Disclaimer: I would love to take credit for some of the ideas in my story but all in all they belong to the wonderful JK Rowling. Bless her for the wonderful world she invented.

A/N: Keep in mind the first few chapters are going to have a lot of background information, so a lot of remembering. Thanks Darque Hart for noticing my error..

For the Life of the Child

Eleven year old Tabitha Ann Prewett was enjoying her first day of summer break. She never thought school would ever get over she was just ready for a break. Just as Tabi was sitting down for her breakfast she noticed what looked like an owl flying towards her window. She would have thought this site would have been weird if he had not been for the information she had received many years before. Tabi was remembering the day she found out that she was a witch.

Tabi was eight years old at the time and her mom and her and just got into a huge fight over something stupid and she went into room and slammed the door. She just laid on her bed and started to cry, she just couldn't understand why her mom was being this way she was just so mad at her she just wanted to scream. She rolled over in her bed to stare at the ceiling then she did the only thing she could at the moment which was scream. As she screamed she looked up and saw the items in her room start to fly around, which freaked her out and she started to scream for her mom. "Mom, mommy, come in here. Hurry up." Suzanna came running into the room and as she got there and opened the door everything that was flying just fell to the floor.

"Tabi what the hell just happened" Suzanna yelled as she watch the rest of the stuff in the air fall.

"Mom, I don't know I just started to scream because I was mad and then everything started to fly around. It was really weird." Tabi stated as she looked around at the mess on her floor.

"Well honey I am not sure what happen, but let us wait till daddy gets home and we will talk with him." Suzanna stated as she walked out the door, Tabi went after her.

"Mommy, I am sorry I yelled at you" Tabi said as her mom walked down the hall.

Later that night when her dad got home, her mom and dad sat down with her to explain that she was a very special girl with very special gifts and one day she would be able to go to a school that would teach her how to use her gifts.

Tabi just smiled at thinking about that day, she was so excited when her parents gave her that news. Back then the one question that was on her mind was how they knew about the wizarding world since neither one of her parents were wizards as far as she knew. That question was answered for her last summer when she really started to notice there were more things about that didn't match up about her parents and her.

It all came out on her 10th birthday after all her friends had left. It had been from something that her friend had said to her, so she decided that she better ask her mom about it. She went to locate her mom and found her cleaning up in the kitchen.

"Hay mom can I help you with those dishes" Tabi stated as she walked over to the sink with a towel so she could dry.

"It's your birthday you really don't have to help if you don't want too." Her mom said

"That's ok mom, I needed to talk to you about something that Missy said" Tabi said as she began to dry the dishes her mom had already placed in the dish drainer.

Suzanna went about washing the dishes while Tabi started to talk. "Mom, I really don't want you to take this the wrong way but…" Tabi stopped with a lump in her throat. "Am I your real daughter?" At the sound of the question the plate that Suzanna had in her hand dropped in the porcelain sink and broke.

"What makes you think that?" she said as she started to pick up the pieces of glass.

"Well mom think about it..I have long black hair and dark almost black eyes. You and dad are both blonde with blue eyes. I guess I never really thought about it until Missy said something to me tonight." Tabi stated but with a hint of understanding in her voice.

Suzanna was not sure where to start, but she knew she could not wait until Mortimer came home because he would not be home until late that night. "Tabi let us finish cleaning up this mess and then I will do the best I can to answer any questions that you might have." she smiled at her daughter "If I can answer them." With that Tabi just smiled at her mom, kissed her cheek and finished up the dishes.

After they had the kitchen all cleaned up from the party they grabbed a couple of drinks and went into the living room and got comfortable for a long talk. "Well Tabi I am not really sure where I want to start. Your father and I have talked about this since you discovered that you were a witch, but we were always going to tell you together." Suzanna sat back it the chair took a drink and began. "Many years ago my best friend Hermione Granger came to me and asked if I would be willing to take a baby in that needed a home. Your father and I had been trying for a few years to get pregnant without luck, so when she came to me I told her that we would. I had grown up around Hermione since I was around 2 years of age and we were the best of friends we shared everything. Hermione had been a witch and she told me all the exciting things that she could do and when she turned 11 she was going to get to go to this school that would teach her all about it. That Tabi is the reason that I know about being a witch, because she told me everything. Your real parents were apparently both wizards so that is why you are one." Suzanna just took a deep breath glad to have that off her chest.

"Wow mom, I truly know now how much of a wonderful person you are." Tabi leaned over to her mom and gave her a big hug. The rest of time was spent trying to answer questions about what she could. The only thing she didn't tell me was who my real parents were. After talking to her mom Tabi couldn't find any reason why she should be mad or hate her parents for not telling her, she understood they did it to protect her.

Tabi found something in the fridge and gave the owl a snack then the owl while she removed the letter from the owl. Then the owl gave a light toot and was back out the door. Tabi just looked that the letter and noticed it was addressed to her. The front of the envelope was simple with just her name and address then she flipped it over and noticed a red seal that that simply stated Hogwarts. Just as she was about to open the letter her mom walked in the room.

"What do you have Tabi?" Suzanna stated as she opened the fridge.

"It's a letter from a place called Hogwarts" Tabi commented with a sound of confusion in her voice. "It came by owl" As Tabi went to the table to sit down she heard the sound of whatever her mother was holding hit the floor with the comment. Tabi got up off of the chair and went over to her mom to help.

"Is everything ok mom" she stated with a concerned looked on her face.

"Yes, I am fine. Can you please go get something to help me clean up the mess? Tabi took off to get the broom and dustpan for her mom. Tabi knew by the look on her moms' face that something was going on, but she was not sure what it was

Mortimer and Suzanna had decided a long time ago to tell Tabi part of the truth about her past but they knew they could not tell her the whole truth about her parents until they knew it was safe. Suzanna did end up telling her a year ago, but she had left out the real truth about her biological parents. She told Tabi once that when she turned 11 she would be able to go to a special school, but she was never quite sure if she would still be going because she was not aware of what was going on in the other world. Suzanna had been best friends with Hermione Granger while they were growing up. Even though Suzanne was a muggle, as Mione told her once, Mione kept her up on everything in the wizarding world. Suzanna had not heard from her since they had moved to America when Tabitha was a year old.

Suzanna remembers all too well the day Hermione showed up at her door in tears. Suzi had been in the kitchen working on dinner. Mortimer had called about an hour earlier and let her know that he was going to be a few hours late. After she put the roast in the oven she heard a knock at the door. She went to answer the door and found Mione at the door holding a baby with tears streaming down her face.

"Oh my gods Mione come in. What's wrong" Suzi placed her arm around Mione and the baby and brought them into the house.

Mione made her way to the couch and sat down with the baby. "Suzi I do not know what I am going to do, I need your help." Mione stated through the tears.

"Mione you're my best friend and you know I will always be there for you. What do you need me to do?" Suzi said with a slight smile.

Mione kept looking towards the door and around she seemed to be really scared about something. "I..I..need you to take Tabi and keep her safe for me" Mione was still in tears.

"Why Mione what's wrong, you have been so excited about the baby. Won't Severus be able to protect you both." Suzi said

Mione looked down at Tabi with a look of sadness on her face. "He doesn't know Suzanna, I couldn't tell him or he would be in terrible danger."

"You mean he does not have a clue you were even pregnant?" Suzanna said

"No, I could never bring myself to tell him. It is bad enough that we have been having this relationship that only you know about, but to bring in a baby into the mix would mean our deaths." Mione started crying even heavier. "With all my training and schooling I know many spells that I used to keep my pregnancy hidden; not only my physical appearances, but having to keep Severus out of my mind was the hardest. It caused a big fight and we didn't talk for a few weeks. During the last few months it was getting harder to keep up the secrets, so I went into hiding and just came up with some excuse to get away.

"Damn it Hermione you should have told me you could have come here and I would have helped you then!" Suzanna spat out, which only lead to Hermione crying harder. "Mione I'm sorry I am just a little upset that you didn't come to me sooner." Suzanna reached over to her friend and gave her a hug. "I will do whatever it takes to help you" she smiled.

Suzanna cannot believe that had been over 11 years ago. She could not just leave her friend high and dry so she had to help her. Suzanna could not imagine being what came between a child being able to live or die. During the first year Mione and her sent letters back and forth to via private mail boxes in order to send regular mail back and forth to each other; they needed to keep it as discrete as possible. After the first year things were starting to get a little heated and some concerns had popped up so they all decided that it would be best if they severed the ties and the little family moved to America and that is where they have been for the last 10 years.

Tabi came back with the broom and dust pan and started cleaning up the mess on the floor. "So mom you must really be in shock over that letter. So is the letter from the school you were telling me about all those years ago." Tabi asked as she finished cleaning up and threw the stuff away.

"Yes dear, sorry that I startled you when you told me about the letter. I just have not thought about the school since I told you a couple years ago." Suzanna stated as she sat at the table. "Well, let's open the letter and see what it says." She said as she reached for the letter.

Tabi sat closely by while her mom opened and read the letter. "Come on mommy what's it say." Tabi comment very impatiently.

"Well it tells you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Then it also gives you a list of school supplies. The one problem is this school is somewhere in England and Diagon Alley the place where we need to go to get your supplies is in London. We have just got to figure out a way to get you to England." She said as she looked through the rest of the letter. Tabi was so excited she jumped up and went into her room to write in her diary, the one she has been writing in over the last couple of years since she found out she was a witch.

After Tabi left Suzanna found a letter in the mix from Hermione so she got up and poured herself a cup of coffee and moved into the living room to read the letter.

"Suzi,

Wow, I cannot believe it has been so long since the last time we have talked. There is so much I have to tell you, but so much I cannot tell you in a letter. I am planning on coming too see you on Saturday so I can help sort through all those details for the upcoming school year and so I can answer any other questions that you might have. I am really sorry I have not been able to contact you and I hope Tabi and you can forgive me. Hermione."

Suzanna just folded up the letter and placed it on the table and picked up her coffee and while she sipped the coffee. She sat there and wondered how Saturday was going to go, it was going to be interesting. The biggest thing on her mind was what Tabi was going to think.

A/N: Well there you go. Sometimes it is harder to put what is in your head on paper and make it make sense. Just leave me a review and tell me what you think. I am still in need of a good beta so let me know..Thanks..