The term past uneventfully for Jamie, other than the miraculous win of Gryffindor in the house cup, nothing terribly exciting had happened to her. On the way home to at the end of the year, she shared a cabin with the golden trio and they laughed as the Hogwarts express rolled through the hills. They landed at the platform, and after saying goodbye to Harry and Hermonie; she left in search of her mother and father. Who she found first, was the last person she wanted to see. Lucius Malfoy smiled as he saw her, and walked towards her quickly. She stood, almost frozen in place, mesmerized in fear at his malicious grey eyes. He took a hold on her arm, and sped her off to a deserted enclosure away from prying eyes. She struggled to get away from the man, but he held firmly onto her until he locked her, and himself in the compartment. He turned around to face her, an evil smile on his face.
"Did you like my gift?"
She glared at him. But said nothing.
He paced back and forth, watching her like a hungry wolf.
"Well?" he said, stopping.
"My name's not Anna." She said quietly
He stared at her for a moment, and then laughed.
"Oh my dear, you have no idea."
"My parents must be looking for me. I shoul-"
"I've petitioned the ministry to take you for the summer, saying that it must be impossible that the Weasly's be your birth parents, and must have kidnapped you when you were a young child. You look nothing like them, Anna even you must realize that." She glared at the man, knowing it was true. Her hair, was only one of the things that made her stand apart from her family. Where all the others had freckles, her skin was pale as an alabaster doll. Her eyes ere shaped differently, almost almond instead of round, her blue eyes an off shade from the rest of the Weasly's. She was tall, but not gangly like her twins, well proportioned for her height. She had tried not to think about their differences before, pushing the thought to the back of her head. But to hear Mr. Malfoy say it so plainly, brought her fears to the surface. He saw the emotion play across her face as she registered what he was saying. He smiled, a cold, pale smile and outstretched a hand towards her.
"Anna, you deserve so much more than your.. parents." He stumbled over the word ironically. "Can give you, let me help you. I knew your real father, he would have wanted you to be raised by someone with higher standards than your current... family."
She glared at him. "Someone like you I suppose?"
He smiled and nodded.
"Yes, someone like me."
"Well, that isn't something for you to decide." She snapped.
He kneeled down to her eye level. Grabbing her hands.
"Anna... let me help you."
"Don't call me that!" She snapped, pulling away from him.
He frowned at her "don't be difficult, your father -"
"My FATHER" She said, spitting the word at him "Is waiting for me on the platform."
She glared at him, she walked towards the door and tugged it open, she paused one more a moment, and looked back at him.
"I may not look like my family, but I think like them, and they know me better than anyone. I am a Gryffindor, just like my parents, like my brothers and sister. You don't know me, and I think it's best if it stays that way." She turned, and walked away from Mr. Malfoy, slamming the door behind her.
He ran after her, and caught her, turning her to face him.
"Anna! Don't be stupid." He said, shaking her.
"Let go of me!" She cried "my name isn't Anna!"
She heard footsteps running up behind her.
"Let go of my daughter!" Her father spat at Malfoy.
"Your daughter? Your daughter? That's a laugh! Why don't you tell her who she really is Arthur? Or maybe, you'd rather her just find out the hard way!" Malfoy snarled. Jamie didn't see it, but she heard it. There was a loud bang as her father fired a hex at Malfoy and in the next moment, Lucius was on the ground, his nose bleeding profusely. Her father tugged on her arm and she turned around. He scooped her up in his arms, and strode away through the crowd that was forming around Malfoy.
"Mark my words Weasly! He will return, and when he does, she will know everything!" Malfoy bellowed after them. Her father kept on walking, not replying to Malfoy's remark. Jamie nestled into her father's coat, and he put a hand around her head to comfort her.
They did not speak the entire way home, nor did they approach the subject for the rest of the week. Things began to settle into the quiet routine of summer. The next weekend, late at night Jamie woke from a nightmare. It was the same as the one she had on the train going to school the year before about the man calling her Anna. She walked down the creaky stairs, rubbing the sleep away from her eyes. Her parents were the only ones still up, talking in hushed voices in the living room. She went in, and they looked up at her, smiling.
"Can't sleep?" Her father asked.
She shook her head, walking over and sitting down next to him. He lifted his arm and she cuddled into him.
"No." She said with a sigh.
She realized this was the first time she had been completely alone with her parent since her return from school. It made her excited, and the last thoughts of sleep vanished from her mind.
"Mom? Dad?" She asked looking at both her parents.
"Yes sweetheart?" Her mother said.
"Can I ask you something?"
"Of course dear." She said, smiling.
Jamie hesitated.
"Am I... adopted?"
The smile vanished from her mother's face, and she felt her father stiffen beside her.
They were silent for a long while.
Her father sighed, and ran a hand through his hair.
"Jamie. We love you, we love you very much."
She nodded, knowing the answer. She sighed.
"I know."
She saw tears forming in her mother's eyes.
"Oh mom! Don't cry!" She said, getting up and hugging her mom.
She felt her mom stifle a sob against her chest. She looked up and held Jamie's head in between her hands.
"Jamie. We love you so much!" Her mother choked out. Jamie nodded, fighting back tears.
" I know mom, I know. This doesn't change anything! I just wanted to know." She said, letting the tears spill down her face. So it was true then. She wasn't born into this family, maybe Malfoy was right.
"Were my parents... Were they bad people?"
Her parents sat in silence again.
"Jamie, I think you are a bit too young to know everything right now. Can we discuss this again in a couple of years?" Her father asked.
Jamie nodded, knowing once again the unsaid answer to her question.
"Why do the Malfoy's want?" She asked, seeing her fathers eyes harden at the mention of the name.
"Lucius... We believe he knew your father."
Jamie nodded, her stomach clenched at her next question.
"did you change my name?"
Her adopted parents paused, exchanging a look between each other.
"My name was Anna before, wasn't it?" She said sadly, looking at them.
Her father nodded.
"We love you Jamie." He said, extending his arms out to embrace her. She walked over to him and sat on the couch again, letting herself be held as she cried herself to sleep.
