It is on All Hallow's Eve when a man fights with all he can -it is not much- when a woman screams for her child, for mercy -not my baby, not my Briar- when a child is hit with a radiant emerald stream of light -avada kedavra- when this light backfires and hits the cold blooded male that cast the light towards the child.

The newly orphaned child is a girl. Her name is Briar Rose Dorea Potter - others would say the girl who lived - others, not that soon after two people's death, would call her freak - others, the bane of their existence.

Briar Rose is taken by a giant of a man from her godfather's arms.

He whispers to her, "I'll be back my little Rose. I'll be back. I promise. Justice will be served. I love you. Just a little more time and we'll be together."

He could have never known those would be his last words to her for years to come.

"Pet-Petunia! There's a child on our doorstep! It has a letter! Come quick!"

A horse looking woman follows her husband's voice and sees a child in his grubby arms and a letter in his hand. It's been years since she's seen that seal, but she would never forget it. After all, it's the symbol that signified her and her sister's broken relationship.

She knows exactly who that is, she can see the red messy curls that envelopes the girl's head and the curious green eyes that stare back at her - just like Lily's once did - and she knows what has happened.

One tear fall then another follows. However, they are quickly wiped away, almost like they were never there.

She mourns for her dead sister quietly and quickly.

Briar Rose is five and she dreams of a woman with fiery red hair with freckles to spare and bright expressive green eyes like her own and a lanky man with messy black hair and soft hazel eyes with a smile so radiant that it shone. She also dreams of two men, one which was slightly tanned with scars littering his face and arms with amber eyes with an aura of warmth and other man had hair that was so perfectly kept that she wondered if it was a wig and starry grey eyes that were lit with love and happiness with a laugh like no other.

There are other times - nights where she has been hit and yelled at - when she dreams of blood curdling screams and voices - be safe briar, mommy loves you - avada kedavra - these nights are always the hardest.

Sometimes she wished she knew who these people were, the seemed to care about her like Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon cared for Dudley in moments where it's just them, or so they think.

Thoughts clouded her brain of the possibilities of where they had gone. She discards them quickly.

When she is six, Briar Rose finds out that her name is one that normal people don't use, but she's always known she hasn't been normal. Herguardiansremind her every day of that fact.

It is on her seventh birthday that she makes her hair black, she did not mean to do it, it just happened. All she wanted to do was imagine the hazel eyed man in her dreams. Thankfully no one notices and her hair quickly turns back into its normal crimson shade.

Briar ponders on the events that took place and wondered how she did it. She doesn't try to change her appearance until a month later.

Her cousin and his group of minions - for there was nothing else they could be - were chasing her and she had nowhere to go but the library but in the library, she'd be kicked out. She stopped behind a tree and prayed to whatever god that was listening for help and by chance, her hair turned blonde and her eyes turned blue and she gained two inches of height.

"Have you seen a red headed midget around here?" She turns around and see the group and she wonders why they don't recognize her but she'll chance her luck.

"Yes, I have. She ran the way you were coming from with a limp. If you run fast enough, you might find her." They smile cruelly and give her their thanks and she feels like throwing up. She moves quickly and makes her way to the library.

The door jingles, signifying her entrance and a small brunette woman stares at her and welcomes her with a smile that reminded her of the man with amber eyes.

"Do you need help young one? Perhaps there is a genre of books you wish to read?" Briar stops short for a moment, she is astonished. This is one of the very first choices she could make and she smiled at the lady.

(briar rose hears a voice whisper: mythology. she decides to follow the voice's command for some reason)

"Um, do you have any books on mythology, any kind will do." The librarian's eyes lit up with excitement and she grinned at Briar Rose.

"In fact I do! I believe that this is the start of a lovely friendship!" She grabbed the little girl and ran with her towards the right corner. On the wall laid the word Mythology in a silver color with an emerald outline.

"This has a lot of myths but I think a good place to start would be Norse Mythology and then maybe Greek Mythology. Greek is more popular but I adore Norse a lot more as it's less known and I have a soft spot for underdogs! Wait one second," Rose stood amazed as the women grabbed five thick books from different sections and turned around back to her.

"Here are the basics of Norse Mythology, and you read in the order I stacked them! Oh, I seem to have forgotten my manners, my name is Lucy Lewis! And what's yours little missy?"

"Umm... My name is... Rose Black."

Rose is unsure on exactly why she chose the last name Black but she did know that it sounded familiar and suited her perfectly.

Now Briar never really knew what happened that day but she knew that she had to stay blonde in front of the kind lady or else questions would be asked and those questions would lead to more and would lead to her fake name and the Dursleys, which she did not need.

Lies were easy to make but hard to maintain it seems. Like it was hard for her to stay blonde and have blue eyes and gain height and then go back to her self before going back to the Dursley Residence. It was also hard to maintain her backstory when she got too close with sweet Miss Lucy.

But, they were easy to manipulate -lies, that is - after two years. She liked to believe she was skilled in the art of lying. Not that that was something to be pround of, but unfortunately she was.

There were only a few reasons she became so inspired to be such a great liar, and they all ties in to one person, one god to be precise. Loki, The Norse God of Mischief - and Lies, in some legends - and while he was not a good god like many believed Odin to be, he certainly wasn't the worst and while his actions may be questionble, she liked him all the more.

However enough of that, Rose looks up to see Miss Lucy put down a cuppa on the table near and she thanks her quietly and Miss Lucy moves back to her desk at the front and continues reading a book of lesser known myhthology that Rose gifted her.

She stares at her home - after all the Dursley Residance was not home but a prison - and she smiles contently as she sips on her tea and continues reading.

Briar Rose is cooking and she can faintly hear Aunt Petunia's step and her voice as she walks into Dudley's room and wakes him up with a lullaby. She would have been jealous but she now knows the feeling of happiness due to Lucy. She hums to a song - My Jolly Sailor Bold - and quickly makes the rest of breakfast before her whale of an uncle comes downstairs.

She sets the table and pours the steaming water into the cups Aunt Petunia placed before she had taken from her cupboard and for Dudley pours orange juice. Then she filled their plates with food as she quickly munched on her own. She goes over the week's events.

It had been Dudley's birthday and she was not allowed to stay at Privet Drive alone and she couldn't reveal Rose on accident and Mrs. Figg had broke a limb. So she was taken - albeit grudgingly- to the zoo with them as well as Dudley's friends. She had been minding her own business reading about the World Serpent, Jormungandr, when she heard the hissing voice. She had brushed it off as her imagination as she was known to imagine things she read about.

However the voice only got louder so she closed her book and hid it in her jacket and made her way to the source. It turns out she had heard correctly. Shecouldunderstand what the snake was saying. He spoke of his fondness of his home - one he had never known, but one he dreamed about, this she could understand - and once the conversation had gotten quite interesting, she was pushed aside by one Dudley's friends.

She wished for freedom, so how come the snake couldn't be free, she had thought and not a moment later the glass window vanished into thin air and the two boys were terrified as he hissed goodbye to her and left quite quickly. It made sense that she was punished in the end. She was thrown into her cupboard and had not been allowed to eat or drink anything until now.

Briar Rose sits down with an empty plate and waits for the Dursleys to come downstairs. It is in this moment that she hears the doorbell rang and her uncle hollers fro her to grab the mail. She does - had this been another universe, the Dursleys wouldn't have taken their time upstairs and Briar Rose (Harry) would have the piece of mail that Harry (Briar Rose) never got this early and things go a lot more smoother - and to her surprise there is mail for her.

It reads:

Miss. B. Potter

The Cupboard Under the Stairs

4 Privet Drive

Little Whinging

Surrey

Surely that's wrong. She hides it under her shirt and leaves the rest of the mail next to her uncle's cup.

She was a witch. She had always wondered how she could change her features by will. She was a witch.

Briar clutched at the thick and heavy yellow parchment envelope. She stares at the seal in her hand. It was a royal purple with a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake and she could see an H behind the animals.

So this was why she was treated this way. Really, she should have known. Well, it seemed she had some work to do. After all, how do you successfully hide an entire world full of magicals without having a set of law and a government and possibly much more.

She plans to leave at dawn the next day, leaving a note saying she had to help Lucy with something she had promised months ago. She was sure she would be scolded and possibly hit once she came back so she was going to make the best of the day.

She put on her best clothing, a light blue pencil dress with a white collar and some white stockings and black shoes. It was a gift from Lucy, so of course she would keep it hidden and safe away. She changes her height, hair color, and eye color. She is once again Rose Black.

She looks at the note that was hidden in her envelope and it seems she must travel to London to a bar called the Leaky Cauldron, supposedly only Magicals could see it. It was sure to be an interesting day, that was sure.