"Bloodline of Shadows"

A Harry Potter AU inspired by J.K. Rowling's universe

Prologue: The Forgotten Twin

The wizarding world knew of Harry Potter-the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the child who had miraculously survived the Killing Curse. They whispered his name in awe, hailed him as a symbol of hope, and watched his every move with anticipation.

But no one spoke of the other one.

Roxana Potter had been forgotten.

The night Voldemort came for them, the Dark Lord had turned his wand upon both Potter twins, yet fate had only spared one in the eyes of the world. Harry had been the one cradled by destiny, while Roxana had been cast into the shadows of obscurity.

Dumbledore had placed them both with the Dursleys, but from the very beginning, the difference in their treatment was clear. Harry was mistreated, yes-but Roxana? She was invisible. If Harry was a burden, she was a ghost, drifting through the household without acknowledgment, without affection, without a place.

She had quickly learned that love was not meant for her

And Harry-her twin, her only family left-despised her.

"You should have died instead of our parents," he had once spat, his emerald eyes burning with something Roxana couldn't name

At first, she had tried to understand him. The pain of losing their parents had left wounds too deep to heal. But as the years passed, she realized it wasn't grief that drove him to hate her

It was something deeper. Something neither of them understood

By the time they turned eleven, Roxana had stopped trying to fix whatever had broken between them. Instead, she embraced the silence, the bitterness, the cold distance that stretched between them

And then, the Hogwarts letter came

The world she had only read about in stolen books would finally be hers. But Roxana had no illusions-Harry Potter would walk into Hogwarts as a legend. And she?

She would be no one

Being invisible had its advantages.

And sometimes, the ones forgotten by the world could become its greatest threat.