The first years were walking into the great hall of Hogwarts for the sorting ceremony. Dawn was too distracted looking around the room to hear the hat singing. She soon saw her former mother sitting at the staff table. She already knew that Lily Potter was the muggle studies teacher but seeing her sitting there without a care in the world truly made her angry. She quickly regained focus when the hat started sorting people.

Hannah went to Hufflepuff, Susan did the same. She wasn't at all surprised to see Daphne sorted into Slytherin. Then her name came up. "LeFay, Dawn." McGonagall called loudly in a commanding voice. As Dawn walked up she saw both Dumbledore and Lily sit up in recognition. She immediately raised her occlumency shields in preparation. All around she heard people whispering as they recognised the last name. The heir to Morgana LeFay has arrived at Hogwarts. As she sat down, and the hat was placed on her head she was surprised to hear a voice.

/Would you mind lowering your shields. Don't worry I won't and can't reveal anything I find in your head. /

/Are you the hat? And if so what is your name? /

/You are the first to ever ask my name, It's Alistair. I know exactly where to place you. /

/Thank you, I'm sure we will meet again in a not so distant future. /

"Ravenclaw." The ravenclaw table exploded in cheers as she joined their table. She missed the calculating look Dumbledore gave her.

After she joined Sue Li was sorted into ravenclaw. She sat down next to Dawn and they focused on the sorting. The next name that they recognised were Malfoy where the hat barely had time to touch the boy before he was sorted to slytherin.

"It's amazing how arrogant an 11-year-old kid can be." Sue whispers to Dawn, who just chuckles and nods.

"I think you will see a more arrogant kid later."

And sure, enough when James Potter Junior was called out you could see the arrogance dripping from him as he walked towards the hat. The hall was silent as they waited for the hat's decision, it seemed to take a surprisingly long time.

"Gryffindor." The hat called out and the Gryffindor table went wild. The Weasley twins stood up, danced and sang "We got Potter, we got Potter." Over and over again. The headmaster stood up and personally congratulated James for having been sorted into Gryffindor, something that's never been done before. He earned the glare of several teachers for that.

Soon the sorting was done with Ron Weasley being sorted in Gryffindor and Blaise in Slytherin. The dinner started, and Dawn talked a lot with Sue and Cho, a second year Ravenclaw.

XXXXX

Lily Potter sat up at the teachers table when the doors opened, and the first years were led through. She truly loved the sorting every year. It reminded her of her own sorting may years ago. Seeing how the kids from wizarding families reacted to the castle they had heard of from their parents and seeing the bright gleam in the eyes of the muggleborn students truly filled her with joy.

This year was extra special for Lily. Just a few hours earlier she had sent her young son of on his own adventure at Hogwarts. She hoped that Jr had an enjoyable time at Hogwarts, and she expected him to end up in Gryffindor together with his friend Ronald Weasley.

Looking over the hall she couldn't help but smile as she saw her son walking down the hall like he fit in there. That was something that Lily had hated when she first began at Hogwarts, she hated not fitted in. That was one of the reasons she had studied so hard during the years at Hogwarts. It was also one of the reasons she rejected James for so long, she felt that a pureblood woman, that she wished she was, wouldn't give in easily. When he-who-must-not-be-named was defeated she was overjoyed being the mother of the saviour of the wizarding world. Her only regret was that her Jr wasn't their firstborn, she blamed herself. Her resentment towards her firstborn grew and soon it turned to hate.

As she looked over the sorting, she saw children from families she fought with and against during the war getting sorted. She was enjoying the sorting up until the moment a name she never expected hearing was called.

"LeFay, Dawn."

She was shocked that the descendant to Morgana would enter Hogwarts, even more shocked that nobody had heard anything about it. After all, wouldn't it be well known if the descendant to one of the most well-known dark ladies of all time was entering Hogwarts.

As she looked over the girl with the raven hair, she couldn't help but feel that she was familiar in some way. It wasn't until she noticed the eyes that she got it. Those were the exact same shade of green that her eyes were. Then she saw the lightening bolt scar on her forehead, and she caught her breath. This was the daughter that she had disowned so many years ago. From the corner of her eyes she saw Dumbledore leaning in towards her.

"I thought you said that the girl died." He whispered to her, trying not to bring the attention of the others in the hall.

"I know the goblins said she managed to survive the ritual, but I have no idea how she has managed to survive this long. We purposefully didn't leave her a guardian." She could hear Dumbledore hum in response. "What I want to know is how she managed to gain the name LeFay?"

"Perhaps we should have a meeting with young Hope together with James. It would raise the Potter name even more if you could gain access to the LeFay vaults." Lily slowly nodded her head in agreement, not seeing anything wrong with that idea. During this time her eyes never left the girl in front of her. She let out a deep breath when the girl didn't end up in Gryffindor.

While she was proud that her son did end up in her old house, she was distracted during the entire evening, something that wasn't missed by the other teachers who wondered why that was. As soon as she could, she would go to her room and make a call to James and figure everything out.

XXXXX

The meal was quite enjoyable according to Dawn, and while she did have to answer quite a few questions she didn't hold it against any of her housemates. If the heir to Merlin was to walk through the doors, she would most likely do the same. One very enjoyable part of the evening for her was when the school got to see what a slob Jr really was. During the meal he often didn't even use any cutlery just ending up using his bare hands shovelling food in his mouth as fast as he could, not bothering to chew or swallow.

As the meal passed Dumbledore warned everybody against going to the third-floor corridor on the left-hand side or suffer a painful death. This was something Dawn and her fellow Ravenclaws found to be stupid given Hogwarts is a school full of teenagers.

"First years, if you would please follow me out the hall." Dawn looked and saw an older girl with long curly blonde hair and blue eyes leaving the hall with the rest of the Ravenclaw first years trailing behind her. When they had exited the hall, the girl turned and looked at the first years.

"Hello, my name is Penelope Clearwater ad I'm the fifth-year female prefect. If you have any questions about anything don't be afraid of asking me or any of our other prefects for help. If you would please follow me, I will guide you to our common room."

She slowly led the first years through the castle giving interesting anecdotes about paintings, or statues when they passed. She also described how to get to the different classrooms for the different classes, knowing full well that nobody would remember that. She also took it upon her to describe the house cup and how the house points worked. It was a group of tired first years that finally reached the entrance to the Ravenclaw tower.

"This is the entrance to our common room, please do not give out the location to the other houses. Every houses' common rooms have their own way to enter. For us we have to answer a riddle given to us by our guardian. Our guardian is this bronze, eagle-shaped door knocker. If you can't answer the riddle you will have to be either let in from the inside or wait for somebody else to attempt a riddle." She turned and used the knocker to knock three times.

The knocker opened its beak and a deep voice rang out.

"Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?" Even Penelope were surprised by the riddle, since she had never had one of this style before. She turned to see if any of the first years knew the answer when a voice called out.

"Stop imagining." Dawn called out. She found the idea of using riddles to enter the common room quite an interesting idea.

The first years followed Penelope in and got a first look at what would be their home for the foreseeable future. They saw that the room was wide and airy with mountain views, bookcases and a domed ceiling painted with stars. There was a big fireplace in the middle of the room and several couches and armchairs around tables everywhere. Dawn's face broke into a wide smile, she would enjoy it here.

Standing on a pile of books and a table in front of the fireplace stood somebody Dawn had heard good things about, but never met before, Filius Flitwick.

"Welcome new students to Hogwarts. An even more welcome to Ravenclaw house. I am your head of house and charms professor Filius Flitwick. We Ravenclaws are known to be academically successful, both in school and later in life. You are expected to uphold that ideal and prosper with your grades. Never be afraid to ask questions, be it to a teacher or an older student. If you don't ask questions you will never learn. I know that Ravenclaws have an image of bookworms that never leave the library and only memorise the school books. I want you to go out in the world and learn from it that way as much as you do from our book collection.

Tomorrow at breakfast you will receive your schedule. It's for your own interest that you learn the routes to your classes as quickly as possible. Now up to bed with you, you have and exciting first day of classes tomorrow. The girl's dorms are up the stairs to the left and the boys to the right. I should warn you boys that there are charms that prevents you from entering the girl dorms. If Dawn LeFay could please stay the rest of you please move on, your things have already been delivered."

Swiftly the students filed up to their dorms leaving Dawn alone with the diminutive professor.

"Greetings duelling master Flitwick. May your enemies fall at your feet." The professor was so shocked that the girl in front of him spoke gobbledegook that he fell of the books he stood on.

"How do you know gobbledegook?" He asks surprise filling his voice.

"How close are your goblin heritage?" Dawn asks in response. Filius narrows his eyes. To asks such a question means that she doesn't want the answer to be known.

"My grandfather was a goblin. He was the uncle to the king of the goblin nation Ragnok. I take my heritage serious and as such, nothing will be mentioned without your permission." Dawn let out a breath of relief.

"I am a friend of the goblin nation and personally knows Ragnok." This probably surprised Filius more than that she speaks gobbledegook.

"How?" Was his simple question.

"When I was five years old, I went through a complete disownment ritual." Flitwick aqtually falls over again. To put a child that young through that was unheard of. "Luckily form me I was only disowned from one half of the family since they didn't know the other had any magical heritage. I was given four choices of family names and I chose probably the least conspicuous."

"May I ask what family you were disowned from?" Filius asks not even registering the part about her having more choices for names. Dawn give a sad chuckle at that question.

"I was born Hope Dorea Potter, the older twin sister of James Charlus Potter Jr." She outright laughs at the expression her teacher now has.

"Well now it's a bit clearer why the headmaster asked me to bring you to him for a meeting right now."

"According to the Hogwarts charter I can ask my head of house to be present between any meeting of the headmaster and me." Dawn says with a twinkle in her eye which causes Flitwick to light up.

"Best be on our way then." Soon after they left the common room Dawn felt two familiar weights on her shoulders, she looked over and saw Flitwick look questioningly at her shoulders. She decided to answer the unasked question.

"These are my bonded familiar ravens, Huginn and Muninn. I let them fly here rather than be stuck in a train for so many hours." The teacher just nodded.

XXXXX

Entering the headmaster's office Dawn was assaulted by the sight of many shining and glimmering gizmos that was scattered around the office. Looking around she saw the portraits of the past headmasters doing a very poor attempt to pretend to sleep. In the corner of the room she saw Alistair on a shelf, she gave the hat a wink, receiving one in return before turning to the gathered people in the room. Behind an ornate desk, sitting on a showy chair of gold was Albus Dumbledore. Next to him on his right stood Minerva McGonagall and Remus Lupin. On his other side stood Lily and James Potter and Sirius Black. In the corner of the room Dawn could see Severus Snape standing looking at her calculatingly.

"While I did tell you, we would be seeing each other soon Alistair, even I didn't realise it would happen this soon." To the surprise of everybody there the sorting hat laughed.

"That you did girl. It's been amusing watching them run around like headless chickens trying to figure you out." Dawn smiled as she sat down on the chair on the opposite side of the desk from Albus.

"To what do I owe the pleasure of this accomplished audience?" Putting on his best grandfatherly act, Albus ignored the question and turned to his charm's professor.

"Thank you for bringing her Flitwick, you may leave." Flitwick and the other heads of houses narrowed their eyes.

"Actually headmaster, I was asked by miss LeFay here to be present at this meeting. As is her right in accordance to the charter. Besides, both the head of Gryffindor and Slytherin are hear, shouldn't I be present then for my own student?" Managing to keep his face neutral Albus turned to the enigmatic girl in front of him.

"Very well then. Now, miss Potter where have you been these last six years?" Dawn looked straight at him before turning and looking at the other occupants in the room. While Lily, James, Sirius and Remus didn't react giving reason to the fact that they knew about this beforehand. McGonagall and Snape on the other hand looked thoroughly confused by that question. Dawn smiled on the inside knowing that Albus accidentally gave that away. Slowly she turned her head towards Lily.

"Shouldn't you answer the question professor Potter?"

"I did not ask Lily, but I asked you miss Potter."

"I'm sorry, but I think you have me confused with somebody else. The only person who can identify as miss Potter is standing next to her if you don't mean young miss Belladonna, in which case I question why I'm here." She could hear Flitwick barely managing to keep in a snort. James, not being known for being level-headed was the first to answer her.

"He is talking to you, stupid child. What are you doing here? And how did you manage to gain a family name after we disowned you?" He screamed at Dawn who barley blinked in response.

"Disownment?" Minerva McGonagall asks not sure what to think anymore. This evening had been very confusing for her. Dawn smiled at her.

"I'm surprised you didn't know. I was born Hope Dorea Potter before I went through a full disownment ritual with the king of the goblin nation as a witness." She never broke her smile but could se both the transfiguration and potions professors physically react in shock.

"I was told you fell sick after that Halloween and later passed away." The old professor manages to get out.

"Well then, may I ask where you have been these past six years, Dawn my girl?" Albus quickly asks, trying to distract his two professors from that revelation.

"Does this have anything to do with school?" She asks, her voice gaining a childish innocence that was quite obvious fake.

"No, it doesn't." He responds through his teeth as his façade almost slips.

"Then I must insist that you use my title Lady LeFay." Dawn says as she grins in a way that reminds the people there of goblins.

"Where have you been these last six years Lady LeFay?"

"A little here, a little there. You know traveling and seeing the world."

"There will be no more of that anymore. As you are legally classified as an orphan I will take over as your magical guardian which will give me control of you finances." He says with as smile as he thinks of all the riches, he can transfer to himself.

"That's where you are wrong chief warlock. As the Potter's didn't assign me a magical guardian, I was in fact emancipated. In order to reverse that you will need the cooperation of every country of the ICW and the goblin nation."

Albus swore silently knowing that he couldn't go down that avenue anymore. "But your parent's have regretted your disownment and want you back in their family." Both James and Lily nods enthusiastically.

"Somehow, I don't believe you, to quote James "My name is James Potter and we are here for the complete disownment of this girl here from the Potter family." That is what he said. It isn't even possible to reverse it, which they knew. I still remember what Lily said when they found out the procedure might kill me. "Good, she doesn't deserve to live trying to upstage my little Junior." You only want my galleons now that you know I have them."

Deathly silence followed that, it wasn't until after a few minutes that Sirius tried a different approach.

"If you were disowned, how come you can go by the name LeFay?" Dawn turned to her former godfather.

"I was disowned from the Potter family, not the Evans. Turns out the Evans was descendant from several families, including LeFay." Seeing her former parents about to speak up she interrupted them. "Did you receive any letter from Gringotts sometime the month after the disownment."

"Yeah, exactly one month afterwards. We just assumed it was conformation letters." Flitwick snickered at that. Dawn responded after seeing the confused looks on everybody's faces.

"You can find out what the goblin nation thinks of you by how quickly you get help and how quick your letters arrive. If they had liked you, you would have gotten those letters either the same day, or the following. Those were letters telling you that you had been cast out from the Evans family. From the day you are cast out you have exactly one month to challenge the action." She stood up and looked at the adults. "If there isn't anything else, I should probably return to my dorm, tomorrow is after all a big day."

Dawn and Flitwick quickly left the room leaving a group of gobsmacked people, and angry Scotswoman, a snickering potions master and a laughing hat.