I don't own the rights to Harry Potter, but I did add some text to the books. If there isn't a reaction between what I add and what is in the book I will be cutting out the middle pieces.

Regulus cleared his throat and read, "The Keeper of the Keys,"

BOOM. They knocked again. Dudley jerked awake.

"Where's the cannon?" he said stupidly.

"Does he speak any other way?" Peter asked, looking at Aurora.

"When he was 11, no way," she replied, only one person noticed the death grip that she had on Fred's hand.

thin package he had brought with them.

"How did he even get one!" Hermione shouted.

"He brought a rifle, into a run down shack, where my DAUGHTER IS!" Lily yelled, "What were you thinking, leaving my baby there!" She turned her fury onto Dumbledore.

"I'm afraid that I do not know my future thought processes Ms. Evans," Dumbledore replied calmly.

Draco leaned over to whisper in Aurora's ear, "Bet 5 galleons he's already figured out why he placed you with them."

"That's a suckers bet," she snickered back.

SMASH!

Everyone but Aurora jolted as Regulus shouted the word, causing the two to laugh at them.

The glare on Alastor's face made Aurora laugh harder, and yell out "Constant Vigilance!" It took several minutes for people to calm down enough for Regulus to continue.

glinting like black beetles under all the hair.

"Hagrid was sent to get you?" Flitwick asked, looking confused.

"That will not go over well with Petunia and Vernon," Lily said.

"I love Hagrid, but he's not the best person to send to a muggle raised person," James added.

Aurora just nodded. She loved Hagrid as well, but he was not subtle at all, and not the best person to deal with magic hating muggles.

"Budge up, yeh great lump," said the stranger.

"Well that wasn't very nice, the boy is obviously terrified," Molly scolded. She might not like the Dursleys all the much for their treatment of Aurora, but this was still a child who didn't know any better.

Aurora looked up into the fierce, wild, shadowy face and saw that the beetle eyes were crinkled in a smile.

"Hagrid has very kind eyes."

"Las' time I saw you, you was only a baby," said the giant. "Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh've got yer mom's eyes."

"Aww the first time you heard that," Fred teased. She swatted at him, but he just caught her hand and kissed the back of it, the both of them laughing.

"I take it you get that a lot," Sirius joked.

bent it into a knot as easily as if it had been made of rubber, and threw it into a corner of the room.

"Oh thank Merlin," Hermione, Lily, Alice and Marlene muttered, thankful the gun was finally gone.

Happy Birthday Aurora written on it in green icing. She had never gotten a birthday cake before.

"We are doing something really special for Hagrid's birthday this year," Lily announced to James.

"Maybe a trip to a couple of the dragon reserves," James suggested.

"No dragons!" Aurora, Ron, Hermione, Neville and Draco all shouted.

"Who are you?" She quickly flinched back, she wasn't supposed to ask questions, and here the first thing she did was break the rules.

Flitwick let out a soft growl of annoyance. "She grows out of it very quickly," Hermione said. "It's just not coursework that she asks questions about," she added fondly.

Aurora felt the warmth wash over her as though she'd sunk into a hot bath.

"He's not supposed to do that," Barty said.

"I think in this case we can look the other way, don't you Mr. Crouch," Dumbledore said.

With a quick glance at Aurora, then to the book, he nodded his head in agreement.

"Yer great puddin' of a son don' need fattenin' anymore, Dursley, don' worry."

"While that is true, this child is used to having three meals a day, and his father has just dragged him across the country and he hasn't had a proper meal in several days," Andromeda groused.

yeh'll know all about Hogwarts, o' course."

"He was sent to fetch her from muggles, in the middle of the night, how does he assume that she knows about Hogwarts," Lucius sneared.

"All what?" asked Aurora. No one had ever told her anything about her parents, other than his mention earlier that she looked like her dad but had her mothers eyes. She didn't even know their names. She was desperate to learn anything about them.

...

Aurora thought this was going a bit far. She had been to school, after all, and her marks weren't bad. In fact if it wasn't for fear of punishment she would be top of her class, or at least second if Dudley could act smart enough to be first. Sadly his test scores meant that despite her doing his homework for him he was still in the bottom half of their year, and she had to be lower than him so she was barely passing.

"I do hope, Miss Potter, that you tried your hardest once you were away from them," McGonagall asked forcefully.

Aurora looked rather sheepish, and chose not to answer. The first couple years she didn't want Ron to stop being her friend for doing well in school, so she hadn't tried very hard, and then they got a good Defense Professor, and she started doing better, then she was forced into the tournament so she started doing her best.

"I know some things," she said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff."

"Which is why you should have done Arithmancy with me," Hermione said, swatting Aurora on the arm.

"What? My — my mom and dad weren't famous, were they?"

"Of course that's what you hear," Draco sighed. "Not that you are famous but that your parents are."

"Well I never wanted to be famous in the first place," Aurora snapped, "especially not for something that killed my parents."

Snape looked at Aurora curiously, as much as she might look like James Potter, she was very much like Lily. And once you looked past the messy hair and the glasses, she looked more like Lily than James as well.

I forbid you to tell the girl anything!"

"He can't honestly believe that him forbidding something is going to stop Hagrid from telling you about yourself, and your birthright," Amelia questioned.

"Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh," said Hagrid. "Aurora — yer a witch."

There was silence inside the hut. Only the sea and the whistling wind could be heard.

"That's rather rude of you," gaped Aurora.

A smile crossed both Lily and Severus' faces and they glanced quickly at each other. Aurora happened to see this and started laughing at them.

"Not 'hat type of witch, one 'hat has magic," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good 'un, I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. ...

"What does it mean, they await my owl?"

"That's the first thing you ask," Remus asked.

"Well it was July 31st, I didn't know if they would get the reply in time or not," Aurora answered.

Weather's horrible. Hope you're well.

Hagrid

"I can't even read his writing right side up and you could do it upside down," Amice said.

"That is rather impressive, Miss Potter," Professor Sprout said.

Then he came back and sat down as though this was as normal as talking on the telephone. Were owls like carrier pigeons? Would it make it to where it needed to be in time? Would the owl be okay?

...

biggest Muggles I ever laid eyes on."

"It is a rather rude term," Hermione huffed, Lily nodding her head in agreement.

"Sounds better than no-maj," Aurora disagreed. "It also hides the secret better. Someone here could assume that you've made up a silly name for someone, where in America you call someone a no-maj and you are telling them that they don't have magic."

"Of course in America if you have magic you aren't allowed to interact with muggles in any way," Amos added.

my dratted sister being what she was?

James hugged Lily close to him, tears forming in her eyes.

she went and got herself blown up and we got landed with you!"

"That wasn't our choice. I'm sure we did everything we could to keep ourselves safe," James yelled. "I don't want my daughter growing up with you either!"

Aurora had gone very white. As soon as she found her voice she said, "Blown up? You told me they died in a car crash because they were drunk!"

...

"But why? What happened?" Aurora asked urgently. Lily and James - she finally had the names of her parents. And they didn't die in a car crash, they were murdered from the sounds of it.

"Oh Ro," Ginny sighed sadly.

"We'll tell you anything about us you want to know," Lily looked at her daughter softly.

it's a great myst'ry, parts of it…"

All the time travelers snorted, looking at Dumbledore.

"Nah — can't spell it. All right —Voldemort. "

"You actually got Hagrid to say it," Peter asked, looking very impressed.

"Don't know why anyone is afraid of a stupid made up name," Aurora grumbled.

That doesn't sound very frightening, Aurora thought to herself, not wanting to interrupt the giant's story. It sounded French, something about flight and death, if she was remembering her lessons correctly.

"I knew you could speak French!" Ron shouted, standing up and pointing at Aurora.

She hunched in on herself, "Oops," she said, hiding behind Fred. "You speak Romanian, what's the big deal?"

Ron huffed and sat back down, "So do you, and Bulgarian, and some Hindi, and how many other languages? And the big deal is I would have liked to know what I was being called after making a fool of myself thank you very much."

Leaning forward in interest, Barty asked, "How many languages do you speak?"

"At least 30, though not all of them are fluent. So nowhere near as many as your father," Aurora answered. "I'm really good at languages, and since I'm an auditory and practical learner it's easier for me to pick up."

"Ron, Ginny and I know about 10," Fred said.

"I'm at about 15," Hermione continued.

"Draco and I are about the same, with 15 also," Amice added.

"I'm at about 20, but Neville is closer to Aurora with 25," Luna finished.

The rest of the room looked shocked, they knew several languages as well but nowhere near as many as this group of people, except for Barty.

You-Know-Who never tried to get 'em on his side before…

"He did," James said quietly.

"What!" the other Marauders yelled.

"He attacked the manor this summer," James whispered. "Tried to get mum and dad on his side. Said that Mum was a Black, I was a Black, and my best friend was a Black. He could give us power that we had never dreamed of." James chuckled at the thought, "Mum and I fought him off long enough for dad to power the wards and kick him off the property." He sat up a little straighter, and spoke clearer, looking at Sirius, then to Regulus, "Right after that Mum looked at me and said, 'I might be a Black, but I will never let my name, or my family, make my choices for me, and I want you to do the same. No real Black will ever bow to anyone.'"

Regulus looked contemplative for a few moments before nodding. Sirius just looked mad, "Why didn't I know about this?"

"I didn't want you to worry," James replied.

"So you are where Aurora gets it from," Neville growled.

the McKinnons,

"No!" Alice, Lily and Sirius yelled, as Sirius pulled Marlene into his side.

the Bones,

"Not all of them," Aurora said, cutting Amelia off.

"You raise your niece, Susan," Neville explained.

the Prewetts

Molly cried out, reaching for her brother's, Bill climbed onto his Uncle Fabian's lap, he didn't want his Uncles to die.

and she remembered something else, for the first time in her life: a high, cold, cruel laugh. Then she was being sung to, she was warm and everything would be okay because she was protected.

"How did you survive?" Alastor asked.

"It's in one of the books," Aurora answered. "I'm not sure which, most of it was learned over a long period of time, but I finally piece together the full story in book seven."

Hagrid was watching her sadly.

"Took yeh from the ruined house myself, on Dumbledore's orders. Brought yeh ter this lot…."

"Hagrid sang to you," Frank asked.

"Hagrid didn't actually take me from the house, he took me from the person that did," Aurora said. "It was just easier for him to say it that way."

"Or he was told to tell you it that way," Draco murmured. Aurora shrugged, she wanted to at least give Hagrid the benefit of the doubt, after all he thought that Sirius was a murderer, better to say that he had taken her from the house then a mass murdered who betrayed her parents had.

one more word…"

"Threatening them isn't going to endear them to you at all," Sprout gasped.

"Especially since they already dislike magic," Augusta agreed.

"But what happened to Vol-, sorry — I mean, You-Know-Who?"

"Yes! Blaise owes me 10 galleons!" Draco exclaimed.

"You and Blaise made a bet that I have called Voldemort by You-Know-Who before?" Aurora asked, incredulous.

Draco just nodded, while Amice hid her laughter in her hand, and Ginny put her face in a pillow.

Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die.

The trio looked at each other for a moment, Hagrid knew more than he thought he did.

A witch? Her? How could she possibly be? She'd spent her life being clouted by Dudley, and beaten by Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon; if she was really a witch, why hadn't they been turned into warty toads every time they'd tried to lock her in her cupboard, or beaten her till her bones were broken? If she'd once defeated the greatest sorcerer in the world, how come Dudley had always been able to kick her around like a football?

The Marauders and Lily all growled, Sirius and Remus sounding the most ferocious. Remus' eyes were flashing yellow, his wolf very near the surface. Everyone else, even the considered blood traitors and muggle lovers, looked very afronted that a muggle would dare to do this to a magical child.

Hadn't she set a boa constrictor on him?

"You are very powerful, even with magical blocks on yourself," Flitwick announced. "I look forward to teaching you."

"I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon.

"He shouldn't have done that," Fabian and Gideon said.

Dumbledore shook his head, he understood how loyal Hagrid was to him, and feared for these muggles for the insult, not that he thought Hagrid would hurt them. It was after all something that he had been called before, and never had it bothered him.

a curly pig's tail poking through a hole in his trousers.

The current students, plus Fabian and Gideon and the time travelers all laughed at the image.

McGonagall tried to stifle her smile, and huffed, "Well that's just going to make their attitude on magic worse."

he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do."

"That poor boy," Molly sighed. She was worried about his health if he was as overweight as it was implied.

"Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Aurora. She thought it was a little rude to tell her that he took the job just to be able to use magic.

...

"Why were you expelled?"

"He won't tell," James said.

"We've asked," Sirius continued.

"Doesn't matter how many drinks we feed him either," Remus continued, ignoring the glares from the adults in the room.

"Or offers to buy him a dragon or any other creature he may want," Peter finished.

The Aurora, Ron, Hermione and Neville all smirked at the Marauders.

"No way!" Peter exclaimed.

"Your daughter is so cool," Sirius sighed.

"You can kip under that," he said. "Don' mind if it wriggles a bit, I think I still got a couple o' doormice in one o' the pockets."

"That's the end of the chapter," Regulus announced, holding the book out for the next person to take.

"Mum, dad, Sirius," Aurora announced, looking at each person, "one of you may want to read the next chapter.

"I will," Sirius said, getting up to get the book. Before taking it he pulled Regulus up and gave him a giant hug. It took a moment but Regulus returned the hug with a squeeze before they both released each other and Sirius headed back to his seat, book in hand.