea what exactly the Varia is, but somehow he can say that he does enjoy their company if they are not in one of their usual volatile acts.

During the last few days some of the blasted Slytherins, including their Head of House and also the toad in pink Umbridge, tried to get him and Hermione into trouble or detention, but since the incident with Ron, some of the Slytherins were quite wary of the deadly and extremely dangerous muggles. Though, not all Slytherins are as bad as Malfoy and his goons or as stupid.

Umbridge and Snape, particularly, had tried very hard to get both Hermione and Harry into trouble. Snape with his usual sneer while Umbridge tried to get the ire out of them by making fun of muggles and belittling her family as well as dubbing Harry as a liar in regard of Voldemort returning back to life. But somehow, both seemed fail to do so, and this got both of them to wonder how to break those two particular students apart who seem to have to toughened up, a lot. Hermione simply ignored them, she had dealt with much worse case scenarios than those petty insults. Although Harry could have simply snapped, but through his repairing friendship with Hermione and the appearance of her muggle relatives, he as well seemed to have grown up and took no heed to such childish insults.

Malfoy had yet to learn that lesson since he and his goons haven't made contact with Hermione's muggle relatives. They only sneered and made fun of her and her family from afar, a bunch of cowards they are.

Ron had learnt his lesson, for now, and chose to stay away from Hermione, and eventually Harry. The Weasleys had received letters from their father stating that they should not put themselves into trouble with Hermione and her relatives, and also try to not to make fun of them neither. The twins are fine with it since they had no problems with the muggles to begin with and also being such wonderful friends with Hermione. Ginny was still wary of them as they had struck fear in her, and her friendship with the brunette witch is still damaged.

Taffy the house-elf had somehow been dubbed as the Mafia's unofficial 'family member' since she had been appointed as their 'house-elf' while the guests were still here in Hogwarts. And to the shock of majority of the house-elves and even some of the staff members in Hogwarts, the female house-elf somehow enjoyed being in the muggles company since they had treated her way better than most of the wizards and witches do in which later then she introduced another house-elf to the Mafia's, a male named Tiddy who also instantly took a liking of the extraordinary muggles and Hermione.

Both Taffy and Tiddy also enjoyed being in the company of Hermione for she had shown great care towards them by thanking them for their hard work and befriended the younger house-elves as both Taffy and Tiddy could be considered as quite young among the house-elves here in Hogwarts. The brunette witch also enjoyed talking and getting to know more about house-elf since no one else, including both Dumbledore and Hagrid, had bothered enough to tell her about the house-elves in the Wizarding world.

Although the bigots in Hogwarts had tried to scare and insult the muggles, none of them could escape from the retaliations in better condition from the Mafia. Umbridge, in particular, had been sent to the Hospital wing several times since the last few days, apparently she kept seeing snakes and toads during meals, invincible attacks in her classes and also in her dreams where she was surrounded by giant snakes killing and eating toads with her face or having herself being trapped in an unknown scary world and watched herself being tortured, injured and eventually killed in such brutal ways that she became addicted to the dreamless potion. And Hermione considered her to be lucky that her family have yet to strike her, physically at least, because she knew that her uncle and his merry men and even Mukuro are itching to do so. Mentally she's already out of her reach.

Malfoy is still feeling superior with his usual insults, threatening to inform his father when Hermione and Harry don't give a damn about him and they chose to ignored him when he started ranting at them with his not creative insults. Hermione simply looked bored at his sneers and petty slurs while Harry wanted to knock the idiot ferret into oblivion. They even wondered if Malfoy had suffered from their lack of affection for him to be this desperate to be noticed by others.

Though, there were times when Malfoy almost got himself into huge trouble that would likely scar him for life and destroy his reputation when he threw his daily insult towards Hermione without noticing that her family and friends were there, and then almost pissed himself when the one Harry remembered as Kyoya Hibari simply approached the idiot and one deadly stare that made him seem bored was enough to make the ferret and his goons run with their tails between their legs. There were times when they almost drew their weapons but were stopped by Reborn.

Harry also noticed that Hermione was also quite close to Kyoya and although she didn't had the gleam in her eyes like Ginny did when the redhead witch talked to him, Hermione didn't worship Kyoya as Ginny would do, as she is not a fangirl. This got Harry to be pretty jealous at both of them because of their closeness, and because Kyoya didn't treat Hermione as he and Ron would do when she was in her bossy and know-it-all attitude. In fact, this Kyoya was able to reprimand her without hurting her feelings, and this got Harry to be very jealous of him more and more compared to the others.

Ever since the muggles were here, majority of the student body, especially the girls, suddenly began to dress up to impress the muggles. It can't be helped, since the majority of them are very good-looking and attractive, regardless of them being muggles or not, and this caused most of the boys in Hogwarts to feel threatened by it. In Ravenclaw, this 'dress-to-impress' group was led by none other than Cho Chang, and Harry began to wonder if Cho was actually honest when she told him she wanted to know him more when they had their first unofficial date about a week ago. Or she actually said that just to snatch him with her charm because he was the Boy-Who-Lived.

Harry also noticed that some of the girls in Gryffindors were doing the same, and most of them are quite jealous of Hermione because these muggles were her family and friends, and the jealousy was extended to the Gryffindor's female Quidditch players because of their closeness to Hermione and able to get to know these muggles. In Hufflepuff, the girls were led by an unknown seventh year female students, but what shocked him the most was that even the Slytherin girls wanted to have their fair share of it. Harry noticed that the girls Greengrass and Davies started to apply slight make-up on their faces, even some of the older students from that particular house are doing the same, and heck even Parkinson and Bulstrode have joined the wagon and began to apply make-up though it makes them look more horrific than pretty, and those two were part of Malfoy's goons.

The only reason that this was fun was to watch Snape's reaction, he was pissed and angry but he could not simply deduct points from his own house, and Harry would use this as one of his fond memories that he could use to conjure his Patronus.

Somewhere in a private airport in London

Daniel and Emma Granger are currently reading letter from their only daughter and can't help but be very proud of her. Her mafia side began to show its potential, and both proud parents had no doubt that Hermione would eventually inherit the Vongola's and Cavallone's leadership skill in no time with Reborn, Xanxus, Tsuna, Dino and the rest are there with her and will watching over her because according to Vongola Nono it's almost time for Hermione to show her potential to becomes one of Vongola's well-known family member.

At the same time, both CEDEF members are waiting for their guests to arrive very soon. Timoteo and Iemitsu are coming to discuss some plans in regards of Hermione's future inheritance, and along with them are a couple others who are considered as being very important to be part of the discussion as well. And both the Grangers knew that they had a lot to talk about.

And not only that but both the Grangers also still had to dealt with the conflict within the Black Rose Clan, as prominent members within the mafia clan where most of them are still arguing and defending their points and reasons of who should be the next leader or Boss, ever since the previous head of family suddenly passed away without naming the next heir to be the head of the clan.

The clan knew of the Vongola and Cavallone families/organisations due to the marriage between Daniel and Emma, but since this was an internal conflict within the clan the two prominent Italian mafias showed their respect by not interfering, favouring or disrespecting any of the prominent members of the Black Rose Clan.

As both Daniel and Emma were still reading Hermione's letter, a voice they knew so well greeted them.

"Hope that we didn't make the two of you wait for us too long, kora."

Back in Hogwarts

Blaise Zabini was very impressed. Those muggles managed to render most of the idiots in Slytherin into fear and furthermore useless. He knew that most of them just know how to talk rubbish and useless matters without manners that would make any pureblood proud, and the best example would be Malfoy.

Blaise knew that in the history of the Malfoy's, they are yet to be considered as the Ancient and Noble families in the British wizarding because their ancestor had migrated from France about less than eight generations ago due to a fallout with the French magical families, moreover because of misused power and greed that had driven the Malfoy to escape from France, so they are not considered as being old, pureblood families in the British wizarding. The only reason they had so much control and political power in the British wizarding is their gold and nothing more.

Blaise also knew how incompetent the Minister is, because he can be easily bought by the Malfoy's Galleons, how low can somebody become. And now with the news of Voldemort's

return, Fudge took no heed to accept that, whether that is correct or not, he as the Minister should take this as a serious issue, but because of Malfoy's Galleons and power he simply took the news as nothing but a story from a lying boy, what a prick.

And although Blaise isn't pretty much sure if he himself wanted to believe it, he hardly doubts that Granger would tell him a lie; he just needs to take some extra precaution because even if Voldemort isn't actually returning liked Potter had claimed, his Death Eaters are still out there doing his bidding.

Despite that, Blaise also began to observed the staff members in Hogwarts, and he had to admit that some of them are pretty biased. In his opinion, Umbridge, another Minister's useless bitch, was another problem, and very much useless, she can't even teach properly. She is just a much worse bigot that ran the Ministry as she wished, all in the name of pureblood traditions, fuck that. Just because she was a descendant from the Selwyn family doesn't make her any more powerful

In fact, from what he had found out, Umbridge would likely to cause the fallout of the Selwyn in the eyes of the purebloods because she held no power or knowledge that the previous prominent members of the family had. She was lucky that his mother was not here, if not she would likely hex and turn the despicable Umbridge into a poodle, or worse a toad for the rest of her miserable life for being such an incompetent teacher.

As for those muggles, Blaise somehow knew the name Vongola, Varia and Cavallone sounded quite familiar especially in Italy, and unlike most of the purebloods here in the British Wizarding, the Zabini and the Mitchellis knew about muggles and the power and abilities they had. They are not as ignorant as some pureblood are, especially people like the Malfoy, Parkinson and more to name. His mother, Layla Zabini nee Mitchellis, was taught from young to respect powerful people, included the muggles because they had the power to change everything. His late father, Fedrick Zabini were also the same, and thus making the Italian purebloods not as bigot as their British counterparts when it comes to acknowledging muggles and their abilities.

The only shocking thing that came to his mind was that the connection that Granger had with these famous and powerful people, thus making Blaise Zabini begin to wonder if Hermione Granger was not just a mere muggleborn. He was hoping to get some explanation from her anytime soon, besides he still remembered his father's last advice before his passing. "The Zabini's are notorious famous for making acquaintance with well-known and powerful muggles because this is what brought the Zabini's to be fearless, because they learnt the hard way to achieve respect and power and we do not rely on money to win people, but with manners and great political influence that we can learn from these muggles, the more powerful they are the more we can learn and adapt and that's how we are wherever we are now, take the good as to be followed and take the bad as example to be avoided in the future".

For now, all Blaise Zabini had to do is just wait.

Few days later

The Mafia had been staying at Hogwarts for more than a week now and so far, nothing serious that required fighting and beating, apart from petty insults and all, had taken place, yet. They knew that some of those idiots are itching to hex them, or maybe curse them when they don't see or notice.

For Hermione, so far she was doing good, she managed to dodged problems and insults liked she was taught before and she had gained her best friend back, except for Weasley as the redhead idiot was now under probation because he neglected his Prefect duties. Mr Weasley came to visit him a couple of times, giving him advices and all, though Ronald Weasley seemed to think that he had done nothing wrong and he simply told his father that he should claim what was his like his mother had told him, much to the ire of the Weasley patriarch.

The only problem that Hermione found to be very irritating was that Malfoy, his goons, Umbridge and Snape really try to get on her nerves. So far she had no problems in dealing with them but only on certain basis. She actually had no problem dealing with Malfoy, one punch in the face and that's enough to send him to the Hospital Wing for days. But it's Umbridge and Snape that give her the most problems. Snape had proven to be a pain in the arse, while the toad was much worse. Students from other houses except Slytherin, well mostly, felt threatened by her presence, from time to time more and more innocent students were punished for the mistakes that weren't of their own making.

Harry and Hermione couldn't take it anymore and they wanted to do something to help these students. Despite that these students still don't want to believe about Voldemort return, but they believed that they should be better in DADA, not reading first year theory all over again. Harry had no idea what to do, his friends had suffered from the tyranny of the toad and he himself had been given detention a couple of times because he just can't keep his mouth shut.

Hermione, on the other hand, simply wanted to go and ask her brothers and the rest of the mafia if they could teach them how to fight instead. But she also realised the downside of it, because she knew that not all of them would likely accept help from those they deemed unfit to teach them, because her family and friends aren't magical. They are just Muggles.

Hermione and Harry are at the library and both of them are on the verge of frustration when suddenly someone approaches them.

"Hello Granger, Potter," Blaise Zabini greeted them.

"Hello Zabini," Hermione greeted him back while Harry just glared at him.

"What do you want, Zabini?" Harry asked not unkindly but not friendly either. Hermione just sighed as she glanced at him. This is why she didn't really like being around Ronald Weasley too much because of his prejudice, and Harry seemed to easily followed his footstep. And Hermione knew that this needs to stop. She quickly casted the Silencing Charm around them to avoid anyone else from listening in.

"Harry, stop that," Hermione chimed at him as Harry stared at her with widen eyes while Blaise watched with interest.

"Wha…Hermione, he's a Slytherin…- "

"Yes but he's not Malfoy, and I've been working on some projects with him for quite some time so he's fine, in fact we do get along pretty well," Hermione quickly spoke while Harry still stared at her in disbelieve. Hermione sighed again.

"Harry, sometime things are not as you think or hear them, did you ever give yourself a chance to actually know them. There's a few people in Slytherin that are actually quite okay and although not quite friendly but I am able to tolerate with them because they do not treat me like how Malfoy did, in fact some of the younger students are actually nice and friendly," Hermione said as she looked at her best friend who seemed to try to get all this into his head.

"I know that you may find it hard to believe, but trust me on this. And I hate to say this but because you depend too much on Ronald you took everything he told you without giving yourself the chance to actually explore everything by yourself, he told us that Slytherins were a bunch of bullies, evils and bigots, but what about himself? He may not be evil, but he often bullies us, me with his homework and insulting my tendency to study, and he often used his 'I'm a poor Weasley' card when things didn't go his way, especially with you. And if you think that those who are Slytherins are evil, then what about Pettigrew, as he was a Gryffindor, Harry," Hermione continued as she held his hands with hers, knowing that she really needed him to hear all these

Harry looked quite frustrated at it, he hated it when he knew that she was right, again. He knew how Ron had painted his view of the Wizarding world, and he somewhat allowed that to happened. He was blinded by his friendship with the redhead, and now he felt like an utter fool. He slowly nodded his head as Hermione grasped his hands tightly but not uncaringly.

"I know that you may not like me Potter, because trust me I am not like Malfoy, and I do not share the same sentiment as he did, in fact there's a few of us in Slytherins who did not actually like having him around because he and a few others are the reason why Slytherin are always given a bad name by others," Blaise spoke as he watched Harry who turned his attention to him.

"So do you believe me what I said about Voldemort?" Harry started, and he wanted to grin when he saw Zabini flinched at the mention of the Dark Lord's name, and proud that Hermione didn't.

"Well that one is quite difficult to take, Potter, because you are the only one who knew about it, and although I am not sure whether to believe it or not, but I won't take it lightly because out there there're a bunch of Death Eaters still on the loose, and because Granger here didn't think that you would lie about it," Blaise responded as Harry looked at him before turning his attention back to Hermione.

"Anyway what can I help you with, Zabini? Is it about our recent project on Herbology?" Hermione asked.

"Actually no, I didn't come to talk about that. I have something else to ask you about." Blaise replied as Hermione raised her eyebrow and Harry watched them with slight curiosity.

"Okay, it's about what then?" Hermione asked.

"I want to talk about that family of yours," Blaise said as Hermione looked at him curiously while Harry stared at him with interest.

"What about them?" Hermione spoke as she invited him to sit at the vacant chair in across from them.

"I may have not meet them or do not recognise their faces, but I am quite familiar with the name Vongola, Cavallone and Varia," Blaise started and this got Hermione to stare at him in shock. Harry, however, glanced between the two with curiosity written on his face, how the heck did Zabini know about them, and why is it such a big deal that had Hermione react that way.

"Where did you heard about that, I mean I didn't mention that to anyone else apart from Harry, Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall," Hermione replied.

"Well, you can say that I did heard it somewhere, but don't worry I don't think anyone else heard about it, and even if they did they just won't have any idea of what they had heard," Blaise said. Hermione, on the other hand, just shook her head while Harry stared at her with more questions written on his face.

"It gave me quite a surprise to find out that you are somehow related to them, so I assumed that you actually know who they are," Blaise said and Hermione simply glared at him.

"Of course I know because we are family and we don't keep things from each other, and that's a stupid question to ask," Hermione retorted as Blaise looked at her sheepishly.

"Okay, sorry about that," Blaise replied back.

"I'm surprise that you knew about them," Hermione spoke.

"Well, my family had been taught from our early ancestors to recognise and acknowledge anyone with huge potential and power, both magical and muggles, so unlike some purebloods here in the British Wizarding World, we the Italian purebloods do not have such a problem dealing or making acquaintance with muggles. And according to my late father, he had been told about the Vongola and the Cavallone by his great-grandfather, and he told me about the Varia before his passing," Blaise said. Hermione just nodded.

"Yeah, the Varia was formed by Grandpa Timo when he was still the 9th Boss, and the former leader for the Varia was replaced by my Uncle Xanxus after he defeated him," Hermione told them.

"Wait, what is he talking about, what about your relatives Hermione, what is this 9th boss…former leader…oh heck I don't get it," Harry started as he stared between Hermione and Blaise with questions in his mind.

Hermione looked at Harry with pity, the last few days when Harry started to hang out with her family, they didn't tell him much about who they are because they still require some time to actually acknowledge him and trust him, and although Hermione is glad to have her best friend back, she is still wary of their so-called friendship, and she knew that he noticed it too. She really needs some time to actually trust him again because he had hurt her feelings quite badly that reminded her of their third year.

And now Hermione began to wonder if she could trust Harry again with this secret. Because she knows that this would change the course of their friendship once and for all should Harry find out about her Mafia family.

And she decided to jump the gun.

But before that, she decided that they should have this conversation somewhere safe, an empty classroom would be sufficient. After leaving the library, the trio found themselves in an empty classroom on the third floor. And after casting the Silencing and Locking charms, both Hermione and Blaise looked at each other and nodded.

"Harry, the things you know about my family, actually there's more to that," Hermione started as she kept on looking at him.

"Okay, more like what?" Harry asked.

"I will tell you more, but first I want to ask, can I actually trust you with this, I mean can I actually trust you again for you to not hurt me again and eventually break our friendship?" Hermione questioned him, and she knew how difficult it was to breach this question with her best friend but she must do it.

Harry stared at her in disbelieve, why did she ask him this, of course she could believe him again, and there's no way in hell that he would hurt her again.

"Of course you could trust me again Hermione, and I swear on my magic that I won't hurt you or neglect you again because you are important to me, and I'm so sorry for what I've done to you, I didn't mean it, I was just stupid back then," Harry said and his voice was full of regret and his eyes are on the verge of tears.

Hermione held his hand caringly as she nodded her head, she could tell how much Harry had regretted the things that happened between them.

"Thank you, and I'm sorry I've just to ask that, because whatever I will tell you next is not easy, and I have a reason why, and it's going to be a secret between us, I am clear?" Hermione said and Harry nodded understandingly. He was just curious to why Blaise Zabini got to know something like this, a secret that Hermione seemed to hold on dearly. That is so unfair.

"My relatives, my family and their friends, well basically my friends too, well they…oh why it's so difficult?" Hermione whined and Blaise could understand well.

"They are what, Hermione?" Harry asked.

"Well my family, the Vongola, Cavallone and the Varia, they are Mafia." Hermione simply blurred out, 'There you go', she told herself.

Harry Potter wasn't sure if he had heard it correctly as he stared at his best friend with complete shock. Hermione looked sheepishly while Zabini looked like he had been hearing this a few times already. Zabini then turned to Hermione and smirked.

"Very subtle Granger."

"Wai….wait…WHAT?!"

There you go, the latest chapter for this story, and I hoped that you enjoyed this chapter and don't worry, the confrontation between Hermione/Mafia with Umbridge/Malfoy/Snape are not done yet so there might be some fighting in the next few chapters, and also I will not have Hermione to forgive Ron and Mrs Weasley in an instant because Ron is yet to learn his lesson, and so does his mother.

As usual, your review will make my day =)

Best wishes,

LeeArt