Shattered hearts and broken paths
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52
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Discalimer: Not mine, Sorry, I just like to use other people's characters. I promise, I wont harm them... Much! All these Characters belong to the Brilliant JKR! I take no credit!
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The sunday post arrived the next morning at breakfast. A large black owl swooped down and dropped an evelope on Hermione's lap. Not used to getting post from anyone other then her parents or her copy of the daily prophet, she tore at the letter with wonder.
Dear Hermione Granger
I do not know your relationship with Evalynn Rose, but it is with sad words I write to you. She has been taken from her small home in Salem and we are guessing by the state of the house it was Death Eater activity. I found this piece of parchment hidden in the broken mess addressed to you and thought it be best if i sent it. Hope all is well. Tell Harry and Ron I say hello, I will see you at the next Order meeting.
Your friend,
Nymphadora Tonks
Evalynn Rose? What is she talking about? I do not know an Evilynn Rose.. Hermione thought to herself trying to remember all the people she has met from the order, or from places she has been in Hogsmead or Diagon Alley, but there name didnt ring a bell.
Hermione tucked the letter into her robes and decided she would read it later in the common room, where she would be able to read the letter without prying eyes, and away from the buzzing students of Hogwarts.
Classes passed by quickly but the oddest thing happened in potions. Snape just sat there, starring out the window, told the class to read up on how to brew Felix Felicis, a potion that brings temporary good luck to the drinker. write a foot long paper on the proper brewing techniques and sat at his desk in a complete daze of thought.
On her way back to the Heads common room she was approched from behind, a hand reached out and touched her shoulder. "Hermione.. Are you ok?" Harry asked quietly.
Turning around to see Harry's concerned face was not what she wanted. She wanted to get to her common room, avoid Harry, avoid Ron and relax without them stressing her out.
"Im fine Harry, Hurt, but fine, Now if you'll excuse me, I have somewhere I need to be. Sorry." She said as politely as possible and turned to continue walking in the direction of her dorm.
"Hermione, Running from your problems with Ron isnt going to make the siuation any better, and pushing me away isnt going to make me stop being your friend." Harry said to her back watching her walk further down the corriders.
***
Entering the empty common room Hermione sighed in relief, and sat down on the the black sofa in the middle of the common room infront of the crackling warm fire. Sighing heavily she pulled the parchment she revieved at breakfast from her pocket and slowly read the letter addressed to herself.
Dearest Hermione Granger.
You do not know me, But i know you. for the past 7 years I have watched from the safety of an invisibility cloak to watch you board the train to Hogwarts, or leave the station to spend the summer months with the muggle's you call family. It is with a sad heart that I tell you, they are not your real parents. It is with a sad heart I inform you that I, Evalynn Rose, am your birth mother. Why you may ask, did I not raise you?
Well dear the answer is simple, yet complicated in ways I hope you will understand. Fear my love, Fear that you would be taken from me, Fear that you would be subjected to a life of following a man your father has called lord, Fear that our precious family would be torn apart because of your fathers betrayel.
Who is your father? Well I can tell you this, unlike myself You have seen him, and you see him quiet often. Dont be alarmed my love, Severus Snape. I assure you that this is not a joke, he doesnt know who you are for your own safety, and he does not know of this letter. My love, the Drak Lord knows about your fathers betrayel and alliance with Headmaster Dumbledore and the light.
I would like to meet you before the war happens, before my chance of ever meeting my daughter in person is scratched from existance.
Please go talk to your father. He will explaine more then I can in words.
With all my love.
Evalynn Rose.
The parchment floated onto the floor as Hermione sat back on the couch, letting reality of the situation sink in. Severus Snape, the most hated, vile, professor in Hogwarts? There has to be a mistake. And her Mom and Dad.. or her Muggle parents at least lied to her for the past 17 years of her life? Really could this month get any worse?
As a tear fell from the honey brown eyes of Hermione Granger, for the first time in her life she felt completely, and utterly confused about her life. Where did she belong?
Silently crying at the past 17 years of her life being a lie, she fell asleep in between sobs of confusions, wearing herself out.
***
"Hermione, You've been crying. Wake up!" Draco said in a low voice while gently rubbing his hand on Hermiones arm.
"Hmmm.. whaa.. what time is it?" A groggy Hermione asked while looking into the warm gray eyes of the man waking her up.
"Oh its about 6:30, are you going to go to dinner?"
"Oh Draco.. I had the weirdest.." Hermione started but stopped as she looked down at the parchment that fell carlessly to the floor.
"Hermione.. are you ok? Do you want me to get Madam Pomphry? You look pale." Draco asked sincerely.
"No. I am quite all right. I just need to talk to Professor Snape." Hermione said in a distant tone.
"Oh.. Alright.. Would you like me to fetch him?" Draco asked wondering why all this strange behaviour has been going on all day. First Snape was in a bog all day and now Hermione is dazed and, obviously upset again.
"No, its ok Draco. I will go to his chambers to have a little conversation. I will talk to you when I return. I need to talk to Snape first for confirmation on something." She said as she stood up and walked towards the portrait hole to exit the heads common room.
"Uhm, Alright." was all Hermione heard from Draco as she slipped quietly into the hallway and headed towards the dungeons, clutching the folded piece of parchment in her hands.
Once in the main corrider, Hermione peaked into the great hall to see if Professor Snape was still eating his dinner. With a loud growl from her stomach, Hermione ignored her body and headed down the stone staircase into the cool damp dungeons.
Knocking on the heavy oak door, where herself and Draco knocked the previous night. She sighed heavily as the dark greasy haired man opened the door.
"Yes Miss Granger, what is it that I can do for you?" Snape asked coldly while looking at the bewildered tear streaked face of the young witch.
"We need to talk, its rather important if I do say so myself." Hermione said in a monotone voice trying not to show any emotion to this man who is suposed to be her biological father.
"Very well, Come in, have a seat." Snape said while closing the door.
Before he had even the slightest chance to sit down Hermione waved her wand and cast a silencing spell on the room, and started. "Why? Why has it come to this?" She said while pushing the parchment into his hands and sitting down as the tears that were threatening to fall down her cheeks. "Why does it seem all my life has been a lie? Why is it that everytime something starts going good for me my life gets flipped around and makes me confused about who I am and where I belong?" Why.. Why.. Why...? The tears poured freely now and Hermione lost her will, and gave up trying to confront the man of his past.
Severus Snape's lip tightened as he read the parchment and noticed the cursive signature at the bottom of the letter. All these years he knew she was at Hogwarts, but did not know the identity of his own daughter for his own safety, and hers.
"Miss Granger. If I may." He said in a tone very unlike the normal drawl she was used to. It was filled with sympathy, an emotion Hermione thought was impossible for him to know.
"Evalynn had you sent off the a muggle family to ensure your safety. I was not to know of your where abouts or your name, it was incase something happened to me, or that word got out of Evalynn and I's relationship you would be unharmed. Out of all the students I would have never expected you to be the one, who is my daughter. Why you ask? I cannot answer the questions, But what I can tell you is, After Evalynn and I found out we where pregnant, I bought a place in Salem and sent her there to hide while you grew inside of her. Once you were born you were sent to a muggle family so no one could draw a connection. Evalynn stayed in Salem away from me to ensure her own safety. As you know. I am a death eater, but my loyalty lays with the light. Recently, I have been found out as a traitor. And from my mistakes your mothers house was ravaged and she was taken. I know her not to be dead, yet. Voldermort will use her to get to me. All I can ask of you is please do not tell anyone of your true identity, or it will put you at more of a risk."
Shanking her head Hermione wiped away at the tears that flowed down her face, and smiled weakley at this man she would have chosen to have nothing to do with, but with the current circumstances, she instead got up and gave him a hug and said. "Professor Snape, I promise I will keep this between us, and Evalynn will be ok, im sure of it."
With words of comfort coming from the know it all of whom he secretly admired for striving so hard to prove she belonged and could be just as good as the next person. He smiled weakley and wiped the single tear that rolled down his cheek.
***
"LEAVE HER ALONE!"
"Mum no!!!"
"You twisted son of a bitch I'll kill you with my bear hands!" Hermione shouted in her sleep.
Draco hearing a commotion from the room across the bathroom from his got outta bed and walked quietly into her room. Watching Hermione thrash about in her sleep screaming and sobbing, he wondered what she was dreaming about.
"Hermione, Wake up." Draco whispered for the second time that day and rubbed her back soothingly so he wouldnt frighten her.
"No, Dont.. Doo.. Draco.. Whats wrong?" Hermione said quietly while waking from her unpleasant dreams of Evilynn being tortured by black cloaked men.
"You were having a bad dream by the sounds of it." He said still rubbing her back.
Hermione sat up in her bed, and looked at Draco. "Can I trust you?" She asked.
"Do you want to trust me?" he said winking at her with a genuine Malfoy smirk.
"I do, But that wasnt the question. The question is, CAN I trust YOU?"
"Yes, you can."
"Would you promise me with a wizards oath anything I say to you in the next while will not be repeated to anyone?"
"I Draco Malfoy promise you a wizards oath, that anything you say to me, will not be repeated to anyone else." He said and a blue hue emitted from him as the oath was sworn.
"You know how I was in a right state earlier today?" She asked but continued on before he had a time to answer or she had time to back out of the confession. "Well you see, I recieved a letter from a woman named Evalynn Rose." Hearing the name Evalynn Rose Draco listened more closely. "I was informed that she is my birth mother, I was also informed that I was sent to live with muggles for my own protection because my father is a death eater, and they did not want Voldermort to use me as a object to make my father obey his every command." Hermione bit her lip as she let the information sink in.
Soo.. the great Evalynn Rose did bear a child, the missing child was in all actuallity Hermione Granger. Or as recently discovered Hermione Rose. But who is the father? A death eater? Surely the likes of Miss Rose would not be one to associate with a man that was a death eater. "Hermione, do you know who Evalynn Rose is?" Draco asked, wondering if she knew anything about her heritage.
"No, Just a witch from Salem I suppose. Why?"
"Maybe you should read up on your mothers family history." Draco suggested.
"I intend to." She replied
"Well Hermione, I do not know what you are going through, or what feelings you may have, but if you need someone to talk to I assure you I am here for you, and as my oath still stands, I will not repeat this information to anyone, but I have one question. Who is your father?"
"Uhmm... Well... You see.. Oh god! No point in pussy footing around. Its hard enough for me to believe, Draco it's Severus Snape."
"WHAT?" Draco shouted in disbelief.
"Im tierd, but I have a favor to ask.. Will you stay with me until I fall asleep? I totaly understand if you dont want to, but.." she was interupted by a long pale finger pressed against her soft lips.
"Shh, go to sleep." Draco whispered as he took Hermione's hand and held it until she fell into a peacefull sleep.
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A/N
Well another chapter. Im back to work tomorrow so it might take a while for another chapter to be posted please bear with me. The unveiling of Evalynn's heritage will be coming up shortly if not in the next chapter the one after. Soon romances will bloom and blood may pour. Stay with me and review! lemme know what you all think! And with an honor! Thanks go out to the reviewers and an author who has me addicted to her story. Lady Lynn (Mines not nearly done, but if you want something to read check her out!)
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The sunday post arrived the next morning at breakfast. A large black owl swooped down and dropped an evelope on Hermione's lap. Not used to getting post from anyone other then her parents or her copy of the daily prophet, she tore at the letter with wonder.
Dear Hermione Granger
I do not know your relationship with Evalynn Rose, but it is with sad words I write to you. She has been taken from her small home in Salem and we are guessing by the state of the house it was Death Eater activity. I found this piece of parchment hidden in the broken mess addressed to you and thought it be best if i sent it. Hope all is well. Tell Harry and Ron I say hello, I will see you at the next Order meeting.
Your friend,
Nymphadora Tonks
Evalynn Rose? What is she talking about? I do not know an Evilynn Rose.. Hermione thought to herself trying to remember all the people she has met from the order, or from places she has been in Hogsmead or Diagon Alley, but there name didnt ring a bell.
Hermione tucked the letter into her robes and decided she would read it later in the common room, where she would be able to read the letter without prying eyes, and away from the buzzing students of Hogwarts.
Classes passed by quickly but the oddest thing happened in potions. Snape just sat there, starring out the window, told the class to read up on how to brew Felix Felicis, a potion that brings temporary good luck to the drinker. write a foot long paper on the proper brewing techniques and sat at his desk in a complete daze of thought.
On her way back to the Heads common room she was approched from behind, a hand reached out and touched her shoulder. "Hermione.. Are you ok?" Harry asked quietly.
Turning around to see Harry's concerned face was not what she wanted. She wanted to get to her common room, avoid Harry, avoid Ron and relax without them stressing her out.
"Im fine Harry, Hurt, but fine, Now if you'll excuse me, I have somewhere I need to be. Sorry." She said as politely as possible and turned to continue walking in the direction of her dorm.
"Hermione, Running from your problems with Ron isnt going to make the siuation any better, and pushing me away isnt going to make me stop being your friend." Harry said to her back watching her walk further down the corriders.
***
Entering the empty common room Hermione sighed in relief, and sat down on the the black sofa in the middle of the common room infront of the crackling warm fire. Sighing heavily she pulled the parchment she revieved at breakfast from her pocket and slowly read the letter addressed to herself.
Dearest Hermione Granger.
You do not know me, But i know you. for the past 7 years I have watched from the safety of an invisibility cloak to watch you board the train to Hogwarts, or leave the station to spend the summer months with the muggle's you call family. It is with a sad heart that I tell you, they are not your real parents. It is with a sad heart I inform you that I, Evalynn Rose, am your birth mother. Why you may ask, did I not raise you?
Well dear the answer is simple, yet complicated in ways I hope you will understand. Fear my love, Fear that you would be taken from me, Fear that you would be subjected to a life of following a man your father has called lord, Fear that our precious family would be torn apart because of your fathers betrayel.
Who is your father? Well I can tell you this, unlike myself You have seen him, and you see him quiet often. Dont be alarmed my love, Severus Snape. I assure you that this is not a joke, he doesnt know who you are for your own safety, and he does not know of this letter. My love, the Drak Lord knows about your fathers betrayel and alliance with Headmaster Dumbledore and the light.
I would like to meet you before the war happens, before my chance of ever meeting my daughter in person is scratched from existance.
Please go talk to your father. He will explaine more then I can in words.
With all my love.
Evalynn Rose.
The parchment floated onto the floor as Hermione sat back on the couch, letting reality of the situation sink in. Severus Snape, the most hated, vile, professor in Hogwarts? There has to be a mistake. And her Mom and Dad.. or her Muggle parents at least lied to her for the past 17 years of her life? Really could this month get any worse?
As a tear fell from the honey brown eyes of Hermione Granger, for the first time in her life she felt completely, and utterly confused about her life. Where did she belong?
Silently crying at the past 17 years of her life being a lie, she fell asleep in between sobs of confusions, wearing herself out.
***
"Hermione, You've been crying. Wake up!" Draco said in a low voice while gently rubbing his hand on Hermiones arm.
"Hmmm.. whaa.. what time is it?" A groggy Hermione asked while looking into the warm gray eyes of the man waking her up.
"Oh its about 6:30, are you going to go to dinner?"
"Oh Draco.. I had the weirdest.." Hermione started but stopped as she looked down at the parchment that fell carlessly to the floor.
"Hermione.. are you ok? Do you want me to get Madam Pomphry? You look pale." Draco asked sincerely.
"No. I am quite all right. I just need to talk to Professor Snape." Hermione said in a distant tone.
"Oh.. Alright.. Would you like me to fetch him?" Draco asked wondering why all this strange behaviour has been going on all day. First Snape was in a bog all day and now Hermione is dazed and, obviously upset again.
"No, its ok Draco. I will go to his chambers to have a little conversation. I will talk to you when I return. I need to talk to Snape first for confirmation on something." She said as she stood up and walked towards the portrait hole to exit the heads common room.
"Uhm, Alright." was all Hermione heard from Draco as she slipped quietly into the hallway and headed towards the dungeons, clutching the folded piece of parchment in her hands.
Once in the main corrider, Hermione peaked into the great hall to see if Professor Snape was still eating his dinner. With a loud growl from her stomach, Hermione ignored her body and headed down the stone staircase into the cool damp dungeons.
Knocking on the heavy oak door, where herself and Draco knocked the previous night. She sighed heavily as the dark greasy haired man opened the door.
"Yes Miss Granger, what is it that I can do for you?" Snape asked coldly while looking at the bewildered tear streaked face of the young witch.
"We need to talk, its rather important if I do say so myself." Hermione said in a monotone voice trying not to show any emotion to this man who is suposed to be her biological father.
"Very well, Come in, have a seat." Snape said while closing the door.
Before he had even the slightest chance to sit down Hermione waved her wand and cast a silencing spell on the room, and started. "Why? Why has it come to this?" She said while pushing the parchment into his hands and sitting down as the tears that were threatening to fall down her cheeks. "Why does it seem all my life has been a lie? Why is it that everytime something starts going good for me my life gets flipped around and makes me confused about who I am and where I belong?" Why.. Why.. Why...? The tears poured freely now and Hermione lost her will, and gave up trying to confront the man of his past.
Severus Snape's lip tightened as he read the parchment and noticed the cursive signature at the bottom of the letter. All these years he knew she was at Hogwarts, but did not know the identity of his own daughter for his own safety, and hers.
"Miss Granger. If I may." He said in a tone very unlike the normal drawl she was used to. It was filled with sympathy, an emotion Hermione thought was impossible for him to know.
"Evalynn had you sent off the a muggle family to ensure your safety. I was not to know of your where abouts or your name, it was incase something happened to me, or that word got out of Evalynn and I's relationship you would be unharmed. Out of all the students I would have never expected you to be the one, who is my daughter. Why you ask? I cannot answer the questions, But what I can tell you is, After Evalynn and I found out we where pregnant, I bought a place in Salem and sent her there to hide while you grew inside of her. Once you were born you were sent to a muggle family so no one could draw a connection. Evalynn stayed in Salem away from me to ensure her own safety. As you know. I am a death eater, but my loyalty lays with the light. Recently, I have been found out as a traitor. And from my mistakes your mothers house was ravaged and she was taken. I know her not to be dead, yet. Voldermort will use her to get to me. All I can ask of you is please do not tell anyone of your true identity, or it will put you at more of a risk."
Shanking her head Hermione wiped away at the tears that flowed down her face, and smiled weakley at this man she would have chosen to have nothing to do with, but with the current circumstances, she instead got up and gave him a hug and said. "Professor Snape, I promise I will keep this between us, and Evalynn will be ok, im sure of it."
With words of comfort coming from the know it all of whom he secretly admired for striving so hard to prove she belonged and could be just as good as the next person. He smiled weakley and wiped the single tear that rolled down his cheek.
***
"LEAVE HER ALONE!"
"Mum no!!!"
"You twisted son of a bitch I'll kill you with my bear hands!" Hermione shouted in her sleep.
Draco hearing a commotion from the room across the bathroom from his got outta bed and walked quietly into her room. Watching Hermione thrash about in her sleep screaming and sobbing, he wondered what she was dreaming about.
"Hermione, Wake up." Draco whispered for the second time that day and rubbed her back soothingly so he wouldnt frighten her.
"No, Dont.. Doo.. Draco.. Whats wrong?" Hermione said quietly while waking from her unpleasant dreams of Evilynn being tortured by black cloaked men.
"You were having a bad dream by the sounds of it." He said still rubbing her back.
Hermione sat up in her bed, and looked at Draco. "Can I trust you?" She asked.
"Do you want to trust me?" he said winking at her with a genuine Malfoy smirk.
"I do, But that wasnt the question. The question is, CAN I trust YOU?"
"Yes, you can."
"Would you promise me with a wizards oath anything I say to you in the next while will not be repeated to anyone?"
"I Draco Malfoy promise you a wizards oath, that anything you say to me, will not be repeated to anyone else." He said and a blue hue emitted from him as the oath was sworn.
"You know how I was in a right state earlier today?" She asked but continued on before he had a time to answer or she had time to back out of the confession. "Well you see, I recieved a letter from a woman named Evalynn Rose." Hearing the name Evalynn Rose Draco listened more closely. "I was informed that she is my birth mother, I was also informed that I was sent to live with muggles for my own protection because my father is a death eater, and they did not want Voldermort to use me as a object to make my father obey his every command." Hermione bit her lip as she let the information sink in.
Soo.. the great Evalynn Rose did bear a child, the missing child was in all actuallity Hermione Granger. Or as recently discovered Hermione Rose. But who is the father? A death eater? Surely the likes of Miss Rose would not be one to associate with a man that was a death eater. "Hermione, do you know who Evalynn Rose is?" Draco asked, wondering if she knew anything about her heritage.
"No, Just a witch from Salem I suppose. Why?"
"Maybe you should read up on your mothers family history." Draco suggested.
"I intend to." She replied
"Well Hermione, I do not know what you are going through, or what feelings you may have, but if you need someone to talk to I assure you I am here for you, and as my oath still stands, I will not repeat this information to anyone, but I have one question. Who is your father?"
"Uhmm... Well... You see.. Oh god! No point in pussy footing around. Its hard enough for me to believe, Draco it's Severus Snape."
"WHAT?" Draco shouted in disbelief.
"Im tierd, but I have a favor to ask.. Will you stay with me until I fall asleep? I totaly understand if you dont want to, but.." she was interupted by a long pale finger pressed against her soft lips.
"Shh, go to sleep." Draco whispered as he took Hermione's hand and held it until she fell into a peacefull sleep.
***
A/N
Well another chapter. Im back to work tomorrow so it might take a while for another chapter to be posted please bear with me. The unveiling of Evalynn's heritage will be coming up shortly if not in the next chapter the one after. Soon romances will bloom and blood may pour. Stay with me and review! lemme know what you all think! And with an honor! Thanks go out to the reviewers and an author who has me addicted to her story. Lady Lynn (Mines not nearly done, but if you want something to read check her out!)