Disclaimer: Everything belongs to our queen, JK Rowling

Hey! so I started this like two years ago and then put it in a back up folder and forgot about it until was cleaning some files from my laptop. It goes through all the years and some time after. Now, Neville in this story has a little more confidence when they first meet but i'm trying not to make him very OOC but he will be more confident than canon! Okay, enjoy! PS, there is the Golden trio but different people.

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Breathe In

Chapter One

Adeline Potter pumped her legs on the swing set. Even though she was eleven and some felt she was too old to actual swing, she loved the feeling of it. It was like she was flying, she went so high. It was her last day to actually use the swing set for a whole year and she wanted to enjoy it. You see, Adeline is a special girl. She is a witch, just like her mum and dad though she didn't live with them as they were dead. Adeline lived with her horrible aunt and uncle and their abominable son, Dudley. They had told Adeline her parents were drunks who died in a car crash, but that wasn't true apparently. The lies unraveled by a simple letter.

This letter arrived to the Dursley household a few days before Adeline's eleventh birthday. It was a yellowish envelope made of parchment with green ink on the front.

Miss. A. Potter

The Cupboard under the Stairs

4 Privet Drive

Little Whinging

Surrey

Yes, Adeline's room was the cupboard under the stairs for 10 years but the letter changed that. When her Uncle Vernon saw the letter, he ripped it out of her hand and threw Adeline and Dudley out of the kitchen. They thought not writing back would stop the letters but they were wrong. He even gave Adeline the extra room. But the letters kept coming. Finally, on Sunday, Vernon snapped and told everyone to pack up as they were leaving. They drove all around London, the letters seemed to follow. Vernon found them a place he felt would stop the letters for good, a terrible shack on a rock in the middle of the ocean. It looked as if it could collapse any second.

As midnight hit and Adeline wished herself a happy birthday, a giant man entered the shack with news that would change her life. He gave her the letter they had been running from. It was an acceptance letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. At first Adeline was skeptical, magic wasn't real. At least that's what her uncle always said. But this giant, Rubeus Hagrid, his words caused her to believe. So that's what Adeline did. She was so happy, though it dimmed a little when she learned the truth about her parents' death. They were murdered by a bad wizard named Lord Voldemort and apparently, Adeline had defeated him when she was only one. She was the girl-who-lived.

Hagrid took her the next day to Diagon Alley, a magical shopping area hidden by a pub no mundane could see. She was fascinated by all the shops and was amazed by the gold her mum and dad had left her. She got robes, an honest to god cauldron, her school books, and finally a wand. After many tries, she was thinking she would never find one but she did. It was a wand that was so closely related to Voldemort's that it was called a brother wand. Adeline was worried but knew this wand would only be used for good.

Soon it was time to go back to the Dursleys where she would spend a month before heading to Hogwarts. Today was August 31st which meant tomorrow, September 1st, she would be off to her new school. Adeline grinned as she went higher on the swing set and eventually let go, her auburn tresses blowing behind her, before landing on her feet. Her emerald eyes were bright and excited until she looked at her watch and realized she was going to be late for dinner so she ran.

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Adeline sighed as she looked around Kings Cross dejectedly. It was ten minutes to eleven and she needed to be on the Hogwarts Express in those ten minutes. She frowned as she looked at the wall between platforms 9 and 10. She touched it and was shocked when her hand went through. It must be a magical platform. She backed up and ran at the wall, her eyes closed waiting for impact but it didn't happen. She opened her eyes and gasped at the sight of a beautiful scarlet train with steam billowing from the front.

Adeline tugged nervously on the lose strand of hair from her ponytail before pushing her trolley that held her trunk forward. She traveled along the platform 9 3/4 with a frown as she searched for an empty compartment but she couldn't find a completely empty one so Adeline looked for one that wasn't full. Finally she found one and was able to get her trunk into the train and poke her head in.

"Um, hi, can I sit with you?" The round faced boy jumped at her sudden voice and looked over in surprise.

"Oh-um-yeah, sure." He watched as she pulled her trunk in along with an owl cage that held a beautiful snowy owl. Once she was done and sitting, she smiled at him.

"I figure I should ask what your name is."

"I'm Neville Longbottom." He said nervously. Neville got nervous around new people, mainly if they were pretty like her, but she seemed nice enough.

"I'm Adeline. Adeline Potter." His eyes became wide at the mention of her name and she blushed. "It's just my name, nothing special. Please don't freak out."

"Yeah, okay, sorry." He looked embarrassed but Adeline just shrugged.

"It's fine." It went silent. "Well awkward silence, that's always fun." It worked and he laughed at the joke.

"Awkward silence is how you can think of ways to be more awkward." It was Adeline's turn to laugh just as the train started moving. Suddenly there was a loud croaking from a cage in the overhead rack.

"What's that?"

"My toad, Trevor. He likes to escape so my Gran fixed up a cage for him."

"Well that's good." Adeline nodded. "So, what house do you want to be in?"

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