Title: Revealations
Author: Lily Sue
Pairing: OFC/H, OFC/D, R/Hr, D/P.
Summary: When a strange and powerful girl transfers to Hogwarts, little does Harry know how much his life is about to change. When he finds out who she is his whole world turns upside down and nothing can ever put it back the way it was.
Rating: PG 13. Hey these are teenagers we're talking about!
Disclaimer: I wish I owned Harry but I don't or any of the others.
A/N: Hey. My name is Lily, like Harry's mum. Cool, huh? Be nice and please please please review. I'd love to hear what you think. I couldn't put as much as I wanted into chapter one and I don't want to give to much away. But Lucius Malfoy and Hermione are going to have a VERY important role in the next chapter
Chapter One: At First Sight
The students were sitting impatiently in the Dining Hall waiting for the Sorting Ceremony to be over so they could eat.
"Come on," moaned Ron at the Gryffindor table. "I'm hungry. Why is this taking so long?"
"Ron!" Hermione admonished. "This is an important part of the first-years Hogwarts experience. We can't hurry it up just so you can fill your stomach."
"It's not that important 'Mione. And I'm starving."
Hermione looked shocked and was about to respond when Dumbledore's voice rumbled over the crowd.
"Thank you for baring with us. I know how difficult it might have been for some of you." Dumbledore didn't quite glance in the Weasley's direction but Ron got the point and sank down in his chair a bit. "Anyway, now that everyone is comfortably settled…"
BANG!
The door from the entrance hall opened and a dripping wet Professor McGonagall appeared clutching an equally sopping wet girl.
Across the hall, Draco sniggered.
"Who the hell is that? She looks like a drowned rat."
Ron looked at Harry and unknowingly echoed the Slytherins statement.
"Who's she? Did Hagrid lose another first year in the lake?"
"She looks to old to be a first year." Harry answered, staring at the girl. He couldn't seem to help it and he didn't know why. She hadn't once looked up and yet he couldn't tear his eyes away. She had a magnetic presence that crackled on the air. Whispers swirled around her as McGonagal escorted her up to the teachers table.
"Maybe she's a transfer student," Hermione whispered. "It happens sometimes, I read about it once."
"She looks weird."
"Your just saying that 'cos she's holding up dinner."
"Yah, well." He grumbled.
The girl had reached the top of the Hall and McGonagall placed her on the stool, putting the Sorting Hat on her head. Everyone was looking at this strange new arrival in amazement. Everyone except McGonagall and Dumbledore.
"I think the teachers must have been expecting her." Hermione concluded.
"What makes you say that?"
"Look none of the mare surprised."
It was true. Dumbledore had promptly sat back down, as if he didn't want to appear rude.
The Sorting Hat seemed to be taking its time with the new girl. A really long time. Had this ever happened before? The Sorting Hat appeared to be stumped.
"It hasn't taken this long to sort someone since, well, since you Harry." Fred butt in to the conversation.
"I wonder what it's thinking?" Harry mused…
The new girl's given name was in fact Hazel Jade, but because of her long black hair that shimmered like moonlight on a blackbirds wing she was nicknamed Raven. It suited her, even though it had been meant cruelly by her foster brother.She preferred it to her real name. That was a relic left behind from her old life when her parents had been alive. She preferred to forget that part of herself. It had been lost, killed the day her parents died.
If she could have heard Harry's question she could have answered that what the Sorting Hat had in fact been whispering in her ear was an agony of indecision.
"Hmmm, tricky very tricky. I see enough courage to make Gryffindor proud. But there's anger here and the raw power that goes with that. So I'm going to have to put you in – SLYTHERIN!"
The usual cheer that accompanied the sorting of a new student into a house was noticeably absent from the Slytherin table as Raven made her way over to sit down.
Unshaken by this strange happening, Dumbledore stood and clapped his hands once.
"Welcome to Hogwarts old and new alike. I will not detain you any longer. Let the feast begin."
As the plates in front of them filled and the hall became noisy with the sounds of cutlery and chatter, the trio turned their gaze away from the Slytherin table.
"She's a Slytherin!" Harry couldn't explain why he felt so shocked and betrayed.
"So what?" Asked Hermione.
"Nothing…it's just…I thought she would be a Gryffindor…I just got that impression." Harry mumbled. "Never mind…doesn't matter."
"Humph!" Hermione snorted. But she did notice the way Harry never took his eyes from the Slytherin table and barely heard anything that was said to him for the rest of the meal.
Harry didn't get a chance to see the new girl for the whole first week of term. He found out her name was Raven and she was in his year from one of the sixth year Hufflepuffs who had Herbology with the Slytherins. He didn't know why he was so anxious to see her again. It was weird. He just couldn't get over the feeling. He was irresistably drawn to her.
Friday afternoon came, with its usual torture of double Potions. With the Slytherins. In Snape's dungeon. But this year, Harry had a distraction other than Malfoy.
The Slytherins all trooped in just before class started. There seemed to be tension among them. Pansy Parkinson was missing from her usual spot hanging from Draco's arm. Draco was sitting in front of Raven. He twisted round in his seat to talk to her. Pansy sat a few rows back glaring at the two of them. Her voice, sharp with jealousy, floated by Harry's ear.
"I mean, he was making fun of her as much as the rest of us were. It was only when her robes came off that he changed his mind. Men! They get one look at a killer pair of boobs and their drooling idiots."
Hermione frowned as Harry and Ron turned to check her out.
She was indeed very pretty, but didn't seem to care about it. She wore her hair down. It flowed down her back like a curtain of pure midnight. She wasn't tall and she was quite curvy. Her robes gaped open at the neck to expose the source of Pansy's jealousy. She was pale-skinned, giving her appearance a delicate otherworldly aspect that made other people wary of her. But it was her huge expressive eyes that were her most unusual feature and which drew the most attention, as we shall soon see.
The class quietened as Snape came stalking into the dungeon. As always he commanded respect from his students.
He began taking the role call and when he got to Raven, he called out "Hazel Jade - "
"It's Raven."
"Excuse me?"
"It's Raven…sir." She added as an afterthought.
"I see. Well, Hazel, as you are new here I shall let this one rudeness slide…"
"Maybe you will but I won't."
Harry suppressed a grin.
"-"
"I just told you that's not my name and you insist on calling me it. Just so you know, I'll never answer to that."
Snape stood there in disbelief. His dark hair and pale skin seemed a weak reflection of the young girls beauty. It was funny how similar they looked when they were angry.
He looked back down at the list and continued taking the attendance in a clipped voice.
Score one for the new girl, thought Harry as the class got under way. I'm impressed.
The next incident was the one from which Harry would never look back. One week into his sixth year at Hogwarts. It was about to become the most remarkable day of his life.
It happened after Potions that night. The students were making their way back up to their respective common rooms and Harry had forgotten his book in the dungeons. He told Ron and Hermione to go on back up without him.
Other students were still coming up behind them. At the beginning of the passageway that led to Snape's dungeon, Harry heard the unmistakable malicious tones of Pansy Parkinson.
"Freak!"
This single word, followed by a cold laugh, bounced off the walls and echoed nastily around him. Harry froze. Pansy and some other Slytherins had grouped themselves around Raven in the hallway. Raven stood with her back to the wall, her books hugged to her chest.
"What do you want Pansy?"
"Why should I want anything? Can't a girl simply make small talk with her housemate anymore?" The barbed question hung in the air like an unexploded bomb.
Raven narrowed her eyes, but said nothing which seemed to irritate Pansy still further.
"Oh, by the way, I've been meaning to ask you," Pansy continued sweetly, "Do those eyes of yours hurt? Do they make you cry? It must be so hard for you, what with everyone knowing you're a freak of nature and all…" she trailed off biting her lip in fake sympathy.
Raven's eyes then did the most extraordinary thing. They flared bright red with anger. "Would you like to see what they can do?" Her voice was low and dangerous.
Pansy laughed. "Now, now. No need to get threatening. I was just playing. Ta ta darling." She prowled away, her posse jostling for the prestigious position of second place at her back.
Harry hurried down to the girl. She was leaning back against the wall, a hard look on her face.
"Are you ok?" He asked.
"Fine," she replied.
"Oh..ok..um..if you're sure…I like your eyes by the way. I think its cool."
"Thanks." She half-smiled, bewildered by the instant attraction she felt towards this boy. "I'm Raven,"
"I know who you are. My name's Harry."
"I know who you are."
"Where are you going?"
"Uh…I've forgotten." He felt so stupid.
She smiled and his heart stopped. It transformed her completely to a soft, lovely vision of beauty. So different from the defensive expression she usually wore to keep people away.
"Well thanks for checking on me. That stuck up cow is so irritating, but I can handle her. I've been looking after myself for long enough now. I know you have to. We're not so different."
"Where are you from?"
"Don't remember. I've gone from bad foster home to worse foster home for as long as I can remember. Dumbledore said that's why it took them so long to find me. I got lost in the Muggle records."
"You've spoken to Dumbledore?"
"Yeah. He was the one who told me about Hogwarts and my parents and stuff. I never knew who they were. He did."
"The same as me."
Raven looked closely at him. She seemed to be on the point of telling him something important. Just then Snape came out of the classroom behind them.
"What's this? 10 points from Gryffindor for loitering in the corridor, Potter. Raven, move along."
Raven had no choice. "Well, I've gotta get back, so…"
"Oh, yeah. I'll catch you around."
Harry smiled uncertainly and backed slowly away. He didn't want to go but he didn't want to look like a crazy stalker guy.
"Thanks Harry."
Raven reached out and gave him a quick hug and a kiss on the cheek before turning away.
Snape watched as the new girl disappeared up the corridor.
There she goes, he thought, mydaughter. Dumbledore can't be right, he cannot be. There must be some mistake, and I intend to find it.
He turned and hurried up to Dumbledore's office. The matter was weighing on his mind as he walked. The implications of this being true were too awful to contemplate.
"Dumbledore?" He almost shouted as he came through the door to the headmasters office.
"What is it Severus? I presume you have been thinking over that rather delicate matter we were discussing last night?"
"Indeed I have. You are wrong, Albus. There is no way you can be right about this."
"I'm afraid the spell couldn't have been wrong. We used blood from both you and myself. The girl is your daughter and my grandchild. It took me years to find her and I will not turn her aside now. She's had a hard life Severus. You above all can understand that."
"But –"
"I will not argue the matter any further."
"But suppose what you say is true, there's another complication."
"What?"
"She and Potter have been forming some kind of bond. They seem to have feelings for each other."
"Only natural, given the circumstances."
"Look Albus, if James wasn't good enough for my sister there is no way his son is good enough for my daughter. Not to mention the fact that they are in fact cousins…"
"Hush, Severus. We have already agreed that they cannot know this. We cannot not to tell them that bit of information. Think how upsetting it would be. It's a delicate situation. The fate of the wizarding world rests on it."
"It'll be ten times as upsetting if we don't –"
"That's my final word, Severus. Keep an eye on them. Together, they have the power to defeat the Dark Lord. The grater good must be maintained."
A/N So! I have major plans for the next chapter! There is going to be all sorts of upset. Let me know what you think?