A Day after my deadline, but I managed to do it. So here is the beginning of the re-write of The Banshee of Hogwarts, there are several changes (Which will be commented on at the end) so read and enjoy.

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Act 1: Lady Black's Ascension

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Prologue

A Carpet of Blood

'Red like Roses, Fills my Dreams'

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Number 4 Privet Drive, Little Whining, Surrey.

Vernon Dursley while normally somewhat abusive to his step-niece Athena Artemis Potter had be confronted with an unsavory discovery, Some place called the Ministry of Magic (Ridiculous name) had found out Athena was a freak and wanted to talk to her about that freakishness. That wasn't going to happen no sirree, As Vernon debated on what to do he drank more and more of his brandy until a dark thought crossed his inebriated mind, they couldn't well teach the girl 'magic' (Even in his mind he felt disgusted by thinking the word) if she wasn't alive now can they.

With a dark gleam in his eyes Vernon ripped open the door to Athena's cupboard under the stairs and dragged her kicking and screaming into the cellar, Petunia and Dudley Dursley both looked at each other in horror as they heard Athena's screams of pain and saw her as she was dragged into the cellar, they easily guessed what Vernon was planning and both began to pray for a miracle, they would have helped Athena but for two things. Firstly they were terrified of Vernon and secondly they didn't want Vernon to start attacking them instead.

Down in the cellar Athena screamed as Vernon began to lay into her with his fists, she screamed as her ribs break, blood starts leaking from her mouth, and lower regions as her stomach, lungs and womb started to hemorrhage under the vicious assault Vernon was placing them under, in her pain she started to scream in delirium "Mommy, Daddy please help me, please help me"

THUD. Vernon had picked up an old bat of Dudley's left in the cellar and started beating Athena, first he broke her legs with it, then her arms. Finally he slams it down on her abdomen and wave of blood stains her underwear as her womb was crushed. Vernon then slugged Athena hard as he could in the face, half caving her skull in and walked out of the cellar, locking the door behind him.

Athena lay in the darkness suffocating on her own blood and feeling more numb with every second, around her a pool of her blood spread, staining the concrete a dark red. Athena could feel the pain in her stomach fade and starts to cry for the fact that she may never be able to have children, she had read up on biology, ignoring her eminent demise she cursed Vernon for taking her chance of having children away from her. Her last curse before Lady Death claimed her was 'I'll kill you Vernon, no matter what I'll come back from the dead and I will kill you'

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Place between Life and Death

Athena suddenly felt warmth, she opened her eyes to see she is no longer in the cellar, instead she was laying down on a warm sandy beach, around her are dozens if not hundreds of red seashells, she slowly looked around to see four strangers in the distance. One is a man with slick black hair, another a woman with long luscious black hair hair and multicolored eyes, behind the second woman a third woman with golden hair and slightly tanned skin stands scowling, but with a hint of curiosity in her expression. The last is a woman with pale white skin and luscious black hair that goes down to her waist, she is wearing elaborate black robes with black flowers outlined in silver all over it. She gasped weakly, they look towards her and the woman with black hair and the man started to cry and run towards her, the woman with golden hair quickly followed the couple.

The man was in fact not a man at all, but a God. He was one of the more well known gods in existence, after all he is the Greek God of the Underworld. Hades crouched down next to Athena, his Daughter, he still wondered why in his mortal guise he had named his daughter after one of his youngest brother's daughters. Hades gently took his daughter's right hand in his own, nearly sobbing at the sound of the bones in her arm scraping against one another.

The woman with long luscious black hair was in fact Hades' Wife Persephone, the Greek Goddess of Springtime and the Queen of the Underworld. She had tears running down her cheeks at the state of her beloved daughter, she slowly dropped to her knees next to her husband and just leaned against him, unable to properly support herself due to her sorrow.

The third woman, the one with golden hair is Demeter, Persephone's mother. She gently hugged her daughter and (even though she still despises him) her brother/son-in-law Hades and offered them what scarce comfort she can.

Athena looked up with blank eyes at the three deities, she had suffered so much she could barely speak but the three deities clearly heard what she said "Mum, Dad, you came… you actually came" before she passed out with a slight smile on her face.

Hades growled in anger as the shadows around him danced furiously in sync with the furious beat in his head that made him want to lay waste to Privet Drive.

Before he could do anything however a single voice stopped him.

"I can bring her back… at a price" The cold emotionless voice of Death said.

Hades turned to her, she was outside of his domain as she was created after he and his kin had left Europe. "What price?" Hades would pay nearly anything, he truly loved all his children and would give nearly anything for their safety.

"She would serve me, she would be sent to hunt the dark lord who has escaped me!" The cold voice of Death heated slightly as her anger over the audacity of Thomas Riddle made her fume.

"Do it" Hades didn't even have a chance to say anything, Persephone's voice, cold with anger, grief, disgust and despair, cut through the air with all the warm of an arctic snowstorm.

Hades simply nodded, he had never seen his wife this angry, but he could easily understand her anger and rage, after all it was present in his own soul as well.

Demeter simply remained where she was, still hugging her daughter and brother. But inside she wanted to destroy Privet Drive as much as her brother did. For her glimpses of little Athena's life had made her fall in love with her grandchild and like any grandmother she wanted so badly to spoil her granddaughter rotten.

Death simply nodded, with a slight hint of fear lurking in the back of her mind due to the fact that she knew that these three deities could easily destroy her if she made a mistake.

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Number 4 Privet Drive, Little Whining, Surrey, Cellar.

Athena awoke back in the world of the living, her clothes missing but the blood surrounding her rose up and molded itself over her body, destroying the remnants of the rags she was wearing before the… murder, before transforming into a black dress similar to Lady Death's but with silver snowflakes instead of outlined flowers, the dress also began to emanate a slight black mist, uncannily similar to that of a Dementor.

Athena smiled softly to herself for a second then her face was filled with rage as she remembers what Vernon did to her. She stalked up the stairs like a dangerous predator on the hunt. She reached the door within seconds and after trying it found it to be locked, without even blinking she shifted her nails into talons sharp enough to slice through Dragonhide and tore the door open. Vernon who had been terrorizing his wife and child in front of the door turned as he felt a fragment of the cellar door hit him with some force behind it, his red face immediately went white as snow when he saw Athena standing there with anger, no Pure Undiluted Rage, on her face. Before Vernon could even think of taking a step. Athena surged forwards and captured him in an impossibly tight grip. Athena then chuckled madly, not unlike a certain female Death Eater and whispered throatily in Vernon's ear "Well, Uncle. Did you know us freaks can come back? Guess you didn't" Athena squeezed her hand cutting off Vernon's reply and then severed Vernon's head from his shoulders with a negligent twist.

Petunia and Dudley while disgusted don't make any attempt to help Vernon, they had had enough and were happy to watch him get his j like a sack of potatoes "You know you can't stay here anymore Athena" Athena just nodded warily, Petunia sighed she wished she had been able to get to know her niece better "I guess you would not want to anyway right?" Athena nodded sharply "Well let me tell you about the Wizarding world, you see you mother and you are witches. Using wands you can learn magic, I give you some instructions on how to get to Diagon Alley and when you're there go to Gringotts, and you should be able to access your parents vault, use the money to buy the goods in the letter and a house. I'm sorry for not helping you Athena" Petunia then described Diagon Alley and how to get there, she than gave Athena a warning about the Goblins nature and how the Purebloods will act towards her.

After hearing everything her aunt had to say Athena then smiled darkly and whispered something in Petunia's ear. Petunia paled and almost flew to Dudley before she half-dragged him out of the house. As soon as Petunia was clear Athena went over to the stove and turned the gas on without lighting it, she then reached up and grabbed the box of matches from the cupboard above the stove. She waited ten seconds before she walked out the back door, stopped, struck and lit a match, turned and threw the lit match back through the open door, turned away from the house and started walking again. As she walked away the gas ignites and the house exploded behind her, Athena didn't even glace back once, she was done with that place of suffering.

Athena went over to the back fence, jumped over it and started off towards London and a new future.

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Vernon Dursley on the other hand was quite shocked to see a grinning man in an Italian suit grabbing him and dragging him towards an elevator.

Wait, why was it going down? Surely he was supposed to go up... right?

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Somehow I just don't think that Vernon will be heading to Elysium, but that's just a feeling of mine.

Anyway, as you can see I've made some massive changes in regards to Athena and her parentage... but not really.

For Hades and Persephone they did the (I think it might be cliché now) cliché action of taking a human form but only partially (Similar to Hera in HistorianoftheKais 'Hero of Heaven') and then lived another life as James Potter and Lily Evans, although they do have some Greek lineage in them as humans as well, So Athena might have some abilities that neither Persephone nor Hades had.

That's pretty much it for now, the next chapter should be out in a week or so, I'm currently spell checking and grammar checking it and making sure that continuity is maintained (As in the original Banshee of Hogwarts there were a couple of continuity errors).

Like I said in my re-write update there will be large changes to this story comapred to the original, but the flow should be the same... hopefully.

Also I will be more realistic in Athena's growth and she won't suddenly become a Potions Mistress... At least not without a proper reason.

Dragonsong2795 out.

P.S: I've made the mistake of subcribing to 'Lost Pause', 'Markiplier' and 'Jacksepticeye' on Youtube so I might end up procrastinating... sorry!