Prologue

Greetings to you all. My name is Melantha Cardigan Potter.You may already have heard of my younger brother, the famous Boy-Who-Lived. I was born three years before he was, and had three more years of running for my life.

My life was relatively quiet compared to his, though, until my fourth birthday. That's when the attack happened at Godric's Hollow, and our parents died.Time has a way of... smoothing over the rough edges when things are too painful to remember, and that's what happened to me.I spent the years from when I was four to when I was seventeen unknowing of my past, history, or destiny.

Although I am nineteen years old, I have only just completed my fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Listen closely to my history and I will tell you why…