The Murderer's Daughter

Chapter One

Most know the story of Harry Potter, the boy who lived. But most don't know the story of his godsister: Athena Black. The daughter of 'notorious mass murderer' Sirius Black. When he was taken to Askaban for a crime he didn't commit, Athena and her mother Serenity went into hiding. They had a quiet life, getting a letter from Sirius every once in a while, and sending one in return. They lived in the muggle world hiding out near Harry in Little Whinging, Surrey. Athena and Harry went to the same primary school, growing up together like they should've. When Athena and Harry got their letters, the Dursley's overreacted taking him far away until Hagrid brought Athena and Serenity to collect him. Everyone knows what happened next they went to Diagon Alley and got all of their required stuff ready for Hogwarts. Harry's wand was 11 inches long, made of Holly wood with a Pheonix feather core, one that is twinned with the wand of Lord Voldemort. Athena's wand was 12 3/4 inches, made of Spruce wood with a Dragon Heartstring core, ironically twinned with the wand of her evil relative, famous Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange.

After getting their Hogwarts required items, Hagrid took Athena, Harry and Serenity to King's Cross station. The large and often emotional half giant turned to the three smaller magical beings and said "This is where is leave you three, here's your tickets" he handed the two 11 year olds a ticket each. "Dumbledore will be wanting his uhh" Hagrid said searching for the right words and tapping the small package in his chest pocket . " he'll uhh he'll be wanting to see me". Looking down at the tickets confused the children spoke together "Platform nine and three quarters? But there's no such thing. Is there?" Seeing that Hagrid had somehow disappeared the children looked to Serenity Black for guidance. Serenity sighed looking at her daughter and godson taking their tickets she put on her glasses.  "If I remember correctly, we get to the Platform by running between nine and ten." She glanced down at the kids who were staring at her in horror. "Let's just go down and see if there is anyone else heading to the platform, bare in mind it has been 13 years since I last had to go to this platform " she reminded the children softly.

On the platforms the three were running around trying to check if Serenity was right. Harry asked a worker at the station only to be laughed at and shooed away. After which they saw a large family consisting of a mother, four boys all varying in ages and a young girl. All of them had bright carrot orange hair. The three approached the large family, Harry started asking the mother how to get onto the platform before Serenity interrupted him. "Molly Weasley?" she asked slow and unsure. "Serenity Black?" Mrs Weasley asked excited but scared, they stared at each other for a few more seconds before embracing each other in a warm and fond hug showing that the two hadn't seen each other in years. After a few minutes the two mothers separated and Serenity asked Molly for help getting onto the platform. Of course she accepted and helped the three get onto platform nine and three quarters. The children put their belongings on the train and said goodbye to their families.

On the train Harry and Athena sat in their own compartment they were lost in discussion about how thankful they were for an escape from Surrey. Their discussion was interrupted by a light knock on the compartment door. Looking up they saw one of the Weasley boys. " Do you mind if I join you, everywhere else is full?" The boy looked scared and hopeful, Harry nodded and the boy entered the compartment closing the door behind him. Sitting down the boy still looked nervous. Athena and Harry looked at each other seeming as if they could each other read each others minds. Athena spoke up "My name is Athena, what's yours?" they boy looked up grateful. " I'm Ron, Ron Weasley what's your name?" he said looking at Harry. " Oh I'm Harry, Harry Potter" Ron looks up in shock while Athena sniggers slightly. "Do you have the uhh" he looked around his voice then becoming a whisper "the scar?" Harry nodded and lifted the fringe of his hair exposing his forehead and lighting shaped scar across it. "Wicked" Ron whispered in wonder.

Ron was interrupted half way through trying to show the other two a spell by a hasty knock on their compartment door. Looking up they saw a girl dressed in black robes with frizzy, thoroughly brushed brown hair. Without waiting for allowance the girl opened the compartment door and put her head through she said abruptly "Has anyone seen a toad? A boy named Neville lost it." she spoke while rolling her eyes as the three shook their heads lightly. The girl then noticed the wand in Ron's hand and perked up asking "Oh are you doing magic? Let's see then." Suddenly Ron became slightly smug and cleared his throat before attempting to cast "Sunshine, daises, butter mellow. Turn this stupid fat rat yellow" he touched his wand to the rat. Light emitted but then nothing happened. Looking disappointed Ron's shoulders began to slump. The girl then spoke up "Are you sure that's a real spell? Well it's not very good is it?" Athena and Harry then looked at each other showing they were starting to become very annoyed with her. Not taking the silence hint the girl then walked into the compartment saying "I've only tried a few simple ones myself, but they've all worked for me" the girl then pulled out her wand and sat across from an alarmed Harry and spoke up again "For example, " she said while pointing her wand at Harry's dusty and broken glasses "Occulus Reparo" she cast fixing Harry's glasses. He took them off to examine them and then passed them to Athena who examined them as well. The girl somehow then became more smug as Athena gave Harry his glasses back "That's better now isn't it" she then paused before exclaiming "Holy Cricket! You're Harry Potter!" she paused again and then introduced herself "I'm Hermione Granger" Hermione then gave Ron and Athena a not so pleasant look before asking for an introduction from them. Ron and Athena both introduced themselves quite coldly before Hermione spoke again "Pleasure, you three better change into your robes. We'll be arriving soon" she informed them starting to leave the compartment before informing Ron he had dirt on his nose then turning and walking away.