"What is all this?" Lyra jolted to see Sirius Black standing beside the bowtruckle's tree, his face as sullen as pale as last night. It somehow paled further and he fell backwards with a shout of pure madness as coldness swept over her again. Her eyes bulged. A rotten hand grasped her shoulder. The screaming of Frank and Alice Longbottom filled her head.

Five years after the battle of Hogwarts, after Azkaban is destroyed and the wizarding world is just about ready to accept that the Dark Lord is finally dead...when the dark mark is unleashed above King's Cross. The maker, a mad man people had discarded and thought dead, plots to finish what the Dark Lord failed to do.

In 1943, mystery surrounds the night the Riddle family was murdered, however, even more mystery surrounds the young child left alive in the wake of the murders. Rowan Riddle is found by Dumbledore who introduces her to her half brother, Tom Riddle. Tom, loathing the girl, discards her as nothing at first but believes she could prove to be useful. Warning: abuse, manipulation.