irony [sirius black x oc]

Prologue

A/N: tw for abuse and neglect - you can skip this part if you want, it is just a bit of Halina's backstory that might be brought up in the story later on :)

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Halina Stone was born with her hair changing in a bright array of colours. Her features switched and changed until they settled, as if decided on how to look, but her hair could not stay the same colour for more than 5 minutes. This gave her muggle parents quite the fright, for obvious reasons, before an old woman came to visit, informing the couple that their child was, not only a metamorphmagus - meaning that she had the ability to change her appearance on command, although it would take some time to control - but she was also a witch, and possessed other magical abilities as well. 

Her parents took it surprisingly well - they cared for her and brought her up in the best way they possibly could. Her hair evolved so that it only changed based on her moods, and she was working on changing her features (despite her mother's constant reassurance that she was beautiful the way she was). 

On Halina's 9th birthday, her mother was murdered by a group of men in dark cloaks, seemingly wizards. This led her father to believe that her kind were wrong - evil some would say. While Halina's mother had been kind and full of love, her father was quick to anger and struggled to cope. He started drinking and smoking - Halina barely ever saw her father sober.

And to make things worse, he hated Halina with all of his body. She was a constant reminder of his wife, and how she died, so he turned to violence. It started off small - Halina was ten the first time he hit her. Eleven the first time he threw a beer bottle at her. You get the idea.

She was too young to understand why he was angry - too young to see it wasn't her fault. She felt like she deserved everything he did to her.

But when her letter arrived, inviting her to go to Hogwarts, she was happier than she had ever been in her life. She could get away from him.