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And there it was. Silver Crouch had just heard the most horrible news that anyone can ever imagine at fifteen, her father had died. She felt the world around her crumble into small pieces one by one by one, like a never ending earthquake. She felt dizzy and nauseated and in disbelief, a part of her didn't want to accept that she had just lost the only family she had ever known, her sole connection to everything around her. She was lost and felt completely and utterly alone.

Silver Crouch, then Potter, was adopted when she was 2 years old. She had never known who her birth parents were or anything about her past life before she was taken into the custody of Barty Crouch Jr., the truth is she was scared to find out.

He had never been much of a father for her being as he was always away on business, she never knew why he was gone for so long but she never really cared to ask. Quite Frankly she was always a bit excited when he would leave her home alone, it gave her much needed time to herself.

She lived in England for the first few years of her life until her magical abilities came forth a few months before her eleventh birthday. Her father demanded that she move to America right away so she can begin her magical education and a couple of days later she was set on a one way flight to Massachusetts. Her school became her home and she liked it there, very much. The Salem Witches Institute was homey and it's entire student population never reached over fifty; It felt like a big family - a family she's never had the fortune of having. She remained at school for most of the year even during school holidays, and when the term came to an end she went off to spend the summers' with friends. She preferred it that way.

Finals were finally over and all the students of Salem Witches Institute were finally able to relax again. Most of them had begun to pack for their leaves from school, excited for their summer plans. Silver and her room mates were chasing each other with pillows and booming with laughter as they removed clothes from their drawers and meddled about the latest news of the neighboring wizards' school.

"So your spending the summer with me this year?" asked Lucy Albyss one of her two best friends. Lucy and Silver were physically complete opposites. Lucy was short (well compared to Silver) at about 5'3" with dark brown eyes and bright red hair styled into a bob, while Silver had long ebony black wavy hair growing all the way down to mid-back with full bangs straight across her forehead. She had bright emerald eyes that became a darker evergreen color indoors, and height-wise,was 5'7" - tall and thin, and she had an olive skin tone, a slight tan gracing her body from her tanning session with Lucy. The last portion of the trio was Rupert Lions, a tall dark and handsome but unfortunate soul that always hovered around Lucy and Silver and had to endure their girl talk and gossip, which they were convinced he actually enjoyed from time to time. Rupert didn't attend Salem but with weekend visits and outings they were able to keep each up to date and remain close.

"Yeah, I guess I'm stuck with you this year," Silver said in her usual sarcasm. "I'm sorry that i wont be gracing you with my presence this year, I know you love my company" she teased as her body turned at the waist to face the boy behind them. The rules weren't extremely strict at Salem; since it was an all witches' school there weren't any gender barriers at the door, as there were in other co-ed institutions. On the last day of school the partner wizard's school and Salem would grant student's permission to visit the other school's grounds.

"Oh yes, last summer droned out by your whining was so exciting! I'm really actually very sad, even though it might not seem that way right now," mocked Rupert. She hugged her best friend and he returned the embrace, knowing that he really would miss Silver and Lucy this summer; they meant the world to him and although he would never admit it, he would chose spending a summer with them then one of his wizard schoolmates.

"Alright so I'm packed up and ready to go, whenever your ready Lucy," smiled Silver.

The trio walked through the school and up to the gates of Salem as they said their good-byes to the friends they crossed on the way. Rupert was spending the summer with his parents in Boston and Lucy was taking Silver to spend the summer with her at her parent's house in Greece, which Silver was completely ecstatic about. Every year for the past five years she would stay mostly alone for the holidays, but when summer came around she would alternate who she would spend it with - and it was never disappointing, Lucy and Rupert had leisure's she would only dream about.

She never once returned back to England to visit her father since her admittance to Salem, and they barely wrote - just three times all year; the first day of the term, Christmas, and after finals. Her father was very much on the wealthy side, being as he was from an affluent pureblood family. Although Silver herself was a half-blood, Barty Crouch had spend his years with her convincing her otherwise - after all, she didn't know who her parents were so who's to say that what she's been feedig the pureblood families she met throughtout her childhood wasn't a lie? Barty Crouch would never hear the end of it if the child's vigorously rehearsed (fake) story about her bloodlines ever slipped - his repuation would be permantently bruised.

A/N: This is my first fanfic ever! and I'm really excited about it. I've been thinking about what would happen if a situation like this would ever arise and I decided to start the story. All of your feedback would be greatly appreciated, since I'm just starting at this and I know there's a lot for me to learn. I have a lot of ideas for this fanfic, so many that i might need help in deciding what my next move would be, so If i get enough reviews I'll start posting more of the story and ask when I need to, what should happen in the storyline next like a poll kind thing. Thank you for reading :)

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