Hermione's Secret

Chapter 3

Mrs. Granger had put a box together of photos and items of Laura's and Hermione had taken it in to Susan to see if they could pick up anything.

"Well we sent them all the muggle ministrations office and they couldn't find any DNA testing or any match." Susan said

"Oh"

"I'm sorry Hermione, it could take months even years to find your sister, maybe she never wants to be found, she's obviously destroyed all her records for some reason" Susan said

"We tried the photos too, but there were no matches, it's hard to match her face when the bone structure has changed as she has grown. I'm sorry Mrs. Weasley, its always hard to locate a new identity" Susan said

"Yea, I understand, thank you for all your help, would you mind doing me a favour?"

"Sure"

"Keep the advertisement going, maybe by luck she will see it and remember me"

"Of course Mrs. Weasley, I'll give you a call if we hear anything"

"Thank you, for everything"

Ron had just finished a long day at work and was walking through the front door. He watched with a smile on his face as he saw Hermione playing with Ella.

"Hey" Hermione said smiling at Ron

"Hey" Ron put his bags down and went over to sit next to Hermione

"How was work?" Hermione asked

"Ok, how was your appointment, anything come up?'" Ron asked

"Nah, but lets just hope she see's the article and calls, Susan said there's been lots of fakes trying to call, claiming they are the famous Hermione Weasley's sister, but none of them are her" Hermione said leaning her head on Ron's shoulder

"We'll keep trying, Mione" Ron said

It had been 3months since Hermione had started looking for Laura and they still hadn't found her. The daily profit kept putting stories up about "The golden trio's, Hermione Weasley's missing sister". Though so far only fakes had called up claiming they were Laura Hermione had written letters to Hogwarts telling Rose and Hugo what had happened, knowing that people would be trying to get a story out of them.

Hermione heard the phone ring and went to pick up

"Hello?"

"Hermione, it Susan, I need you to come to my office, we found some matches on one of the photos" Susan said

"That's great, I'll be right over"

Hermione drove to the ministry of magic and practically ran to the ministrations office.

"What have we got?" Hermione asked entering the room

"We have 5 matches, now there is the possibility that none of them could be her but it's worth a try"

"Sure, lets get started"

Hermione and Susan worked through the different files, but weren't successful. One of the women had changed their name, but weren't even born in London, nor had any link to Laura. Another girl had been convicted to jail for stealing a tv and had changed her name to start a new fresh life.

"We have one more file," Susan told Hermione

"Fingers crossed" Hermione said

Susan opened up the Lady's file

"She comes under the name of Ellen Lansberry, she's 46 years old, married, has three kids, lives in London. It says here she changed her name 34 years ago"

"Is there a way to find out what her old name was?" Hermione asked

"I could try talking to the office. They have all the record on who has changed their names?' "That would be great, thanks," Hermione said

"Well it will take a few days because they will already have many cases to deal with, but it's worth a try"

"Thank you, thank you so much" Hermione said shaking Susan's hand

"No problem, glad to help, I'll give you a call to let you know the results"

"Thank you"

It had been almost a week since the files had been sent to the office. Ron was listening to the evening new on the radio, while Hermione was putting Ella to bed. Ron picked up the phone as it started ringing.

"Hello, how can I help you?"

"Hello Mr. Weasley, this is Susan, I can't believe I'm telling you this, but we found a match!"

"That's amazing!" Ron exclaimed

"Yes, well we found a lady whose name was Ellen Lansberry, she had three kids, was married, had changed her name and we found that her previous name was indeed Laura Granger!"

"That's absolutely fantastic, thank you for all your help! Is there a way we can meet her?"

"Yes I can give you an address if you would like?" Susan asked

"Yea that would be great thanks?"

"39 Laterns Street"

"Thank you so much for all your help, I'll go tell Hermione the great news"

"No problem, Mr. Weasley, good luck!"

"Was that Susan?" Hermione asked as she sorted threw the mail

"Yea, they found her Mione"

The mail fell out of Hermione's hand as she jumped into Ron's arms and he swung her around

"Oh my god I cant believe it!" Hermione screamed

"Shhh I know your excited, but you will wake Ella up" Ron said as he wrapped Hermione in his arms and kissed her head.

"I can't believe they found her!"