CHAPTER ONE

In the seventeen years since the Battle of Hogwarts, as it was now known, the Wizarding World had changed dramatically. Voldemort's followers had openly taken over the Minestry of Magic and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had been shut down. The purebloods had taken over, executing all muggleborns and blood traitors, the ones that were left, fled abroad or were in hiding. However, on an unusually stormy day in July, the main headline in the Daily Prophet was:

HOGWARTS REOPENED, SEMESTER STARTS SEPTEMBER 1ST

A mere month later, our heroine arrived in Diagon Alley, her family close behind.

Audrina Riddle walked down what was left of Diagon Alley with her brother, Draco, and her parents. The street was practically empty, most of the shops were closed and groups of twos and threes hurried down the street. Her father, Lucius Malfoy carried a few parcels of Audrina's school supplies, wearing a grim look on his pointed face as he looked down his nose at the alley.

Audrina and her family walked into Madam Malkins robe shop to get her a few school and dress robes. There was only one other family in the shop, the parents in a corner whispering to each other, not even looking up when the new family entered. Audrina headed to an empty stool, opposite of the already occupied one. A boy, about her age, stood straight and still as Madam Malkin worked over him. His bright green eyes shined as he smiled at her, his dark shaggy hair messy on the top of his head.

Madam Malkin finished with the boy and pulled the robes up over his head. "All set Mr. Harrison," she said in her thick English accent. She turned to the boys parents, interrupting their discussion. "Okay that will be fifteen galleons, Mr. Longbottom." The Malfoy's heads snapped up to look at the father of the boy. "Neville?" Draco asked incredulously, looking at the fellow Pureblood.

"Malfoy," Neville nodded curtly, his voice spiked with disgust.

Audrina looked from her brother to Neville and back to her brother. How did the two even know eachother? She had never in her life heard of Neville Longbottom.

"I didn't know you had a son, I didn't expect you could even get a wife."

"Steven, actually, is adopted," Neville held his wife against him, his arm curled around her petite waist, her radish earings and bottlecap necklace clinking together. Draco laughed coldly. "That explains it. The only girl you could get was Looney Lovegood."

Audrina looked at Neville and Steven. Both were fuming, fists clenched and faces beat red. Audrina stepped down from her stool and in front of her brother. She put her hand on his arm and looked into his cold, grey eyes. They softened after a few seconds and his body relaxed. Draco had never acted like this before. At least, not if front of his sister. His body untensed more as he looked into his sisters eyes. He took a deep breath before hurrying out of the shop. Audrina smiled to herself and looked over to Steven. He was bent down near his father, scratching something on a scrap of parchment. He looked up as he sensed her looking at him and smiled. Audrina returned the smile and stood back up on the stool, tossing her jacket near the door. Madam Malkin started to size her, using a magically commanded measuring tape, Audrina stared off into space as she worked. She didn't even notice it as Steven slipped a bit of parchment into her jacket.

"Mother, who were those people?" Audrina asked as the door shut. Narcissa looked down her nose at her daughter and looked at her husband. "Neville Longbottom is the son of two aurors, both whom were tortured to insanity by your Aunt Bellatrix. And Luna is the daughter of that insane man Lovegood who runs the Quibbler. Draco went to school with them both."

Audrina nodded. When she asked about 'those people', she didn't really mean the parents. The only person she really wanted to know about was their adopted son, Steven Harrison.

Audrina finished with her robes and made her way to Flourish and Blotts with her parents. She was the last one to walk in and as she did, Steven and his parents were walking out. He winked at her as they walked by and she smiled. Draco met them about a half hour later in the Leaky Cauldron and from there they used the Floo Network to go back to Malfoy Manor.

Audrina walked straight up to her room, all of her parcels piled on her arms. She dropped her stuff down on her bed and she pulled out her supplies list to check everything off as she packed. She first set a robe beside her and folded her other robes and set them on the bottom, along with two dress robes and regular clothes to wear under her robes. She set her cauldron and her potion kit next in a corner, her books in the other, piling on top. She set the rest of her things into the trunk, nearly packing it to the top. Once she was sure she had everything, she folded her last robe and set it on top for convenience when changing into her robes the next day.

A few hours later, the house elf apparated into her room to tell her that dinner would be served in fourty minutes time and that they had a few guests. Audrina sighed and took her jacket off, throwing it onto her bed. She started to turn around but a small scrap of parchment caught her eye. She turned back slowly to her jacket and reached for the paper that was hanging out of her pocket. She picked it up and opened it slowly, reading it silently to herself.

I'm not sure of your name so I'm just going to call you Malfoy Girl. Anyways, our parents/your brother seem to know eachother and not like one another. However, their thoughts have nothing to do with us because personally, I don't want to not be able to like you and I hope we can be friends. I'll see you on the Hogwarts Express on the First.
-Steven

Audrina smiled softly to herself as she read through the small note a second time. She folded it back up and set it on her bed, a new bounce in her step as she moved to the closet to get a dress for dinner.

Thirty minutes later, Audrina started to make her way through the manor and to the main dining room. She wore an emerald green knee length dress that had silver beads wrapped around her waist. Her blond hair was intricately tied on the top of her head, showing her brown eyes perfectly.

When she got downstairs, most of the dining room table was full, her father at the head with her mother on his right side, the left of him empty and waiting for her. She took a deep breath, she hated these gatherings but she held her head high, narrowing her eyes and walked forward, not taking a glance at anyone or anything besides her chair. She sat down, the house elf pushing her chair in for her when finally she looked around. Draco, of course, was sitting next to her, followed by the only known survivor of the Weasley family, Percy Weasley. Next to him was Gregory Goyle, one of the twins, Aleco Carrow, and Dolores Umbridge. On the other side of the table, next to her mother, sat her Auntie Bella, Fenrir Greyback, Vincent Crabbe, the other twin, Amycus, and Argus Filtch.

This seemed like a meeting of some kind, seeing as none of her very few friends were there. She looked up at Draco who met her eyes sadly, taking her hand under the table, rubbing his thumb across the back of her hand. She smiled softly and looked over at her father, who had just received his food and had picked up his fork.

"So, Audri, are you excited to be starting Hogwarts?" Bellatrix asked, taking a bite of her turkey. Audrina tried not to grimance, even though everyone knew she hated being called Audri. "Why yes, Auntie Bella. I'm sure it'll be very exciting. I do hope, though, that the teachers will be able to teach their classes right for the upperclassmen," she looked over at Alecto and Amycus, two of which would be teachers, as well as Greyback and a few others.

"I'm sure we'll do just fine," Greyback hissed, glaring at Audrina, as well as her ivory throat. "Fenrir," Lucius warned, glaring back at the guest. Greyback cleared his throat and went back to cutting his rare steak.

The rest of the night continued as such, full of useless chatter that Audrina didn't even want to pay attention to as she ate. Instead, she thought of Steven and the note he had taken the time to write and stick in her pocket, even though either of their parents could have seen. She sighed softly, smiling to herself as she pushed around the food on her plate. She knew Draco kept on looking at her curiously, but she didn't mind. The next day, she would be gone, not seeing Draco until Christmas vacation, if she were lucky. There was no doubt that she loved her brother dearly, he just had a tendancy to get in her way, pry into her business. That was why she had never had a boyfriend – at least, not one that she had brought home with her.

The next morning at 7:00AM, Audrina was woken by a loud banging on her door. "RINA! DON'T MAKE ME COME IN THERE! WAKE YOUR BLOODY ASS UP!" Draco shouted from the other side of her bedroom door. "I'm up, I'm up," she mumbled, just loud enough so he could hear her as she sat up slowly. Her hand reached up to scratch her head as she yawned loudly.

Today was the day she would finally be leaving this wretched house. She knew she didn't belong, not even her name coincided with the Malfoy's. She had always wondered why her last name were Riddle and when she had asked her mother, Narcissa had just answered with the "You will know when the time is right," crap.

Pushing her thoughts away, far away, Audrina started to get ready. She took a shower, paying special attention to her hair, making sure it smelled precisely of a coconut shampoo she had bought in Muggle London. As she stepped out of the shower, she took out her wand and did a hair removing spell on her legs and under her arms, glad that her mother had taught her some beauty spells from the age of eleven when she had first received her wand. She brushed her teeth and ran a comb through her hair, pulling it up in a loose ponytail on top of her head before walking into her closet.

While she knew she would be getting changed on the train, she couldn't very well go walking into King's Cross Station in her school robes so she chose a dark green blouse with blue jeans along with some trainers. After putting on just the slightest amount of makeup, she grabbed her trunk and hauled it down the stairs and to the sitting room before heading into the dining room to get some breakfast. By that time it was around 10am and the train left at eleven sharp. Her father was sitting at the head of the table, the Daily Prophet opened in front of him.

Audrina sat down at a free chair, her mother and brother nowhere to be seen. As soon as she took a bit of toast from the plate in front of her, Lucius set his paper down, turning his seat slightly towards his daughter. "Audrina," he said simply to get her full attention. She looked at her father, resisting biting her lip. "Since you are beginning school today, I think that you need to know a few things."

Her mother walked in through the door behind her father, a serious expression on her face.

"Yes?" Audrina squeaked, nervous as ever.

"As you know," her mother started, walking in from the other room and sitting down next to her father where he took her hand in his, squeezing it reassuringly. "Or might have guessed, Lucius is not your biological father."

Audrina nodded, she had known this from the age of five. Maybe her mother would be telling her who her real father was.

"And before you ask or assume, no I did not cheat on him. I love Lucius dearly," she smiled at her husband before turning her attention back to her daughter. "I was raped the night of the Battle of Hogwarts," she choked. "It was terrible, but I could not fight because the person who did this hideous act would have been able to kill me in a second. You know him by two names, though his real name is not known by many. It is Tom Riddle: He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Lord Voldemort."

Audrina rode in the car silently with her parents and brother to King's Cross. Once there, she put her trunk on a cart along with her large eagle owl, Aquila. Her parents walked to the left of her and her brother to the right as she pushed the cart through King's Cross and through the barrier onto Plattform 9 ¾ where plenty of other families stood already.

Audrina was sad to leave her parents, even the worried look on her brother's face made her tear up. She was going to Hogwarts after it being closed forever. She had read Hogwarts, A History from her brothers bookshelf. However, the things in that book didn't at all seem what…her father…would want in his school.

With a small goodbye to her parents and a kiss on her brother's cheek, Audrina set off towards the train, the attendant hauling her trunk onto the train, letting her handle it from there. She held Aquila's cage in one hand, pulling her large trunk with the other and set off down the corridor.

((Authors Note)) Okay so this is my first story that I've actually published, though definately not my first story. I have a lot, I'm just really nervous to post them cause I don't think they're good enough. So anyways! I've been reading FOREVER! and just got up the nerve to post this like...an hour ago so I went through it, changed a lot of stuff like editing and adding things. So like most authors notes, I'm going to ask you to PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE review, add me to your favorites and all that :) So far, this is all I have but I'm going to be working on it a lot more now that I have motivation to write. This story, I'm actually writing with my friend and I'm going to ask her if I can publish what she writes as well and if not I'll go my own way with this. Thanks so much for reading and I hope you have a great day!