Chapter 1- Slightly Off Course
It was the 13th of the 7th at precisely 12.15 am,
Lily potter smiled exhausted having given birth just 15 minutes ago. She had given birth at the witching hour. Her child was a miracle child. Born on the first minute of the new day. James had long since run away with Remus and Sirius.
The healer that had helped her give birth rushed into the room. She looked completely flustered, her precious miracle baby in the healer's arms. The nurse was babbling something awful. Lily hated babbling or at least incompetent babbling. It was a trait that she had developed while in Slytherin.
Most people forgot she had been the mudblood in Slytherin. They preferred to think she had been a golden Gryffindor, what with the side of the war she was on. People tended to turn a blind eye when she fought in battle, when the curses she used were so clearly dark. Yes, it was because she had been in Slytherin, but people knew more dark curses in Slytherin because they tended to need to defend themselves from the other houses. Mostly Gryffindors but not just Gryffindors.
Back to babbling, in Slytherin babbling was hated. It was seen as Hufflepuffely, sure you might babble with a trusted friend but everywhere else you upheld a mask of cool perfection. Yes, Severus had a habit of babbling when he was nervous along with little, not so little anymore, Regulus Black who got ruffled very easily and then there was Bellatrix who admittedly had been nice enough to her, but her relationship with Bellatrix had always been... complicated.
Bellatrix was and always would be very Bellatrixy. Yes, she was fun to be around, if not a little nuts but she had a more sadistic side that Lily had happened upon occasionally. She too tended to babble insanely.
She had almost giggled when Regulus had first told her about his relationship with Ravenclaw Barty Crouch jr, he had been so worried that as a muggleborn Lily would discriminate against him that he could barely string two words together.
This healer though, this healer was definitely Hufflepuff babbling. She glared at the healer whose name she hadn't bothered remembering, and snatched her baby daughter away from the incompetent woman before the healer dropped her child.
"I-It's a g-girl" the healer stuttered out.
Lily rolled her eyes like she hadn't known that.
"Spit it out what's wrong", Lily near growled out.
The healer paled a shade or two.
Lily felt like hitting the woman, she may have been Slytherin but it was a close thing with Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. She would be the first to admit she was impulsive, occasionally acting on intuition, rather than solid information.
The healer was trying to avoid her eyes. She scowled then coughed pointedly raising an eyebrow at the healer as if to say 'go-ahead'. The healer met her eyes for the first time since coming in. Lily got the urge to just Legilimens her and be done with it she restrained herself, barely.
" Yo-ur daugh-daughter d-does not ap-p-pear t-to h-ave in-inherit-ted th-the P-Potter f-fam-family ma-magic-s" the healer pushed out in a single breath stuttering something awful.
Lily sighed that was a problem, a rather large problem. It would make her daughter a bigger target to pureblood bigotry. There would be comments like 'the only reason you didn't inherit the potter magic was because of your mother' and 'filthy half-blood no proper magics practically a mudblood' thrown.
The healer looked like she expected to be hit, mind she probably had been hit before delivering such news.
"Which family magic did my daughter inherit" Lily prompted.
She knew the baby had to have inherited at least some family magic as James was a pureblood. Only wixen with no magical bloodline would not inherit family magic. The healer shuddered visibly.
"B-B-Bla-Bla-ck" she stuttered out quietly.
"I'm sorry what," Lily asked she could barely hear the woman she was speaking so quietly
"Your daughter has inherited the Black family magics," the healer said loudly as though summoning all remnants of courage.
Lily frowned that could be a problem. She knew enough about Black family magic to know that it was very powerful, very volatile, and completely uncontrollable until one was of age and fully trained in its use. Regulus and Bellatrix had trouble with bursts of magic when they were at Hogwarts and well before that as well. Narcissa and Andromeda had suffered similarly but to a lesser degree. She didn't know much about Sirius but she presumed it was the same for him, maybe, she was unsure if Sirius had inherited the Black magic or not. She had never asked.
According to Regulus, Black family magic started building at age three and only other Blacks had ways to control it, presumably, they used Black magic to do so. She hadn't spoken to any blacks for about three quarters of a year, exempting Sirius. She should probably rectify that problem, although, with the war going on, She shook her head distractedly, even so, her daughter's magic alignment should almost definitely remain secret.
It would create a massive scandal were it to get out. The headlines would all be either 'Potters join the dark side?' because most of the blacks were either aligned with the dark or still neutral or possibly 'Scandal: The Lady Potter's Black affair' because with her daughters magic alignment and her already very Black looks it wouldn't be hard for that conclusion to form and while she could deal with something like that, she didn't want James to have to deal with that. ]
She did the only thing she could think of in a minute. She grabbed her wand clutching her baby in her opposing arm. "Obliviate" she spoke clearly and dived through memories of the last 45 minutes or so. Bypassing the shoddy mental shields the woman had tried to instal and destroying all memories of the conversation, not just blocked like a usual obliviator would do, but demolished completely.
The difference was that blocked memories could be recovered. Barty had taught her that little trick when she'd found out he was dating Regulus. She knew she was being unfair to the healer but when it came to her family she was taking no chances. With all traces of her gone, she spun disapperating from the building.
posted- 9/03/2020
*In this story Lily was a Slytherin so James wasn't really attracted to her, which led to not nearly as much bullying focused on Severus. They still bullied people just not to the same degree. Lily and James didn't get together until a coincidental meeting after Hogwarts. Severus never called Lily a mudblood because he was never that agitated by the marauders, so Lily remained on good terms with the Slytherins.
*In this universe 3, 7, and 13 are powerful numbers in arithmancy, so the fact that her child was born on the witching hour of this day makes her child magical and rare.
*I'm trying to show that changing a few details can change everything.
*Yes Lily had a relationship with Bellatrix black. Lily is bi.
*When Regulus came out to Lily he was unaware of Lily's relationship with Bella.
*If Lily seems a little OoC, its because she spent 7 years in Slytherin with Slytherins.
*Lily is just a little pissed its because she's just given birth in the middle of a war and the healer really is very annoying.
*Wixen- a gender-neutral term for magical peoples.
*Yes Lily is aware that what she is doing is wrong but she isn't taking any chances with her family.