-8-
Isabella had always loved charms, both in her current incarnation and in her last one. Charms were an amazing branch of magic, and she'd always had a knack for them. But while she didn't really let her past incarnation get in the way of her present, Isabella couldn't help but compare these lessons to the ones she'd had at Hogwarts.
Castelobruxo didn't waste their time and their energy working on a single spell per week. They instead focused on the theory of dozens of spells at a time, before they actually moved on to the practicals. They were like studying 4 or 5 charms per session, and then they practiced them. That way, the students all had a ground understanding of the spells they were being taught instead of rushing through them and not knowing anything about them.
Potions were even better.
Unlike those lessons with Snape, the Potions teachers at Castelobruxo not only knew their stuff, they taught potions as well. Isabella remembered her dismay and her shock and outrage someone like Snape, someone who was allowed to be abusive towards the students, was even allowed. But here at Castelobruxo, education was valued. Isabella had learnt more about potions here than she had ever done at Hogwarts.
Isabella paused for a second while she worked, flicking her hair back. It was impossible to think about Hogwarts and not think about what happened.
-8-
After he escaped the castle in his second year, Harry had gone to Diagon Alley. He had originally planned on just using essence transfer to shake off the Potter name and get a new life. At the time he hadn't really known if he should just become a muggle instead of a wizard, but truthfully he was leaning on becoming a witch.
Thanks to the Room of Requirement, Harry had discovered what life was like as a girl. And it was many times different from being a boy.
After arriving at Gringotts, Harry had made arrangements and had a healer take a look at him. Isabella, even now, still had no idea how many plans and ideas Dumbledore and the Death Eaters had seen ruined when she had the Horcrux removed and drained. All of the Death Eaters had died with their Master, as had the soul fragments. The wizarding world would never miss them, especially when the goblins announced they had found something connected to Voldemort; Isabella had already been de-aged by that point, deciding to tell the goblins to help her prepare a new body, just to get away from the Potters and from Dumbledore.
But the fallout was immense, especially when the DMLE got involved. The magical world discovered extremely quickly a monster was going around Hogwarts, petrifying the students. When they investigated they found a basilisk there, of all things. Dumbledore was kicked out of his position for hiding the news a highly dangerous magical beast had been unleashed, and a piece of dark magic was possessing an innocent first-year girl.
The rest of the staff weren't better off, but Isabella never found out what happened to them.
As for Harry Potter…
Isabella might have been transformed into a baby by that time, but Harry's last act was to give the goblins memories of what the Dursleys had done to him over the years, how he'd learnt the Potters were still alive and his reaction, and a scathing letter saying how much he hated magical Britain and everyone in it, that they depended so much on heroes to clean up the messes of others and refused to take responsibility. Harry left a note, telling the Potters he'd dissolved the family branch in Britain, sending the wealth and properties and the House Elves off to the branches worldwide, and disowning them.
"You brought this on yourselves."
The Dursleys themselves were investigated. Years of child abuse had been proven, and they were thrown into prison. And all that time, Isabella was a young baby girl, her DNA Brazillian without a drop of blood from Lily or James Potter, and she was content to keep it that way, her memories were blocked so then she could experience life without the spectre of the Potter family would not hover over her head. The blocks came down when she was only 10 years old, but by then she'd already had a lovely childhood thanks to her new parents.
Whatever happened to Dumbledore, Lily and James, the people who'd created an enormous conspiracy against her younger self, Isabella did not know, and she did not care.
-8-
Isabella would graduate from Castelobruxo with honours. She would become a potions mistress, and a Healer before she met and married a lovely wizard.