Again I only own the books because I've bought several copies. I don't own the rights to Harry Potter, I just changed his sex and name.

"The Vanishing Glass," Pandora read. Her voice as light and airy as Luna's, and just as soothing to Aurora as Luna's always had been.

Aurora squeaked, she knew when they had started planning this that her friends were going to learn that she had hid things from them, but at the same time, she didn't want her friends to find out how bad it really was at the Dursleys. At the time in her eleven year old mind it just seemed normal. But now that she was older, and she had spent time with Sirius, she understood that she was abused, and she didn't want anyone to find out about that, especially Ron or Fred, they might hunt down Dudley, and she and Dudley were much closer now.

but Dudley Dursley was no longer a baby,

"Surely you are exaggerating how large this child is," Columba said.

Fred and Ron snickered, shaking their heads no, and a picture appeared out of nowhere, enlarging enough for the room to see it, of Dudley on his eleventh birthday right before they left for the zoo. "Not even a little bit," Aurora laughed. "He's a little better now, all muscle, not fat, but other than his hair and eyes he's all Uncle Vernon."

The room held no sign at all that another child lived in the house, too.

"Why are there no pictures of you?" Narcissa asked. While she wouldn't have been thrilled about it, if something had happened to Andromeda and Ted, she would have taken in Nymphadora and loved her like her own, showing off the next generation of Blacks.

"I don't like my picture taken," Aurora said. Sirius looked at her sharply, that answer was a little too rehearsed, and he didn't want to think of what that might mean. Where was he at, or Remus, or Peter, or Marlene, or Alice? He didn't like where his thoughts were taking him.

sound of the frying pan being put on the stove.

"But there's only one door on the way to the kitchen downstairs," Fred said, shocked, tears in his eyes. "Ray?" Aurora couldn't do anything but shrug.

She had a funny feeling she'd had the same dream before.

"That is an extraordinary memory Miss Potter," Alastor said.

"I was always told that the motorcycle would put me straight to sleep no matter how fussy I was. Mum hated it and threatened to kill Sirius the first time he took me on it until she saw me fast asleep curled into his chest. And then I was fussing all day the next day until Siri came over, and I said my first word, 'Fly'. Dad was ecstatic, and mum just sighed and handed me over and he took me flying," Aurora explained. Yes she had a great memory now that her magic wasn't blocked, but her dream was more of home, and Sirius, then the night that she was dropped off.

"What did you say?" her aunt snapped through the door.

"Oh would you shut up you harpie," Severus snapped. Aurora snickered, while others looked at him like he was losing his mind. "I can't stand the sound of her voice."

after pulling a spider off one of them, put them on.

Ron shuddered.

Aurora was used to spiders, because the cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where she slept.

For a moment there was silence, then a loud crack was heard in the room and everyone looked to see the table in front of Draco and Amice in splinters. That seemed to shock everyone out of their stupor, and everyone was yelling, James and Lily had turned to Dumbledore and were screaming at him, Sirius was running his eyes over Aurora trying to see other ways his goddaughter might have been abused. Severus was studying the girl, for all that she looked like a female James Potter, she seemed to be nothing like him, and yet nothing like Lily at the same time.

"It wasn't a big deal," Aurora said quietly. And while she spoke softly, it was enough to get the attention of everyone in the room.

"But it was Ro," Amice cried softly. "Why didn't you ever tell anyone?"

"Ced knew," Aurora said, "and I told Sirius. No one else ever seemed to care. Besides I get a bedroom shortly after this."

"Rory!" James exclaimed, "It will always matter."

The look of devastation on Aurora's face brought tears to the eyes of several people, and stopped James short. "Don't," Aurora whimpered. "Don't call me Rory." She was on her feet, her hands shaking, sparks coming from them.

"Shh, Ro," Fred soothed, "It's okay." He pulled her back onto his lap, rocking her trying to calm her down.

The Marauders and Lily looked at the girl sadly, trying to figure out what they could do. Luna then explained softly, in a serious tone, "It's painful sometimes, to relive the past. Hearing about her treatment at the hands of her caretakers, as well as hearing someone call her Rory that isn't the person who gave her the name is difficult. We call her Ray, or Ro, or Ari but Rory is reserved for one person, and her godson."

Everyone nodded, several looking thoughtful at that. The devastation on her face was undeniable, and they wanted to know why it would hurt her to hear the name Rory.

"Can we go back to reading now?" Bill asked, tugging on Pandora's skirt before walking back over to his beanbag.

second television and the racing bike.

"What a waste of money," Hermione said.

"Computer's are now available for homes?" Ted asked, that must not be cheap.

"It's not," Aurora replied.

unless of course it involved punching somebody.

Sirius growled very much like the dog his animagus transformation was.

Dudley's favorite punching bag was Aurora,

Seeing her godfather about to explode, and Remus looking as if the wolf was about to take control, and James and Lily in tears, Aurora went over and hugged Sirius. "I'm okay, I promise," she reassured them.

"Where are we at?" Peter asked. This was his niece, he couldn't imagine letting anything bad happen to her.

"The third book will explain a lot," Draco answered, both to stop Aurora from crying anymore, and to stop Ron from snapping at Peter.

living in a dark cupboard,

"It does," Andromeda said, she was a healer after all.

"The malnourishment sure didn't help either," Amice added angrily.

but Aurora had always been small and skinny for her age.

She looked even smaller and skinnier than she really was because all she had to wear were old clothes of Dudley's, and Dudley was about four times bigger than she was, and was a boy.

"They didn't even buy you clothes?" Remus asked. "What about female items that you need?"

Aurora shrugged, "By the time I needed any of that I had Hermione and Amice to help me buy it and my own money. Aunt Petunia wouldn't have done it either way, so it was better for me to do it myself."

very thin scar on her forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning.

The group from the future all laughed, knowing how much Aurora now hated that scar, and its twin on her chest.

She had had it as long as she could remember, and the first question she could ever remember asking her Aunt Tuney was how she had gotten it.

"In the car crash when your parents died," she had said. "And don't ask questions."

Don't ask questions — that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys.

"But how will you learn," cried Professor Flitwick. As the head of Ravenclaw, he took learning very seriously.

She had only ever called her Aunt Tuney the one time. She remembers her Aunt looking into her eyes for just a moment, the only time she had ever looked her in the eye before, before looking away and yelling at her. She had spent the rest of the week in her cupboard, only allowed out for chores and the bathroom twice a day, and received one meal a day.

Uncle Vernon entered the kitchen as Aurora was turning over the bacon.

"Comb your hair!" he barked, by way of a morning greeting,

"Ahh the curse of the Potter hair," James said, ruffling his hair to make it even messier.

swinging his hand to hit her upside the head. Aurora knew not to duck out of the way as that would only make the next swing that much harder, and add several others to go along with it.

About once a week, Uncle Vernon looked over the top of his newspaper and shouted that Aurora needed a haircut. Aurora must have had more haircuts than the rest of the kids in her class put together, but it made no difference, her hair simply grew that way — all over the place.

Aurora was frying eggs

"You were cooking at the age of 10?" Molly exclaimed.

"I started cooking at 4," Aurora said. "It was one of the only ways I could get food though so I didn't mind too much. Now I hate cooking and gardening. Although Neville has been teaching me a lot of cool things that I missed out on in Herbology by being lazy," she added, "Sorry Professor Sprout, I was just so used to not doing better than Dudley in school that it kinda carried over to Hogwarts. I do get better in my 4th year though."

Aurora often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.

Everyone snickered at the image.

"Thirty-six," he said, looking up at his mother and father. "That's two less than last year."

"That's worse than I've ever been," Draco said, earning looks from all the people from the future, and his parents.

"So I'll have thirty… thirty…"

"Is this kid serious?" Fabian said.

"No I am," Sirius said, earning a swat on the knee from Marlene.

"I did say that I wasn't allowed to do better than him in school, it just also helped that I did all his homework so that I could at least pass primary," Aurora said.

Atta boy, Dudley!" He ruffled Dudley's hair.

"What a horrible way to raise a child. You have to discipline them, not give into their every whim. They need structure," Molly exclaimed, earning nods from Andromeda, Pandora, and Columba.

"Mrs. Figg's broken her leg. She can't take her."

"Arabella Figg, my Aunt?" Amos asked.

"She was asked to keep an eye on Ray," Fred said. Not that she did a very good job of it, he thought to himself.

Mrs. Figg made her look at photographs of all the cats she'd ever owned.

"She was the same way when I was growing up," Amos said. "It got worse after my Uncle Micah passed."

"Don't be silly, Vernon, she hates the girl."

"That feeling is more than mutual."

your friend — Yvonne?"

"She still keeps in touch with Yvonne," Lily asked? "I didn't figure that Petunia would keep in touch with her after she married a baker."

"I won't blow up the house," said Aurora, but they weren't listening.

"At least you wouldn't have on purpose," Neville laughed.

"Dinky Duddydums,

"That's worse than Ronniekins!" Ginny laughed, causing a blush to spread up Ron's ears.

Half an hour later, Aurora, who couldn't believe her luck, was sitting in the back of the Dursleys' car with Piers and Dudley, on the way to the zoo for the first time in her life, although she could do without all the groping that she was receiving from Piers. This last year he had started to get a little too touchy whenever he would be holding her down for Dudley to pound on when they caught her.

"Ro?" Amice asked.

"Did anything else ever happen," Sirius continued for her.

"Doesn't matter, I'm going to kill him. I don't care that he is a 10 or 11 year old boy, no one touches my daughter," James snarled.

"This was one of the last times I ever saw him," Aurora said. "Nothing ever happened. I'm fine."

"I'm not going to do anything," said Aurora, "honestly…"

"I swear," Ginny started.

"You're luck is the worst thing I have ever seen," Draco continued, the both of them shaking their heads at the sheer bad luck that seemed to happen to Aurora.

she didn't make them happen.

"Yes we get to see some of her accidental magic!" Alice cried happily.

Next morning, however, she had gotten up to find her hair even longer than it had been before Aunt Petunia had sheared it off.

She had been given a week in her cupboard for this, and a broken arm, even though she had tried to explain that she couldn't explain how it had grown back so quickly.

The adults in the room frowned, accidental magic should be praised, not punished.

Aunt Petunia had then reluctantly taught her how to braid it into a tight braid and put it up into a bun.

have shrunk in the wash and, to her great relief, Aurora wasn't punished.

"Well at least you weren't punished for that, I would hate to wear something like that," Marlene said.

there she was sitting on the chimney.

Dumbledore looked at the girl in surprise. Even with blocks on her magic, it was coming through in large amounts that no normal child should have. It might be exacerbated by the fact that she was being chased at the moment, but apperating her age was astounding.

Aurora supposed that the wind must have caught her in mid-jump.

"Apparition at that age is astounding Miss Potter," Dumbledore said.

"Yes it was," Aurora said shortly, "Especially since most of my magic at the time was working to heal my broken bones and malnutrition." She knew that she shouldn't be so short with the headmaster, but this chapter was doing nothing to calm her ire at him by making her relive her crappy childhood with the Dursleys.

"It was flying."

"Oh Ro," Hermione sighed.

they seemed to think she might get dangerous ideas.

"Is this why I'm not allowed to watch television," Fred asked, looking at Aurora innocently. She just stuck her nose up at him, and he laughed.

Dudley and Piers, who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunchtime, wouldn't fall back on their favorite hobby of hitting her.

Everyone in the room frowned.

Aurora felt, afterward, that she should have known it was all too good to last.

"I don't like the sound of that at all," muttered Lily. "Why can't you have a nice, normal, trip to the zoo."

but the snake just snoozed on.

The parents all cringed at the way that child was talking to his father. If that was them, they would take that child over their knee right there in front of everyone.

It winked.

"That's not possible," Remus said. "Snakes don't have eyelids.

"I get that all the time."

"A metamorph and a Parseltongue!" Sirius said. "Oh I wish I could introduce you to my mother."

"She would never get over the shock that a Parselmouth came from Dorea's line," Regulus laughed. "I wish I could see that. She might even try going to grandfather and have him name you heir over everyone else in the family."

Aurora looked in shock at her parents, no one in the room was freaking out. In fact several seemed to find it thrilling that she was a Parselmouth. Trying to gather her thoughts, "Um, well Arcturus never removed Sirius from the family line, and I'm his Heir, so technically I am. Plus with Sirius blood adopting me, instead of the normal Godfather oath, I'm his heir either way. But Walburga wasn't happy about any of it. She did not want Sirius to inherit, and with Orion passing before her there was a huge fight between her and Arcturus, and then she died before him…" Fred finally cut off her ramble by kissing her.

"Too much information, Love," he said when he pulled away. "You'll learn a lot of this in the fifth book."

Only Sirius noticed that sad look that Amice gave when Fred kissed Aurora. It wasn't one of longing, as if she wanted either of them though.

"You're not upset that I'm a parselmouth though?" Aurora asked, getting back to the matter in the book. It had been her biggest fear after she found out that it was considered dark, that her parents would hate it, and her for having it.

"Oh Aurora," Lily cried, opening her arms for her daughter, who launched herself at her parents, "we could never hate you. You have a very rare gift, but it does run in the family." James nodded at her side, wrapping his arms around his future wife and daughter holding them tightly.

"Thank you," Aurora whispered to them before going back to her seat, nodding to Pandora to continue.

"Oh, I see — so you've never been to Brazil?"

"You don't even realize that its not normal to talk to a snake do you?" Barty asked.

"Out of the way, you," he said, punching Aurora in the ribs, cracking two if she was feeling and heard correctly. Caught by surprise, Aurora fell hard on the concrete floor.

"He pushed you so hard that your ribs cracked?" Andromeda yelled.

Thanksss, amigo."

"More like into a different cage once she's caught again," Hermione said.

"Go — cupboard — stay — no meals,"throwing her into the cupboard by the scruff of her neck, irritating her already broken ribs, before he collapsed into a chair, and Aunt Petunia had to run and get him a large brandy.

"Why is no one doing anything about this abuse," Amelia said, finally having enough of hearing how this child was treated. "Why isn't Dumbledore checking on you? He was the one to place you there, apparently against your parents wishes if you have a godfather, and I assume a godmother as well. And any other family that you might have."

"Alice is my godmother," Aurora answered. "And I honestly don't know. I know why Alice and Sirius couldn't take me, as well as Remus and Peter. I know that Marlene was unable to as well, but any others that may have been listed, I just never cared to find out once I was old enough. By then it had been so long."

a blinding flash of green light and a burning pain on her forehead.

"You survived the killing curse?" Alastor asked.

"I could fight off an imperio at 14 too," Aurora grumbled, while the others from the future laughed.

the Dursleys were her only family.

"No they're not," Luna said quietly. "We are your family."

Neville hugged Luna to him, nodding in agreement.

A tiny man in a violet top hat had bowed to her once while out shopping with Aunt Petunia and Dudley.

"Diggle," explained Aurora

old woman dressed all in green had waved merrily at her once on a bus.

"Cedrella"

"My mother," Arthur asked, to which Aurora just nodded.

A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken her hand in the street the other day and then walked away without a word.

"Slughorn"

nobody liked to disagree with Dudley's gang. The teachers all turned a blind eye to the bullying and the beatings that she received. The one teacher who had tried to report the Dursleys to the LSCBs had disappeared within the week, and no one had ever bothered again. All the families in the neighborhood had been told that she was a delinquent that they had been saddled with when her good for nothing drunk parents had died, and so didn't pay any attention to Aurora when she would be locked outside at night, after spending hours outside already during the day doing chores.

"Well," humped Pandora, "that was rather distressing."

"I realize that this has yet to happen Albus, but you and I will be having a long talk if there is not a good explanation for you placing that girl there." Augusta said, looking at the Headmaster. "And there better be an even better explanation for why she was never checked on, since apparently my future daughter-in-law is in the line to receive custody."

Dumbledore looked nervously at the matron, he did not want to get on her bad side, but he had a bad feeling about his reasons for placing the young Potter with her Aunt.

"I think I would like to read now," Fabian said.