Disclaimers:

AN: Date: 29/02/2020, This is my first story ever on any kind of platform, so errors will be made, either in flow of story, grammar or format, so please be patient. Due to the same reason this story will not be too long (I would pleasantly surprised if it reaches 100K words). I've almost completed my plot and will start writing up with gusto soon. This first chapter was written almost a year ago and I published it without editing it first (sorry to those who saw that catastrophic piece). It's edited now and I might add content to it before next chapter. See you guys soon.

Update 19/04/2020: This story is now also posted on ao3. For the time being the content is same. Later on that might change depending on how much the FF allows me to post here.

This story will contain Lemons, scenes of torture and gore, non-con etc etc. If that's not your cup of tea, I suggest you don't go any further.

I don't own HP and its world and I'm not making any monetary income from this work.

Helen lilian potter

It was Halloween night and children were running around going from door to door trick-or-treating. They ran across the cobbled road, seemingly ignoring the lone dark clad figure standing there in the middle of the street. In reality though they hadn't even detected the presence of the figure because of the notice-me-not charms applied over the dark cloak. If the children had seen what was under the hood of the cloak, they would have had a real fright because of the terrifying face under it. The face was serpentine with slits for nose and glowing red eyes and pale white skin. This was the face which had the people of wizarding world run in terror. They were so afraid that the name associated with this face was never uttered. This was the face of Lord Voldemort or as most of the world called him He-who-must-not-be-named or you-know-who.

Lord Voldemort was feeling exhilarated as he looked towards a cottage hidden from the rest of the world. The cottage was hidden by the ultimate secrecy charm, the fidelius. Only the secret keeper could reveal the secret hidden by fidelius. And his quarry had chosen his hidden 'rat' to be their secret-keeper. He had laughed manically when he had learned that bit of news from his follower.

Through the front window a happy family could be seen inside consisting of a couple and a child. The man was of average height and had wild dark hair and round glasses and was sitting on a couch making faces at the child in the woman's arms. The woman was taller than average at about the same height as that of the man and had slim figure. She had long red hair and brilliant green eyes which he could see even from distance. She was a beautiful specimen, no wonder one of his followers wanted her. The child was a one year old girl with dark hair and same eyes as her mother's and was laughing at her father's antics. It was this girl that he was here to... see. It was this girl that was mentioned in a prophecy about him. About his downfall. Something he couldn't allow to happen.

So, Voldemort decided that it was time to go in and give them a visit. Can't have the destiny waiting. He entered the front yard and approached the door. Pulling his pale wand out, he pointed it at the door and blasted it inwards. The man, James Potter, reacted quickly, jumping up from the couch and pushed his wife towards the stairs. He took a look at their unexpected guest and shouted, "It's him Lily! Take Helen and go! I'll hold him!"

Voldemort laughed wondering how he was going to do that without even his wand. He casually tossed a killing curse towards Potter who dodged it at the last second by diving out of its path and towards his wand. Voldemort's humor dried up at that as he didn't want to waste time with the man. Before Potter could reach his wand, he cast the curse again this time taking care not to miss. His aim was true as the man fell after taking the curse to his side.

He moved towards the staircase and climbed upstairs. On finding the nursery door blocked he again pointed his wand and blasted it. Inside, he found the child standing in a crib with the woman, Lily Potter, standing protectively in front of her.

He ordered, "Step aside girl."

Lily frantically replied, "Not Helen! Not my baby!"

"Step aside girl, I'll not ask again" Voldemort said irritatedly.

"Not Helen! Take me instead!" The woman continued hysterically.

Vexed, Voldemort killed her with the vivid green curse and approached the child, who was strangely still quite, staring at him. He absently noted that her eyes were the same color as the curse she was about to meet. He looked at her for a few moments and then pointed his wand to her forehand.

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When the dark lord casted the killing curse on Helen, the curse rebounded due to her mother's sacrifice and hit him before he could react, unintentionally splitting his soul. As he fled in the spirit form, he unknowingly left a soul fragment behind, which latched onto the only living person in the vicinity, Helen, creating a lightening bolt scar on her forehead, and laid there dormant.

Later on when she was bought into the magically rich environment of Hogwarts by Hagrid, the sentience of Hogwarts recognized her weakened state both in body and magic and supplied her with magic intending to heal her. Her body started absorbing the magic and detected the soul fragment. Her magic tried to reject it from the body but couldn't as the soul fragment held on too tightly, so instead it did the next best thing, it started to integrate and annex it. Since the fragment itself was very weak and was using all its efforts to hold on, it could do nothing to fight her magic and capitulated, leading to a complete absorption.

This moment will go down in the history as the true birth of the greatest (or darkest depending on opinion) witch or wizard to ever live, the one who will change the world as we know it, forever. As soon as the fragment was absorbed, all the knowledge, information and experiences of the dark lord at his peak become hers. The assimilation of the soul caused her very nature to be changed. Her feeble baby magical capacity got a significant boost, which will in turn, affect her magical growth and final mature magical capacity exponentially.

Her magic and her soul, both realized that the knowledge and experiences were too much for her current baby body and mind, and thus locked them up until her mind had gained a self consciousness.

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'Five years is old enough' thought Petunia, as she thought of using her unwanted niece to relieve of her own workload. She eyed the girl, who was playing outside in her garden, chasing butterflies.

Nodding to herself she called out, "Girl! Get in here."

The girl in question was enjoying her 5th birthday, after being let out of the house for the first time in a while. She was pale and thin, like she hadn't been fed enough. She was looking about in wonder at all the colorful flowers and butterflies, things she hadn't seen before, and was trying to catch one of the colorfully winged insect. As soon as she heard her aunt though, she quickly gave up the chase and hurried back in as she didn't want to anger her aunt. That would lead to no food for dinner and she had already missed last night's meal because Dudley was extra hungry yesterday.

She stood in front of her aunt and softly said "Yes aunt Petunia" in her sweet melodious voice.

"You are old enough now to share the workload and earn your keep here girl. Today onwards you will be given various tasks and you'll get your meals only after you have completed them. Am I understood? "

"Yes, Aunt Petunia "

"Good, now lets start easy. Go and gather all the dirty laundry from around the house and then you'll be washing and cleaning them up!"

After collecting all the dirty laundry, Dudley's was especially stinky, Helen washed and cleaned up all the clothes under the watchful eyes of her aunt. The activity left her 5 years old weak body extremely drained. Still, however, her aunt took her to the kitchen and started instructing in the basics of cooking. Here she cut herself up many times and burned a couple of fingers while frying bacon for her uncle. She got smacked on head hard when she burnt up one batch. Afterwards she was left to take care of injuries herself and was given a few slices of beard and the burnt bacon to eat.

Soon it became routine for her, to be woken up early by her aunt to cook breakfast, wash laundry and clean the house. Then have a meager breakfast before school. At school she was thankfully left alone by her cousin and his gang of bullies. Later back at her aunt's house, she would tend the garden, clean the house again to satisfy her aunt's OCD, cook dinner for the ravenous family, eat another meager meal for dinner and then finally pass out of exhaustion in her cupboard. Most of the days would be accompanied by beating and furious tongue lashing whenever her weak and exhausted body could not complete her tasks, followed by being thrown in her cupboard without food.

A month after her birthday, it was a particularly bad day for her. She didn't get food last night and broke some chinaware in the morning, so missed breakfast too. Her school day was bad too because of the pain from punishment lashes on her back. During lunch, some foolish kids playing tag in canteen spilled her lunch. In the evening due to her semi-conscious state she accidentally uprooted her aunt's favorite dahlias. She thankfully passed out during the following beating and was later unceremoniously thrown in her cupboard.

With her body close to giving up, her magic, which had been lying dormant till now (not even a single accident magic incident) finally came to her aid and started healing her. This lead to the binding to be finally broken and her magic was finally free, releasing all characteristics and hidden potential within her. All the memories and knowledge of Lord Voldemort's soul fragment started to flow into her mind. Within moments her personality changed and her thought process matured into cunning, ambitious and pragmatic mindset. Ruthless in her pursuits, dominant in her nature and extremely charismatic. Her magic affected her body too, causing a mini growth sprout, filling her up to a healthy level, her skin changed from sickly to a healthy glow, her hair from lifeless lump to shiny waves and her still closed dull eyes gained color and were bright with power. She gained an inch in height as well.

Slowly her eyes opened as she gained consciousness and for the first time started using her augmented brain. First she assessed her body with her magic and internal awareness and found all the changes which brought a slight smile. After finding everything to her liking she started observing her surroundings and her smile fell. 'This wouldn't do' she thought to herself and directed her magic to the cupboard door which shattered with loud sound. She walked out and went into the drawing room where she placed herself dainty for her relatives to arrive, which they would after the sudden noise woke them up.

Her aunt and uncle came rushing in and came to a sudden halt on seeing her sitting primly on the couch. Before they could speak she commanded, "Take a seat" lacing her magic into the command. The couple quickly sat and watched her dumbfounded.

She started talking and influencing their minds at the same time "Things will be different from now on. I'll no longer slave away for you and you are to take care of my every needs and wants. I'll be generous and not want for extraordinary, however my wishes would be your commands. You will shift Dudley to his second bedroom and refurnish the first as my bedroom with best quality materials. Again, I'll be reasonable and till the changes are done I'll stay in your room and uncle, you'll bunk with Dudley. If I require any material, it will be procured with haste, whether mundane or magical."

At this both had their eyes wide open. She continued, "Yes, I know about magic and all that you have hidden from me." She gave them a withering stare and they shrank within themselves due to the magical pressure "and from now on we will be entering into the magical world occasionally."