Chapter Two: Secrets

Hermione and Ron gasped.

"No they didn't! I met your parents!"

"They adopted me, Hermione. At age five. In the summer before kindergarten when I met you. As soon as they adopted me, they put me in the same school and then I met you. I didn't want anyone to know that I was a witch and that I was an orphan. My real Mum knew your parents, Harry. So did my Dad. My Mum was a best friend to Lily, and Lily didn't have many friends but my Mum and her was a pair! Dad was half Muggle so technically made me half-Muggle. I can still hear their screams from when I was five. I actually remember every single detail..." I was crying.

"I'm sorry I have to cry, I'll stop in a second." I felt an arm slip around me. I looked up and found Harry smiling down on me. There were tears in his eyes too. I lay my head on his shoulder and felt a lot better. I could feel his face grow hot. I smiled at Hermione and she winked.

"We've got to change into our robes!" Ron exclaimed. Ron and Harry ran out with their suitcase. Hermione and I changed into our black robes and uniform. We grabbed our wands and put them in our wand protector pockets.

"Harry and you probably go way back! He really likes you! I can tell!"

"Well Ronald likes you!" she blushed.

"WOULD ALL FIRST YEARS PLEASE LEAVE THEIR LUGGAGE AND FOLLOW HAGRID, WHO IS OUTSIDE THE TRAIN." Hermione, Ron, Harry and I grabbed hands and Hermione led the way. The order was Hermione, Ron, me, then Harry. What two boys would hold hands? Oh wait... Smiles sheepishly Whoops.

Harry pointed with his free hand to a big, hairy man and yelled, "That's Hagrid!" We followed Hermione through the crowd and finally reached Hagrid.

"All the first years come with me!" His voice boomed and EVERYONE heard it. He led us to a huge lake and where there were boats. The four kids grabbed their own boat and sat quietly.

"Yer all supposed to sit quietly an' still. The boat will move by itself."

"Wow! Look at the castle! It's beautiful! Romantic too!" Hermione exclaimed.

Everyone else except the first years were seated in the Great Hall and watched the first years march into the Great Hall.

"Harry Potter and Raeven Black will be joining us this year as first years. Make sure no harm from the Dark Lord comes at them. Raeven has magical powers, a curse really. Be careful!" Headmaster said loudly to McGonagall. Since when was I famous?

Professor McGonagall yelled as she held up a worn black pointed hat, "Let's the Sorting begin!" The other students clapped. She placed the hat on a wooden stool, and held a large scroll. She called out a name. A mousy boy sat quivering and the hat was placed on his head.

"HUFFLEPUFF!" the hat yelled. He leapt from the stool and ran to the table that was clapping. Many girls and boys were called to their houses before me.

"BLACK, RAEVEN!" I walked up to the stool grinning. All eyes followed me.

"Wow, what a hard decision! Brains, sweetness, sly, and bravery all mixed in one little girl. I see you've had many hard times in life. A magical power..."

"I'm cursed with it. I see bad things and good things come at me. I watch people die every day. I'm cursed."

"CURSED? Oh dear child, it is a gift," it reassured her. "Maybe Hufflepuff isn't for you... Ravenclaw..." Five minutes passed.

"Sorting Hat, have you made up your mind?" Headmaster called.

"THIS GIRL HAS EVERYTHING! KINDNESS, BRAINS, SLYNESS, AND BRAVERY MIXED INTO AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL. THE DECISION IS DIFFICULT."

"Hurry up then!" McGonagall said. "We hadn't had a delay like this since... Lily Evans and Serena Black stepped up to the stool... Those two made such a pair. Lily, a sweet, smart girl, that put James Potter in debt with his boyish charm with girls. Serena was Lily's best friend and helped put James in line. Lily put Harry under Serena's care if she ever died. She and James were killed. Harry was six when Raeven was five. Serena put Harry under his Muggle aunt's care. After that Serena and Gordon were murdered while Raeven, this same eleven-year-old girl, who was five at the time witnessed everything. "Both couples had their funerals together. Many people attended the funeral and are still greatly loved and missed..." I held my tears and bit them back.

"HER BRAVERY HAS KEPT HER ALIVE ALL THIS WHILE! SHE IS A TRUE GRYFFINDOR!" The entire Gryffindor table stood up and applauded.

"Thank you," I whispered my voice quivering.

"You may go, Raeven. Cry all you want."

I ran out of the Great Hall and followed Nearly Headless Nick to the girls' dormitories. The first floor and where my pets were, was where my bed was. Hermione's bed was next to hers. I started crying nonstop.

Flashback

"I won't let you kill Harry or my Raeven!" A beautiful woman with long hair like mine standing firm in front of two, sleeping children. A boy with glasses, black hair, and a lightning shaped scar slept soundly. A small girl wasn't sleeping, she was me.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" An ear-piercing scream rang painfully in my ears. My beautiful mother collapsed on the floor. I jumped down off my bed and started crying.

My father appeared with a wand and said, "You can't kill my child and my wife's best friend's child! You can't kill them!"

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Another ear-piercing scream and he collapsed with my mother.

I grabbed the wand. My high-pitched cry rang in my ears, "AVADA KEDAVRA!" I pointed the wand at the black robed man. The man disappeared and I cried and collapsed with my parents.

End of Flashback

I blacked out.

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