Disclaimer:Must I say I don't own any of this. The only characters in this story I own is Rose Raven, and a few back ground people. Sarah and Eve Winters belong to a dear friend of mine along with there pasts. Harry Potter and all related charaters belong to JKR. and Gandalf and Snik belong to JRR Tolikein, and I've got not idea who the X-men characters belong to but sure as hell not me.

Sarah stood before Severus Snape. In years past this would have been a moment waiting on someone to fire a hex at the other. Not now. No more were they holding grudges.
"I know you weren't here all night like you say." Severus said.
"Get out of my mind you've not supposed to start yet."
"Fine. Sit." Severus motioned to the sofa. The two sat in the empty room. Eve was down stairs with the others sharing old stories the children were lost somewhere in the house, and anyone else who could be of any importance was doing whatever the headmaster had instructed them todo. "Now, tell me why you left."
"I went back to school. Back to potions. You remeber the day after Sirius gave me the ring." Even Severus remebered that day.
"Oh yeah. Eve was so giddy. She even owled Narc to find out about a wedding dress." Severus said with a small chuckle.
"Well, I was watching us as kids and Re and I were passing notes."
"So? You always did."
"Let me finsh. Re stated in one of the notes that...'Soon it shall just be us left of the Griffindor part. The brawn dead and the cheerleader won't be spoken of'."
"Okay then? What was the reason for leaving."
"Dreams...They tell us what we already know but may have forgotten." Sarah supplied.
"Yes, I know your theories. Let me take a quick look make sure your mind is in good enough state. I've got to get back to the manor." Sarah nodded and put up her defences letting Severus look into her mind. After tweenty minutes he stopped his search exausted."Your of well enough mental state. I'm proud of how well you hold up. You'd of made a fine Slytherin." Severus said standing up. Sarah nodded.
"I know. But I made a kick butt Griffindor." Sarah led Severus to the door.

Harry was up early before anyone. He'd already packed all his things and was sitting in the kitchen now looking through some old photo albums Sarah had given him. He stopped on a page in a pink and blue book. This picture showed his parents, Sarah, Sirius, and two babies. One was with out a doubt him but the other one he didn't know. It was a little girl with a mass of curlly black hair on top her head. He stared at the baby she was cute, but that didn't help most babies are. There was a noise at the door and he turned to see Kreacher.
"Hello." Harry muttered. The house elf walked slowly over to him. Why he was even still here was beyond Harry but he figured the elf still had to stay because there were still Blacks alive. "Kreacher, do you know who this little girl is?" Harry asked showing him the picture. The elf gasped and stepped away from Harry as if the book would give him the plague. Kreacher fled the room ranting under his breath about roses.
"He won't say a word about that girl. She isn't supposed to be spoken of." a female voice called behind him.
"Why?" Harry asked with out turning around.
"What happened to that girl was such a horrible thing no one in this house will tell you. Not even her parents will tell you." Harry thought about this for a moment. What if Voldmort had gone after her too.
"He didn't go for her his supporters did but not the Dark Lord. But that is all I should tell you." Eve said coming to sit next to him. She too flipped through the books on the table."Here." she said after a few minutes,"This is a picture of the whole group after we graduated." Eve said pointing to a picture. James had his arms around Lilly, Sirius had his arms over Sarah's and Peter's shoulders and Eve stood between Severus and Remus, who both looked ready to murder the other."We had just been told we could leave. We had skipped breakfast to walk back through the school and in the case of Sarah and Sirius have one more make out feast by the lake."

"What happened with Mum and Dad between here and their fith year?" Harry asked watching his father whisper somthing in Lilly's ear and she giggled in response.

"Oh. I forgot you saw Sevey's memory. I don't really know. James concocted a plan one summer and him and Sirius and Sarah played it out. From what Remus says Sarah and James spent alot more time in the common room together than normal. But those two were always that way they just shoved it in Lils face I suppose." Harry felt sick. His father had tricked his mother. Eve smirked and shook her head."It wasn't like that. Jamie and Sarah were on the quidditch team together and Sarah tutored your father. Well sort of."

"Dad grauated as head boy though, right?" Harry asked.

"Yeah. He just had some distractions and its hard to watch those while your best friend is sitting next to you prodding you with her wand. Belive me when Sarah wants to she can be vicious." Eve grinned. Harry watched her for a few minutes as she went back to flipping through the books. Every once in a while she'd say something about one of the pictures. Normally just wishful thinking it sounded like. But Harry had realized she wasn't going to give him any answers about that girl. So he began to think of who would know and tell him.

Sarah layed on her bed feet in the air behind her as she read over Sirius's journal. Before she let Harry read it she wanted to make sure Sirius hadn't done anything in it or to it that might throw Harry for a few loops. But so far she'd only found out that Sirius worried about Regulus alot. She didn't think the two got along that well. Reg was definatly something to worry about though even Dumbledore doubted things after talking with Sirius's parents. They were crafty people and not above using their charm and money to keep all their little ducks in line. They were truely sick people. They themselves never became death eaters not to say they didn't bid that way. But they forced one son in to in and about had the other there several times. The Blacks were as wicked as the day is long.

"Misstress?" Kreacher called from the door. Even though they both hated calling her misstress Kreacher insisted on it. Sarah only ever had Phatom at home and the whole house elf thing was getting annoying.
"Yes, Kreacher."
"Mr. Potter is asking about roses." he stated with the slight hint of halarity.
"Did you tell him anything?"
"No of course not Misstress. Kreacher would never do that. Kreacher left the room. Misstress's sister was there though she might tell." Sarah sighed.
"Thank you Kreacher." the house elf nodded and left the room to go sulk somewhere. Sarah sat in her room for a long while after that. No one had asked about 'roses' in a long time. She wasn't sure she wanted to tell Harry yet. But she had promised not to keep anything from him. Sarah closed the book and started down stairs to find her god son. Only to be stopped by the giggling of a small child. Sarah made her way down to the room Jean and Scott had taken residency in. She knocked before opening the door and saw in a small muggle play pen was a two year old girl. Jean appeared up from behind the pen.
"peek-a-boo" she exclaimed. When she saw Sarah the suprised look melted into one of shame."I can explain." Jean started.
"I understand Jean. She's your daughter, your allowed to see her while your at home. I won't stop you. I just ask you to be careful. Small children have no protection besides their parents." Sarah said still in the door way.

"Or grandparents?" Jean asked. Sarah shook her head.
"I don't want to get into this now." Sarah stated.
"Would you like to hold her?" Jean asked. Sarah knew she knew that Sarah would refuse. Sarah would never even for a moment take care of a friends young child again. If she had left her own to be murdered then she didn't think she shoud be given the chance to bring harm to another child. She never would have gone near the Creevy boys had Dumbledore not told her she had to. Even a wizard as great and Albus Dumbledore used black mail.
"No, thanks. I've got to go talk to someone."
"Harry asked about Rose Raven didn't he?" Jean inquired.
"Yeah. How'd you know?"
"Kreacher was ranting when he went by. Do you know what your going to say?"
"No. I'm in hope one of Kurt's prayers will help. But you know what I think of that." Sarah said slowly moving into the room.
"I know. Are you going to tell him the truth or some made up fairy tale?"
"I promised him I wouldn't keep anything from him. I just never thought he'd want to know about Rose."
"Yeah but had things gone as you and Lilly always planned he'd be asking you and Sirius a whole nother line of questions." Sarah laughed.
"We were foolish to think we'd ever live."
"No, you were just young and didn't know what you were getting yourselves into."

"But that was insane. Thinking the Dark Lord wouldn't find a chance to strike."
"Regulus told you what was going on in there. Heck Severus even brought you into the circle. You four knew what was going on. You just didn't want to face it." Sarah sighed and retreated from the room. Jean was right but Sarah had made a promise. She found Harry in the kitchen talking with Eve.

"Morning Sissy." Eve greeted her.
"Morning. Harry Kreacher said you wanted to know about a girl in those photos." Sarah said. She wasn't dodging the bullet she was going to take it.
"You don't have to L. Its perfectly okay if you don't tell him." Eve tried to stop her.
"Yeah." Harry said looking from sister to sister before finding a picture of the girl."This one." he said pointing to the picture of her.
"That's my daughter. Her name was Rose Raven." Sarah said with a smile. She didn't realize how long it had been since she had seen theses pictures. This one was of Rose sitting in a little pink frilly dress her hair pulled into a ponytail ontop of her head, and she was sitting in a little rocking chair.
"No one said you had a daughter." Harry said stupified.
"No one told you I exsisted." Sarah countered. Harry seemed satified and didn't ask anything else. Sarah went and got some breakfast and then came back into the room."Sis, I'm going into town today you wanna come with? Re's gonna be here this evening. Oh and Harry I need your permission slip to Hogsmead."
Sarah didn't even act like she'd brought up the horrible memories of her daughter. She locked them away again in hope she'd never have to drag them back out. She hurried through her breakfast and her and Eve left for town.