Chapter Nine

Frank was now engaged to marry Queenie Kowalski, the granddaughter of Queenie Goldstein Kowalski her name sake and he was over the moon with joy. Now he just had to talk to the other's about revealing the rest of the secret that they all promised to keep, that was going to be hard.

He waited until they all had a day off and sat them down while he paced the floor of Mia and Pandora's flat. "Okay as you all know I have been planning proposing to Queenie and finally I did, I also told her that I was a wizard. She took it better excepted, hell she even told me she was the Squib granddaughter of the infamous Queenie Goldstein who fought against Grindelwald back in the 20's. I want to tell her who I really am and why I am in America, I want her family to know also. So, what I am asking is for your permission to tell them the truth. In doing so it gives you a blanket permission to tell the one you plan on marrying the truth without having to hunt me down for permission." Frank said without taking a breather.

Mia and the other's just sat there; they all knew that the day was coming when they had to tell someone their whole secret, they just thought they had more time to come to terms with it. Now to find out that Frank was about to marry into American Wizarding royalty, they needed to come to a decision quickly.

After looking at the other's for a minute James spoke up first, "Frank I say go for it. Tell them everything including the aging potion, tell them how Dumbledore was raising us for slaughter and how it was thanks to Mia and her brain that we left before we could become cannon fodder. I think that they will understand where we were coming from in escaping and won't hold it against us at all, they might be able to help us bring our loved ones closer to us."

"Frank, James is right; you need to tell them everything, it is the only way for them to trust you or even the rest of us. I for one plan on telling both Conor and Murphy soon anyways, the only reason I will tell them both is so that there is no secret's between the twins. They tell each other everything and it wouldn't be right for one of them to know something the other doesn't. So, I understand were your coming from on that front." Mia said as she sat there scratching Morgain's head.

Pandora had one of her far off looks before answering, "I agree also, they will not turn against you for telling them your secret. You were right into coming to us first, Mia both Conor and Murphy will gladly keep our secret. It may take them a bit to come to terms with it being Catholic and all, but they will come around in the end.

"You were right it wouldn't be a good idea to make Murphy keep it a secret from Conor it would have torn them apart. Now that we are telling secret's I need to tell you I sent a letter to my father with an ad to put in the Quibbler, we need the other set of twins in our life. I just for the life of me don't know what role they will play in the future, just that they will be needed. James, you need to put an ad in for Remus as well, just one letting him know your doing okay. If not, he will get restless and leave hiding bring Dumbledore down upon him."

James just sat there in silence, she was right, he needed to get word to Remus that he was alright and not to come looking for him, at least not yet. As for the Weasley twins if Pandora said they were going to need them then they will get them to America and set them up in Wizarding Boston to sell their jokes. They could be their connection to the Wizarding world instead of having Mia risk her identity being found out. Because if she is discovered, then word would get back to Dumbledore which in turn would lead to the Dark Lord finding out as well.

Then everything they had worked for would be gone, Mia sold to the highest bidder, Pandora shunned for being a partial seer, Frank and James made to fight the Dark Lord just to die by his hands alone.

Looking around the room Frank just smiled, he was one step closer to marrying the girl he loved; he just needed to tell her and her family the whole secret and everything would be fine. Without another word to anyone Frank left the flat like a Dragon was on his tail and went to find Queenie, laughing Mia went to find Murphy and Conor so she could tell them her secret as well.

James and Pandora left for school leaving the love birds to do whatever it was they needed to do, they didn't need to be around for when Mia told Murphy the truth about her past. James just hoped that Murphy wouldn't break her heart in the process.

Mia found the boys she was looking for just getting in from work, she smiled saying "Um, there is something I need to tell you both. Telling just Murphy would be a bad thing since I know how hard it is for twins to keep secrets from each other. Could you please follow me to my flat, we will be more comfortable there, this is going to take a while to tell. I will be stopping a few times to gather my thoughts and trust me there is a lot of thoughts. I am not called a bookworm for nothing after all."

Murphy and Conor just looked at each other with what can only be described as twin speak and agreed to go with Mia to her flat. Once there they took a seat on Mia's bed that currently made to look like a couch, Morgain was happy to have her second favorite person paying attention to her.

"Okay here goes nothing, my name is not Mia Black, and I am not really 22, well I am but that is part of the story. I was born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England on the 19th of September 1979 which would make me 19 years old or least I should be. My real name is Hermione Jean Granger and my parents were Dentists. Now here is where it gets tricky, growing up I was a very smart girl in some ways ahead of my peers, I never really had friends until I met James and Frank. Pandora came a year later, anyways there was always something different about me, something that most girls my age didn't have.

"I didn't understand why I was so different from most girls my age and why I couldn't make any friends, then just after my 11th birthday this Professor shows up at my door with an invitation to a very Private boarding school in Scotland. The school was for gifted children like, children who were gifted with Magic and that is how I found out I was a witch. It explained all the strange things that would happen to me when I was a child. Like the lights being blown out when I was or having my favorite book waiting for me on my bedside when I knew it was on the top shelf. She told me she taught transfiguration and was also Deputy Headmistress of the School, she told me that I would make many new friends and come to enjoy my time at Hogwarts."

Taking a deep breath, she continued "She then took my parents and I to gather my school supplies and to get my first wand. You see having a wand was an important part of a young witch or wizards life, it was an extension of themselves. Upon returning home, I quickly begun to soak up all the information I could which included reading my schoolbooks front to back until I could tell you where to find a Bezoar, which is in sheep's stomach in case you wanted to know. During the next eleven months I studied everything could that way come the first of September I was prepared for anything, the only thing the books couldn't tell me was how to make friends.

"It took almost dying to gain friends, but I will get to that in just a bit, to get to the school we had to take a train that left from Platform 9¾ which could only be accessed by walking in between platforms 9 and 10. For first timers it helps to go at a bit of a run, I was so excited that I had my parents bring me super early in hopes of being able to share a carriage with some new found friends. During our trip to Hogwarts, a shy young man with a toad for a pet seemed to have misplaced said toad, so being eager to make friends I volunteered to help him look for Trevor the Toad. It was on the second go round of asking different carriages that I first met James, a shy young boy with clothes to big and broken glasses.

"He was sitting with another boy who wore hand me down clothes and bright red hair, I later learned that his name was Ronald Weasley. I wanted nothing more than to be friends with James and it wasn't because he was famous in the Wizarding world, its not my secret to tell so I can't explain why he was famous. Maybe if you ask him, he will tell you, his story. During that trip I also met an arrogant toe rag named Draco Malfoy who's favorite thing to say was 'Wait till my father hears about this.' He is what they call a pureblood Wizard which I will get into soon.

"By the time we reached Hogwarts, I had already gotten on Ron's nerve, and he was quickly making up James's mind about things. Now once we departed the first years like me had to take a boat across the Black Lake and up towards the school, since it was dark outside, the Castle was lit up by torches. It was an amazing sight to see, I had never seen such a thing before and probably will never again. We were sorted into Houses which was supposed to be our home away from Home, I was placed in Gryffindor alongside Frank and James, when Pandora came a year later, she was put in Ravenclaw. Now the houses were simple, you had Gryffindor which housed the brave, Hufflepuff which housed the loyal, Ravenclaw which held the smartest of students and finally Slytherin which housed the most cunning.

"During the first two months of school I did everything to prove I belonged there, you see just like in the Muggle world there was racism. There are three type of social classes I guess you could call them; you had the Pureblood's who could trace their lines back to the Founder's of the school. Then you have half-bloods who either had at least one Magical parent be it a Pureblood or Muggleborn, which is what I am consider. I am a Muggleborn which means I am the first in my family to be born with Magic, I was looked down upon by some of the Purebloods due to me lineage being what it was.

"It wasn't until Halloween that I became friends with James; it all started in charms class, we were learning levitate a feather and I corrected Ron on his pronunciation. He got mad and said something about doing it myself if I was so smart, so I did just that and won my House five points from our Charms teacher Professor Flitwick. After class Ron made a rude comment about why I didn't have any friends, and I heard it. I ran to the girls lavatory and stayed the rest of the day missing most of my afternoon classes and all the Halloween feast that was happing in the Great Hall.

"That's when it all went to Hell in a handbasket I guess you could say, our Defense Teacher Professor Quill went running to the Great Hall yelling about a Troll in the Dungeon's and then proceeded to faint on the spot. That of course caused a panic among the students who were then sent to their Common Rooms until Coast was clear, it was on the way to said Common Room that James remembered that I didn't know about there being a Troll on the loose. So he set out to try and find me, boy did they ever find me. Not thinking that anyone could be in the downstairs girls lavatory the locked the Troll in there. They were just about to continue to look for me when they heard me scream from inside the lavatory, freaking out they quickly unlocked the door to try and help. James jumped on the back of the Troll and Ron using the same exact spell he was having trouble with earlier in the day to knock it out with it's own club. When the teachers came, I lied, I lied to them telling them that I went looking for the Troll and James and Ron saved me from impending doom. After that the three of us were inseparable, the called us the Golden Trio.

"By the end of our first year we lulled a three headed dog to sleep, played the biggest game of chess, figured out a logic puzzle and saved the school from our processed Defense Teacher. I went home that summer with a newfound friendship, something I was proud of." Mia said before stopping for a moment.