Disclaimer Not mine making no money I just wanna write one of these storys I have been enjoying reading for so long.
I changed a few thing's up Dumbledore not dead clearly a few other changes as well I havent decided what to do about a pairing yet but I am not a fan of Hermione/Ron so don't expect that one.
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So here I sit on a warm summer day. Light shining through the window of my simple room with it's white wall's and blue carpet with my matching blue comforter my small but well loved desk in the corner by the window and book shelves filled with all my favorite books, my sheer white curtain's
blowing in the soft summer breeze It was nice. A little plain for some maybe, but I loved it . I can hear the neighbor's mower in the distance I had just returned home from my stay at the burrow. In the past I had loved staying at the burrow but after everything that happened in the last two years
it wasn't the same I hated being smothered and treated like a stupid child but .After Umbridge and nearly dying in the department of mystery's, an insane summer of collecting and destroying horcruxes for Dumbledore. Though we did manage to finally get all but the snake Nagini just to toot my
own horn just a bit. Running from death eaters, going hungry, being tortured after a mistake that had gotten me cornered. Harry came to my rescue before thing's could get to out of hand but it was still one of the most horrific experiences of my life. I still panic when I feel cornered and I still
have nightmare's three and sometimes four time's a week about it . Ronald abandoning Harry and I in favor of his stomach and other precious comforts . Then going back to school for our sixth year like none of this had ever happened. Lying to my parents had become so common I could do it with
ease now. Not that was something I was proud of .Being watched by the ministry as though. ' We ' were the criminal's was insulting. The lack of sleep, stress of classes and home work . Every question began to feel like an accusation I felt like I was going to crack under all the presure some
times. It was all so much to handle and I was tired .
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I thought it would be better if I stayed with the Weasleys. You know take a break relax for a bit and recover with people who knew and understood what we had been through. They are after all order member's I could stay close incase I was needed. It was also reasoned that it would be safer
and less work for the Order to house her with everyone else. It had been hard but she and Harry had forgiven Ron for his betrayal. He had been very sorry for abandoning us and we had been friends for to long to throw away our friendship. Harry and I had worked on letting it go all through
sixth year. Harry having a bit more luck than I was, but it was getting better. We had hoped that the summer would close the last of the rift between us. Though I had failed to recall the force that was Molly Weasley on a mission. She had decided that they had lost far to much of there childhoods
already and she was going to see to it that they enjoyed what was left ' Or Else !' The woman was watching them like a hawk keeping them busy and not letting them be alone together for to long. Though to be perfectly honest I'm not sure I know what it was she was so determined to stop.
We didn't have any orders or plans. Well , not any immediate plans anyway , though I suppose she didn't know that. Even if we did tell her multiple time's a day everyday.
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She also seemed to think she was going to walk up on Harry and Ginny, Ron and I, in flagrante delicto, at any moment. Which is completely absurd I can assure you ! Harry and Ginny had decided to take it slow given the uncertain nature of their futures and the fact that neither of them seemed
able to call it quits like Harry had at first attempted . That had ended only a few months after we had returned to school. As for Ron and I well, I just don't know, I love Ron, I do ! I just can't seem to find that excitement, I used to feel for him anymore. All I seem to be able to see is the boy
who ran out on us when we needed him. Maybe I'm being silly. Maybe it's just stress and lack of sleep and all the pressure. I don't want to hurt Ron and I don't want to make a mistake that I will only end up regretting later . Exactly, no rush I'll wait and see!
Just then my mum tapped on my door and poked her head in my room." Sweetie Could you come down stairs dad and I would like a word if you don't mind. " " Sure mum I'll be down in a tick. " With that the door shut behind her .
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That was weird ! A word about what ? Did she know something ? No they couldn't. I had been very careful about what I had told them. Mum and dad had been acting odd ever since she had arrived home. They seemed tense. She kept noticing them giving each other little glances. I'm not stupid
or blind I know my parents. Something is going on, ... Hmm... Well I suppose I should head down and find out what it is. after all there's is no point in guessing. When I could be knowing.
As I bounded down the stairs not attempting to mask my arrival at all I saw my parent's speaking very quietly and what appeared to be very quickly to each other . Mum was wringing her hands and dad was rocking back and forth on his feet . They stopped when I walked in the room.
" Well come in ,have a seat. " Mum said. She had a nervous smile on her face this didn't bode well.
" Um what did you want to tell me ? " I asked. Their anxiety was beginning to rub off on me my mouth felt dry and I was starting to feel a little tingly .
" Hermione your mother and I have some important matter's to discuss with you. " My father said . I remained quiet and just nodded my head that he should continue. He took a deep breath and began.
" Your mother and I are getting a divorce. We have sold the house and have till the end of the month to be out and we also sold the practice. What remains to be decided is what to do with you."
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I was stunned I felt like someone had dropped a brick in my stomach . I had not seen this coming . " Why ? " Was all I could seem to manage. " Well !" my father began and then he turned to my mother and she took over saying that...This had been coming for a long time and that it was no one
persons fault . It simply hadn't been working for a long time and that it had just become more clear when I had left to go to Hogwarts and I was no longer there to be a buffer between them... Breathing was a little difficult and my eyes where tearing up making it hard to see and I was hearing
that this was all my fault . If I had been here instead of at school and running all over the country side with my friends. My parents wouldn't be getting a divorce. The pain in my chest was getting bigger by the second and all I wanted to do was to fix it. To undo what I had done wrong. Mum was
rubbing my shoulders shushing me, telling me it was going to be alright and not to be upset but how was I supposed Do that? My family was breaking and it was all my fault. What was going to happen now ? That was all I could think and so that's what I asked. That's when dad took over again
saying . " Well that's not all we wanted to discuss with you. " " Huh ? Wait what ? " I said.
You see sweetheart." This is a bit difficult to explain." He faltered again my vision was blurred but I'm sure I saw mum glare at dad . A few whispered angry words where exchanged I missed what they said, my head felt fuzzy and I couldn't seem to get the tears under control no matter how
hard I tried. Deep breaths, my heart felt like it was breaking into a million pieces. It was breaking into a million pieces ! I would gladly take a few rounds of Crucio in exchange for this any day. " Sweetie !" mum said." Please listen to mummy alright ? " " I know you're upset and you have every
right to be, but there is more."" What ? What more could there be ?" I asked, mum looked at me with sadness in her big brown eyes . Those eyes that where just like mine.
" Punkin We aren't your real parents . " I just stared at her. Nothing she just said made any sense. Yes they where all words but they didn't make sense, not together like that . " What ?" I stammered !" What do you mean ?" " Your not our child sweetie, " She said again . I don't understand I wailed .Now mum was crying to.
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That's when dad took over again while mum hugged me." Sweetie your mother and I wanted children. We wanted them very badly and we tried for a long time but. " and he faltered. Mum pulled back and once again took over . " We decided to adopt honey ." " So I'm adopted ?" " Well, Uh... Not
exactly you see. The waiting list for a baby was very long, and they said that the best way to move up the list would be to become foster parents, and so. We decided to do that ! We filled out all the papers and we waited for a call. Then one day we got a call, the woman said that our paper
work had been approved and we where being referred to another office. We said alright ! We where so exited ,we where going to have a child in our house at last. I took the information and we went right away but when we arrived the place seemed odd and our first thought was this seems
below board ,but we wanted to be parents so badly honey. We went in anyway.
The building seemed to be vacant and run down it was damp and the paint was peeling our first thought was. ( Are we going to be murdered ? ) But then a man walk out. he was tall and nice looking if ,' oddly dressed ' in a sort of old fashioned way, Though I would forgive him anything if he was
going to grant my fondest wish . He was neat and clean and was smiling at us. He then explained that he was with a branch of the government called M.O.M but before we could ask him what that meant he went on.
Telling us that it was his job to find suitable homes for children displaced by war. Looking back I suppose we should have ask him what war ? But to be honest we just stood there nodding our head's.( It was strange !) Of coarse we didn't know anything about wizards back then.
( I sniffed my eyes clear enuff now to see properly I listened to my mum tell her story.) The man told us that he needed a safe, loving, home for a baby girl just two months old . He said she had a name but we could change it. I remember being shocked by that, and that's when a woman walked
in from the back. She looked at your father and I for a moment, she seemed odd as well .Then she walked into the back again and when she returned she had you tucked into a car seat . You where the most precious little thing we had ever seen. The strange woman commented ." She even
looks like you! " I saw the man turn around and glare at the woman. I found that to be very unprofessional, and it bothered me a bit . I had no idea why the man was being so rude. It was perfectly true ,you did look just like us you could very well have been our very own.
Well we finished up the paperwork though, I admit it did seemed very fast, and we weren't expecting to get to pick the child's name. So we where a bit unprepared but it only took a few moment's of looking at your little face to know the answer .' Hermione ! ' For your fathers grandmother and
' Jane! ' for my mother . You where ours from that day on. The funny thing was no one ever came by to check up on us like we where told they would. After a while we got a little concerned. Why no one had contacted us ,and we went back to the building where we had picked you up to see
what was going on, but when we go there it was all boarded up and we look in the phone book. But we couldn't find any office called M.O.M . So we called the office where we had gone to fill out the paper work to begin with and they said they had no record of us in their system.' Well we didn't
know what to think !' So we went over everthing the man we delt with.( A Mr. KnowWell ) Had said to us the day that we picked you up. He had been quite insistent that everything give the appearance that you where our true child. He told us. This was because of the war . But again we just
looked at him and nodded our heads and didn't ask any questions. I honestly don't know what had come over us to behave in such a way ! Not asking any questions like that! Though, to be honest we didn't really care to know the truth . We where getting our baby ! A beautiful healthy girl we
couldn't have been happier . I know that sounds terribly selfish hearing it now, but I just couldn't help it. " I'm sorry sweetie. " " Do you know where I came from ?" I asked." Do you know who I was before ? Are my other parent's still alive ?" I added in a rush. " Uh, Well I'm not sure to tell you the
truth. We where given a lot of papers but we put them away and we haven't even looked at them ." That's when my father who had remained quiet up until this point spoke." I thought that might come up and I took the liberty of finding the paper's. Here you go . This is your original birth
certificate." He said.
Abigale Lucy Loyce. Blood Status Pure Living
Father Thomas Alexander Loyce. Blood Status Pure Living
Mother Veda Althea Blake Loyce. Blood Status Pure Living
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I was stunned. What could I say ... They could have told me I was really a boy at this point and I don't think that I could have been any more shocked." Abigail ! Abi ? " I tested. It just sounded wrong to my ears. I didn't know what to think. This wasn't me this was a mistake it had to be, but my
mum and dad's faces said other wise .Just then my dad piped up ," I found a letter for you in here as well. There was a note attached to it " he said ." It reads, we are to give this letter to you on your seventeenth birthday. " " But, given the circumstances I think you can go ahead and open it
now ." " Alright !" I said. Noting the ministry seal as he handed it to me. I took it a bit shakily. My fingers trembled and I felt numb or I would have noted the faint buzzing of magic coming from inside. I opened it in what felt like movie slow motion as my mum and dad looked on waiting to hear what the letter said.
Now I did feel the magic sizzling through my fingers and up my arms but it was to late. I couldn't let go! I was beginning to panic. The sizzling burning feeling was just this side of painful and it was spreading. I let out a strangled panicked cry as my whole body stiffened and my dad sprang into
action pulling the piece of parchment out of my hands. I heard my mother gasp and I heard my dad yelling my name but I was, ' Fizzing ?, I'm not really sure, but that sounds right, and slowly ,slowly it stopped the funny feeling was receding and I was starting to feel normal again my breathing
was evening out and my body relaxed . One of the first things I noticed was that my shoes had fallen off . What a stupid thing to notice I thought to myself . You have just been assaulted by unknown magic! You could have been killed ! And the first thing, I notice is that, I seem to have lost
my shoe's. Brilliant Hermione ! Just fantastic ! What would professor Snape have to say ? " Idiot child ! Rushing in without a thought to yourself. Or anyone else ! " " Selfish stupid Gryffindor ! " Hmm Snape in my head is right. What was I thinking ? Just because it had a ministry seal. That
means nothing. It could have been fake. Or it could have been someone evil inside the ministry. How was I to know ? Note to self ! , constant vigilance ! Madeye would be less than impressed with me right now.
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I was starting to feel a bit better now mum was pressing a glass of water to my lips and I could see the fear in my parents eyes. After downing the entire glass of water my mum ask me how I was feeling and I told her ." Better !" " Can you stand she ask ? . Should we contact someone ? The
headmaster ?" " No mum I'm fine ! " " NO " ! Sweetie ! Not fine ! " Panic evident in her voice as it became high and shrill at the end. She said. " Something has happened to you ! " "What ? " I ask confused . " You look different ! " She said. With that I jumped off the sofa and made to run to a
mirror but my plan was cut short when I tripped over my pant legs and unceremoniously tea kettled over in the middle of the floor. Picking myself up I noticed my clothes hung on me like I had been playing dress up in dad's closet.
Oh dear, I was getting more and more frightened by the minute what was wrong with me ? Did I shrink ? I must have . Or my clothes got bigger which I thought was unlikely. What was going on ? When I got to the mirror in the entrance hall I gasp in horror at what I saw looking back at me .I
looked like an elvin bimbo ! I had pale blonde hair. ( Not white blonde like Malfoy, ) but corn silk blonde, long and strait with big blue eyes, set in a heart shaped, pixie face. Gone was my five foot eight with nice curves. Now I was short .Humiliatingly short !Stumpy even ! Everyone was going to
laugh at me. No one was going to take me seriously looking like santa's little helper ! I'm a joke ! Only away from the safety of the Weasleys and Order for a few hours and. " Look at me ! " A small scream escaped me. My eye's tearing up. Why is this happening to me ? This has got to be one of
the most awful days of my entire life and that's saying something.
The tears where flowing and the image of the ' NOT ME ! ' Was blurring . I could hear my dad .He was panicking now ." I'm contacting your school ! They will know what to do ! " " No ! " I screamed " no, no ,no Please dad wait. " I said. I had to hold my pants up else they would fall off ." Let's
read the letter maybe there's an explanation in there." " In the letter that tried to kill you ? " He said incredulously ." Yes dad !" I said calmly." It already did it's job now it's just a letter ! " Is said more confidently than I felt." Let's read it and see if we can figure this thing out. Maybe I can find a
way to undo it. " He didn't seem convinced, but went along with it anyway .His patiance for the magical world was wearing thin that much I could see.
I had to pull up the sleeves of my pale blue long sleeve tee a disturbing amount also noting that I was showing far to much cleavage. In front of my dad, no less. Not that I had as much as I'd had before and I quickly re adjusted pulling my pant's up again while I was at it. " Will this humiliation
never end " ? and It would also seem i'm , Still channeling the potion master as well. I hope I'm not going to continue to shrink. I thought but decided I had better keep that thought to myself if I had any hope of fixing this before anyone found out. I had to keep my parent's as calm as
possible. That's when the thought popped into my head . The reasonable restriction of underage wizardry ! A brief moment of relief flooded me and I was so glad that I had sat my O.W.L's and was aloud to Apperate and use magic now. You can do this Hermione ! I told myself and promptly sat
down and began pouring over every scrap of parchment in the pile. Once I had found the letter that had done this hideous evil to me I read it out loud.
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Dear Miss Loyce
If you are reading this letter that mean's the glamour charm placed upon you at two months of age has done it's job and run it's coarse you now stand before the world with your true name and in your true form. Your parents Thomas Alexander Loyce and Veda Althea Loyce where arrested under suspicion of being Deatheaters On November 24. 1978 you where placed in foster care later that same day . It is the hope of the ministry that by leaving you in the care of a loving muggle family you would be spared from a life of service to He Who Must Not Be Named .You should know that your birth parents where deemed unfit to raise a child. By the ministry due to their dark sympathy's and affiliations and we strongly urge you not to waste the precious opportunity the ministry has generously gifted you by reconnecting with the darker elements in our society .
Your truly
Auror Philip NewWell
and
Child Welfare Case worker Audra Weed
I felt sick, my parent's are death eater's ! I couldn't breath as though an enormous rock was sitting on my chest . Do they kick puppies to ? I thought to my self . They're still alive and I was taken from them by force. They could still want me back . I felt the bile rising in the back of my throat. They
could be looking for me. What if they can find me now that the glamour has been removed ? What if they come here ? What if they try to use me to hurt Harry? This is bad this is very bad ! I'm putting everone I care about in danger. What am I going to do ? Think, Think !" Nothing ! " I'm so tired I
couldn't think of a single good idea that's when I realized looking at the clock on the wall in the corner. It was midnight, hours had passed with out my notice.
I have had a horrible day and I can't take anymore. I tell my mum and dad I'm going to go to bed and we can look at this with fresh eyes tomorrow. They didn't seem happy with this but they agreed and I took all the paper work up to my room and began getting ready for bed and shrinking my
nightgown to fit my to small frame. I didn't even look in the mirror perhaps some people would want to see the. Freak show that was, the new them but not me ! I hate that stupid girl , I hate her stupid face, I hate everything about her ! I want MY face back. What will everyone say ? Will they
hate me ? Will they think I'm hideous or stupid looking ? I mean, I was never beautiful before but I was me. Now what am I ? I don't even know . Will Ron still like me ? I couldn't think about it anymore and I was going to start crying again I can't remember the last time I cried so much. I'm scared !
So much for all the Griffindor bravery ! I wiped my eyes again and crawled into bed immediately falling into a deep exhausted sleep.
What was that ? I sat bolt upright in bed and listened for the noise what woke me up. I could hear my parent's downstairs . They where yelling ! I listened for the sound of other voices as I turned to grab my wand off the nightstand noting the time as I did. The clock said 5:30 am What is going
on ? I can't hear any other voices. So I carefully crack my door and slip into the hall sticking to the wall I worked my way down their voices getting louder as I decend the stairs. Mum and dad where fighting and by the sound of it the argument was about me. I could see them now realizing it's only
my parents I walk in to the living room.
" Mum Dad ! What's going on ?" I shouted over the top of them. Why are you yelling ? That's when ' IT ! ' happened . My daddy turned to look at me with so much anger in his face he actually frightened me. I felt myself shrinking back as he yelled at' Me ! ' " Stay out of this! Your not even our
daughter " ! If I had thought my heart had broken before it was nothing compared to this. My mouth fell open. I felt all the color drain out of my face as I felt wave of shock, after wave of shock hitting me. I stumbled back a pathetic cry of pain escaped me before I turned and ran. I ran back to my
room as fast as I could. I shut my door and locked it. I could hear my dad running up the stairs after me.
Hermione sweetie daddys sorry baby, I didn't mean it ! I was upset ! Hermione ! Please sweetheart. Open the door. Let's talk about this. " NO ! " I yelled and that's when I started moving again most of my things where still packed away in my trunk so opening it up. It didn't take long to
shrink the last of my things and load them in as well. Throwing on a skirt that was to big I hastely shruck it to fit. It was still to big and didn't look exactly right but I was in a hurry ! Then a blouse quickly shrunk as well none of my knickers fit. I would worry about that later I found sock's and
shrunk my shoe's as my things from the bathroom found they're way into my trunk. With that . I slammed the lid. Shrunk the entire thing and stuffed it into my jacket pocket. Just one more thing . I grabbed my Gringotts vault key out of the wooden box in drawer of my little desk . That was it ! My
whole life more or less was packed into one magical trunk. My dad was still at the door . Please honey ? I said I was sorry ! That's when my heart softened and I thought. ' What am I doing ? This is my daddy! I started to walk to the door to let him in so we could talk like he said. When all of a
sudden .' BAM ! ' He hit the door hard . I jumped back and I felt my eyes get wide." You ungrateful little brat open this door right Now ! "
Who was this person ? Where was my daddy ?
All I wanted was to go home but that didn't make sence because I was home ! I had to get away ! The paper work we had been going over last night was on my desk. I had better take it I thought at the last minute. So I scooped it up shrinking it quickly and stuffed it into my other jacket pocket .
I couldn't get passed that angry scary person that called himself my dad in the hall and there where anti apparition wards protecting the house. So, out the window then I suppose ? I opened the window this had been a better idea in theory. I hate heights and I was thinking of chickening out of
jumping when my dad hit my door with his shoulder . ' AAHHH !' I let out a little scream and practically threw myself out the window .
I landed with a thud in the back garden, " OUCH !" This being why I hate heights. I hate falling, and landing," ouch !" Just then I heard my bedroom door give way. I panicked and jumped up. I ran for the side gate scrapes a bruised bum and all. I made it around the corner and out of site before
he had a chance to look out the window. I was out of the gate and down the street in a flash of long pale blonde hair.
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I don't know how long I ran . This felt worse that being chased by death eaters . I could hex a death eater ! These where my parents ! Finally, I couldn't run anymore and I sat
down on a small bench partially hidden by some over grown hedges. I wasn't one hundred percent sure where I was but I knew I was far enough. I didn't cry anymore I wouldn't dignify what I was doing as crying . No ! This was cowering and wimpering like a pathetic weakling . I couldn't remember
ever feeling so useless. There was nothing to research ! No monster's I could attack and defeat ! No, this was just me all alone. I have nothing. I thought to myself. No one even knows who I am anymore. I don't know who I am anymore ! Would anyone even care now, if they knew that
Hermione Granger is in fact Abigale Loyce death eater spawn. More pain rocketed through my heart how can my heart keep breaking like this ? How is there even anything left ?
Where do I go now? What am I supposed to do ? I wimpered to myself . I don't know how long I sat there wallowing in self pity. Untill I decided. Sitting here isn't helping matter's one bit ! Standing up I wiped my eye's ,squared my shoulders, straitened my clothes. It took a few try's but I
managed to correct the grievously poor workmanship that was my clothing and even managed to tame my hair. Thanking year's of struggling with my birds nest for my quick and skillful ability to make myself at lest some what presentable. Alright Better ! Now ? Uh, the Leaky Caldron I suppose I
need a place to stay at lest untill I can sort thing's out. Well I had enough Galleons on me left over from my shopping so it wouldn't be a probem and I had purchased my school supplys early when I was staying with the Weasleys and I know that my last year of school had already been paid for
by ,my pare…By the Grangers my heart again breaking a little bit. No ! I won't think about that now. I have cried enough, at lest for now. Now is the time for action ! I took a deep breath and cleared my mind to insure that I didn't splinch myself and Apperated to a small alley on the muggle side of
town near the entrance to the Leaky Caldron and walked back to my home . The wizarding world !
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Ok people I know that this storu isn't perfect i'm sure I have error's . That said this is a work in progress and I am trying to work them out. Right now the problem seems to be it's uploading weird.