Harry Potter and the House of Blackburn

by way of life

She had a secret of her own, they had a secret of their own. What happens when her secret turns their world upside down? Will she be able to cope with what her life has now become? Together, will they be able to keep their secret safe? How will this effect the life of one particular young man? Would his life be just one more sacrifice in the war or will he write his own destiny?

1. Oops! I am not human

A/N 1:

Main points about this story:

1) Initial chapters are for the development of story background, so this is a slow story, at first. The initial 6 chapters are really just base material, the plot starts to build around chapter 7.

Though the initial 6 chapters are just fluff and stuff, you need to read those six chapters to understand what i am talking about when the plot thickens.

2) Time line: 2 months since starts of Harry's 5th year. And for twilight, a few days ago before baseball match.

3) One more thing, Bella will be OOC.

UPDATE: IMPORTANT: READ A/N 2.

Total words: 5270

Written By: Way Of Life

Unbetaed

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Prologue

"So the answer to your question Carlisle," Bella said as she locked eyes with Carlisle, "is that while I don't use that kind of foul magic, I can make you wish, that you were dead if wanted to." Bella said, her voice sending chills down their spine, despite the fact that they were vampires who did not feel differences in temperature.

FORKS

10th November, 1995

Secrets have a strange way of being shared. If someone you care about, reveals their secret ,then you are obliged to reveal yours, otherwise they may feel slighted or worse, betrayed. Ironic isn't it, because secrets are meant to be kept to one self and are not meant to be shared.

It was with this thoughts that Isabella Marie Swan or better known as Bella went to bed the night before her 17th birthday, sleep evading her at a speed of hundred miles per hour. Now, to everyone their birthday is something special, but for Bella that next day was extra special than any other birthday she had had in her short life of 17 years. The next day will bring with itself joy, happiness and a reason to celebrate but above all these, it would bring with itself freedom; freedom from being watched every second of her life, freedom to be whole again and freedom to be her-self again instead of a weak shadow that she was now.

But, just as a lamp that spreads light into the world along with its shadow, the next day brought uncertainty, guilt, a foreboding of doom and above all, the fear of rejection with itself. The weird part, in this mess that next day guaranteed to be, was that this shadow to all her happiness was of her own choosing; the choice that she could have avoided and still could avoid if she wanted to.

But she knew she could not stall 'the big revelation' any longer than she already had. At least till now she had a reason to keep her secret, just a secret; but starting next day she would not even have that reason.

She scoffed at her brain for choosing the words 'the big revelation' but let it go, as in some ways it was 'the big revelation'. People hide from others one thing or two, but here she was hiding everything about herself; starting from her name to who she was, where she was from, what kind of person she was, to even what she looked like. Considering all these things and more, it might be just fitting to term it 'the big revelation'.

Sleep still evading her, she cursed mentally. She dare not curse openly, not for the fear of Charlie hearing her, but for the fear of one of the vampires hearing her, who had ability of advanced hearing and did not feel ashamed to eavesdrop. She sighed, though the antics of her vampires irritated her, she could not help but feel protected with them around, well, except for Rosalie.

She missed her home, not Phoenix but her real home. All the people that knew her even remotely would say that Bella hated 'the cold and the wet' thus Forks was giving her a difficult time. All these people would be partially correct and partially wrong. Partially correct as Forks was giving her a difficult time and partially wrong in the part that she hated 'the cold and the wet'; nothing could be more far from truth. She did not hate 'the cold and the wet', it was just that it made her sad by reminding her of her home which was so much similar to Forks in part about 'the cold and the wet', but yet it was not her home.

All these thoughts were enough to give any normal person a massive headache but Bella was not any normal person now, was she. She had been dealing with these thoughts from the day she realized she was in love with Edward and what would this mean for her. Her family would not accept, she scoffed at the thought of her family accepting her relationship, huh, more likely they would retaliate against her. After all, a pure-blood could not mingle with the lower sort, that was stooping to the level of blood traitors and that could not be allowed.

Pushing all these thought aside Bella tried to clear her mind. For her it was not as easy as sounds, as all the foreboding and anticipation mixed with excitement kept creeping back in her mind. After some initial failures Bella finally had a victory over her thoughts and slowly fell asleep.

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Bella lay asleep in her bed, alone for a change as Alice had not let Edward visit Bella the previous night. Alice wanted Edward to wait, to see Bella on her birthday, as anticipation increases the excitement was her reasoning; so she had formed a silly excuse that she needed his help and thus preventing him to meet her.

Edward knew exactly what her reasons and believes were and he had outright called on her attempted bluff. She had tried to hide her reasons from Edward but she was so focused on planning the party that she was not able to recite Bible in reverse in Hebrew. Edward had argued, and argued, with Alice but she refused to budge and had not allowed him to visit Bella.

After his arguments failed he had practically whined to be allowed to go but to no avail. When it too failed he had tried sneaking out but Alice being Alice had seen it beforehand, as she had been expecting it and blocked his escape, every damn time. When finally Edward relented he had grumbled all night and then sulked in his room, much to the amusement of his family. Even Esme had to control herself from laughing out loud at Edward's teenage behavior, in a very motherly way of course.

In between her planning the party, trying to keep Edward out of her head (by trying to recite bible in reverse in Hebrew) and stopping him from sneaking out from under her nose she had been unable to look for Bella's decision and her future. Had she tried to look for Bella's future then what she would have seen would have had Alice considering going to psychologist for a checkup.

But as Alice had not seen Bella's future and Edward had not been allowed to see Bella during the night, thus it was only Bella who woke up due to sudden pop and appearance of a very strange creature in her room.

"Young Mistress Blackburn", the creature said in a tiny voice.

Though Bella had been awakened by the pop but it was hearing her true name that jolted her right out of the morning haziness. She glanced towards the source of voice and sighed in relief.

Standing a few feet away from her bed was a tiny creature that had a body similar to human but clearly was not one. It barely reached 3 feet of height, had unnaturally pointed ears, big bulging eyes, a skinny frame which was covered in a suite that one would expect a muggle butler to wear.

"Oh it's you Dinckle." Bella asked with a sigh of relief. She did not know, of what she was afraid of; she had been expecting a house elf to show up on her birthday but recognizing it as theirs had released an unknown knot in her heart.

"Dinckle at your service young mistress Blackburn. Master and Mistress Blackburn sends Dinckle to deliver things to young Mistress Blackburn and wish her a very happy birthday. They also tells Dinckle to convey their sadness at not being able to be with young Mistress Blackburn on the day when young Mistress Blackburn is no longer young." The elf replied with a nod. The elf looked like it had lived a fair share of its life but it could not be called old.

The elf then brought out a small object, which on one look appeared to be a toy trunk used by little girls from the pocket of his butler styled clothes, and kept it on bed. Then he brought out what looked like a long piece of beautifully carved wood, and offered it to Bella. The elf held the piece of wood with reverence, he held it from the pointed end, so that when Bella took it from him she was holding the handle and was able to cast any curse or charm.

As soon as Bella touched the piece of wood, she felt a warmth spread through her hand and then in her entire body. She rejoiced in the feeling that made her whole again and the feeling that told her that she no longer was vulnerable. If Bella was smiling previously the she was positively grinning now.

"Master and Mistress Blackburn also sends Mistress Blackburn's wand and tells Dinckle to convey that all the charms that Ministry put on her wand are now removed from the wand and that the wand is perfectly safe to use. They also tells Dinckle that Mistress Blackburn can also use her special magic but instruct her not to reveal it to anybody." The elf continued and then fell silent, waiting for his next orders.

When Bella finally emerged from the warmth and protection that her wand provided, she turned to the elf and said "That will be all Dinckle." She expected the elf to pop out and go back to her home in England but when it didn't do that and instead stayed standing with its head bowed, she asked "Is something the matter?"

The elf bowed his head in sadness and said "Master tells Dinckle to remain with Mistress Blackburn and not to return home."

Bella frowned. Had it not been the time of war, Bella wouldn't have thought anything of it other than her parents wanting her to be well cared for; but these were not peaceful times and as of today she was an adult in her society too. Things must not have been going good if they sent Dinckle here to keep Bella safe, she concluded after a lot of pondering.

She smiled at the elf and said "Ok, then let's get you a place to stay." The elf smiled but it was a sad smile. After a moment the elf said "Mistress Blackburn? Is Dinckle a bad elf? Is Dinckle not good enough?" the elf was almost on the verge of crying. Though it's head was bowed, Bella could still feel the dampness that filled the large eyes of the elf.

Bella sighed, knowing where this was going. She did not want to comfort the elf, she pondered for a moment to tell the elf to mind its own business and be gone but decided against it, she did not want to deal with moody, crying elf later. Choosing her words carefully; because if she even so much as touched the topic of being released, the elf would be frantic and definitely start crying, so she smiled and said "I don't think that is the case Dinckle. I think they want someone to take care of me." At this the elf smiled widely as if that was the truest thing possible.

The house in which Bella and Charlie lived was not a large house by any standard; in fact it was quite a small house with 2 rooms, one hall, one bathroom and a kitchen. The room on ground floor belonged to Charlie and his ex-wife Renee when they were married, now it belonged to dear old Charlie. While room on the first floor belonged to his daughter Isabella Marie Swan, the very room she was currently occupying and of the person she was portraying to be.

Bella turned to the cupboard under the stairs and opened the door to find it heavily stocked and webbed with spiders. She then called to Charlie and asked, "Charlie is there a room where we can house an elf?" Charlie came down the stairs brushing his teeth, looked at the elf and asked, "Aren't you Blackburn family elf?"

"Yes sir, I is", Dinckle replied soberly, pleased to be acknowledged as family elf of House Blackburn.

Charlie pondered for a moment or two and then replied, "Well, we can house him in attic but we have a large amount of stuff there that would need to be moved but I guess we can do it." Then Charlie noticed the door to the cupboard open and Dinckle looking in it apprehensively and asked, "You weren't planning on housing him in the cupboard were you?"

Bella blushed slightly and said nothing, too embarrassed for it anyway.

Charlie said nothing and went back to the bathroom to brush his teeth.

Bella regained her composure and said to the elf, "Move everything from the attic in here and if it does not fits then shrink everything to fit in here."

Bella didn't do any house work at home but she did learn to cook because she liked it thus this was the only work in which she contributed, much to the discomfort of Dinckle and the other elves.

When Charlie came out of the shared bathroom, then Bella went in to finish her morning routine. By the time she came out Dinckle had already prepared breakfast and was serving it to Charlie.

When she started eating, Charlie gave her a wrapped box and said, "Happy birthday Bella." To which she smiled and replied, "Thanks Charlie."

They finished eating their meal and Dinckle wicked away the dishes to clean. Charlie, a little uncomfortable, then asked Bella, "Um, what are your plans for the rest of the day?"

Bella pondered on that for a moment and replied, "Nothing much, going to Edward's house."

Charlie grunted and then went to work in his cruiser. When he was out of sight Bella turned to Dinckle and said, "Dinckle I might call you today to meet some people, now, they are not regular people so when you come you might feel frightened due to their presence but they won't hurt you" the elf looked frightened so Bella tried to calm him and said, "just cling to me and do what I say and don't worry, they won't hurt you. Now I am going, Remember don't go out of the house no matter what."

Bella then got dressed in one of the dresses that Alice had bought her and went to Cullen house. As soon as she had parked her truck, Edward was out of the house already opening the truck's door for her. She then stepped out and Edward scooped her in his arms kissing her on the lips. When he pulled out he whispered in her ear, "Happy Birthday, love." Bella giggled as a 17 year old should and put her arms around Edward's neck and replied, "Thank you." She had her mask firmly in place again but she felt agitated at the thought of being without her mask for the first time with Cullen's around.

Edward then put her down and said, "Yes Alice I know that other people exist, be patient I am bringing her in." As soon as he said that he realized his mistake of asking Alice to be patient and said, "Stay there Alice, I am bringing her."

He then turned towards Bella and said, "Let's go in or Alice will have my head."

Bella laughed and said, "It was a mistake on your part to tell Alice to be patient; patient is a word that is not in her dictionary."

"I heard that." Alice's voice came from inside the house as she huffed.

"You should not eavesdrop on other's conversation then." Bella replied as she entered the house. Everyone was present there; Alice was in front of everybody where she bounced excitedly. Behind her Emmett was standing, looking ready to pounce on Bella when given a chance, he must be thinking something along these lines as Edward scowled at him. Carlisle and Esme were standing behind Emmett with a kind smile on their lips. Rosalie and Jasper were occupying the last positions, both with different expressions. While Jasper's expression was carefully guarded, Rosalie had scowl on her face which clearly stated that she didn't want to be present.

Alice came bouncing from her spot and hugged Bella the moment she entered and wished her happy birthday. Emmett practically tackled Bella as he came to hug her, then he scooped her up and twirled her in a circle. After Emmett put her down on the floor, Carlisle wished her while shaking her hand and Esme gave her a very motherly hug as she wished her a very happy birthday. Jasper just nodded in acknowledgement while Rosalie's scowl deepened.

Suddenly, all the nervousness was back full on; all the feelings from yesterday were making themselves known again. At this Jasper's expression went from guarded to one of confusion and Edward's went from scowling at Emmett to one of worry. "What's the matter, Bella?" Edward asked, worry clear in his voice.

Bella composed herself a little and said, "I have something to tell all of you, but first let all of us be seated." Hearing this Edward's worry reached a new height and he looked at Alice with a silent plea to look into her future. Bella noticed this and warned, "Alice, don't look into my future. Besides you won't understand it anyway until I explain it." Now everyone in the room wore an expression of worry as why Alice was not allowed to look into the future, well except for Rosalie that is, she wore an expression that said she was bored out of her mind.

"Stop panicking people. It's just that you have trusted me with your secret so it is only fair that you all should know mine." Bella huffed from where she was sitting. Bella's statement calmed everyone a little but apprehensiveness was still in the air. "Now, you all know that how I found out that Edward was a Vampire?" When everyone nodded she continued, "I guessed it when I found that Edward could not be human." Everyone knew this, as they had been pretty mad at Edward for letting the cat out of the bag but what they couldn't understand was why was Bella telling them this?

Continuing her statement Bella said "Vampires are not the only supernatural creatures or creatures of magic as we call it. There are many others like Goblins, Dwarfs, Giants, witches, Hags, Mermaids or Merpeople, Werewolves, Elves, shape shifters, Zombie and many more."

Noticing the incredulous expressions of everyone in the room and this time including Rosalie, Bella said in an angry tone, "Now don't look at me like I am mad or something. How could you all think that you were the only ones with magic? How arrogant are all of you!"

When no one said anything while Bella openly glared at everyone and silence started to become uncomfortable then Rosalie said in a voice which practically dripped with sarcasm, "And you would know this because you are one them, these creatures of magic that you claim exist."

The venom dripping from Bella's voice was more of a shock to everyone than her answer, even Rosalie was too stunned to answer, "Yes Rosalie, I am one of the beings of magic."

After the shock of Bella's Venomous voice wore off, they registered her answer and did not know what to say. The things that she claimed existed were myths, creatures of fairytale and nothing more. If anyone of them existed then shouldn't they have met these creatures at least once in their lives or at least Carlisle would have met them if not anybody else?

Too stunned to know what he was doing Edward said to Bella, "Um, Bella maybe we should go and talk first and then explain it to everyone else."

Bella then turned to Edward and gazed directly in his eyes with hurt evident on her face, "No, they need to know it too, and you should believe me above all Edward, you are my boyfriend, I am not kidding you know." She said all this in very small voice.

Edward did not know what to do. He, never in all of his life of over 100 years had expected to hear the women he loved say this. Not even in his wildest dreams and fantasies. His brows furrowed and his forehead scrunched in worry as he considered Bella's word. He had not once met or even heard about these creatures that Bella had named. Even though they lived in between humans, surely he would have came across someone of these races that Bella had named, even if he had not come across these creatures, surely Carlisle would have had in his long life. It was not possible for him to not know about these creatures given his gift of mind reading. Then why would Bella say something like this? Did she fall again and hit her head causing her to hallucinate?

Bella noticed Edward's expression and something in her demeanor changed and her eyes hardened as did her voice and she said, "If even for once, Edward Anthony Masen Cullen, you consider taking me to a doctor or psychologist then know this, that we would have to end this relationship and you won't see me ever again, even if you try to track me. I will not be with someone who cannot trust me and considers me a nut case. I am being completely serious here and you think I am making things up." Hurt and anger washed over her and she was blinded by her emotions. How could Edward not trust her? Did Edward not trust her? Edward did not trust her. These were the main thoughts that were passing through her mind, blinding her rationality.

"Come see me at my house when you get that I am a magical being." She said with an ice cold voice that was devoid of any emotion and with that she stepped away from Edward. She then twirled around while saying, "Dinckle take me away." All of a sudden there were two pops and Bella was gone with creature that they could not recognize.

Everyone was stunned, motionless as vampires go when they are shocked beyond a reasonable degree. They felt everything go deadly serious when Bella told Edward she would end her relationship with him.

Edward was god smacked, never in his life had he considered that Bella would break their relationship. He did not know what to do or say, while in the mean time she just disappeared in the thin air with god knows what creature. Edward did not know what to do, all he felt was fear that Bella would leave him, that Bella did not trust him. His Bella did not trust him, it was impossible, improbable. It should be against nature. To summarize in few words, for him shit had just hit the fan.

Silence that hung in the air after Bella's departure was so strong that you could hear the water crashing in waves in the river miles away from Cullen mansion, as animals and creatures did not came near it. The silent that hung was deathly and impossible.

As shocked as Alice was, she was sane enough to look into the future. She saw Bella waiting for Edward for an hour and disappearing again with the unknown creature when Edward didn't turn up. She saw Edward coming out of his shock next day and going in search for Bella, but Bella was not to be found, no matter where they searched, no matter how much they searched, no matter how much ahead in time Alice saw, Bella was not with them, they were unable to find her.

They would never find her if she disappeared again with that creature, of that Alice was sure.

The vision brought Alice out of her shock, then she all but tackled Edward trying to bring him out of his shock. But it seemed Alice's vision had shocked Edward even more and he was lost in his sadness. She slapped Edward and slapped him hard. The power she put in her slap was so much that Edward got flung back in the wall besides him and crashed rather heavily into it. "Stop sulking and go bring Bella back before she disappears again to god knows where with that creature." This seemed to break Edward reverie and brought him out of his shock. He gave one look at the watch and ran as if his life depended on it; already 50 minutes had passed since Bella's departure. In ways more than one, the comparison might just hold true.

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Bella reappeared with a pop in her bedroom and send Dinckle back to work before he could ask any question. She was hurt by the fact that nobody believed her, not even Edward and she had not even told them what she was. How could they not believe her when she had believed them that they were vampires who survived on animal blood not human. Vampires surviving on animal blood sounded as absurd as a man surviving on mere wood. This did not mean she did not believe them, she believed them and that was all the point.

At least she had not yet told them what she was, even if she disappeared, never to reappear again, the statue of secrecy would not be broken. Even with all the things she said, they could not decipher with absolute surety what she was. She did not know how to feel on this observation, whether be relieved that her secret had remained just that, a secret or to be disappointed that they would never know what she was.

When Bella came out of her brooding already 45 minutes had passed, she decided to latch on her last hope and wait for 15 more minutes. If she was hurt earlier, it was nothing compared to how she was feeling now. 45 minutes had passed and Edward had not shown his god damn face. Was it this difficult to believe that she could be magical, that she could be like them? She felt betrayed, by Edward, by Alice or by herself she did not know.

Minutes ticked by and still no sign of Edward came up. She decided it was enough, she gave him a benefit of doubts but he did not come. With 3 minutes to one hour since her departure from Cullen mansion, she got up and started packing her belongings. She then called Dinckle, who appeared with a pop. She took his hand as said, "Let's go back home" but she never got to finish the sentence as the window in her room burst open and Edward came through it. He then hugged Bella for all he was worth and as if his life depended on it.

When Bella came out of her initial shock, she screamed at him, "DOES IT TAKES THIS MUCH TIME FOR YOU TO BELIEVE ME, WHEN I AM DEAD SERIOUS. ONE SECOND LATE AND YOU WOULD NOT HAVE SEEN ME FOR THE REST OF YOUR EXISTENCE, YOU MORON." Edward kissed her then effectively silencing her.

When Edward pulled out of the kiss, he found Bella nearly in tears. "I am sorry." He apologized. "It was not that it took me this much time to believe you but it took me this much time to come of the shock that you were magical. You know that when we vampires go in shock, we go still as a statue. Pretty stupid reaction if you ask me but it was what slowed me down. I believe you when you say that you are magical." He completed with an annoyed expression on his face, the annoyance was on the natural reaction of his body to shock that caused him his Bella today.

"You believe me?"Bella asked in a small voice, almost afraid to be hopeful.

It pained Edward to see his Bella this unsure in him and in his words. He decided in that moment that he would be mature about anything that concerned Bella, it was not going to be easy as vampires are unchanging but love does change them and if his love for Bella cannot make him mature then damn him, he didn't deserved Bella, and he would not, could not loose Bella.

"Of course I believe you love, if not you then who is it that I would believe." Edward reassured Bella in a soothing voice. This seemed to calm her down a little. After a few moments he said, "Never do that to me again Bella, never." His voice was calm but it gave away the fear that he felt at the thought of being separated from her.

Bella looked down ashamed and guilty then said, "I cannot bear that thought myself but more than that I cannot bear you thinking that I am mad or I need mental help and I could see you going there. It would have killed me to have heard that from you Edward." She finished in a small voice.

"I am sorry" Edward said. Bella need not be told for what Edward was sorry for, she knew Edward was sorry for everything that had caused this disaster.

"Don't fret. Everything's well that ends well." Bella said and just liked that all their differences were lost.

"Want to tell me what are you?" Edward asked hopefully, giving her puppy dog eyes.

"Aww" she said, then continued without falling for his charm, "That is for you to guess, dear, just I guessed what you were." Bella replied cheekily.

"But you cheated, you asked that mutt." Edward whined playfully.

"I did gave you a list too, so you are not playing completely fair either" She said and then continued "thus you have one try to guess what I am and before you argue anymore let's go back, Alice must be making others go mad with her squealing." Bella told him in a soft voice and then kissed him lightly.

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A/N2:

A few people have raised views that Bella over-reacts, to that I just wanna say this, wait and read 4th chapter. Everything is explained in it.

And review. Let me hear some criticism or appreciation.