Harry sat staring at the parchment had just changed his life. He had long suspected that something wasn't quite right, but not to this extent. When he had been younger, just starting school with Dudley, he'd been so excited. His grades had been startlingly good. Vernon and Petunia had been horrified and angry at all the praise he had gotten. Vernon had broken his hand as soon as they had gotten home and made it clear worse would happen if he ever did better than Dudley again. So he hadn't. Harry had instead curved his grades learning everything he could while making sure his grades never again surpassed his cousins. Than his Hogwarts letter had arrived and Harry had simply continued his habit of curving his grades. All the while studying in secrete everything he could get his hands on, magical customs, and etiquette to magical classes those offered at Hogwarts and those that weren't. More recently his studies had geared towards healing. Healing physical injuries and magical ones and all the ways to diagnose a problem. Potions, spells, and rituals used to scan the body, mind, and magic to insure the patient was healthy. Of course he used them on himself. Now several sheaves of parchment littered the floor.
Harry's bones were underdeveloped, and a bit brittle he was deficient in several vitamins and minerals the body needed, and his eyesight was a result of too much time locked in the cupboard as a baby. Several of his bones had been broken and never healed right and there was problems with some of his internal organs. Some of which, he hadn't known he even had; like a uterus. Which led him to the spells on his person and the long term potions in his blood stream. He was apparently born a she. That actually put her at ease and did a bit to help explain why she had never been attracted to girls. The spells and potions made her look like a boy but didn't change her actual gender.
The charms on her appearance didn't just cover her more feminine attributes, no they changed the color of her eyes, skin, and hair. They even changed her hair style. She carefully cataloged everything used to change her appearance before undoing them. She researched and found best treatments to get her healthy. Then started a regime to get it all done. The blocks on her magic, obscuring and subduing her magical core, where a smidgeon more complicated. Those she unraveled a little at a time allowing her full potential out while being careful not to cause herself any more damage than had already occurred.
Realizing that their could only be one reason to hide her appearance so thoroughly she also began researching ways to determine her parentage. The results were not promising. She would need a sample of her own genetic code then something to compare it too. Hogwarts did keep students medical records, including a complete genetic profile. The nurse needed those in case of creature and other family inheritance issues. Using those meant breaking into the records room and performing the test on every single individual student file. It would be time consuming to say the least. She had nicked a time turner from the department of mysteries fiasco or else it would never get done. She spent most of her days exhausted and relived her nights to get more time for her research and health. Between pretending to still be Harry Potter, and reliving her days and nights, she was also planning her escape.
By yule holidays she not only had solid plan but her mothers identity. Charis Black was Sirius' aunt, and Orion's youngest sister. Unfortunately she had never married, so finding her father was still on her to do list. It was her hope to spend part of her holiday searching Grimauld Place for clues. She'd ended up sorting through three drawers worth of paper work in Orion Black's old study before she found her first clue. Charis had not had enough magic to continue onto NEWT level work, so the family had quietly sold her off. While she wasn't a squib she wasn't much better, so instead of arranging a marriage, she was entered into a breeding contract and made a concubine. She was little more than a sex slave and according to the documents she belonged to Tom Marvolo Riddle to help continue the Gaunt and Slytherin lines. Well Shit. According to Orion's ledger he'd kept track of Charis' children. She had had three successful pregnancies, one miscarriage. She'd had only one daughter. Aurora Persephone Slytherin, taken by Aurors who had illegally removed several children from dark homes allegedly for their own protection. Charis had been visiting her niece Bellatrix at the time Frank Longbottom had originally thought the child he took belonged to the Lestranges. No one had corrected them afraid of what might happen if the light side new they had the dark lords daughter in they're possession.
That changed things. A lot. She couldn't kill her own father no matter how deranged she thought he was. Charis Black had obviously been well cared for and provided with everything she needed. The Black family tapestry recorded health and was self updating. Now that she was looking she had found the little formerly concealed space that recorded her family. Voldemort might be out of sorts, but all his children and Charis were healthy and happy. Her brothers were unfamiliar to her she thought they must have gone to a different school, than Hogwarts. While she wasn't all that thrilled with her new family, she new couldn't hate them either. So she returned to Hogwarts finished her fifth year while planning her escape. She boarded the train for the end of the year then ducked into a public loo turned back time three months, changed her cloths into feminine robes and headed to the ministry of magic. She used a wand from Grimauld Places attic to register with the security wizard, made her way to the department of education and children's well being, she used her real name to register herself as being homeschooled and applied for permission to take her OWL's. Taking the tests out of school required a fifty galleon fee. Which was outrageously expensive. Nevertheless she paid it plus the ten G extra needed to take the international standard as well. She would not be confined to Brittan this way and go to another school later if she ever discovered where her brothers had gone to school the oldest was surely already graduated, but the other would be in his last year next year.
It took three weeks for the ministry to schedule her tests and another four weeks to take them all the ministry had considerably more options then Hogwarts. By the time June came around she had her results and left for France 'Harry Potter' had not yet officially disappeared and she did not want to be around when he did.
OWL RESULTS FOR AURORA PERSEPHONE SLYTHERIN BLACK.
Etiquette
- E
Flying
- O
Dancing
- E
Human Languages
French
- E
Spanish
- E
German
- E
Russian
- O
Creature Languages
Gobledegook
- O
Mermish
- O
Fea Latin
- O
Elvish
- A
D.A.D.A.
- O
Transfigurations
- O
Charms
- E
Potions
- O
Herbology
- O
Astronomy
- E
History
- A
Muggle Studies
- O
Runes
- O
Arithmancy
- O
Warding
- E
Healing
- O
Magical Theory
- E
Accounting and taxes
- E
Basic Laws
- E
Estate Management
-A
Well at least she passed. Though there were a few more acceptable's than she would have liked but what can you expect with a ghost as a teacher in history and the rest of them had come from self study classes all in all she didn't think it was anything to bad.