Title: The Other Potter

Ratings: T

Reasons for rating: Basic language

Summery: What happens if James and Lily Potter gave birth to twins? Meet Haley Potter, the unknown twin. The wizarding world only knew about Harry. Now everyone will get to know The Other Potter. (Will eventually cover all seven books.)

Word Count: 1,938

Disclaimer: I only own Haley Potter. JK Rowling owns everything else.

Shout out: To my new amazing Beta Reality-in-Reverse! Thank you for your help and your amazing skills!

Author's Note: My very first Harry Potter story! I have written other fiction (all for Veronica Mars,) and decided to give Harry Potter a shot. Be kind, and let me know what you think so far!

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James and Lily Potter were excited to get back to their home. They were in St. Mungo's where Lily had just given birth to twins. Harry James Potter and Haley Autumn Potter. Not many people knew she was having twins. Mostly everyone just thought she was having a boy named Harry. Albus Dumbledore preferred it that way. He had heard a Prophecy concerning young Harry, and thought that it would be better if Lord Voldemort didn't know that there were two of them.

The Potters were soon in for a rude awakening. The same day they returned home, their Fedelious Charm was broken, and Lord Voldemort was able to get into the house.

James stayed behind to fight while Lily ran upstairs to protect her children. When Voldermort killed James, he burst through nursery door and killed Lily as she protected her children.

He paused in front of Harry's crib, and never saw the other crib containing Haley behind him. However, he didn't pause for very long before he murmured the killing curse at the young boy. But the spell backfired. Lord Voldemort was now less than human, and young Harry Potter now had a lightening shaped scar on his forehead.

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Less than an hour later, four figures arrived at the Potter's home. Part of the house was caved in. They ran inside to see both Potter parents dead. They made it to the kids' room and discovered they were alive and still in their cribs, where they were found crying.

Thankfully they both appeared to be unharmed. The four elders discussed the fate of the two children. Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall went to stake out their only living relatives' house while Rubeus Hagrid and Sirius Black stayed behind. Albus thought it best to split the twins up and send them both to live with Muggles. While Hagrid took Sirius's flying motorcycle to the Dursley's where Harry would stay; Sirius dropped Haley off at a Muggle church unannounced. He left her on the doorstep and knocked before he Disapparated.

Over the next ten years, Haley was moved around from foster home to foster home. She spent the majority of her life at the orphanage. The families she would stay with were decent, but after a while they would always send her back. They all claimed that there was something wrong with her. Unexplained things would always happen around her.

Nobody knew she was a witch, Haley included. She grew up thinking something was wrong with her because even the orphanage didn't want her around. All the boys and girls would always tease her. Because of that, she had no friends.

One day when the boys and girls at the orphanage took a trip to the lake, they dragged Haley up to a cliff overlooking the water. They were all daring her to jump. Haley didn't like to be pushed around, so she kept trying to move away from the ledge. Someone from behind shoved her, and she slipped and fell towards the water, screaming the whole way.

Without even knowing it was happening, Haley somehow slowed down her fall, though she still hit the ground hard. She fell feet first and her right leg made contact with the ground, where there were distinct cracks. Her head and arms were the next to hit the water.

When Haley got home from the hospital, she had a cast covering her whole right leg, from toes to mid thigh. She had crutches to help her walk; stitches on her forehead; one stitch at the corner of her right eye, which was bloodshot and bruised; and a concussion.

While she was sleeping in her bed, Haley didn't know that someone had come to visit her at the orphanage. It was August 29th of her 11th year, and Albus Dumbledore came by the orphanage to tell the lady in charge about the 'special gifted' school Haley got accepted into. She didn't really care what kind of school it was as long as it would mean Haley would be leaving.

The next day Albus stopped by again to visit Haley, and she was finally awake.

"Haley, you have a visitor." Madam Sawyer said to Haley, who was sitting up on her bed, leaning against her pillow and reading a book. She still had a headache, and it was pretty much all she could do. She was in too much pain to move much.

Haley looked up curiously at the stranger who walked into her room and sat down next to her bed. He was dressed in a light blue suit, and had long white hair and beard. They were both almost down to his waist. He had on spectacles, and the most startling blue eyes Haley had ever seen. They seemed to sparkle as he looked at her.

"How do you do, Haley?" Dumbledore asked as he reached out to shake her hand.

"I've been better," Haley answered as she shook his hand. She closed her book and folded her hands over her lap.

"My name is Professor Dumbledore, and I am a Headmaster at a school called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You, Haley Potter, are a witch. You have special powers, and I would love for you to join us at Hogwarts."

During his speech Haley's jaw dropped open in shock. As he finished, she looked at him as if he were joking.

"Very funny. Did Madam Sawyer put you up to this?" Haley wanted to know as she looked around.

"Nobody put me up to it. You are a witch and I am offering you a chance to hone your skills. Will you join us?"

Haley narrowed her eyes at Dumbledore. "Prove it."

Dumbledore was quiet for a minute. "Has anything strange ever happened to you? Things you can't explain? Things that nobody else can do? Well it is you, and I'm offering you the chance to learn control. However, if you still need an example, I shall, as you say, prove it to you."

Dumbledore pulled out his wand and Haley gasped. He pointed his wand at her dresser, and everything that was on top, flew up into the air and floated there for a second before they flew through the air and circled Haley's head which she had ducked to avoid the objects. Then the objects flew back towards her dresser and landed as if they had never moved before.

"Now do you believe me? Will you join me at Hogwarts?" he asked. He sat there patiently as Haley thought hard about everything she had just seen and heard. In the end she decided to agree. First of all, she was excited by what she had seen, and she figured she was probably better off at that school then spending the rest of her life at the orphanage.

"Yes, I will go to Hogwarts. But I have no money and I can't afford books or anything," Haley said.

Dumbledore smiled. "Not to worry. I shall take you to Diagon Alley to get you everything you need for school. Are you ready?"

"What? Now? But…my leg," Haley was taken by surprise.

"Yes, now. The school term starts on September 1st. We only have today and tomorrow to get your things. It's now or never," Dumbledore informed her.

She got up and the two of them made there way out of the orphanage and down the street towards the woods. Once they were inside the woods, Dumbledore stopped, and Haley looked around suspiciously. She wasn't sure if this of an attempt to kidnap or not.

"Please hold onto my arm and I shall hold onto your crutches," Dumbledore said as he stuck out his right arm and his left hand. She handed him her crutches and with both hands grabbed onto his awaiting arm.

"This may feel uncomfortable, but it'll only last for a couple of seconds. Are you ready?" Dumbledore asked.

Haley continued to look around, but then nodded yes.

"3...2...1..." Dumbledore said before he turned on the spot and the two of them disappeared. Haley felt like her lungs had collapsed in on themselves. Just when she thought she was going to pass out, the pressure released and she gasped for air.

"Are you alright?" Dumbledore asked with concern.

"What was that?" Haley choked out between inhales.

"That, my dear, is called Apparating. We are here. When you are ready we shall continue on our journey."

Haley looked around and saw a sign that said the Leaky Cauldron. They walked inside and she saw that it was crowded. All sorts of strange people were there, all of them dressed in what looked like robes. They walked through the building and out back towards a brick wall. Dumbledore took out his wand and tapped a brick. The bricks moved to form an opening. Haley watched in fascination. They walked through the archway and Haley felt like Alice who went through the rabbit hole and ended up in another dimension.

They made their way towards a white building and Dumbledore said that it was called Gringotts. They walked inside and up to the counter where Haley could see a small creature. Dumbledore whispered in her ear that it was a goblin. Haley had thought that they only existed in make believe. She watched as the two of them talked and Dumbledore produced a key. The goblin assisted them to what looked like a cart on a track. Haley had the time of her life riding that track. When it stopped, the goblin got out and opened a vault. Haley crutched over to the open vault and her eyes widened as she took in all that gold! It didn't look like any money she had ever seen, but she knew that it must have been a lot. Dumbledore got the money for her as he explained how much each was worth. She never heard of galleons, sickles, and knuts before. She tried to keep it straight in her head, but it was hard.

Finally they left the bank and made their way to other stores where she picked up the books she would need, along with quills, ink, parchment and a trunk to store everything in. Then they went and had her fitted for her robes. Finally Dumbledore took her to get her very own wand. She was excited for this. Her very own wand. She really would be a wizard.

Mr. Ollivander asked which was her wand hand, and she responded by saying she was left handed. He measured her and then had her try a couple of wands. At first none seemed right for her. With each swish of her hand, something would explode. Finally the last wand she waved gave off sparks almost like fireworks. Mr. Ollivander smiled. "Ahh. Good choice. Seven inches, maple and phoenix feather."

After that, Dumbledore took her to the pet store. She chose a four-month-old black kitten named Natalie. When they were finished, Dumbledore held the cage with her new kitten in it, while he had the trunk float in front of them as they walked back towards the Leaky Cauldron and Dissapperated back to the orphanage.

After everything was placed in her room, Dumbledore handed her two envelopes. One was her ticket for the train that would take her to Hogwarts, and the other included her school list and instructions. On September 1st she was to go to King's Cross and get on at platform 9 ¾ at 11 o'clock in the morning. Dumbledore wished her luck and left.

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(Author's Note) The reason Albus Dumbledore split them up was because he didn't want Voldemort or anyone else to know Lily had twins. Only the members of the Mauraders knew. He didn't want other's to know because he suspected Voldemort would eventually come back to life. As for Haley and Harry meeting each other, they won't know there twins. They'll just think there related. Maybe they'll do some digging around to get some answers, and maybe in there third or fourth year Sirius lets it slip there twins. I have to figure out Pettigrew knowing about the twins and why he wouldn't tell Voldemort. Maybe only Sirius knows because he's there godfather? I haven't decided yet.