July 31st 1980 Lily Potter was giving birth to her who would be her son Harry a boy who would one day be the saviour the wizarding world needed. Upon this day she could not possibly know this, he was just her baby boy and he would be showered in love by not only James and Lily but their close friends Sirius, Remus and Peter, to them he would already be special without any heroism. Harry would be the first child born to the marauders so this was an exciting time, as they all awaited his arrival they couldn't possibly know what was happening in Malfoy Manner. Bellatrix Lestrange wife of Rodolphus was also giving birth, but to a child, no ordinary child but a weapon for this child had the blood of the dark lord, nine months previous she conceived the child with the dark lord Voldemort so that he may have someone as powerful as himself to fight his cause and rule with him forever. Bellatrix growled moving around the house clutching on to her swollen belly, "argggg," she called out she felt as though she herself was under the cruciatus curse instead of being the one inflicting it. This pain would be worth it, she would be doing a great service to the dark lord who was out carrying out his noble work while say laboured in the house, she almost took pleasure in the pain. Narcissa fussed with her and told her she must lay down the baby would be coming soon, "I can feel it Cissy, the dark lords weapon I can feel it in my bones. Ooooh." She smiled wickedly and Narcissa helped her onto a bed she looked and she could see a head crowning with a tuff of black hair, "It will possess powers we cannot hope for," she cried out soon she would be up and running again soon she could inflict her torcher in the world and be of proper use to the dark lord her husband patted her head as sweat was steadily forming on it, "nahhhhhhh," she screamed pushing with all her might, she could its head moving in and out begging to come out and it was glorious she would be honoured for this beyond any other of his servants, she took hold of her sisters hand as she pushed with great force and the head was out she begun to hear a wail, the shoulders proved more difficult to get past than the head but she must do this, she screamed and cried everywhere feeling as though it was on fire pushing and squeezing with every bit of her might until the baby was out.
"It's a girl," Narcissa said smiling down at the crying baby as she took her in her arms, Rodolphus cut the cord, "do you want to hold her sister?" Narcissa asked rocking the baby back and forth to sooth her from crying.
"No, just clean her off from all that blood and summon the dark lord he will want to see that his weapon is here," Bellatrix said weakly, she never felt like this is her life she was sore and weary and just wanted sleep, but now was not the time, "And someone get me changed and cleaned up," Her husband went to fetch her a new dress while Narcissa cleaned the blood off the baby smiling at her, her hand wrapped around Narcissa's finger causing her heart to flutter, how could anyone see her as a weapon she thought she is just a little sweetheart. No one but those loyal to dark lord knew of these plans, everyone was oblivious to the fact that this little baby girl had just been born. He was only to present her to the world when she was older and trained up the dark lord had no care for babies only power and followers, and she would be his most powerful follower yet. Once everywhere was presentable and clean and the baby lay asleep, Bellatrix touched her wand to dark mark and summoned his greatness, he apparated almost immediately and Bellatrix spoke, "It is complete my Lord, your weapon she is here," she pointed to the black crib where a tiny baby lay sleeping, she was small even for a baby he thought but she would grow of course,
"Well done Bellatrix, you serve me well," he rasped as she knelt down beside him, "She may have your name, I honour you by calling her Bella, Bella Merope Black," he went on signalling for her to rise, "She cannot be Lestrange for she doesn't belong to you and your husband, she cannot be Riddle for it is a filthy muggle name, the Black family have served me well, it was your maiden name after all so she will take it, she may drop it as she gets older but for now she'll need one to attend Hogwarts, where she will learn basic spells and in the summer months she will learn from me, I will transform her into greatness and her powers will be beyond anything you have ever seen."
This was all lost when a year later on October 31st Voldemort was destroyed by the one-year-old who had been born to Lily and James Potter the night that Bella came into the world, soon after her mother was caught and sent to Azkaban and she was left to be raised by Narcissa and Luicius Malfoy who had a boy her age named Draco. In fear she would be seized they said she was but an orphan relative though Albus Dumbledore looked at her with great suspicion. Bella grew up knowing who she was who she was supposed to be, and how no one outside her father's circle was to know. The now 11-year-old Bella was outside her cousin's bedroom door knocking fiercely her cat moondust at her feet, "Draco answer," she whispered loudly, Bella had her mothers dark brown eyes and curly black hair but her face resembled that of her father when he was younger, or so she was told, this proved great distress for Narcissa and Luicius they were sure Albus Dumbledore would figure out her secret. The door flung open,
"What do you want princess?" Draco asked and she pushed past him into the room and sat on his bed, she was often called princess because of her parentage she liked it when she was small but it felt entirely silly now that she was 11.
"I'm nervous about about going to Hogwarts," she said her cat jumping up on the bed beside her, she stroked her causing her to purr.
"Why it will be alright, we will get to go and get sorted into Slytherin house the finest house like our parents before us, we shall create a legacy and besides Harry Potter will be in our year, the one who stopped your dad and there are rumours that he may be a powerful dark wizard and that's how he was able to survive the killing curse, we could form alliance with him and plot to rise up early," Draco said stroking his pointed chin. Bella rolled her eyes at him
"I have heard the rumours, but surely if he is a powerful dark wizard he will think himself better than me he even might want to fight me, although if I was being honest I reckon he is going to be on a different side than us, so he will want to fight me either way, although I'm not even sure I want to be on our side," she blurted out, Draco looked shocked,
"I think you need to get some rest your talking crazy," he shook his head and climbed into bed she scoffed at him and stormed from the room, how could she sleep tomorrow was much too big of a day.
The next day Draco and Bella were took to diagon alley. Collecting her spell books among other things made her more nervous for what lay before her but she was excited about her wand an Applewood with dragon heartstring ten inches. She already had a pet her cat so while Draco went to get an owl she went to get her robes fitted, there was a small boy in the shop he was about her height and she was rather small for her age, he seemed very skinny and was wearing clothes that were much too big for him, she looked him up and down, his black hair stuck up in every direction and a fringe that covered his forehead, his emerald green eyes framed by glasses met her dark brown ones.
"Is this going to be your first year at Hogwarts aswell?" she inquired the strange boy nodded, she figured he couldn't possibly be second year anyway he was much too small, "I'm nervous if I was honest," she didn't know why she was telling him this
"so am I, massively," the boy told her he looked relived that someone else felt this way and she gave him a small smile so he returned,
"Do you know what house you're going to be in yet? I know, I know no one actually knows till they get their but I expect I'm going to be in Slytherin," she said proudly
"err," the boy said shaking his head,
"Can you imagine being Hufflepuff? I'd leave wouldn't you? My family would probably disown me," she laughed the boy seemed nervous and she took out her wand, "look I just got this there now," she let him hold it and it looked amazed, she was starting to think he was muggleborn but she didn't care for some reason she still wanted to talk to him.
"That's amazing," he said smiling, "What is your name?" he asked happily, she opened her mouth to reply when Narcissa called
"Bella come on, we need these robes fitted so we can leave and meet up with your uncle and cousin," she sounded fierce, with one last smile to the boy she said,
"I guess I'll see you on the train then," she waved walking over to her aunt.
:Authors note:
I am usually better at writing than this its just I'm nervous about this fic can you please leave a review