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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The week following Dudley's 11 birthday was awful for Harry, he spent it in his room, or cupboard, under the stairs, only being let out to use the bathroom and cook breakfast and dinner for the Dursley's, not getting any himself, of course. Finally, Harry had had enough, this wasn't his home, this was his prison. He wasn't wanted here, any more than anyone else did. As soon as Harry, decided that this wasn't his home, he felt this small pain in his abdomen, and he bit down on his pillow to avoid screaming and waking up the Dursley's because that would be far worse than this pain./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Meanwhile, in a different little town in England, Severus Snape sat asleep in his chair by the fire, was suddenly awoken from a dead sleep from a bell ringing in a far-off room, a bell head nearly forgotten about, if it didn't have to do with his Lily. She had enchanted this bell to ring when her protection spell on her son broke, but Severus knew that it shouldn't be ringing, not now. The child wasn't 17 yet; it shouldn't be broken for another 6 years. Severus quickly stood and ran to the bell, and he called the one house elf that he could trust. Lily's own elf that she left to him because of this. "Ember, it is time. I don't know how or why, but we have to find Harry. His relatives definitely will not appreciate what they wake up to tomorrow morning. Take the bell, it will take you to Harry. Quickly, please." Severus ordered, and the elf quickly obliged. The elf took the bell, and she was gone from Severus' home. He just hopes she will reach the child in time; it was almost morning./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The pain in Harry's abdomen continued until it was almost time for him to get up to make breakfast for the Dursley's. Harry hadn't slept at all last night which meant the morning was going to be full of accidents and beatings. Just as Harry heard doors opening upstairs there was a small creature sitting at the end of his bed. "Good, Ember reached Mistress Harry in time. Please, come with Ember. Ember will take you somewhere safe away from your relatives before they find you like this." The small creature stated, and Harry stared at her in confusion. span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Mistress?/span Harry wasn't a girl, was he? Harry stared unsure what to say or ask this small creature, when it continued, "Please, Ember doesn't have time to explain, mistress is in danger if she stays here for her aunt to find." This confused Harry even more, and he finally gained the courage to talk./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I'm not a girl." Harry stated with a slightly higher pitched voice than usual, which confused Harry even more. "What's happened to me?" Harry whispered./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Ember will explain, but first mistress has to come with Ember." The creature said, and Harry heard Aunt Petunia start walking down the stairs. Harry took the small creatures outstretched hand and everything went black. Harry was then sitting on the floor of a room he had never seen before, and he looked around and saw a tall man with dark brown, almost black, hair and a slightly pointy nose standing in front of him in shock./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Harry." Was all the man stuttered out, and Harry stood, legs wobbling a little as he stood, and he looked up to the man in slight anger./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Can someone tell me what is going on? Why do I feel funny? Why is my voice different? What's happening? Why now?" Harry ordered, and Severus stared at Lily's child, she looked so much like Lily, only with black hair./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Harry, I'm Severus. I was a friend of your mother's before her passing, and she tasked me with your care if something were to happen like what just happened. When you were born, you weren't born a boy, like your father insisted that you would be, and when you came out a girl, Lily panicked, and she called me. She knew that James wouldn't accept a girl, not as a first born, stupid thing about the old pureblood ways that Lily didn't understand. Are you following me?" Severus asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Girl? But I'm a boy? And what is a pureblood?" Harry asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Do you not know about magic, Harry?" Severus question as he realized his mistake. span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Petunia, she never would have told him about magic/span. "Harry, what do you know about your parents?" Severus asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Not much, Aunt Petunia didn't like to talk about my mum, and definitely not my dad. You know they died in a car accident when I was young, it's how I got my scar, but nothing much after that."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Oh, Petunia. She never did like magic, that shouldn't have surprised me. Let me start over then. Your mother was a witch and your father a wizard; they could do magic." Severus said as he pulled out his wand and made the tip light, which made Harry stared in awe. That was Severus' indication that Harry hadn't been around or even told about magic since before his parents died, and that saddened Severus. "But not only can they do magic, but you can too. You are also a witch Harry."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""But how am a girl, I've always been a boy?" Harry asked and Severus sighed a little./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I was getting to that. Your mother did a blood ritual when you were born, it was to protect you from harm and protect your gender from anyone's knowledge, except my own and hers. She did this for two reasons, one to protect you from a dark wizard named Voldemort, who learned of a prophecy, sadly that I had a part in, but I will explain more on that later alright. The prophecy told of a boy, born at the end of July that would be his undoing. The second reason is because of your father. He wouldn't have accepted a girl as the first-born child. It is an old Pureblood tradition, and your father didn't want to break it. A pureblood is a witch or a wizard that is born from a very long line of witches and wizards on both sides of the family. There are very few left because of inbreeding. Then there are half-bloods like you and me. One parent of magic and the other not, or in your case the third option, a muggleborn parent, a witch or wizard of no known magical decent." Severus explained./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""So, if my mother wouldn't have done this ritual to make me look like a boy, she would still be alive. If it was known that I was a girl, I wouldn't have been an option for the prophecy. You said a boy born at the end of July." Harry stated, and Severus smirked, she was so much like her mother, and she looked like her too. "Don't laugh at me. You bring me here nearly against my will and tell me that my existence got my parents killed and then you laugh at me. Take me back, I might not know what they will do to me but at least I will know that they don't like me." Harry stated as she crossed her arms and glared at Severus./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""No, I'm not laughing at you, I just realized how much like your mother you are. She was a kind heart, but she could also be fierce when she needed to be. It was one of the things I loved about her." Severus explained. "I won't let you go back to your aunt's; I could only imagine what she has done to you, or at least let be done to you, that I can assure you. Did you want anything from there that you weren't originally able to bring?" Severus asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""There are a few toys, but my clothes definitely won't fit anymore. They were too big to begin with, and now, I'm smaller." Harry stated, and Severus smiled./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""That's alright. We'll go out shopping today and get you some things to wear along with your Hogwarts letter."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Hogwarts letter?" Harry asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""That woman. I swear I would strangle her if I didn't know I would go to jail. She told you nothing. You should have already also received your letter which means they have been getting rid of them. I will gather one from Minerva on our way out and also explain things to her since once the ritual is complete there is no going back. Though, I am still unaware of why it broke so early, it shouldn't have broken until you were 17."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Maybe because I don't have a home. I had a prison." Harry stated, and that shocked Severus./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What do you mean by prison?" Severus asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I didn't have a real room, and I was their slave. We learned about slaves in school, and that's what I am, all that I am to them." Harry stated./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Well, the good news is you will no longer have to be their slave. You are free, and I will make sure that I get full custody of you understand. It is what your mother would have wanted anyway. Now, are you ready to go out and we'll get you some things?" Severus asked, and Harry nodded. "Alright. I'm just going to go change really quick and I think I have some of your mother's old clothes here somewhere that she gave me just in case for this." Severus stated, and he walked out of the room. Ember stepped up to her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Would mistress like a bath?" The small creature asked, and Harry just nodded. The elf took her hand and pulled her from the room and down the hall to the bathroom. The elf drew a bathroom for Harry and then walked out of the bathroom, but not before pulling some shampoo and body wash out of the cabinet. "Sorry for the smell. These are Master Severus', but I'm sure Master Severus will get you your own while you are out." Ember stated with a smile before disappearing, and Harry stripped down and climbed into the nice warm bathtub. She dunked her head under the water to wet her now rather long dark hair, and she started lathering Severus' shampoo into her hair. She rinsed her hair and then quickly worked on her body, now that she was naked, noticed a lot more difference about her body than when she was wearing clothes. Though she did feel slightly more comfortable in her new body, than in her boy body. She felt misplaced, and now she understands why. Though she is curious about what her original name was, because she hoped her mum wouldn't name her daughter Henry James Potter. When she was done, she grabbed a towel off the rack and started drying off after getting out and pulling the plug in the tub./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"There was a small knock on the door, and she quickly covered herself before answering. "Who is it?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""It's Severus. I found those clothes for you if you want to try them, and then we can stop by Hogwarts before going out shopping for you." Severus said through the door, and Harry hurried over and cracked it open enough for Severus to hand her the clothes, and before she closed the door she looked up at Severus with Lily's green eyes and asked, "What's my real name?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Severus smiled, before he answered, "Henrietta Jasmine Potter. Lily wanted your name to be semi close to what James wanted to name you, so it would be easier to adapt to the change when you were older, plus you can still go by Harry if you want."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Can I make it Harry with an i?" Harri asked, and Severus smiled./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Of course. Harri, with an i." Severus stated. "Now, please get dressed, so we can go." Severus finished before closing the door. Harri smiled, and she started pulling the clothes on that Severus brought her. They fit her actually pretty good, a lot better than her hammy downs from Dudley ever did. When she was finished, she strangely found a hair tie in the bathroom and pulled her hair into a weird messy bun thing, and she quickly left the bathroom./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"She moved through the halls until she found the living room, where Severus was sitting waiting for her in a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt. "Alright, I'm ready." Harri stated, and Severus put his book down and stood up./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What is this with your hair?" he chuckled a little bit./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I've never had hair long enough to have to put up, and I just kind of forced it out of the way. I would like a haircut, maybe not the entire length but this is too much hair for me right now. Plus, I would also like to go to the eye doctor if possible?" Harri asked, and Severus nodded./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""We can do that, of course. Let's go. I'm going to take you through the floo network, it is the only quick way into Hogwarts without a mile-long hike." Severus said as he held out his hand, and Harri hesitated before reaching forwards and taking his hand. He pulled her over to the fireplace, and he grabbed a pot off the mantle and held it out to her. "Grab a small hand full, and then we're going to step into the fireplace. Don't worry it won't hurt you." Severus smiled, and Harri grabbed a small hand full before they stepped onto the fireplace. "I warned Minerva that I was coming, so she shouldn't be too surprised. Now all you have to do is shout, Transfiguration Office, and then throw the powder into the fire, and we will be in Minerva's office. Understand?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Harri nodded, before taking a deep breath, and shouting, "Transfiguration Office." And she threw the floo powder into the flames they were standing in, and she was engulfed in green flames./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Hope you like the first chapter. I am still in the process of writing this story, so updates are not currently scheduled in any way. I will try my best to post at least once a month, my writer's block has currently lifted, so I will try my best to keep it that way, but unfortunately, life happens, and this is just a hobby of mine./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The week following Dudley's 11 birthday was awful for Harry, he spent it in his room, or cupboard, under the stairs, only being let out to use the bathroom and cook breakfast and dinner for the Dursley's, not getting any himself, of course. Finally, Harry had had enough, this wasn't his home, this was his prison. He wasn't wanted here, any more than anyone else did. As soon as Harry, decided that this wasn't his home, he felt this small pain in his abdomen, and he bit down on his pillow to avoid screaming and waking up the Dursley's because that would be far worse than this pain./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Meanwhile, in a different little town in England, Severus Snape sat asleep in his chair by the fire, was suddenly awoken from a dead sleep from a bell ringing in a far-off room, a bell head nearly forgotten about, if it didn't have to do with his Lily. She had enchanted this bell to ring when her protection spell on her son broke, but Severus knew that it shouldn't be ringing, not now. The child wasn't 17 yet; it shouldn't be broken for another 6 years. Severus quickly stood and ran to the bell, and he called the one house elf that he could trust. Lily's own elf that she left to him because of this. "Ember, it is time. I don't know how or why, but we have to find Harry. His relatives definitely will not appreciate what they wake up to tomorrow morning. Take the bell, it will take you to Harry. Quickly, please." Severus ordered, and the elf quickly obliged. The elf took the bell, and she was gone from Severus' home. He just hopes she will reach the child in time; it was almost morning./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The pain in Harry's abdomen continued until it was almost time for him to get up to make breakfast for the Dursley's. Harry hadn't slept at all last night which meant the morning was going to be full of accidents and beatings. Just as Harry heard doors opening upstairs there was a small creature sitting at the end of his bed. "Good, Ember reached Mistress Harry in time. Please, come with Ember. Ember will take you somewhere safe away from your relatives before they find you like this." The small creature stated, and Harry stared at her in confusion. span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Mistress?/span Harry wasn't a girl, was he? Harry stared unsure what to say or ask this small creature, when it continued, "Please, Ember doesn't have time to explain, mistress is in danger if she stays here for her aunt to find." This confused Harry even more, and he finally gained the courage to talk./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I'm not a girl." Harry stated with a slightly higher pitched voice than usual, which confused Harry even more. "What's happened to me?" Harry whispered./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Ember will explain, but first mistress has to come with Ember." The creature said, and Harry heard Aunt Petunia start walking down the stairs. Harry took the small creatures outstretched hand and everything went black. Harry was then sitting on the floor of a room he had never seen before, and he looked around and saw a tall man with dark brown, almost black, hair and a slightly pointy nose standing in front of him in shock./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Harry." Was all the man stuttered out, and Harry stood, legs wobbling a little as he stood, and he looked up to the man in slight anger./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Can someone tell me what is going on? Why do I feel funny? Why is my voice different? What's happening? Why now?" Harry ordered, and Severus stared at Lily's child, she looked so much like Lily, only with black hair./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Harry, I'm Severus. I was a friend of your mother's before her passing, and she tasked me with your care if something were to happen like what just happened. When you were born, you weren't born a boy, like your father insisted that you would be, and when you came out a girl, Lily panicked, and she called me. She knew that James wouldn't accept a girl, not as a first born, stupid thing about the old pureblood ways that Lily didn't understand. Are you following me?" Severus asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Girl? But I'm a boy? And what is a pureblood?" Harry asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Do you not know about magic, Harry?" Severus question as he realized his mistake. span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Petunia, she never would have told him about magic/span. "Harry, what do you know about your parents?" Severus asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Not much, Aunt Petunia didn't like to talk about my mum, and definitely not my dad. You know they died in a car accident when I was young, it's how I got my scar, but nothing much after that."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Oh, Petunia. She never did like magic, that shouldn't have surprised me. Let me start over then. Your mother was a witch and your father a wizard; they could do magic." Severus said as he pulled out his wand and made the tip light, which made Harry stared in awe. That was Severus' indication that Harry hadn't been around or even told about magic since before his parents died, and that saddened Severus. "But not only can they do magic, but you can too. You are also a witch Harry."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""But how am a girl, I've always been a boy?" Harry asked and Severus sighed a little./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I was getting to that. Your mother did a blood ritual when you were born, it was to protect you from harm and protect your gender from anyone's knowledge, except my own and hers. She did this for two reasons, one to protect you from a dark wizard named Voldemort, who learned of a prophecy, sadly that I had a part in, but I will explain more on that later alright. The prophecy told of a boy, born at the end of July that would be his undoing. The second reason is because of your father. He wouldn't have accepted a girl as the first-born child. It is an old Pureblood tradition, and your father didn't want to break it. A pureblood is a witch or a wizard that is born from a very long line of witches and wizards on both sides of the family. There are very few left because of inbreeding. Then there are half-bloods like you and me. One parent of magic and the other not, or in your case the third option, a muggleborn parent, a witch or wizard of no known magical decent." Severus explained./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""So, if my mother wouldn't have done this ritual to make me look like a boy, she would still be alive. If it was known that I was a girl, I wouldn't have been an option for the prophecy. You said a boy born at the end of July." Harry stated, and Severus smirked, she was so much like her mother, and she looked like her too. "Don't laugh at me. You bring me here nearly against my will and tell me that my existence got my parents killed and then you laugh at me. Take me back, I might not know what they will do to me but at least I will know that they don't like me." Harry stated as she crossed her arms and glared at Severus./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""No, I'm not laughing at you, I just realized how much like your mother you are. She was a kind heart, but she could also be fierce when she needed to be. It was one of the things I loved about her." Severus explained. "I won't let you go back to your aunt's; I could only imagine what she has done to you, or at least let be done to you, that I can assure you. Did you want anything from there that you weren't originally able to bring?" Severus asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""There are a few toys, but my clothes definitely won't fit anymore. They were too big to begin with, and now, I'm smaller." Harry stated, and Severus smiled./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""That's alright. We'll go out shopping today and get you some things to wear along with your Hogwarts letter."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Hogwarts letter?" Harry asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""That woman. I swear I would strangle her if I didn't know I would go to jail. She told you nothing. You should have already also received your letter which means they have been getting rid of them. I will gather one from Minerva on our way out and also explain things to her since once the ritual is complete there is no going back. Though, I am still unaware of why it broke so early, it shouldn't have broken until you were 17."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Maybe because I don't have a home. I had a prison." Harry stated, and that shocked Severus./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What do you mean by prison?" Severus asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I didn't have a real room, and I was their slave. We learned about slaves in school, and that's what I am, all that I am to them." Harry stated./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Well, the good news is you will no longer have to be their slave. You are free, and I will make sure that I get full custody of you understand. It is what your mother would have wanted anyway. Now, are you ready to go out and we'll get you some things?" Severus asked, and Harry nodded. "Alright. I'm just going to go change really quick and I think I have some of your mother's old clothes here somewhere that she gave me just in case for this." Severus stated, and he walked out of the room. Ember stepped up to her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Would mistress like a bath?" The small creature asked, and Harry just nodded. The elf took her hand and pulled her from the room and down the hall to the bathroom. The elf drew a bathroom for Harry and then walked out of the bathroom, but not before pulling some shampoo and body wash out of the cabinet. "Sorry for the smell. These are Master Severus', but I'm sure Master Severus will get you your own while you are out." Ember stated with a smile before disappearing, and Harry stripped down and climbed into the nice warm bathtub. She dunked her head under the water to wet her now rather long dark hair, and she started lathering Severus' shampoo into her hair. She rinsed her hair and then quickly worked on her body, now that she was naked, noticed a lot more difference about her body than when she was wearing clothes. Though she did feel slightly more comfortable in her new body, than in her boy body. She felt misplaced, and now she understands why. Though she is curious about what her original name was, because she hoped her mum wouldn't name her daughter Henry James Potter. When she was done, she grabbed a towel off the rack and started drying off after getting out and pulling the plug in the tub./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"There was a small knock on the door, and she quickly covered herself before answering. "Who is it?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""It's Severus. I found those clothes for you if you want to try them, and then we can stop by Hogwarts before going out shopping for you." Severus said through the door, and Harry hurried over and cracked it open enough for Severus to hand her the clothes, and before she closed the door she looked up at Severus with Lily's green eyes and asked, "What's my real name?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Severus smiled, before he answered, "Henrietta Jasmine Potter. Lily wanted your name to be semi close to what James wanted to name you, so it would be easier to adapt to the change when you were older, plus you can still go by Harry if you want."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Can I make it Harry with an i?" Harri asked, and Severus smiled./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Of course. Harri, with an i." Severus stated. "Now, please get dressed, so we can go." Severus finished before closing the door. Harri smiled, and she started pulling the clothes on that Severus brought her. They fit her actually pretty good, a lot better than her hammy downs from Dudley ever did. When she was finished, she strangely found a hair tie in the bathroom and pulled her hair into a weird messy bun thing, and she quickly left the bathroom./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"She moved through the halls until she found the living room, where Severus was sitting waiting for her in a pair of jeans and a black t-shirt. "Alright, I'm ready." Harri stated, and Severus put his book down and stood up./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What is this with your hair?" he chuckled a little bit./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I've never had hair long enough to have to put up, and I just kind of forced it out of the way. I would like a haircut, maybe not the entire length but this is too much hair for me right now. Plus, I would also like to go to the eye doctor if possible?" Harri asked, and Severus nodded./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""We can do that, of course. Let's go. I'm going to take you through the floo network, it is the only quick way into Hogwarts without a mile-long hike." Severus said as he held out his hand, and Harri hesitated before reaching forwards and taking his hand. He pulled her over to the fireplace, and he grabbed a pot off the mantle and held it out to her. "Grab a small hand full, and then we're going to step into the fireplace. Don't worry it won't hurt you." Severus smiled, and Harri grabbed a small hand full before they stepped onto the fireplace. "I warned Minerva that I was coming, so she shouldn't be too surprised. Now all you have to do is shout, Transfiguration Office, and then throw the powder into the fire, and we will be in Minerva's office. Understand?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Harri nodded, before taking a deep breath, and shouting, "Transfiguration Office." And she threw the floo powder into the flames they were standing in, and she was engulfed in green flames./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Hope you like the first chapter. I am still in the process of writing this story, so updates are not currently scheduled in any way. I will try my best to post at least once a month, my writer's block has currently lifted, so I will try my best to keep it that way, but unfortunately, life happens, and this is just a hobby of mine./p
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