Summary:
After dying Cinda Salvaterra turns into a ghost and thrown back in time…
It was clear to her that she should be dead. Yet why was she inside a house. She worriedly looked around the empty house. Could it have been a place where she used to live when her parents were alive.
Cinda's parents died when a massmurdering was going on. A lunatic who claimed to be a nazi went on a killing spree throughout the neighborhood and killed 449 people that year, during their sleep. It should have been 450 people however one of them survived. She was the only survivor of that terrible night. If someone hadn't been awake that night the killing would have continued and many more people would have died.
After her parents murder she was sent to live with her aunt. Only her aunt's living condition wasn't good either. She was married to an abusive man that she was obsessed with during her youth and couldn't give up no matter how much he used and abused her.
As she grew up Cinda could only look after herself as the adults around her were all useless. The thought of finding out more about her parents did cross her mind however she knew it was useless to get to know them as they couldn't be there for her anyway.
She heard people's voices and hid herself.
"We shouldn't go out that much. It's dangerous times now", James' eyes were red and he had bags under them. Really dark bags.
"Honey, we have to get out of the house at some point. We can't stay all cobbled up. Besides Dumbledore told us this place was safe after all", Lily said optimistically. "Besides Harry needed some fresh hair".
'Harry!', her mind worked fast to connect everything.
She looked at the people and immediately recognized them. Harry looked so much like his father but had his mother's eyes.
"I can't believe he's already one years old!", she squealed in delight. "So what did you think about the cute little baby halloween costume I got for him to wear tomorrow".
'Halloween is soon, that means…'.
"Tomorrow, I just wished everyone could be here and celebrate", she cried.
James hugged his wife but he too realized how much of his childhood Harry would loose by hiding.
"Hopefully they'll capture Voldemort".
Cinda couldn't take it anymore and appeared in front of them.
"You need to get out of this house now!", she screamed. "Voldemort is coming!".
"Wha-? WHO ARE YOU!", James stood in front of Lily in protection.
"It doesn't matter who I am James Potter", she said worriedly. "You need to flee now. Dumbledore is a liar. This hidden location isn't safe. Peter Pettigrew have already ratted you guys out. You need to go somewhere far, far away like France or something".
"How can we trust you?", James frowned.
"You can't but you'll need to make a choice soon. He is coming", she turned her head to look outside and soon James could feel the wards break.
"Flee! You can't fight him!", she screamed. "Flee to France. You'll be more safer there. Trust me. Do it for Harry!"
James and Lily looked at each and nodded.
"Blow this place up", Cinda suggested. "Blow it up so it will look like you've all died".
Lily made some charms around the entrance door that would trigger the explosion. As soon as the door was unlocked and Voldemort stepped inside James hugged his wife and child as they transported away from the scene just a split second before Voldemort entered.
The horrible explosion wasn't exaggerated in the news since it was all true.
When Severus arrived at the scene his face paled and his knees became so weak as he stared at the ruins of the explosion. It had woken up the whole neighborhood. Sirius cried for the first time in ten years. He saw the death eater beside him but he couldn't, he didn't have the strength to fight him as he was grieving his best friend's death.
Sirius simply lied in bed not wanting to go out. He wanted to stay in the darkness in the emptiness as he blamed himself. Then he remembered that Peter had been the their keeper and his eyes glowed with vengeance.
"Mr. Black?", a girl's voice pulled him out of the bed.
"Who-? Who are you? How did you get past the wards?", he asked warily and pointed his was towards the girl and was surprised that he couldn't look inside her mind.
"Your friend sent me and wishes to meet you".
"Which friend? It's a trap, isn't it? Your a death eater!", he threw an imperio spell at her that simply went through her.
"You can't cast spells on me. I'm already dead. Now grab hold of this necklace…", she told him. "You might find some meaning again in life?", she chuckled.
Sirius took the necklace that was in her hands. Funny thing was that his fingers went through her hands he took the necklace. He felt goosebumps all over the body but didn't really have time to react as he was immediately teleported.
He stood in a garden outside a large mansion.
'Am I dreaming?'.
"Sirius!", James hugged the friend he had wanted to see for a very long time.
Sirius couldn't help that his tears were falling and held his "brother" tightly.
"I thought I lost you".
"You would have if we didn't have her on our side", James then turned towards Cinda. "Sirius this is Cinda Salvaterra. A ghost".
"We've met", he told him.
"Anyway let's go inside. We have to catch up on things".
"Sounds good to me".
Sirius and Lily hugged each other briefly while he couldn't help but let his face light up at the sigh of Harry. The boy showed that he wanted to be carried by him and he picked his godson up.
They all gathered inside the living room where there was a fireplace. A pretty expensive painting of a family on the wall over it. There was a piano a little further from it and the sofa's were place in a half-circle that had been cut in half to leave some room for people to enter between the two parts of the half-circle.
Sirius was surprised that he would meet his friend Remus Lupin here.
"Remus", they hugged each other.
"Sirius, I'm sorry I didn't say anything", he told him,
"Wait? You knew they were still alive?", Sirius frowned.
"Yes, after all it was to my place they arrived after blowing up the 'safe house'. I helped them escape to the Potter Mansion here in France using the floo afterwards. We're sorry we didn't tell you earlier. It was just that we needed to keep low and you were in the spotlight".
"I'll forgive you guys, so James you blew up your own house?", he looked at him.
"It was the only way to kill Voldy".
"He's dead?".
"In the explosion. However according to our ghost-friend Cinda he had put out seven horcruxes so he might revive one day".
"Does Dumbledore know you are alive?", Sirius came to think of the old man that had put them inside the house in the first place.
"No, and frankly he shouldn't. You will understand why if you listen to Cinda's story", he looked at her and she nodded as she took the spotlight.
"Like you already know Mr. Black my name is Cinda Salvaterra. I died after the final battle against Voldy ended in the far future when Harry is in his seventh year in Hogwarts. To begin things with, I grew up with Harry. To me Harry was simply a boy that was being abused by his relatives. You know them as Vernon and Petunia and bullied by his cousin Dudley. Now before you become enraged you need to know that even if Petunia detested Harry's magical inheritance she loved Lily dearly. However when Lily and James died by Voldy's hands at the betrayal of Peter Pettigrew who was a follower of his, a part of Voldy's dark soul was inside Harry like a curse put on him. This curse really could make people more mean and so Harry became the eight horcrux of Voldy, not of intention of course, when Voldy tried to kill Harry. However a charm that Lily put over him protected him and Voldy died in the process. Harry became the hero of the wizard world but also an orphan. Now you, Mr. Black could have easily taken in him however when you realized that it was Peter you went after him and he killed a lot of muggles in the process. You tried to stop him but only managed to cut his finger before her he into his animagus form, a rat precisely. After the incident you were accused of the murder of James and Lily as everyone thought that you were their secret keeper. You did receive a trial that was unfair and after that you were sent into Azkaban and driven mad. While you were in prison Harry was abused and used like a slave for the Dursley family. He never got to know of his own heritage before his eleventh birthday when his letter arrived. His letter from Hogwarts. Of course his uncle burned it down. However soon his whole house was bombarded by letters and I went out to take one of them as I showed it to him later when we met at the playground. We couldn't believe what we were reading and thought it was a prank but we were little and believing in something made us feel safer. So we believed in magic and we were so excited about his acceptance to Hogwarts. Unfortunately that same night Vernon and Petunia took Harry and their son on a sudden trip to somewhere far away in hopes that the wizards wouldn't find them. However Harry was found by Hagrid and taken to some alley to get some suppöies for his school and then... well you probably already know how you get to Hogwarts. Anyway he was sorted into Gryffindor but he told me he could have as easily been sorted into Slytherin. He was sorted into the house along with his best-friends Ron and Hermione. The three of them became known as the golden trio. They were always the ones who had to face danger but saved Hogwarts in the end each and every year since he started. It was like Harry attracted evil to him and it was because of the scar left by Voldy if my suspicions are right now. Fast forward to Harry's seventh year. Harry told me after Dumbledore died and how Severus who he had hated died that Severus had handed him his last memory so that Harry could use it and look into the pevensieve. That's when he learned that everything since he was young had been lies. Dumbledore had put him into the hands of the Dursleys despite knowing that he was being abused with the excuse that it was the safest place for him because of all the wardens put around it. Severus had been a double-agent for Dumbledore while pretending to work for Voldy. He told me in his final letter that came after a long period of ignoring me,how he knew he would defeat the Lord and that it had to go like the prophecy. Harry had to be killed. He didn't tell me much later but I've figure it out that the killing him part had to do with the scar of Harry. I read his last letter but I was so upset already with the fact that he had been ignoring me. I didn't even think I was his friend anymore. So when that letter arrived I was so upset I called Voldy's name. They came to my house and put me under a spell "Imperio". I was told to kill Harry Potter. I was only sent at the end of the war which Harry won after resurrecting from the dead. However when he saw me he had no idea that I was gonna kill him. I tried to fight but there was no use. Luckily someone threw a spell that killed me almost instantly. And that's when I appeared in the secret house meant to hide James and Lily but failed to. I warned them immediately when I realized in what year and time it was".
Sirius took in everything she said and tried to melt it into his brain.
"In conclusion Dumbledore is an asshole. Severus who I thought was an asshole turned out to have actually been protecting Harry all these years. I was in Azkaban and couldn't protect him from being used and groomed by Dumbledore. What about the other person who could have become his guardian?".
"I suspect it had something to do with your trial and that Dumbledore was involved when it came to who was going to take the custody of him".
"So he was the mastermind behind all of Harry's suffering".
"Pretty much yes", Cinda shrugged.
"Then he absolutely can not know about James and them being alive".
"That's what was the whole point yes".
While she let the four adults discuss some strategy over a plan of what they would do from now on she was gonna go watch the see at the beach close to the mansion. She remembered how Harry promised how they would live in a mansion when they were older. While it seemed that he would get to live here she would be born two years later in a simple home and only have a short moment of joy with her parents. Since she couldn't remember their faces she couldn't teleport to them. Who knew if she even existed in this world. The possibility of having been thrown into another universe was possible as her going back in time. Then what about her meeting with Harry? She supposed it would happen through her ghost form now. She had always been a person that had gone with the flow after all. Turn lemons into lemon juice was her motto.
When she returned inside she found out that the four of them were gonna stay in France and change their names and appearance.
Lily Potter now Madonna D'Arcy, had golden hair but kept her eyes green.
James now Pierre D'Arcy, kept his dark hair but changed his hazel eyes into blue.
Sirius Black now Saul Sinclaire, kept his black hair colour and changed his eyes to blue.
Remus Lupin changed his name to Oliver Sinclaire, changed his hair colour to black and his eyes to blue.
Harry's name was changed into Damien.
They were going to go with that that James, Sirius and Remus were brothers and they all turned out handsome as they had also changed other facial features like their noses, their lips and cheekbones.
Now as they all were known to be dead in the wizard world Madonna, Pierre, Saul, Oliver and Damien was born to the world.
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