Never Let Me Go

by Imaginary Owls

Grace always felt as she was missing something, like a puzzle piece that got lost. No matter how hard she tried to fill the space with her uncle, or her aunt's family, she couldn't because she knew what the missing piece was: her father. All she knew about her father was that he left her and her mother one night, and never returned. Until her third year at Hogwarts. SLOW BURN.

1. Author's Note

Hi, hello!

So, this fic is 1000000% self-indulgent (as all my fics are), but I wrote it because I've been itching for something like this and couldn't find it ANYWHERE! (I mean I could find something similar, but you know that feeling when you're wanting something VERY specific and nothing is scratching that itch and isn't fully satisfying? Yeah that.) I've read so many fics on here, , and on Wattpad and couldn't quite find one that was itching the scratch, so of course, I had to write my own.

Surprisingly, there aren'ta lotof Harry Potter x OC fanfics out there, at least not ones that are set during Hogwarts years. At least not as many as I had hoped there be, so I decided to write my own~So yes, this is a Harry/OC fanfic, and it's gonna be a bit of a burn. There will be pining, and mutual pining all before they finally get together which will be in Order of the Phoenix! So this fic will be a very, very, slow burn but it will be worth it!

I know there are loads of Sirius Black daughter fics out there, and I'd hate to add another trope on top of it. However, I feel I've made it a tad different or unique enough to keep people interested. I've kind of taken an old fanfic I wrote when I was in high school and rewrote it, and made it better by a lot since I cringe at my writing and story-building skills from when I was fifteen... The previous fic was Taking Chances. Please DO NOT READ! It's bad and cringy! But I believe in growth and showing growth so that's the only reason I haven't taken it down. Also because I don't have those old documents so ...

This Fanfic does start off in Prisoner of Azkaban, and will continue on until post Deathly Hallows. So this will be a looooooong running fic! Like 500k+ words, 100+ chapters. This fic will have both, book and movie bits in it. Since this will have a mix of film and book, some bits in the book may appear after pieces of the movie that I use and vice versa. I hope this was to help the story flow be more coherent and less choppy.

There are two OC's that will be pretty frequent in this fanfic: Grace Black, and Helena Prewett. So, while this may be a Harry/OC fic, there is still a bit of Sirius/OC in it, too, for obvious reasons.

There won't be a trigger warning list for this fic since it will follow the books and movies, so you all are already aware of what's in them. However, I will say there are themes of toxic parent relationships, emotional parental abuse, and toxic marriages. While it does have Sirius/OC elements, I will put a disclaimer that it won't be a romance that you may be expecting... at first.

Helena Prewett isn't the best mother, I'm putting that disclaimer out right now. She's emotionally abusive and often puts her daughter second to everyone else and favors her niece and nephews and Harry over Grace. This is reoccurring throughout the story, it's seen, and it's mentioned. A lot of Grace's insecurities stem from how her mother talks to her and treats her, but Grace does have positive parental figures in her aunt and uncle, and Remus, who helped raise her. While we learn about Helena and Sirius' past later in the story and learn why she is the way she is, it doesn't excuse her treatment toward Grace at all. I know that there are parents a lot like Helena out there, my own grandmother was a lot like her to my own mom so it does kind of hit close to home for me too.

I have plans to continue this story on through Post Deathly Hallows. So I will be writing life after the war, up until a certain point. Not sure when.

This Fanfic is crossposted on Wattpad and AO3!

I hope you all enjoy!