Pamela Potter – Stone of Souls
This is my first attempt to write a fan-fiction story. I do my own editing so any and all faults are on me.
This story is going to have adult themes. Mentions of self pleasure at the end of the chapter, not detailed.
Summary: Pamela Lillian Potter hasn't had a good life in the few years she has been alive. She was reduced to a slave from the moment she could walk and by the time she could reach the sink on her own feet, worse. Watch the rise of a heroine who will fall from grace and become Poison Ivy.
For those asking, this story doesn't have a pairing only a strong friendship.
Fun Fact: The name "Pamela" has various meanings, but for the purpose of this story and going with other plant/flower names of girls it is taken from "Palm" and "Lillian" being shorten to "Lily" making Pamela's name "Palm Lily" an evergreen plant from Australia.
Thank you for all the reviews. I hope I answered all of them, for those I couldn't answer via the review reply:
Guest Review Replies: None this chapter
To all the favorites and follows, thank you guys it warms me to see people liking my story and wanting more.
Longing
One of the strangest sights Pamela has seen was Ron Weasley in the library. It happened just after the Quidditch game and went on to early December. Finally baffled enough, Pamela asked him straight out:
"Ron, why are you in the library so often with so many random books? I know you aren't researching for any of our classes." This caught Fay and Hermione's attention too, they were there researching for the transfiguration optional assignment.
"If you must know, I'm looking for a name, Nicholas Flamel." Ron huffed as he snapped the book shut.
"He's a well known alchemist, did some work with Dumbledore. It's on the back of Dumbledore's chocolate frog card." Fay said rolling her eyes. Ron blinked a few times.
"Are you sure?" Ron asked still unsure, Fay handed him said card.
"If you want to find out what he did however," Hermione said pointing down a row, "there is a book called Advances in Magic, it is quite a thick tome and very ancient, so be careful with he pages. The last row, bottom shelve, Flamel is on page nine hundred and thirteen."
Ron retrieved the book and opened it on the page, he read through the passage then suddenly exclaimed in a stage whisper: "Fluffy is guarding the Sorcerer's Stone?!"
"Who's Fluffy?" the girls asked in unison.
"Hagrid's three headed dog on the third floor corridor." Ron said knowing the cat was out of the bag.
"A Cerberus, now that is something worth seeing," Pamela sighed she turned to her friends, "Do you think that Hagrid could take us to see it?" they shrugged and as one got up and put their books away. Ron was left staring after them, he had just been the centre of attention and now he was once again alone.
The girls made it down to Hagrid's hut in record time. They told Hagrid what they heard, partially and asked him if he could take them to see Fluffy. After a bit of hesitation he gave in to the three pairs of puppy dog eyes directed towards him, he took his flute and led the girls into the third floor corridor and the door holding Fluffy. He took out a key to unlock the door and began playing the flute. Pamela went in and started to gently scratch the giant dog behind the ear. The other girls took the other two heads and did the same. Fluffy as it turned out was a bitch and a pure bred Cerberus, not some kind of magical hybrid.
Hagrid had stopped playing when the girls walked up to the dog, yet it didn't attack them like Hagrid feared, in fact it was wagging its tail. The giant man couldn't fathom what was going on. He almost suffered a heart attack when the head Pamela scratched opened its mouth, but instead of biting the head licked her.
"Now be a good girl, Fluffy, we will try to visit again and next time we will have something sweet for you." Pamela cooed as they left the room, Fluffy wagged her tail in reply and gave a happy bark.
====PPSOS====
Tonks had requested that Pamela remain in school during the Christmas break, mostly due to unwanted activity happening in Diagon Alley involving a vampire and a werewolf cell. In fact most of the people staying at Hogwarts during the break were those who had family in Diagon Alley or stayed there themselves. Pamela didn't mind, especially when she received permission from Sprout to visit all the greenhouses, provided she did it alone.
The Weasley boys also stayed during the break. Apparently their parents went to the dragon reserve in Romania to visit Charlie, another older brother. The twins had dragged Pamela in to The Great Toasting Event. Basically they saw Ron skewer stuff on a long fork and toast it in the common room fire. They then went down to the kitchens and gotten loads of snacks that could potentially be toasted and roped everyone in the common room to toast it with them, it did help that it was only the Weasley boys and Pamela, though. They did a bunch of these things leading up to Christmas morning.
Pamela woke with a start when she felt a sudden weight at the foot of her bed. She had always been a light sleeper due to years of living with her abusive relatives bred that into her. Pamela arched her brow at what she saw, gifts. She had never before received gifts, and even though she bought her friends gifts she didn't think she would receive some too.
Hermione had gotten her a broom and wand polishing kit, Pamela doubted she'd use it on the broom, but she did want to keep her wand in pristine condition. Hermione also sent her a book on wand lore, where she found it was beyond Pamela. Fay on the other hand sent her a book on plant life in the highland lochs, along with several seeds packets with plants from the book, including an interesting plant called gillyweed, it is supposedly used in potions that allow one to breath underwater, the plant itself, once consumed raw, does the same, but only for an hour.
There was a hand carved flute sent to her by Hagrid. There were also several small packages that Pamela could only assume came from admirers. Pansy's gift was by far the most meaningful and strangest gift, it was a book entitled: Surviving Potions for Non-Slytherins. It was written by a Hufflepuff Potions Master that graduated three years ago, on the back was even large friendly letters that stated: DON'T PANIC!
"What is this?" Pamela asked no one as she picked up a cloak that felt like liquid flowing through her hands. The message attached was written in loopy letters:
Your Father left this in my possession before going into hiding. It is time it was returned to you. Use it well.
When Pamela donned the cloak and looked down she gasped in shock, she could clearly see through her own body. Her father owned an invincibility cloak. Tonks would be jealous, since she's been saving up to buy her own.
"But wait," Pamela said suddenly, "How can an invincibility cloak still retain its power, according to Tonks it is only good for five years tops, strange."
The last package was from someone that Pamela never even met, Mrs. Weasley. How could she possibly sent Pamela a gift, she didn't even get along with Ron, in fact she barely tolerated the food vacuum. The twins made her laugh occasionally, but not even that should have warranted a gift from her.
"See you got a Weasley jumper,"
"Best to put it on or you'll break our dear mother's heart."
"Let me guess, you were behind this?" Pamela turned to the twins, "Do I want to know how you managed to get up three flights of stairs enchanted to keep you boys out? I know you didn't use brooms since the common room has an anti-flying ward."
"Levitation Charm," they said in unison.
"Brilliantly dimwitted, I applaud you." Pamela said. "Why are you lot doing here anyway?"
"Well we roped in all the beasts,"
"So now we just need the beauty,"
"So that we can head down to breakfast,"
"And have a pleasant snowball fight after,"
"We're even planning on enchanting snowballs to hit the first teacher that appears in the back of the head,"
"We hope its Snape."
"I get it, just let me change then I'll be right down."
Seconds after the door closed, she heard a sound of exhilaration. The twins had clearly used the slide to go down. Pamela sighed. There goes her plan to wear leggings and a skirt. She picked a pair of jeans and applied a warming charm to them, whoever said jeans were always warm needed to have their mind checked, and a long sleeved T-shirt. Just before she left the room she grabbed her Weasley jumper and went to the slippery stairs. When she reached the bottom she landed on a very soft set of cushions.
"There she is the unofficial Weasley!"
"I give the slide an eight, but the dismount only a two."
"Why brother dearest,"
"She didn't stick the landing of course and didn't compensate for it."
"True, but that is clearly worth a four at least,"
"I believe you are correct,"
"Enough!" Ron burst out, it was clear that the back and forth rubbed him the wrong way. "How come you have a Weasley jumper anyway?"
"We asked mum to knit her one,"
"Since we figured she didn't expect gifts."
"Not even from me, Palm Lily, that breaks my heart!" Tonks said standing by the fireplace, holding two gifts in her hands.
"Tonks you shouldn't have," Pamela gave the older girl a hug.
"Who are you?" Percy asked sounding very pompous.
"Auror Tonks, Wothcher," Tonks held out her hand, "I'm kinda like an older sister/guardian. Old Prof. Whiskers asked me to come over for the day, since Palm Lily here couldn't come home."
"But aren't you working on that case?" Pamela asked.
"No, that is Moody's expertise, main reason the alley was abandoned.
They went down to breakfast which was a nice cozy affair. The house tables were vanished and there close to the fire was a wide table set up. The teachers who stayed over the break were seated on one side, leaving space for the students on the other. Tonks and Pamela took up a space at the end next to a Hufflepuff girl named Hannah Abbott.
True to their word the twins initiated a snowball fight in the courtyard after breakfast. They however didn't get Snape as the target for their enchanted snowballs. That dishonor fell on Quirrell. He didn't seem to notice mostly due to it hitting his turban and not his actual head.
That night Tonks and Pamela sat up late in the common room just talking. When the twins finally went to bed Pamela smirked at Tonks who smirked back. Pamela had told her about the invincibility cloak and she suggested having a go about the castle under it. Tonks would be patrolling the halls as a favor for Prof. Whiskers, or as she known to the rest of the world, McGonagall, a suggestion brought on by Tonks and a bottle of Lily Valley Rosé.
The two walked about the school with Tonks trying to catch the invincibility cloak flicker, it never did. An odd scene that did happen though was when Snape all but threatened Quirrell. They stopped when Tonks bid them a good night. It was near midnight when Tonks tripped over a loose tile and tumbled into a classroom. Inside the room was the most beautiful ornate mirror standing on a clawed stand. Written on the top was a weird language, or so it seemed at first glance: Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi.
"Mirror-speak maybe," Tonks suggested, "It would make sense then." She was sporting a very impressive blush and equally neon red hair.
"Ishow no tyo urfac ebu tyo urhe arts desire?" Pamela frowned, "I show not your face but your heart's desire. Well that would explain the blush."
"Oi!" Tonks laughed anyway.
Pamela stood there in front of the mirror proper and peered into it. She thought her heart's desire would be to see her parents again, but that was not what the mirror showed. Instead it showed a beautiful green skinned woman sitting on a throne of flowers next to another whose face was obscured and white skinned. Feeling that this should remain private she turned to Tonks.
"Can we go, I'm gonna cry if I have to look at them much longer." Tonks nodded and the two headed back to the Gryffindor common room.
There Tonks borrowed the invincibility cloak and continued on her patrol under it. Pamela headed up to the dorm. It only happened one time before, but this time when Pamela touched herself she had images of the white skinned running inside her head.
====PPSOS====
Another chapter done and the next in the works
Please review I love reading them and replying to them