Spellbind

Niyla Black Lupin

Name: n-ie-luh ('ie' - ex. Ice, type, lie; long "i")

Character Traits:

Birthday: November 5, 1979

Skin: Light

Eyes: Human- Gray / Wolf- Yellow

Hair: Silver-Gold (Charmed - Light-Brown)

House: Slytherin

Patronus: Dire Wolf

Wand: Dragon Heartstring

Family Owl: Lux; a Great Horned Owl

Maledictus-Like Ability (but not considered a Maledictus by the Ministry): Dire Wolf

Goblet Of Fire: 15-16 y/o

Family: Daughter of Sirius Black. Adoptive daughter of Remus Lupin.

[About Character]

Niyla Black Lupin, known to everyone - besides Remus Lupin, Harry Potter, the Weasley family, Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore, Rubeus Hagrid, Minerva McGonagall, and some deceased and alive members of the Order Of The Phoenix - as Niyla Lupin. She is the clandestine child of Sirius Black and the adoptive daughter of Remus Lupin.

After the Daily Prophet published the confirmed deaths of the Potters and Sirius Black was imprisoned, Lupin eventually took custody of the almost two-year-old.

With the controversy of cursed blood and having been the child of a murderer, the people of the Order wanted nothing to do with Niyla. And so after careful consideration, Albus Dumbledore convinced Remus Lupin to adopt her, all while keeping her origins a secret.

In the years of raising his adoptive daughter, Remus grew to be very protective of Niyla, keeping her from attending Hogwarts for a year before Dumbledore convinced him it would be best for Niyla to learn magic at Hogwarts instead of being homeschooled. Subsequently, Niyla would start Hogwarts a year older than her classmates, such as Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. - Every dangerous incident and adventure Harry faced, Niyla was nearly always there with him.

Niyla was well informed about Harry Potter and who his parents were. - Through her father Remus. So when the time came that she would meet Harry Potter, she knew she would want to befriend him and when the time was right she would tell him about their fathers' friendship. Later, they had a falling out with each other, when they found out (in The Prisoner of Azkaban) that Sirius Black killed Harry Potter's parents and Niyla was biologically his daughter. But by the end of that book/movie, they would of course learn the truth.

In The Prisoner of Azkaban, Niyla turns fifteen and unintentionally starts thinking more of boys. - As all teenagers eventually do. And as it always happens at Hogwarts, rumors spread at some point, that Niyla has liked a particular red-head for a while. After it was inevitably confirmed she had a thing for a boy two years above her own. The boy and his charismatic-mischievous twin brother would often tease her in a friendly manner. That was until they learned who her real father was and that she was just a year younger than they were. Like their younger brother - who was a close friend of hers - they continued to be her friend, but were more serious and projected stern platonic feelings toward her, so as not to screw up their friendship with her.

Niyla's friendships with the twins, Ron, and Harry, went stale over the summer before her fourth year at Hogwarts. She found a bit of solace elsewhere, with a person from her House.

[Other Details About The Story]

Because Niyla is a year older than her classmates, Professor Dumbledore made an exception for her to take the O.W.L.'s exams with the fifth years at the end of her fourth year. But being that it was the year of the Triwizard Tournament and already having mandatory electives on her schedule, Dumbledore insisted that she only study to get an O.W.L for one subject. He allowed her to choose the subject and after a lengthy consideration, she decided she would take the time to study Potions with Severus Snape. A class that she found simple enough in the past years. So, after permission from Dumbledore, Niyla would be able to attend Professor Snape's Advanced Potions class in her fourth year; though this class would be filled with students who had failed their O.W.Ls the previous year. - A class filled with sixth years restudying material to retake their O.W.Ls.

Thought to be inherited by her mother, Niyla can transform into a Dire Wolf, but is not considered a Maledictus by the Ministry of Magic. Unlike a Maledictus, Niyla's ability to transform into an animal poses no threat to her human mind. And as if a kind of occlumency was placed on her, no mind could penetrate Niyla's thoughts as long as she was in her wolf form. Niyla was not a particularly skilled Occlumens, so assumed the shield-like ability on her wolf mind was a power that was tethered to her Dire Wolf form. - No skilled Legilimens is powerful enough to see her memories in her wolf form. However, this would not apply to her human form.

In this story, students sixteen years of age and older can enter to be a Champion in the Triwizard Tournament. Also, at the start of this school year, Harry Potter and Niyla B. Lupin have long been informed of the prophecy predicted by Professor Trelawney. -

"...Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies...and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..." - Sybill Trelawney's prophecy to Albus Dumbledore

But as Dumbledore told Harry his first year, after stopping Professor Quirrell and Voldemort from killing him; in the dungeons below Hogwarts:

"While you may only have delayed his return to power, it will merely take someone else who is prepared to fight what seems like a losing battle next time - and if he is delayed again, and again, why he may never return to power."

Harry was not fazed by the prediction, but rather felt he would try over and over to attempt to delay Voldemort... Even if it should, in fact, one day kill Harry.