Flashback to first official day of school,
At breakfast House Hogwarts was sitting in the center table together while the other students just awkwardly stared at them. Alice leaned over to Harry as he was eating some toast.
"I need help from a professional." She said getting a questioning look from Harry,
"With all these people staring how do I kindly tell them to sod off?" after she said that Persephone starting cracking up while Harry choked on his toast and had to drink some water so he didn't choke, meanwhile Susan walked up and just put her hand on Harry's shoulder,
"Shhh it's ok Harry you can rest now" with Neville nodding his head solemnly. Meanwhile Harry drank his water and started breathing normally,
"You guys suck, but Alice I wouldn't know how to deal with them I mean I managed to hide who I was for years. So I guess we just gotta deal." Alice gave out a sigh before sadly eating her cereal realizing this is her life now. After a few more minutes of the quiet breakfast and their other housemates joining them Professor McGonagall came up with sheets of paper in her hands.
"Students given you're circumstances, the headmaster has seen fit to give you the same schedules as the Gryffindor students. I do hope you use this chance to better get to know your housema- I mean classmates as you will be spending much of your time here around them given the… limited size of your own house. I have also seen fit to place the Gryffindor prefects in charge of your house at the moment as you are all too young to be one yourself." She stated matter of factly and walking off before anybody could respond.
Persephone connected her mind to Neville, Harry, and Susan before telling them alone,
'Looks like the old goat REALLY wants you to get to know the Gryffindors, don't let that stop you from making friends just be careful on what you tell them, after all I can shield your minds but not your mouths got it?' She finished getting positive answers from the three kids. Then it was time for their first classes of the day so they all got up and headed to their first class. On the way up to class the house was using their mental connection to talk about the introductions into which house they were representing.
Neville told them about how It wasn't but some people were a little jealous but it wasn't brought up very often. Isiah was a little worried about the Weasley twins and thought it best to keep them at arms length for a while. Susan and Andrew said Hufflepuff had no problems with it and were extremely relaxed about the whole thing, even offered their help in the future. Harry and Alice told them about what they dealt with when they went to Slytherin and how much like Hufflepuff they offered their help as well. Meanwhile Mina and Sofia were the ones who seemed traumatized about the entire thing,
'So many questions, how could their be so many questions? How are even supposed to know if the Founder's shampoo was even in there?' At that last part Mina shivered a bit while Alice patted her on the back awkwardly saying,
'There, there' causing odd looks to come from the other students who didn't know they were having a mental conversation. As they approached the potions classroom they saw there weren't many students inside, the Slytherins were already there with Draco giving Harry a small nod in greeting. The rest of the students were still unsure of how to interact with the new house so they just settled for polite nods as well. House Hogwarts decided to sit near the Slytherins as they didn't have any reason not to but then the calm atmosphere was interrupted by the arrival of the Gryffindor house,
"HEY! You snakes get away from them! Harry doesn't need future dark wizards around him!" was heard from a certain Ron Weasley who for some reason seems to think he was saving Harry. Meanwhile Harry looked over at the Slytherins and just asked,
"Who even is this guy?" causing a few chuckles to even come from the Gryffindors, or at least the more sensible ones. Meanwhile Ron decided this was his chance to make a good impression, or at least his version of a good impression. Walking up to Harry instead of shaking his hand or anything he decided to start his greeting with slapping his hand on Harry's shoulder.
"My names Ron Weasley mate! Don't worry you don't have to sit with those snakes anymore now that I'm here, you can just sit with me instead." He finished giving a small glare to Alice who was sitting next to Harry meanwhile Neville and Susan were just thinking about how bad of an idea that was to try and impress Harry that way.
"Listen…Ron you seem like a nice guy and all but I'm not in any danger here, I just sat here because we felt like it right Alice?" While Alice looked over at Harry and said,
"Yep that's right, also who cares who you sit next to as long as work gets done?" After that Ron just spluttered before going back to the other Gryffindors. Alice looked over at Harry and used the mental connection to say,
'I see why you went by Hadrian Crafter, with people like that who knows how people would have reacted to you being out in the open so much.'
'Right but also I wasn't really hiding all I did was change my name, get hair cuts, and change my eye color.' Before Alice could respond the door flew open and Professor Snape walked in and went on his spiel that he usually went on for first years but once he hit "stopping death" Persephone couldn't help but snort bring his attention to her.
"Ah yes the other 'Lesser' Potter" he spat out with a glare towards Harry.
"What was it that was so funny you saw fit to laugh and interrupt my introduction?"
"Oh Professor I'm just laughing because you think it's possible to stop death, sure you can keep someone alive a bit longer but overall everything dies, the plants, the animals, people everything." And while she said that laughing nobody thought she was joking the ay she said it caused chills to run down their necks and some students even felt ready to throw up at this new sensation. But that wasn't the end of it Persephone continued and not even the Professor could muster up the courage to stop this 11 year old girl from talking about death as if she was intimately familiar with the concept.
"So no you cannot 'put a stopper in death' professor, nothing can death comes for everyone no matter what rituals you use, no matter how many potions you brew, make no mistake you WILL die and you Won't be able to stop it" She finished causing pure silence to cover the room. Nobody was even brave enough to breathe to loudly in fear of everything going on.
Meanwhile Snape also felt the fear but to a lesser extent. Due to the fact that he didn't lose his wits he noticed that Persephone looked right at his arm rather than himself and just knew she was looking at where his dark mark was supposed to be.
'This girl is not what she seems she knows more than she lets on… I must inform the headmaster about this immediately' Meanwhile after that thought he also thought,
'How even is there another Potter child besides that brat, I'm sure the fool did not have any siblings and Lily never had another child?' and after that thought he decided to start the class.
The class ran normally with the Professor trying to intimidate the students and stalking down the aisles but there was one big difference in this class compared to all the others. The students weren't afraid of him right now. They were afraid of Persephone and the feeling she brought with her. In fact all of the students were so afraid they didn't even mess up their potions because they didn't want to focus on anything else or talk. So for the first time in Hogwarts history a first years class of Snapes did not bring his ire towards them and managed to each successfully finish their potions with skill not expected from a batch of first years.
Meanwhile as for Persephone she was having a mental conversation with Harry during the class,
'So was that really necessary Seph? I mean you almost made Weasley wet himself over there!'
'Nah it really wasn't but this guy just oozed his ego so I decided to bring it down a bit'
'How would that have brought it down? Wouldn't it just make him angry at you?'
'Oh yea he's gonna be angry but here's the kicker, a little girl broke his intimidation tactic with one speech and no matter how much he tries to intimidate us in the future he'll never get over the fact that this happened. Also completely off topic but that Bushy haired girl has been glaring at us since breakfast, Harry do you have an ex that you hid from me?' She finished with a teasing tone at the end.
Harry just spluttered in his mind before glaring over at Persephone,
'I'm 11 Seph I don't even know what I would do with a girlfriend, and don't even bring up Uncle Siri's advice, Mom and Uncle Regulus both said if Padfoot tells me to do something with a lady, most of the time it's best to do the opposite.'
'Awww man you take all the fun out of it, but honestly though this girl is staring at us like we killed her grandma or something'
'I have no idea but I won't say anything to her unless she does first, sound good?'
'Works for me just wanted to make sure you were aware of it'
'Yea no worries I'm sure whatever it is we can handle it'
And with that they finished their conversation before working with their partners on their potions. Persephone looked over at Blaise,
'So how you doing?'
'Meh not to bad but when are you gonna tell them?'
'Ah I'll tell them eventually it's not hurting them anyways besides the original you is busy right now elsewhere so there really isn't a point.'
'I don't know why I agreed to this before you told me what both me's would be doing'
'ah don't worry about it have I ever led you wrong before?'
'What about the time where you sent me on vacation and it ended up with all of us fighting evil space wizards?'
'Those were a fun couple years and you know it'
'Oh it was fun but again it was supposed to be a VACATION, besides won't the others be mad about all this anyways?'
'Not at all, it was their idea anyways I just executed it, and no need to worry you'll be back in like 2 years in this universes time so not that long of a wait.'
'Fine but what about those kids I look after? How Long will it be for them? And did you even tell them?'
'Ah they'll be fine it's about the same time frame for them maybe an extra couple months or so but nothing major, and I had time tell them besides they have Bambi and Candy there alongside Hest, also I gave them a button to bring in the other you if they ever needed you right away.' She then followed up with,
'You know in retrospect you adopted quite a few kids over there didn't you?'
"I don't know what you're talking about besides to those three I'm more of an uncle than anything'
'Mmhmm sure, go right ahead and say that but we know the truth even if you are an uncle to those three, you still adopted Bambi and Candy there'
'….I admit to nothing'
'Yea that's what I thought' and after that conversation the class finally ended so they went and brought their potion up to Snape before Persephone gave him one last smirk and walked away.
Present time
"And that's the story headmaster, I would have come sooner but the first month is always the worst and I couldn't find the time to come over here what with you're meetings and dealing with he students issues." Professor Snape finished as he was standing in the headmasters office and relaying everything that happened from his first potions class with the potter children. Snape then continued by saying,
"Headmaster how is there even a second Potter child? She looks to similar to the boy to be a distant cousin but that fool James Potter had no siblings nor did Lily have a second child…right?"
Meanwhile the Headmaster could feel the headache coming on. Such a headache he has felt every time he tries to figure the mystery of Persephone Potter and the many different mysteries surrounding her very existence.
"Severus my boy I can honestly say that I don't know anything about her. I've tried to reach out to my sources but nobody knows her. I even checked in with young Harry's aunt, but she reports that he has been living there and I checked her memories just in case and yet I saw that Harry had little to no contact with anybody outside of their house so I doubt Charlus managed to track him down."
Dumbledore was visibly frustrated at the end of what he said. He checked everything and Harry's upbringing had no contact with the remaining Potters. When he looked into Persephone's information the only thing was she was a Potter who was adopted by cousins of the Potters known as the Crafters.
"The only tangible source on Persephone are the Crafters who are supposedly cousins of the Potters, apparently Charlus left young Persephone in their care this entire time but they have a small potions shop on Diagon Alley but other than that nothing, no address, no extra family, nothing"
"So headmaster what exactly are we going to do about this, she knows something I swear, it must be the Charlus's influence or the blacks what with their spawns being as bad as they were." And yet even more questions.
Dumbledore saw the Memory of the Potions class and had to admit what she said scared him. But it wasn't exactly what she said that scared him, rather how she said it. What really scared the aged headmaster was the look in her eyes, it wasn't determination or belief in her words, rather it was a cold indifference of the facts as though there was no possible way to dispute it and she knew it. And then to add fuel to the flame of Dumbledore's frustrations, Professor Snape had to ask the one thing that sent his plans for a loop that he stupidly neglected to remember.
"And what of the Magical Guardianship of the brat? Have you gotten it yet?" He asked, while not liking the boy on principal understood how it was necessary for him to be under the headmasters control while in Hogwarts.
"No sadly not my boy, 'Lord Potter' has seen fit to assign Magical guardianship to the Crafters as well, though they have not yet met the boy to my knowledge, and that works for us because I plan on using that to build a neglect case against them and possibly get both of the Potter's under my control."
"And what of Charlus?"
"We won't need to worry about Charlus, Arcturus and the lord Potter put in a request for a leave of absence for a few months to take their wives on vacations. They will not be a problem of that I assure you."
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Ok to be honest I want this chapter to be longer but I just can't think of anything to progress it right now. Good news is we finally hit the point in the story where my actual storyline takes off, so I hope you bear with me and read and review!
