Title: Hermione's Deep Secret

Rating: K

Summary: Voldemort has been defeated but during a drunken night of celebration Harry mistakes Hermione for Ginny and soon Hermione finds herself hiding a secret for the sake of her friendship to Harry and to insure that Ginny is happy. But all secrets do come out in the end. Of course Hermione finds that she's not the only one that's hiding secrets as well.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters but I do own Hermione's children's names.

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Chapter 5

When Hermione saw Harry appear in her living room Hermione felt like screaming but she kept her cool head and focused on what Harry would want from her.

"Is it true?" Harry asked.

"What?"

"That I have a son and daughter," Harry replied.

Those words told Hermione why Harry was here and that McGonagall had told him about Remus and Amelia. Hermione nodded but said nothing.

"Can I see them?" Harry asked.

"Of-Of course," Hermione stammered slightly. "But you have to be quiet; they've just been put down."

Hermione led him down the hall and opened the door to Remus's bedroom and let Harry in. Remus was sound asleep and she saw Harry looking at him with interest. Hermione then saw Harry looking around at the different things that Hermione had collected. She put her finger to her lips and they both tiptoed out. In Amelia's room Harry stared at her for a long time and Hermione was hoping that he was thinking about taking her away.

"So how long were you not going to tell me about them?" Harry asked when they had left Amelia's room.

"Until I died," Hermione answered. "I didn't want to ruin your marriage or my friendship. But somehow I'm doing it and I know that you're going to hate me."

"Hermione, I don't hate you," Harry told her. "I understand that we all got drunk and I probably mistaken you for Ginny. I also understand why you did it but you could of told me and I would of kept it a secret."

Hermione sighed. "There are too many of those going around," Hermione commented.

"What are you talking about?" Harry asked.

"I can't tell you, Harry, I promised but what I want to know is are you just going to come around every once in a while or are you going to come over as much as you can. I mean, I know that you have James to also take care of but-."

"Hermione, I know what your about to say and I will come by as much as I can," Harry vowed. "I didn't have a father growing up and I'm not having Remus and Amelia go without one."

"And what about Ginny," Hermione asked.

"Ginny is just going to have to understand, that's all," Harry told her.

"Thanks for understanding, Harry," Hermione said. "This has been very difficult for me. I mean, I didn't mean to do all that stuff."

"It wasn't your fault," Harry said and she smiled at him.

Harry came around about three times a week. Sometimes he didn't come around for about a month but he always sent a letter, telling Hermione that he was doing a job for the Ministry or that Ginny wanted them to go to someplace and spend time alone. Hermione understood but it hurt. Remus and Amelia knew that Harry loved them and that made it somewhat easier on her.

Harry used his connections to allow a tutor to come and teach Remus and Amelia the things that other children needed to know and had even gotten them toy broomsticks. One day, while the tutor was teaching Remus and Amelia to read from a little spell book there was a knock on the door.

"I'll get it," Hermione told the tutor and went to answer it.

Ginny was on the others side and she didn't look happy. Hermione sensed that something had happened to cause her to be here.

"Hello, Ginny," Hermione said, smiling at her.

"Don't hello me, you filthy harlot," Ginny snarled. "You stole my Harry away from me and now you have children by him."

"Ginny it isn't what you think," Hermione told her. "It was long before you married him."

Ginny gave Hermione a look that told her that she didn't believe her.

"Where's the bastards at," Ginny asked.

"Their with their tutor and I don't want you calling them that," Hermione told her. "Now if you won't listen to reason and the truth then you need to leave."

Ginny grinned nastily at her. "I'm going to get back at you, Granger, you just watch it."

And she left, leaving Hermione to wonder what would happen next.

The next day was the tutor's day off so Hermione left her children with a house elf while she went into work. She walked into her office and at once she knew something was wrong. Her desk was cleared out and a note told her that she was supposed to report to Kingsley. Hermione had a bad feeling that Ginny was responsible for this. She took a deep breath and headed for the Minister's office.

The Minister gave Hermione a wide smile when she entered and Hermione thought that; maybe, this had been all part of her imagination. Kingsley told her to sit and she did.

"Miss Granger you've been transferred to the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office," he told her.

"What!" Hermione snapped and the Minister sighed.

"I hated doing this but Mrs. Potter has stated that you had an affair with her husband that resulted in the birth of Remus and Amelia."

"I didn't have an affair with her husband," Hermione snarled. "We were still in Hogwarts when it happened."

"Which I believe, their almost seven," Kingsley said. "And Harry and Ginny have been married for only a few years. Not enough to even put a claim that you cheated with her husband. That's why I'm putting you in that department. You'll still be Head and you'll still get paid."

"Not as much as I did in my old job," Hermione pointed out.

"I'll give you a five hundred galleon raise," Kingsley told her. "Please take it. I don't want to see them go hungry."

Hermione hated what Ginny had done but she was still an employ with the Ministry and so she accepted.

The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office was still in the same closet-like office that Arthur had when he had been Head. Perkins had died years ago and the only other person there was a short man called Henry. He seemed delighted in having the 'famous' Hermione Granger working as his Head and he seemed interested in making sure that the muggle and magical world remained separate.

"So what do we have today?" Hermione asked.

"Oh some stupid toilet thing," Henry told her. "It's up in Bath."

"Fine, lets go," Hermione told him and they both left.

The house in Bath really did have a problem. Someone had installed exploding toilets and the muggle that was the victim had no idea what was going on.

"Please help me," he begged.

"Take him out of the bathroom," Hermione told Henry, not wanting the muggle to see magic.

Henry took the muggle out and closed the door.

Hermione took out her wand and something came out. Hermione couldn't believe it was a dark creature, called a Nightmare Ghoul. She always thought that they had lived under the bed but it seemed that it had decided to take residence in the bathroom.

"Liftius," Hermione cried out and a loud bang caused the ghoul to go against the wall.

She sent a series of spells at the ghoul and soon it exploded in a cloud of black smoke and then was gone. Hermione opened the door, very worn out.

"Are you alright?" Henry asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Hermione told him and then noticed that the muggle was knocked out. "What happened?"

"He wanted to know what was going on and I had to stun him," Henry told her.

Hermione leaned forward and modified his memory.

"Let's get out of here," Hermione told him and they both disappeared.