Hermione had woken in the middle of the night from a horrible dream, it was the summer after their fourth year and after watching Cedric come back from the graveyard dead, she had been troubled with her dreams. She tiptoed down to the kitchen to get some milk to settle her but she didn't have to worry about waking her parents for she found them awake in the kitchen. She didn't make herself known for she heard a familiar voice in the room with them.

"Jean and Michael we have appreciated you watching over the brat for years. The time is coming though." Albus Dumbledore spoke.

Her mother laughed. "You have made it worth while to raise that know it all as our own flesh and blood all these years. We'll miss the check every month."

Albus smiled. "You will get a nice lump sum to thank you for all of your support these years. There aren't many squibs willing to do this kind of thing."

"And you will really send us off to Australia or the US and help set us up with a new life?" Michael asked.

Albus nodded. "When her true identity comes out your lives would definitely be in danger. We will send you away to make sure your lives are safe."

Hermione's heart was beating faster then she could have ever imagined. They were talking about her. The Grangers weren't her parents? They were squibs? The headmaster had been paying them to take care of her? Who was she?

Albus was standing now. "The Dark Lord is rising again and his little Death Eaters have made an appearance. It won't be long till her parents are free once again."

Jean smirked. "How do you even know they will know who she is? I thought the parents were told she was dead when she was born. Aren't they your double spies?"

Albus sneered. "They really thought I was helping them get away from Voldemort. Had no idea that I was just using them and Tom to bring down the Dark Lord."

Michael stood up next to his wife. "So is it just our spawn or the other children you had placed, who you're going to fetch and use against the death eaters?"

Hermione couldn't believe this. The headmaster had been using Riddle to bring down the ministry. She wasn't the only child who had been taken from its real parents? And she was the daughter of by the sounds of it, death eaters of some kind. This was too much.

"I hadn't wanted to so soon but my little pawn has slipped through my fingers. I have been notified Harry has been taken from his relatives." Albus explained.

"You allowed your top little weapon and golden boy to escape? I thought you had him under guard with those abusive relatives you left him to." Michael asked

"One of my own guards obviously betrayed me. I am not sure which member of my order but I will find out and soon enough." Albus smirked.

"You don't think they found out that the blood wards are crap? I mean if Harry isn't Lily's son, that woman couldn't protect him." Jean reminded Albus.

Hermione's heart was clenching. Every moment she stood there the news was getting worse and worse. Harry had been left with abusive relatives because he was thought safer with them because of blood wards. The truth was that Harry wasn't even their relative, wasn't Lily's son at all? She wondered who his true parents were. She hoped it was either Remus or Sirius who had come to his rescue and got him to safety.

Hermione was about to head up stairs and contact the Weasleys when she heard something that stopped her. "And those red heads are keeping an eye on Harry's godfathers to make sure they don't have him?"

Hermione's heart was pounding when Albus spoke. "Yes. Harry the little fool thinks of them as family. Only Percy has realized what they're doing."

"Well I'm sure when the twins find out what they're so called parents have done to them, they won't help you either." Michael pointed out.

"The twin's real parents are dead and there is no reason for the truth to come out about them." Albus quieted their concerns.

Hermione had heard enough. She, Harry and the twins were all part of some horrible plan that had taken them from their true parents. If she was the daughter of death eaters, she wondered about Harry and the twins. She had no idea what she was going to do. She stopped dead in her tracks when she noticed an owl sitting on her window sill.

"Hedwig? Harry sent you to me did he girl?" Hermione asked.

She noticed the owl had no note but she went to her desk and wrote a letter explaining all she knew. "Hedwig can you take this to Harry for me and quickly please."

Hedwig hooted and took off through the window with the note. Hermione just hoped that what ever Albus and her so called parents down stairs were talking about, that Harry and who ever had rescued him from his relatives, would be able to help her.

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Harry woke up scared and confused. He had been asleep at his relative's house when he had heard someone come into his room but before he could react he had been hit by a stunner and knocked out. With the wards and guards he had always thought he was safe. He found his glasses and he realized he was in a very cozy looking bed chamber but he had no idea where he was.

The door opened and to his shock two people he never expected, came walking into the room. "Snape and Moody? Where have you taken me?"

Snape came over to him. "Harry, we realized after this past school year that your life was in danger. We're sorry for stunning you but we needed to get you to safety."

Harry looked anxiously back and forth between his most hated professor and Moody who he had never met the real one. His heart was racing and he had no idea if he was supposed to believe these men or not. Had they brought him to the dark lord?

Sensing his thoughts Moody smiled. "You need a familiar face you trust don't you? Come with us and I assure you we will put you at ease."

Snape noticed Harry wasn't moving from the bed and he saw Harry looking for his wand. He handed it to Harry and went to the door. "Come in please."

Harry saw a familiar set of red hair come into the room but it was definitely not a Weasley he had been expecting or hoping for. In all of his years of knowing Percy he had never been overly fond of the kid but at least he was a far more friendly face then the other two.

Percy came to him as the other two left. "You can trust them Harry. Your life is in danger and they have brought you here to save your life."

Harry took the robe he was handed. "How? I mean I don't get this Percy. What is going on here and why have I been brought? For that matter where am I?"

Percy sighed. "You are in one of the Malfoy houses in Bulgaria. This is one of the reasons I had a falling out with my family. I knew the truth about this."

Harry had known in the last few months of the previous school year that Percy and his family had spoken less and less and Ron had told him Percy was considering moving out of the Burrow. He had thought it was a simple fight that parents and their children often had. He was growing more and more confused.

"I don't get this, a Malfoy house? Why am I here?" Harry asked.

Percy motioned for him to stand and follow him. "I promise you will find out soon enough. The others will explain to you Harry. Please just keep an open mind."

Harry followed him through the home. "Are my godfather or Remus here?"

Percy shook his head. "They were both under constant surveillance but you can trust that they are on your side Harry. They sent us to rescue you when we did."

Percy passed him something as a sign that what he said was true. Harry recognized it as a set of charms, one a wolf and the other a dog. He knew the marauders had created them as he wore his father's stag around his neck. He knew the marauders were either dead or working with these people, if Percy had their charms.

Harry took the charms and placed them both on the chain about his neck with his own. "I will trust you because of these. I assume I'd have heard if they died."

Percy nodded. "I promise you they're both very much alive but right now they just can't be here with you. They send their love to the cub."

They had finally come into a room on the main floor of the manor and Harry looked around in shock at the mixture of people who stood there and he wondered if he had been lead to his death. There was a few friendly faces including Neville and his grandmother and Luna and her dad, and Professor Flitwick to his surprise, but there were also the Malfoys and Snape, Moody who he wasn't sure about. There were others including Viktor Krum.

He kept his wand drawn and looked at Percy. "I thought I could trust you and you delivered me to a group of death eaters."

Snape looked at Harry. "You know you'd have been dead if we had wanted you dead, already. No one hear means you any harm. Especially not your parents."

Harry looked around confused. Were these people trying to trick him into believing that he was safe by telling him that his parents who had been dead since he was fifteen months old, were still alive? He wouldn't fall for that.

Harry shook his head. "If my parents are still alive, then prove it to me. Show me my parents."

Two people he had never expected stepped forward. "We are."

Harry looked at the people and the shock from their words and from everything that had happened since he was stunned was too much for him and Harry fainted and would have hit the ground if Percy had not grabbed him.

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Severus and Lucius were sitting among the others waiting to find out that Harry had woken up. They had a lot to try and explain to the young man and had really no idea how to explain to him or make him understand any of this.

Lucius looked up at his old friend. "Do you really think he will understand any of this? He has trusted Dumbledore for too many years and believes himself a Potter."

Severus sighed. "It will be hard to convince Harry and his friends like Hermione and the twins, that they're not who they believe they are. But we'll get him to."

Luna had come over. "You know having Neville and I and a few other familiar faces will help around here. I just wish we could have got Sirius and Remus for him."

Lucius sighed. "They sent us something to help convince Harry to trust us. They are just under the constant eye of Albus right now. We couldn't bring them here."

Their attention though was soon drawn to the window where to their surprised Hedwig was perched and they realized the owl had a letter attached to him. They had set the bird free when they had shrunk Harry's trunk and other items when they rescued him.

Luna went over to the bird and took the letter and read it. "It came from Hermione. She found out the truth about her parents. She is in danger and asking for aid."

Severus took the letter. "The headmaster knows we have Harry and Hermione and the other children he has placed will all soon be in danger as well."

Percy was with them. "The twins? I mean I know that their parents are dead but could they still be at risk as well?"

Severus nodded and knew they had to send someone to London to rescue Hermione and those they could get their hands on, before Albus used them as pawns. He would have the twins brought as well for if they rescued everyone else, the twins would be all the headmaster had left to bargain with.

He turned to Minerva and Tonks. "You two are still trusted by Albus. You can get in and out. Get all you can retrieve. Sirius and Remus will help if needed."