The Next Generation
A/N: Ok, I'm determined to finish this story. I'm going to update one of my other HP ones soon and my DW one, but now my focus is on this one. I have reminders on my notice board to remind me. This is just a prologue, and the main story will pick up in Cassie's seventh year.
At 23 years old Harry Potter had turned into a respectable man, however had the dark and mysterious past that would turn most girls off, but Harry was famous, so the girls flocked in. However, Mr Potter had ended up getting married two years previous to his best friend, Miss Hermione Jane Granger, and at this present time had a 18-month old daughter, Cassandra Lily Potter.
Now to think, you would expect that Harry, Hermione and little Cassandra were happy, but they were not. Harry had still not defeated Lord Voldemort, but only had one Horcrux – apart from Voldemort's body - left to get rid off, but he could not find it anywhere, and he hated leaving his family. Before Cassandra was born, Harry and Hermione, and occasionally Ronald Weasley and Luna Lovegood would eagerly go off to find the Horcruxes but not after Cassandra was born, Harry knew he could not take her with them, and he did not want to leave her. In fear of him not returning and never seeing his beautiful Cassie again. Now five years after he graduated from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Voldemort was still out in the world.
On the very same night this story is being told, Voldemort had had enough of Harry just sitting around enjoying a life with his wife and daughter and his friends, so decided to pay his 'little friend' a visit, and at exactly 10pm that night Voldemort knocked on the Potter's door.
Harry knew that Voldemort would not sit around for long and he was waiting, but when that time came he knew he would not be ready. He knew he would not be ready to leave his wife and daughter. And because of what Voldemort did he didn't have to. Well he didn't have to leave his wife, but he had to leave his daughter and from where they are as this story is being told, wherever that may be, his heart is breaking, as well as his wife's just thinking about their little daughter.
For Voldemort had not tried to kill either Harry or Hermione but had put a spell on them, and the next time they opened their eyes they were sitting next to each other inside a cell and around the outside of the cell it was just black, all they had was a single candle in the middle of the cell giving off not much light at all.
Voldemort did know that little Cassandra was in the house, but in a strange show of mercy that anybody who saw him would have probably fallen to the ground dead in shock, left her in the house. Now to you, an 18-month old baby girl left in a house on her own, may not to you, sound like a show of mercy from a man, but this was Voldemort. The most cruel being on the planet, and that is the best thing that could ever have happened to Cassandra. He let her be and did not harm her.
However, Voldemort wasn't that clever that night, he wasn't in his right state of mind, because he put the Dark Mark above the Potter's house which meant Auror's and the Headmistress of Hogwarts, Professor Minerva McGonagall were alerted and went straight to the house. Whereupon Minerva found little Cassandra and did the best thing she could.
She gave her to Petunia Dursley. If you've heard the story of Harry Potter, which many of you probably have, you probably know, that when Albus Dumbledore left little Harry on the Dursley's doorstep Minerva tried to protest, but but tonight Minerva had nothing else she could do. At least on this occasion she gave Miss Petunia the choice of taking Cassandra in or not. And, after a long argument where Minerva considered just walking straight back out of the front door, Petunia managed to persuade her husband Vernon to take in little Cassandra and they did. But not before a stern lecture from Minerva about how they were not, repeat not, to treat Cassandra how they had treated Harry. And after seeing the scale of anger on the Headmistress' face the two old Dursley's both proceeded to swear on their lives that they would not mistreat Cassandra.
The wizarding world lay in mourning for the next two years until Cassandra was near four years of age, when Minerva came to check up on her. That's when Cassandra proceeded to tell Minerva – or Minnie as she called her – of what she had seen the night that Voldemort had appeared. Minerva after casting Legilmens on the child was shocked at how she could remember something like that but went to tell the Ministry not long after.
So then started the nationwide search for Harry and Hermione Potter. Whereupon they were not found. Days turned into months, months turned into years, until it was Cassandra's eleventh birthday and by this time she was making sure everybody called her Cassie.
On her eleventh birthday Cassie received a letter informing her that she had been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Cassie had not grown up living with magic, but she had known about it. True to their word Petunia and Vernon had treated Cassie like she was their own child and had told them about her parents, Harry and the little they knew about Hermione. Petunia even managed to tell her about her grandparents, Lily and James. They had told her what they knew about magic, and her Father's cousin, Dudley had even told her a few stories as well. So the letter was not unexpected, and Cassie had replied as fast as she could.
Not long after Minerva had come to take Cassie, Petunia and Vernon (Petunia and Vernon only if they wished and surprisingly they did wish to) to Diagon Alley, and the Dursley's were both fascinated by the street. Minerva got all of Cassie's school supplies for her, but told Cassie that next year she would have to use her own money. Cassie had been told she had a lot, but when taken to her vault she was shocked at just how much. There sitting in a vault was all of her parents and grandparents money. But she knew she wouldn't just squander all of it. She would use it sensibly, she did not want to waste what money she had.
The day finally came and Petunia and Vernon waved Cassie off as she got onto the Hogwarts Express and set off for her new life at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Where she was to become best friends with Alex Dumbledore, Joana Longbottom, Rachel Weasley and Harriet Lupin.
So that's how our story starts, with Cassie growing up to a different life that Harry led and her starting Hogwarts. Cassie's story is a long one, but a good one.
A/N: Ok, that's the prologue. Quite long, and I'm proud about how it's worked out in narrative. Please review. If anybody can think of a better title please review and let me know it. If I pick one the next chapter will be dedicated to them. The next chapter should be up soon.
