HTML1DocumentEncodingutf-8AN: Hey guys! I FINISHED IT!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! I finished the entire story of "Old Family Ties" and this is just the prologue. Feedback please. Oh, and the quote is from A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. I highly recommend it in leave of new H.P. books. And yes, Harry Potter is the narrator in this, and yes, it's a fifth year story. But I think you'll find it completly unlike whatever you think you know, think you hold true, think it whats bound to happen....

Old Family Ties
Prologue

Ten years after our story starts.....

"It was an age of darkness, it was an age of light. It was an age of genius, it was an age of stupidity. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." It's funny how the mind works, how you can be happy one moment and in darkness the next. But you never know. Maybe there is reason behind the insanity, but I really don't give either way. All I know is this. He's dead. I'm not. He's dead because I'm not. Ironic, don't you think? I really do hate having to tell everyone my story, because it hurts so much. But it's for the best, I suppose. For the good of many. Maybe they'll learn. A lot of people are dead because I'm not. Not just Cedric. I killed my best friend. I killed my mentor. I killed what I loathed. I killed my saving grace. But this story doesn't start or end with me, a wise one once said. And its true. Nothing is ever just ours. Our fates are so intertwined, that it is odd to tell where I start and someone else starts. I'm not their saving grace, she was. I just held him at bay until she realized this. Oh, Fuck it. Let me explain from the beginning. From when I was young.

Now, I'm not going to tell you she was my sister, or she was pretty, or the slimmest, or even the best at quidditich. Because she was none of those. She had an aura about her, though, so that you just had to like her, probe into the way her mind worked, into her blood. To find out that little thing about her that could save the world. Save the world, how cliched. But it's true. My world and the others world. The muggles' world. I'll explain later. She was unlike anyone I had ever seen before. Sure, she was English, sure she was 15, sure she was human. But as close as she was to us, she was just as different. And difference is deadly in my world.........

It was a day like any other first day of school. And like every year before me, and many after me, there was a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. My friends and I found nothing unusual in this. The job was jinxed after all. We expected some 30 year old man, with extensive real life experience, and some deadly secret. But for once, we were wrong on all accounts. He wasn't a he, he wasn't 30, and there was little real life experience. But, come to think of it, she was deadly.

Do you have faith in God above just because the bible tells you to? Don McClain's American Pie. Good Muggle song if you get the chance to hear it. But that's what this all starts with, ends with, is tied to. Do you believe what you've been told? In a God? In what's Written before you? What you can't control?