~~~~Year 1980~~~~

Dumbledore had just taken a young child from the home of Bellatrix Lestrange, who had yet to become aware of it as she'd been away to prepare for the young girl's second birthday. He'd taken her from the home due to believing Bellatrix was incapable of producing children and turned to muggles and took their child. As well as believing due to rumors, the child had yet to produce an ounce of magical abilities. Who the muggles were, he couldn't be too sure of as he didn't have time to test her blood and risk being discovered by a Nanny house-elf. Upon entering muggle London, he pulled out a parchment, with muggle names and photo's on it. He had Minerva McGonagall make him a list of acceptable adoption homes. He went over the list of muggles for a little over an hour and a half before finally settling on a muggle family who was only on the list due to them having a child go missing roughly two years prior to their application.

Dumbledore then apparated to the muggle's home, which was located in the middle-class area of London only a couple of blocks from a nearby park for small children and three blocks from a school of some sort. He smiled at the child in his arms. "Now, I know you don't know these people. But just know they'd take better care of you than those whom I've saved you from." He whispered to the sleeping child as he set her down on their porch. He then looked around and made sure no muggles were around to see him cover himself with an invisibility cloak and knock on the door.

~~~~Year 1990~~~~

It'd been nearly ten years since Jade started living with the Evans. They'd eventually moved from London to Arizona in the United States after she almost destroyed the house in an explosion when she was seven. She'd grown up in a comfortable home while being homeschooled because The Evans believed the other children would end up corrupting their precious jem if they allowed her to go to a normal school. Mrs. Evans walked up the stairs that led to her bedroom and knocked on the door lightly. "Jade, dear, time to wake up!" She said in a soft voice that Jade barely heard. "You know you should be louder. I'm quite sure if it wasn't for me being a light-sleeping insomniac I'd of never woken up." Jade said with a yawn as she walked downstairs after getting dressed for the day. Mrs. Evans looked up from her plate of eggs and bacon.

"Why do you insist on dressing like that? Your not a bad kid, but people will think so with you wearing that." She asked. 'Hmm? Did she finally give up on the pink and frilly outfits she usually gets me on my birthday?' Jade thought to herself as she walked over to her spot at the table. "Because I like it, and who cares what other people think? It's not like I really leave the house much anyway!" She said as she piled some hot cakes on her plate. "Not usually, no but today being your birthday, we planned to take you to the zoo." Mr. Evans said as he finally put his newspaper down and smiled at her. "But, she's right. You shouldn't let what others say bother you, she's still our daughter." He said turning to his wife. "Oh fine!" She said with a loud sigh.

~Time skip~

After opening her gifts, they left for the zoo. It was a very sunny Saturday morning and the zoo was crowded with families. The Evans bought Jade a large chocolate ice cream at the entrance even though they knew she'd only finish about half of it. But today was one of the few days in the year they'd give her anything she'd ask for no matter what. By noon they'd seen all the big cats and some monkey's and Jade was starting to get bored and hungry. So The Evans took her to a restaurant in the zoo. After eating, they took her to look at the birds, the first of which was the flamingo's and she practically ran past them just to avoid them. After the birds, they realized she'd not looked even the slightest bit entertained. She looked bored and ready to just go home. 'If cute animals bore her, what do we do to get her interest here?' Mrs. Evans whispered softly to her husband.

He contemplated this for a moment as Jade walked up to an area where the wolves were. Then it hit him like a ton of bricks. She liked dark clothing, make-up, and enjoyed watching others suffering on youtube. 'What's the creepiest creature they have here?' he asked his wife in a whisper as she looked at a map of the zoo. 'If I had to guess... probably the reptiles, why?' She asked. "Jade, dear?" He called out with a smirk. Mrs. Evans's eyes widen as she realized what he was doing. "Yeah?" She asked walking over and looking at her mother who looked like she'd seen a ghost. "Would you like to go see the reptiles?" He asked placing a hand on his wife to try to calm her fears of snakes. Jade's eyes lit up. "Really?" She swore at this point if she were a dog her tail would be wagging so hard that she'd knock the person standing behind her down.

She then hugged her parents, then looked at the map with her mother, and went to find the reptile house. Once there, they noticed it was cool and dark in here. Only being lit by the windows along the walls. Behind the glass, all sorts of lizards and snakes were crawling and slithering over bits of wood and stone. It didn't take Jade long to find the largest most poisonous snake in the place and see a rather fat man and his son poking hard at the glass. If the viper got out, it wouldn't take long for it to coil around the rather fat man and his kid. "Stop tapping on the glass! Don't you realize that's bad for the snake?" She said defiantly as she glared at the two of them. "And you are?" Asked the man with an arched bushy brow. "It doesn't matter who I am. Don't poke the glass it gives them headaches." She said and suddenly realized she didn't know how she knew that.

The man just glared at her then walked away, but not before she saw a boy with them who had a scar on his forehead. 'If I ever meet him again, I'm going to ask him how he got it.' She thought as she turned to the viper she stopped the man from annoying. The snake looked up at her through the glass and she almost thought she heard it say thank you in a small hiss. "Uh... You're welcome... I guess..." Jade said as she began to think of something to ask just to test if she was right in hearing the snake. "What's your name? I'm Jade Evans." She said introducing herself to the snake. The snake's eyes pop open at her first name. "I'm Nagini and thatssss, not your lasssst name." The snake said both confirming her suspicion of it talking but also confusing her. She then turned to both her parents who weren't looking at her at the moment. 'Have they been lying to me? Am I really not their daughter? Am I really not Jade Evans? How did the snake know?'

"How do you know I'm not an Evans?" She asked as she turned to face the snake. "Because my massster is your father." Jade's eyes went wide and as she was about to ask another question, the snake disappeared into thin air leaving her with more questions than ever.

~the next day~

Although Jade was still mad at the Evans, she never asked them if what the snake said was true. How could she? 'Oh hey, I was talking to a snake yesterday and it said I'm not an Evans?' Yeah, no thank you! She already looked crazy as it was without talking to snakes. When she walked down for breakfast that morning, she tried to act normal, but it must have failed. "Is something wrong?" Asked Mrs. Evans, but she kept silent as she ate her breakfast. "Jade?" "Indeed something is very wrong, but I don't want to talk about it." She snapped at the two of them. At that moment she walked out of the house to collect the mail from the mailbox.

~~~~July, 1st of 1991~~~~

It's been nearly nine months and once again Jade walked out of the house to collect their mail again. However as she was back in the house, she flipped through the mail there were three letters to Mrs. Evans, four letters and a bill for Mr. Evans, and one that fell onto her head from a strange owl for her. She calmly handed off the other letters to Mr. & Mrs. Evans and walked back up to her room with the letter in her hands. She never got mail, how could this be for her? But here it was written in emerald green her name and address. Turning the envelope over, her hand began trembling, Jade saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'. Jade then tore off the seal and was about to open the letter, but paused as she heard a knock on the front door. 'Eh, whatever let "mother" get the door...' She thought as she read the letter:

Dear Miss Jade Evans,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Students will be required to report to the Chamber of Reception upon arrival. Please find a list of all necessary books and equipment that we've sent with a school professor or School governor to show you where to find such items. Term begins September 1st, 1991. We await your owl by no later than July 31st. To avoid muggle detection, please use the portkey to London and back, only for supplies and getting on the train.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

It looked as though it'd been all handwritten with emerald-green ink. She gave the letter a skeptical look as though not believing it was real and was about to yell at her parents for somehow sending it to her in the mail, till she remembered they had a guest. "Who was at the door?" she asked as she came downstairs and put the letter in her pocket not yet looking away from herself. "I was about to come and get you, but um... you have a rather odd-looking guest here to see you." Mrs. Evans said, making Jade look up from her hands. There was, in fact, a man standing in their living room looking almost disgusted at all the furniture in the room. 'Hm? Maybe I'm not alone in thinking 'mothers' choice in furniture is dreadful?' She thought to herself as she took in his appearance. The man had long pale-blond hair tied back with an emerald-green ribbon, dark odd, but expensive-looking clothes, grey-blue eyes, his face looked like that of a nobleman.

She then walked fully into the room and when he took in her appearance, she glared at him and expected him to say something similar to what her mother had in just that moment. "Jade go change, your guest doesn't need to see you wearing clothes for the dead." "Pardon my rudeness ma'am, but she is fine in what she is wearing." The blonde said with a slight snarl to his lip then turned to face the young girl. The snarl faded as he spoke to her and introduced himself as Lucius Malfoy and explained witches and wizards to her and her parents. He then gave her a pen and told her it was the portkey to London and a book full of beginner spells and the like. Just before he left that day he handed her a cage with an owl in it and told her he'd come back to help her buy books, a wand, and equipment for school. After he left, she turned towards her parents with a look on her face that only her father recognized as pure excitement.

He smiled at first till his wife spoke and apparently broke her heart. "You're not going to that school, now give me that letter he was talking about!" Demanded Mrs. Evans with her hand held out.

~With Lucius~

Lucius had just left The Evans house and was walking towards an apparation point located just a block away from their house, but stopped as he decided to disillusion himself and apparate to just on their roof. His curiosity was due to her looking identical to a teenage Bellatrix, but he couldn't sense any form of magic from her. He then cast a charm on the house that made the walls and floors transparent to him only for an hour so he could see what he wanted.

~With Jade~

Jade sighed sadly and almost gave her mother the letter, till an angry thought came to her and she remembered the conversation with the snake yesterday and ripped her hand back with the letter. "Why?" She asked with a growl to her tone. "If you can give me one good reason, I'll personally tear it up! But tell me why I can't go to this school or any other school for that matter!" She yelled getting angrier and angrier as she spoke. "You can't go to a school near here, I've seen how they act! I will not have you act the same!" Lucius nodded at the muggle's reasoning on that, as that was his reasoning to his ex-wife a year ago for not wanting Draco to go to Hogwarts. "Who's to say I would take on acting like ANY of them with the proper guidance of my 'parents'?" And that was Draco's response to their argument, Lucius chuckled at her doing air quotes with her fingers.

Both the muggles looked to themselves and it was the look they gave her that forced the next question from her mouth. "Y-you're not really my parents are you?" Mr. Evans didn't speak, didn't even dare to look at her. "Wha-what? O-of course we are!" screeched her mother. "And you're not going to that other school because there's no such thing as magic... Witches and wizards, yeah right!" Jade glared at the woman. "Your lying." She said in a dangerously dark tone. "Wha-" "SHUT THE HELL UP! IN FACT, DON'T EVER TALK TO ME!" Jade yelled to Mrs. Evans as she lifted her hand with her palm directly facing the woman. Lucius, who was still on the roof looked like he was watching an interesting tv drama and was smirking as it all unfolded. When she removed her hand, Mrs. Evans no longer had a mouth on her face. Jade, however, was so angry she didn't even notice and looked directly at Mr. Evans while she spoke.

"Now look at me and tell me the truth!" "What gave you the idea we weren't your parents?" He asked instead of answering right away. Jade walked towards the kitchen to prepare some tea for herself. "Remember yesterday, when you asked if I wanted to see the reptiles?" She asked. He nodded then she explained how she met Nagini, without revealing her name. "The snake told me I was not an Evans, then today I receive a letter from a school saying I've been accepted to a school I didn't apply for and Mr. Malfoy, he was kind enough to come to America and explain everything to two... no, three people he's never even met about a world we'd have never known about without this!" She said slamming the letter on the kitchen table. 'Kind? Now that's a word I've never been associated with.' Lucius thought to himself as he stood to apparate again, having seen what he needed. 'I only did this as proof to Dumbledore that I don't hate muggles.'

Mr. Evans sighed, then told her the truth... er, what he and his wife knew. "We don't know who your real parents are, all we know is that you came to us one night when you were two in a basket wrapped in this blanket." He said walking over towards a trunk filled with all her baby items and pulling out an emerald-green blanket with her first name embroidered into one corner in silver.