A/N: Well after several years of Hiatus I'm back and I'm first rewriting the chapters I have up as now looking back on them there are really choppy in places.

Power of the Mage: Blast to the Past

Irrisa Potter

James Potter was not a normal parent in more than one way. For one, he was a wizard. For another, He tended to follow old wizarding traditions; in particular the tradition of the male first born. To his luck, or in his case, shame, his first born was not the anticipated male but a little baby girl. When following the old pureblood traditions this was considered to be a big disgrace. Now some would say he was pushing theses traditions anyways seeing as he was married to a muggleborn woman but to him there was a huge difference. As one of the most prominent pureblood families, the Potters were fairly wealthy and fairly important within the world and James Potter would do everything he could to keep it that way.

Said gentleman was currently pacing back and forth across the rug with an irritated scowl across his face. After several more minutes of this he could no longer hold his tongue.

"I can't take that infernal racket any longer! Lily, if you don't shut that damn thing up I will; permanently!" There was no mistaking the underlying threat in the man's voice. Lily was 100% sure he would go through with that threat if pushed.

Lilly Potter was sitting in the living room with a sniffling baby in her arms. Lily herself was a beautiful woman. Her vibrant red hair cascaded down her back in small curls and she was slender. This gave her an elegant look which complemented her calming presence. What almost nobody knew was that her calming presence was due to her empathetic abilities which she rarely used. Despite all the striking features her eyes were what stood out the most. They were the brightest green almost anyone had ever seen. These were the window into her heart and soul. If anyone were to look into her eyes now all they would see is sadness and pain. Those eyes were currently focused at the bundle in her hands.

'Shh… calm down my little one. Please, I don't want anything to happen to you.'

The baby in her arms calmed down instantly. To the outside world the baby had just calmed down suddenly for no reason. No one, not even her husband, knew that she could speak telepathically. It was something that she kept to herself. After the little girl quieted down Lily brought her eyes away from the bundle to look up into her husbands furious brown eyes.

"You will do no such thing, James Harold Potter." Lily's voice was hard and unyielding as she stared straight into her husband's eyes, daring him to challenge her.

Though he stood a formidable 6 feet tall and acted in a way that demanded respect, James Potter was normally a very gentle person. This and his unnaturally unruly black hair were what made him stand out. His brown eyes were alight with fury as he stared at his wife. For a couple seconds it looked as if he was going to dare challenge her but decided better of it and turned on his heels and stomped out of the room, slamming to door behind him. Lily slumped back into her seat and turned her eyes top the now sleeping child in her arms. Her eyes glazed over as she remembered the conversation she had with her doctor and nurses the day her daughter was born.

FLASHBACK

"Come on Lily, push. You can do it." James said, trying to encourage his wife.

"NEVER AGAIN! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT JAMES HAROLD POTTER!" Lily screamed at her husband while crushing his fingers.

"Sir, would you please leave now. I will call you back in when we are done."

James reluctantly listened to the nurse. Before he left the room he gave lily a kiss on the forehead.

"I love you lily."

Lily nodded and James left the room. The minute James left the room he was jumped on by his two best friends, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

"What happened?"

"Why are you out here?"

"Is it born yet!"

"Is something wrong?"

"Are you…"

James held up his hand." Everything's fine, the nurse asked me to leave, no he is not born yet, and no. Nothing is wrong."

As James was reassuring his friends that everything was alright, lily was busy talking to the doctors and nurses about her baby.

"What are you going to tell him lily?"

"I am going to tell him the truth. I will not hide my baby."

"Lily, if James knows that his first born was…is a girl…"

"He will just have to live with it."

"Lily, you know how he can be when he's determined about something. You also know his views on the traditions. Yes he may not believe in all of them but this one…"

"I know but it's ridiculous! Just because she's the firstborn she'll have to put up with ridicule and slander for something she couldn't, and we couldn't, control? That is such a stupid tradition! I don't care what James has to say, no one and I mean no one will harm my baby girl!"

Lily then took her eyes away form the nurse and looked down at the sleeping bundle in her arms and made a promise to her baby girl. "I will let no one cause you harm my little girl. I promise this as your mother that I will do everything in my power to protect you."

END FLASHBACK

Lily shook her head to get rid of the memory and looked closely at her daughter lying peacefully in her arms sleeping. She had taken to doing this when she was depressed. For the third time that day she studied every detail about her daughter. Irrisa Iris Potter, the name lily gave her, was a small baby. Her tiny hands lightly gripped lily's cloak as she peacefully slept. Even though she didn't have much hair, you could tell that she would inherit her mother's vibrant red hair and if her eyes had been open, they would have been the same striking green eyes as well. She was a carbon copy of her mother. Lily smiled and arose from her chair careful not to wake Irrisa. She went upstairs and walked down the hall to Irrisa's room and carefully placed the sleeping baby in the crib and pulled the blankets around her. She kissed her forehead and as she left the room she made another promise to her daughter.

"Everything will be alright. I'll make sure of that."

A/N: There now I feel more satisfied with how the chapter is :) Once all chapters are revised I'll be hopefully updating with new chapters as soon as I can. Let me know if you liked this version or the old version better. Thanks!