AN: Well, I lied the last chapter, the Time skip won't this chapter but in the next one. Sorry about that :)

I also have stopped using the three sss in Parseltongue, I forget about them all the time and then I have to correct it every time.

Thank you all for the great response and I hope you will like the new chapter.

Have fun!

"Normal speech"

"Death speech"

$Pareltounge$

"Thoughts"

Edited: 6th July 2018

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.

Sophie woke up early on Christmas day and was really excited it was her first Christmas with people she considered family. In all her excitement, she accidentally woke Salya up and the little snake hissed angrily at her.

$Come on Salya don't be grumpy, it's Christmas and Death will come back today and he said he had a present for me. I also want to show him what I have accomplished in the last week, I managed to do every spell he wrote into the little notebook.$

$I know since you have talked about nothing else the last whole week.$ Salya hissed tiredly, she really wasn't a morning snake. Salya slithered up Sophie's arm and curled herself around it as always because it was so warm.

Yesterday was the first time she gave Tipsy and Fipsy orders. She told them to go shopping for Christmas decoration and to prepare the dinner for the evening. They were excited because they could serve their new Mistress at Christmas and outdid themselves with the decoration of the trunk. When Sophie came into the living room, the first thing that she saw was the huge Christmas tree and under it lay the presents for all of them even for Tipsy and Fipsy.

They all have agreed that Sophie will first celebrate in the morning with the Dursleys, and with Death, Salya and the House-elves in the afternoon. Sophie went down to the Dursleys and was surprised that she got a real present from them. It was a relatively nice looking scarf and she decided to keep it. The rest of the celebration was normal. Dudley got his twenty presents and then they ate Breakfast.

When Sophie got back into her trunk she already could smell of the cookies in the oven. She decided to help the House-elves with the cooking. At first, they protested that it wasn't necessary. She had to threaten them with giving them a whole week as holidays, in the end, they enjoyed cooking with their Mistress. Together they had much fun preparing dinner and when they finished they sat down in front of the fireplace and Sophie managed to teach them Poker. They played until Death came by.

"Merry Christmas everyone, sorry that it took so long, but I had to prepare some things for the big surprise."

"You just came right as we finished our game and wanted to start eating dinner. Afterwards, we will open the presents. Take a seat" Sophie said cheerfully and gave Death a hug. She really had missed him.

They all had a lot of fun at dinner. Death told them some jokes and Sophie showed Death some of the spells she had learned in the week when he was away. Death was pretty impressed that she learned all the spells he wrote in the notebook, but he never expected less.

After dinner, they all sat down on the couch and Sophie took up the role to bring everyone their presents. Sophie made Death a black scarf which really suited him and for Salya she got some extra large mice she hunted in the cellar. The two House-elves got some sweets from her and were so happy that they began to cry again. Sophie got a nice looking dress from Tipsy and from Fipsy she got the matching pair of shoes. The two elves were so proud that they made Sophie happy and that they could buy her present from the money they got paid. Then came the moment when Death took Sophie aside to give her the present he worked on.

"Merry Christmas Sophie." He said and pulled out of his robe a little package and gave it to her. Sophie opened it up and a small stone landed in her hand.

"What is it?" she asked.

"This is a blood summoning stone, it's like a one-time resurrection stone, sadly I could not make a permanent one. It can summon anyone who is dead from your bloodline for a few hours. You can only use it once and it is a bit exhausting to use but not as exhausting if you would have to do it without the stone."

Sophie stared wide-eyed and with an open mouth at the stone. She couldn't believe it, right in front of her in her hands laid an item that let her talk with her parents, her real parents, the parents that had died for her. Tears started to well up in her eyes, and in one jump she tackled Death to the ground and started to cry uncontrollably from all the happiness that filled her up.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you ... that's the best... present... I ever... got." she managed to get out between her sobs.

Death could not help it and hugged her back and smiled.

"You are welcome little fox. Now, why don't we try it out?"

Sophie calmed down and straightened her dress and hair.

"How do I use it?"

"Turn it three times in your hand and think about your parents."

She turned the stone three times in her hand and thought about her parents and they appeared right in front of her.

"James, I swear to you if I had my wand I would hex you back to the living world. What came into your mind to put the soup from last week on the top of the door so it would drop the next one who goes through it on the head." Lily yelled at her husband.

"I wanted to play a prank at my Dad," James said sheepishly.

"But it hit your mom! Just wait until she gets conscious again." Lily yelled.

Suddenly they heard from their side a voice they have not heard in a long time.

"Mom, Dad?" Sophie said with a shaking voice.

They turned around the same time and looked at the little girl with the blood red hair and these amazing green eyes that were wet from the tears that ran down her face. Lily instantly knew who this little girl was, it was her little baby, her little Sophie. James couldn't believe it, there she stood his little fox, but she wasn't so little anymore. Lily broke out in tears and threw her arms around her daughter's neck and kissed her on the forehead.

"I can't believe it, my little baby!"

James looked at his wife and daughter and tears began forming in his eyes, it was like he ever imagined his family would look like and now he saw it. He walked towards them and hugged both his wife and daughter.

Sophie could not hold it back any longer she slung one arm around her mother and one around her father and began to cry and clutch to their robes like she thought the world would end. She could not comprehend that she was finally able to meet her parents, she always imagined what it would be like to have them but when it happened it just overwhelmed her. The best part was that it was way better than all the times she pictured it in her mind and if she has her way they would never leave again.

Death watched from the background at the family reunion and a little bit of water also formed in the corner of his eyes. Never that he would admit it to anyone, but he was a little bit of a softy when it came to Sophie.

It took almost half an hour for them to calm down so they could talk. Sophie and Lily had the same big smile on their faces that would make the rainiest day sunny again as they looked into each other's eyes.

"Look how tall my baby has got, tell me how old are you now five or six?"

"I'm six and a half mom."

"Why do you look so skinny little fox with whom do you live?" James asked and his vision darkened because he had a really good guess that it was not Sirius and Remus she lived with, but an old hag called Tunie.

Lily looked at her daughter more closely and noticed that James was right she indeed looked a little bit skinny. She knew her daughter probably would live with her sister because the old coot Dumbledore would have never let her live with Sirius or even Remus, but she could not believe that her sister would not treat her daughter properly.

"I lived with the Dursley's till my sixth birthday and then Death came and did something to their minds and since then they leave me alone. Now I mostly live in this cool trunk Death gave to me with Salya and Tipsy and Fipsy."

James was outraged he knew that Remus would not be able to take her and that Sirius probably has done something stupid, but that Dumbledore his mentor has given her to these horrible people was the final nail in the coffin, he should have listened to Lily she was always suspicious about him. Lily for the first time since their arrival saw Death standing a bit on the side and went to him and gave him a bone-crushing hug.

"Thank you so much! I knew you would remember your promise."

"Of course I did, even if I would have forgotten, one of the first questions your daughter asked me was, if I could let her meet you."

Lily thanked Death one more time and turned back to Sophie.

"So what about Tipsy and Fipsy why haven't they come to you the moment the bond with us broke?"

"They couldn't find me because of the blood wards Dumbledore installed at the house. They would have died if Death hadn't told me about them, but now they are happy or, at least, I hope so. Tipsy, Fipsy come here there is someone you have to meet."

There were two pops and the elves stood in front of Lily and James. They almost fainted at the sight of their former Masters. After they got over their shock, they jumped at their feet and began to cry.

"Masters James and Mistress Lily are back, wes thought you were dead."

"We are, but Death here brought us here for a few hours," James said happily at the two of them, he was glad that they didn't die and added it on the list of Dumbledore's mistakes.

After they calmed down Lily asked Sophie, "Who is this Salya you talked about."

"Oh, she is the first friend that I have ever made and almost my familiar."

$Come out Salya, meet my parents$ Sophie hissed at her shirt.

Salya stuck her head out of Sophie's collar and James paled, his daughter was a parselmouth. Lily noticed this, rolled her eyes and hit her husband with her elbow into the ribs. She decided to let him know her biggest secret and hissed at Salya.

$Hello Salya my name is Lily, I'm very happy that you are such a good friend to my little baby girl.$

$You are welcome, she is just an equally good friend to me, my life was pretty boring until I have met her.$

James looked like he wanted to faint.

"Wow Mom you are also a parselmouth, that's awesome."

Lily smiled at her daughter knowingly.

"Lily since when are you a parselmouth and why have you never told me?"

"Oh come on James I know very well how you think about things that are considered dark. It got better after your parents almost spanked you for being such a bigot, but still, I know you don't like it. Just to let you know, I bet that the way we are able to meet our daughter is not light magic, but is it evil?"

James hung his head down in embarrassment and muttered something inaudible.

"What did you say?"

"You are right honey dark magic is not always evil, as light magic is not always good."

Lily gave him a light kiss on the cheek and patted his head.

"Good boy."

Sophie had to giggle at the sight of his father getting scolded by her mother. Lily turned back at her daughter and sat down on the couch with her.

"Mom, how are we able to speak Parseltongue?"

"Well, you see honey that's a secret I have never told anybody. One day I made an inheritance test at Gringotts because I wanted to know how I was able to speak with snakes since this is an inherited ability and my parents were muggles. As it turned out I was a descent of Slytherin from the main line, everybody thought they had died but a squib of the family remained in the muggle world and that was my great-great-grandfather. That was also the reason why Voldemort never could claim the Slytherin seat in the Wizengamot because it belonged to me. So now you are Lady Potter-Slytherin."

"Wow, that's cool," Sophie exclaimed, so she was a descent of one of the founders of Hogwarts.

"So tell me, honey, what have you done in the past few years, what do you like, what do you dislike?"

Sophie told her parents all about living with the Dursleys and, in the end, James looked like he wanted to kill Vernon and Petunia, but her mother was livid. Never had she thought that her sister could abuse her and let her get hurt by the hand of her pig of a husband. If it wasn't for the little time she had with her daughter she would unleash her wrath over these two horrible people, but that had to wait Sophie was more important right now.

Sophie noticed the sudden mood change in the room and decided to tell them all about the last months. How Death helped her to learn magic, how she spends time with Salya playing games or do just talking or showing her all the new thing she learned. James had to admit that after what Sophie told him about her snake it was not really evil.

"And I really like to read but Death won't let me read all the books in the library because he said I'm too young for now."

"He is right in saying that, but there is a lot of stuff you can read instead so don't be sad the time will come when you are old enough," Lily said.

She knew that her daughter would never get sorted into Gryffindor, she was way too smart and reasonable for that. If she had to bet she would choose Ravenclaw or Slytherin, probably the last one.

The rest of Christmas eve they sat together and Sophie parents told her stories about their school life and childhood. They also told her stories about the time when Sophie was a baby and how she managed to change James nose into a dog snout when he took her dog toy from the playground and she learned that her dad also called her little fox when she was young because of her red hair. However eventually everything has to come to an end, so when Sophie began to get tired Death told them it was time for them to leave. Sophie got sad because her parents had to leave so fast, but Death had two more surprises for her.

"Don't be sad little fox I have two more things for you and your parents. First, the stone didn't take me a week to make, rather a few hours so I made about a dozen of them. This means you can call them anytime you want, but don't do it too often or it will make you ill if you constantly exhaust yourself too much. For this reason, I have made this."

Death pulled out another present and handed it to Sophie. Curiously she opened it up and inside was a little black notebook.

"What is it?" she asked not understanding what she should do with the notebook.

"That is a Death Diary, it is linked to this one." Death took out another one and handed it to her parents.

"Everything you write in there will appear in the other one and the other way around, so you can write your parents as often as you want even through the veil."

Sophie and Lily had both the same idea and gave Death a hug full of joy over the present.

"What is it with people nowadays that they all hug me?"

Lily laughed and Sophie began to giggle.

"Well, you are just a very huggable being," Lily said with a smile.

"That's the best present ever after meeting my parents in person. Thank you so much."

And for the first time, she gave Death a kiss on the cheek. Death was shocked, it was a long time ago when he received a kiss. The last kiss on the cheek was from his own daughter.

After they finally released Death, James went over to him and reached out with his hand like he wanted to give him a handshake, but in the last second, he smirked and drew Death in a big hug. Death groaned, "Not you too, you all are supposed to fear me, I'm not supposed to be hugged. "

"Isn't the saying, you have to embrace Death," James said with a huge smile on his face and burst out laughing.

"Oh god, what have I done, poor little Sophie will just learn more ways to prank me."

"Enough of the pranks, I'll be serious now."

"Can't you just be my Dad, instead of Sirius" Sophie had to say and burst out laughing, it got her every time and she couldn't wait until she met her godfather.

Somewhere in Azkaban, a much more healthy looking man snapped out of his thoughts and got the feeling like he was very very proud of someone.

Lily groaned she heard that joke way too often and James looked gobsmacked. He was so proud right now of his daughter, he never expected her to pull that classic joke at him.

"How is it, that you know of Sirius?" he asked.

Sophie told them about the talk she had with Death and how it was also the first prank she pulled on him.

"Anyway, I really want to thank you Death you made my dream come true to be able to see my little fox again."

"You are welcome and now the time has come, please say goodbye to Sophie."

It was a little bit of a teary farewell, but they all knew that they would stay in contact from now on.

In the next few months Sophie was pretty busy, in the mornings she had school and in the afternoon after she finished homework she trained with Death. In the evening, she wrote to her parents what she had done all day long, talked with Salya and showed her what she had learned.

Occasionally when Sophie wanted to see her parents really bad, she asked Death and they would summon them and they would talk and play games together the whole evening. In the end, they decided to summon Lily and James once a month and when Sophie got older they would increase the times until she was able to do it herself. Death also began to teach her the various fields of magic. They had already started with charms, but now he taught her the basics of transfiguration and potions. Sophie was a very quick learner of transfiguration like her Dad and in charms and potions, she was almost a prodigy.

Her 7th birthday she celebrated with Death, her parents, Salya, and the elves in her trunk. She got some new clothes and Death promised her to teach her a new form of magic the next week. So it was a few days later that Death and Sophie stood in the training room.

"First I have to tell you that the type of magic I will teach you is not easy to learn, but if you want to summon your parents yourself you have to learn and control it."

Sophie nodded, eagerly waiting for learning new types of magic.

"Good. There are 3 forms of magic in existence which can all split up into various sub-categories. First, there is normal magic or natural magic, It is all around us and is used for the normal types of magic like charms, transfiguration, defence spells or normal rituals. Then we have life magic, it is in all living creatures and every time a magical being is born some gets released into our surrounding. It is used for powerful healing magic, protective magic or light rituals. The last one is death magic, every time a magical being dies, its magical core leaves their body and turns into death magic. You can use it for powerful offensive spells, soul magic or dark rituals."

"So all the things I have learned so far is normal magic?"

"Yes, so far we only did normal magic. To use the other two of them, you need be either able to do wandless magic or have a wand with the core of a death or life creature. For example, a death creature would be a thestral and a life creature a phoenix."

"So that's why you taught me wandless magic and what is with the other cores why wouldn't they be able to use it?"

"Because both types affect the core and can destroy it if you are not careful. Only a core that already has death or life magic can handle it."

"Ok, so how do I use it?"

"First activate your mage sight and look carefully at the strings of magic maybe you will see something unusual."

Sophie activated her mage sight and looked around, but there was nothing other than the blue strings of magic that were always there. It took her almost five minutes intense staring at the lights when she finally saw it. There was one thin black and one thin white string, almost not noticeable mixed within the normal magic.

"I have found it." She happily exclaimed, "There is a white and a black string mixed within the others."

"Very good that's right these two strings are life and death magic."

"But there is so little of them how can anyone use them?"

"You don't need much of them, these tiny little strings equal at least the thick long one of normal magic over here. Let's try it out and let one of them connect with your focus, but be careful death magic is really cold and life magic is really hot."

Sophie first connected with the death magic and Death was right it was really cold, her hand instantly began to shiver. Next, she connected with life magic and suddenly it got very hot like she got the flu in just a few seconds.

"Wow, that is something I have to get used to."

"Indeed. Now I will teach you a few spells you can use, for life magic I show you some healing spells and shields and for death magic, I show you some offensive ones, but don't worry they will be non-lethal."

The next few hours they practised a few spells and when Sophie began to get tired Death decided it was enough for today.

"Once you are able to control life and death magic a bit better we will start on learning runes. With runes, you will be able to make rituals like the one to summon your parents. For this ritual, you will need death magic because if there is enough death magic around it can replace the sacrifices you normally need to execute the dark rituals and I bet you are not willing to sacrifice a muggle for seeing your parents," 'Death chuckled.

Sophie paled and said, "You are right I will not sacrifice a muggle."

The next few years everything stayed the same for Sophie, she wrote a lot to her parents and was finally able to summon them without using a blood summoning stone. Death trained her a lot in the normal fields of magic and said she was about the level of a fourth year Hogwarts student. He also showed her a few practical spells which she has to use with life and death magic. Like the Sanctus Protego which was a life spell and a lot harder to maintain than a normal Protego but it could almost shield one from almost every spell except the killing curse. He also showed her a bit of soul magic which was exceptionally hard to do but also very effective and they would come in very handy if she ever got into a fight because they would make the opponent temporarily unable to fight like a bone breaking spell. Although just after one successful spell Sophie was already exhausted, one of the more simple and not so exhausting spells was the Anima Sopire, which is a soul stunning spell and nobody can revive the person except herself.

It was a week before her eleventh birthday where she got the first post from an owl. It was her Hogwarts letter.

AN: I hope you liked it and it didn't seem to be rushed. please leave a review and write me a PM if you find any mistakes so I can edit it out.

Please leave a review and write me a PM if you find any mistakes so I can edit it out.