Thank you to pixiepetals for fixing my chapter for me again. I also want to thank my reveiwer's your opinion means a lot to me.

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I holed up in my room after that. I didn't want to see anyone. I wasn't hungry. I just wanted to be alone. I know, I know what most people would say. 'This isn't the Hermione Granger we know.' To this I would say. 'Well guess what? I'm not Hermione Granger she's dead. She has a head stone and everything. You can't get more final that that. Nope, I'm Abigal Lucy Loyce. Welcome to my pity party.

So that's where Millie found me the next day, face down spread eagle on my giant bed feeling sorry for myself, the picture of feminine grace, NOT!

"Oi, Abby get up you're in the paper." Millie said as she hopped up on my bed.

I didn't even move. "mmhhhdddooowwaannnaaa"

"What? Get your face out of the covers and speak like a person!" Millie groused at me.

"I don't wanna." I said this time lifting my head, then flopping back down.

"Well to bad! I'm here and I won't put up with it. So get up!" She commanded, and I obeyed, if grudgingly.

"Eeww, you look like something you would find stuck to the bottom of the rubbish bin." Millie informed me with a disgusted look on her face.

"Why thank you ever so much, I can't tell you what the loving support of my friends, mean's to me in my time of personal crisis." I told her, my voice dripping with sarcasm.

Without skipping a beat she informed me."No thanks required, it's included in my benefits of friendship package."

I had no come back to this so I settled for scowling at her instead. Something she seemed to find terrible funny.

"Daily Prophet, YOU, READ, NOW!" She enunciated as she handed me the morning paper.

Daily Prophet

The wizarding World's most famous muggle born, best friend of The Boy Who Lived

Hermione Granger is really pure blood, missing Baby Loyce.

The Daily Prophet has just learned that missing Baby Loyce, Hermione Granger was discovered this past August when the Glamour Charm hiding her true identity was accidentally removed when she touched a letter left to her by notorious baby thief, Auror, Philip NewWell on the day her foster parents the Grangers, announced their divorce as well as the fact that Hermione Granger was not, in fact their natural child.

This reporter has learned from a source close to the case that not long after the glamour charm was lifted the Grangers disowned the child they had raised as their own and have severed all contact with her.

Close friend and former Dorm Mate Lavender Brown informs us that the Head Girl former Hermione Granger is taking to pure blood life quickly telling us quote.

"Hermione Granger never was a pretty, girl, so she was always really jealous of the popular girls, but now that her looks have improved and she has been resorted into the Slytherin House she has been seeing just about every boy in school. Leading them all to believe they're her one and only.

When this reporter asked Miss. Brown what she thought about the reports that Mr. and Mrs. Granger broke off all contact with their daughter.

Telling friends and family the their muggle child Hermione Granger was dead, and that the Grangers requested, and were granted, their memories of the magical world and their child being a witch be erased, Miss. Brown had this to say.

"I don't think Abigale really cared about her muggle parents. In all the time I've known her she never seemed all that close to them, and since we have been at school this year, her main concern has been boys and her love life. I haven't seen anything to suggest that she was upset about anything."

The Ministry attempted to keep the discovery of Baby Loyce a secret while they searched for Arour NewWell's female accomplice but it would seem that there was a leak in the Auror's department and word that the investigators were closing in made its way to the female accomplice. Audrey Dandy, Department of Family Services. Resulting in her misappropriation of Ministry funds to hire muggle killer's in a failed, attempt to murder Baby Loyce the Grangers and to burn down their home on September first of this year, but due to the quick action of the Auror department the muggle attackers were captured at Kings Cross Station ending the plot without bloodshed.

My inside source informed us that Dandy believed that by hiring muggles to kill the family she believed it would be seen as random muggle violence and not be traced back to her.

As many of our long time reader's will recall 174 children went missing during Auror NewWells employment with the Ministry none of those children were ever recovered, but thanks to the discovery of Baby Loyce that has changed.

The Ministry is now in the process of going through all of Audrey Dandy's meticulous files and they expect to begin the process of locating the missing children and reuniting them with their true family's very soon. We here at the Daily Prophet would like to applaud our Ministry Of Magic for their impressive tenacity and hard work in bringing this case to such a happy ending.

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When I was finished reading I couldn't help but feel anything but sick. How many people did Rita Skeeter have to interview before she found Lavender, and what gave them the right to print photos of me before and after on the front page? Where did they even get the picture? It looked like it was taken at school but when?

I wanted to crawl back in bed and disappear. Why me?

Millie had been watching me as I read; once I was done she snatched it away from me and said.

"So what, every one already knows that Lavender Brown is a jealous liar and soon everyone will know she's a man footed jealous liar. I'm liking that prank more and more by the way."

I swallowed hard, I was so sick of hurting, and I was even more sick of crying!

"What am I going to do?" I asked Millie.

She just looked at me for a moment before she said. "First you're getting in the shower. Then, you and I are going shopping. You haven't done any of your Christmas shopping yet and you need to get out of this house and get your mind off of all of this. The way I see it, your problem, is you think too much. People will forget about all of this soon enough."

I didn't even want to think about Christmas. Christmas made me think about home. Which made me think about the Grangers but Millie wouldn't hear no, she was shoving me into the bathroom telling me if I didn't get in the shower, NOW she was going to stay and supervise.

Eew what does she think this is? Some kind of poorly lit women's prison film?

"No thank you Bertha I have it covered thanks." I told her grossing out a little.

"Fine, but I'm waiting so get a move on!" She told me rolling her eyes before she turned and left me to take my shower and make myself look human again.

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My parents seemed relieved when we came down stairs and announced our plan's for the day they were all too happy to agree. My father quickly made arrangements for security and my mother informed me that I had no price limit on my holiday shopping, something that I had never experienced before. Which made me wonder what sort of gifts were they expecting? Probably expensive things I would imagine.

I was glad Millie was going with me she would have a better idea what sort of gifts would be acceptable. So with the arrangements made, we apparated to the designated spot in Diagon Ally our body guards were already discreetly waiting for us and we began our shopping.

Millie took me to shop after shop, most of which I had never been in before because they looked too pricy and I was right, these shops were for the rich pure blood families. There was no way people like the Weasley's or the Grangers would have been able to afford most of the things in these shops. I was also becoming increasingly grateful for the Slytherin sense of discretion.

On the streets and in the lower end shop's I was getting stared at and pointed at, people's whispers followed me. People followed me.

Our body guard's having to step in several times to tell people to move on. In the high end shop's we experienced none of that. The shop keepers were helpful and friendly and no one bothered us. I was getting excited to find my gifts for everyone.

I would find them each something nice! They would be so surprised. I was starting to cheer up at the thought of making my friends happy.

For Harry I found a pair of .Sure Grip Quidditch Glove's. For Ron I found a beautiful new Wizard's chess board to replace his old hand me down board with the badly damaged pieces.

For Ginny I found a delicate gold chain with a pretty ruby pendant and matching, dangly earrings. Very grown up looking I thought.

I was finding things for every one easily enough until Millie and I got down to Blaise, Draco, and Professor Snape apparently all Slytherins get their Head of House a gift every year.

Great! I thought. What do I get them? I don't want to get Professor Snape the same old thing everyone else doe's and what do I get Blaise and Draco, they already have everything they could ever want. This may take some time.

After what seemed to take forever I finally found the perfect gift for Blaise at the back of a glass case in a shop called Curious Clutter. It was a high end pocket sneak scope it would make a perfect gift. Then we were back to searching, when I spotted a very old dirty looking little shop. Hermione Granger would never have gone into a dodgy looking shop like that, especially since it sat so close to the entrance to Knock Turn Ally but I was a Slytherin now and I had Millie and two body guards with me so why not? I was feeling adventurous and I wanted to start over.

I want to find out who Abby is. So with that thought in mind we entered the shabby little shop called, A Twisted Tale after looking through the dark dusty shelves of the crowded shop I could see I wasn't getting anywhere so we approached the owner. He was tall and too thin with long greasy hair balding on top he didn't look at all healthy.

I tried to hide my disgust at his hideous lack of personal hygiene Millie was better at this sort of thing so she did the talking.

"I'm looking for a gift, something special, would you happen to have a section for your more discerning buyers?" She said in a very no nonsense tone never breaking eye contact with him.

I could see her height was helping her as he silently sized her up before finally waving us into the back.

We had to squeeze into the narrow space only just fitting, he lead us strait to the very back. Then he knocked on a secret panel mumbled a pass word and a panel on the back wall opened allowing us into the tiny hidden room there wasn't much space here either but we all just fit. He turned to us and said.

"Jus tap on the wall when yeh found what yer lookin for I'll be back to give yeh a price."

He left us and we began our search. I noticed that most of the books back here would be considered dark and would be confiscated if the Ministry ever found out about them but it also occurred to me that the dark side doesn't play by the rules and we were never going to win if we didn't know what they were up to. You have to fight fire with fire I thought to myself.

So that decided I started looking for a few books for myself as well. You never know and when was I going to get another chance to come back here? After about an hour of searching the very dusty shelves and sneezing for maybe the hundredth time, I finally had three book's I just couldn't leave the store without.

Disillusioning Your Disillusionment Charm. Healing the Half Dead and Droughts of the Deadly.

The last one was a first edition copy and was quite rare it would make a perfect gift for Professor Snape.

The book on healing was quite thick and seemed to cover reversal of all manner of dark Curses and Hex's as well as Potions. The one on Disillusionment looked complex but very promising. I decided on my purchases Millie had been ready to go for a while and so she was all to happy to tap on the wall so we could pay and leave the gloomy dusty confines of the dreary little shop.

The owner was back with us shortly and looking over our choices. Millie's book Black Charms for Black Night's cost two galleons she paid him and shrunk her book slipping it into her pocket. Then it was my turn.

The potions book cost ten galleons I nearly choked but it was rare and a first edition and, I did want to get him something no one else would.

I couldn't really say why I just did, he has done so much for the wizarding world and he never got so much as a thank you in return it just seemed like the right thing to do.

The Disillusionment book was the least expensive costing four galleons, while the book on Healing cost me dearly at nine galleons. I paid him though it nearly caused me physical pain to do so and we left the little shop.

I made certain my books were well hidden before we walked out of the hidden room. Just to be certain no one asked any questions I grabbed a beautifully illustrated copy of a wizarding fairy tale book and paid the two galleons it cost.

Millie catching on did the same selecting an elaborate leather bound copy of poetry by Byron the shop keeper clearly understood what we were doing and was all too happy for the additional sale's accepting our money greedily.

With only one gift left to buy it was getting late and we hadn't stopped to eat we had been too focused on our task. I was starving but I didn't want to go until the last gift was bought so Millie suggested a little shop she knew though it was a little off the beaten path.

The shop was called Oodles of Oddities.

This shop was a welcome change over the book shop we had just left. It was wonderful the door chimed as we walked in, it smelled like cinnamon and it was lit with crystal chandeliers and there were elaborate Persian rugs on the floor every bit of space was covered in the beautiful glass and polished metal of the shop's ware's The shop keeper, a woman walked out to great us wearing a flowing vivid colored skirt a tunic style top and a purple silk shawl.

"May I help you ladies?" She asked us in a friendly voice. I liked her right away.

"Yes I said I need a gift for a boy." I told her.

"Hmm is this a special boy?" She asked me.

I had no answer for that but I didn't have much time to ponder the answer before Millie answered for me.

"Yes they love each other they just won't admit it yet."

That was mortifying to say the least. I turned around and glared at Millie.

"What? It's true even if you won't admit it… yet."

The shop keeper, Violet was her name just laughed and said. "Let me show you a few things that might catch your eye."

We walked toward one of the glass cases toward the back. It was filled with odd bits and pieces all of them amazing, I could have stayed and just looked for hours but my stomach had other ideas and I had to get this done so I began a serious search of the many cramped shelves until finally two item's jumped out at me.

It felt like they were calling to me, almost as if they were picking me. Though I told myself it was because I found them odd and I was just curious.

"Can you tell me about the two necklaces in the back, just there?" I pointed.

"Oh yes those are very interesting, Well they are silver which as you know is a symbol of purity. They were purchased at an estate sale a few years ago I only just put them out today as a matter of fact.

Let me see, I have a description of their property's here let me just get that for you.

Alright here we are. It would seem that, they were worn by married couple's primarily, though there is, at least one case where they were worn by two good friends. They were a family heirloom on the gentlemen's side. They are meant to connect the two wearers. What you see now as two indistinct pieces of silver will change to a shape that will represent the wearer of the other, necklace.

That is to say that the lady's necklace would bear the image that represents the male and the male's necklace would bear a symbol that represents the female or other wearer as in the case of friends.

It says that they allow the wearer to know when the other is in danger; they also allow the wearer's to find each other. The stronger the feelings between the two people are, the stronger the connection.

In addition the strength of the witch and wizard wearing them will determine the strength of the magic the necklaces hold.

In at least one case it is said that the necklaces allowed the two to share their magic when one's life was in danger.

So, I would say that these necklaces are as complex as the relationships of the people who wear them."

I just listened; it didn't seem like a good fit. It seemed like the completely wrong gift. Draco was just a friend after all and this seemed far to intimate a gift.

At the same time they just kept calling to me. It was almost as if I could hear them.

Literally it was as if, I just listened hard enough I could hear their voices. Millie used that moment to hiss at me.

"Just get them already you know you want them or you wouldn't have been standing there for so long. I'm starving, get them and let's go."

I don't know what I was thinking. I told Violet that I would take them. They cost more than I would ever admit to anyone but I had to have them.

It felt like they were more of a need than a want.

So before I could over think it I paid the shop keeper and she wrapped them up for me and I was out the door. The shop closed behind us it was late. Too late we needed to get home.

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Ok for the record this was not my idea of a fun chapter to write. So I made myself make it as interesting as possible.I hope you liked it.