July 31st 1980

James Potter was currently pacing up and down the hall outside his wife's room running his hand through his hair worriedly as he awaits the birth of his children. His dear friend Sirius Black was not fairing to well either. Remus Lupin the calmer one of their group was sitting quietly by trying to keep a calm presence for his two anxious friends.

"Merlin Prongs" Remus began " Stop pacing before you wear a hole in the floor, everything is going to be ok Lil is tougher than you think".

" I know, I know that Moony! But I just can't help it! Merlin I'm going to be a father! I just don't know if I'm ready for such a responsibility!" replied James.

Sirius halted his own pacing and laughed a bark like laughter " I think it's a bit too late to decide that Prongs" he proclaimed with the wiggling of his eyebrows.

" Oh shut it pads" remarked James but before he could berate his friend further a healer emerged from his wife's room announcing that all went well and they could now enter.

Quick as a flash the new father ran into the room with his eager friends trailing behind him. He froze at the sight of his beautiful wife who was currently holding two small bundles in her arms.

Looking up she gave him a tired yet happy smile " James dear come meet your son and daughter" she said. He slowly made his way closer and could not stop his eyes widening in awe at the sight of his children. Lily handed him his son naming him Charlus James Potter, a chunky babe with dark red hair like his mother's and hazel eyes and tanned skin like his father.

The other babe was currently being taken by a star struck Sirius whom Lily name Harriet Lily Potter. Her skin was fair and there on top of her head was a messy mop of black hair very much like her fathers own messy mane, and her eyes were a deep emerald green much like her mothers eyes yet they seemed brighter.

" Merlin she is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen" declared Sirius with tears in his eyes.

Remus was just as awestruck gazing at the beautiful scene of his pack welcoming in two new members.

James looked toward Remus and started to hand little Charlus over for him to hold asking " Moony would you do the honor of being the godfather of my first born and heir Charlus James Potter?"

Remus looked toward him in shock too choked for words nodding his head yes.

Then James turned toward Sirius asking " Would you Padfoot do the honor of becoming little Harriet Lily Potters godfather?"

Sirius viguarlousy nodded his head yes and asked in a watery voice " James since she is the second born can I name her my heir?"

James gave him a beaming smile and replied " That would be just fine with me, what do you say Lily-flower?"

He asked his wife she looked between them both with a grateful smile and said " I would love that very much for my little flower, thank you so much Siri".

Sirius laughed still cradling Harri to his chest " The honor is all mine to have this sweet child as my heir and goddaughter!" and thus begins the tale of Harriet Lily Potter-Black.

October 31st 1981

Peter Pettigrew was sitting on the couch in the Potters cottage nervously wringing his hands as he waits for his lord to come. Currently said Potters are with Sirius having a important meeting with their leader Albus Dumbledore. Peter automatically volunteered to watch the twins, all he would have to do then is call upon his master.

After a few hours of waiting, the Dark Lord made his way inside the cottage hissing out " Wormtail" as he spotted the anxious rat.

Scrambling up from the couch and bowing lowly wormtail whimpered " My lord the twins are currently up stairs in their nursery, the second room on the right."

With a sneer of disgust at the traitorous coward the dark lord made his way up towards the babies room. Opening the door he saw two infants in a little cot one with dark red hair and teary hazel eyes that began to bawl at the sight of him. The other child with dark messy hair and bright avada kadavra green eyes simply looked at him with curiosity.

In a snake like voice the dark lord hissed " Now which one of you is my prophesied enemy?" He scanned both children's cores and found that both were quite powerful, yet the girl Harriet seemed to be just a bit more than her brother.

The dark lord looked upon the youngest Potter and with regret in his voice he said " You could have been made a great and powerful ally if you were not to be raised to fight against me, I can not risk for you to live and destroy all that I am fighting for. I'm sorry dear child." With a mournful sigh he pointed his bone white wand at the green eyed child and yelled " AVADA KADAVRA!"

But to his shock and horror he watched as the curse hit the forehead of the young babe and bounced back, he did not move quickly enough to avoid the curse and it struck him in his chest and he felt a searing pain as his soul was ripped from his body. In a pain filled scream he fled into the night wondering what exactly went wrong. Not too soon after the Dark Lord's temporary demise, when a magical explosion tore the room apart.

The roof collapsed, fortunately not crushing the children as it fell around them. A few pieces of debris had made a small v shaped cut upon the cheek of Charlus, whilst, his sister had a scar from the killing curse like a bolt of lighting hit her. It cut down from the top of her forehead across her eyebrow through her now blind left eye and ending at the end of her mouth.

As this was happening up stairs, Wormtail upon hearing his masters scream and the following explosion ran like the coward he was away from the destruction of which he caused.

Not too many minutes passed since the destruction of the Potters cottage, when Lily and James with a frantic Sirius and a grim Dumbledore burst their way into the destroyed nursery. Crying out did the young parents make their way quickly across the room vanishing debris as they reached their children.

Lily and James immediately reached out for the wailing Charlus, whilest Sirius froze at the still form of his goddaughter. Thinking the worst he cried out her name and choked on a sob of relief as he saw her tiny chest move up and down with breath. Gently he grabbed her and cradled her in his arms with tears of his fear and joy at the miraculous survival of both the children.

While both the Potter parents and Sirius were checking over the children Albus Dumbledore began to observe the destruction of the room. After vanishing some rubble away he came upon the sight of a pile of black robes in front of the crib with a familiar bone white wand on top. With wide eyes he proclaimed to the others in the room that " Voldemort seems to have been defeated by one of the twins but which one?"

He gazed upon the children in their family's embrace and his eyes locked onto both scars that now marred the twins faces. He then immediately scanned their cores to find Charlus's strong core to be intact but could only detect a weak core from Harriet. ( weak from such powerful accidental magic no doubt but Dumbledore did not think of that).

" It seems that young Charlus here is the child of the prophecy" declared Dumbledore.

" How are you certain Albus?" asked Lily. Dumbledore replied " The mark upon his cheek declares him so as the prophecy had foretold that he will mark him as his equal."

James then asked " But they both have scars Albus, how can you tell which is which?"

Sadness overtook the usual twinkle in his eye when he proclaimed " Where as Charlus's core remains strong, Harriet's, I'm afraid is almost non existent now. It seems that Charlus's magic must have taken from Harriet's core, in order to preform the powerful accidental magic that saved them both. Your daughter has thus been reduced to a squib."

Lily with tears in her eyes looked upon her son and softly stroked his cheek and said " They will still have a normal childhood headmaster, I will not let this destroy my children's futures." With fierce determination in his eyes James agreed with his wife.

Dumbledore sighed " But Charlus will need training Lily, for I fear one day the Dark Lord will return".

" How can you be so certain Albus?" Sirius frantically asked the old headmaster.

With a faraway look the old man replied " Voldemort feared death too greatly to remain mortal, I am uncertain yet of how he has managed to cheat death but all we can hope is that we have enough time to prepare young Charlus before he does return".

All adults in the room had a grim aura about them and quietly thought to themselves they will do whatever they can to help poor Charlus face his fate.

July 1991

Ten years have passed since that fateful Halloween night and young Charlus Potter was declared the "boy who lived" by the entire British Wizarding world. There was not a young boy or girl who did not know his name. At first it wasn't easy for the young family to adjust to the utter adoration the people had for their young son, but over time the fame started to slowly inflate their heads.

And little Harriet Potter was no where to be found with her family, for the young child was left with her magic hating relatives. The old headmaster was determined to convince her naive parents that it was for the greater good.

Sirius of course was enraged when he came over to Potter manor one day to visit his heir to only find that she was gone. He demanded where she was almost daily over the years, but to no avail for the Potters told him that she was happy and that he should leave her alone. His only hope that he would be able to see her again was when her Hogwarts letter would arrive. He knew she was not a squib, the Black family Magic's would never allow a squib to remain as heir and his proof was upon the family tapestry.

While the Potters are seemingly living a life of luxury basking in their sons fame and poor Sirius Black continues to search endlessly for his missing goddaughter, on Four Privet Drive a young girl of ten almost eleven is harshly woken up from her slumber by the banshee like voice of her Aunt Petunia.

Harriet had the most peculiar dream, one that she often has had as long as she can remember. In the dream a man in a black cloak with deep vivid red eyes stared intently at her, though instead of being disturbed by such a image she could not help but feel some comfort in those eyes. It was as if they were calling to her and letting her know that things will get better soon.

As she was reflecting on what the dream meant a large stomping noise was heard coming from the stairs above her. The vibrations from the noise had caused dust to cover her causing her to sneeze, of course Harri was used to it happening for her bedroom was the cupboard under the stairs, her cousin Dudley quite enjoyed causing her any discomfort in anyway that he can.

He was a large boy that resembled more of a pig in a blond wig than an actual human child and he was quite the bully as well. Often times him and his gang would play a sport they lovingly called Harri Hunting.

Harri hunting was where In between the times that they were not in school or Harriet was not doing chores inside the house, Dudley and his gang would chase her around and then proceed to beat her into a pulp. Of course that was if they could catch her, for being quite small Harri was very fast. But, being small and fast did nothing to protect her from her Uncle Vernons wrath. He was a large beefy man with a big mustache like a walrus and hardly no neck, and his face became an ugly shade of purple when he was angry. He often liked to take his anger out on poor Harriet.

It didn't take much to make him angry, if he had a bad day at work or his favorite football team lost, often times it was because she could not finish her impossibly long list of chores. Though the last time he was angered was last month on Dudleys eleventh birthday. She accidentally let a snake loose in the zoo and caused Dudley to fall into the snakes house. That was well worth the lashing and broken wrist she received, the look of terror on his piggy face will always bring her a small amount of joy.

She knew that she was special and that she could do almost impossible things. Around seven years of age her math teacher was berating her for cheating on a test, which of course she did not and the teachers hair turned blue. She was blamed and her relatives punished her greatly for that.

When she was around Eight years old she was running from Dudley and his gang during recess, when she tried to jump behind some trash bins she heard a crack and ended up on the roof. That was when she realized that she was special and in the darkness of her cupboard she would discover that power within.

It took a few years to learn to control her gift. She still struggles with most but she can unlock her cupboard door and levitate small objects. Just a few weeks ago she learned to summon fire in the palm of her hand. Yet out of all of her discovered abilities she finds that her ability to speak to snakes is her favorite.

Out in the garden they would find her and teach her things, usually how to hunt and when the right time to strike your prey. If it was not for this she would have succumbed to her relatives treatment a long time ago.

As Harri began yet another dull morning at Four Privet Drive, somewhere in Scotland Minerva McGonagall was currently going through the acceptance letters for the new students to arrive at Hogwarts this year, she was combing through to see if she could find a name that most believed would never be on the roster of Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.

She like Sirius Black and Severus Snape knew the truth of what the Potters have done to their youngest child Harriet Lily Potter and she was not pleased at all with the people that they have become.

Still diligently she searched until she found triumphantly Harriet Lily Potter-Black but her happiness quickly turned to horror as she read the young child's address. Cupboard under the stairs stared mockingly up at her in emerald green ink. Quickly she gathered the letter and briskly made her way to her fireplace to floo to Severus Snapes office.

With a flash of green she stepped hurriedly into his chambers waving the letter in front of her "Severus!" Cried McGonagall

He looked up at her with a sneer on his face snapping "Pray tell Minerva what brings you charging into my office like some rampaging baboon?"

She just thrusted the letter into his face and said " Severus this is important it's about Black's godchild she has been accepted into Hogwarts, but I must implore you to look at her address!"

Snape looked at the letter warily and reached out to take it from McGonagalls hand. As he read the address to the child's home over and over again his face contorted into a viscous snarl and declared " Lily will never be forgiven for this, I shall contact Black immediately and maybe Narcissa as well, we may need a healers hand".

He stood up from his desk from where he was sitting and briskly walked over to his fireplace, he reached into a small black bowl which held his floo powder and threw it into the fire which burst in bright green flames.

Before he stepped inside he looked over his shoulder at Minerva and said " Must I tell you this will not be made known to the Potters or the headmaster as of yet?"

She looked back at him with a grim determination and said " Of course Severus they have done enough harm to that poor child and I will not stand by and let them continue on doing so, go on quickly the more you dwaldle the more that poor child may suffer under the hands of those horrible muggles".

With a curt nod he immediately turned around and stepped into the floo and with a grimace on his face called out " The Dog House" and was gone in a flash of green.

Sirius Black was at his breakfast table reading the current dribble coming from the rag known as the daily Prophet, when he felt his wards shift and then promptly saw the flash of green coming from the fireplace down the hall.

He got up to greet this newcomer and was surprised to see Severus Snape stepping out of his floo.

With a wolf like grin on his face Sirius opened his arms wide and yelled "Sevvy old man what brings you in my humble abode!"

Severus just stood there for a second and sneered at him saying " Listen here mutt I do not have time for your childish games, I'm here to bring you news of your goddaughter."

Sirius eyes grew wide and he shouted in glee " You found her! Thank Merlin I knew she would get her Hogwarts letter where is she?"

Snape sighed and gave him the child's acceptance letter, quickly Sirius took it and read over the front of the envelope.

He snapped his head up toward Severus and with a growl said " Tell me this is not what I think it is, tell me my poor goddaughter has not been abused these past ten years"

Severus reluctantly nodded his head and said " The charm that lists every child's name and address never lies."

Sirius let out a low growl and snarled " Let's go now to get her and destroy those vile Muggles she has been forced to live with!"

Before Sirius could make a move for the front door Severus quickly reached out to grab Sirius's arm " We cannot go there like some reckless Gryffindor Black" Severus said to him he held on and calmly said " We will get her back we know where she is but we must think first, Dumbledore must have some wards over her that which prevented us from finding her in the first place" he continued on " Any which way you will do the child no good if you end up in Azkaban for murdering her muggle relatives, they will get their due but first let's focus on the child."

Sirius looked back at him with tears in his eyes and nodded his head " Ok, your right she is more important, vengeance is a dish best served cold anyway right" he darkly chuckled. " Come on let's go get my pup before the Potters find out she really is not a squib"

Severus inclined his head and let go of Sirius arm, with long strides they made it to the door of the Black family manor and they quickly made way to Four Privet Drive with hope in their hearts it was not to late.

Said young girl was currently cleaning up after her family's rather large breakfast, and of course there was no scrapes of food left to be found for her to eat, luckily she managed to sneak some toast while she was cooking the breakfast earlier.

Her Aunt Petunia, a tall skinny woman with a long neck like a giraffe and a face like a horse, was standing behind her impatiently tapping her foot.

She backhanded the girl and screeched at her to hurry up, there was a long list of chores for her to do, and if she does not complete them before Vernon comes home from work then she will get nothing to eat for the day.

Begrudgingly Harri nodded and said " Yes Aunt Petunia."

With a roll of her eyes that her aunt did not see she said in her head, 'it's not like your gonna feed me anyway stupid cow.'

Quickly she got the kitchen cleaned once more and headed out front to tend to her aunts most prized flowers, she rather liked tending to the garden for at least she had a chance to talk to her slithery friends.

As the sun drew higher and sweat began to bead on her forehead a dark shadow fell over her, startled she quickly looked behind her to find two strange looking men.

One was very tall and lanky with shoulder length greasy black hair, he had a long nose and was wearing an all black dress like thing that billowed threateningly around him, and the man next to him was slightly shorter than the grumpy looking man with long curly black hair, shining grey eyes and a big wolffish grin upon his face.

Wary of the two men she quickly stood up and asked them " Are you looking for my Aunt or Uncle?"

The man with the black robes sneered at her and said " No child we are not here for them, we have been looking for you for a very long time."

Harri gasped at this and started to slowly walk backwards to the house " Why have you been looking for me?" She asked.

The man with the grey eyes took a small step forward " I'm your godfather child and we will not hurt you."

She thought she could see honesty in his kind grey orbs but deep down she could not trust him so easily.

" If that is true then why now have you come for me?, why have I been abandoned here when my parents died?" She said, she was close to the first step of the front door.

The man took another step and said " Please Harriet believe me, I have been trying to find you for the past ten years and your parents are not dead who told you that?"

Harriet paused before she could step up onto the porch and cocked her head to the side and stared at him in confusion " What do you mean my parents are still alive? They died in a car crash, drunk driving and that's why I have this hideous scar and blind in my left eye" she proclaimed as she was gesturing to her face.

She was stunned, who did these men think they were to just come up here out of nowhere and feed her such lies.

The grumpy looking man in black said " Listen here you foolish child your horrible relatives lied to you and your parents are alive, though they were the ones to abandon you here. Black is telling the truth he is your godfather and has been searching for you for 10 years. He could not find you for your parents forbade him to".

Reeling back Harri was shocked at such a revelation and promptly asked " Well if that is true then why did they not want me and how did you find me now?"

The man, Black the other called him replied " It is a long story that would not be appropriate to say out here, will you trust us to take you home with me where you belong and I will tell you everything that I know" she hesitated not too sure she could trust these men, yet her instincts were screaming at her that yes these men are trustworthy and are here to help her.

She looked at them for a little while and then slowly nodded her head yes, honestly they could be no worse than the Dursley's and maybe this is her childhood wishes of a long lost family member to come and take her away finally coming true.

" First of all what is your names?" Harri asked.

Black let out a laugh and said " Sorry pup I was so excited to finally see you again I totally forgot, I am Sirius Black and this is Professor Severus Snape a friend and ally of mine."

Severus grimaced at that but nodded his head curtly all the same. " So pup you got anything you wish to bring with you or want to say goodbye to your relatives?"

Harri quickly shook her head and said " There is nothing here for me and I have no desire to wish the Dursley's goodbye."

With the clap of his hands Sirius said " Alright then pup just grab hold of my arm and we will be off, but to warn you it will be a bit odd and disconcerting but don't worry you'll be fine"

He grinned down at her and she looked at him warily, she grabbed his arm tightly and as soon as she did she immediately felt like she was sucked into a tube and stretched and pulled everywhere all at once.

It was a terrible sensation and as soon as it stopped she immediately fell to her knees gasping for breath.

" What in the blazes was that?" She yelled while holding her stomach.

Sirius laughed at her and said " Sorry about that pup but you'll get used to it eventually."

Grumbling to herself as she got up she said " I would hope to never do that again! Whatever that was!"

Then she took a good look around her and was amazed to fine that she was no longer on four privet drive.

In awe she said " Where are we and how did we get there so quickly?"

Giving her a big grin Sirius opens his arms wide in a welcoming gesture and said " This is Grimmuald place the ancestral home of the Black family!" He chuckled and also said " The bit on how we got here was apparition of course!"

Looking around in awe at the grim yet elegant manor around her she nodded and said " Ok but what is exactly apparition Mr. Black?"

Flapping his hand Sirius said " None of that Mr. Black nonsense Harri call me Sirius or Padfoot or anything you want just not that ok pup" he grimaced " Makes me feel old and I'm only 29!"

Looking at him dubiously Harri nodded her head and said with a small smile " Ok...Sirius" frowning she then asked while looking around for something or someone " Where did Mr. Snape go to?"

"Ah" Sirius said " He went to fetch my cousin Narcissa Malfoy to come and look over you, she is a trained healer you see and..." he cut off looking at the wide scared look in her eyes and held his hands up, she flinched at the movement and he slowly put his hands down.

" Harri there is nothing or no one that is going to hurt you ok pup. Cissa is just gonna make sure you are healthy there is nothing to worry about ok"

She began to tear up but held them back and quickly nodded her head " I am fine I do not need a doctor to look me over can't we just forget it?"

Sirius gave her a sad shake of his head and knelt down in front of her, " Harri I don't know what your life was like at the hand of the Dursley's, but I promise you pup that no matter what we find there is nothing for you to be ashamed of ok luv".

Looking up into the mans grey eyes she saw how much he truly loved and cared for her and it genuinely shocked her to her core. Never before has someone looked at her with such love and adoration, for years when she was younger she often tried her best to be good so her aunt or uncle would look upon her with such love as they do to Dudley.

And here was this man claiming to not only to be her godfather but to love and care for her as no adult as ever before in her life. She did something that was never allowed at the Dursley's and burst into tears.

Sirius at a loss of what to do slowly reached his arms around the young girl to embrace her and try his best to comfort the distraught child. She stiffened at his embrace at first but slowly melted into her godfathers warm arms.

Hope in her heart of a wish thought long gone of having a family rekindled in her reunion with her godfather.