Foreword/Disclaimer

I do not own Harry Potter.

J.K. Rowling and/or Warner Brothers do.

This story is incomplete.

I would not normally publish an unfinished story but I am suffering from writers block and would like some advice as to how to continue. I do have the major scenes already planned out but I am having trouble getting to them.

WARNING: this story will have adult themes.

WARNING: this story is the most AU story possible that is still recognizable as Harry Potter.

As much as possible I will be trying to 'Fix' the characters that JK made mistakes on.

I will also be taking elements of the HP universe and twisting them.

the most glaring example of this is that there is no prophecy...but 'Harry' still fulfills the terms of it.

Thanks for listening (er... reading).

Deliberation and Accidents.

"James! The wards!"

"I felt it. How did he... It doesn't matter. Get Jenny."

As the woman ran from the room the door opened and a... thing... stepped through. It might once have been human. Now... now it was simply a thing.

"Hello, James," The creature said in a genial tone, "It's been such a long time."

"How did you get in here?" James answered in a snarl.

The creature smiled and shook its head. "Manners, manners James, or is it Blackmane?" James gasped slightly at the name, "Didn't anyone ever tell you, James, never trust a rat."

James snarled angrily at this and charged at the creature whilst changing into a magnificent black maned lion with tangled locks.

Lily was running up the stairs of the house when she felt the wards around the property shake suddenly. Paling she stumbled as a weight settled on her. She grazed her hand on the banister but didn't notice as she quickly stood up tears now running from her green almond shaped eyes. Running into a little girls room, decorated in the traditional pink, she picked up the girl from the bed and held her. Placing her hand on the girls chest above her heart she began pouring power into the creation of a defensive ward. Her hand glowing pearly white, which spread to the girls skin, she didn't notice the small trickle of blood slowly soaking into the girls dress from the graze on her hand. The door, which had closed itself behind her, suddenly sprung open and the creature stood there calmly an amused look on its face.

"With James dead your maintaining the wards on this place yourself. You don't have the energy to protect both of you and hold up the wards."

Lily's hand convulsed on the girls chest inadvertently scratching her.

"Goodbye, dearest Lily, you put your faith in the wrong man and now you pay the price." It raised its hand. A green energy swirled round its fingertips. The blood from the scratch on the little girls chest mixed with the blood already on her dress. The green energy flared. Lily Potter died still holding a protection ward on her daughter. The wards on the property shuddered and began to lessen.

When the person maintaining wards on a property dies inside them all the power they have is transferred to the wards. When there is no-one alive to maintain the wards they gradually start draining of power. Normally. Unknown to the creature, the moment Lily died all of her power conducted through the blood link to her daughter, into the protection spell she was holding. In doing so an arc of lightning carved a circle of runes about an inch wide on her chest immediately above her heart and on Lily's hand where it touched her. Now... every ward in the house, centuries of stored power, was tied to a protection spell on a little girl.

The creature stopped and thought for a moment. "which one sounds better: 'Little Girl Orphaned' or 'Whole Family Slaughtered'?" It turned and negligently used the same curse on the girl as it had on her mother.

The shock-wave was felt hundreds of miles away.