AN: Next chapter. I'll admit this isn't one of my best but I hope you guys still enjoy it. Reviews and comments are appreciated. I have decided that this will indeed become a crossover. Most likely sometime within the next 2 chapters. But, I'm still having trouble deciding between Naruto and Hunter x Hunter.

AN2: I will be refering to the plan that Lily, James, and Dumbledore came up with in regards to the prophecy as the Plan from now on. The full plan will not be explained until Catherine goes to her fourth year of Hogwarts. But, I will say that it is totally unexpected.

Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter.

Nothing ever goes all according to plan; just like no plan is ever perfect. If everything went as planned, Murphy's Law would never have come into existence. As it stands, the Plan that the Potters and Dumbledore formed weeks after learning of the prophecy had many objectionable flaws: flaws that mainly centered on the well being of a certain young girl. But, tired and war hardened, the 3 adults never really bothered to take into account the feelings of little girl. After all, it was for the Greater Good that the war ended.

The first major deviation from the Plan was when the little girl discovered and tried to manipulate her magic. For to have magic was to have power; and Dumbledore did not want the little girl to know of its existence. He needed the girl to be powerless and malleable when she entered Hogwarts. Sure, accidental magic was performed once in a while but that was perfectly all right. The little girl was, after all, a child and the most her magic could do was levitate something for a couple of seconds. Children were also notoriously known to have short memories; so something as rare as accidental magic would be forgotten easily. The final thing that made sure that the little girl did not learn of the existence of magic was the fact that she was staying in the home of magic abhorring people. The Plan counted on the fact that the Dursleys would never willingly speak about magic and may even deny its existence altogether.

But, the Plan didn't take into account a child's imagination or this particular little girl's advance mental capacity. And, that is the reason for the first deviation of the Plan. But Albus Dumbledore sat in his comfortable chair in his room at Hogwarts, still thinking that all was going according to plan.

-April 5, 1986-

From the day that Catherine first learned of what she called her "Wish Magic," she had performed numerous experimentations. She tried everything from "Wishing" for a rock to fly to "Wishing" for a brand new car. And through all this, she noticed that with every "Wish" she made, her powers became just a little stronger. If a week ago, she could only get the rock to float for 10 seconds, now she could get it to fly for a minute.

But, it wasn't long before even the dense Dursleys noticed something weird going on with their unwanted guest. With such an aversion to anything magic related, it goes without saying that they were on a lookout for anything magic related that may occur. It didn't take long for Petunia to stumble upon young Catherine floating rocks in the garden while doing her chores.

The scream that followed could rival shrill of a siren, which was funny seeing as how many of her neighbors rushed out of their houses thinking that their was a fire nearby. After reassuring them that all that happened was that she saw a snake, the horse faced women dragged a frightened Catherine inside muttering things like "Same as my Freak of a sister" and "Freakishness starting already" over and over again.

Petunia didn't know what to do. She could tell her husband when he got back from work, but he might end up accidentally killing the Brat. Not to mention the Brat looked like she was actually in control of her Freakishness; she might hurt Vernon if he was too rough on her. What should she do?

Not noticing her Aunt's mental dilemma, Catherine began to think. Her Aunt's reaction was disturbing and unexpected. Well, she expected the yelling part, but not the part about her mother. Did her mom also have "Wish Magic" as well?

After being thrown into her cupboard room yet again, Catherine wrote her progress down into her diary, a book Dudley hat gotten for Christmas but threw away because no "man" would ever write in a diary. Catherine saw it as a chance to own something of her own for once and happily took it when no one was looking. With a few of her Cousin's old crayons, she started to write. She had learned how to read from her Aunt, who always took her grocery shopping. It started with labels and expanded quickly to old newspapers. Writing had come easily for her after some practice.

Meanwhile, Petunia was having some trouble. She didn't want to live with such Freakishness anymore. No, the best thing to do would be to send the Brat to an orphanage. But how? The barmy old man had said that he would be watching.

It was to a nervous Petunia that Vernon came home to. Wondering what the Brat could have done now he asked. "Pet darling, what did the Brat do this time?"

"Oh Vernon, I caught her using some of her Freakishness today!" Petunia said while hissing out the word "her."

"What? My Dudders wasn't anywhere near her was he? I won't have the Brat contaminating my son!" Vernon yelled. "Wait till I get my hands on her. I'll beat the Freakishness out of her if it's the last thing I do."

"No! You can't" Petunia immediately replied while biting her lip.

"Why? We have to halt this nonsense while it's still early!" Vernon reasoned with his wife.

"But Vernon, the Freak was in control of her powers the whole time! What if she hurts you?"

"Now Pet, no little Freak can harm a man like me. I'll just put her in her place! She'll learn not to use her Freakishness in this house!" the whale like man said in a determined voice. There was only so much unnaturalness that a man could take.

"You don't know the things those Freaks can do! Even before my sister went to that school of theirs, she could do powerful things!"

"Then what will you have me do, Pet? I can't just let this go." Vernon asked.

"We'll get rid of her, like you first said. Oh, I should have listened to you then." Petunia finally said.

"What of that old Freak you keep talking about? I thought he and his kind were watching us?" Vernon questioned.

"Then we'll just have to move. Didn't you mention a promotion the other night? You said that we would get a bigger house."

"That's right. I'm being promoted to head of the Germany* Division." Vernon puffed up in pride.

"Right, so we can move and leave the Brat here."

"But those Freaks are watching us. They'll know we're moving."

"No wait, I remember getting a letter from them. The old man didn't want the Brat being around too many of their lot. I think he mentioned a "squid" near us. I'll go find the letter." Petunia said as she went towards the attic. They could plan after that.

As she shuffled through some of the boxes in the attic, she finally found the letter she was looking for. She remembered the bird that came to deliver it. What kind of civilized group didn't know what the post was? The old Freak had sent her a letter 4 months after the Brat came to live at her house. The letter said something about a "squid" living nearby who could help if anything bad happened. She shuddered at the thought of one of Them living so close to her family.

And so, the two Dursleys planned throughout the night. They were so distracted that Vernon didn't even hurl his daily after dinner insults at Catherine.

It was Petunia that came up with the ultimate plan. The couple would put their house up for sale. When they had prospective buyers, they would call Vernon's old college friend who worked as an exterminator to get some termites. The man owed Vernon a favor so it shouldn't be a problem and more termites meant more business for him in the long run. Then, they would set the termites at Mrs. Figg's house and Petunia would graciously inform her of what to do when her house begins to fall apart. The buyers would come while her house is being fumigated. If all goes according to plan, they'll leave the next day and dump the Brat at an orphanage; knock her out while she does her morning chores and then she'll be the nuns' problem. They felt bad about shoving the Freak at someone else, but they figured that the Lord would stamp out her Freakishness.

All in all, it was a plan worthy of a Slytherin.

But, as explained earlier, all plans tend to go wrong at some point. The Dursley's plan had gone wrong the minute they started acting too happy around Catherine because the girl was nothing but observant. She noticed immediately that something major was going to happen soon and judging by her relatives' expression, it was not going to be something good for her. She also noticed that they took pains not to really anger or hurt her. Sure, there were still insults, but the beatings mostly stopped.

As the days went by, Catherine noticed the house becoming less messy. Things became boxed up and her Aunt made her clean everything three times before she was satisfied. Finally, when one day her Uncle downright smiled at her when she overcooked breakfast, she knew that something would happen soon especially after hearing her relatives mutter "finally get rid of her." She had to prepare. Running away was the best option.

Yous see, when Catherined hear "get rid of her" her mind didn't even consider that they would take her to an orphanage. She fully expected her relatives to finally do what they said the car crash should have done before: kill her. After all, Uncle Vernon's mouth twitched upward when Dudley bullied her. Uncle Vernon smirked when he beat her. What sould Uncle Vernon do now that he fully smiled at her? The only logical conclusion was to kill her.

So, Catherine was prepared when the day came for the big move. When she felt someone behind her, she "Wished" to be protected and a thin shield formed between her and her attacker. Then, after a "Wish" to force her attacker back, she ran to her room to get the little belongings that she had and fled from the house, "Wishing" not to be found and brought back.

The attacker, Vernon, growled as he got up but he didn't bother going after the girl. There was no reason to; either way, they ended up Freak free. This was actually better. He could tell the Freaks, if they ever came to look for them, that the Brat left all by herself using some of her Freaky magic. Not that they could find them anyways. Soon, he and his family would be on a plane to Germany and be away from all this unaturalness.

At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Headmaster's office, the trinkets monitoring Number 4 Privet Drive sounded for the umpteenth time that month. With a heavy sigh, Albus Dumbledore raised his wand and cast a strong silencing charm. Ever since Catherine had discovered her "Wish Magic" and experimented, a day did not go by that the monitoring charms weren't triggered. After the first few times when Dumbledore personally went to check on the wards, he stopped being concerend.

'If this continues, the girl might need her core bound until she starts Hogwarts.' he thought.

It was because of this that he didn't notice that it was actually a different trinket that sounded this time. This particular one only sounded when the blood wards around the house were in danger of falling soon. So, the oblivious Headmaster went about his day, not knowing that the wards did indeed fall and that Catherine's "Wish" of not being found rendered all but the trinket that monitored whether the girl was dead or alive broken. And, because they were broken, they never sounded again which led the the Headmaster forgetting about them.*

* Can anyone actually see the Dursleys learning another language? I just don't think they have the will to do it. I could totally imagine Dudley not having the brain power to do it and complaining all the way.

* In case you were confused, this is what happened. Dumbledore cast a powerful silencing spell because the trinkets sounded too much. He fully thought that all that was happening was Catherine performing accidental magic again. And, if they continued to sound for a long time, he would go and bind her magic. The reason the doesn't go to the Dursley's house later on to actually bind her magic is because the the trinkets broke so they wouldn't sound anymore. That made Dumbledore think that the accidental magic had stopped.