“Hermione, let me finish, please. Let me finish and then you’ll be able to leave, if you still want to. Please”, he pleaded. The tenderness in his voice glued Hermione to the chair. “The last part of his letter included details on how I could find my sister if I wished to do so. He said it was our mother’s idea to hide you with muggles. If anyone happened to find out about your existence they wouldn’t have thought of looking there. Besides that, not many Death Eaters were skilled enough to operate in the muggle world without breaking the Statute of Secrecy and getting caught. He found Jane and William Granger on a muggle paper. They were mourning the loss of their daughter, Hermione. Is everything correct, so far?” With that, the puzzle was finished against her will. Her eyes were empty as she relived the way Jane had looked at her after she’d gotten her memories back. She’d accused her of killing her daughter twice. Only another person had managed to make her feel such pain and that person was Bellatrix Lestrange. “Oh, my, God”, she gasped. “Yeah. That was the same reaction I had. I was worried it could take a lot to get a trip on the whole twins thing, but maybe we’re naturally gifted”, he mused.
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