Toy Soldiers

Summary: Chanterelle 'Chanty' Lestrange starts at Hogwarts after transferring from The Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. She catches the eye of Sirius Black, resident bad-boy and poster boy for Gryffindor. /OC, ,

Prologue

A.N: This has been changed a bit. The Black family, aka Bellatrix, Narcissa and Andromeda, are Lestrange by birth. And all the main death eaters (Lucius, Narcissa, Bellatrix and Regulus) all go to school with Sirius and the Marauders.

His long thin finger pointed at the black mark against the wall, his name written beneath it. Images flashed through his head as he remembered the day his mother blacked out the image, ashamed of her son. His head lowered and he turned back to Harry.

"My mother did that the day I ran away," he said quietly, eyeing his Godson. Harry's brow furrowed.

"Where did you go?"

His breathe hitched in his throat. Could he tell his Godson he'd ran away to a Death eater's, not knowing what she would become? Could he reveal why his mother had disowned him in the first place? No, Harry didn't need to know, nor would he. He could lie and Harry would believe him.

"Your… your dad's." he paused, taking in the boys reaction; James's signature cocky smile appeared on his only son's face. "I was always welcome at the Potter's."

As Harry was pulled from the room by his friends, the older man watched after him. Harry didn't need to know that his Godfather had loved, once. Once upon a time, when he was so innocent and the world seemed to revolve around her…

She had been the most gifted witch of her age, overtaking everyone in their year magic wise. She'd been beautiful, smart, funny, talented, but also shy and withdrawn. She spent pretty much all of her time in the library, which is where he'd first met her properly. But he'd noticed her that day as she'd been welcomed to the school. Bellatrix and Narcissa had hated her for some reason, maybe because she'd been different. He didn't think so… she'd been something special… but then she'd turned into something unimaginable…