Ascension: The Promise of Prometheus

by Define Anachronistic

(AU) It's Harry Potter's Third Year at Hogwarts, and he and his closest friends have resolved to enlist in the Auror Corps in order to gain the necessary authority to combat their enemies head on. However, brutal training, a harsh Squad Captain and a plot that could destabilise both the Muggle and the Wizarding Worlds need to be dealt with first. Who said war was meant to be easy?

7. Chapter 7

INTERLUDE III

Upon learning of her prestigious record, most couldn't help but voice their surprise that she wasn't from a long wizarding lineage. They were either flabbergasted or appalled to find that she didn't have much of wizarding lineage at all.

Alexandra Solace was the second daughter of two Muggle-born Aurors.

As a child, her mother and father had been her heroes, and she took every opportunity to brag about them, both at Pendle's and at Hogwarts. This continued to an age where it was no longer socially acceptable to do so but she didn't care, as speaking of them made her feel closer to her mother and father whenever they were away for long stretches of time.

That joy ended when they were killed in action.

Her sister Felicia, a rising star in her own right, got permission to pull back from the front lines in order to take care of Alexandra. However, this was merely an excuse as she did little to take care of her younger sister and used the opportunity to discharge from the Corps all together once the year came to an end.

No matter how many times she asked, Felicia never gave a good explanation of what happened to their parents, which was unfortunate as Alexandra was left to find out the hard way when she returned to Hogwarts the following September.

Bullies had a habit of sniffing out vulnerabilities, and the ones in her year were in top form when they noticed her ceasing to mention her parents at any given opportunity. Someone, perhaps a parent or an older sibling must have let slip what had happened, because word quickly got around school and they were quick to throw it in her face.

"They weren't even punished for leaving your parents behind." A boy had said, his name and face long forgotten in her memory, but his cruel words remained. "The higher ups know that they weren't worth protecting."

The boy had told her this for a reaction, but he wasn't delighted by the one she gave him, as she jumped on him and attacked him as viciously as she could.

Alexandra had been suspended for the wounds she had clawed into his face, but she didn't mind as it gave her the opportunity to go home and confront her sister, but she quickly wished she hadn't returned at all. Felicia's avoidance of the question let her know it was the truth.

Her parents had been abandoned by their own comrades.

This wasn't enough to stop her enlisting when her own Third Year arrived, much to Felicia's dismay. Alexandra felt a burning need to prove both to herself and to all those who doubted her that someone could be great without a long lineage to back them up.

Unfortunately, it was her eagerness that attracted the attention of someone her newly initiated squad was not ready to face and, somehow, she was the only one to survive.

She had kept it a secret for all these years, that the deaths of her first squad was due to her own folly.

It was a secret only known by her and the Acolyte that had killed them.