Fortunate Events

The next morning after a night spent tossing and turning, Jack got up and went to the police department to file a report of what he had learned the past night. When he got there and walked in the doors, he was shocked to see the station and the people in it in utter chaos. Some people were pacing, others were taking interviews, and the rest were scrambling from desk to desk trying to calm crying victims.

He went up to the secretary and asked, "What is going on here?" The women behind the desk looked mildly irritated but still answered his question.

"There was an accident late last night. There was a big group of people touring a factor when one of the machines for some reason broke down and caught on fire. Unfortunately the fire department and the police officers were not able to save everyone. The office is currently taking the statements of the survivors and is trying to identify and contact the families of the people who were not fortunate enough to make it. Now what can I do for you sir?" She said in a dreary voice that almost put him back to sleep.

Jack looked around once more before saying, "I am here to file a report on Vernon and Petunia Dursley for child abuse. They were abusing their five year old niece and she is currently in my custody. I was wondering how I would go about getting their charged and adopting her from their care" he said in a rush trying not to get his hopes up.

Once hearing the name Dursleys her head snapped up and she stared at him for a couple minutes before replying, "you knew the Dursleys?...uhhhh give me a moment and I will be back with you" she said before running off and into a door that he assumed was an office. He waited for a couple minutes, glancing at his surrounding once again. He saw crying people, shaken people, and angry people scattered through the room and he wondered what he would feel if he were one of the victims or even worse, family of the victims. He supposed he would feel grief beyond comprehension, probably even a little bitter.

While he was deep in thought the women came back out of the office and headed straight towards him ignoring the line of people waiting in line for their turn. Seeing jack was in deep thought she laid a hand on his shoulder and spoke softly and said, "the chief of the department would like to speak with you and hopefully you can sort out your situation." Jack turned around but before he could process the new information he was lead to a door and the women gone to deal with the line.

Jack took a deep breath before opening the door and stepping in to the room to meet with the chief of police. The man inside looked up from his paper work and nodded saying, "Come in sir. Are you the one inquiring about the Dursleys?"

Jack nodded his head unable to speak in front of this intimidating man. He cleared his throat and squeaked out, "I am. Last night a little girl named Annabell informed me that the Dursleys, her guardians, had been abusing her. She said that her last name was potter and that they left her all alone in the hotel room while they went out on a business meeting. I was wondering what I had to do to get custody of her." He assumed the chief had already been informed of this because he did not look surprised.

Nodding yet again the chief smiled and said, "Well this in fortunate enough for you. The Dursleys were three of the twenty-six victims we were able to identify from the accident last night. You say you have their niece in your custody? Would you be willing enough to bring her down to the station to identify their bodies before we notify their family?" Jack blinked in surprise before nodding slightly.

He said, "I will ask her if she wants to but she is only five and I do not want her to deal with the traumatizing event of seeing the dead bodies of her aunt, uncle, and cousin. And about the custody, do you think you could give me custody of her until I can adopt her?"

The chief shifted through his paper work and said, " I do not believe that will be a problem, all you have to do is fill out this paperwork and turn it in to the front desk before you leave. Oh, and if you decide to come in to identify their bodies, call the front desk, ask for Rick, and let me know." The chief, now known to be Rick, got out of the leather desk chair, opened the door and motioned for Jack to follow him. He then proceeded to give Jack the paperwork promised, a pen, and a clip board. Jack quickly filled it out and turned it in to the front desk. He rushed to the car to get home quickly so he could tell Chelsea and Annabell both the good news and the bad news, if you could consider the Dursleys death bad

It had been ten years since that day, and Jack still remembers every detail. That was the day he got a family. That was the turning point for Annabell's life as well as his own. Jack had never had a bad life; he had a beautiful wife, a flourishing business, but yet something was missing and he never knew what. That was until Annabell came into his life. Jack knows very much that Annabell is his daughter in every way but blood yet he wished every day that she was his own. Even though he knows that he could never love her any more than he does now, he still wished she were his. He hates to think that if one thing in the past had changed, she would not be with him and he thanks God every day for bringing him his little bundle of joy. Annabell was now Jack's anchor to the world. He would do almost anything for her especially now that he knows that he will never have children of his own.

A couple years ago, Jack and Chelsea learned that she was not able to have a child thus crushing their dreams of having a big family, but knowing that they already had one beautiful daughter, even though not their own, got them through the rough time. The three has since become inseparable. Jack thanks God every day that Annabell decided not to go to that boarding school called Hogwarts because he would have missed her way too much.

"Hey dad, have you seen my guitar?" yelled Annabell snapping him out of his thoughts. Jack blinked a couple times before the words processed fully and walked through the house to find his fifteen year old daughter.

"Which one" he asked her when he found her in the music room. When he got "the look" from his daughter he said, "Well I just wanted to make sure!" after all she did have six guitars, even though she favored using her blue one. This was the guitar she had gotten right after releasing her first album called survivor. The songs in this album were mainly about her experiences living with the Dursleys. When received a questioning glance from Annabell he said, "It's in your room, you fell asleep last night with it on your lap so I put it in your room" but before he was finished he was alone again wondering why he even bothered to explain anymore

"What was that about?" Jack heard from the doorway. Spinning around Jack saw Chelsea leaning against the door frame smiling. Jack returned her smile half-heartedly and said, "I think she just got another idea for a song."

"Ohhhhhh, I see" replied Chelsea as if it was a casual occurrence. It actually was to Chelsea and Jack. Annabell has been acting like this for six years now because after all she became an international child singer song writer at the age of ten. Jack and Chelsea were hesitant to introduce her into the industry that soon but they did not want to deny her what made her truly happy. They did however make her promise to only sing for joy, and if she ever wanted to take a break from her singing career, she just had to say the word and they would make it happen. Annabell had never understood why her parents were so worried up until now. She never understood why she would want to stop singing up until she turned sixteen when all she wanted was a normal life. She just wanted to be a normal child, to just be able to go out in public without having to act proper all the time. She wanted people to judge her on who she was, not how famous she is, and she thought she would never get the opportunity until she came up with a brilliant idea. There are two world, and they are almost completely separated. She is a famous singer in one, however she can be just Annabell in the other.

Annabell thought that she could just go into the wizarding world and lead a normal life. When she was eleven, she got her acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry but she decided to get a private tutor instead of going to a boarding school because after all, her singing career was just getting started. Now she believed that she could go into the wizarding world and she could led a normal life however she does not know how wrong she was until she returns to Great Britain to attempt to have a normal teenage life.

"And this is Diagon Ally" said Luis, Annabell's tutor as the bricks moved apart. Luis was originally from Great Britain but he moved to the United States after his most of his family was killed by Voldemort. After the war only his mother was alive but she was even severely injured so he stayed around only for her. His mother however had been heartbroken over her husband and daughters death so she died about eight years after the dark Lords downfall and he was eighteen at the time so he had no other reason to stay so he set out in search of a new home, one of which was not being threatened by a mass murdering dark lord. That was when he stumbled across the place he now calls home; New York City. He loved the fast pace life that came with living in the great city as well as the convenience of everything. He could walk out of his apartment and be right next to somewhere to eat. He didn't have to drive anywhere thus he did not have to get his driver's license.

Luis had meet Annabell when he walked into Leopards Recording Studio. Since he was new to the city, he had went exploring and what he found was Annabell Leopard. She was the on one side of the store while another man was on the other side but he was not paying any attention to her and she was struggling to reach a cd on a shelf. Just when he was going to help her, the cd floated down to her. He stood there shocked for a moment then asked her who her if she knew she was a witch. She immediately jumped to the wrong assumption and said that it was not nice to call people mean names but once he explained to her that he didn't mean it to be rude but she actually was a witch with magical powers. He also told her Jack and Chelsea about her ability as well as about the wizarding world in general. After hearing about his daughters new found powers he offered to pay Luis to teach Annabell how to control and use her magic because he was not allowing her to go to a boarding school. Luis accepted immediately because he didn't have a job yet and he loved leaching others.

He has been teaching Annabell ever since she was nine unlike Hogwarts starting at eleven. If you could even call it teaching, after all she was an incredibly smart and talented girl thus she didn't need much help. All he really had to do was set guidelines, explain theories and give her subjects to study and she did the rest. In all honesty, he believed she could pass the NEWT now at the age of fifteen. That's why she decided to go to Hogwarts this year instead of homeschool because he ran out of subjects to teach her and she wanted to be a normal teenager for once. He knew this was likely to not happen because of her famous background not only in the muggle world but also the wizarding world. He had warned Annabell and her family but they underestimated to obsessiveness of the wizarding world. Oh well, he thought as they entered Diagon ally. He figured she would learn on her own just how famous she was.

And indeed she did because once she entered the ally, she was being stared at by almost everyone. The entire ally because a lot quieter as she walked pass however it was not quite silent. When she went into Gringotts and got her money out, Luis turned to her and said, "I told you that you're famous here, but you Miss Annabell would not listen to me! Now that you see, I suggest that you let the goblins put an advanced glamour spell on you so you can get some shopping done because I guarantee that you won't if you still look like that

And indeed that is what she did, and her day went much more peaceful than previously. Once Annabell had gotten her shopping done, she went directly home and told her parents about her encounter with the British Wizarding World. Even though she was famous in the Wizarding World she was still adamant on going to Hogwarts because after all, the children would be more toned down on gossip and celebrates…..Right?