Chapter 11: Little Heartbreakers
The next few days were spent in the Lupin or Snape living quarters, with the family waiting on the decision pending Deacon's punishment. On October 27th it was finally proven that Deacon had committed the crimes he was accused of. The Headmaster had to expel him and snap his wand.
The next day, Hermione and Skylar returned back to classes. They avoided talked to anyone except each other. Harry and Ron were growing worried about the two of them so one day they cornered them as they were leaving the Great Hall.
"Hermione, why won't you talk to us?" Ron asked as he took a step toward them. Hermione looked over to Skylar, then past her to the Head Table where Remus nodded his head very very slowly. Hermione turned back to her two friends. "Meet us in the Room of Requirement after dinner. We'll explain everything there." Without another word the two girls walked around them and out of the Great Hall.
That night after dinner Harry and Ron walked up to the seventh floor to where Harry remembered the Room of Requirement's door appearing. Remembering the last time he had encountered the Room of Requirement Harry lifted his hand and knocked on the large oak door before them.
"Come in." Hermione's voice said from the other side. Harry turned the handle and opened the door to see a room that looked very similar to the Gryffindor common room. In one corner of the room there were large bookcases and a round table cluttered with papers and in the other corner there was a large fireplace surrounded by red couches and armchairs. This is where they found Skylar and Hermione sitting.
Harry and Ron closed the door behind them as they walked over to their friends, but upon seeing them Skylar turned her head away hoping they hadn't seen her tear stained face. "Please take a seat… this might take a while." Hermione said as she gestured to the armchairs across from their couch. After everyone was seated Hermione started to speak.
"As you both know, Skylar and I have been in the Hospital wing for almost two weeks, and I know both of you saw why." Hermione paused, looking at her two friends expressions. Harry had a calm look to him, but it seemed that Ron was haunted by the mere memory of that night. "I'm a werewolf." She finished a few minutes later.
"Who bit you?" Harry asked her quietly. Hermione turned her head slightly to look at him. "I can't tell you that yet… but to help calm your nerves, it wasn't Professor Lupin." Hermione said causing both boys to exhale deeply.
Hermione pulled out two sealed envelopes from her robe pocket. "In these envelopes I've included proof of everything I'm about to tell you, just in case you don't believe me. But please, don't open them until I tell you to." She said as she handed the envelopes to Harry and Ron.
"Now I need to tell you both a big secret, one that I hope won't ruin our friendship." Hermione said, mainly looking at Ron. "I've been lying to the entire school since our first year when I said my last name was Granger…and when I said I was muggleborn."
Ron and Harry sat there, unsure of what to say. "I'm a pureblood." Hermione continued. "Why have you been keeping this from us Hermione? I thought you were our friend." Ron said with anger and confusion in his eyes.
Hermione looked at her friend before she answered him. "Because I wasn't allowed to tell anybody Ron; not one single person. I wasn't able to interact with my family unless it was the Christmas Holidays… I've been living a lie since I was eleven years old." Hermione said hoping that his famous temper wouldn't flare up. "I'm truly sorry that I lied to you and Harry."
No one said a word long time after Hermione said that, until Harry decided to continue their conversation. "So, you're not a Granger?" Hermione shook her head. "The Grangers are my relatives, but not my parents."
"So who are your parents?" Ron asked with anger still in his voice. Hermione took in a deep breath. "My biological father is Remus Lupin." Once again shocked faces stared at her. "Does that mean that…." Harry tried to say but trailed off uncertainly. Hermione smiled at him,. "Yes Harry, Tawny Lupin is my little sister."
As Hermione was about to continue Skylar nudged her. Hermione turned her head to her sister and looked at her for a few minutes before saying, "Now?" Skylar nodded her head. Hermione turned back to look at Harry and Ron.
"Before I finish telling you about my family, I need to tell you something about Deacon Thompson. As you know we were dating, but what you and no one else knows is that well… one day Deacon accused me of cheating on him with you Harry. I wasn't given a chance to defend myself before he slapped me across the face. Hermione stopped, looking into her friend's faces.
"For weeks he continued to beat me, he even went as far as to bite me before he dug his fingernails into my arm… until they hit the bone." Here Hermione stopped again so she could pull up her sleeve and showed them the faint marks on her arm.
"But, unfortunately that wasn't the worse thing he did to me. On October 10th Deacon brought me here and… raped me." Suddenly cries of outrage filled the room, the loudest coming from Skylar, who was speaking for the first time. "HE DID WHAT!" She yelled out causing Hermione to look at her in astonishment.
"Hermione Amelia Lupin, why in the hell didn't you tell me he raped you!" Skylar continued to yell, not realizing that with each word she spoke Harry and Ron could see her pearly white fangs.
"Because something else came up!" Hermione yelled back, now not noticing they weren't alone. "What could be more important than telling me that?" Skylar yelled back as her fangs grew longer. " Maybe the fact that he tampered with my wolfsbane and then turned you into a vampire!" At the boy's shocked gasps Hermione and Skylar stopped yelling and turned to look at them, surprised looks on their faces.
"I can't believe you would keep something like that from me." Harry said with a hurt look coming over his shocked face. "Harry… I couldn't tell you… I don't want you to leave me." Skylar stuttered out after seeing the look on her boyfriend's face.
Harry stood and walked over to her. "I promised you I would never leave, and I always keep my promises." He said taking a small glance at Hermione before he hugged Skylar fiercely. Hermione smiled sadly at their happiness as she discreetly glanced at Ron.
"Well now that you know Skylar is a vampire we can skip that part of the conversation. So back to my family." Hermione said after Skylar and Harry had taken their seats again.
"As you heard, my name is Hermione Amelia Lupin and you already know that I'm related to Remus and Tawny Lupin, but I need to tell you about seven more people that you may or may not know." Harry and Ron waited patiently for Hermione to continue.
"My dad has one sister, Juliette Granger who has been posing as my mother for the past five years. And my mother has two brothers, one you're familiar with and the other one, well we don't like to talk about him. I have an older brother and sister, both people you've met before." Hermione said giving careful clues about who she was related to.
"Come on Hermione, just tell us." Harry said. Hermione smiled at him, " My mother is the Ancient Runes Professor, Mrs. Ambrosial Ceres Snape, who is technically a Lupin outside these castle walls, but for my safety she dropped her married name and pretends to be married to her brother Severus Snape." Harry and Ron looked at each other, their mouths hanging open. Hermione and Skylar giggled at them before Hermione continued.
"My older brother graduated last year and is currently working at the Ministry, I'm sure you both remember Ashwin?" Hermione said and laughed at the look on their faces. "So who's your sister?" Ron asked after they overcame their initial shock. Hermione looked at Skylar with a smile before they stood.
Hermione started to speak first. "I'd like to introduce," Skylar continued, "My darling younger sister Hermione Amelia Hera Lupin." Hermione smiled before she continued, "And my sweet older sister Skylar Ambrosial Saoirse Lupin." The two of them completed their speech together. "We're identical twins."
The looks on the Harry and Ron's faces were priceless, both of their mouths were agape with a stunned look in their eyes. "You can open the envelopes now." Hermione said with a laugh as she and Skylar sat back down on the couch.
Slowly Harry and Ron opened their envelopes to see identical family trees. After they studied it they looked up and smiled at the girls before them, they had been telling the truth.
After that they talked about what the family tree showed until an hour had past and Harry turned to face Hermione. "You still haven't told us who bit you." Hermione sighed. "I honestly hoped you would forget, but I did promise that I would tell you everything so I guess I have to tell you don't I?" Harry and Ron nodded.
"First, Harry do you remember when Voldemort told you that your prophecy wasn't relevant anymore?" Harry nodded his head. "Well he wasn't lying to you. The prophecy between you and the Dark Lord was made two months before another prophecy."
"And if Trelawney would have ever taught us anything useful it should have been that a prophecy that is made after another concerns at least one person in the previous prophecy, then the prophecy made after the other prophecy becomes the most important and relevant one." Hermione said knowing from the looks on their faces that she had lost them somewhere in her speech.
"I don't understand. If there was a prophecy made after mine, why did the Headmaster make me stay with the Dursley's? Why not let me move in with Alexea Black, she was my godmother after all." Harry said not understanding why the Headmaster would lie to him.
"Because Harry, the Headmaster does what he wants and justifies his actions as being 'for the greater good'. He knew your prophecy wasn't relevant but he still chose to place you with your magic hating muggle relatives. He is not a man to be trusted, please remember that." Skylar said looking into her boyfriend's green eyes.
"Since Harry's prophecy was made irrelevant, do you know what prophecy replaced it?" Ron asked. Hermione nodded her head before she spoke. "The reason your prophecy became irrelevant is because a year before you were born there was a prophecy made about a girl, about me." Hermione said meeting their gazes with a hard look in her eyes.
"The prophecy was made three weeks before we were born and our parents didn't find out about it until we were a week old." Hermione said noticing the look the boys shared after she spoke.
"Can you tell us the prophecy?" Harry asked as he leaned forward in the armchair. Hermione nodded before she began to recite the prophecy she had long since memorized.
A girl born of a wolf will hinder the rise of the Dark ones.
One of two, she will be born with a curse that has haunted both world's for ages.
She will live a life of lies and deceit, until the truth falls from her own mouth.
She will be hunted by both sides once they find out what she will become.
With the help of her friends, the final decision will be made to fight them.
Once accepted, nothing will change her fate.
No one will stand in her way, for if they do, they will meet her fury.
She will be known as Hera
"How did they know it was you though?" Ron asked as he thought about the prophecy Hermione had just told them. Hermione looked at him before she smiled.
"When Skylar and I were born even though we are identical twins, the healers noticed something different about me. While Skylar had black fuzz for hair and blue eyes, I didn't. I had a tuff of pure white hair and amber eyes. Understandably they were startled, so they ran some tests on me and found that even though there was nothing physically wrong with me, I was born with 23 chromosomes that were different from my twin's. I was born with 23 werewolf chromosomes which made me the first and only born werewolf in Wizarding history."
"That along with the fact my parents named me Hermione Amelia Hera Lupin made it clear to everyone that it was my prophecy." Hermione said looking at her friends.
Once they finished talking about the prophecy, they decided to head back to their dormitories before curfew. Hermione and Harry hugged Skylar goodbye before they entered Gryffindor Tower. Hermione bid the boys goodnight before she went up to the girl's dorms. As Ron and Harry were changing clothes for bed Harry turned to Ron with a smile. "I can't believe I'm in love with a vampire." Ron smiled back at him. "Ya." After they laid down in their separate beds Ron whispered just loud enough for Harry to hear. "I can't believe I'm in love with a werewolf."
A few rooms over Hermione smiled to herself before she fell asleep dreaming of a red-haired boy.
The next two days were uneventful, none of the golden trio which unofficially included Skylar, had mentioned anything about the Room of Requirement. On November 2nd, Hermione was sitting next to Skylar in potions when a Slytherin named Blaise Zabini walked over to them. "I heard that you and your boyfriend broke up." Hermione nodded. "Well then, I was wondering if you would like to go on a date with me this Saturday…it's a Hogsmeade weekend." Blaise continue with a smile.
Hermione stared at Blaise before she looked around the room, planning on letting him just walk away without an answer when her eyes landed on Ron and Lavender. She remembered the words she had heard him say days before as she narrowed her eyes. She turned back to Blaise who has turned away. "Wait." Blaise stopped and looked back at her. "I'd love to go on a date with you. I'll meet you in the Entrance Hall at nine this Saturday." Blaise smiled at her before he walked back over to his table.
Hermione met Blaise as planned that Saturday and the two of them had a wonderful time together, so when Blaise asked Hermione if she wanted to be his girlfriend she said yes. Their relationship was much healthier than Hermione's previous one. Blaise never hit or degraded her, but was always a gentleman towards her and her friends.
On December 24th Hermione went looking for Blaise, but she couldn't find him anywhere. When she was about to give up she saw Skylar running towards her, coming from the only place she hadn't checked, the dungeons. "Hermione! You might what to see this." Skylar said before she pulled her sister off in the direction of the Slytherin common room.
Skylar said the password and led Hermione toward the direction of the boy's dorm. Hermione looked at Skylar in fear before she walked closer to the fifth year boy's dormitory door. Tears were already falling from her face as she looked through the cracked open door and inside she saw what she had heard on their way up the staircase. Blaise was sleeping with a girl that was obviously not Hermione.
Hermione turned and walked away from the boy's dormitory with Skylar following behind her. Once they were outside the Slytherin common room Hermione turned to Skylar. "How long has this been going on?" Skylar shook her head. "I don't know, I was walking to my room when I heard them…."
Hermione shook her head as she cried silently. How could something like this happen to her again? "Who is the girl?" She asked as she wiped away her tears. "Daphne Greengrass." Hermione shook her head again. "Well, I hope their happy together."
That night at dinner, Blaise walked up behind Hermione at the Gryffindor table. "Hey baby." Hermione almost dropped her fork in surprise as Blaise whispered in her ear. She turned her head to him sharply. "Hello." She said with a edge to her voice, causing Harry and Ron to stop their conversations and look at her.
Blaise looked at Hermione strangely before he shrugged her attitude off. "Do you have anything planned for tonight?" Hermione shook her head. "Great, then we can spend it together by the lake." Again Hermione shook her head causing Blaise to tilt his head. "No?" He asked confusion in his eyes. Hermione nodded. "But why? You just told me that you don't have anything planned for tonight." Hermione looked him in the eyes. "I know that's what I said because I don't have anything planned for tonight."
"Then why can't you spend it with me?" Blaise asked again, lowering his voice so Harry and Ron couldn't hear. Hermione looked at him before she turned back to her dinner. "Because I don't associate with guys that cheat on me." She said before taking a bit out of her food. Harry and Ron looked at each other before they glared at Blaise. "What are you talking about?" Hermione turned back to look at him. "Don't play dumb Blaise, it doesn't suit you. I saw you sleeping with Greengrass earlier today…"
Blaise at least had the decency to not deny his actions. "All I want to know is how long it's been going on." Hermione continued. "Two weeks." Blaise said keeping his head down. Hermione looked away from him feeling like she had just been slapped. "Just go Blaise, its over." Blaise nodded before he stood up and walked back over to the Slytherin table and sat down next to Daphne.
Hermione saw this and pushed her plate of food away from her in anger. She then stood and left the Great Hall. Everywhere Hermione went after that she either saw Blaise and Daphne together or Ron and Lavender kissing. It didn't take long for Hermione to snap.
On New Year's Eve Hermione walked into the common to see Ron and Lavender kissing on the couch. She started to shake in anger before she walked over to him. "Not everyone likes seeing you two trying to eat the other's face!" She yelled out causing Ron to jump and Lavender to fall from her position on his lap.
"Hermione! What are you talking about?" Ron asked as he looked into his friend's blue eyes, not noticing his girlfriend seated on the floor. "What am I talking about? Is that what you said? I'm talking about how I heard you telling Harry you loved me back in October! I know you love me Ronald Weasley, but you're too much of a coward to dump Lavender and ask me out!" Hermione yelled out before running up to the girl's dormitory.