Wolfling

Summary: When Harry was seven he was bitten by a werewolf. The wizarding world having no idea continued on. However the year he was supposed to go to Hogwarts he never showed. So were is our little savior and whose the were-child with Remus Lupin?

Disclaimer: Don't own Harry Potter.

-- Chapter Three --

Remus was shocked when he had heard of Harry's disappearance but he was unable to do anything for the boy. Even looking for the child was something he couldn't do actively for he wasn't living alone. No indeed he had a child living with him. A young girl by the name of Melissa. She never did tell him her last name and he wasn't sure if she had ever known what it was. But she had taken his name when he adopted her seven years ago.

At fourteen the girl was very tall and willowy she had short spiky dirty blond hair that had beet red tips. She often said that if she could she would make sure her hair always stayed like that. Still with dark amber colored eyes she was very pretty by any ones standards.

She didn't go to Hogwarts however, no she went to a smaller magical school called Grimm's Palace for Magical Arts however, to the non-magical community it was known as The William's School for the Gifted. And unlike Hogwarts it housed only orphans and children whose parents couldn't afford to commute so often.

As this school not only taught magical students but also very gifted muggles and squibs it was commonly referred to as a 'public school'. The students who went there were very intelligent and often sought after by other schools in the area. As to why a lot chose to go to Grimm's, the reason differed from child to child. However the major reason was that the school did not discriminate between gender, race, magical purity or any other such nonsense.

Remus had worked there at the school for the past three years when he had heard the news of Harry's disappearance. And though he felt bad that he hadn't been there for his last link to the past he also felt that the child would be alright. It was more then just a felling that the child he had thought of as his cub was fine. It was like the time he there was something wrong with James and it turned out that his parents had died in a raid while he was at Diagon Alley with Padfoot. Remus had known something was wrong even though he was in America at the time.

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Melissa knew that her adopted father was feeling a little out of sorts because of the news he had gotten about the Potter boy. She just didn't understand why he was so calm about the whole thing. She knew about Harry of course. Her father hadn't kept many secrets from her after the adoption but his whole demeanor about the 'Potter Crisies' as everyone was calling it hardly made sense to her.

She didn't dwell on it though, there wasn't much she could do except wait for him to tell her his feelings on the matter. Until then she would just finish her homework and chores. And try not to think about why her father was so eerily calm about the whole damn situation.

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TBC