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Harry Potter and the Path of Fate - Chapter Four

Harry turned to look at the person who had just tried to attack him only to be taken aback when he saw the young blonde haired, lightly freckled girl that was laying on the ground cradling her right wrist.

"Are you okay?" Harry asked warily, as he offered her his hand in order to help her stand up. "What's your name?"

The young lady ignored Harry as she struggled to get to her feet. As she stood up her left ankle popped causing her to try to catch herself by latching onto the nearest person or structure available in order to break her fall. Harry saw this and placed himself so that the girl could fall into him and not hurt herself on the walls or the floor of the train station. Just as she touched Harry a blinding flash lit the station, followed shortly by a second flash from behind and a third flash from a camera off to the left. When the spots had finally cleared from his eyes Harry had noticed their phantom photographer had disappeared and so he returned his attention to the young lady in front of him. After taking in her looks the first thing he noticed was the fiery intelligence behind her icy blue eyes. Harry looked her up and down to see if she was hurt anywhere else and froze when he saw the Black family crest that had been burned into her arm with a brand.

"You must be Daphne. Harry said, quietly. Gently holding her arm in his hand he growled, "Who did this?"

"My father," she said, timidly, I never liked the bastard. He doted on my younger sister," gesturing behind him. "Thank you for taking care of him."

"I'm afraid I don't know what you mean. Let's find a private cabin so we can discuss what I did, anopen train platform is not the place to be having this discussion, as he put his arms gently around both Daphne and her little sister guiding them to the train.

The three of them found an empty compartment near the back of the train that they entered quickly and locked the door.

"Now," Harry stated, "What exactly did I do to 'take care' of the problem?"

"You know that when you defeated You-Know-Who that you also gained a Lordship, correct?"

"Yes I gained the title of Lord Slytherin to go along with several others as well.

"Others," Daphne's little sister asked inquisitively.

"Astoria, I presume."

"Mhm."

"I guess you could say that I was raised muggle, or at least that is what other pureblood would call it," Harry said, with no small amount of distaste. Dumbledore dropped me off at my mother's sister's house after both of my parents had been killed. As for your question, my full title is Lord Hadrian James Potter-Black-Evans-Greengrass-Gryffindor-Ravenclaw-Slytherin-Emrys.

As he listed off each successive house in his title the girls eyes grew wider and as he finished they both were rendered speechless.

After a time Astoria finally asked, "Didn't the Evans line go extinct in the 1800s?"

"Yes, as far as the wizarding world is concerned, however, the truth of the matter is far grayer," Harry answered. "Let me reiterate, According to both the Potter and the Evans house libraries, In 1804 a dark wizard by the name of Reiker, used an obscure curse which turned the entire family into squibs. Unable to return to their family manor due to the war wards being active all of them were forced into the muggle world. The Evans family Matriarch who was on the verge of gaining her potions mastery was forced to resign, though using her knowledge of potions and herbs she and her husband opened a business with the help of the Potters under the title of Evans' Pharmaceuticals. My mother born Lillian Rose Samuels in 1959 using a blood ritual was adopted into the Evans' family after a Death Eater raid in 1964 killed her parents as they were shopping. Enrolled into Hogwarts in 1970 as Lily Rose Evans and the rest as they say is history."

"Oh no, you are not getting off that easy," Daphne started just before they heard a knock on the door. "We will talk more of this later."

Harry then unlocked the door, as it slid open the girl asked: Has any of you seen a toad?

A/N: Sorry about the short chapter this week has been murder. I promise I will try to do better with the next chapter. Thank you again for all of the replies, I try to set time out of my day in order to read them. Until next time-RESlader