The other Potter
Shadows lurk, and as always they are lurking about Harry, how will our Hero cope�
This story starts as so many others do, with a seemingly insignificant event. Something so small and as unimportant as a note delivered in a classroom while a teacher had her back turned. Now if that teacher should happen to witness the exchange of the incriminating piece of paper, that teacher would have two choices. One is to immediately snatch that note and if the teacher is in an especially foul mood then he/she could read the note out loud, and in the process humiliate the caught student. Option number two is that the teacher forgets what he or she saw. And on march the 23 in the years of 1973 that is exactly what Minerva McGonagall chose to do. She ignored a note sent from a mister James Potter to a Miss Lillian Evans, otherwise known as Lily Evans. What Minerva did not foresee was that that innocent little note, well it was actually a rather long note, longer that any school assignment he had ever delivered. This note would lead to a series of dates and meetings, and a lot of snogging. This snogging lead to other events that the author saw unfit to describe, at least for the moment. Witch lead to an engagement and eventually Miss Lillian Elisabeth Evans became Mrs. Lily Potter. And one event lead to an other and the birth of the famous Boy-who-lived also called Harry took place. That is the story we have all been told, that is the legend they spoon fed us. So if you are one of those wizards or witches who still believes this you need not be ashamed,
For part of that legend is indeed true. Actually come to think of it the entire thing is true.
But it is not the entire legend. For that year several other children where born, that is a given. But I was thinking of one other child, a child destined to be the doom of the boy-who-lived
And it seemed such a cruel twist of fate that this weary child would be the daughter of Sirius Black, best friend to James. They say that there comes a time when all men must make a choice that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Sirius never got a chance to make that choice, he came home one day only to discover that his little baby girl, the one person he loved most of all was missing And no one ever saw her again, of course they all tried. Lily and James did not care about the prophesy, all they cared about was that one of their dearest friends was in pain and misery. They tried going to the ministry, but all they got where empty looks and careless shrugs. It was not until Albus Dumbledore himself stormed in the doors of the minister of magic, sadly he was not there so Dumbledore had to settle for the junior minister Cornelius Fudge. A shivering boy in the eyes of Albus, who under severe threats disclosed that yes the Black child had been taken in to custody until she could be dealt whit, in other words she was kept at the ministry till they could get rid of her quietly.
So Albus did the only thing he deemed right, he arranged for her to be sent to a place where she would learn how to defend herself, and the few who where there when Albus told Sirius that he would most likely never se his baby girl again, finally saw that twinkle run out of his eyes only to disappear in to his snow white beard.
