3 Chapter 3

The years passed quickly for Raven as she would study everything that the library in the residence could offer her. It wasnt too difficult seeing as she got distanced further and further from the people who she normally would have called family. But she made sure they paid her back in the form of knowledge.

Runes? She had a bunch of them all around to protect her plans.

Enchantments? She was able to create one of the near bottomless pouches that Hermione was shown to possess when they start their search for horcruxes.

Legilimency? She had the perfect target to test it on, Harry himself as he hadnt learned any occlumency. She did feel bad for some time using him like this seeing as he had nothing to do with the blatant favoritism by James and Lily, but what else could she do?

Occlumency? With the knowledge of many generations of Potter aurors, the task wasnt too hard. She didnt have anyone to test it on her though.

But there vere still many things that she couldnt exactly learn before reaching eleven years of age seeing as thats when she would be able to get her first wand. She did however, still manage to memorize everything she could get her hands on, she would just have to wait until she got her wand to train in them.

But four years passed in the blink of an eye, and she had just turned nine. Everything she had done was to prepare her for this day, the day that she would take her leave from the Potter home. She had been quite lonely since that day. The day that she turned five and the last time she met Sirius. She did however know that he cared about her because he kept sending her gifts on her birthdays and letters every once in a while asking how she was and so on. But if all went according to plan, she would see him sooner rather than later.

Having an adult mind inside a child was no easy feat when your mind wants to be able to do whatever she normally would have, but was restricted because of her physical age. She made due with the thought that as soon as she made it out she would find a way to have a certain amount of freedom.

But the day had finally come. A week after her ninth birthday, she waited until everyone else in the house had gone to sleep before making a move. She had prepared for four years and had made sure that all of her belongings was in order before doing anything.

Moving silently across the wooden floorboards of her room, she made a beeline towards the stairs leading downstairs. As a precaution, she had made sure to write runes on the bottom of her feet that would make her nigh undetectable by sound alone.

Making it out of her bedroom and towards the staircase she made sure that there were no one in the vicinity, seeing nothing, she started to walk down the steps. Reaching the bottom, she snuck through the house to the kitchen. She needed food if she was to make it until she could finish her plans. She quickly grabbed some food and packed it into her bag. With food out of the way, she snuck to the living room where the floo was located. She knew however that the floo network has traces on it so that James and Lily could see if Harry accidentally flooed himself somewhere, so to avoid this, she flooed to the leaky cauldron.

The leaky cauldron was a pub / inn for wandering wizards, as well as the entrance to Diagon alley which was the wizarding equivalent of a shopping district. So making it through the floo network, she walked to the door and quickly left the establishment. She quickly made sure that no one would follow her before she brought out her broom that she got from Sirius the year before, the Nimbus 1900. Getting on, she flew through the air heading for London.

It took her some time having to navigate through the clouds and the night soon turned into early morning, she was tired after all her travels, but she finally made it to London and headed for her final destination, Borough of Islington, or more precisely, 12 Grimmauld Place.

The home of one of the sacred 28 families, the house of Black.

She would have a looooong day ahead of her explaining everything to her favorite person alive.