Miracle Child
Summary: She was born like others of her year in a time of war. She was brought up in the shadows of the chaos. Her parents loved her...that was all she knew and all that mattered. She didn't care if they were killers or if they had tortured ten or twenty witches and wizards, she just knew love.
Anime/Book/Movie: InuYasha/Harry Potter
Pairing: Kagome/?
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Rated: M for Mature Content
R.I.P – Alan Rickman
(Severus Snape)
Remember
The Half-Blood Prince
~ALWAYS~
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September 1st, 1991
"Young Misses has everything? Her books, has she? What of her robes? Potions clinks and bobbles, yes?"
Draco and Harry stared at Kagome's door as she walked out past them and yelled back over her shoulder.
"Jipsy, I promise you; I've got everything! Oh...but, there is one thing," she peeked inside the room and pointed to the closet, "don't forget!" Watching as Jipsy smiled and held a finger up to her lips. Kagome grinned and left the room as she made her way to where Lucius was waiting for them.
Harry frowned, "is that about the...you know what?"
Draco nodded, "the only way to smuggle them in is with elf magic. Can't use Dobby because he answers to father. Jipsy answers to my Aunt, Uncle, and Kagome, but since the other two aren't around, it's just her."
"Um, where are Kagome's parents." A hand settled on Harry's shoulder, and he jumped and turned to see an irate Kagome standing behind him. Her free hand on her hip as she sighed and walked between him and Draco.
"Harry, if you have a question concerning me, ask me. Don't talk about me behind my back."
"S-sorry." He muttered a bit under his breath and held out his hand for the caged owl. "Here, I'll carry Eos. Do you need any help with your trunk?"
"No, Jipsy has that taken care of. She's fretting over me so much; she's gone through my belongings now three times, and I see no end to it until I leave."
"She's been your caregiver since you were a baby, Kagome," Narcissa said as she came to claim the children and herd them down the steps. "She worries for you."
"Yes, I know." Watching as Jipsy finished tying her books tightly in a bundle before picking up Kagome's wand and rushing over to her with it held out. She reached down and took the wand before slipping it into her cloak pocket and holding her hand out for Jipsy, who took it tightly in hers. "I will be fine, Jipsy. Until I come back, please see to Aunt Cissy and Uncle Lucius. Their good health is just as important to me as mine is."
Jipsy smiled at her, "Jipsy will do!"
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(TWO HOURS LATER)
The train was huge. Kagome followed Draco through the aisle as he searched out an empty compartment. Not likely, but they still looked.
"Ah, Theo!"
"Draco,"
Kagome peered over Draco's shoulder, "this is Nott?"
"Who is this?"
"I'm nobody," she said all the while sitting down and letting Draco put her dance bag up on the shelf above the window while Harry sat down across from her, and Draco sat down across from Nott. For whatever reason, Kagome had taken the spot beside the boy who was, by all rights, a complete and total stranger to her.
"Theo, this is my cousin, Kagome Lestrange."
"Lestrange?" He quirked a curious brow at the last name. "As in, Bellatrix and Rodolphus Lestrange are your parents."
"..." she looked at him for a moment before pointing at Harry, "this is Harry Potter."
Harry glared as she used him as a distraction. Schooling his features, he smiled and held out his hand to Theodore, who had his eyes on him now. "Nice to meet you."
"Well now, I mean, this is quite a pleasant surprise, Draco. Not that I expect anything less from a Malfoy, but certainly, your networking has improved."
"Oh, do I sense comradery?!" Kagome grinned at Draco, who rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, the two of you both think Goyle and Crabbe are idiots, a great way to form a friendship. While we're on the topic of friends, though, is Blaise going to be at Hogwarts?" The question was directed to Theo, who gave a small nod.
"He's on the train somewhere,"
"Who?" This was a new name; Kagome scrunched her brows up a bit.
"You wouldn't know Blaise. Um, I only met him through Theo. His dad and Blaise's mother are close, so he visited their place frequently enough that I'd see him on occasion when I can for a visit. You were dancing."
"Of course, she was,"
Draco and Harry shared a laugh at her expense. She'd missed a good majority of their fly time because she'd been practicing, and they didn't miss the opportunity to poke fun at her for it. "So I have a hobby, so what? Perhaps you should learn from me and find yourselves something to do too."
"We were doing something, flying."
"Pretty fun hobby," Harry said, brushing her roll of the eyes off as they got into discussing Hogwarts, the Slytherin Quidditch team, and so on.
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Harry jumped when the door to their compartment suddenly opened, a girl standing there looked around the compartment before stopping on Kagome who was messing with her black school robe. They'd already changed, and she was fidgeting with the soft material while staring out the window. The girl turned back to Harry, and she finally spoke, "have any of you seen a toad? A boy named Neville lost one."
"Sorry, no, can't say that we have."
"Have you checked the bottom of everyone's loafers?"
"Ah, how barbaric!"
Kagome shook her head, "not really. He lost a toad on a train filled with kids; you think we look down when we're walking? I know I don't. Head up, shoulders back, and eyes forward. No, we haven't seen a toad."
"...right, well...if you do." The girl turned and left the room, closing the door as she did.
"That look on her face," Draco laughed, "I mean, you aren't wrong. How does someone lose their pet on a train?"
Theo glanced out the window, "clearly, this Neville isn't the responsible sort."
"Clearly...oh, look!"
Draco moved next to Kagome and grinned, "whoa."
"Our new playground for the next seven years."
Theo stared curiously at the two of them, trying to ignore the fact that a girl he'd only just met had no boundaries for herself as she leaned over him to see out the window. He rolled his eyes at Harry was silently laughing at him, though neither said a word to Kagome.
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"Firs' years, this way, please! Come on now!"
"It's Hagrid," Harry pointed as they climbed from the train.
"So it is," Kagome smiled charmingly. "Thank you," she nodded her head to Theo, who helped her off the train before turning away from them and walking off.
Her smile was one that Draco knew well not to fall for, at least, not this one. He had seen many smiles from his cousin, and this one was a show for their friend. Neither cared much for the half-giant, but they would keep their silence for Harry until they no longer needed to. Draco took Kagome's hand in his so as not to be separated from his younger cousin.
"Come along now! Don't be shy!"
"Hello, Harry, ahem, and you two." He cleared his throat uncomfortably.
"Whoa~."
"Weasley..." Draco muttered under his breath as he glanced at the kid behind Kagome.
"Shh, come on," she pulled on his hand as they made their way to the boats. She ended up sitting beside Draco with Vincent in front and Gregory behind them. Harry and Theo were in a boat with the girl who'd come into their compartment earlier. Beside him was the very same Weasley that Draco had pointed out. "It's gorgeous, Draco. Magical."
As their boats pulled up to the dock, they climbed out carefully before rejoining with the rest of their group. Hagrid motioned them all forward up the stairs before leaving in a different direction. Making their way up the steps that led them to a stern-looking woman, Draco dragged her over towards the railing, and she leaned her back against the stone while waiting for the others to come to a stop. Harry settled himself in front of Kagome but turned so that he wasn't in her way. Another boy had settled in front of Harry, but Kagome didn't recognize him, though he smiled at Draco, and that told her that he must be someone from an influential family.
"Welcome to Hogwarts. Shortly, you'll pass through these doors and join your classmates. However, before you can take your seats, you must be sorted into your houses. They are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin."
Kagome lifted her hand at Slytherin, eliciting a chuckle from Harry and Draco, but a stern eye from the woman had her placing her hand back down at her side. Though, her small smirk never faded from her lips.
"While you're here, your house will be like your family. Your triumphs will earn you points. Any rule-breaking, and you will lose points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points wins the house cup."
"TREVOR!"
All eyes turned to a boy pushing through the crowd to pick up the toad at the woman's feet. Kagome's lip turned a bit in disgust as she watched him shrink back a bit and cower. His apology only made her more bothered by him.
"The Sorting Ceremony will begin momentarily." Then, she left. Kagome turned and sat down on the stone step; she looked at the black ballet slippers that peeked out only slightly beneath her robes. She had several ballet flats, and she'd fought her Aunt for almost a week before Lucius, sweet Uncle Lucius, told her Narcissa just to let her take them. She smiled at the memory when Draco's hand found her line of sight, and Harry's found her shoulder.
"We're ready for you now. Follow me."
Kagome took Draco's hand once more and let him help her up before they chased after Harry. The doors opened, and their eyes were everywhere and seemingly nowhere all at once. Seeing it all, the warm hues that surrounded them like a glow, the floating candles, and the ceiling that was bewitched to appear as the night sky did. The two walking on either side of him as Theo settled on her right.
"Now, before we begin, Professor Dumbledore would like to say a few words."
"That's him?"
Kagome nearly jumped at the whisper in her ear; she glanced curiously at Harry, who seemed a bit upset but didn't push for answers considering where they were. She nodded her head and watched him narrow his eyes a bit. Tugging a bit at his sleeve, she smiled widely and motioned his eyes back to the front. It was clear what she was telling him to do, so he gave a forced smile and looked forward.
The old man gave them a few warnings, don't go into the spooky forest on the outskirts of the school grounds, don't go up to the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side unless you plan to die early. She didn't care for either location, though curious she might be. However, being told not to do it by Dumbledore gave her several reasons why she should.
"Now, when I call your name, you will come forth, and I shall place the Sorting Hat on your head, and you will be sorted into your houses. Abbott, Hannah!"
Watching a girl walk up to the chair, she sat down as the Hat was settled neatly atop her head. Tilting her head curiously as she watched the girl's eyes widen, she figured there was more to it than just putting a hat on.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" The Hat shouted out a moment later, and the girl sat down with the others at the Hufflepuff table.
"Bones, Susan!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Boot, Terry"
Kagome realized that the list was alphabetical and frowned at that, "gonna be a bit before it gets to you, me, Theo and Draco. L, M, N, and P..."
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Brocklehurst, Mandy!"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Brown, Lavender!"
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"Not any Slytherins yet," Theo sighed.
Kagome smiled, "that's because all the Slytherins are at the end of the alphabet."
He laughed under his breath.
The first Slytherin was finally sorted, a girl by the name of Millicent Bulstrode. She was followed by Michael Corner, who made his way into Hufflepuff, Stephen Cornfoot in Ravenclaw, Vincent Crabbe, who was placed in Slytherin, along with Tracey Davis, who followed him and sat down across from him at the Slytherin table. How very reassuring, to see Slytherin table populating as much as it was. Kevin Entwhistle joined Ravenclaw and Justin Finch-Fletchley, who was headed off to Hufflepuff. Then a Seamus Finnigan was placed after that in Gryffindor, with Anthony Goldstein moving to join the others at the Ravenclaw table and Gregory Goyle joining Slytherin.
"Granger, Hermione!"
'The girl from the train.' Kagome watched her walk nervously up to the Hat.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
"She'll be a thorn in our side, that one."
"Greengrass, Daphne!"
"Why do you think that?" Harry watched the girl saunter off happily towards the Gryffindors table; the loud cheering was outstanding.
"Call it a feeling."
"SLYTHERIN!"
Wayne Hopkins was called next, sorted into Hufflepuff, with a fellow Hufflepuff in Megan Jones who came directly after him. "Lestrange, Kagome!"
A massive gasp echoed somewhere behind her, but she didn't bother turning around to see who it was. Sitting on the stool, the Hat didn't even touch but a strand of her hair before it yelled out loudly.
"SLYTHERIN!"
She smiled and walked away towards the loudly cheering Slytherin table at the farthest right end of the hall, opposite of the Gryffindors who were at the farthest left end of the Great Hall.
"Li, Sue!"
As she settled down at the table, smiling as her table cheered and clapped for another first year. She shook hands with a lovely blonde girl who she immediately identified as Daphne Greengrass.
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Longbottom, Neville!"
Her ears perked, and she turned to the pudgy boy seemed to have difficulties keeping up with his toad. A wicked sense of humor, the universe had. He was shaking, nearly white as alabaster stone, and she could only smile as hands patted her on the back for making it into Slytherin.
"Why are they taking you?!"
"Well, if you really want to know~" Bellatrix chuckled cruelly, "mummy and daddy were trying to find their Master, and they found a lead...the Longbottom's..."
"What cruel irony, the poor fool." Her eyes lingered on his trembling form.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
'The gods have given me a reason to torment the bloke, how can I ever I repay them?'
"MacDougal, Isobel!"
"RAVENCLAW!"
"Macmillan, Ernie!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Malfoy, Draco!"
Another one where the Hat didn't even graze his head, before yelling loudly, "SLYTHERIN!"
"Malone, Roger!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
"Moon, Lily!"
"Like I said, all the Slytherins were at the end of the alphabet."
"GRYFFINDOR!"
She glanced only slightly at Draco as he sat down beside her.
"Nott, Theodore!"
"Too bad we won't get Potter,"
"SLYTHERIN!"
Draco frowned, "why do you think that?"
"Parkinson, Pansy!"
"He's the Hero of the Wizarding World; I know he'll be a Gryffindor."
Draco laughed a bit, "I've got my money on Slytherin." He grinned as Theo sat across from him.
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Zabini's gonna be dead last, it looks." Theo eyed his friend and turned to the girl with short black hair in a bob. He was watched her smile at him before taking a seat beside him. He turned away from her and watched the next student get called forward.
"Padma, Patil!"
Kagome turned her eyes to the sorting too. Padma ended up getting sorted into Ravenclaw, with her twin sister Parvati making her way to Gryffindor. One more Gryffindor came by the name of Sally-Anne Perks before Harry was finally called on.
"Potter, Harry!"
"Come on, Harry," Kagome muttered, the dodgy turning of his head as the Hat turned about and whispered one thing or another in his ear. She hadn't had to listen to the Hat, being that she was a quick choice for it. Harry obviously wasn't, though, why that should surprise her.
"SLYTHERIN!"
"YES!"
Harry smiled at Kagome and Draco, who loudly yelled out their excitement over his placement. Walking towards the Slytherin Table and sitting down across from Theo. "You guys miss me? It felt like I was standing there forever,"
"Rivers, Oliver!"
Giddily, Kagome looked up and over at the booing Gryffindor table, "funny; they didn't boo when I was sent to Slytherin. What did I tell you, Harry?"
"RAVENCLAW!"
He nodded, "Gryffindors hate Slytherins."
She nodded, "and remember, we don't start fights."
"Roper Sophie!"
"We finish them." He blushed a bit when Theo chuckled.
Draco shook his head at the two, "what a dynamic pair you two make. I feel like a third wheel."
"HUFFLEPUFF!"
Kagome sneered, "muggle pun? Draco, that's below you."
He shrugged, "how many more?"
She glanced back over her shoulder at the remaining few, "six...looks like the last Slytherin is going to be your friend, Theo."
"None of the others? You don't think we'll get even one more Slytherin out of those six? Wager!"
"Tch, I'm not betting, but neither am I wrong!"
Indeed, Iona Runcorn went to Ravenclaw, Sally Smith, and Dean Thomas made it into Gryffindor, Lisa Turnip was sorted as a Ravenclaw, and Ronald Weasley found himself among his fellow Gryffindor family. Leaving...
"Zabini, Blaise!"
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Now," Kagome turned a bit as she clapped, looking Theo in the eyes as she spoke, "had I made that wager, you'd be owing me something."
He smirked, "the odds were there, six students, four houses."
"Sure, but I based my assumption on looks. There wasn't a Slytherin among them. I mean, could you even imagine a Weasley in silver and green?" Those around her laughed loudly at the absurdity, but the look in her eyes was dead serious.
When Blaise sat down, he gave a glance around the first years, greeting his friends before leaning forward and holding his hand out to Kagome. Being the young lady that her Aunt raised her to be, she took his hand to shake it but was stunned and left speechless when he kissed it and smirked. "My goodness," She turned her eyes to a grinning Theo and Draco, both looking at Blaise with similar looks of humor. "Neither of you thought to inform me of his forwardness?"
Theo shrugged, "this is the first time I've seen him do it. As I'm male, he's never kissed the back of my hand. Draco, what of you?"
"Nope, can't say I've ever had him do that to me. Blessed be, I'd have pushed the wanker down the stairs had he."
Kagome slowly removed her hand from the attractively suave Italian and muttered, "that's still an open possibility."
The sudden sound of clinking against glass had the room quieting down. "Your attention, please."
Eyes on the headmaster, she looked at him curiously as he stood up, and with a soft voice, he spoke, "Welcome!" his voice carried. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are; Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! ...Thank you!" He sat back down, and Kagome took those four words in curiously as Harry asked whether the old man was mad. "Barmy, he is. However, those words don't sound random."
Theo shrugged, "what do we have? Nitwit means stupid or daft, blubber is fat, and oddment is leftover or something?"
"Oddment is out of place or scraps, an outcast or junk. While Tweak means to adjust, change, or improve. Take it as a sentence, and you have. "Daft, fat or leftovers...whatever you were before will change."
Blaise whistled, "I know who my study partner is!"
"Hey, she's my cousin, I call dibs."
Kagome looked at Dumbledore as Blaise, Theo, Harry, and Draco argued over who would study with her, "a study group sounds like a good idea." The old man turned to meet her eyes, he lifted his goblet, and she felt her chest tighten as his eyes seemed to harden over the lip of the glass.
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Guided the Slytherins from the entrance hall, their prefects led them to the door on the right as they descended a long cascade of steps into the Dungeons. They stopped at what appeared to be a bare stretch of stone wall.
"Pay close attention to the password, as it changes weekly to avoid any unwanted guests." The prefect, Gemma Farley, as she'd introduced herself, spoke clearly so everyone could hear her, "Apparecium," the door formed magically at the word and opened magically, letting the long line of students in as they gathered in the common room. "Well, firstly, welcome to Slytherin House. I don't intend to keep you all awake for too much longer, so I'll be quick. Girls and Boys dormitories are in opposite directions, so you'll find, lads, there is no way you could possibly get confused." She pointed to her left, "girls' dormitories," then pointed to her right, "and boys. If you get lost, there is an intricate spell that will kindly redirect you back the way you came. Yes, Zabini?"
"Is that a long-term spell, or temporary?"
A round of giggles and hushed laughs came from a few of the older girls and boys, but Gemma only smiled before she ignored his question and continued, "as Slytherins, we are early to rise and early to sleep. Health is very important, and we will be watchful and mindful that you are keeping up with yours. During the first week, if you need help finding your classes, I will be around, as well as Felix Rosier, who is hiding in the back with Marcus; Felix."
Felix smiled and made his way forward to Gemma's side. "Best house in Hogwarts, Slytherin. However, we are also painted in a bad light. Reputation is everything, and Slytherin house doesn't breed a very good one. That's why we must stick together. We work together, and we stand up for one another. Gryffindors are the worse; they take every chance they can to cause us trouble and almost always get away with it. Don't make the false assumption that the Professors will be fair in how they treat students. They all have their favorites, and the only one who is really, and I mean honest with points, is Professor Flitwick. Seriously, he's gonna be the only one who doesn't care about what house you're in. So, covering the basics. Boys stay out of the girl's dorms and vice versa. Don't go looking for trouble; it'll find you plenty easy without your meddling. Stand up for your fellow housemates, no matter the situation. Maintain your health, or we'll do it for you. Oh, and study. Seriously, Professor Snape will chew us out if we make him look bad, so study, like your life, depends on it. Because it does."
Gemma laughed and pushed him off towards Marcus, who was grinning ear to ear. "Everyone, off to bed, tomorrow you can all get better acquainted, but for now, it's late, and you all need to be up early for your first class. Grab your schedules from Felix on your way to bed, and we will see you in the morning bright and early for breakfast!"
Kagome nodded her thanks to Felix as she took the schedule. Looking it over, she mentally took in the first class she'd have and smiled, "Transfigurations right off the bat!" To be honest, she was looking forward to Transfigurations. This was the second book she'd studied up on, as Severus would be hard-pressed to find Draco and herself without any knowledge of his subject. No, no, couldn't have that. Harry had finished the potions text well before she or Draco had even glanced at it.
"Off to bed, all of you!" Felix called, "wrong way Zabini,"
Blaise grinned, turning around, he raised a hand, "Scuse, amico mio." *1
Kagome shook her head as he turned and winked at her. 'What's wrong with him?' When a hand took hers, she turned to see the lovely blonde from earlier smiling and pulling for her to come along.
"Ignore him, Kagome. He's just like his mother, I've heard."
"His mother?" She frowned, "I see. Well, I'll remain cordial, he's a friend of Draco's, and so, that's enough for me."
Daphne shrugged but clearly didn't agree with the idea of entertaining the Italians antics. They made their way to their rooms, three in one room, two in the other. Kagome found that she was sharing a room with Daphne, which she was fine with. The other three, Millicent, Pansy, and Tracey, were in their own room together.
"Oh!"
Looking at her roommate, she raised a brow, "what's wrong?"
"How did you get a broom approved?"
Kagome laughed, "I didn't, my house elf delivered them so that Draco and I could get them past Dumbledore. You know elf magic is far superior that wizard magic. Even if they serve us, they are still far stronger magically." Changing into her pajamas, her ballet slippers on the bedside table.
Nodding, Daphne ran a finger delicately along the length of the Nimbus 2000.
"Long day tomorrow, night." Kagome crawled into bed and was awarded with sleep almost as soon as her head touched the pillow. A Deep emerald green covered her in warmth, dark mahogany wood elaborately designed, and pristine white sheets and pillowcases kept her till morning when her first day at Hogwarts was sure to be exciting.
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Me: Here is chapter thirteen! I hope you enjoy the longer chapters. I'm not sure why they are all 4000 plus words long, but they are, so yeah. Review and let me know you love me!
*1 – "Scuse, amico mio." Translates into "Apologies, my friend." in Italian.