Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, any of the fictional locations or characters from the Harry Potter series or any other authors work. This is a work of reworked fiction using the world of Harry Potter. However, I do own this plot and any original characters hence forth created for the purposes of this story.

Shifter

VI

Senna woke the next morning with a stretch and a cute yawn. She had had an amusing dream about Dumbledore. McGonagall had hexed him for being partially responsible for Harry's death, and even Snape wouldn't help him because he was too scared of McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey, the schools on-site medi-witch.

Grinning, Senna sat up in her large bed and let the sheets fall to her lap. She spotted Nifes asleep on the headboard above her and smiled as she quietly climbed out of bed and sat on the edge with her bare feet dangling. She stretched a few more times to get the kinks out of her little bones and frowned as she almost felt the air crack at her flex before shaking that thought away.

She stifled her joy as she saw her Hogwarts letter on the bedside table, and smirked in satisfaction before opening the letter, she read:

Blah blah blah

The usual twaddle she skimmed through,

It was just an acceptance letter. She thought it was unusual for it to be that easy to get into Hogwarts but shrugged it off as a magical world thing. They did tend to be idiots sometimes – well thinking about that, most times. Reading some, it said she would get another letter before term with everybody else in year 2 with her school supplies list.

Grinning at a job and successful lie well done (or lack of security as she wouldn't have to pretend to be her father to see the teachers), she hopped down off the bed landing on her feet. It seemed odd being smaller than she was as Harry. However, it didn't really bother her. She felt fitter than she ever had, and so much stronger.

She yawned and stretched again as she walked into the bathroom, turning on the shower, she waited for it to heat up by unwrapping her toothbrush that came with the room freshly sealed with some toothpaste she brushed her teeth fresh and cleaned them before she slipping out of her pyjamas.

She stopped suddenly with a light blush looking down at her smooth, firm, and tight body and smirked, as she had lightly defined muscles that she knew were a lot stronger than they might look. She liked what she saw; her body was incredible, especially with all the extra modifications she made that went unseen; her eyesight was ridiculously good for one.

She hadn't yet gone through puberty, or even started it yet, and hoped she wouldn't have periods, from what she had figured out, they were a nightmare. Though, she figured she probably would get them as she was a real genuine girl. Well she would have to take the bad with the good, and she would be a better person for that.

She stepped into the shower, letting the warm water wash over her new body. It felt nice and refreshing just to bask in the warmth of her 'first' ever shower. The water removed the stress clean from her body and letting her forget her woes. She had lots of woes to forget, but whatever. She would so kick arse now and not ask questions; questions were only asked to find more enemies to kick.

It was too much to keep thinking about upcoming business, but maybe she should just go with the flow and see what Miss. Fate and Lady Luck throw in her face. The major points were all that mattered at that moment anyway, such as vengeance on her enemies, even if they didn't yet know they were her enemies; she could be sneaky about it.

When she finished her shower and washed her hair, she stepped out and dried herself on the hotel towels that were clean and fresh. She realised now why girls spent so much time in the bathroom. It could take forever, or nearly forever to dry their hair, especially if it was as long as hers. When she was Harry, she used to rub his hair with the towel to stop it dripping, and then not care whether it was still wet, but doing that now would get her clothes wet.

However, when she finally finished she shifted the air around herself, creating the same outfit she had on the day before as she liked the whole thing she had going on; it was cool, and kind of made her feel nice to wear normal people like clothes for once that even fit properly.

"Good morning, Nifes," she greeted the bird upon exiting the bathroom fresh and wide awake as she saw the phoenixes eyes open as she watched her. Senna pocketed her money and bank key as she found it by her bed. "I need a new wand," she said happily bouncing on the spot as it was a new and amazing life waiting for her.

"That sounds like a good first plan of action," agreed the bird, flying up she landed on Senna's right shoulder.

Senna grinned stroking the bird as she grabbed her room key and exited, closing the door and locking it behind her.

She made her way to the back door leading to Diagon Alley. She got some curious looks from the pubs few morning customers but stopped at the halfway through the bar towards the entrance into Diagon Alley with a thoughtful frown.

However, she didn't have a chance to speak with Nifes as she was interrupted as Tom the landlord blocked her path with a sheepish grin. "You booked room nine for the week, right?" he asked while she nodded her head, confused. "Umm… my colleague Colin was pretty swamped and realised he forgot to get your name, and where is your parents?"

"Oh," she replied as she placed on a sweet smile. "Dad sorted that, not me… sorry," she said sheepishly. "Dad won't be staying here as he's dealing with sorting out our new home as he has builders and everything he thought I should stay here until school starts or the work is finished, but I can't wait to see the new place once its ready," she said eagerly.

"Oh, right," Tom chuckled shaking his head. "Its not normally that busy, but England was playing the Quidditch Word Cup semi-finals if you didn't know, and they came round to listen to the match on the radio and have some drinks; typically we lost, but it was a close run," he laughed.

Senna was surprised, but that explained why the bar was so packed. She couldn't have chosen a better time to book her room before she had any kind of story straight.

"Anyway," the man said, "I just need a few details – well, just your fathers name will do if you please?" he asked as he held his ledger and a quill.

"Of course," she said sheepishly as she forgot to make up a name. "N-Nathan Nightly," she said, and he scratched it down. "I'm Senna Nightly, nice to meet you," she said with a grin.

"You too," he replied. "Is that Knightly with a K, or Nightly with just an N?"

"The second one," she replied with a shrug.

"Okay," he said as he finished writing before pausing. "One last thing… other than the phoenix; any other familiars?" he asked looking unsurprised by a phoenix, so Senna realised Dumbledore couldn't be the only person to befriend the creatures. "An owl that might come in at any time, or a cat we need to watch out for and feed?"

"Umm… I have an owl," she said slowly. "Hopefully she gets here soon; she's a very clever owl, and a bit of a free spirit."

"Okay," he agreed with a nod. "Then that is everything, Miss. Nightly. If you need anything, don't hesitate to ask a member of staff."

"Thank you," she said with a sigh of relief as she watched him head back behind the bar.

"Glad that's over," Senna said as she turned to the door leading to Diagon Alley and sighed as she remembered what she was thinking before Tom interrupted. "Nifes, can you flame me to the other side of the barrier? I can't get in otherwise. I don't have a wand for the brick gateway," she complained rather childishly.

Nifes chirped and they flamed away only to reappear the other side of the barrier into Diagon Alley within a moment.

"Thanks. Now on to Ollivanders wand shop," Senna giggled happily as she skipped along in the correct direction.

Nifes was highly amused that Senna was fully accepting her new emotions and hormones as a girl. It was very interesting to watch, though all the idiot witches and wizards staring at them as they passed were annoying to no end. Though, she figured that was because it was because a small child had a phoenix on her shoulder and most of them were young enough to have not seen many phoenixes before, if any.

"Hey look," muttered Senna suddenly. She stopped and looked at a shop she had never noticed before, claiming that it sold books, wands and other magical items one might need if they had plans for being… awesome. That was totally an odd thing to put on the sale sign, but it did captivate her imagination as she wanted to be awesome.

"Maybe we could look in there?" she said, not awaiting an answer she just walked into the shop with a tingle of the bell above the door.

The shop had no customers but loads of books on shelves and wands of the likes she had never seen before, along with wand holsters, and glass cases with other super awesome cool things.

A young blonde woman with large bust wearing gold silk robes was the only other occupant in the shop. She looked like she could have been around twenty-two years old, and the store clerk, so Senna approached her, smiling nervously as the young woman was just so radiant.

"Hello," she greeted with a beautiful smile. "I know what you're here for Miss. Nightly," she said taking her hand and leading her towards the wands.

How the young woman knew her was a mystery. Maybe she had some cool magical device that displayed a person's name or something. If she did, Senna was just thankful that it read her new name, because that would have been weird and uncomfortable.

"Hmm," the woman ran her hand along the shelves until she reached a weird looking wand. It seemed to be a fusion of three different thin strips of woods intertwined and fused perfectly into a straight wand with beautifully crafted handle bound in pure black leather with the inch tip, a crystal of some kind with red, yellow, orange, blue, and white energy-mist swirling within it beautifully.

"Senna wood," the woman began with a small smirk, which must have been the red wood that seemed to hold the other two woods. "White birch," she continued smiling, which was the dirty white coloured wood. "And holly," she finished, which was no doubt the dark brown, near black wood. "It contains three cores; the first, the Diamond Dust Phoenix tail feather resides within the birch wood, while the Imperial Griffin's wing feather is within the holly wood… and last, the hair of the enchantress, the Siren within the senna wood.

"The siren represents the cold of night, water, while the Griffin represents the warmth of day, earth, but the phoenix represents the harmony that is magic, fire."

Senna just stared in awe as the young woman placed the wand handle between her small fingers. She lit up startled as the wand's energy buzzed and exploded around her and through her fingers like electricity before it died down. She could still feel the energy. It was far more than her original wand could have hoped to be.

"B-but how!" she whispered as she looked up into the blue eyes of the blonde as she smiled. "Err… well what about the tip…? What's up what that, huh?"

The woman laughed at her a little and shook her head. "It is the offered essence of the lord of the skies, the nameless Sky Dragon, air, and together they represent four of the five elements that make up the Source of Magic."

"T… then what's the fifth?" Senna asked expectantly.

The blonde woman smiled a little brighter as she reached out and placed her hand over Senna's chest. Senna blushed brightly as the woman leaned down and lovingly kissed her lips with a radiant smile, she spoke but a few words.

"You; the Void…!"

Senna gasped and took half a step back, which caused the woman to straighten up, but she was still smiling before turning back to the shelves and pulling down a black wand holster.

The blonde woman didn't wait or offer the holster over but slid it onto Senna's right arm with an amused grin. "This holster will hide the wand placed within this bottom sleeve," the woman said while chuckling. The holster was thin and soft and a moment later the woman took the wand back and slid the wand into place under her forearm and it almost felt as if it wasn't there.

The strange woman grinned down at Senna before she returned to the wands for only a second before pulling off a black coloured wand before returning with a wide crafty smile.

"Blackwood with dragon heart-string core, eleven inches," she spoke as she handed it over, and Senna was gobsmacked that this wand chose her as well. "I believe it best to use this as your primary wand beautiful as it is weaker and not unique like your main focus," she commented as she slid the wand into the sleeve on the top on her forearm in the holster.

"W-why a-are you kitting me out with these wands?" Senna asked while feeling a little worried.

The shop keeper only grinned more and walked away. She opened a glass case and returned with a necklace with a beautiful silver coloured pendant of a pentagram with runes around the edge for protection on a silver chain, but it had a strange feel to it. The woman carefully clipped it around Senna's small neck where it hung onto her chest.

"This charm will shield your mind until you can do so without it," she commented kindly, giving her a reason for the necklace rather than it being rather nice it was useful. "There is a skill called legilimency, which allows one to see another's memories. The pendant will make anyone using this on you unable to find your mind, and believing you already know how to defend yourself, so they should leave you alone once they know you can potentially detect them. I would suggest teaching yourself occlumency, which is the defence for legilimency, but it can also help with – other things too."

Senna's eyes widened in horror. That would explain how…! "Yes," the woman said almost like she read Senna's thoughts, "and there are two people at Hogwarts that do not think you kids are deserving of private memories?"

"W-who?" she asked shakily, horror written all over her expression. "That's sick. T-that's-that's abuse. They've assaulted our minds?"

The woman nodded sadly, as she walked back to the cabinet; she hesitated a moment before shrugging. She came back with a silver pentagram on a black cord. It looked nowhere near as expensive as her pendant, but it was still nice.

"A gift for a trusted girlfriend," the woman giggled sliding the spare necklace into Senna's trouser pocket.

"This is a multi-compartment trunk with built in shrinking charms," the woman went on. "It is attuned to your magic so only you can open it or shrink and un-shrink it, even call it to yourself if you need it. It also houses plenty of protection charms. Inside you'll find two thousand books on spells, of all types the likes Dumbledore would never allow you to learn. Spells you may need to win the coming battles. But maybe you should start with occlumency first."

"B-but who uses legilimency on us?" she asked desperately as the woman slid the tiny trunk into her pocket with the spare mind protecting necklace it was that portable. Though she knew she already knew who was attacking peoples mind, she would feel better hearing the truth out loud.

"Dumbledore and Snape," she whispered seductively.

"Who are you?" Senna demanded quietly.

The woman smiled and licked her lips as she leant down, stroking Senna's hair and left cheek. "My sister, my lover – My Fate she is cruel, but I interfere, because I am Destiny, and whereas Fate never cares one way or the other, and messes with the night and day. I do tend to favour the hero, especially when they're as cute as you, and I offer you some… luck stat bonuses," she said with a chuckle at a joke only she seemed to get.

Destiny in given form. Senna didn't think it was possible as the women's mesmerizing blue eyes captured her. They were hypnotic and intoxicating. Then they kissed, long and passionate while Destiny pulled Senna tightly into her loving embrace. Senna's eyes had closed feeling the wonderful softness of the 'goddess', tasting her probing tongue, and then it was gone along with the feel of Destiny's body.

Senna's eyes snapped open in shock to find she was outside in the street standing still. People were giving her weird looks but said nothing as they passed.

"What just happened?" Senna asked herself as she could still feel those soft lips on hers, and that divine taste. She looked around, but she couldn't see the shop she was just in. It was as if it never actually existed, and thinking of that she looked to Nifes, and the bird hadn't been with her in the shop.

"You just stopped still," replied Nifes worried about her young and impressionable charge. "You just stopped and stood there for about twenty seconds or so."

"Oh. I-it must have been a dream…? My imagination…?" she replied subconsciously reaching her neck she felt the pendant end of the necklace. She then felt her right arm before looking to see her holster, feeling the 'special' wand under her arm before she pulled out her black wand, looking it over in shock.

"Where did you get that?" asked the very surprised phoenix. "I thought your wand was broken."

"It was," she agreed in awe. "I have two now. I-I got them from this woman, just now in a shop," she said confusedly. "She-she didn't even charge me. She said she was Destiny and kissed me."

"Ah. I hear the kiss of Destiny is an opening for Miss. Luck to bless you at some point in the future," she said thoughtfully. "I have lived long enough to know that there are many things in this world that have some truths to them, but many lies and misinterpretations.

"I have heard of Destiny's phantom shop, but to kiss a customer, unheard of, to me at least as that is as I said an opening for Luck, so she must have faith in you. The shop is said to give things to people; normally heroes, as Destiny's way of beating Fate."

Senna sighed. "So, she gave me two thousand books, a miniature trunk, two wands and two mind shielding necklaces to mess with her sister?" she asked as she put the wand back. Why did these things have to happen to her all the time?

"I believe so. Well at least you won't need a new wand. Or have to worry about underage magic since those won't have tracers."

Senna sighed again. However, let a small grin spread to her lips as she realised, she wouldn't have to go shopping right away and could get lunch as she realised, she was starving. She would have to see if Tom could order her some pizza or more, and some Chinese noodles and pork or beef wouldn't go amiss. She was sure using her powers needed food with high calories, and without any side effects like getting fat. So why not eat all the delicious food she wanted?

"Well, flame me back to my room, please. People are staring because it looks like I'm talking to myself. And I'm hungry anyway, so this worked out for the best."

To Be Continued...