Happily Ever After?

Chapter 8: First Date part 2

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCOMSTANCES MAKE ANY PROPHET OFF OF THE LYRICS FROM KELLY CLARKSON THAT I WILL DISPLAY IN THIS CHAPTER.

A/N: This chapter will be in Hermione's POV continuing where we left off. In this chapter they will continue on with the date and Hermione will finally learn her family Heritage.

I grabbed Draco's hand gently with my free hand while my other hand clutched my new wand and letter. Once inside Three Broomsticks I picked a table at the back left hand corner of the room. I was shaking from anticipation and nervousness. Putting my wand on the table I looked at the letter that was addressed with my full name, and another name I didn't recognize, Patsy Holder. On the back of the letter was a wax seal that was imprinted with a family crest that I was familiar with but couldn't remember who it belonged to.

Gently opening the seal I unfolded the first letter that was addressed to me. I recognized the hand writing immediately and tears sprang to my eyes.

My dearest Hermione,

I feel deep regret for not telling you about my magic. My maiden name is Holder, which you might not know but we, my family and I, along with you, are prophets. It is passed on through the women of the family and you my daughter are the last of our kind. I'm a half-blood, like the rest of my side of the family but our family was never allowed wands in our time so that is why you never saw me do magic. But unlike you I never had the kind of magic you have. Since we are prophets our magic is different than any half-blood or pure-blood. The Holder's are responsible for most of the prophecies that are in the Ministry of magic. I dreamt of you before you were even born, and even after you took our memories of you I still dreamt of you. When your father and I were in Australia I dreamt of you being captured, tortured. I knew then that I what I was dreaming was real and I sent this letter to the only one I trusted, your grandmother Patsy Holder. I am coming for you my darling, and soon we will be together again.

I love you.

Mum

Tears were flowing down my face freely now.

Draco hugged me tightly as I cried into his chest. "What did it say?" He asked soothingly.

I didn't want to speak of it out loud until we got back to the Manor so I just handed him the letter and then went on to read the next letter that was addressed to me.

Dearest Hermione Granger,

I know that you don't know who I am but I am your great aunt. My name is Jamie Potter. Now I know what you must be thinking, but it's true. I am the last of the pure-blood line of the Potter's. I must tell you my life story so that you may understand why the Wizarding World doesn't speak of me.

You see I was sorted into Slytherin while my twin brother, James Potter was sorted into Gryffindor. I chose Slytherin because of a friend that I had made on the Hogwarts Train. My brother immediately met his friend Sirius Black our second cousin. I was in the same compartment as them until another joined us. It was a boy who introduced himself to me as Severus Snape. My brother and Sirius immediately taunted him about his clothes and long hair. I defended him and was now ashamed of James and Sirius. As Severus walked away I chastised my brother and then followed Severus into another compartment that held another half-blood witch who I came to know as Lily Evans. I could tell by the way he was talking to her that he was deeply in love with this girl. I entered the compartment and told Severus that I would like to be his friend if he would allow me to be and he complied.

I never told my brother how or why I was sorted into Slytherin, but my guess was that he figured because our mother was in Slytherin that, that was why I was in it. As the first year went by James was in love with Lily Evans that was also in Gryffindor. Later on he found out that I was Serverus' best friend therefore his enemy. My own twin brother turned his back on me because of the friendship that I had with both Lily Evans and Severus Snape. They were my best and only friends that I had made during my time at Hogwarts until James did something unspeakable. We were in the courtyard during a free period that we had and James cast a spell on Severus and had him upside down where everyone could see his plain white underwear. Lily saw it first and cast a reversal spell. I came running over to my two best friends and overheard the conversation that they were having. I immediately ran up to James and slapped him telling him that he was a very cruel person. After that I heard Severus inadvertently call Lily a Mudblood. That was the worst thing he could have probably done and that was the end of our friendship with her.

After that point even though we had lost Lily to James, Sirius, Remus and Peter our friendship stayed strong. Together we immersed ourselves in the dark arts and became friends with Lucius Malfoy, a prefect, and Narcissa Black, my cousin. By the time that the first war came around Severus and I had mastered in the dark arts and in potion making, Severus and I were asked to join the Death Eaters. When Severus said yes I knew why he had done so. To get back at my brother for having nearly killed him in his fifth year, I was truly afraid of what he would do to my brother and to his fiancée Lily. In defiance and fear I said no and threw up a shield in front of me before apparating to my house that I owned that my father had bought me in my final year of Hogwarts. I wanted to die at that point but killing myself was unthinkable and so I made a potion that only Severus and I knew about at the time, the Draught of Living Death. I refused to kill myself and I refused to serve some half-blood maniac so I drank it. I was in what the muggles call a coma. Only to wake up two years later to find Severus holding my hand with tears running freely down his face and had his face lifted towards the roof mumbling something as if in a prayer. When he noticed that I was awake he hugged me tightly saying 'I thought I was going to lose you too.' And that's when I frowned asking him what had happened. He said that he had heard part of a prophecy that was given to Dumbledore by someone foretelling the downfall of Voldemort, which only two families were to have a child at the end of July the Longbottoms and James and Lily's son. He was filled with guilt for two reasons; one that he had took so long to finally find the antidote and two was putting Lily and her son in danger. I was furious beyond words at him, but from the look on his face, his face that I loved, filled with grief, I forgave him and went with him to find Dumbledore.

Once he was convinced that we wanted to fight the fight against Voldemort Albus gave us sanctuary in Hogwarts. I changed my name to Jamie Avey and became the Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor and Severus was the Potions Professor, and James and Lily went into hiding under Fidelius Charm. We didn't know who they chose as a secret-keeper because we weren't allowed to go to the Order of Phoenix meetings although I told Albus to tell them to choose wisely. On Halloween night I learned of my twin and sister-in-laws deaths and that their son was still alive, he survived the Killing Curse. Severus and I were distraught and that night we comforted each other the best way we could. I got pregnant that night and nine months later I had my first born child James Severus Avey. After I found out I immediately told Severus and he and Albus put me in the house a big enough for seven people. It's in Godric's Hollow and I still live here. I live as a muggle with four out of five of our children; I would love to meet you. I still teach my children magic but two of them I home school. The youngest of the four are five and two.

Even though I am living as a muggle, I still receive the Daily Prophet. To say that I am appalled doesn't even cover everything that I feel towards how I feel about your ex-husband and what he did to you. If you ever want to visit or just talk use the Floo and shout 'The Avey Family Home' and you are always welcome, you and my nephew Draco and my cousin Narcissa. Oh and the wand that you have now is my father's wand.

Sincerely,

Jamie Potter

By all now it had finally sunk in, I had family left that wanted to know me. But first I wanted to check the pure-blood family book before I decided anything. I also need to find my grandmother; Patsy Holder.

"What does that one say?" Draco asked pulling me into another hug.

I couldn't answer him because Jamie Potter faked her death. So I just handed him the letter and he began to read as I went up to Madam Rosmerta to order two butterbeers. Once they were ready I took one to Draco and took mine to the stage, I picked the song I wanted to sing and once it started playing Draco looked up at me and I held his gaze as I started to sing.

Is this a dream?

If it is

Please don't wake me from this high

I'd become comfortably numb

Until you opened up my eyes

To what it's like

When everything's right

I can't believe

You found me

When no one else was lookin'

How did you know just where I would be?

Yeah, you broke through

All of my confusion

The ups and the downs

And you still didn't leave

I guess that you saw what nobody could see

You found me

You found me

So, here we are

That's pretty far

When you think of where we've been

No going back

I'm fading out

All that has faded me within

You're by my side

Now everything's fine

I can't believe

You found me

When no one else was lookin'

How did you know just where I would be?

Yeah, you broke through

All of my confusion

The ups and the downs

And you still didn't leave

I guess that you saw what nobody could see

You found me

You found me

And I was hiding

'Til you came along

And showed me where I belong

You found me

When no one else was lookin'

How did you know?

How did you know?

You found me

When no one else was lookin'

How did you know just where I would be?

Yeah, you broke through

All of my confusion

The ups and the downs

And you still didn't leave

I guess that you saw what nobody could see

You found me

(You found me)

(When no one else was lookin')

You found me

(How did you know just where I would be?)

You broke through

All of my confusion

The ups and the downs

And you still didn't leave

I guess that you saw what nobody could see

The good and the bad

And the things in between

You found me

You found me

A/N: The song that I used in this chapter is 'You Found Me' By Kelly Clarkson. How did you like that I gave James a twin sister who fell in love with his sworn enemy Severus Snape?