I, Angel of Hell99, don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters, except Raven, Mistic, Tori Lightwood, May Malfoy and Ruby the house elf.

Chapter 1

July 31st came bright and early for James and Lily Potter. As they got up to start the day they heard a knock on the front door. James walks down the stairs to answer it. Lily came down ten minutes later to see who it was, what she found was not what she expected. A woman with long black hair and beautiful bright blue eyes was hugging James. The woman looked to be younger than James yet had the body of a model.

Lily saw that the woman was crying and James was trying to calm her down. "James, who is this?" asked Lily as she came down the stairs carefully and slowly because of her being pregnant. "Ah, my Lily-Rose come here and meet our guest for the next six months." James said as he let go of the woman to reach out his hand for her's. "Hello, I'm Lily Potter it's nice to meet you." said Lily as she took James' hand into her own.

"It's nice to meet you too Lily. It's funny how it's the first time we are meeting since I've known James since I was born. I'm Raven Potter, James' little sister." said Raven as she held her hand out to shake Lily's. "I didn't know James had a little sister, but it's nice to meet you." Lily said as she shook Raven's hand.

(FF to evening)

Raven and Lily were in the kitchen preparing for dinner when they heard the floo going off, telling them that someone was coming through. "Lily are you here?" called an old man's voice. Lily and Raven looked at eachother before nodding. "I'll be there in a moment Albus." Lily called then she turned to Raven, "You have to hide, James doesn't want anyone to know you're back in the country." she whispered to Raven. "Don't worry I know exactly what to do." Raven said with a mischievous smile as she transformed into a black wolf with her bright blue eyes. Lily noticed that Raven's form was the same size as Sirius' grim form.

The transformation completed just in time as Albus Dumbledore walked into the kitchen looking for Lily. "Ah, Lily there you are, how are you feeling this evening?" asked Albus as he noticed the dog sitting by Lily's side but Lily quickly got his attention back. "I'm feeling very well Albus. Is there something wrong?" asked Lily as she tried to keep the old headmaster's attention on her instead of the wolf like dog beside her. "Oh, no Lily. Nothing wrong at all. I came by to see if you and James decided when to go into hiding." said Albus as he kept one eye on the wolf like dog that was growling at him and one eye on Lily.

"We have decided to wait till our son is born then we'll go into hiding with him, and we decided who we are going to ask to be our secret keeper. But we will ask him or her ourselves." said Lily as she took a step in front of the wolf like dog. "Ah, I see. Well let us hope that they keep the secret a secret." said Albus thinking that Lily was helping him keep the dog away from him. "Well I must be off, I have very important papers and letters to look at and write for the coming school year. Good-bye Lily." he said as he walked off and left through the floo.

Lily looked at Raven and signaled to her to wait while she goes to make sure he's gone. She came back five minutes later. "Well it seems he's gone but I'm not sure." said Lily as she watched Raven turn back into herself but Raven didn't talk instead she pulled out her wand and whispered "Homenum Revelio." After Raven said the spell, she relaxed and smiled. "Yup he's gone thank goodness he is. I thought he would never leave, I was about to attack him if he didn't." said Raven as she put her wand away and went back to cutting up the lettuce for the salad.

Lily looked at her sister-in-law curiously wondering why would anyone attack Albus Dumbledore. "Why would you attack him?" asked Lily as she went back to cooking dinner thou she grimaced in pain as she did. Raven gave a sigh and looked at Lily then at Lily's stomach where her nephew was. "I guess James never told you at all today before he went to work about why I'm here, did he?" she asked as Lily shooked her head no. "It's because I sent him a letter two weeks ago about something I saw. Lily, do you have any problems with Divination?" she added as she looked at Lily thinking about how to tell her about what she saw.

"To tell you the truth I never understood Divination so I never put much faith in it until a month ago. When Albus came and told us that we needed to go into hiding because of a prophecy that his new Divination teacher made. The prophecy goes like this: The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... And the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hands of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies. I've been trying to find some way for me and James to protect our son but I can't find anything at all. So to answer your question no I don't have any problems with Divination." Lily said as she grimaced again in pain.

She looked at her sister-in-law to see her eyes were wide and it looked as thou the prophecy scared her more than it should. "Lily do you know who the new teacher is for Divination?" asked Raven while she noticed the pain Lily was going through which meant she might be getting ready to go into labor.

"Yes, Dumbledore told us her name was Sibyll Trelawney. Why?" asked Lily as she finished cooking dinner. "I was afraid you were going to say that." Sigh. "Ok, well it so happens I know Sibyll but I find she's more of a fraud then an apple pretending to be a tomato, because she can't call on her ability at will like I can. Hmmm, I don't know how to tell you this... oh wait I can show you." Raven said as she pulled out her wand and summoned a stone basin that Lily recognized as a pensieve. "Ok, this is my pensieve. Lily, I'm going to show you what I saw." Lily looked at Raven and nodded her head while she took a breathe, Lily put her head into the pensieve and this is what she saw:

She laughed and kiss him again just as a loud bang caused them to break apart and for Harry to wake with a start and to start crying. Lily rubbed her hand up and down his back murmuring to him, "Its okay honey, go back to sleep, mummy's here." Harry eventually calmed down in a few seconds, but James did not. He looked out the window, his eyes searching and when he saw that the front gate had been blown to pieces he gasped. "He's here." Lily looked up in alarm.

"What?" "Lily, he's here. He's found us. I need you to go; I don't know how long I can hold him off." James replied, looking out the window as he watched the dark hooded figure approach. "No, James," Lily said as she held Harry tightly in her arms. "I'm not going to leave you here. We can make a run for it!" James sighed in frustration. "Lily! We have to keep Harry safe, just do what I say!" "No! James I'm not going to lose you. I love you!"

The front door opened downstairs, making the house rattle. James turned to his wife once more and kissed her softly before placing a kiss on his son's head. "Lily, he's here, go now and keep Harry safe. I love you, too." "Jamie!" She called out. James turned at the nickname that only Lily used on him. "I love you, my Lily Rose. Keep our son safe." Then he hurried down the stairs, leaving Lily and Harry alone in the nursery. James made it to the bottom of the stairs just as Voldemort was removing his hood. "How did you find us?" Voldemort grinned, his eyes almost glowing in a reddish haze. "Oh, I have my ways. Where is the boy?"

James clutched his wand tightly by his side. "None of your damn business. You're not going to lay one bloody hand on my son!" Voldemort laughed. "And you think that you're going to stop me?" James shrugged, his heart pounding in his chest. "I've managed to get away three times already." Voldemort's eyes darkened. "Well, this time you won't." He pointed his wand and the duel began. James blocked as many of the spells as he could, using the strongest shield charm that he could make, throwing off every spell. He threw curse after curse back at him, but Voldemort was strong.

He gasped as he flew back against the wall, blood spurting from his mouth. No! He would not let this bastard win. Before he could stop the spell, he hit the ground, his body stretching and bending in ways that it shouldn't as he bit his lip until he bled to keep from screaming. When the spell let up, he jumped to his feet, blood gushing from cuts that had appeared all over his body. He pointed his wand one last time, desperate to protect his wife and son but Voldemort called out the killing curse. He saw a flash of green light and the world went black around him.

Then the scene changed to the Nursery Lily placed Harry in his crib as tears poured down her face. She kissed her son's cheeks. "I love you, Harry, but we can't let your Dad fight him all by himself." The noise from below was deafening, but Lily could not leave her son. She could hear banging and curses, but she didn't know what was going on. Finally she heard someone outside of the nursery and she knew instantly that it wasn't James. "Lily Potter, how very nice to meet you. Now move out of the way, you don't need to die like your husband did." Voldemort intoned, as he pointed his wand at Harry with a sneer.

Lily stood bravely in front of the crib, her wand out. But even as she spoke, determined to protect what was hers, she wondered if James was really gone. "I won't let you hurt him. He's just an innocent little baby!" Voldemort sneered. "Do you really think that you can defend yourself against the greatest wizard of all time? Your husband certainly didn't, you filthy little mudblood. He's dead."

"NO! I won't let you hurt my baby!" Voldemort laughed; a long cold almost manic sound that sent chills down Lily's spine. "Move aside you silly girl!" "NO!" Voldemort's wand changed directions so fast that it was hard to see what happened. Lily blocked the spell and another duel began, but this one was not as eventful. "Crucio!"

Lily fell to the floor, screaming in pain as Voldemort held his wand there and watched her suffer for over fifteen minutes as he sent the terrible curse at her over and over again. Her arms and legs bent backwards, falling over her head as her limbs cracked. She felt her arm rip out of its socket and her head pounded so hard that she thought it was going to explode.

Then he took the curse off and muttered "Avada Kedavra" as she dived in front of her son's crib the light hit her as she hit the ground. Voldemort sneered, missing the white glow of light that blinked suddenly from around Harry's crib. Voldemort turned to Harry next and raised his wand. "Avada Kedavra!" Harry watched fearfully as another flash of green light flew towards him and then he heard a painful scream before he glanced around the empty room and he began to cry.

"Mumma! Da! Mumma! Da!" He called out as tears poured down his cheeks. His cries turned into terrified screams when no one came to get him. He cried for what felt like hours, but was really only around thirty minutes, until Dumbledore appeared over him, scooping him up into his arms. "Shh, Harry, its okay." Harry stopped crying and stuck his thumb in his mouth, wrapping his other hand around the long silver beard just as Hagrid appeared next to them. "Blimey, Dumbledore! Did 'Arry… he's alive?" Dumbledore nodded. "It would appear so." He was quiet for a moment as he looked down at Harry, who still had tears pouring down his face. He also had a small lightening bolt-cut on the upper right side of his forehead that was bleeding. He glanced down at Lily and he knew what had happened and what now had to be done. "Hagrid, I know where we need to bring Harry.

Take him and bring him to this address." A piece of parchment quickly appeared in his hand as he held it out to the half-giant. "I'll meet you there." He placed Harry into Hagrid's arms, carefully making sure that his small hands were not tangled in his beard and then he Disapparated on the spot, sparing only a quick sad glance at Lily's bleeding and mangled body. Hagrid looked down at Harry as he held him in his arms. "'Arry, shh, don't cry baby, Hagrid is here now. I'll take care of you. It's amazing, you're alive. But how did you survive, 'Arry, you're just a little baby?" He held Harry close as he glanced down at Lily, tears in his eyes. She was bleeding all over her body and she looked like she had died painfully while trying to protect her son. Her arm and leg were bent in an awkward position as well. He reached down and placed a hand on her throat, but he felt no sign of a pulse.

He held back a sob as he headed downstairs just as Sirius stumbled into the house. "Hagrid, what happened? I went to check… he was gone and now…" He looked over and saw James in the hallway. "No!" He rushed forward, shaking his friend. The shaking became more desperate when he felt no pulse. "James, come on, you can't be dead, come on, James, wake up! PRONGS!" "Sirius!" Hagrid said, tears pouring down his face, pulling him away from James. "You're too late. Lily's gone too, she's upstairs in the nursery. There's only 'Arry now." "Siri!" Harry exclaimed, holding out his arms. Sirius looked up at Hagrid and then over at Harry, tears rolling down his face. "Give him to me, Hagrid, I'm his godfather, Harry's my responsibility now." Hagrid shook his head as he placed a comforting hand on Sirius' shoulder as Sirius cried. "I can't, I've got Dumbledore's orders to take him to his muggle aunt and uncle's house. Petunia Dursley is his godmother, is she not?"

He nodded weakly. "Can I just… can I say goodbye to him, then?" Hagrid nodded and placed Harry into his arms. "Siri!" Harry said, grabbing a fistful of his hair. Sirius nodded, holding Harry close as he kissed his cheeks and his forehead. "I love you, Harry. You're going to go live with your aunt and uncle. They'll take good care of you." "Da!" Harry said, pointing over at James. Sirius shook his head no as he sobbed, burying his face into Harry's neck. "No Dad, Harry." "Mumma!" "No Mumma." "Siri!" Harry replied, as he rubbed at his eyes, blood was beginning to drip in his eyes from the cut. He knew something was wrong, even as a small child he knew.

Sirius ripped his shirt and gently dabbed at it until the bleeding stopped. "Goodbye, Harry, go with Hagrid now." He kissed Harry again and then he placed him in Hagrid's arms as Harry began to cry again, this time for Sirius. "Take my bike, Hagrid. If I don't have to look after Harry, there's something else that I have to do." He kissed Harry on the head and walked out of the house without a backwards glance as Harry desperately called out to him. Hagrid watched him leave and then he headed out to Sirius' bike to bring Harry to Number Four Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey; to meet with Albus Dumbledore.'

Lily came out of the pensieve with tears in her eyes. When she wiped the tears away she saw that James and Raven sitting at the dinner table. "Oh James it's horrible." Lily said as she ran to her husband, who open up his arms for her. As she cried on James' shoulder he asked, "Why Raven, why did you have to show her that horrible nightmare?" as he rubbed Lily's back to try and calm her down.

"Because brother it's the reason I'm here. If this does happen you need to make sure that Harry will be loved while growing up. I've seen alot of what might happen if Harry goes to Lily's sister and I will not let it happen. We can make sure that Harry gets the childhood he should. I know a shield spell that will block the killing curse for fifteen years but there's only a slight problem it needs a sacrifice of a blood relative for it to work." She looks down saddly because she knew one of them won't survive this war. "I wi..."

"I'll do it! To protect my son I'll proform the spell so he can live." said Lily showing that she loves her son more than herself. Then she gripped her stomach in pain as her water broke. "Ahhh, James he's coming... we need to get to St. Mungo's!" gasped Lily.

Raven looked between James and Lily, she got up pulled out her wand and summoned Lily's suitcase packed for this kind of thing. She also summoned the portkey to the hospital and handed it to her brother. "James take her to St. Mungo's now I'll inform Remus, who knows who I am and he'll tell the others. I'll meet you there." She said as she cleaned up the mess and motioned her brother to get going. When they left she quickly ran to the fireplace and tossed in some floo powder and called out: "Wolf's Den!" suddenly there was green flames.

"Remus!" Raven shouted when she put her head into the fireplace. She saw the named man sitting at a table with another man she didn't know. Remus stood up and rushed over to the fireplace. "What is it Shadow?" asked Remus using Raven's nickname instead of her real name. "Yeah, nice to see you too Moony but Prongs just took Silver to St. Mungo's, little Prongs jr. is on his way tell the others and get there ASAP. Got to go see ya there." Raven said as she disappeared from the fire. Remus gulped then turned to his friend behide him. "Ummm, well James took Lily to St. Mungo's and looks like the baby is coming. Sirius!" The man named Sirius looked at Remus and then at the fireplace wondering who the girl was. "Right Moony, call Peter and let him know. So let's go." He said as he just shook his head thinking this Shadow girl must know James, Lily, and Remus from somewhere because he sure didn't.

(FFW to St. Mungo's Waiting room)

Remus was sitting in a chair waiting for the baby to be born. Sirius was pacing back and forth as he was flinging his arms around. Peter was sitting down and being nervious, his eyes moving all around the room as if he was being watched. Sirius' mind: What is going on in there? Is Lily alright? How is James doing? How is the baby doing? Remus' mind: How long will it take? Will there be any complication? Peter's mind: nothing.

The silence was broken by a distinct clacking on the tile floor. It was rhythmical and somewhat hynotic. Like a heart beat it persisted. Clack-Clack Clack-Clack Clack-Clank Clack-Clank Clack-Clank. The air thickened as the sound grew closer. Everyone turned towards the sound and saw a slim woman in all black with boots coming towards them. Remus got up and walked over to the woman, they talked very quietly and then Remus walked back over to the others, the woman following closely. Remus looked at Sirius and Peter then at the woman. "Sirius, Peter. This is Shadow a friend of James and Lily. Shadow this is Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew." as he said the last name he noticed that Shadow's eyes narrowed then went back to normal.

"It's nice to meet you gentlemen." Shadow said as she tried not to glare at Peter. 'Man, I wish I could just reveal him as the rat that he is.'

"It's nice to meet you too, Shadow. That's an odd name for a beauty like you?" said Sirius as he got closer to her.

She laughed and took a step back, "Yes, well it's a nickname that I go by, and I've heard plenty of stories from James, Lily, and Remus about you and the way you get girls. Just letting you know big boy that they won't work on me. Besides I perfer men not boys." Shadow said making it clear she was not looking for a one night stand but something more.

A nurse came out of the room and told them that the birth went just fine. When asked if there were any problems, they were told no. The men were smiling, happy that everything was alright when they noticed Shadow whisper something to the nurse then when the nurse nodded her head she walked into the room and closed the door. About a minute later the doctor came out along with the other nurse that was in there.

Remus, Sirius, and Peter waited an hour before someone came out. Shadow came out of the room with a smile and a tear coming down her cheek. Remus got up and went over to her, they hugged for a few minutes then Shadow said something in Remus' ear. His arms dropped in shock but he nodded his head. Shadow looked over to them and said, "Well, I've got to go. It was nice meeting you both." She then walked down the hall just as Albus Dumbledore was walking towards them. They saw Shadow glare at the old man then say something that they couldn't hear, waved her hand then walked away.

(Six months later)

"I'm going to miss you little sis." James said as he was hugging Raven good-bye. "I'm going to miss you too big brother. You and Lily and Harry. Please give them a hug for me since I have to get going before they wake up or Harry will be impossible to handle." Raven said with a smile as she and Lily were like sisters and she adored Harry like he was her own. "Oh, before I forget please smack Sirius for me but don't tell him why, just say that's from Shadow. I never told him my real name. Give Remus a hug and be careful of Peter, please I don't want what I saw come true." she said as she grabbed the portkey that was an old stuffed toy bear. That was the last time Raven Potter aka Shadow ever saw her brother and sister-in-law alive.

(Six years later) (Private Drive number 4)

"Boy! Wake up!" came a familiar but unwelcomed voice waking a six year old child. It was early in the morning; however the 'boy' wasn't aware of the time, but from the shouting, he thought it was around five in the morning since he had to feed his uncle before he went to work. The young child carefully climbed out of the cupboard that was his 'bedroom' making sure to not move his left arm that was broken, he made his way to the kitchen. Where he found his over weight whale of an uncle sitting in a chair. "Tell me... WHY THE BLOODY HELL HAVEN'T YOU STARTED MY BREAKFAST YET!" the over weight man yelled at his nephew.

"I'm sorry uncle Vernon." the boy said hoping that all he'll get today was being yelled at.

"Sorry doesn't cut it. You will not get any food today just water, and you'll sit here and watch me eat my breakfest." said the uncle condemning the child with a glint of sadistic satisfaction in his eyes.

The kid finished making breakfast with great difficulty given his broken arm and his small stature in comparison to the height of the oven, served it in the dining room and took a seat, being forced to watch his whale-sized uncle eat his breakfast with viciousness, not even sparing a glance to his nephew.

Sometimes life is not fair, being abandoned on his relative's doorstep when he was one year old was the best example of it, submitted to abuse, slavery, starvation, servitude and neglect had caused scars both on his body and his mind, scars that were not likely to heal in his opinion, for his life had been a punishment for a crime he did not commit.

He was trying to think of other things to bear the hunger and the pain in his arm but it was all for nothing, no matter how many times he tried, he couldn't avoid the same questions that had plagued him his entire life.

'Why does my uncle hate me? I'm not asking him to give me anything, I just don't want him to hit me…' he asked himself finding the only answer he was given by his so-called family.

'Freak children of drunks like you deserve to die like the scum you are, the only reason you are alive is that we could get in trouble with the authorities if we disposed of you'

The thought of it hurt even more than his grumbling stomach or his broken arm, hell, it hurt more than the time he was whipped by his uncle on his fifth birthday a year ago, that wasn't a good day.

He didn't even know that he had a birthday, never celebrated before he wasn't aware of it. That morning his uncle woke him up, pulling him by the hair out of the cupboard where he slept, he tied him to the banister and tore his shirt. He explained that since that day was his sixth birthday, he was just a few weeks from starting first grade, so he wanted to make clear what would happen if any of his teachers were to find out how was his home life. He proceeded to whip his back with his belt, over and over until he got tired.

With a bloodied back he was left to mourn in his cupboard because his 'family' didn't like to hear him cry. Not that he did that anymore. From early in his life, the 'boy' decided that his relatives would never see him cry, no matter the pain.

In the end he was left alone in the darkness of his 'room'. Hours later, when his relatives weren't around he cleaned his wounds with bleach. Deprived of any care or attention he made himself adept to tend wounds by any means available. This lack of love made him a person with high tolerance to physical pain.

He was reliving his bad experiences when suddenly a strong sound alerted him of a tall woman blasting the front door open. She wore baggy black pants and a red tank-top with a black jean jacket over it. She had what looked like black boots on her feet. To the boy she was very beautiful with her long black hair and shining silver blue eyes. She had pale skin with rosy cheeks and red pouty lips. She looked around then saw him and his uncle in the kitchen.