Black Cat [ Harry Potter ]

001

[ A Magical Visit. ]
-> prologue

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It was a rainy Saturday afternoon, where all of the children at the orphanage had to stay inside due to this awful weather. Evanna wasn't phased by this: she never got too much fun from going outside to play with the other kids anyway, in fact, she was rather happy that it was raining so that she could curl up on a chair and read her book. She was quite a loner at the orphanage, and she liked it that way. She watched the raindrops fall onto the window, and heard the pounding of the harsh conditions outside. After reading a few chapters of her book, she fell asleep on the chair.
After what seemed like half an hour, she was woken by one of the women who helps at the orphanage.

"Evanna, wake up, you have a visitor who would like to speak to you."

What? Evanna never got any visitors! Her parents are dead and, if she had family she would surely be with them and not here. Maybe it was a family friend, or maybe she was being adopted...
Could it be a doctor? Sometimes she could make weird things happen, like make a flower wilt and then bring it back to life, but she can't control that! And it's nothing of concern, right? Evanna decided to stop wondering about who the visitor could be and chose to find out for herself.

She got up from her cozy chair, sat her book down on the table and went with the woman. She was getting anxious, and all she could do was expect the worst. Evanna saw an old man with long, white hair and kind blue eyes. Evanna had not recognized him before.

"Evanna, this is Albus, and he would like to talk to you for a moment."

Evanna was hesitant. Although the man seemed harmless, she couldn't help feeling nervous. Together they went into a separate room and she sat down on the bed.

"Hello Evanna. I am Professor Dumbledore, and I am the headmaster of a school called Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

Evanna didn't know what to say. Surely this man was mad... Wizards? Although she reads about them in her books, she knows they're just a myth. But there was some hope in Evanna that there actually are wizards, and that maybe she is one... And she can leave this awful place and go to a new reality. All she said to Professor Dumbledore was,

"Wizards? Come again?"

Professor Dumbledore chuckled a bit. Evanna's response seemed to amuse him.

"Yes, wizards. You have done things which you cannot explain, nor can you control, yes?"
Evanna nodded her head.

"Well, Evanna, you are a witch. And not the witches you see in children's stories, with the green skin and warts. A witch, in this sense, is a female version of a wizard. However we do have broomsticks and cauldrons in the wizarding world." Professor Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eye.

Evanna's logical side told her that this man was speaking rubbish, but the fact that he could actually be telling the truth made her heart warm. I could actually be a witch. I could escape, start a new life... Evanna was getting excited.

"I want to believe, I really do... But I think I'm going to need to see proof to be 100% sure, if that's okay with you."

"Oh, yes of course." Replied Professor Dumbledore.

Then, without saying a word, a flower levitated out of a flower vase on a table and onto Evanna's lap. That may not be much to wizards, but to Evanna it was all the proof she needed. She looked down at the flower in awe.

"Wow... so.... will I be attending Hogwarts? And if so, I haven't got the supplies, let alone knowledge needed to attend yet."

"We can take care of that." Dumbledore said with a kind smile.

He handed over a paper which had a list of supplies for the first years attending Hogwarts. Evanna was excited, to others buying robes and obtaining a wand would seem ridiculous, but to her, it seemed amazing.

"I will send a witch to bring you to Diagon Alley in the morning to get your supplies."

"Thank you... this is all so surreal!"

"As I would expect," replied Professor Dumbledore. "Well, goodnight Evanna. I will let the orphanage know you will be attending a 'boarding school'. See, non wizarding folk, or as we call them, muggles, must not know of your magic. I will see you around!"

"Goodbye, Professor Dumbledore, and thank you once again!"

Before he exited through the doorway, he turned to Evanna and said something quite unusual.
"This encounter seems all too familiar to me."

Puzzled, Evanna replied with "I do not understand, familiar how?"

"Well, no need to worry you, this is just a fact: About 50 years ago I visited an orphanage to deliver the message to a young boy that he, too, was a wizard. He later became the most evil wizard of all time. He goes by the name of Voldemort. Luckily, he is defeated. Well, anyway, I expect to see you at Hogwarts for September 1st. Goodbye, Evanna."

Evanna was worried by his statement. What was that supposed to mean? She wondered. She decided not to let it get to her, she assumed that the wizard must have had a bad experience to make him want to do such evil things with his magic. Evanna's bad experiences at the orphanage were not even close to damaging her in such a way to make her want to use her magic in an evil way. She would not abuse her powers, she decided, and use them for the greater good.

"Goodbye, Professor Dumbledore."

Once he left, Evanna checked the time and noticed it was getting late. She fetched her book from the room she was in earlier, and went up to her bedroom. She got ready for bed, and put the list of supplies she needed as a bookmark in her book so she wouldn't lose it. She felt extremely tired, but could not sleep. Instead thoughts kept whirling in her head about what she had learned about herself. "Well, Evanna, you are a witch." She kept repeating that sentence over and over in her head. Eventually, she fell asleep, dreaming about what the magical school called Hogwarts would be like, and began fantasizing about what she would do there. She couldn't wait to see what this year has in store for her, but, boy she could tell it would be crazy. Little did she know, he was right.

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AUTHORS NOTE:
Hello! So this is the beginning of the story!

There will be Harry Potter spoilers in this story!!!

The first few chapters will be filler chapters, as the story starts in her third year.

(Update: they are really long because I put all the important information in one chapter instead of splitting it- shorter chapters begin at 005.)

This will basically be the plot that I came up with in my head whilst reading the books. I have a lot of ideas for this, and I hope you guys like it! Please leave feedback and construction criticism!

-Vee