The Bagder in Red
Summary: It was ironic, she had found herself being reborn as Harry Potter twin sister and she didn't even pay attention to the series. Despite this though, she was willing to dedicate herself in protecting her new twin brother at all cost. Uniting all four houses of Hogwarts though wasn't apart of the equation, it just kind of happened, never the less, she will prove that she is a force to be reckon with when her love ones are threaten.
Disclaimed: I do not own the cover picture or the Harry Potter characters, however I do own my OC.
Note: For those that don't know, this is a rewritten version of my story, "The Childern Who Lived."
Pairing: Mostly cannon.
Quote: Dear brother of mime, no matter what life throws at you. I've always got your back. -by Unknown
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Reincarnated is the belief that the soul never dies, it's the belief that the soul lives on and it's only the body that becomes weak, old and fades away with time. If one were to meet the girl, with the dark red hair and the hazel eyes, one would only see her as Vanessa Lilly Potter, fraternal twin to Harry James Potter and the only daughter to the late James and Lilly Potter. What one would fail to notice, is that this isn't Vanessa Potter first life, it isn't her time, her life was never meant to exist here and this isn't even her world.
See in one world, after an earthquake had burrowed her alive under buildings that had fallen down on top of her, her old name and her old body had breathe her last, trying to save herself and free herself from a sea of panic people. It's here, when the daughter of the Potter family had open her eyes for the first time and breathe her first taste of air, it's in this world where she's thrown into chaos, war and darkness, but most importantly a world fill with magic.
She remembers hearing voices, feeling numb and looking over the darkness around her, she remembers spinning downwards like being in a never-ending water slide and that's when, she hears it - the sound of crying. It's here, where her mind has trouble figuring out the puzzle that started to form in her mind, her vision is bluer which to her is strange, since her vision was once fine and then there's the people, appearing over her and able to pick her up with ease. Her mind starts to panic at that idea, because it suddenly jumps to the conclusion that these people are giants, but then she's brought back to her body.
A body she knows that should not be her's, but yet it is.
She doesn't remember her arms being cubby or her fingers being small and tiny, she doesn't remember that her legs are also small and cubby. This is not her body, she may have been short, but this was just ridiculous and then suddenly, she finds herself right up in front of a man face with dark raven hair and all she could think about, is her personal bubble. She's trying to tell the stranger to get lost and walk the other way, but frowns as the only words that exist her mouth is babbling sound and he laughs.
"James there wonderful."
"I know Lilly. Twins, can you believe that. Fraternal, I can see it now, one will look just like me and the other will look just like you."
She hears laughter and the pair continue to talk, more voices are heard, but she doesn't pay attention to them, her mind was still trying to work out, where she was and what had just happen. That's when she notices, her hands were small and cubby, her old hands were long, skinny and bony, not small and cubby, she pinches herself and her skin felt fresh and soft, her skin was dry, from working in the sun for as long as she has.
"The boy is going to, be Harry. Harry James Potter."
Harry James Potter, where has she heard that name before? She can't help, but wonder, was it soap, some kind of paint, maybe a dog.
"James I thought we talk about naming him, Series the second."
She hears a snort.
"No Padfoot. You get to be a godfather to both, there for one of them do not get you're name."
"Aw."
"And Vanessa," Lilly said.
"Really? Harry and Hope have more of a ring to it. Vanessa seems kind of odd."
"Black, there my children."
"She does make a good point Padfoot. Beside I like Vanessa, not to long and not to short. Vanessa Lilly Potter."
It takes a while until it had all sink in and click and when, she does come to terms with what she is experiencing, it was too late to do anything about it. She heard yelling, Lilly holding them both her mother back close to the door, tears running down her cheeks and mumbling words that she not even listening to, her brother is slightly crying beside her, clinging onto her shoulder.
"You take care of your brother Vanessa," she hears.
Placed into the crib and footsteps are heard the door slams open and that's when, her theory is no longer a theory, but a fact.
Her eyes widen, as voices are raised, green light flashes before her eyes and this life time mother, flops to the ground like a puppet without its strings. Harry isn't crying, he just stares in shock, fresh tears like her's running down his cheeks, Voldemort calls out the spell and green light is seen, she closes her eyes, but then the man is gone, her father is dead and her mother is as well. Leaving alone two, now orphaned children alone inside a destroy house, her parents are dead.
She hears adults talking around her, but her mind is just to tried to care, she to tired, Harry already asleep she knows otherwise he would have cried and the next time, she was up. It's in a dark room and Harry crying again, but she's too small to comfort him and clinging on his shoulders, isn't doing much. She knows where she is, she knows and she doesn't like it.
An outside wouldn't have been able to see the problem, because an outside would have belonged here in this world, but she was not from this world. She comes from a different time, different place and a different life. She was average, she worked in an old book store that rarely got customers, had friends had a high school education and the only daughter to a neglectful mother and a father that tried to hard, ending up drinking his worries away and yet despite all this, she turned out to be an a-okay civilian.
But now she's here, where a world that was only known as fiction just may, be true and she's going to be, right in the heart of it.
Want to know why?
Because her new sibling, happens to be god dam, Harry James Potter. He was the main character the hero of the book to solve the world problems, his name was literary on the front page.
It was ironic and she wanted to laugh, because you see there's one small, an't size problem. She never paid attention to the series, yep a franchise so big, that has its own movie series and games, its books known around the globe and she never paid attention towards the series.
Which was hard to do, in her time she remember the movies being on almost once a mouth and often being re-played, over and over again. It was hard to truly avoided in not knowing anything at all, she's seen small parts here and there, never the start, the middle if she gave up on finding something different, but normally and always the last two minutes, before the credits starts rolling, as she waited for the next movie.
Don't even get her started on the books, being force to read whatever poor book that was fringed at her way, by her old, Harry Potter fan girl best friend, she only manged the first three chapters didn't even get to read the rest of the sorting hat.
Then there's another problem, she's never had a sibling, sure her best friends had siblings, but she was an only child and as the sound of Harry, loud crying her eyes widen like saucepan with one question, ringing through her mind. How the hell do you look after a sibling?
Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. Out of everything that happens in the Harry Potter series that, she is awear of, this is the line she remembers the most, the very first line that pops up. After all Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. Vanessa Potter the niece of Mr and Mrs Dursely, would like to say that normal was far out of their league and beach ball son, that they called a child, because Mr and Mrs Dursley were not at all normal.
Vanessa and Harry are five now, five where they started cooking and looking after the garden out the back, with small amount of food and water, Vanessa and Harry are five, where they live in the cupboard under the stairs. Both Potter twins have to take turns in sleeping on the floor, because it's not big enough for two people, both Potter twins are wearing Dudley over-size second-hand clothes and Vanessa looks more, like a boy then a girl.
Her dark-red hair, is cut short the same length as Harry, because Petunia doesn't want to see red hair around the place.
They also often find themselves staring from the cupboard door frame, looking over as Petunia fixes her son clothes and Dudley with a smug of a smile, once done their Aunt often leaves and Dudley turns to them with an evil grin, rudely slamming the door in front of their faces and his laughter is heard behind. Both crash into the nearest wall and Harry is fixing his glasses that have slide of his noise and Vanessa is quick to stand, glaring and hoping the place will burn down.
"Why are we treated like this?" Harry often asked and she turns around with a gently smile.
"There afraid and fear makes people do, funny things."
Harry doesn't ask anymore questions, but he cries when Vanessa opening hugs him and hum a soft melody.
At six years of age, Vanessa has new clothes, because an old woman lives down the road believes in very old tradition and doesn't like to see, young women wearing men clothes. Petunia doesn't get her anything special instead it's a second-hand, light, blue, long-sleeved dress and from now on, she's allowed to grow out her hair, because the old woman had also mentioned her hair as well.
At age of seven, Vanessa finally snaps, sick of, "Potter hunting," by Dudley little gang, she cause a bleeding noise and buries eyes, while covering Harry ears and saying words that no child, should no and Dudley been afraid of her ever since. Especially when she puts on a far to force, sweet smile on her lips and aims her stare at him. Dudley also learns from that day on to, respected the women around him..
She finds herself learning the skill of lock-picking, sneaking around the Dursley kitchen in the dead of night, to sneak in food that they wouldn't notice and water bottles from the fridge. She takes one of their tourches from under their noses and turn it on at pass mid-night, just to use shadow puppets and tell her brother stories. Some from her old life experience and even stories that don't exist in this world. She convinces Harry to save, what ever money they find and before school starts by small lunches or sweets from the local shops.
School was still the same, as she remembers, she wished she was in high school though or at least already in Hogwarts, starting over again wasn't at all crack up to be. She knows, she should play dumb and act her ages, but there was no point hiding it anyway, the Dursley wouldn't care, how she knew words that other children don't, she could answer the simple maths questions that most need time to learn.
In the mean time though, she helps Harry when she can, she teachers the things the Dursley are meant to teach, but neglect this cause. She tries to make cleaning more fun, despite her Aunt breathing down their neck most of the time and she taught him how to catch a ball and how to throw one, when they were at school. If Dudley forces her to do his homework for, she tells him off and tries to convinced him, she will help, if he doesn't order it about (sometimes, it's like pulling teeth with him.)
She helps other children, when the teachers aren't looking. Some don't mind, some are grateful, others don't care less and some think, she's a know it all and not worth a second of their time. Vanessa paid them no mind and in a way a, bit sad that people still don't go near Harry, but thet will be okay, they have each other to look out for.
Being reborn was neither a cursed or a gift, but she'll make it work despite this life time not being much better.
However that's okay, becuase in this life, she has something to hang onto, something new and unfamiliar, but much like the life she was given. She will make it work.
Even if the other students had often left them alone, those who want to bully the dark raven hair kid, with the green eyes, name Harry Potter know better. Other wise the girl with the dark-red hair will come after you, with fury and vengeance and her name is, Vanessa Potter.
I would also like to say thank you to, everyone who had support the first version.
Reviews are appreciate...
Next time: Dudley can't help and think, his birthday has been ruined, Harry pretty sure that snake could understand him and his sister, Vanessa wondering if Vernon Dursley is having a midlife crisis. All in all, it's a pretty normal week for the Dursley's.