CHAPTER TWO
Hermione heard inaudible whispers around her but she's not familiar with the voices. She tried to open her eyes but was met by a sudden strike of pain all over her body. She groaned and felt that someone took a pace beside her. She felt that that someone was watching her, so she tried to open her eyes again and this time she was successful.
Her eyes turned wide as the first thing she saw was a face of a boy looking down at her. It was a beautiful face, a dark round eyes and a prominent cheekbone. But she suddenly realized that what if he was one of them? She was about to scream for help but the boy turned around and called for someone.
"Professors, I think she's now awake!" the boy said.
Then she heard sudden footsteps walking around her bed and saw more faces she didn't recognizes at all. Two old men, one had a twinkling blue eyes behind a halfmoon spectacles and had a auburn hair and a enormous beard. The other man was shorter than the other and had a brown hair and shorter beard.
"Hello my dear, how are you feeling?" a woman asked her in a gentle voice.
"I—I think I'm fine." Hermione said in a hoarse voice. She tried to rise from her bed but was pushed back by the woman."Where am I?" she added as she wondered her eyesight around the room.
"You're in Hogwart's infirmary." The man with a shorter beard answered
"Hogwarts?" Hermione said warily
The man with the auburn hair nodded. "Hogwarts indeed, my dear child."
"How did I end up here?" Hermione asked no one in particular.
"Good question." The man with the auburn hair said. "But I guess Mr. Riddle should be back by now to the great hall, which his service is much needed as the head boy." The man said, now looking to the boy she first saw as she woke up.
The boy frowned as if to say something but he merely nodded and took a look at her. Then he silently walked out of the room.
After the boy shut the door closed. The man with the auburn hair chanted a silencing spell around that room.
"You don't have to that Albus, Tom can be trusted." The man with shorter beard said
The other man chuckled. " oh, just to be sure Headmaster."
Hermione observed the place. She knows Hogwarts, her mother was once a student here along with her father.
"Now,child."The man with shorter beard said getting her out of her stupor. "I am Armando Dippet the headmaster of this school. And this is Albus Dumbledore the Deputy Headmaster and Madame Pomphrey, the school Nurse." Headmaster Dippet said gesturing to the people he was referring.
Hermione nodded to them and shyly smiled. But she was closely looking to the man called Dumbledore. She knows that name. She heard that name before, she just didn't remember when.
"What is your name my dear?" Madame Pomphrey asked her kindly
"I'm Hermione."
"Hermione, beautiful name you have my dear." Madame Pomphrey said
"Thank you." Hermione smiled at the matron.
"Hermione, can you tell us what happened to you and how did you just appeared out of nowhere here at Hogwarts." Dippet said
"I grew up never knowing who my father is." Hermione started. "My mother didn't even told me what he looks like. But last night, he visited along with some men behind him. It was the first time I saw him, I was even ecstatic. But it was short lived happiness because of what he uttered to my mother."
"What did he say?" Dumbledore asked curiously
"He said he wants me to live with him to fulfill a prophecy." Hermione answered. "But my mother said no, that is when my father got angry and started torturing my mother." Fat tears started to roll on Hermione's cheeks. "I tried to help my mother but he also tortured me. He tortured us for I don't know how long, and my body started to give in. I took a glimpsed at my mother and saw her looking at me. She said I need to apparate to a safer place. I said no, I told her I won't leave her. But before she can answer me, I saw a flash of green light and then I—I saw my mother dead on the floor" Hermione was now silently sobbing, Madame Pomphrey was rubbing her back to show some comfort. "I saw my father walking towards me, an evil glint was on his eyes. But before he was even close to me, I followed my mother's last order. To think of a safe place to apparate, I don't know what happened next. Until I woke up in here."
"You said something about a prophecy, does your father said what is the prophecy?" Dumbledore asked
Hermione shook her head. "He said nothing about it, all he said is that he needed me to fulfill it." Hermione tried to rise again from her bed but was stopped by Madame Pomphrey.
"Do you know that it was the first time that our anti apparition ward was broken?" Dippet said
"Is it a bad thing?" Hermione asked wiping her eyes
"For some instances, yes it is. But for your case, I guess it's a good thing it broke." Dumbledore said smiling.
"Anyway my dear, what is the name of your parents?" Madame Pomphery said enquiringly
"My mother was Jane Howard and my father is Gellert-Gellert Grindelwald." Hermione answered.