A VENGEANCE TALE
SUMMARY: When her parents – King James and Queen Lily Potter – are murdered following a conspiracy concocted by three men, 3-year-old Princess Annabelle Potter is placed in a muggle orphanage for her own protection. Everyone in the Wizarding World thinks she's dead, thanks to the actions of Severus Snape, her mother's best friend since childhood. After years of living on the streets, 10-year-old Anna is found by Gellert Grindelwald – Durmstrang's Headmaster. For his own reasons, Gellert decides to give her a new name and family before enrolling her to his school. At 17 years old, Anna – now Elena Prewett – returns to England to enact her revenge. AU but with magic.
This story is AU – though set in Harry Potter's years – and is inspired by the novel 'The Count of Montecristo' and the series 'A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones' (and a little by the TV show 'Revenge' and the Spanish series 'Sin Identidad'). Like you can guess, it's a story about revenge. The main character is FemHarry – whose name is Annabelle Potter –, not Harry. Also, this will be a Lucius/FemHarry story eventually, with FemHarry/Draco as well but as an arranged/political couple, there will be no love between them (or at least from FemHarry's side).
This story is still set in the Harry Potter world meaning that there is magic in it but some things are a little different. I advise you to read all these information about the story before reading the actual first chapter.
There won't be any good sides or bad sides in this story, just like in Game of Thrones. Both Dumbledore and Tom Riddle are awful and cruel but in different ways. Even FemHarry won't be good, heroic and kind either in this story, though she has her reasons. Light, Dark and Grey sides are about magical compatibility and not about 'good' and 'evil'.
This story will be told from multiple POVs, just like in the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' Series.
PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE STORY:
For starters, the British Wizarding World is a parliamentary monarchy, not a republic. Some of the dates and years of birth of the characters will be changed as well. Also, the so-called 'muggleborns' in this story are only those with one muggle parent and one squib parent. There are no magical children born from two muggles; it simply does not happen in this story.
British Wizarding History in this fiction:
In the 11th Century the Wizarding World of Great Britain was divided into four lands: England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. These four lands had four different rulers: England was ruled by the Gryffindor Family, Scotland was ruled by the Slytherin Family, Ireland was ruled by the Ravenclaw Family and Wales was ruled by the Hufflepuff Family.
Everything changed when the Prince Alexandre Peverell of Normandy (magical world, not muggle), a very powerful wizard and necromancer, came to England with a powerful army of wizards and witches loyal to him and conquered it, before setting his eyes on Wales first and then Ireland (entire Ireland). The three Kings of England, Wales and Ireland bent the knee and became Lords Paramount of their lands, unifying the lands into a single kingdom. The new King Alexandre married the King of England Gryffindor's daughter to pacify the population. The only Land that resisted his invasion was Scotland but the Land became eventually part of the United Kingdom as well through marriage between the then King of Scotland's daughter Seline Slytherin and Alexandre's son Charlus.
Alexandre first landed on the Isle of Wight, then built the city that would become the Capital of the Kingdom: Kingstown. Kingstown borders on its south with the Solent, on its east with Lee-on-the-Solent, on its North with Fareham and Titchfield and, on its west with Hook and Warsash. It is an all-wizarding city and completely hidden from muggles.
Houses Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff became vassals of the King's Family and were called from then on the Four Great Houses. Each Great House has various powerful families sworn to it.
For House Gryffindor: Potter, Prewett, Weasleys, Longbottom, Brown, McLaggen.
For House Slytherin: Malfoy, Black, Nott, Lestrange, Parkinson, Shafiq (and later Gaunt).
For House Ravenclaw: Dumbledore, Boot, Prince, Lovegood, Goldstein, MacDougal
For House Hufflepuff: Smith, Bones, Abbott, MacMillan, Diggory, Fawley
In the 12th Century, the heirs of the four Great Houses: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff, founded together the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Hogwarts. Before that the magical knowledge was passed down from family to family and mostly between the most powerful and richest families. The school is open to everyone who has magic.
In the 14th Century, King Edgar Peverell had three sons: Antioch, Cadmus and Ignotus. Usually the King had only one son, therefore the three Deathly Hallows (powerful heirlooms passed down from father to son for generations and that legend said it was given to the first Peverell by Death itself) were never divided. This time, since there were three sons, the Elder Wand went to the first-born, the Resurrection Ring to the second-born and the Invisibility Cloak to the third-born.
Antioch became King first, but died without children. He got killed in a duel and lost his wand.
Cadmus had an illegitimate son before marrying: a sickly, thin child that everyone called 'the gaunt child' that would later become the founder of House Gaunt, Corvus Gaunt. Corvus Gaunt's son married Salazar Slytherin's great-granddaughter.
After Cadmus became King after his brother's death, he married for love but his wife died in childbirth and his son was stillborn. Incapable of standing the grief of losing both, Cadmus killed himself. The resurrection stone was passed down to the Gaunt Family after Cadmus's death and there remained.
Ignotus, the third child, became King. He ruled justly and wisely. At his death, his son succeeded him. At his death, he only had one daughter – Iolanthe – that married Hardwin of House Potter. The name Peverell disappeared after that. The Potters became the new Royal Family.
House Peverell married during the Centuries within all four Great Houses. The Four Houses as well, married within their own sworn Houses. Potter, Brown and Prewett for Gryffindor. Gaunt, Malfoy and Black for Slytherin. Dumbledore, Boot and Prince for Ravenclaw. Smith, Bones and Abbott for Hufflepuff.
House Potter is related to both Gryffindor and Peverell. House Gaunt is related to both Slytherin and Peverell. House Dumbledore is related to both Ravenclaw and Peverell. House Smith is related to both Hufflepuff and Peverell.
Houses Prewett and Brown are related to Gryffindor but not Peverell. Houses Malfoy and Black are related to Slytherin but not Peverell. Houses Boot and Prince are related to Ravenclaw but not Peverell. Houses Bones and Abbott are related to Hufflepuff but not Peverell.
When the Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff names disappeared, the new Great Houses became – respectively – Potter, Gaunt, Dumbledore and Smith.
The representatives from each Great House (usually the Head of House), from the other vassal houses, the most important Representatives from the Ministry of Magic (Minister of Magic, Senior Undersecretary, Head of Auror Department, Head of Magical Accidents, Head of Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures etc), plus the King and Queen and their council, form the Wizegamot (which is like a Parliament).
The Chief Warlock is the Head of the Wizegamot and he (or she) is always from one of the Great Houses or from the Houses descended from Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. The King (or Queen) has the final say on who becomes the Chief Warlock – though there is a vote among the Wizegamot members –.
In the same way, in case of a power void, the Chief Warlock can elect the new King (or Queen) from one of the Great Houses, though there is always a vote and the majority wins. He can also elect Lords Paramount in case of uncertainty about the succession, always with the agreement from the members of the Wizegamot.
The Minister of Magic, on the other hand, can be belong from whatever House, or no House at all, but he has to be from among the Head Representatives from the Ministry Offices.
All these things are background history. The story, like I stated before, is set during the Harry Potter's years.
However, some things for certain characters are very different. For starters, Gellert Grindewald is not a Dark Lord in this story. He was never expelled from Durmstrang and instead became its Headmaster in 1945. He, therefore, does not end up in Nurmengard in this story.
Date of Birth for the characters in this story:
1881 – Albus Dumbledore
1883 – Gellert Grindelwald
1903 – Marvolo Gaunt
1920 – Charlus Potter, Dorea Black (in this story they are James Potter's parents), Morphin Gaunt
1923 – Merope Gaunt
1940 – Walburga Black, Lucretia Black, Ignatius Peverell
1941 (December) – Tom Riddle
1942 – Abraxas Malfoy, Cygnus Black, Orion Black, Druella Rosier
1953 - Hepzibah Smith
1955 - Rodolphus Lestrange
1956 – Bellatrix Black
1958 - Rabastan Lestrange
1959 (November) – Sirius Black
1960 – James Potter, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, Lily Evans, Andromeda Black
1962 – Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Black
1979 (September) – Hermione Granger
1980 – Annabelle Potter, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley etc.
N.B. Tom Riddle won't be called Voldemort in this story. He will take a new name but I won't tell you what, you will find out. Also, he's not a Dark Lord either, not exactly. He is human (and mostly sane but that can change) but still very cruel and sadistic. This story is, however, about politics and powerplays (the 'Game of Thrones') so no Dark Lords, Death Eaters' raids etc.
Also, Lily Evans is a half-blood in this story and not a muggleborn. She is also related to the Gaunts from her grandmother's side and she was a parselmouth. Her grandmother, Merida Gaunt – Marvolo Gaunt's younger sister – married Elphias Evans – a muggleborn wizard. For this, Merida was disinherited* by her family. Merida and Elphias had two children: a boy and a girl. The boy was Martin Evans and was Lily's (and Petunia's) father (Petunia was born with no magic). He married a girl from a minor pureblood family, Vivian Ross. The girl was Mirian Evans and she married into the Sayre Family (a pureblood family from Scotland). Mirian and her husband had one son.
Being disinherited by your own family in this story does not really matter. Your family can cut off the money and land that you inherit but you still get to keep your name and that is what matters most of all. If you are the last one in your family, you still end up inheriting everything that belonged to your family anyway.
Men in this story have more political power than women; however women can still inherit. If the choice is between a half-blood man and a pureblood woman, the woman inherits for example. What matters most is your name and family, even above the blood.
I think that's everything for now. Hope you'll like my story.
