Title: Artemis Potter, and The Voices of The Shade

Summary: Lily and James died, leaving Arty Potter not only the title, money and fame, but also a special guardian that could be seen by no one, but Arty herself. As she grows up, the voice of her special guardian taught and cared for her as a mother would, though she could not see the sweet yet haunting voice of the one she called Nyx. As she set's foot in the wizard world, with more knowledge than she was supposed to, Artemis shall shake the wizarding world to the very foundations it stands on, and change decades worth of stagnant tradition, bigotry and unjust with the aid of her trusted Nyx, a few friends and allies on the way, and an inheritance of magic, more powerful than anything that has ever been known to man. Smart!Powerful!Dark!Fem-Harry. Smart!Brilliant!Necromantic!Lily. Bashing and criticizing within reason. Full summary inside.

A/N: This is a completely original plot, and if ever It may seem similar to anything you've read before, well..., it's quite creepy if someone out there thinks along the same lines as I do. It's just one of the many What If's we HP fans have created to try and twist the plot the way we want it to.

Chapter 1: Different

Artemis Lilliane Potter knew that she was a very different child. The voice told her once, and now she completely understood why. Well.., not completely, but she understood mostly why.

She knew that normal kids didn't have someone like Nyx, a comforting sweet companion that she couldn't really see or feel physically. She could just feel her presence around. A soft slightly chilly yet comforting essence that was always near her, and wold sometimes envelop her when she felt down or after a beating.

At first she could only see images as answers to things she didn't know. A scene playing through her mind of something new which caught her curiosity earlier and would be explained to her by the image. Then at 6, at her first time doing a miraculous deed, which she would know later on as magic, She first heard Nyx.

"Master, you have awakened part of your abilities..." It said.
"Who are you!" She squeaked, already terrified of doing something freakish, and now being caught by some lady she couldn't see.
"I have been guarding you the past 5 years, master. You had no ability to see me at that time however, only now could you hear me.."
"C...can I see you?" she asked shakily...
"Not yet, mistress. Perhaps when you grow of power." the voice replied. "And you need not speak out loud, mistress. Talk within your mind, and I shall hear you..."
"L..like this...?"
She thought nervously.
"Yes mistress, like that..." the vice sounded kind yet amused.
"Who are you? Why do you protect me? And.. Why do you call me that?"
Artemis asked, still nervously glancing around after she brought a dead bird to life.
"You may call me Nyx, young mistress. I protect you, because your mother created me to do so..."
"My mother!"
asked Artemis, shocked. "But the Dursley's..."
"Ignore what they told you about your parents, dear Artemis"
the voice, now known as Nyx, said. "They have told you the opposite. Your parents were noble, kind, peaceful, and probably one of the if not the richest family in your world..."
"w..wait... What!"
Her mind was spinning, trying to delete the information the Dursleys had ingrained into her mind.
"Our world? the richest? Noble.. kind..."
"not only that mistress, but they were murdered as well..."
said Nyx, sighing. "let me tell you what had happened. But before that mistress, let the Raven go, and the retreat to your.. cupboard. This shall be a long night..."