I do not own Marcus Flint that's J.K.'s masterpiece, but I do own Ravenna Persephone Valo an OC character that will be in this story. Please don't disrespect my writing since I did go through a character study on Marcus Flint and this what I think of him. I do not own Harry Potter characters and I do not have rights to it as well. Now that disclaimer is up let's start the story.
Chapter One: A new beginning.
Marcus Angelus Flint was born in the year of 1976 on the 23rd of October.
His mother and father were both purebloods and were forced into an arranged marriage and never truly loved each other. His mother Ursula Marjorie Flint was a pureblood with a secret, she had an affair multiple times with a muggle man and finally in 1980 after the Dark Lord was gone she left too. His father Christian Damian Flint was a ministry of magic worker in the department of mysteries and was a former death eater. The Flint family was tainted with the betrayal of Marcus' mother to his father and that's when the abuse began to happen to a four year old Marcus for just simply asking "Where is mommy?" The hits from his father turned nearly fatal when Christian Flint bashed his own son's head open.
Marcus was immediately attended to by his caregiver a house elf named "Ginger" for she had stringy red hair like a doll's on top of her head. She treated his wounds as best as she could but the damage was irreversible to his mouth and his teeth were forever crooked.
Christian had no remorse towards his son and his new developed condition that he had caused. Marcus felt like he was never wanted by his parents and was a product of the forced marriage and scrunity of the betrayal of his mother's infedelity with a muggle that really set him apart from everyone else.
He was easily misjudged as a bad kid by Mrs. Weasley in Diagon alley as Marcus was gathering his own books, caludron, his owl, his wand. He had chosen a black female owl which he named Luv since that's what Ginger would call him as a small child. He stepped into Ollivander's Wand shop and he spoke to the elderly man and the elderly man could barely understand him since his teeth were so crooked and Marcus felt embarrassed just simply said as clearly as he could "May I have a wand please?" Ollivander smiled and started to say "Oh you're that Ursula's son aren't you? Your mother was quite a talented witch and had such bravery and had a wand with unicorn hair of oak 10 inches." He babbled on and began to search for a wand useful for Marcus and came across a wand suited for a young boy with such passion. Passion was the word Ollivander used to describe Marcus Flint. He was raw and rare and Ollivander could see into Marcus since Ollivander had such persecption with everyone but something about Marcus seemed to scare Ollivander. He came to the front of the store and saw that Marcus was growing impatient for he had more stuff to gather before venturing home. He handed Marcus over a dark almost black wand made of oak with it's core of raven feather and Marcus touched it and then gave it a quick swish to the target that Ollivander said to hit. He saw that his wand was more apart of him and said to Ollivander "Thank you sir." and paid graicously for his wand and was so happy for the first time in years since his mother's leaving and his cruel beating which his teeth and mouth never really recovered from.
*Hogwarts Express and first day of school* His father made sure he got to the platform and said "If anyone asks about your bruises and teeth what do you tell them Flint!?" Christian said in a harsh whisper. Christian never used Marcus to address his son. "Always tell them it's from Quidditch and nothing else sir." He said addressing his father. His father grabbed his hand and shook it while other fathers were hugging their sons and daughters. Marcus felt that empty feeling but Ginger came up to him and handed him his favorite sweets and was led viciously by Christian with a kick of his foot. He started to tear up seeing her hurt like that. Kids his own age avoided him like the plague since his teeth were crooked and looked very dangerous and their parents said to avoid him at all costs. He found a compartment in the back of the train and sat alone and he started to place his suitcase up on the rack and saw a group of boys wearing their school robes already while he wore a black t-shirt and dark black jeans and his favorite dark boots. Some people in the muggle world at the kings cross station thought he was gothic (whatever that meant) and he sat down in his seat and began to read Quidditch Weekly when his compartment door opened and he looked up to see those same five boys came in and they introduced themselves as Adrian Pucey, Cassius Warrington, Pegrine Derrick, Miles Blecthley, and Lucian Bole.
"Hi, I'm Marcus..." He was interruppted by the semi-leader of the group Adrian and saying "Flint right, my dad said your father and mother are divorced or something."
"Yeah they're divorced." He said not really knowing if his father legally divorced his mother and not really caring about his family since he lost his faith in his family getting back together ever and he hasn't heard word from his mother since her last note she left his father stating she was leaving for her true love in the muggle world, his only memory of her was when she came down the stairs in her white dress with dark black course hair with waist length and curls for style and she took him to a park he believed to be in the muggle world where she was stopped by a man and said "Good Morning to you miss." Marcus deep down hoped she was with someone polite, sweet, and kind. Someone who would return her affection as she did for everyone else. He was lost in his own mind when he heard Lucian Bole say "Hey Flint you still with us there mate?"
"Yes sorry I was caught up with thinking of something." Marcus said still remembering his mother's perfume scent of lavender and cotton candy (strangely).
"Well what house you going to be in?" Cassius Warrington asked.
"Slytherin most likely. Parents were in it. Might as well stick with tradition." Marcus said. He took out his treat for the train ride after about an hour and a half in on the ride and started to eat his banana nut bread cake like piece when the sweet trolly came and said "Anything from the trolly dearies?" The five other boys got their treats and he smiled as they got a few joke treats but Marcus just thought Ginger wouldn't like it if he didn't eat her treat. All six boys talked about Marcus favorite thing Quidditch since he had his broom and flew all the time at night when his dad would pass out from drinking his firewhiskey and Ginger watched ever so carefully.
He finally felt accepted and was confident and they didn't seem to care about his teeth and he didn't want to give that fake excuse for his teeth to his new friends.
They got off the train and all dressed into their robes and Marcus walked along his friends behind the half giant named Rubeus Hagrid. He walking and facing his friends when he bumped into a girl smaller than any of the other girls at the school and with dark black hair passed her shoulders with waves in her hair and he smiled and he covered his mouth in fear that she might scare away and his friends stopped in mid conversation thinking she might scream as well.
"Hi." She said with an American accent. She smiled and picked up her folder with her information in it.
"Uhh hi." Marcus said and his friends finally let their breath out of their mouths.
He began to awkwardly walk away with his friends walking behind him and they sat in the boat room for seven and she came up and got in the boat as well with them. She smiled and opened her folder and grabbed her letter of acceptance. At first Pucey eyed her unkindly believing she was a muggle-born.
"Hi I'm Ravenna P. Valo." She said with her American accent. Marcus was smitten by her for her eyes looked like big drops of milk chocolate with a swirl of honey. She smiled big and bright like a starlet on one of his magazines from Quidditch Weekly.
"Sorry I'm nervous I'm from America and I'm a pureblood but not use to your British customs yet. I know what 'Ello' means." She said and giggled. Adrian stopped giving her the evil eye and chuckled a little.
Marcus couldn't stop staring at her and she pointed to the castle and said "Wow would you look at that." He smiled at her for being eccentric and just plain adorable to him.
"So what's the P stand for?" Marcus asked her about her name.
"It's my middle name Persephone. Do you have a middle name?" She asked and he smirked at her and "Mine is Angelus it means..." He was interruptted by Ravenna saying "It means Messenger in Latin or what the anglo-saxon dictionary uses as Angel as the same meaning."
"So yeah I'm Adrian Pucey, this is Cassius Warrington, Lucian Bole, Pegriene Derrek, and Miles Blecthley. We're going to be in Slytherin and so is Marcus over there. What house are you wanting to be in?" Adrian more like drilled her than ask her.
"Well Slytherin is a possibly or even Ravenclaw and the other two houses sound like they can be me too but honestly I think its down to Ravenclaw and Slytherin. I'm determined, ambitous, and I'm like a text book on legs." She said really nervous but at least she managed to speak while Marcus stared at her with awe. Cassius could tell Marcus was falling for her and he nudged Bole and pointed slightly at Marcus staring at Ravenna and they kind of giggled but they felt like if he was looking then it won't hurt.
They arrived to the castle and walked into the entry way to the Great Hall. The woman introduced herself as Professor McGongall and was head of Griffyndor and she would have us wait outside and would invite us into the Great Hall and have the stool and sorting hat ready. Ravenna stood next to Marcus and Marcus smirked and grinned and Adrian smirked at him and said to Blecthley "He thinks he can get a girl with those teeth?" They both chuckled and the Professor came out and said follow me in two straight lines girls on the right and boys to the left.
"Adrian Pucey?" McGongall called and before he sat on the stool the hat called "SLYTHERIN!" The house of Slytherin shouted for joy and clapped thunderously. The rest of the boys were sorted in Slytherin.
"Ravenna Valo?" The professor shouted. She got handed her folder to McGongall and the hat said "Such a strong mind, bravery, ambitous, passionate, determined, eccentric very eccentric and such a heart. I see you in Ravenclaw but I think you're going to be best in SLYTHERIN!" The hat said and Professor McGongall looked through her folder and saw she was very organized and handed back to her. She walked over and sat down waited for Marcus' turn. She waved at him and he waved back still awe struck by her.
"Marcus Flint?" The professor said and saw him walk up and she looked at his face mostly his teeth and he sat there feeling all the eyes on him.
"Ahh such raw passion, rarity, strength, determined, and yes I see you in Griff no SLYTHERIN!" The hat said and he was quickly dismissed by the professor since she was getting an awful vibe from him.
Marcus walked to the table and sat with his friends from the train and Ravenna sat right next to him. Adrian seemed a little upset by that movement and looked at her harshly. The feast was great and the girls from Slytherin in other years asked "Where are you from in America?" One girl asked.
"I'm from California. Over in Monterrey. Its very beautiful I was born in Half-moon bay. Have you been there?" Ravenna asked her new friend named Lilth.
"No actually but Sarah over there has been to America." Lilth pointed to a snobby looking girl.
"Yeah I have and let's say America isn't that special." Sarah said and Adrian smirked.
"Well I have to disagree where did you go to New York?" Ravenna asked.
"Yes." Sarah said as of matter of factly.
"Figures. New York isn't that great it's too urban while California where I'm from it's sunny, guys line up across the beach, rock-stars, singers, actors, actresses, and all the creative types are and it's not all that bad especially when you have an uncle whom owns 20 different night clubs and you get in contact with agents. It's brilliant." She said remembering her home.
"Really?" Sarah said in awe about Ravenna's home.
"DUH!" Ravenna said and she smiled and turned to speak with Marcus.
"So what are we going to do after this visit the grounds or something?" Ravenna asked him.
"We go to our dorms I guess and speak with older students and listen to our Head of House speak and go over rules, regulations, and stuff like that." Marcus said and he felt her hand grab his and she pulled him into a whispered conversation.
"Can we sneak out to see the Quidditch pitch?" Ravenna whispered sweetly into his ear and smiled and whispered back "If you don't mind being extra sneaky."
Marcus and Ravenna snuck away to see the Quidditch pitch and they snuck back to their common room and said the password to the portrait of the snake charmer "Yuwa" which was latin for passage.
Professor Snape was defintely not pleased that they were last into the common room and didn't want first years without an elder guide from their house.
They both said "Goodnight" and went to their seperate dorms. Marcus began to think he was having a new beginning as a new student and would practice for Quidditch and tryout next year and was excited things were going to change for Marcus Flint. Or were they?
The first few weeks of Hogwarts were semi- ok since he got to see Ravenna and his friends Cassius, Derrick, Bole, and Blecthley. Pucey wasn't to easy to get along with at all.
Adrian spent most of his time spreading rumors about Marcus being a bully and beating up another student and then another rumor started out that he was part troll because his teeth resembled a troll's. Adrian motive for doing this was pretty clear. He like Ravenna and was willing to get her away from Marcus since she spoke with him more than him on a daily basis.
Marcus was surrounded by rumors which hardened his shell he was so willing to get rid of because he wasn't going to live in fear from his father or his teeth. He was trying so hard not to get angry about the rumors but when a Hufflepuff older probably in his 5th year was picking on him for his teeth, he had lost it his anger became the best of him and the 5th year told Madame Pompfrey that for a moment his eyes went black and his anger made him get detention for two weeks after classes and he had to write an apology letter, and was given extra assignments. Thus the rumors were proven true to some students and Ravenna was always had been there after his detention to walk with him to the common room.
Ravenna had barely anyone she talked to besides Marcus and she was in advanced classes since Professor Snape saw her potential to be in an advanced class and help tutor some others of her age and older students since she could understand potions, indentifying, and was always asking if she could do more work. Ravenna had figured out that Marcus wasn't a bad guy as the rumors kept coming but had a secret and she knew it must have involved his mother since they wouldn't talk about his family and he would just ask questions about her life and nothing was ever Marcus what about your family.
The first year passed and he passed his exams with the help of Ravenna studying with him for two weeks before the tests. Adrian and Marcus had become like brothers even through Adrian never said anything about the rumors and they were invited to spend time over at Warrington's and Bole and Blecthley came as well since their group wasn't seperated.
Marcus got home to tell his father that he was invited by the Warrington family to go with them on vacation and he was taller from his year away from home and didn't come home from Christmas but Ginger sent his present she bought with her hard earn money she got when she helped other homes when her master Christian Flint would send her to the Malfoy's to help with the Draco boy and she had sent him a card with a new cloak.
He got into the door where six aurors were searching through the house and he looked around and saw that and Mr. Warrington had been standing there waiting for Marcus to walk into the door from the King's cross station since it was only right around the corner from his family home cloaked in magic to not be seen by muggles.
"Hello Marcus we got your bags packed for the holiday, come on now little one." Mr. Warrington said and grabbed Marcus by his arm.
"What's going on Mr. Warrington?" Marcus asked and he looked at him and then saw that they had found broken mirrors and he saw and could smell the blood and as Mr. Warrington wasn't paying attention he got loose from his grip and ran pass the two fathers of his friends and saw the study of his father's open with more aurors in it and he yelled "What's going on here? You aren't supposed to be in here. My father wouldn't want you in here." Marcus said and there he saw his father on the floor and there was Ginger lying next to him with a dagger in her chest and his father lyed there motionless and he ran into the room and was stopped by an auror named Kingsley and Marcus screamed "GINGER! Wake up!" He cried a river of tears for his mother figure and she wasn't there to silence his sobs of sorrow like she did before when he was just 9 years old.
"I'm sorry Marcus but you're father was attacked. Please Marcus come with me ok?" Mr. Warrington said to Marcus and he picked up the already overgrown now 12 year old and carried him to his fireplace and they floo to the Warrington's family manor and all the boys were around the drawing room where they appeared out of.
"Flint are you ok? Dad what's going on?" Cassius asked.
"Cassius get your mother now!" He ordered his son and ran got his mother named Martha and she grabbed Marcus and sat him down on the couch of the drawing room and wiped his eyes and held him and he cried even harder because he realized he was an orphan and Cassius told everyone to go to the pool and they go swimming and Adrian looked at his best friend and felt bad.
"Marcus it's alright you can stay with us sweetheart." Martha said and rocking him back and forth as he had his head on her shoulder and she looked at her husband Castiel and he said nothing for Marcus was right there.
The next few weeks the Warrington's began to file adoption papers for Marcus and they kept getting stall after stall since the court granted them the temporary custody until they can find his mother and see where they would go from there.
The Warrington's plans were still on for the trip to America after they got word Marcus can go with them and they planned to stay in California. Marcus got better but was deeply saddened by the death of his house elf Ginger since she played his mother and helped him when she could. Martha was proving to love her own son and Marcus just like a mother would and would give Marcus more of everything since she noticed he had barely any clothes that fit anymore that she decided to have a day alone with Marcus to shop in America and they bumped into Ravenna and her father Spencer Valo.
Ravenna learned of Marcus misfortune and she hugged him tight and he smiled and hugged her back like she was going to leave him and held her so tight that she squeaked "Marcus too tight too tight." He let go of her and her father looked at him and smiled.
"Well we should be off to get Rave here to her singing lessons and I'm so sorry little man." Spencer said and patted him on the head and kissed Mrs. Warrington's hand. She waved at Marcus and then motioned for him to check his pocket.
He checked his pocket and he had grabbed something metal and he pulled it out of his pocket and it was her bracelet. He felt happier knowing Ravenna still thought of him.
TO BE CONTINUED...