I'm back, it's been a little over a week and I'm feeling a lot better than I have been. I'm not sobbing a bit everyday and I'm not randomly tearing up. I got bored and had nothing else to do so I decided to write the next chapters. Before we get into the reviews from the last actual chapter I want to say this, I'm going to be saying it in each story as well.

I want to thank you all for your kind words and support. Thank you to everyone who sent in a review, whether it be here, on AO3, or wattpad, thank you to the few who sent me privet messages, I wasn't expecting that and made sure to respond.

I wasn't expecting so many people to show their support for me taking a break. It's been a little over a week since everything happened at the time I'm rewriting this and I want to let you all know I'm feeling better. All of your support helped, it helped me know I wasn't alone and that there was no need to rush while dealing with grief.

Thank you, every single one of you, for your continued support. Normally, the people who review are pretty constant, but I saw so many new names coming out of the woodwork to support me and I can not tell you what that meant to me.

Once again, thank you all so much your support has helped me so much in this last week.

Now, let's stop these waterworks and get into the reviews from the last actual chapter, shall we?

skylorbaker14 chapter 48. Nov 23, 2023

Oh sh#t, now I wonder what other madman used those things to stay alive

Me: Probably ancient Egyptians.

Irina Akashira chapter 48 . Dec 6, 2023

Hi

I found your story yesterday and just finished to read

I like it and I would like to read till you finish , it has some points I don't consider credible. Maybe you can explain them or they were mistakes

- I wasn't sure at first, but for the actions of the MC's friends in cristmas chapter, it is clear they know the MC is a girl

Do you think it was a good idea reveal everything them? Most of them likely know or deduced that Dumb cans read minds or using some trick to discover secrets. It was risky

- About Hermione, she should have declared that the Headmaster convinced him that "Harry" has to be monitored, and WHO doubts of great merlin 2.0? As long she knows she was doing no ilegal thing, even less if she didn't know that paid money was stolen of "Harry" vault. Plus the distrust potion. I am quite convinced to the test would can be used for a legal defense

Me: Firstly, I'm glad you like my story.

She told her friends she was a girl when she came back from the time chamber in Gringotts, as long as they never looked Dumbledore or Snape in the eyes then they were safe.

And I don't think Hermione's in a position to do that right now, I mean she was arrested for cursing her dad not because of what Dumbledore had her do.

Onto the story

Adriane stared at her uncle in surprise for a few seconds after he dropped the information that it wasn't Albus Dumbledore who hurt him, instead it was Voldemort.

She rubbed her eyes as she spoke, "I'm going to be honest, I've been so worried about Dumbledore that I forgot Voldemort did awful things to my family too."

It was clear Jack was confused, "What did Dumbledore do to our family? Last I knew, the Potter family was close with the headmaster?"

Sirius gave Jack a bitter smile, "You've missed a lot kite, it turns out that Dumbledore isn't who we thought he was."

Jack frowned, looking concerned, "I need to hear this story, that can be done tonight though, I wanna know where James and Lily are, I haven't seen them at all-" He stopped talking when he saw the stricken looks on both Sirius and Adriane's faces. "Why do you two look like that? What happened to James and Lily?"

Jack was concerned when his niece hugged him tightly, looking up at Sirius as he rubbed her back he asked in a soft voice what happened to his brother.

Sirius sat down and stared into Jack's eyes, "I'm so sorry Jack, James and Lily, they were killed years ago."

Jack's eyes started filling with tears, "What?" Sirius and Adriane could hear the anguish in his voice.

Sirius put a hand on his shoulder, hating that he was the one who had to break the news to Jack, Remus and Lily had always been better at comforting others than him, James, or Jack. Lily and Remus weren't here though, Lily was dead and it was highly likely that Remus had betrayed Sirius and his goddaughter for the headmaster.

Sirius was the only one here who could tell Jack what happened, he would never make Adriane tell him. She had gone through so much already, this was the least he could do for her.

So if him telling and helping to comfort Jack would help lessen her load then he would willingly do so.

"On the halloween after Adriane's first birthday Voldemort found them, he killed James and Lily before trying to kill Adriane-" Jack cried out in horror as his grip on his niece tightened.

He kept reminding himself that Adriane was right here, in his arms but it was hard hearing that the monster who had hurt him tried to kill his niece and succeeded in killing his brother and his sister-in-law.

How had he not learned of this before now? Adriane was almost fifteen, which means a little less than fourteen years have passed since James's and Lily's deaths. He should have heard something about it, he should have gotten an owl to come in for their will reading at the least.

Unless something happened to the owl or the will? Maybe his family believed he was dead and took him out of the will, that would explain not getting a summons to the reading at least.

"Shh, hey Kite it's okay, she's alive and right here, something went wrong when he tried killing her and his curse turned around and hit himself instead." Sirius squeezed Jack's shoulder to try and ground him, not realizing that part of his distress came from not knowing his brother had been dead for almost fourteen years.

Jack looked at Sirius in surprise when what he just said caught up to him, "I'm sorry what? What curse did he use?" It couldn't be the killing curse, there was no way to defend against a curse like that.

His niece mumbled something that he couldn't catch, looking down at her he spoke softly, "What was that Adriane?"

Adriane lifted her head and scooted away from him slightly, she was still sitting next to him but now there was some space between them. She stared at the floor as she spoke up so her uncle could hear her. "The killing curse, he used the killing curse."

Jack's eyes widened, "How are you alive if that's what he used? There's no way to protect yourself from that curse besides dodging or summoning something in front of you to take the hit for you."

Adriane glanced at him between her bangs, "I'm not sure, no one is, the curse hit me but then it rebounded and shot at Voldemort and hit him instead destroying his body."

Her uncle's jaw dropped, "He's dead?"

"It's complicated, right now he's dead but back then he didn't die, he was just disembodied thanks to the Horcruxes he had made, I figured out what he did this last year and managed to destroy each one he had."

"You? Why did it have to be you?" Jack asked, he was feeling a bit of dread that his niece's life hadn't been the way James and Lily would have wanted it to be.

Adriane scoffed in response, crossing her arms, and leaned back into the loveseat she and her uncle were sitting on, "Most adults in my life were useless, they never did anything when children were in danger before and I didn't know what Dumbledore would have done if he found out what I knew."

Jack looked at Sirius in concern once again, he was baffled as well, what the fuck had the headmaster done to warrant this suspicion?

"So Voldemort's still alive?" Jack was confused when Adriane smirked and shook her head, "What do you mean, just because his Horcruxes were destroyed doesn't mean he can't still be alive if he's possessing something."

Adriane spoke confidently, "I mean he's dead, I killed him not too long ago. He used a ritual to come back to life and I killed him. Strange thing though, when he died all the marked death eaters died with him."

Jack nodded, "Of course, they died with him, the dark mark was supposed to connect his death eaters' lives to him so he could pull on their life force to keep himself alive."

Adriane sat up straight with wide eyes, "Wait, what do you mean?"

"I explained this to Dumbledore when I found out, did he not tell anyone?" Jack frowned as he rubbed at his chin, "This wasn't long before Voldemort kidnapped me, in fact it might actually be why he kidnapped me now that I think about it."

Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, Jack continued, "I learned that the Dark Marks weren't just to identify each other as a death eater or just to allow Voldemort to summon them whenever, they were latched onto a person's life essence, their soul. This means that Voldemort was using his followers' souls to make himself immortal through the dark mark."

Adriane frowned, "But what about the Horcruxes, and why did they all die when he did instead of Voldemort surviving?"

Jack noticed Sirius sitting down in a chair next to the loveseat, Sirius looked, well, serious for once.

"He most likely made the Horcruxes first and then realized that they don't make a person live forever, they give you a longer life if a person is killed before their time is up, judged through how much life essence they have they return as a wrath, a ritual then has to be done to give them a body back."

"Voldemort probably realized this and decided to use the dark mark to siphon off his followers life essence slowly, this way he would never run out and if killed could be brought back over and over again forever."

Jack smirked, "However, he made a mistake. This plan works when the Horcruxes are around but if they are destroyed then that's where the plan falls apart, how did you kill him?"

Adriane looked away, "I uh, I cut his head off." She didn't want to explain about her powers right now, she was sure he wasn't like the Dursley's but she didn't want to risk him finding out what she could do and becoming scared of her.

Jack decided not to mention her not looking at him when telling him, deciding she could tell him what was bothering her about it another time. Honestly, he was assuming that it had something to do with the fact she killed someone and indirectly caused so many others to die as well.

It didn't matter if those were awful men, she was still responsible for them dying and that had to take a toll on someone's mental health. He vowed to be there for her but was going to let her make the first move, she just met him. It would be wrong for him to try and butt in like that so soon.

"Then without the Horcruxes to let him come back as a wraith he would automatically try to drain his followers' life essence to let him live, but with his head being cut off all that would do would kill all of his followers and end with him dying anyways."

Adriane was surprised but also slightly relieved, "So there's no chance any of them would have survived?"

Jack shook his head, "No, some might have been left with enough to return as a ghost but none would have had enough to continue living."

Sirius clapped his hands and stood up, "Alright, that's enough heavy talk for now, how about we tell Adriane some stories of her parents Kite?"

Before Jack could respond, Adriane spoke up, "Sirius, why do you call him Kite?"

It was clear she had been wondering about this for a decent amount of time, probably since Sirius first called him kite that day. She must have only just got comfortable enough to ask about it.

"Well, you know how me, your father, and the traitor all became animagus for Remus?"

Adriane nodded before her eyes widened in excitement, "Wait, Uncle Jack are you an animagus too?"

Jack laughed, it felt nice to talk about such a light-hearted topic after the heavy subject the three had just finished talking about.

"Yes, I'm an animagus too sweetie," Jack smiled softly at his niece, maybe He and Sirius could teach Adriane how to transform one day.

Adriane looked excited, "What are you, can you show me your form?"

Jack laughed before standing up and triggered his animagus form, god, he hadn't used it in so long. The last time he used it was before he had been caught by Voldemort.

He couldn't use it to escape because he woke up in a dark room with no windows or ways to squeeze out, not that his form was small enough to squeeze out of small areas.

Within moments where Jack had stood now rested a medium-large bird that Adriane recognized as a red kite. She looked so excited when she realized her uncle was a bird and could fly with her in his bird form.

~OMAKE 1~

Batman stared up at Arkham Asylum with a blank face, he couldn't believe he was about to do this but the look on the Joker's face was something he couldn't pass up.

After alerting the front office that he was there to see the Joker he was brought to one of the visitor rooms and stood in the corner to wait. It didn't take long for the guards to come back with a chained-up Joker. They shoved the clown into one of the chairs and Batman walked over and took the other before gesturing to the guards that they could leave.

The guards didn't hesitate and left right away, if you couldn't trust Batman to not help the Joker escape then you couldn't trust anyone.

"Ah batsy, you've finally come to visit. I must admit I was feeling lonely-why are you bringing out a bottle of wine and glasses?" Joker stared at the Bat a bit caught off guard as he proceeded to pour two glasses of wine.

Soon enough he started laughing, "Oh Batsy, while you may be attractive I must admit I did not know you felt this way about me~," The Joker purred before laughing again at the disgust on Batman's face.

"This is not a date Joker," Batman growled.

"Aww but why not Batsy~" The Joker purred back.

Batman groaned, "I should have known this was an awful idea."

Joker just laughed at the bat's growing discomfort, if he had known flirting with him would cause this then he would have done it sooner. For the first time in a long time, Jack was the one in control, he was sure that if he tried to do anything against what the dark magic in him wanted that would change though.

So for now he was going to take advantage of this and flirt with the Bat.

"I recently found out that we are. . . related through marriage," Batman growled, fully uncomfortable and unnerved. What was the Joker's plan here, why was he flirting with him and why the hell was he acting so differently, saner if you could call him sane?

The Joker paused before looking at Batman baffled, "Excuse me?"

Batman sighed, "You're brother James Potter married my very distant cousin Lily Evens, though they are both dead-" Batman tensed when the Joker tried shooting to his feet looking furious.

"THEY'RE WHAT? WHEN THE FUCK DID THEY DIE?"

Oh, so the Joker wasn't aware his brother and sister-in-law were dead, Batman had assumed he knew.

Shit, he had to deal with this now.