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Summary: A girl from Harry's past is now Snape's newfound daughter. Later a Snape adopts Harry story! Also, Harry will have a whole new family. Lots of mystery, angst, fun, romance…etc!

Now on with the story!

Prologue:

9-year-old Harry Potter looked towards the girl who was his best friend and the closest he had to an older sister (as she was almost half a year older than him) or any sister.

"I'll miss you, Harry" Selena Malloy said, as tears cascaded down her cheeks. She moved forward to give the short boy a hug.

"I'll miss you too, Lenny" Harry said, his eyes sparking with unshed tears.

The two embraced tightly.

They were standing in the same small clearing in the heart of the forest, where they had met for the first time, three and a half years ago. Their first meeting was by pure coincidence. Harry thought, since he was very familiar to the forest (by all the times he had come to hide from Dudley and his group) and he met her at the time when he was again hiding from Dudley. That was when he had first seen the curious and lost Selena and Harry had helped Selena find her way home. He later became conscious to the fact that Selena had recently moved a few houses down from No. 4, Privet Dr. with her mother.

A week after their first meeting, Harry was unsuccessfully trying to escape from Dudley and gang, when they caught him. After the first few punches, Selena had shown herself and had threatened Dudley to sock him hard if he ever picked on Harry. The gang, including Dudley, was shocked to see someone, especially a girl, coming to Harry's rescue. Surprisingly, Dudley had let Harry go and after whispering to his friends, he had muttered of doing something better; and had run off.

Later, Harry had realized that Dudley had let him go because he fancied Selena. Afterwards, Harry and Selena became good friends and he spent most of his time at her house (after telling Aunt Petunia that he was spending time helping Mrs. Figgs). Dudley never once hassled Harry (well not in public or if he did, it was always without too much attention.)

Now, after years of being 'almost siblings' and treating Selena's mom Eveline as his own, Harry was having a hard time adjusting to the fact that he might never see Eveline or Selena again, even after getting a warning months earlier. They were his closest ties to a happy and normal family and he spent most of his time there, with the exception of the time he spent at the Dursley's and the dratted school he went to.

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Harry took Selena's hand and they started walking back towards her house. She was going to leave in half an hour. She and her mom were moving to Wales after Eveline's travel company transferred her. When they reached No. 10 Privet Dr., Eveline was waiting for them.

"I thought you were going to be saying your goodbyes," she said, "so I loaded all your things in the car."

Selena nodded her thanks.

Eveline pulled Harry in a hug.

"Bye sweetie, we are going to miss you a lot." Eveline said, forlornly.

"I'll miss you too, Eve." Harry responded. "I just want to tell you that you both have been like a family to me."

"Oh darling," Eve was dumbfounded to hear him say that. Tears came in her eyes. "I think of you as my own son."

They spent the rest of the time making sure that nothing was left amiss in the house. At four o'clock Eveline and Selena again hugged (or in Eveline's case, kissed) Harry good-bye. As they sat in the car, Selena stopped back and said,

"Harry, I want to tell you that all the time I spent with you were probably the best in my life. I know I am not much of a sappy person but I want to tell you this," she looked Harry straight in the eye and whispered the next words so softly that Harry barely heard her, "I always considered you as my real brother, I hope you know that I am leaving a part of me as I leave you." With that said, she took Harry's hand and placed a small box in it. "I love you Harry."

Harry was too astonished to say anything, but as she turned away, he took her hand and put a bracelet in it. He had bought this cheap bracelet with all the money he had earned and found. She turned to the back and saw engraved:

'To my Lively Lenny,

Never change!

Love Harry.'

Selena started to cry as she flung herself on Harry and gave him a hard hug, which he gladly returned. She squeezed his hand once more and went around to sit in the car. Then Eveline fly-kissed a good-bye to Harry as she drove off with Selena waving to Harry, as he watched them disappear in the distance.

He sighed and lingered in their driveway trying hard to capture all the memories he had with the Malloy's. He sighed again; it was time for him to start cooking the Dursley's dinner. While he did most of the cooking, his aunt helped him in special occasions and since she was more experienced, her help always welcomed. But today was otherwise; he would have to cook dinner by himself for the obese (except the horse, Aunt Petunia) family.

He started walking towards No. 4 Privet Drive. He may as well get there early and start cooking.

Harry opened the door of No. 4 Privet Dr. and stepped inside the empty house. He was the only one home since Aunt Petunia had gone to a friend's house for tea, Uncle Vernon was still at work and Dudley was still out terrorizing some small bunch of kids. After closing the door, he went to the kitchen and started taking the food out of the fridge. After putting the chicken in the oven for a medium amount, he started boiling up the water for the curry.

He was about to take the boiling water and put it off to the side when he heard a noise behind him. As he whirled around, the water sloshed to the side and a little fell on the stranger.

"Ahhhh," Dudley yelled loudly and stuck out his hand. "Look at what you did, Potter"

He showed Harry a small red spot on his hand.

"Sorry," Harry apologized and said indignantly, "next time you'll think before trying to startle me."

"Oh yeah," Dudley made a grab for Harry, but he ducked. This caused all the hot water to spill on the floor. "Look at what you did, Potter, wait till I tell mum…and dad." Dudley mocked him.

"I'm not afraid of you," Harry said, stubbornly.

"Oh, you'll be." With that Dudley yelled out for Piers,' one of his stupid friend. "It's time for 'Harry Hunting.'"

As Piers came inside the kitchen, Dudley grabbed one of Harry's arm and Piers grabbed the other. Harry struggled to get out of Dudley's grasp, which only became tighter.

"You're not getting out of this one, Potty." Dudley said maliciously.

"Get off," Harry said trying desperately to get out of the hold that the two older boys had on him.

"You'll pay for hurting me," Dudley told Harry, making a sad face as he said that. Piers twisted Harry's left arm behind his back, and Dudley held his right one tightly.

Then Dudley switched the stovetop on and put Harry's hand on the extending flame. Harry gasped as the pain suddenly blossomed in his hand. He tried hard not to cry in front of his tormenters yet tears came in his eyes. After about a minute Dudley loosened his grip on Harry's arm and Harry yanked his hand back, hugging it to his body.

"Next time you'll think before messing with me," Dudley said as he ordered Piers to let go off Harry's other hand, "or the penalty will be worse." Next, he pushed Harry hard to the wall and walked out of the house with a sneer.

Harry took a few minutes to calm his beating heart and slowly got up. Then he put his fevered hand under the cool spray of the faucet. He let his hand sit in the water for a few minutes before putting some ice on his blistering palm. Then he tied his hand in an old handkerchief of his (passed down by Dudley) and returned to cooking.

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When Aunt Petunia came home from her tea, she noticed Harry's handkerchiefed hand but said nothing.

"Why are you not done," she reprimanded him, "Vernon will be home any minute and he'll be starving."

"Sorry," Harry mumbled depressingly, "I'll try to be quicker."

She huffed and went out of the kitchen, muttering about insolent boys.

Harry finished dinner just as Uncle Vernon's car pulled up. Dudley was already home and after giving Harry a triumphant smile, he went to his room.

Right before dinner, Dudley pulled up a long, whinny face and went to his parents, who were already seated for dinner.

"Dad, mum, Harry burned my hand." He pulled up his sleeve and showed his slightly pink skin.

Uh oh, Harry thought, so this was what Dudley was so smug about.

And as expected, his Uncle shouted,

"Potter, how dare you burn my poor Dudders."

"Umm, uncle… I… I... didn't mean to hurt him, he…he…he just startled me." Harry stammered out nervously, as he watched his uncle's face grow purple by the second.

"My poor baby, he's ruined," Aunt Petunia shrilled as she glared hatefully at him.

He was born ruined, Harry thought. But all his thoughts drifted away a second later when his uncle pushed him hard out of the living room. Harry winced as he fell on his bruised shoulder of the arm Piers had twisted. Then his uncle grabbed him by the front of his large shirt and hurtled him inside his cupboard.

Harry winced as his uncle slammed the door closed.

"Two weeks, Potter." His uncle yelled.

Well, that certainly had been interesting, he thought, painful but interesting. He shifted on his side to get more comfortable, when suddenly he felt a sharp pain of something digging in his left leg. He quickly put his hand in the left pocket and felt a small box. Harry waited until he was sure that the Dursley's were in bed before he switched on the lone light bulb, illuminating the cupboard.

He slowly took the box out of the pocket and realization hit him suddenly, as he remembered that this was the box Selena had given him. Opening the box carefully with his uninjured hand, he took out the small paper wrapped present. He ripped the paper slowly with trembling hand and gasped at what he saw. It was a necklace. A guy's necklace. It had a small insignia of two snakes that start out separate and then wraps around each other making the sign of a heart. One of the snakes was slightly larger, showing dominance and black in color. The other was a smaller one, but it was blue in color. There was no hostility between the two creatures, once could even think that the two animals were friendly or even in love. The black one seemed like a male and the blue one was a female. The whole necklace was like a disk made with white gold (like silver) with few designs in gold.

Harry was shocked and grateful for the gift. This was the first present anyone had ever given to him and for a first present it was very beautiful and precious. He quickly put the necklace on his neck. Just as he clasped it shut as if by magic, a feeling of content filled him. A feeling of love and safety filled every inch of his body. For the first time in his life Harry felt safe. He didn't worry about his injury today or any other harm he may face tomorrow, for now he was happy. And for the first time, that was the only thing that mattered to him. With the thought of Selena, Harry fell asleep, his dreams filled with strange women with brown and red hair and men with black hair. And yet despite his horrible day, Harry's night was filled with dreams of love and caring.

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A/N:

This is my first Harry Potter fanfic, so I hope everyone enjoys it. Also, I would like to know everyone's fav. characters. And don't forget to review, the sooner and more you review, the faster the next chapter.

Can anyone tell me what two beings did the snakes represent? Please tell me one of them.

I solemnly swear I am up to no good!