5. The iron throne

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"The fight between Rhaenyra Targaryen and her half-brother Aegon for control over the Seven Kingdoms. Both of them thought they belonged on the Iron Throne. When people started declaring for one of them or the other, their fight divided the kingdoms in two. Brothers fought brothers, dragons fought dragons. By the time it was over, thousands were dead. And it was a disaster for the Targaryens as well. They never truly recovered."

"So? What are you saying?" Ron said.

Hermione sighed.

"I think Daenerys belongs to this Targaryen house. That explains why she loves dragons so much and even has one and- "

Ron and Harry looked at each other. They didn't need to say a word to know what they were both thinking; Hermione was overreacting.

"My brother Charlie loves dragons too. And he clearly isn't a Targaryen" Ron sighed.

"But if these Targaryens fought one and the other, then how could Daenerys be one?" Harry said

Ron interrupted him "Besides such kingdoms don't excise these days"

Hermione sighed. The boys weren't going to believe her, she needed proof. But how could she get it?

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"After you cleaned your banks you're dismissed" Professor Sprout said.

Daenerys started to clean her bank. She was not as fast as the other student who were already gone, even professor Sprout had left the greenhouse. Daenerys was still puzzel about what she saw in Lupins class.

"You need a hand?" Draco Malfoy asked.

"And why wouldn't I think that you're not going to do something mean to me?"

"Because why would I do that to a pretty girl like you?" He smirked

"Nice words Malfoy. But I'm not falling for it" She took off her robe.

"Fine" He said, while taking of his.

She looked at him.

"If you don't believe me when I'm being nice.." He looked at her, they stood so close together. "I must make you believe me while i'm being bad"

"Try me" Dany said after a short silence.

He smirked and walked away.

In the mean time Harry, Hermione and Ron arrived in the great hall. They sat down besides Neville and Ginny. Not long after Daenerys joined them, it was cozy. But Ron and Harry thought about what Hermione said to them this morning. They didn't believe Hermione but still couldn't stop thinking about what she said.

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"You sounded pretty angry" Neville who followed Daenerys out of the great hall sat besides her in the green grass by the lake.

"I was. But now I realize that I may have been overreacting" She looked at him.

"Yes maybe, maybe not. Those boggarts are nasty thing" He sighed "But they are also very easy to mislead"

Daenerys smiled and they didn't say anything for a while. It was a comfortable silence.

"I should apologize to Professor Lupin, for leaving the class" She then said.

"He wasn't mad"

Dany smiled again.

Neville wanted to ask Daenerys something but couldn't find the courage.

"The iron throne they call it" Daenerys looked at him. Neville's face turned red. That is what he wanted to ask.

"When I was a little girl, my brother told me it was made with a thousand swords from Aegon's fallen enemies" She smiled. "What do you think a thousand swords look like in the mind of a little girl who can't even count to twenty. I imaged a mountain of sword too high to climb. So many fallen enemies, you could only see the soles of Aegon's feet"

Then she looked down.

"I don't know why the boggart turned into it. I have never seen the throne before and I never thought of it again until that moment. It felt like a missing part of my memory had been placed back." She sighed again. "But I suppose that is nonsens, who forgets their own past?"

Daenerys felt so stupid. By the look of Neville's face she could tell that he never heard the story before. And that he never heard of a Aegon who made a throne of the swords from his enemies.

She was right. He never heard of Aegon. He didn't even know that such throne was ever made.

"You have a brother?" Neville asked

Daenerys nodded. "Yes, I had two brothers. I only knew one"

"Oh i'm sorry"

"Don't be Neville" She smiled.

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Hermione was talking about the Targaryens with Ron and Harry again when Daenerys walked in.

She sat down "So what are you talking about?"

They looked at each other. Ron was the first one to speak.

"Dany, you never talked about your family?"

"There is nothing to talk about, my family isn't special" She said. What a weird question.

"Mine either" Hermione said.

"Okay," Daenerys spoke. "I live with my mother in a small house."

She shrugged. "That's it"

"Don't you have any siblings?" Hermione asked again. She need to find out who Daenerys Goodwin really was.

"I had two older brothers. I never met my oldest brother, and my other brother.." She saw the liquid gold poured over his face again. "Died when I was young"

"Oh" Hermione said. They didn't know what to say. It sounded like she only had her mom.

"It's okay, you can't miss what you never had" Daenerys said. This brightened up the mood. And that night they laughed together till midnight.

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