This story was originally posted under the pen name "Serena Black-Lupin-Snape." I deleted it due to extreme continuity errors. I'm re-posting it here because I'm bored with maintaining two pen names.

Chapter 1

Serena Black-Lupin was not your average witch. She could do wandless magic, she was a Metamorphmagus, and being half werewolf, she had werewolf-sharp senses all the time but didn't lose control during a full moon. In other words, she was half a werewolf all the time instead of 100 werewolf only doing the full moon. That is to say, she wasn't completely like a werewolf. Nor was she completely like a witch. Instead she was like a witch that was part werewolf. Or, to put it another way, a half-werewolf witch. Or rather, a witch who had werewolf senses.

Her father, a true werewolf, had been unable to care for her because, being a vicious man-eater one night a month, he was unable to find regular employment. Also, he might have eaten her. So when Serena was a newborn, she had been sent to live with relatives in America.

American werewolves, or "skinwalkers," were pretty well organized in America, but her foster-parents refused to let her associate with them, going so far as to block her from visiting their websites. They also made her sleep in the kitchen hearth.

Serena didn't know anything about her mother, other than that her name must have been Black, but assumed that she was either dead or in Azkaban Prison. Her foster parents refused to discuss it, and the rare letters from her itinerant father never broached the subject either. Serena was curious, but sure that she would discover everything when she went to Hogwarts.

For Serena, who had attended the Salem Witches' Institute from the age of eleven, had indeed been accepted at Hogwarts. Her father had written to say that he now had a semi-permanent residence, and Serena had immediately written to the headmaster of Hogwarts and asked if she could transfer there for her fifth year. The headmaster, probably under the impression that Serena had her father's permission, accepted her, and without further rationalization Serena Apparated to England and materialized on the street in front of number twelve, Grimmauld Place.