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Also going to make that Hermione a year younger than she was but the timeline will be the same as best as I can.

Hermione sat on her childhood bed staring at the unopened envelope in her hand. Her name was written across the front in a neat elegant script. On the back of the envelope holding it closed was a green seal with a dragon in the center on it that she had never seen before. She had been sitting on her bed for the last 30 minutes just staring at it wondering what it could possibly be.

Today was the day of her 17th birthday. The day that she was a legal adult in the wizarding world. Having a letter delivered today of all days from an unknown source was highly suspect and made her fear the contents of the letter. With a heavy sigh she broke the seal and emptied the contents from the envelope on her bed covers. She was careful not to touch anything right away just in case there were any types of curses.

As the contents fell out Hermione could definitely feel the pulse of strong magic from the items that were on her bed covers. Out of the envelops fell a ring, a necklace, and a letter written on heavy parchment. She pulled out her wand and ran a diagnostic to make sure that none of the enchantments on the items were harmful to her. All she found on them was a few protection charms and a portkey from the necklace. She was very careful not to touch the necklace but picked up the ring to examine it up close.

The ring was made of a goblin made platinum with emeralds and diamonds wrapped around what looked like a snake in the center of the ring. It was very beautiful but it also looked semi-familiar to me but I just couldn't place where I thought that I had seen it before. There were 3 difference protection charms on it. The first protection charm was made so that once the ring was put on it would automatically resize for the wearer and it was unable to be taken off by anyone other than the one who was wearing the ring, even if the finger was severed it would be of no use to anyone other than the wearer. The second protection charm would prevent the wearer from being hit with any minor hexes such as a stinging hex or a stupefy. The final protection charm wasn't something that I had ever come across before on an object put it seemed to be able to be used to cast a patronus. Very odd indeed.

The necklace she could tell that she couldn't touch because she knew that it was a portkey. It was also beautiful as well being made of the same material. The pendant on it was a rather large emerald and diamond harp. These two items alone had to had been very expensive and there was not anyone in her circle that would have been able to afford one of these items let alone both of them. That made these items very suspect to her and the fact that they made her thing of Slytherin colors was the icing of the cake for her to be weary.

Hermione pushed the ring away from her and used to wand to push the necklace away from herself as well. She reached out to the letter figuring that it was now or never if she wanted to know where these items came from.

My Dearest Lyra,

I hope this letter finds you well my lovely. I know that this is going to be one of the biggest shocks to you but your parents aren't actually your birth parents. Your father and I were scared for your life when you were born and had to quickly have you given away to another family. You see the Dark Lord would have used you if he had known that we had birthed a baby girl. As soon as you and your twin brother were born we had someone take you away immediately so that no one ever knew that you existed. Ourselves included my lovely, we have no idea were you are or what has become of you as we were made aware a glamour charm was put on you to last until your 17th birthday. We do so very much hope that you had a good childhood and know that we always wished to come back for you. We were so scared that the Dark Lord would come back so we never came for you. It was a terrible time for us and we were so very saddened to have to give you away my lovely. I only hope that you can understand and forgive us for the wrongs that we have done by you. Your father and I had never forgotten you and wish very much for you to come back to be with us again. I know that it is still a bad time with the Dark Lord around but we are terrified for this war to end with neither of us not making it through without ever getting to know our baby girl. We can not tell you who we are in this letter incase it is intercepted but we can tell you that we are letting your brother know that he has a twin and I'm sure once you see your new appearance you might start understand who you really are. Once you get back to Hogwarts we will make sure that he understand to look for your ring. So please if you have any desire to find out about who you are wear it at all time as it is also for your protection as well. The necklace can be worn as well I know that you probably noticed that it's a portkey but you need to activate yourself, it was made for you in case of emergency. It will bring you home to your room when activated.

We love you our dear lovely baby girl. We hope to meet you soon and remember your brother will be looking for you and he will approach as soon as he notices your ring. We hope to meet you soon lovely.

Love, Your Mother and Father

Hermione sat there stunned and scared to get up and check herself in the mirror. She had only come home to spend her birthday morning with her parents, which were at work since it was a surprise to see them anyway, but now she needed to get back to school before she checked herself out to see what she looked like. She grabbed her wand and sent all the items back in the enveloped and snatched it off the bed heading down the stairs to the floo. Snatching a handful of floo powder she tossed it into the fireplace calling out Headmasters Office Hogwarts as she stepped into the hearth. She stepped out a few seconds later thankful that he was not in his office at the moment. He knew that she was out for a visit and would be using his floo. He trusted her to come and go from his office which made her happy. Before stepping out of his office she disillusioned herself and quickly made her way to the dorms in Gryffindor Tower.

She stepped into the common room glad to see Ginny sitting on the couch with Harry and Ron playing wizards chess. She walked up behind Ginny and whispered in her ear.

"Ginny, don't react. Just tell you boys you will be right back and meet me in the dorms." she said as she raced up to her bed. About 2 minutes later Ginny came in the room looking for Hermione.

"Alright Hermione, I know you are in here so what's going on? Why do you have yourself disillusioned?" Ginny asked looking around for her even though I wasn't that far from her.

"Ginny, I am going to take off the charm and I need you to tell me what I look like. Here read this first it explains what is going on. When you are ready let me know." Hermione said handing the letter over to Ginny. Ginny took the letter and as she read it I could see her eyes getting wider with every revelation that she read.

When she was done she looked up at my with her mouth slightly open and wide eyed. "Okay, 'Mione whenever you ready..."

I lifted the charm and I watched in fascination and horror as her eyes got even wider and she gasped slapping her hand over her mouth.

"Mione, you look like..."