LACERTA

Hadriana Cassia Malfoy was happy with her life.

To begin with, she finally had a brother and family that cared. She experienced love and unconditional acceptance each day of her life since her mother discovered her state of living. It was more of survival than living.

To her family, Adriana was the light they needed, the little ray of hope to make their lives better.

Having been abandoned and left for dead by your birth family did not really assist an individual's mental health.

As far as anyone was aware Hadriana, please call me Adria, Malfoy, was the least seen witch in existence. Speculations were made, but we'll look into that later.

On the other side of matters, the Potters were under a crisis larger than just broken brooms. With their children having finally discovered their lost sibling's abandonment and in an act of rebellion decided to pull a Sirius over to Sirius, unsurprisingly.

What a scandal.

So now the boy-who-lived, who isn't even positive if he really is the boy-who-lived, has to try and overcome yet another year in Hogwarts living with the revelation of a lost and possibly dead sibling while comforting his younger brother. Not forgetting the pressure that the too hyphenated name carried, everyone wants to be friends with Hadrian Potter after all.

With meddling old coots, deluded fellows, snooping reporters, enraged uncles, disapproving parents, mischievous acquaintances and unexpected changes; the year was most certainly set for doom.

To the students, that is, McGonagall was surely enjoying the show. If she assisted now and then, no one had to know.