Chapter 1
-1-
Roxana sometimes wondered how it is possible to be born with red eyes.
She was a not normal orphan baby, she was born with black hair (normal) and red eyes (not normal), thankfully this orphanage was one that takes responsibility of the children in their care so she was spared the bullying, and the caretakers always told her that her red eyes are some kind of ‘medical condition’, and it shouldn’t mean that she shouldn’t feel normal.
Normal…
Tell me woman! How many children do you know can speak to snakes???
Roxana was lot of things! Dumb, idiot, and stupid was not one of those things, add to it the fact that she was in London, and that she saw a witch during a field trip in London.
Let us not add the accidental magic she had last year because one of the kids in the orphanage angered her.
Roxana was not stupid; she was reborn in the world of Harry Potter and that is ok!
It was not
-2-
Ms. R. Lestrange
That name in the letter changed everything and it put the final piece of the puzzle in place.
Roxana laughed like a madwoman. “Of course…of course Bellatrix would screw the Dark Lord but oh…this just sealed his demise easier”
She will kill Voldemort and will kill Bellatrix.
Or die trying.
-3-
Witches and Wizards should really be careful when a seemingly innocent girl follows them, it was extremely easy to find her way to Diagon Alley when the wizards that walk in the street don’t get suspicious of anything, their arrogance is unmeasurable.
Roxana made her way in to Gringotts.
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn,
So, if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
She entered empty handed.
“My name is Roxana Lestrange, and I want to access the Lestrange vault”
“Does Miss Lestrange have her key?” The Goblin asked.
“I do not, but the letter from Hogwarts that I got says that I am a Lestrange, and I am ready to do anything necessary to be able to access the vault”
A drop of blood.
A signed parchment.
And a key.
Roxana entered empty handed.
And she came out with a bag full of Galleons and a Golden Cup.
-4-
“Lestrange Roxana”
Slytherins started to whisper.
Roxana sat down on chair and the hat was placed on her head.
Interesting very interesting…you Miss Lestrange are not from this world, yet you know everything about this one like the back of your hand, moving pictures and books told you the story of this world, oh but what’s this? Hmm, I see you are planning to stop everything by yourself brave of you, brave enough for Gryffindor.
I do not hate the house of the lion and you know that, but if I want to get to what I want I need to be in Slytherin.
As you wish then.
“SLYTHERIN!”
Roxana sat down in the Slytherin table, she spoke to no one and minded her own business.
“Weasley Fred”
“GRYFFINDOR!”
“Weasley George”
“GRYFFINDOR!”
Huh, explains why I did not see Malfoy.
-5-
Roxana walked out of the class while the professor of DADA was still screaming his lungs, the Weasley twins laughed at the prank they just pulled.
She smiled and tried to keep her laugh in, but she could not as she busted out laughed, the twins turned to look at her.
“That…that was brilliant!” Roxana took a deep breath. “Ah my stomach! This is the best prank I have seen in my entire life”
“Why thank you!” Fred said.
“Say Gred this snake is quite different from others ey?” George said.
“Agreed, so little snake do tell, why are you acting nice?”
Roxana smiled. “Is it really that hard to believe that am nice to people cause I am polite or just because that’s how I am?”
“Well…Slytherins aren’t really known to be nice” George said.
“Yeah, and most wizards that came from Slytherin are dark” Fred said. “No offence!”
“You wound me!” Roxana put her hand on her heart dramatically. “Ah my heart, it is broken! But seriously, I just find this house rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin idiotic, and besides everyone worship Merlin like a god, but people forget that Merlin was a wizard who was a Slytherin and was taught by Salazar Slytherin, the house doesn’t determine if you are dark or light, the wizard does, the house just determine that some people incline into being braver than cunning, or more cunning than brave, or more intelligent than loyal, or more loyal than intelligent and so on”
“That’s…That makes sense?” Fred looked puzzles. “Why does it make sense?”
George shrugged.
Roxana smiled. “I can also give you another example, magic is nor dark nor light, sure some things are more morbid than other spells, but it is not an excuse to split magic into two parts, for example, Wengardium Leviosa is a spell that levitates things, right? I can use it to levitate heavy things to put them in another place or I can levitate a person and throw him off the cliff, magic is like a knife, you can use it to cut bread and other food, or to kill people with it”
The twins looked at each other. “We never saw it that way”
“Because darlings this is the muggle way of thinking” Roxana said, the twins gave her a weird look. “Surprised that I take examples from muggles? Do not be! Those folks can be incredibly wise, if anything the wizarding community needs to learn something from them, anyways, Fred” She looked at Fred. “George” She looked at George. “I will see you both later”
“He is not Fred! I am!” George said with a ‘hurt’ face.
“No, you’re George, Fred has a bit more freckles on his nose than you do, it’s not noticeable unless you concentrate on his face but once you notice it is hard to unsee it” Roxana said before walking away.
George turned to look at Fred for a bit. “I never thought someone would notice…”
“Tell me about it…”
-6-
It was two hours before curfew, Roxana walked up to the seventh floor and started to search the place of the room of requirement until she found the right wall.
I need to find the Ravenclaw diadem, I need to find the Ravenclaw diadem, I need to find the Ravenclaw diadem.
A door disappeared before it appeared again and Roxana quickly opened it, only to be disappointed a bit.
“What a mess…Oh well, I may as well find other things while am at it” Roxana shrugged.
There were many things made of gold, along with a bottomless bag that needed a bit of washing, she took it and put many golden things inside of it, she always loved gold and shiny things.
“Dark Curses and how to use them” Roxana read the tittle of a book. “Written by Canopus Black am keeping this” She took another book and froze at the tittle. “Horcruxes and everything you need to know about them”
She turned around the room for a bit taken what was useful or valuable until she found the diadem and took it.
Thankfully she returned to the dorm before curfew, detention is not something she wanted.
-7-
Slytherin won the house cup that year, not that Roxana cared about useless house rivalry, she had more important things to worry about.
Knockturn Alley was a shady as it was described, but Roxana came here for a reason, it was the second day she came here, even some pureblood children were here but accompanied with their parents.
Roxana on the other hand had the hood of her robe on her head to keep herself anonymous even though there was not a chance of someone recognizing her, but one can never be too careful.
She arrived at her destination and bargained a good price with the shop owner.
Roxana came out of there with the opal necklace in a glass box and a shrank vanishing cabinet.
-8-
Roxana promised herself that she will learn apparition, the Knight Bus was a hell of a ride, and not in a good way.
Little Hangleton.
This place screamed ‘death town’ from a mile-away, Roxana likes horror and anything creepy honestly, this place did not scare her, but it did give her the ‘too empty to be comfortable feeling,’ she directed walked up to the Gaunt small house if you can even call it that.
The horcrux was beneath the shack's rotting floorboards it felt cold like it was not supposed to be here or even exist.
The compulsion charm is strong, she will give her dear old daddy a point for making this horrible thing.
She fought against the urge reminding herself over and over about the horrible fate that will face her if she put that thing on her finger, and she levitated the golden box the ring was in and put it in her bottomless bag with wandless magic that she perfected over the years.
Unfortunately, the Gaunt did not have anything valuable besides this ring, so taking anything from here would not be of any use.
Oh well, after taking all the horcruxes she will empty the Lestrange volt.
She was greedy, she loved gold and jewels, so she will keep that little hoard to herself like a dragon.