::BOOK 01::

Daylight Magic Series

The Dark Lantern

PROLOGUE:

A Child Lost

Written By: Shadow Artist

DISCLAIMER:

This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

All illustrations and photography depicting the characters or setting are not mine unless otherwise indicated

SUMMARY:

Nearly killed by the Dursleys, Harry is rescued and raised since age four by the Vampire Salazar Slytherin along with his Roma Companions. Now eleven years old, Harry is invited to Hogwarts. Someone or something is leaching the Magic holding the wards and sentinel life of the Hogwarts Castle, as Hogwarts begins to suffer the icy waters rise from the depths of the Hogwarts' boundaries. And a strange life force inhibits the Castle awakening things best forgotten or hidden. Hogwarts is calling for her children.

WARNINGS:

Homosexual pairings, Heterosexual pairings, Alternative Universe, non-canon, Out of Character, Original Characters, SEXUAL CONTENT, explicit language, violence, some blood and gore, changes to appearance and lineage, creature inheritances, super powerful characters, original creatures, child abuse, mentions of incest…

FUTURE PAIRINGS:

Decided: Severus Snape/Harry Potter, Evan Potter/Hermione Granger, Ryan Potter/Ginny Weasley, Draco Malfoy/Ron Weasley

STUDENT AGE GROUPS:

Born 1978: George Weasley, Fred Weasley, Lee Jordan

Born 1980:Ryan Merion Potter, Evan Louis Potter, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Pansy Parkinson, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood

Born 1981:Jamie 'Harry' Potter, Blaise Cleo Zabini, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevy, Hermione Granger

PROLOGUE

"And stay in there you worthless freak!" The meaty man screamed his face red with rage as he pushed a bloodied and bruised four year old child under the stairs into what appeared to be a cupboard. Slamming the door shut the man with far too little neck and an overly large blond mustache locked the door with a padlock as a skinny horse faced woman looked on with obvious glee. Inside the cupboard the child enshrouded by darkness could not suppress the whimper that past his lips. "Shut up!" The man yelled pounding on the door before walking away satisfied with the 'lesson' he had taught his nephew.

This boy, was in appearance entirely unremarkable with his malnourished frame and snarled long raven hair that could use a good haircut. The fact was indeed to most of the world this boy was nothing, just another orphan. His older twin brothers on the other hand were extraordinary. The small child was enamored by his elder siblings who wrote him constantly from their home with Moony and Padfoot. Evan Louis Potter and Ryan Merion Potter were the-boys-who-lived!

When the raven haired twins were one years old, not only had they survived the killing curse (A thing that was surely impossible, yet proven wrong), but they had vanquished an evil wizard. With their parents dead, Evan and Ryan were taken in by Sirius and Remus to be trained until they were accepted at Hogwarts. Unfortunately there had been no room for Harry, so he had been shipped off to the Dursleys. The Dursleys under threat allowed him to read his siblings' letters scrawled in untidy chicken scratch only five-year-olds can produce, but they monitored Harry's correspondence.

His brothers' letters were filled with tales of adventures and toys, of lessons and games. All of which fascinated Harry to no extend. Harry was a strange and extremely intelligent child. In his childish reasoning he had deduced that his elder brothers had a lot ridding on them. That while he had many woes himself, he did not have the safety of the world resting on his shoulders. Of course his thought process went more like this 'Evan and Ryan are very important. Wish I was important too. But lots of people need Evan and Ryan. Aunt Petunia, Dudley and Uncle Vernon need me here and they're only three people.'

How wrong the world was about his worth, how wrong was he about their desperate need for him. For within the shadows of Lord Voldemort an even greater threat loomed patiently waiting for the time to strike! That this very boy, who lay faint from blood loss and barely coherent would one day save the world seemed impossible.

August 8, 1985

It was a late August day, when the Roma stopped in Little Whinging Surrey. It was a cool day with a slight wind and the over abundant odor of the garden flowers. The shadowy figure stood hidden within the shadows of the old fashioned caravan and watched his adoptive magical family, the Roma, prepare their trade.

It was a closely guarded secret that the Roma were in fact magical beings able to perform specific brands of magic. The reason as to why they were not classified as witches and wizards was the daunting fact that they were unable to perform spells and curses. The majority of their magic was elemental (Able to control the elements: fire, water, lightning, wind and earth) and naturalistic (Able to control plants and animals). A few possessed mind magic (telekinesis, telepathy and past sight), soul sight (A spirit medium) and beast-speak (Speaking telepathically to animals). Shape changer blood could be commonly found in the Roma and thus metamophmagi evolved from their union with witches and wizards.

The Roma were a proud race of pacifists. Their lives were based on tradition and culture. They were wanders by nature and were lively and usually kind and empathic to situations and struggles. They were pure. He was proud to be accepted as their family.

The shadowy figure watched the proceedings with mild interest. Towards the end of the festivities the figure took it upon himself to travel the perimeter of the fair grounds looking for dangers to his family. It was by this action that the man would come face to face with a destiny altering decision. A decision that would change the very course of history and fate. Hidden in the shroud of a nearby thicket the man suddenly detected a creature being brutally beaten. Animalistic whimpers filled the air and smell of blood and sex dominated the area. With a sleek grace and fury burning in his ruby eyes the man slithered into the foliage and came upon a ghastly scene.

A bulbous man with piggy unintelligent features pummeled a bound male child of undeterminable age. The boy had evidently been previously violated and had passed out from the pain. His unconscious whimpers as the man's appendages connect with his body were pitiable. The shadowed man's blood practically sung with rage. Withdrawing a wand he pointed the weapon at the man and said in a low voice filled with malice "Incidere!" (Cut) the man attempted to scream as large cuts covered his body made my invisible butcher knives, but a following curse silenced him. Blood sprayed everywhere as the man struggled against his invisible bindings. Soon he fainted from the pain and blood loss.

August 9, 1985

When the police found the unconscious form of Vernon Dursley, they didn't remember the wandering Roma who had inhabited the fair ground just yesterday. Instead they pondered the missing time and their lack of spending money.

Meanwhile, miles away a small male child with a battered emaciated body and the most amazing purple eyes awoke. A man with rich curly dark hair and ruby eyes man leaned over him and whispered "Welcome to the Roma Child, my name is Salazar Slytherin."

TO BE CONTINUED

Mentioned Original Characters:

BIRTH CERTIFICATES – August 1980

Name: Ryan Merion Potter

D.O.B.: July 31st 1980 11:59 pm

P.O.B.: St. Mungos maternity ward

Birth Type: C-Section

Parents

Father: James Louis Potter

Mother: Lily Anne Evans nee Potter

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Name: Evan Louis Potter

D.O.B.: July 31st 1980 11:59 pm

P.O.B.: St. Mungos Maternity ward

Birth Type: C-section

Parents

Father: James Louis Potter

Mother: Lily Anne Evans nee Potter