a/n thanks to Aerocat3989, Brie H, Timorth, Zarroc, and Shadow Wolf Dreamer for their awesome reviews. Keep it up. For those of you that said you were confused well I'm not going to apologize because that was exactly what I wanted to happen.

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Miranda closed the book and sighed, "I'm sorry Hermione. We didn't want you to know."

"What is going on? What does this have to do with me?" Harry asked.

"Harry," Miranda said, "I'm you're aunt."

"I'm sorry I thought you just said you're my aunt. That's impossible," he said then he remembered the name in the article Miranda Evans Nott, "Oh my god, you are, but how?"

"That's what I'd like to know," Hermione said.

McGonagoll was sitting there with a twinkle in her eye that could almost be described as like Dumbledore's, but just almost.

"You knew?" Hermione asked McGonagoll.

"Not really."

"What does that mean?" Hermione demanded.

"It means," said Miranda, "That she never knew exactly what happened."

"Exactly," McGonagoll said, "I knew you're parents but I never knew that they survived the curse."

"Could somebody please start from the beginning and explain everything," Harry said.

"Of course Harry," Miranda said. "You know you look so much like you're father, but you have you're mother's eyes."

Harry looked at her closely and gasped, "You have the same eyes as me."

She nodded, "Okay we'll start from the beginning."

"Wait," Jason said.

"What?" Miranda asked.

"Is it possible to get Theodore up here?"

"Of course," McGonagoll said.

5 minutes later there was a knock on the door.

"Come in," McGonagoll said.

Not just Theodore Nott walked in but Draco with him. Draco walked over to Hermione and sat down beside her.

"Any body else have to be here?" Miranda laughed.

"I don't know we've kinda connected the whole school," Jason said.

"What's going on?" Theodore asked (a/n going to just start calling him Nott).

"We'll start from the beginning," Jason said.

"Okay well as you read in the article," Miranda said, "Jason and I went to Hogwarts from 1966-74. He was a Slytherin and I was a Gryffindor."

"What does this have to do with me?" Nott demanded because I have better things to do than sit around here listening to a little fairy tale about another Slytherin hooking up with a Gryffindor. It's bad enough I have to deal with it now."

"Jason was a pureblood brought up with the very best. His brother was one of the earliest Death Eaters and it was expected of him to do the same but then he met me…"

"She was the smart, muggle born, Gryffindor," Jason said.

"Any chance we got we were going at it, a lot like Hermione and Draco here…"

Nott snorted, "Draco, who calls him Draco?"

"I do," Hermione said defensively.

"Go figure," he snarled.

"So we always fought but then we were made Head Boy and Girl," Jason said.

"And everything changed."

"We fell in love and in 1978 we got married."

"But being that I was muggle born and a Gryffindor Jason was disowned," Miranda said.

"That's nice," Nott said, "So can I go now?"

"No," McGonagoll said.

"We became Aurors but in 1979 we were hit by a curse," Miranda said.

"By your father," Jason said, "And my brother."

"What?" Nott said.

"Your father and I are brothers," Jason said.

"And Harry's mom and I are…were sisters," Miranda said.

"So what was this curse?" Nott asked.

"Good question," Miranda said.

"I'd like to know also," McGonagoll said.

"We don't know exactly what it was," Jason said.

"What it did was it took our powers away."

"So it's not that you just choose not to use the magic…" Hermione said.

"Right Hermione, we can't, we are muggles."

"Do you miss it?" Hermione asked her parents.

"Everyday, but we call ourselves lucky because at the time I was pregnant with you. I was positive when it striped me of my powers it would do the same to you, but you were lucky," Miranda said.

"Why have I never heard of you?" Harry asked, "Why did Dumbledore never say anything."

"I can answer that," McGonagoll said. She turned to Harry and said, "Dumbledore knew, I knew. We didn't know that she was still alive. We thought she was dead. We didn't see any point telling you that you lost somebody else in your life."

Harry nodded, "I see your point. Does Aunt Petunia know that you're alive?"

"She might, I don't know," Miranda said, "She might have seen me at times at King's Cross, I honestly don't know. We never got along after I got my letter. The three of us were extremely close until I got my letter. Petunia thought come her eleventh Birthday she would get a letter, but she didn't. She became really close with Lily, but then Lily got her letter and went off to school and Petunia was left alone. Petunia was 2 years younger than me and was always mad at me."

"Can I go?" Nott asked.

"Go ahead," Jason said.

"I have a question," McGonagoll said.

"Go ahead Professor," Jason said.

"It's Minerva, I'm not your teacher any more."

"Fine."

"Why didn't you come back, we could have helped you."

"No you couldn't have," Miranda said.

"We weren't top of our class for nothing," Jason said.

"We know that there was no way, our powers were gone."

"No they're not," Harry said quietly.

"I'm sorry Harry?" Miranda said.

"I said they're not gone, they are just dormant until you find them again."

"I didn't understand," everyone said.

"It was a gold light that hit you, braided with blue right?"

"Yes."

"What it does is it in a way paralyzes your magic."

"How do we unparalyze it?" Jason asked.

"You have to want it back," Harry said simply.

"What?" Jason asked confused.

"When the curse hit you all you were concerned about was Hermione right?"

"Yes."

"And once she was born all you hoped for was that she still had her powers right?'

"Right."

"You never wished that you had them back, you only wished that it didn't harm Hermione."

"So all we have to do is truly want them back to get them back?" Miranda asked.

"Yes."

"But why would a Death Eater use that sort of curse?" Jason asked.

"Many reasons, maybe to stop you for the time being instead of stunning you, or…"

"Or what?" Miranda asked.

"You said the light was braided with blue right?"

"It was," Miranda answered.

"Okay so what the blue light means is the person doesn't deep down want to permanently harm the person. If it was pure gold light then the person truly wanted to take your powers away and not have them return. Because it was your brother Mr. Granger…"

"Call me Jason," he cut in.

"Okay, so because it was your brother even if he hated you for leaving the family deep down he still loved you and couldn't do that sort of harm to you."

"Wow," Miranda and Jason breathed.

"How did you learn this Harry?" McGonagoll asked.

"Dumbledore, I think the whole time he knew. I think he was just letting everything take its course. He just hinted what the curse was and the cure was but I think he wanted me to do something about it."

Hermione glanced over at Draco and he stood up and said, "Hermione and I will be back in a minute," he helped Hermione to her feet and they walked out the door.

"So we just have to want them back and we'll get them back?" Miranda questioned.

"Exactly. I have one question though."

"Shoot."

"When we saw you years ago in Diagon Alley at Gringotts you looked confused…"

"Harry it was all an act," Miranda said softly, "We didn't want Hermione to know the truth, it would have hurt her to much to know that she could have grown up in a wizarding house hold and not have to deal with being clueless coming to Hogwarts."

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Draco and Hermione sat down on the stairs and Draco pulled her close to him, "I'm sorry," he whispered.

"About what?"

"For calling you mudblood all those times and you weren't one. The names bad enough when you are muggle born."

"You're forgiven," she whispered.

"Can you believe this?" he asked.

"Barely."

"So you're a pureblood, that should get my Aunt of your back."

"Double it. You forgot the part that my dad was in her eyes a blood traitor, my mom was muggle born and I'm in Gryffindor and was raised like a muggle."

"Good point, let's still stay in hiding then."

"I thought you'd say that," she laughed.

"Ready to go back in?" Draco asked.

"Sure, but one problem I can't get up."

Draco laughed and then stopped, when he saw Hermione was laughing he started to again, "Here I'll help you," he gave her his hand and pulled her up. They walked back in the Headmistresses Office.

"Mr. and Mrs. Granger or Nott or whatever," Draco said.

"Jason and Miranda," Miranda said.

"Okay well when I talked to you on Halloween you acted like you had no idea what the Wizarding World was like."

"And when I talked to you at New Year's you acted like you had no idea also."

"You said it yourself," Miranda said, "It was an act."

"But in a way we didn't know. We had been out of touch for almost 20 years so in a way we didn't know what was going on."

"Okay."

"Do you have any more questions?" Jason asked.

"Not right now," Harry said, "I'm still in shock."

"You got that right," Hermione said.

"Well we better get going," Harry said.

"Sure," Miranda said jumping up.

"Aunt Miranda," Harry said with a grin and walked over and gave her a hug.

"You know how good it is to hear that?" Miranda said.

Hermione hugged her parents and her, Draco and Harry were just about to walk out the door when Miranda said, "You know you can stay at out place over the summer if you want. I'm sure it will be fine with Hermione."

"I won't be there anyways, but sure it's fine," she said.

"Unless you want to go and stay with Petunia and Vernon that is."

"Never," Harry said.

"Thought you'd say that. I'm surprised she tolerated you."

"Oh Dumbledore had a bit to do with that."

"I'm sorry you couldn't have stayed with us but once our powers were gone we just slipped away, didn't even talk to Dumbledore. I talked to Lily a few times and we showed up at her wedding in disguise but that was about it. Her and James were the only ones that knew that we were alive. Dumbledore had no way of knowing."

"He suspected though, enough to give me the information to help you."

"He did, didn't he," Miranda said.

"Goodbye," the three teens said and then they walked out of the office. Once they were safely out of earshot Harry and Hermione said at the same time, "So we're cousins."

They all burst out laughing and headed back to the Head's Tower even though it was the middle of the day and they should have been in Defense.

"Remus will understand," Harry said.

"Are you going to tell him?" Hermione asked.

"Yes."

"If your parents graduated in '74 then they were the same age as my mom and a year younger than my father," Draco stated.

"Oh my god," Hermione stopped suddenly.

"Hermione is everything okay?" Harry and Draco asked worriedly.

"Oh yes, thanks. It's just remember at the New Year's Party my parents went home instead of staying, that's why."

"My mom would have recognized them," Draco said.

Hermione turned around and walked back to McGonagoll's office. She burst through the door and caught her parents just as they were about to Floo home.

"Hermione, what's wrong?" her parents asked.

"You were friends with Narcissa right?" she asked.

"Yes I was," her father said, "As well as Lucius and a group of Slytherins."

"That's why you didn't stay for the New Year's Party right. Narcissa would have recognized you?"

"Yes, we're sorry Hermione that we didn't tell you sooner."

"How did you guys live with knowing everything and not being able to go anywhere near it? I could never walk away from this world and pretend it didn't exist."

"It was hard, we'll give you that but we realized the only way to move on was to forget. Nothing was changing."

"Okay," Hermione said satisfied, "Thanks," she hurried out the door and back to the Head's Tower.

Hermione walked into the Common Room and saw Harry sitting on the couch. Harry stood up walked over to her, "Care to help me have some fun with our dear cousin Dudley?"

Hermione grinned and said, "Of course."

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a/n I hope this chaptered cleared things up but I understand if you are still confused. Just say in your review and I'll either try to explain one to one or I'll write another chapter explaining it even more if a lot of people are confused. I'm sorry if it was confusing but this was really hard to write because I knew everything that was going to happen down to the finest detail but I couldn't figure out and easy way to write it-guess I can't say put it on paper.

So please review good or bad but you know I do prefer good. And while you're at it how come I have 39 people that have this on story alert and the same number for story favorites but I only get like 5 reviews a chappie…?