Prologue
August 20th, 1997
The betrayal Hermione felt was overwhelming.
She didn't understand how they could lie to her for her entire life.
It had been two days since the seventeen-year-old witch had discovered the box in her family home's loft.
She had been doing her usual end of summer activities; gathering her magical belongings that were kept in part of the loft and packing them into her school trunk.
She had been taking a break when she noticed a box on the other side of the loft that had fallen over and spilled its contents onto the floor. Hermione had walked over and picked up the papers, noticing a file with her name on it. Furrowing her brow, she had opened the file and altered her life forever.
Hermione shook her head and looked to her right. She was currently sitting on her bed and had the file resting on the mattress beside her.
She sighed, and grabbed the file, flipping it open. Inside was her birth certificate…from St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Along with her magical birth certificate was a set of magical adoption papers from the British Ministry of Magic Department of Adoptive Services.
As she looked at the papers, she still couldn't believe that not only was she adopted but her birth parents were both from pureblood wizarding families.
Looking at her birth parents' names on her birth certificate shook her to her core.
Mother: Cora Eleanor Fallbrook
Father: Thatcher Solomon Nott
She knew she'd need to research the genealogy of the families once she got to Hogwarts for her seventh year. She doubted however, that she'd confront the Grangers before the school year.
Hermione needed time to think.
The only thing she knew for sure was that she was not a Granger.