The Forgotten Sister: A Harry Potter Story

By Tali Shepard

Prologue:

October 31st 1981

The cool breeze rustled through the leaves of the trees surrounding the destroyed cottage, the only sound apart from the quick yet quiet footsteps hurrying up the path leading to the door of the cottage.

Suddenly a piercing cry breaks the quiet, and the footsteps increase in speed before a woman in her mid-twenties wearing a long dark cloak that does little to hide her curly mass of black hair enters the crumbling building and steps over the prone form of James Charlus Potter, eyes still wide open, killed minutes ago by her Lord and Master.

The woman climbs the stairs that James had clearly been trying to block and finds a nursery, where most of the damage has occurred. Entering the room, she sees a red-headed woman, also dead, faint tear tracks still marking her otherwise flawless features. Behind her, a crib, where two young children, one at least a year older than the other standing, looking at the new visitor with sad eyes.

The curly-haired woman reaches the two young ones, glaring disdainfully at the boy who, even at a year and 3 months, is practically a carbon-copy of his now-deceased father, with the exception of his emerald green eyes, and instead turns her attention to the older child, two year old Aerianna Lilian Potter.

Picking up the girl, humming a lullaby, the woman leaves the room and prepares to leave the crumbling structure, the aim of her mission complete before she hears a howl of anguish and the sound of her dearest cousin begging for it to not be true, for his best friend, brother in all but blood, to wake up and stop playing.

Smirking at the pain left by her Master, the woman holds the girl closer to her chest and turns sharply on the spot, disappearing in a whirl of black smoke and a loud pop…

*Authors Note:

I'm back! I know it's been forever and I'm not updating my NCIS stories, in all honesty I've lost direction for it. But I have a plan for this story and I hope that you will follow these characters on the numerous ups and downs that will undoubtedly be had throughout this story