Morgana's Chronicles: Year 1

Enemies of the Heir

Disclaimer: This story is based on the Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling. I do not own anything, except a couple of original characters.

Everything is spelled the American way. This is because I am, in fact, American and I feel that I will make a lot of errors if I use British spellings. Additionally, it will be more difficult for me to update, because I will not be typing the way that I am used to. I apologize if that bothers anyone.

Prologue—More Than You Think You Are

Meghan Elizabeth James was not an ordinary girl, even though she often wanted to be. Odd things would often happen to her. Items would float, or zoom across the room. Things would catch fire, or turn into something else entirely. And if anyone besides Meghan was hurt, she could heal them if she wanted to.

Meghan was born in America, and lived there until she was nearly ten years old. Her last name was Reed, and she had two parents and a sister. Meghan's birth parents did not understand the odd things that would always happen to her, and consequently, feared and hated her. They would hit her, and call her a freak. She couldn't stop from doing the strange things, though she did learn to control it somewhat.

The summer before Meghan's tenth birthday, her father was moved to London, as a promotion for his job. At first, things were no different. Meghan would take care of her little sister, and do many chores. If something was not done right, or if someone merely had a bad day, she would be punished for it. Then, one day, she made a mistake.

Sunday, December 15th, 1991 began horribly. Meghan broke a plate at breakfast, and somehow managed to make the turkey sandwiches she was making for lunch catch fire with brilliant purple flames when her mother hit her. Then, her sister came down with some sort of stomach bug, and the nearest chemist was closed, as it was a Sunday. Her father got called into an emergency meeting for his work, and came back, angry because he had lost an important client. He decided to blame Meghan.

That's why, the beaten and exhausted girl stumbled into the Leaky Cauldron that night, clutching a tattered rucksack with a few personal belongings, and some money she had summoned from her father's wallet. h had had enough, and decided she was never going back.

The bartender, Tom was very sympathetic, and impressed when Meghan managed to perform some difficult wandless magic for him. He called Hogwarts, to get a healer for the girl. Madam Pomfrey was busy with a goblin flu epidemic at the school, so Severus Snape went in her place. Severus healed the girl, and concluded she was a mage, and a natural healer.

Mages generally displayed signs of magic at younger ages than normal witches and wizards, and had a higher degree of control. They typically performed wandless magic easily, because they could feel the magic around and within them, and shape it. While mages were considered more powerful than other witches and wizards, it isn't always true.

Natural healers, were born healers. They could usually heal without knowing specific spells, and it came more easily to them. While this could be very beneficial, it also left the healer exhausted when the injuries were larger. Natural healers also cannot heal themselves.

Severus Snape told his suspicions about the girl to Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They managed to place Meghan in a wizard home, the James family. Edward James was a friend of Severus's, a Ravenclaw, a year ahead of him in school. Edward James was excellent at Potions, although he used them more for healing purposes. He had a wife, Elena, and two children, Lee and Susanna. Lee was a first year at Hogwarts, and a Gryffindor like his mother. Susie was seven years old.

The James family legally adopted Meghan and made Severus her godfather. They attempted to teach her control over her powers, and to do some basic healing. Magic used by a mage is difficult to detect. All was not perfect though. While Meghan got along with her "Aunt" Elena, "Uncle" Ed, and Susie, she did not get along with Lee very well. Lee felt like everything was revolving around Meghan. He also didn't like the fact that Severus Snape was her godfather, and decided that that meant Meghan would be in Slytherin, and therefore, evil.

She managed to make two other enemies, in Ron and Ginny Weasley. Early in the summer, Elena and Edward decided that it would be nice to visit the family, and introduce Meghan to some other magical children. She had already met her brother's best friend, Ken Mason, and his elder brother, Sam. However the family lived in a muggle city, and didn't have magical neighbors.

The day at the Burrow hadn't gone so well. Lee and Ron were roommates at Hogwarts, and were already acquaintances, if not friends. They started a game of Quidditch with Fred and George Weasley, and wouldn't let Meghan or Ginny play because they were girls. Ginny became angry when Meghan mentioned that she wouldn't mind being a Slytherin, because her godfather was one. When Meghan admitted to already having read the first year's curriculum for school, Ginny called her a showoff, and a snob. Meghan befriended Percy, who was a friend of Sam's. Percy was something of a loner, but was amused by the little girl, and let her read his Ancient Runes book from his third year, while he worked on homework.

Meghan liked her new life a great deal better than her old one, and was excited to see where the future would take her, Hogwarts and beyond.

A/N:
I know, I posted something similar to this before, but decided to rewrite it and make it more complete, to describe the relationships a little better than I had originally. The rest of the story will be written differently than this, I just felt it was necessary to explain a few things. Meghan's not going to be all powerful, and she's not going to become Harry Potter's girlfriend or anything like that.

I had several goals in mind when creating this story.

1. I wanted to create a couple of strong, female characters.

2. I wanted to show that all Slytherin's are not evil, and as a matter of fact, most aren't.