Chapter One

Letters

Severus looked up as the little girl ran into the room, waving a letter. "Daddy, Daddy! Daddy!"

He knelt before her and took her into his arms, rising to his feet and spinning deftly around with her. He pressed his face to her dark hair and thanked god. She was his. His bane and his pride. His child. His sanity.

He set her back down and leaned forward to touch noses with her. "Well?"

She grinned her slightly crooked grin and brandished the letter. "I got a letter."

He looked at the paper and felt a sudden fear grab her. He had always known this day would come but he never expected her to be accepted to Beaubaton.(SP?)

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The little boy pushed the dirt of the school yard with a stick. The other kids were over at the other end playing some game he was not allowed to play in. His grotesque cousin pushed someone down and taunted him. Harry Potter clenched his eleven year old fists and wished there was something he could do. Dudley was a prat and deserved whatever would come to him.

He forced his eyes down to the dirt where his stick was forming eriely familar rune like characters. He scuffed them out with his foot, sighing and starting again.

He refrained from looking up at the sound of running feet. Probably one of Dudley's victums. He blinked behind his glasses as a peice of what could only be parchment was shoved under his nose. He followed the hand up to the arm then to the oval face, so eriely akin to his own.

Lysandra, the only girl in the school who talked to him, hell the only person period, smirked down at him. Lysandra never seemed to fear Dudley's gang. even after Dudley had beat up her, Lysandra had just grinned. The next day she returned to school with not so much as a scratch on her.

Lysandra pushed back her short black hair from ears that held a slightly elfin lilt to them.

"I got into Beaubaton!"

Harry had no idea what Beaubaton was, but he was pretty sure it was far away. He wouldn't have Lysandra any more. Harry felt like he was losing a peice of his soul. But he was happy for her.

Lysandra seemed to sense his sorrow, as she always did. "Hey, don't worry, I'm sure wittle Diddlekins will get into that Butress school or what ever the hell it is. Then you can go to the local school unfettered."

Harry looked up at Lysandra. "How did you know he had applied?"

Lysandra shrugged it off. "I probably heard you talking about it."

Harry was sure he hadn't talked about it, but it was never wise to question Lysandra about this sort of things. Her answers usually confused you.

A shadow fell over the two and Harry lloked up to see Dudley's trio looming over them.

"Well if it isn't the forgotten and his girlfriend."

Lysandra followed her normal tactic and shoved her hands into her pockets and stared at the sky.

"Hey, Snap, I'm talking to you!" Dudley growled.

Lysandra looked at him then turned to Harry and said in a stage whisper, her voice laced with an Austrailian accent. "Behold the illusive bully. Crikey! Their kind seems to be disappearing quickly. Pity we can't find a thinner prototype, but this one will work."

A few of the kids who had migrated over, sensing a fight, laughed shyly at her joke. Lysandra grinned at them as Dudley turned purple. Harry found himself grining. Lysandra always knew how to distract the population from him.

Dudley swung a fat fist at her. Lysandra caught it and pulled him close, pressing the other hand to his elbow. She leaned down from her already towering height and locked eyes with him and let go of his hand. Suddenly Dudley and his lackeys were thrown back thirty feet into the slide.

Lysandra straightened as the whispers flew. "That's all for today." She breathed.

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The next day Harry got his letter.

(A/N: Looky! I got another of the requirements in! To answer some of those questions you might be having, Harry does not know who he is. He does not know who Lysandra. Snape knows Lysandra and Harry go to school together. Lysandra doesn't know who Harry is. She won't find out for a couple of years yet. I don't know if I should have Harry and Lysandra see each other again after this chapt before Lysandra goes to Hogwarts. And yes, Lysandra has mastered wandless magic. She's a little backward that way. She can do wandless magic but not magic with a wand.)