Author note: First attempt at fanfic writing, probably sucks. Debating on finishing the story, not sure now though. Also, I don't own anything or anyone that is in anyway part of Harry's world, its just a story. /p
Stepping through the barrier, she looked around Platform 9 ¾ to see everyone saying their last goodbyes to their families before dragging their trunks onto the train. With a sigh, she pulled her black sun hat down over her face; she walked through the crowd and boarded the train looking for an empty compartment. Normally she would have gone in search of her friends to sit with being that this had been the first summer that she had not went to see them all. However, after the life changing summer she had, she needed time to herself to prepare herself for the year and what the new changes in her life would mean to her school year./p
It slowly became clear to her that waiting until the last moment to arrive at the platform, meant that she was not going to find an empty compartment. With a sigh, she decided just to go straight to the heads compartment and hope that whoever the head boy was, wanted to spend the first half of the trip with his friends. It appeared that her wish was coming true as she entered the empty compartment and stored her trunk under the bench she sat on. Lifting her stilettoed heels up on to the bench, she rested her head against the window, closing her eyes and reliving her crazy summer, which had started the moment she stepped off the train./p
"I'll write you all soon, yes?" She told her friends, hugging each one in turn, making them promises to keep in touch until they could all get together towards the end of summer. Satisfied with their answers, she left to meet up with her parents, whom she knew would be waiting for her outside of the station./p
The moment she saw them, she knew that something was wrong but when asked her parents pushed her questions aside, hugging her and welcoming her home. Realizing that her parents were not going to tell her what was going on until they were ready; she hugged them back and followed her mother to the car, where her father who had gone ahead of them was just finishing putting her trunk in. As they started their hour drive through London, the car was unusually quiet./p
"So, is someone going to let me know what is going on? Or must I continue just thinking the worst?" she asked her mother as they entered their home./p
"Oh darling, it's just that things have happened while you were away and we aren't sure how exactly to tell you," her mother started, sitting down beside her father and grabbing his hand. Realizing that her mother was unable to continue she turned towards her father. "Tell me daddy, what ever it is we can handle it."/p
"Well darling, remember when you asked us why you were an only child?" He asked, continuing when she nodded. "Remember how we said that we were having trouble getting pregnant and when we finally gave up that's when you came into our lives?"/p
"Yes, you always said that I was your blessing, the greatest gift you ever received and that I was all you two needed because now you had the family you always wanted." She replied summarizing the rest of the story. After a moments pause, an idea hit her. "Oh my, youre pregnant again, aren't you mom? I'm going to be a big sister! And here you had me worrying that…"/p
"No dear," her mother cut in. "I am not now nor ever have been pregnant, that's what we are trying to tell you. You see dear, well, you were adopted." Silence hung throughout the room as she tried to process what she was just told. Adopted? But she looked just like her father and even had her mother's eyes, they had to be joking. And she told them so./p
And so in that moment, everything changed. Her parents told her how just when they were leaving the doctor's office years ago, having just been told that they would never be able to have children of their own, they were stopped by a lady in a cloak holding a baby in her arms. The lady told them that she knew of their problems and that if they helped her, she could help them. Thinking that she was crazy they had turned to walk away but were stopped by the lady, telling them that if they didn't help her, her baby would die./p
After just being told that they could never have childen of their own they went with the lady to a near by park to hear what she had to say. The lady started telling them about how things in the world are not always as they seem and that there is a whole world hidden from view, a world with magic. Again they started to leave, not wanting to deal with someone with such delusions, but again the lady stopped them. The lady pulled a wand out from her cloak and handing the baby over to the women, she told them that she would prove it and muttered some words, causing everthing in the park to slow down./p
Once she know that they couple believed her she started telling them how the wizarding world was currently at the end of a massive war between good and evil and how her husband had just died in a massive battle along with many others and that she herself had to go into hiding. Looking at her child in another womans arms tears came to her eyes as she told them that where she needed to go was not safe to bring her child and that she had been searching for the right family to protect her. She went on to tell them that a spell she had cast had lead her to them so she knew in her heart that they were the only ones who would be able to keep her daughter safe. It took some convincing but the couple finally agreed, having already in just moments fallen in love with the child. The women with a sad smile on her face casted one more spell that day, one causing the child's features to look more like her "parents" and left with the promise that when it was safe she'd return./p
"So you see dear, there was never a time that we could tell you this, it was unsafe for all of us if you knew," her mother finished. The story had shocked her completely, she wasn't who she had always thought she was, she was adopted, her birth parents were part of the wizarding world so she wasn't muggle born. The thoughts kept running through her head. Finally she was able to form words and asked. "Well then do you know who my mother is or how to find her?"/p
"Actually, she just recently found us and she's coming soon to take you with her for the summer to explain, we've agreed with her that this will be best for all involved. You never do anything half way so you need to throw yourself into this, you know you do." Her father told her./p
She knew that he was right but it still hurt, fit felt like they were throwing her out. Before she could even reply, there was a knock on the door and her mother went to get it. When her mother returned she was followed by a beautiful women with platinum blonde hair and porcelain skin./p
"Aryanna!" The women exclaimed running over to her. Just before the women hugged her she caught herself and stepped back. "Sorry, I just never thought I'd see you again!"/p
After spending the day with her parents and her birth mother it was time to say goodbye to the parents that had raised her and go to her mothers house in Paris and find out who she truly was./p
"I'm curious," said her father. "To know what your Aryanna looks like in comparison to the daughter we've raised. Would you mind darling if your mother would remove the spell?"/p
Nodding her head, her birth mother muttered a spell and she could feel the changes... She grew a few inches, her biddy filled out more, her brown hair turned the same platinum color as her mother and looking in a mirror she realized her eyes had turned a vivid green. Kissing her parents goodbye, she grabbed her things and her mother apparated them to a beautiful villa in Paris./p
"Excuse me!" A voice interrupted her thoughts, bringing her back to the present. "I think you have the wrong compartment, this is the heads compartment and I'm supposed to be meeting the head girl here, though not even her friend seem to know where she's gone."/p
"You're babbling Malfoy, it makes you more unattractive than normal. And I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be ferret."/p
"Granger?"