Hey Guys, yes I decided to republish this story. I am starting over with this. I did not like what I did with it. I really truly liked the first couple of chapters. For this new chapter one I combined chapter one and two.

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Slytherin's Heir

Chapter One

Amelia Hawthorne was known to be a happy person without any troubles. Her life was simple and plain; she had a steady boyfriend who would propose any day, a job at a bookstore where she was saving up for law school, a loving family and dreams for the future. Little did she know that her whole life would change on the night of Christmas Eve, 1997 in Godric's Hallow.

She decided to take a walk in the cool, cool crisp air to clear her mind of the stress of Christmastime. She walked near the graveyard and saw an old couple who were looked sad upon a gravestone. She took a peak at who the gravestone was for and it said the names James and Lily Potter. She gave a weak smile and continued walking along.

Her long, blond hair blew in the breeze and her blue eyes looked at the clear night. She had lost track of time walking outside. Suddenly, she heard a crash at Ms. Bagshot's home. Ms. Bagshot stayed in her home like a lowly hermit; she was rarely seen by any of the neighbors. A few months back she was visited by a person who looked like a reporter, though her name was never in any newspapers. Curiosity took the better of Amelia and she ran by the house.

An upstairs window was broken, shards of glass lay on the street, and she could see a large snake and a man that looked like one in the house through the broken window. He had bright, scary, red eyes that gleamed in anger, slits where his nose should be and pasty, pure white skin. Amelia screamed in fright from just looking at him, for she knew he was evil at one glance. He then saw her and swooped down from the broken window.

She began to run away, but he quickly caught up to her. Showers of light passed by her, they were mainly green, luckily she dodged them all. She could hear the snake man yelling words she had never heard before. A light hit her; she was forced on the ground and could no longer move, her body was frozen in her running position.

"What were you doing spying on me you filthy muggle?" He spat at her.

"I wasn't spying," she countered bravely, "I-I-I heard a crash. I wanted to know what happened."

"Crucio!" the man cried. Bursts of pain surfed through her body. It was unbearable and she screamed in pain. It felt as though thousands upon thousands of needles were piecing her from the inside of her body. The man just cruelly laughed at her pain as he increased the intensity. Amelia could not understand what was happening to her, it didn't make sense. The pain increased every second until, from what felt like forever to Amelia, it ended.

"Now to teach you a lesson, muggle," he nastily said. He said some other nonsensical words and her clothes disappeared. She gasped as the snake man took his own clothes off and started invading Amelia's body.

He repeatedly thrust himself in her. Amelia screamed in pain. Thrust after thrust, he cruelly laughed at her pain.

"You can't handle this, muggle!" He shrieked in laughter and continued invading her for a long time.

He stood up, and pulled his cloak on. Amelia shivered and twitched and felt relieved that he was no longer touching her.

"Now to say goodbye, muggle," he said, "Avada-"

Luckily for Amelia, it seemed as though to her that he received a message from someone of his associates and disappeared on the spot much to Amelia's relief. It seemed as though he completely forgot that he did not kill Amelia. Amelia remained in the same spot shivering and twitching until a local passed by and saw her there, cold and blue. She was immediately clothed in the man's cloak and taken to the nearest doctor and was warmed from the hypothermia she received from staying nude in the cold for far too long.

She no longer spoke to anyone unless she desperately needed something, and when she reported the crime to the police. She broke up with her two year boyfriend because she could not bear to touch him after she was raped. Her dreams of Law school ended because she could no longer bear to exit her home. She constantly felt sick, and soon it was recommended to her that she took a pregnancy test. She was pregnant, but unbeknownst to her it was the child of the most evil creature to ever walk the Earth, the man who created horcruxes to live forever and would live now in the mind of his unborn child, Voldemort.

On August 31st, 1998, Amelia's water broke. She freaked out, it was weeks early. She called a cab, for she shunned her family away and now lived in solitude. The cab driver drove as fast as he could for he wanted to not have to deal with pregnant woman or babies being born in his cab.

Her parents arrived because the hospital called them, for they were on her list of emergency contacts. Her mother held her hand throughout the hours of labor, while her father got her anything she wanted, which included five burgers and three milkshakes.

After all of the hours of labor, her baby was finally born.

"It's a girl!" The doctor exclaimed. The nurses coated the baby in blankets and handed them to Amelia. Amelia could not believe that what she was holding was actually her baby. It all wasn't real until she held that child in her arms.

The baby looked not a bit like her or the snake man. She had a beautifully carved faced with gorgeous features. Tufts of jet-black hair was on the top of her head, her eyes were the darkest color imaginable it almost blended with her pupils, but there still was a contrast.

Her parents looked at the child in disbelief, because of her dark beauty and because the baby had not shed one tear. Instead she looked at the world in awe and wonder, like it was all knowing.

"This cannot be my child," Amelia said.

"She is, she was just born, are you crazy?" The doctor said.

"No, I am not, she looks nothing like me or my rapist, he-he looked like a snake with red eyes. This baby is too beautiful, it cannot be his or mine," Amelia stated with confidence.

Maybe-maybe, he had these features before he looked like a, a-a snake," her mother said. No one had believed that the man who raped her looked a snake, now they believed he looked like this baby.

"What are you going to name her?" One of the nurses asked after the long pause.

Amelia took a deep breath and said

"Melanie Obscura Hawthorne."

Melanie grew up in London where Amelia moved after Melanie was born. She wanted nothing to do with Godric's Hallow ever again after Melanie was born. Melanie was admired for her beauty and intelligence, but scrutinized for her odd behavior. She would not socialize with anyone or get along with the other children in her school. She would claim she could speak to snakes, but everyone would call her crazy. Only Amelia believed her in this claim since her rapist looked like a snake and had one of his own. She remembered him making hissing noises that she heard Melanie saying when she took her to the Reptile House at the zoo.

Amelia loved her child and was thankful she looked nothing like her rapist. Amelia lied to everyone by saying that she was a widow whose husband died in a car accident before Melanie was even born. Everyone bought that sob story, including Melanie, sometimes Amelia showed her true acting skills by shedding tears when she would have to share the lies of that story. She did not want Melanie to know that she was a product of rape, she loved her too much to break her heart like that, and also that Amelia even considered abortion. Amelia even told Melanie fake stories about her "father" when she was just retelling stories about her and her ex-boyfriend, so Melanie did not have a need to delve further into the "father" situation.

When Melanie turned 8, things would happen that no one could explain. When someone hurt her feelings, incidents would occur to that exact same person with no cause defined. When Amelia wanted to punish Melanie for things she would do wrong, objects would break all around her without them being touched. Amelia grew scared of her when she was angry or upset, so she did all she could to prevent that from happening even though she had no idea what was causing everything.

When Melanie was 9 she begged and pleaded for a pet snake. Amelia got her one so she could prevent more incidents from happening. The snake, that she named Artemis after her favorite Greek goddess, became her closest and only friend. They would have discussions whenever they could. Amelia recommended they talk only when they were alone, for she knew people would grow scared of Melanie if she started hissing with a snake in their presence. She also tried to avoid hearing it because it reminded her of the rapist.

On July 15, 2009, all of Amelia's questions were answered about her Obscura.

A/N Obscura is Latin for darkness

Thanks for reading. I have no idea when I will post the next update, considering my other two chaptered fics, which I like better. I am simply redoing this one.

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Miss. Caroline Potter