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The rain was poring down hard and fast. I was completely silent just watching the dark sky as lightning lit it up every now and then. Ah lightning. How that simple word affects so much of my life thanks to the lightning scar that I bear. I, Harry James Potter, the supposed savior of the wizarding world am not who they think I am. I am not the Gryffindor golden boy nor am I truly Harry sodding Potter. At the beginning of summer I was given a letter by a strange owl. I opened the letter to find several things that shocked me.

I was not Harry Potter nor was James my father. I am Darien Kaden Silvercrow and I'm not even human. Lily my mother lived a lie for a life. She was a Valkyrie and also a witch as my father was a Vampire and a wizard. I am obviously a wizard but am half Valkyrie and Vampire. I wasn't so surprised that James wasn't my father for I had already started to change in appearance.

My hair, still black, spikes up with long bangs that cover my eyes. My eyes are now amethyst, but are still large and innocent looking. I have my mother's features but they are a bit sharper. I've grown to the height of 6'2" but years of starvation and beatings haven't given me much weight. I now have muscles from all the years at Quidditch and chores from the Durselys. I was a bit grateful that since my mother was a Valkyrie I didn't have to drink blood but I still had the fangs and they were bloody painful when first coming in. But being half Valkyrie I now have wings that are silky smooth but look like raven feathers. They sprout only when needed or if I'm in a strong emotion. Thank Merlin for that. I think what made me the most upset at first was the fact that my father is none other than Serverus Snape.

That bloody basterd, my father?! To say I was pissed was an understatement. It was the first time that I truly showed what I was in true form. I gave Vernon a heart attack and I totally left alone after that. It was the one good thing that happened to me this summer. My summer torches were stopped. I Darien was no longer abused. For fifteen years Vernon beat, starved, tormented, and did everything under the sun except sexually abuse me. Even he drew the line at that, thank Merlin. But it wasn't to good for those fifteen years I slowly became dark. No I would never go as Tom did but Dumbledork would never again manipulate me again. That bastard did it for the last time when Sirius died, and funny enough I'm sort of grateful since I am no longer trapped. This summer I could become who I was all along, but never showed anyone. I had always been myself but for the sake of self- preservation I became who the wizarding world wanted.

See when I was eleven and first found out about that world I was scared for I had been beaten by Vernon for so long I believed I was a freak, but my instincts to survive kicked in and I molded myself into who they wanted. I truly am gifted in that. I have no friends, and I known that since the beginning of my schooling as a wizard that Ron and Hermione were being paid to befriend me. I played right with them. That was one of the reasons why I got them into so many dangerous situations. I figured that if they were being paid then they should at least earn it. Don't you think? I am very Slytherin and I regret not letting the hat put me there, but it would go against my Golden Boy image I was trying to create so I decided against it.

Well this summer all was different. I was ignored so I snuck out of the house every nigh and would travel by floo to Knockturn Ally. I would break into Mrs. Figg's place and steel her floo powder. It was so easy since she was away this summer to visit her sick sister. I was surprised at how easy it was to evade the Order members sent to watch me. I always got a laugh at how ironic it was if I a sixteen year old could escape without them knowing then how was I supposed to be safe at the Durselys when apparently mother wasn't even related to them. Ironic wasn't it.

Once at Knockturn I would travel around till dawn and then come home. It was surprising at how much you could learn by being there. I just had to make sure no one saw my scar and I'd be safe since I didn't really look like Potter anymore. That charm of my mother's was simply amazing after all it held for fifteen years. In the letter mother said that James was gay and Sirius was his lover they both just put up the front so she and I would be safe. My father had no idea about the whole James thing or me. Mother said she left dad after he became a spy for Dumbledork cause Dumbledork threatened mother with dad's life if she didn't leave him. James's being as close to a brother to her decided to marry her to get Dumbledork off her and his case. Sirius and Remus knew about Harry being Darien when he was born but was sworn to secrecy by a mother's death wish.

So all in all I wasn't mad at anyone nor did I really care. Well actually I was mad at one person, and that was Dumbledor I now had a dad even if he didn't know he had a son. Besides he's a Vampire. How weird is that. I now have a tally of five weird teachers. Remus the Werewolf, dad the Vampire, Quirrel the part Voldie guy, Moody the deatheater and, Trelawney the nutcase psyche. I laughed at the thought of another prophecy made about the new me. Hell Dumbledork didn't even know about what I am or whose child I am. He though mother was going to jeopardize Serverus's mission for the Order so he threatened my mother. Oh I'd love to see him now and tell him this. Just to see his face. If he thought that controlled rage in his office after Sirius's death was bad.

Now about this entire going back stuff. Tomorrow I would be going back but what was I to do. I decided I was going to go back without the concealing charms. I'd let all know what I've endured these past fifteen years. Yes, let them see the scars that marred my tannish skin. (It's a wonder it's tan since I'm half Vamp.) My back had long white scars from whips and my front was littered with them both large and small from different times and items used. My legs weren't scared and neither was my face just my torso to my neck all the punishment after that would have been visible so he didn't cut it. My long nights at Knockturn, I bought cloths. I now owned fighting cloths. That was normally jeans and a muscle shirt. I no longer bothered with tennis shoes but now used flip-flops and had a tattoo of a Chinese Dragon that was silver and black. It was magical and it moved around on my body. I also bought a new bird since Hedwing was killed by Vernon at the start of summer before they left me alone.

My new bird was a raven who I named Char. He liked Dagger my komodo dragon who could talk in snake language. I had found Dagger when I first started to visit Knockturn Ally. He was just a hatchling and had been making a fuss at the pet shop storeowner. Actually he was snapping at his fingers. Darien got curious and decided to by the dragon. It was once he got the baby home did he find out that it was actually a real Komodo Dragon and not the lizard. It was just like his tattoo. It was long like a lizard but was shaped differently. He wasn't illegal because most just saw him as a Komodo Dragon since he didn't have wings, but when he got older he would become a lot bigger and be able to fly without wings. Dagger of course explained it to Darien who was now his master. Much to Darien's disdain at the word Master, but Dagger refused to call him anything else.

Dagger, now a bit older was the size of five feet long and looked like Musho on Mulan just different colors. He was a sliver and black mixed with dark blues and greens. He looked like a real version on Darien's tattoo. Tomorrow both Char and Dagger would come to Hogwarts with him. For Harry Potter was no longer alive. He was going to go as himself, Darien Kaden Silvercrow. He couldn't wait to see Draco when he saw him. Harry Potter is that! Oh it would be great.

Darien went to sleep that night and actually slept peacefully. Tomorrow would be another day and he would deal with it then.

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Wildthorn