Author's Note:

As you all know I do not own Harry Potter or anything affiliated with Harry Potter (though I wish). The only things that I own is Valinor and Valin, so none of you can have them, hehe! The story starts in the summer before Harry's sixth year.

Chapter 1- A Most Unpleasant Surprise

Harry sat in his room, bored to pieces. It was only two years into summer break and already he had nothing to do. He was so bored that he actually did all of his homework in the first week (imagine that). If he didn't find something to do soon he would have to resort to memorizing his old schoolbooks. Just as Harry was wallowing in his own boredom, a beautiful jet black owl came flying through the window he left open, plopped a letter on his bed, and flew back out, all in one fluid moment. Harry just sat there for a moment, confused, then walked over to his bed. The letter seemed to be written on a dirty old piece of parchment. Something written in illegible handwriting was scribbled on the front. Even more confused, Harry leaned over and picked the letter up. Suddenly he felt a familiar tugging at his navel and found himself in a beautifully decorated room. The letter was a portgey! But who would send him a portgey? And where was he? Suddenly a familiar voice rang through the room.

"Ah, Harry, I was expecting you"

Harry turned around to see the smiling face of no other than the Hogwarts Headmaster, Professor Dumbledore. A million questions ran through Harry's head, but he couldn't find words to them. Dumbledore smiled, his blue eyes twinkling. He walked up to Harry and started to speak

"I know that you have many questions, and I will try to answer them to the best I can. First of all, yes, it was I who sent the portgey. Clever disguise, don't you think? And you are now in my house, not far from Hogwarts. You didn't think I lived there did you? Did that answer all of your questions?" He said, arranging some chairs.

Harry suddenly found his voice. "Yea, all but the one that really mattered, why am I here?"

"Ah, a slightly more difficult on to answer than the others. Here have a seat." He said pointing to the chairs. Harry slid down on one and was surprised to find that it was the most comfortable thing he had ever sat on. Dumbledore sat down across from Harry and cleared his throat.

"Now I know that you will have many questions throughout this, and I can't afford to be interrupted, so I will just..." Dumbledore took his wand out, pointed it at Harry and muttered some word. Suddenly Harry found that he could not speak. Angrily, he silently swore at Dumbledore.

"Don't worry; I will take off the spell once I am finished. So now let's start. Obviously, you know Bellatrix. Well about fifteen years ago, about two months your parent's death, she gave birth to two children, twins, a boy and a girl. Both of them ran away when they were about six. The Boy, Valin, got separated and was never found. To this day no one knows about his whereabouts. But the girl, Valinor, managed to find an old, muggle farmer who took her in. He and his wife both took care of her as if she was their own daughter. But the problem was that Valinor's father was no other than Voldemort himself. When the death eaters heard of the two kids running away they immediately scoured everywhere for them. We think that hey may have found Valin, but we have no proof. When Valinor was nine, the death eaters found her and the family she lived with. They killed the farmer and his wife, but Valinor somehow managed to escape. She is a pretty sharp child. The farmer lived a few kilometers from London so that is where she ran to, in hope of getting lost in the crowd. It wasn't long before she found the Leaky Cauldron. Inside she found someone who told her how to get to Diagon Alley. There she found a job as an assistant to a shopkeeper. She pretended to be a girl whose parents were killed by the death eaters. When she was ten she found met a young boy whose father worked in the ministry. They became fast friends. He went to Hogwarts; actually he still goes to Hogwarts. He is in Ravenclaw now, will be in seventh year. His father was a member of the Order. When the dad met Valinor he was surprised at how sharp the girl was. He was surprised about how much information she knew about Voldemort. He brought her to me and after some questioning I got her to tell the truth about her past. I bought her a wand and taught her some simple spells. She lapped all of them up like a hungry dog. She had a fierce determination. By the time she was eleven she had learned more spells and potions than a lot of seventh years know. I thought it was pointless to send her to Hogwarts. Also it would be too suspicious. I didn't want anybody to know of her background, it wasn't safe. I brought her to the ministry and said that she was the daughter of my brother. They never questioned me. After some tests they were astounded at her wealth of knowledge. They hired her as a member of the department of mystery. She also worked as a spy for the organization since she seemed to know a lot about the death eaters and so forth. In your second year, I feared that Voldemort might be coming back to power. I warned Valinor about this. Even though she was only twelve, she was already an animagus. She had chosen a very difficult animal at that, a hippogriff. Even when she was disguised as her animal self I still worried about her. During your third year I told her to take sanction at Hogwarts. So she posed as a hippogriff named Buckbeak. I thought that all was going to be fine. I never expected, however, that she was going to attack mister Malfoy, but she does have a nasty temper sometimes. But it all worked out in the end. You know the rest mister Potter. Her and Sirius went hiding in different caves all over the place until they reached the head courters. She was there until today, when I called for her to come here. She is now waiting in the next room. I haven't told her what I wanted with her yet." He said. Then he took a long, exhausted breath and waved his wand. The spell was lifted off Harry, who had been listening to the whole story with a mix of astonishment and confusion.

"I still don't see what this has to do with me being here." Harry said, glad that he was able to talk again.

"I was getting to that mister Potter. You see, though you may find it impossible to believe, Voldemort cared about his children, not loved, but cared. They were his only off springs. He put a sort of charm on them when they were born. It protects them and anyone connected to them from the forces of dark magic. It means that the children, as well as anyone connected to them, cannot be harmed by any death eater or any other evil wizard or witch."

"So..." Harry asked. He still was confused.

"So that means that if you are connected with one of the two children then you cannot be harmed by Voldemort or his death eaters and seeing that Valinor is the only one that we know, she is our last option." Dumbledore said, calmly.

"So that means I have to?" Harry asked, even more confused

"It means that you have to marry her mister Potter!" Dumbledore exclaimed.

It took Harry some time to comprehend that. But after it sunk in he exploded.

"I HAVE TO WHAT!!!!!!! THERE IS NO WAY THAT I AM GOING TO MARRY THE DAUGTER OF THE PEOPLE WHO KILLED SIRIUS AND MY PARENTS!" Harry shouted. Dumbledore rubbed his forehead.

"Harry, there is no option, this is the only way that you can defeat Voldemort" he explained calmly.

"You're insane, you know, insane. How am I supposed to get married to the daughter of the two people I hate the most, and who hate me the most. I would be surprised if she didn't blast my head off as soon as we are alone!" Harry said angrily

"She is not like her parents Harry, nor will she ever be. She ran away from them, remember? I know her Harry; she is like my own daughter. She wouldn't harm you. Anyways you have been alone with her before." Dumbledore said.

"Yea, but she was a hippogriff then" Harry bit back

"But the point is that she didn't harm you, and she could have." Dumbledore said. "Just see her, I promise she won't bite" Dumbledore opened the door and called out. A girl a few inches shorter than Harry walked in the door. She was very thin and had beautiful, pale skin. Her hair was jet black, like Harry's, and reached to the middle of her back. She looked up at him, her stormy gray-blue eyes showed confusion. She had very delicate features, Harry noted. She didn't have classic beauty or that golden, warm type of beauty, but there was something about her that made you want to keep looking at her. Dumbledore smiled.

"Mister Potter I would like you to meet Valinor Riddle" He said. Valinor quickly looked up at Dumbledore, surprised that he had used her real name. Dumbledore didn't notice her stare.

"I will talk to Valinor in the other room, so just make yourself comfortable and have something to eat" Dumbledore said, leading Valinor out of the room as he made a little tray of sandwiches appear in front of Harry.

Harry couldn't bring himself to eat, but strained to hear what Dumbledore and Valinor were saying. Soon he heard angry, female screams coming from the other room, but the walls were so thick that he couldn't make out what she was saying. Soon the screaming stopped and a few minutes later Valinor came dashing into the room. She walked up to Harry and said

"I hope that you know that I am doing this just to make Albus happy. I owe him my life. Though I do not want to do this more than anything I am in severe debt to him and am personally forced to accept."

"Do you accept Harry?" Dumbledore asked him from the doorway. Though Harry didn't want to, he knew that he had to. There was no other way that he could kill Voldemort and his death eaters if he did not. He couldn't let the world fall under the hands of Voldemort again just because of his selfish actions. Slowly he nodded. Dumbledore beamed.

"Very well then Harry, come with me, we have a lot of preparations to make!"

Author's Note: My first fanfic, please review, thanks!