Do you regret forgetting me yet?

Cursed with Lily's eyes - 3

When James first saw his daughter's emerald eyes more beautiful than her mothers, he loved the sight of them. However after his Lilyflower's death, they were merely a reminder of his dead love whom he would never again be able to hold in his arms. As hard as he tried, his heart grew colder and colder towards his daughter as he notices a few more similarities they share. She has the same soft, heart face shape and slight almond eye shape. He can barely stand the sight of her as his heart cries out for his wife and leaves his daughter in the house elves's hands. With her first godfather dead, and the Potters having been too busy going into hiding to tell Snivellous of his godfather status, Iris had no one left to protect her. No one other than Dumbledore, Sirius, and Remus were still aware of her existence but Sirius had thrown himself into work and Remus left the country so she was alone and that was the way the manipulative headmaster wanted it.

Iris grew up as a lonely little girl but the house elves worked diligently to teach her correct English and proper manners as they knew it was what Lily would have wanted. Iris knew all of the elves names and loved them all like family as her actual family did not. She took to hiding in the library and spied on her big brother occasionally during his special training. The man who taught him was technically her father but she no longer considered him one. On rare occasions that she left her room willingly and was caught by him, he would snap at the very sight of her and slap her or drag her by the hair back to her room in the attic.

Unlike her, Ivan was spoiled with every little thing he could ever wish for and began to hate her too. Learning from watching his father's actions towards her, he would claim she had stolen his stuff whenever he lost or broke it. It wasn't a big deal whenever something was broken or misplaced as it could easily be replaced but Iris was cursed in her father's mind. His grief over the years lead him to concluding that it was her fault her mother was dead. He who shall not be named had been after her brother only and yet her mother had protected them both. His mind had twisted this fact as his son had defeated the crazed man and believed that Lily was only dead due to protecting his female spawn. This wasn't true but as He who shall not be named was gone, he needed someone else to blame. Him drinking fire whiskey more often didn't help his mental state either.

To avoid being hurt or blamed for one thing or another, Iris did her best to maintain her accidental magic and began using wandless magic as she was unable to ever borrow her brothers training wand without punishment. It was her hope that if she could train herself to be powerful like her brother, that maybe then her father would accept and love her too. She secretly knew this to not be true but she didn't want to believe it. However she learned the hard way that her emotions make her magic go wild. It was her and Ivan's ninth birthday and her father had thrown a party just for Ivan and just about half the political and powerful wizarding world. Iris watched silently from the top of the stairs listening to her sperm donor loudly brag about his son's magical skill.

Iris felt her anger and hurt build as James brings up times his son had used accidental magic when it was really her. She worried as her magic trembled from her overflow of emotions and tried her best to burry it back down. Her eyes water as she watches her brother open present after present and glared at the icing on his cake. It clearly spelled out Happy birthday Ivan! but it was her birthday too! An explosion sounds and something sticky hits her face. Horror fills Iris as she realizes what her magic did! She had just blown up her brother's cake and James was glaring at her.

The wizard shouts her name as she turns to run, cutting off Molly Weasley's scolding as she had assumed it had been her twins doing. A hush fell over the crowd as James stormed upstairs and many wonder why the small girl was isolated from the group. Fearing the child's safety as James Potter's anger was legendary, several dark families attempt to stay behind to check on the little girl. Unfortunately, Dumbledore stuck his abnormally long nose in business that wasn't his and insisted everyone go home. Not wanting to cause more problems for the child, they left wearily and cursed James Potter in their heads. But word of the event spread and soon a gossip loving journalist heard what happened and shared the news with all her lovely readers.

Mysterious possible twin potter heiress?

As everyone knows, Ivan Potter, our World's savior, just turned nine years old and many of you were invited to his birthday party. What some of you may not know of, is the mysterious little girl suspected of exploding Ivan's birthday cake. Ivan has been said to have fallen into a fit and was very upset which is understandable but James Potter yelled out the name Iris towards the steps leading to the second floor. Eye witnesses claim to have watched a small girl flee from the stairs and were forced to return to their homes by Dumbledore and fear for the girl's safety. Now I am well aware how serious this accusation is but I heard this from several families and everyone knows how dangerous James Potter can be when angered. Some even say he is even more ruthless than Auror Mad Eye Moody when it comes to catching Death Eaters. While I assume this girl's name to be Iris Potter, if she isn't then what was she doing at the house and why did James know her? Until I learn more,
~ Rita Skeeter

   Needless to say, James was far from happy when the article was delivered onto the kitchen table the next morning. Iris shook at the Potter matron yelled for her, her body still not even close to recovering from the hits she received the day before. She winced as she moved as quickly as possible down stairs and smiled sadly as her favorite elf, Missy, watched her worried. Iris made sure to keep her eyes downward towards her shoes as her father always snaps at the sight of her eyes and waits patiently for the yelling to continue. A few hits are thrown as James's anger continues to build and Ivan even comes downstairs and begins to eat breakfast and watch. Eventually James calms down a bit and yells at Iris to get out of his sight. Missy runs to help her mistress after commanded to make sure Iris doesn't leave her room for the next month.

With a snap of her fingers, Missy pops into Iris's attic excuse of a room and cleans up her wounds. James is a nasty master while Iris is sweet and gentle. She dutifully delivers meals to Iris three times a day and takes pity on the girl she helped raise and brings Iris any books she requests from the library. Thanks to Missy, the days don't drag by too slowly for Iris and the month was almost over when her father only in name decides to grace her with his presence. He only does this when in a particularly foul mood and drunk and he seemed to be a bit of both by the smell of it. It was late at night and she knew Ivan was in bed to see her father so wasted as he didn't want his beloved son to see him like this. Unaware of her nasty master in the room of her mistress, Missy pops in with a plate of cookies and a few books.

James began yelling at Iris for being ungrateful towards him feeding her and clothing her and yet demanding books from his library. The man never read but that didn't matter as only his Lily flower read and now she was dead. The spawn she had died for didn't deserve to read and didn't deserve the food the elf had just brought her either. In a drunken fit of rage, he pointed his wand at Missy and threw cutting hexes at her. He hit her and kicked her as punishment for spoiling the little rat and left Missy shivering in a small puddle of her own blood. James looked his daughter in the eyes and said, "She was punished because of you. Clean up this mess you made and think about how my Lily flower is dead because of you... she shouldn't have been the one to die..." Iris cried harder than she ever had before as she called for another elf to come heal Missy and used the only things she had to clean up the blood, her tears and one of the only shirts she still owned.