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Warning! Before you proceed, this is a female Harry Potter story, so if you do not like these types of stories, turn back now.
I Solemnly Swear
A Marauder's Legacy
October 31, 1981
The neighborhood was dark, and the air was crisp. Inside a cozy and inviting cottage, lived a small family of three. The Potters weren't your typical family though, for they had a secret. One that only a hidden society knew about, for in this secret society, magic exists.
The Potters were a well-known and ennobled family and were considered a part of the light sect of this society. The position they held earned them a great many admirers and just as many enemies. The magical world while beautiful and wondrous, was fraught with war and bloodshed with very little hope of an end in sight. That is, until a prophecy was made. One that spoke of a child that could bring an end to the war and bring peace to their world. A prophecy, that by the end of the night, would leave the elder Potters dead and an innocent child orphaned.
"James?" Lily called, glancing up from a book on blood runes, to look at her husband.
James sighs exasperatedly and looks at Lily, "Look Lily Pad, I love you, but we've been over this how many times already? Albus performed the Fidelis charm himself and with Wormtail as secrets keeper, not to mention, the ritual that you found, we are as prepared as we can be." Little did he know, their friend had betrayed them and the use of a magic that some would deem evil and dark, is what spared their child from the same fate as their own.
"I know James, I'm just worried. I just have this feeling something isn't right." Lily says in a nervous and resigned tone, having closed her book and set it aside to join her husband in watching their daughter, Amethyst, zoom around the room on her training broom.
Smiling fondly at the sight of his daughter giggling and having fun with her broom, James looks up at Lily and was about to say something when there was suddenly a ripple through the wards. Cursing under his breath, James silently berated himself for not taking Lily's fears seriously. "It's them Lily, grab Ames and run!" James yelled out. Lily sprung up and grabbed Amethyst from her broom, running to the stairs to their daughter's room, as James grabs his wand from his side pointing it at the back door. The elder Potters sharing one last look at each other before Lily darted into Amethyst's room.
Within seconds of James hearing the upstairs door slam, there was a loud crashing boom at the back door, when James looked up, there stood two of the most feared wizards of their time. One a dashing blonde male with an angelic face and the other a grotesque snake like human hybrid. The wizards were easily able to deflect the stunning spell and with a simple flash of green light, James Potter's life was ended.
The pair then silently made their way upstairs not even sparing a glance at the lifeless body of James Potter. Easily finding Lily standing in front Amethyst in her crib. "Step aside foolish girl." Said the blonde male.
"No, take me, not my Amethyst! Kill me instead!" Lily yells out crying with tears streaming down her face, continuing to stand in front of Amethyst.
The blonde man takes a step forward, "This is your last warning, step aside."
"No, please no! Please take me instead!" Lily continues to beg. With a shake of his head the blonde man raises his wand and with that, Lily met the same fate as her loving husband.
"Sssssssuch a wassssste." The snake like figure hissed out, sneering at Lily's lifeless body. The blonde male then turns his attention to the child that was supposedly destined to be his downfall and raises his wand, uttering the two words that no one has ever been known to survive from. In a moment that was supposed to be his greatest victory, Gellert Grindelwald and his protege Voldemort, watched in morbid fascination as his curse rebounded causing the dark lord to become no more and the other to flee and not be seen or heard from again till over a decade later. Leaving behind nothing but a crying orphan with the most unique scar on her forehead and a destroyed nursery.
This is the scene that Sirius Black and Professor Tom Riddle walked in on. Where one of the males was visibly upset and smothering the child with affection and apologies between promises of vengeance and retribution, the other stared at the child with a barely concealed calculative interest and curiosity. After a few moments of looking over the scene, Riddle turns to Black and says in a cold and no-nonsense tone, "We need to leave, Dumbledore wishes for the child to go to her mother's muggle relatives." At this Lord Black snaps his head up to look at his former professor, "He wouldn't! He knows how much Lily's sister hated her!" Riddle doesn't respond right away and starts pulling Sirius out of the room.
On their way out of the house, as the professor practically drags the emotional young Black out, "He believes that she would be better off living outside of the wizarding world. Which is why we're going to Gringotts, so you can finalize the adoption paperwork." Riddle says slightly irritated.
Once they arrived at the bank, the goblins were quick to inform them that another powerful wizard was trying and failing to seal the Potters' will and take the child into custody himself. That was all Lord Black needed to hear before immediately demanding his account manager and had the paperwork done and signed.
Just as Sirius Black left with his newly adopted daughter, Tom Riddle watched, with a satisfied smirk, as the man he has despised since childhood learned that his plans of having the perfect little weapon were about to become more difficult to execute. To say that the great Albus Dumbledore was angry would be an understatement and that just made it even more satisfying for him. With a silent pop, the true Dark Lord returned to the only place he has ever considered home, and began to plot how to use the child for his own personal quest.
AN: Hey guys, so my mom is amazing and is helping write this story by proof reading it and giving me ideas of how I should go about certain topics. One of my best friend's is also helping by reading it over to make sure it makes sense and flows well :) We have a lot planned for this story and it's going to be a hell of a lot of fun to write, so I sincerely hope you enjoy it as well.