The Shapeshifting Girl

For one Sara Ren Potter, life with the Dursleys was miserable.

She was a relative whom they didn't want to be saddled with and unwelcome in their home.

She wasn't allowed happiness or any human rights whatsoever.

She got that much when she compared how other children are to her.

They got happy homes, treated well, gets to have friends, have fun and good things.

She?

She only gets contempt, hate, pain and hunger. Oh, and filthy cousin's castoffs, too and hardly allowed any baths.

Her only place of solace, was the library.

She began looking up on books needed to survive for when she runs away one day.

She studied about Bushcraft, Edible Wild Foods, Camping Skills, Herbal Medicine, Clothesmaking, Building a Shelter or finding one, crafting needs out of scratch...amongst other things.

So eager was she to learn, that her wishes tend to come true.

Never forget what she reads? Check.

Have teachers notice Dudley's delinquent ways? Check that Petunia and Vernon aren't happy that their poor Diddikins are accused of crimes 'unfairly' when 'he won't hurt a fly'!

'Tell that to our CCTV Cameras. We have hardcore evidence.' said the Principal in a Parent-Teacher Conference. 'And injured children pointing fingers at him and his friends. If they keep this up, they will have a black record, along with suspension from school for a month. If they do this again, they're Expelled.' he warned. 'Set your son straight or I'll have to question your parenting skills with everyone else in this room! Your niece at least knows manners and a well-behaved girl yet a victim as well. She's a frequent visitor in the clinic, along with other bully victims! One more toe out of line, we're calling authorities to have them put Dudley in a Correction Center and Sara in the Foster Care System in hopes of a successful adoption! Hopefully they'll be better off without you.'

That beating that day was oh-so-worth it.

Their reputation stained as she wanted for revenge, and Little Whinging now knows the truth. For years her Aunt and Uncle made her an incurable delinquent brat, saying bad things about her that wasn't even true. Angry parents told their neighbors what happened in that PTC she felt vindicated.

But still, she noted that all her wishes come true. Always.

So she began trying things out outside the Dursley House.

She steals coins, mostly pennies. This was so she could buy food. She wishes for coins to appear in her hands, and they did! She now has lunch money in the cafeteria now! She buys as many as she could, then makes herself unnoticeable so she can smuggle other things to her bag, so she could have dinner and drinks.

She then wanted a healthy body so she began studying nutrition. What food affects what in the body in order to heal from malnutrition while still staying skinny and growing up beautiful. What's important is that her brain, muscles, bones, organs, teeth and eyes are at their peak of health, and growing in a way that she has no health flaws whatsoever be it physical, mental and genetical, destroying such flaws by wishing it all away to grow up healthy and beautiful. When Petunia orders her to go to the market, she exploits it.

She turns invisible and unnoticed by anyone, she absorbs by touch in order to heal. Meat, eggs, seafood, vegetables, fruits, herbs disappear in amounts and went unnoticed...until the time came to compute monthly revenues, that is! Her development went unnoticed, thanks to her baggy clothes, so Petunia and Vernon were none-the-wiser.

She repeated this cycle until she was eight years old.

Then her final act, was changing her appearance.

"Magic, bring out the best beauty my family lineage can give me!" she prayed hard. "I want to have the best traits of female beauty in me so when I grow up I'll be unrecognizably beautiful and for my future children to inherit this beauty!" she has the image of ideal beauty in her mind, and a painful transformation began, mostly in her very head as she felt things being re-shaped, like invisible hands molding and sculpting her face while her body felt hot, like freshly-made hot chocolate in the kitchen!

As she endures such pain, this was noticed by a traveling young woman and her young male companion.

'Someone's using sorcery in a mundane place like this.' Aozaki Touko thought. 'Let's find whoever this is!' they tracked down the magic trail, only to find an ill and ailing young girl in boys' wear that's several times her size. She was clearly feverish as her face changes!

'...she's human but...is she changing form?' Lugh Beowulf asked Touko, curious.

'Well, looks like she's using magic on herself. She must be a practicing mage...I really wish she was as this town is worthless! No leyline on it, not even a single mystery!' said Touko as she looked around them. 'She is the only magical thing in this cookie-cutter neighborhood. Go pick her up. Once it's over, maybe we can talk to her.'

'Right...'

Thus they took the helpless ailing girl and the backpack with her as Touko cast a Bounded Field around them as they left the neighborhood.

It also had the effect of cutting her off from Number 4, thus raising alarms in Hogwarts...

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'BBRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE!'

'RRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!'

This alarmed Albus Dumbledore as his instruments tasked to tell him if anything deadly happens to Sara Potter. Not only that, the final device shattered. A sign that she no longer considers the Dursleys home!

'This, is not good...' he got up from his seat and left his office.

xxx

Next area over, Magnolia Crescent...

In an inn there, the transformation was done. So Touko cast healing magic on the girl.

'OK kiddo, get talking.' said Touko as Sara found herself feeling instantly better.

'You're...magical too?' Sara croaked out to the woman's amusement. 'I thought...I was the only one.'

'Hate to break it to you kid but there are others like us in this world.' Touko snorted as Sara looked at her. She was a beautiful lady with short dark red hair and reddish-brown eyes wearing a green dress.

'Oh...'

'So why use magic in a place full of humans? Start from the very beginning.'

'...I'm an orphan nobody wants.' said Sara. 'My parents were said to be jobless irresponsible bums who died in a car accident when I was a baby, so custody of me fell to my mum's sister Petunia Dursley. She and her husband...'

Sara told Touko what kind of life she had and how she discovered she was magical...and she was preparing to run away so she would find a better life elsewhere, where for once, she's free to excel in school, make friends, and live in a better place. For that, she must be unrecognizable so nobody finds her and forces her back against her will. She stole what she needed to start fresh elsewhere before she changed her face.

'I see...' so she was a magus talent rarely born in a fully-human family? 'What's your name? I am Touko Aozaki. I'm from Japan.' said Touko. 'And this guy here is my fighter, Lugh Beowulf.'

'I'm Sara Potter.' said Sara. 'I got everything I need to get the hell away. My first step is London since better schools are there, miss. Can you take me there? I'll pay you after I rob a bank!' Touko did a WTF double-take before twitching.

This kid, is willing to do ANYTHING for a better life. And that could get her in trouble with Policies one day.

'I'll take you to London alright, but I'll teach you some things first before I leave you.' said Touko. 'For if you got seen by the 13th department you could get in trouble and they won't care if you're a kid or not.'

'Oh...so you'll teach me rules?'

'Yup. So lets get the heck out of this cookie-cutter neighborhood. First Privet Drive and now Magnolia Crescent? What's with the countryside and these look-alike houses? No individuality at all!' Touko harrumphed with an armfold. 'Just looking at it irks me! Let's go for the bus stop.'

'OK! Can I steal some more needs though?' Sara asked. 'Even if I changed my face, I'm still recognizable with Dudley's cast-off clothes!'

Touko looked at her before sporting a flat look on her face, given what she was wearing...

'Right, buy you a dress. Hoo, boy...'

xxx

After buying Sara a dress and a pair of shoes after a much-needed bath...Sara now looks...human when earlier, she was so filthy. Considering where she came from, Touko could not blame her. And she is actually healthy under her 'caterpillar sheddings' due to her self-medication. Worse? She doesn't know how to comb her hair!

She casts her spells by imagining results she wanted. She does not operate on logic like magi do.

Upon buying her a cute yellow dress with a white collar and orange ribbons with black shoes, they left for London.

At least the girl pays for herself, having stolen a lot of pennies...and paid in coin.

'...because it'll be weird if a kid owns bills.' Sara would tell them. 'Kids having coins isn't scrutinized since weekly allowance for kids here is the highest pence a parent's willing to give.'

But coming to London...opened a lot more can of surprises because of Sara's wishes...

On the other hand...

'What do you mean 'you don't know'?!' Minerva McGonagall shrieked at Petunia as she, Severus Snape and Albus Dumbledore were in Number 4.

'Exactly as I said, are you deaf you freak?!' Petunia spat in her face. 'I chucked that damn brat for a market errand and she never came back! While it's a waste of 20 pounds for dinner, good riddance, we never wanted her anyway but you freaks forced your freak kind on us normal people against our wills, you...!' and she let out a string of vitriol that got Minerva red-faced, Severus to give Petunia a glare and Albus looking at her in disappointment.

This, will be a long day.

Good thing for charms in the house. These women can get so loud.