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High heels clicking on the pavement, connected to the tanned legs of a beautiful young girl wearing a short miniskirt, while she wore a crop top underneath a loose jacket, lips bright with lip gloss and silver hoop earrings bouncing underneath long hair, framing a heart-shaped face with emerald green eyes, she turned many heads, and sent a flirty smile back.

It had been the best part of 17 years since Holly had been in Britain, but she didn't plan on being here too long. She was only travelling through Europe briefly before she finished her emigration to Australia, and while she had some mixed feelings about returning to the country of her original birth, she didn't see any reason why the magical world would come after her; she hadn't left any trail for them to follow.

As she passed through Covent Garden, a place she had never visited before, Holly let her mind wander.

After her time in Hogwarts ended, she went to Gringotts and completed her essence transfer ritual. At the same time, she officially ended her tuition at Hogwarts. Once she had been switched into the body of a young girl, she was then sent to Brazil to a magical foster home, where she became a ward of the Brazilian Ministry of Magic.

But before she had left and transformed into a baby girl, like Harry she had been accumulating memories and she began writing a short book about her life and the things she had gone through, complete with pictures taken from the pensieve the goblins had offered up for her to use. With their help, she had it published and sued the people behind the Harry Potter franchise with those ridiculous and lying storybooks about her predecessor.

The truth blew the magical world up completely; showcasing the numerous acts of mental and physical trauma, how she had nearly died being beaten up and mentally battered down by the Dursleys who told her lies about her parents and how she was nothing more than a freak just because they were scared of her powers.

Holly had left during the chaos, and it wouldn't be until much later when she was old enough that she would discover the Dursleys had been sentenced to life imprisonment, in Azkaban prison. The Ministry had wanted to use them as an example to the muggle-loving members of the magical world that witches and wizards should only be raised among their own kind. Her book and her memories had the unexpected side effect of strengthening the resolve of the magical supremacists, but that led to something else.

The goblins had discovered a piece of Lord Voldemort's soul in her scar, and they had removed the fragment instantly because it could have unknown side effects on her transformation. That had been unacceptable to Harry, and she'd had it done quickly. The goblins had done the rest, they had completely drained the fragment of its magic. After everything she had gone through, she had realised she'd had a close call all things considered; Voldemort would have eventually tried to return, or one of his followers would have come after him/her, and they would have tried to kill him/her.

Once she had moved to Brazil, she was raised under the name she had been left with.

Holly.

There was no connection to Harry Potter; she had made sure of that.

Holly's childhood was much different from Harry's. Because she was raised by witches and wizards, Holly and other magical orphans were raised extremely well. There were even a few muggle-borns; like the MACUSA, the Brazilians were one of the few magical countries which looked out for magicals in the muggle world, and brought them in at a very young age, so many of the problems she had only found out about later on never really happened, but they were all raised equally in a loving environment where they were given the basics of a magical education, where they learnt about magical history, basic potions, and theory into charms and transfiguration. The Ministry would pay for their education, and when Holly was 11 in her second life, she was sent to Castelobruxo.

For the next 7 years there, she became a top student, specialising in Charms, DADA, Potions, and Transfiguration, and later Runes, Healing, and Magizoology. And she was extremely popular, especially when she began growing into her looks. But she had been keeping watch on the events in magical Britain.

After her real life was revealed, there was a massive scandal especially when it came out that Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Hagrid were discovered dumping a baby boy on the doorstep of the Dursleys without alerting the social services of the Ministry. Dumbledore's excuse was that the Ministry would either take the orphaned child, and transform him into a spoilt brat, a ward, or they would simply and carelessly hand him over to a family and the same thing would happen.

Or….

Holly to this day shuddered at the thought of being raised by a Death Eater's family or being slaughtered with her death covered up in some manner, and she considered it fortunate she had lived with the Dursleys, living there had made her stronger, but she had revealed the truth not only to strike a massive blow to Dumbledore but to reveal he wasn't the saint he portrayed himself as.

But when Dumbledore was put on trial for his transgressions, especially when it was revealed he had worked with a crooked goblin to steal some of the Potter estates and even illegally claimed guardianship over her, and even entered into a marriage contract no more than 3 months after her parents' murders, the charge was line theft. Some of the implicated Weasleys were also arrested for their crimes and their part of the whole illegal contract. Molly Weasley was sentenced to 20 years in Azkaban. Dumbledore was given the Dementor's kiss when it was revealed he and Grindelwald had actually been working together for the entire time, and the Blood pact between them which magical historians who weren't under his control to suppress the truth, was just a fake.

Dumbledore had betrayed Grindelwald in the hopes of garnering more political power over the magical world, and for years he had been administering potions and spells to muggle-borns for generations; when the time was right, he would activate the spells, and they would willingly be collared and sentenced to a lifetime of breeding by wizards and witches, and to hell with what they wanted.

Once this was discovered, the magical world dug deeper. What they found still sent shudders through the magical world even though more than a few people actually thought they were good ideas, but needed a bit of work to make them less mad. Dumbledore had known Voldemort was still alive, and he had even counted on it, as he was the kind of man who could not live without some kind of conflict. And he had been trying to manipulate Harry Potter into becoming the warrior-weapon needed to sacrifice his life for when the time came.

Dumbledore hadn't bothered training Harry for two good reasons.

The first was there was a Horcrux in the boy's skull, and Voldemort could not be ended until the Horcrux was destroyed along with the others. But even if there hadn't been a Horcrux in the factor, Dumbledore would never have trained him, and that led to the second reason.

Second, Dumbledore wanted to gain access to the Potter family library. He wanted the knowledge contained within, which he could use for his own purposes, which was another charge of line theft. But it was one that had worked, and he had been plundering the knowledge of dozens of magical families over the years, manipulating events so then the final children were left orphaned and alone, ignorant, until he could have arranged their deaths. The outcry of these revelations outraged everyone worldwide, as a family was vital in the magical world. The thought of someone committing such a despicable and cruel act more than once was unthinkable. When the magical world discovered his twisted ambitions and aims, Dumbledore was quickly taken by other groups under heavy guard so there was no chance of escape before he was given the Dementor's kiss. There was no way they could risk him coming back.

Holly had gathered bits and pieces of this knowledge over the years she had grown up, keeping to herself who she really was. One of Dumbledore's worst crimes was the way he shoved Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, into Azkaban prison but she had only discovered that recently and she wasn't sure how to handle that bit of news.

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After a shopping trip, Holly summoned her House Elf and had the purchases taken away from the hotel she was staying in for the time being, except one of the bags which contained her new party dress and high heels. She was going to have fun tonight.