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Everyone knew that the girl Adriana was not what you would call

average. They just couldn't exactly put their finger on what it exaclty was about

her. They all knew that she was adopted when she was only an infant so maybe it

had something to do with her unknown parents. This is where our story begins eleven

years ago. It was a chilly winter's night in Gordric's Hollow and it had begun to

snow outside. A man named Sirius and his then girlfirend Marlene, who died not

even an entire year after this night at the hands of Lord Voldemort's supporters

while he got put into Azkaban, told their good friends Lily and James Potter, whose

house they were over for a visit, that they had some buissness in America. Lily and

James had their own little baby, a boy just 2 weeks younger than their own little girl

named Harry. Anyway they went to the fire and threw a handfull of glittering

powder into the flames which instantley flared out and turned a spectactular shade of

green. Their own little baby girl, covered in a bundle of blankets, was in the arms of

her mother when her eyes began to tear up.



"Sirius I don't know if I can do this...are you sure it's the right thing to

put our little girl in the hands of strangers," Marlene asked looking into Sirius's eyes.

Sirius bit his lower lip and sighed," It's the only way we can be sure she

will be truly safe. You know what Dunbledore said soon he will be going after the

Potters and he is worried that he might come after us too."

"Ok," Marlene said looking at their daughter,"come on little miss Black

we're going on a trip to America," she said in her sweetest voice. With that she

stepped into the flames it felt like she was surrounded by a breath of hot

air,"Concord, North Carolina,"she exclaimed loud and clear and she and little

Adriana dissapeared in a burst of green flames. Then Sirius followed suit and before

he exclaimed Concord, North Carolina he looked at his best friend and said," See

you later Prongs." Then he too vanished in the green flames. They both shot out one

after the other at the fire place of a thankfully empty house covered in soot. Marlene

wiped some of it off of the little baby which in turn gave a little sneeze. They both

walked out of the house, into the adoption agency across the street, and up to the

front desk. "Excuse me madame we have to put my little girl up for adoption we can't

really take the best of care right now so we want her to go to some one who will,"

Marlene said nervously a single tear rolling down her cheek. The woman at the desk

gave her a look of deep sympathy.

"Don't worry we understand. We will make sure we get the best family

to look after her," she said.

"We only have two requests," Sirius said," and that is to keep her birth

given name, Adriana Bellatrix Black and for her to keep her music box. It always

helps her to fall asleep." The little porcelain box had little pink ballerina slippers

painted all around the outside with a little twirling figure of a ballerina inside that

sprung to life and started twirling to the song "Once Upon a December" as soon as

he opened the box.

"Ok we will make sure that she does keep both of those things," replied

the lady at the front desk. Marlene gave Adriana one last kiss on her cheek and said

goodbye while humming the tune that was playing from the music box so did Sirius.

Then they handed over the baby in the bundle of blankets gently, walked out of the

building, and dissapeared with two loud cracks. Adriana was about half asleep in her

blankets and just snuggled into them unknowing of the fact that she would be

adopted by a lovley couple called the Kentwoods who gladly kept the parents wishes

in not changing her name. After that she spent eleven wonderful years with her

newfound parents not knowing anything about the world she left behind. The

Kentwoods were Muggles and knew nothing of their adopted daughter's past. That is

until the day that the strange letter appeared in the mail.

**by the way unless you didn't know I got that song "Once Upon a December" from the movie Anastasia since I'm doing it in chorus for the next concert.