Big Sister
Chapter 1 – A Rocky Beginning
I'm in my bed. I've have just woken to the sound of shouting outside. A baby is crying and I look through the bars of my cot and watch as he is picked up by her; my mother. Her eyes are wide with fear and she comes towards me but stops at the sound of a scream. She rushes to the door and I start to cry. I cry and cry but nobody comes. There is no sign of anyone.
That is all I remember. I don't know what happened the night my parents left. I know only that they did not take me with them. They chose the baby over me. The people at the orphanage told me there was a fire, that I was the only survivor. But it cannot be true. I've never told anyone what I remember of that night, of the nightmares I had. There was no fire, I know that for certain.
Every year a man comes to take me to their graves. His name is Severus. The first day he turned up at the orphanage I was scared stiff and refused to go but when he came the next year I was more curious. He doesn't talk a lot; in fact he hardly talks at all. Every year he takes me to the graveyard and we sit on the bench watching the day pass slowly by. The first time we came he told me "It is better if I do not tell you the names of your parents". I nodded silently. I had learned over the years that it was better not to ask questions that people were not going to answer.
Severus pays for my tuition fees at Beauxbatons Academy. I wanted to go to the place where he teaches, Hogwarts, but he said that there would be fewer bad influences on me at Beauxbatons.