Hermione Voldemort's Daughter

Chapter 8: Finding out

"Okay. Read the puzzle and I'll answer them," I replied. He sighed, then obeyed.

"A song taunt from AVPS- 16 words." he listed.

"Hermione can't draw." I told him carelessly.

"Realy?" he stared incredulously.

"Hermione can't draw" I sang to him, "Hermione can't draw, Hermione cannot draw, She only reads books and she cannot draw, Even when she reads a book upon how to draw!"

"Whoa you are the smartest witch of your age. The compass spell- 7 letters."

"Point me."

"How d'you know that?" he asked.

"I... just do. I study a lot." I stated.

"You are smarter than both me and your mother put together," he smiled proudly as he scribbled down the spell.

"Talking of my mum you said you'd tell me who she was today." I said putting my elbows on the table and flexing my hands. Dotti came in and took my empty plate and glass away.

"So I did." he flashed a look at the Prophet one more time before getting up. "Shall we go to the drawing room to discuss?" I nodded and followed him.

I sat down on a green sofa next to him.

"What do you want to know?" My father asked me uncertainly.

"Well one thing I realy want to know is who my mum is... it's kind of bugging me. And why I'm living with the Grangers now." I told him.

"Your mother," Voldemort sighed, clearly remembering. "When we were in school we were childhood sweethearts- though no one could ever understand it. I was a Slytherin, and she was a Gryffindor- a younger Gryffindor at that. We started to date in her fifth year, up until I graduated Hogwarts. No questions why I broke up with her. I was going to become Voldemort quite soon, and I knew it. It was dangerous for her to be around me, near me, when I was Voldemort- because Voldemort hated all Muggle-borns, Bloodtratior's and Muggles." I looked at him. "Your mother was a Muggle-born, Sophia. I told her that it was my career choice that made us unable to be together, but she didn't understand. She was kind of angry at me for leaving her, and I was angry at myself for it to. But it was in her best interests, right? So it wasn't all that wrong."
"If you truly loved her then you would have stayed with her through think and-"

"I know Sophia don't lecture me. She'd still be alive, possibly, if I'd stayed with her." he looked at his feet sadly, and I gasped at what he'd just said. My mother was dead. "She started to date a boy in her last year, but it was because he wanted her, not her wanting him. Nobody understood why Lily Evans suddenly went out with James Potter. You know the rest right? They got married... well in between the time they got married and when Harry was born, she went out for a day to get away from Potter. I was out in that very same town the same day. I saw her, recognised her. Who wouldn't recognise the love of their life? Well we got talking... a few months later she turns up at Riddle manor, telling me that she's pregnant with twins. You and Harry. We made a plan. She'd tell James that she was pregnant and plant a false memory in his head for kind of... evidence. On the day she gave birth we'd make sure that James wasn't there for the birth. I'd take whichever of you looked the most like me. But something went wrong on the day of your birth. James found out. Stupid Black. Had to be dating the midwife. He was on his way and I only had time to take one of you. I looked in your eyes and you seemed to say: 'Pick me, daddy, pick me!', so I did." he took a breath after telling me. I took it all in.

"But then why did you kill mum?" I asked breathlessly. He looked at me exasperatingly.

"I didn't. We decided it was best for Harry to grow up with his sister and his father instead of a guy who believed it, but James Potter was a member of the Order of the Phoenix. So we decided that I'd make fake plans to kill all the Potter's when realy only killing one. My chance came when Severus Snape told me of a prophecy that could be about Harry. In truth it was about Neville Longbottom but hey, no harm done right?" I chuckled and so did he before continuing. "So on Halloween I went over to the Potters and a little kid says, 'Hey mister nice Halloween costume!' and I smile at him, but of course, my Voldemort smile looks an awful lot like a sneer so the kid runs off. I try to open the door but the doors locked so I do Alohamora on it. Then James does the whole 'Lily! Lily it's him! Quick! Get Harry and get out of here!' thing but of course she doesn't go because she knows what was realy going to happen. Then I killed James, which I was very happy about, then Lily disaperated to the Riddle Manor.