Royalty at Hogwarts

The Letters

My dearest Thea,

We are so sorry that we could not be there to show you the way. We know that you will grow up to be an extraordinary young women. There are so many things that you will not understand, but we want you to have somebody that will help you with finding out the answers. I ask you of this one thing and then I want you to live your life, happy and true. I ask you to find Samuel Xavier Cohen, he is the same age as you and has gone through what you have.
          Tomorrow is your eleventh birthday and strange things will happen. I don't want you to freak out so I am telling you this now. You are a shapeshifter, Thea my sweet child, and tomorrow you will be able to change into whichever animal you please, whenever you please, I warn you of this, do not abuse your power. You will have one unique power that I unfortunately will never know of. 
         I want you to be extremely careful, when your father and I were alive we were very powerful; when people become as powerful as we were, people tend to make quite a few enemies. Your father and I were no exception, I am afraid that our enemies have become your enemies. The jealousy even ran through the blood of  our own family, your uncle was so jealous, do not hate him for what he has become, But I️ ask you not to trust him, or anyone like him. Death eaters play a dangerous game.
If you are ever in danger, all you have to do is trust the animals, they will always take you somewhere safe.
                                                     We love you very much,
Take care my child,
                                                         Mom & Dad

A few tears run down my cheeks as I reread the letter for the tenth time, the paper crunches between my fingers as my emotions get the best of me. Fran sits in front of me watching my reaction. I can tell that she wants to read the letter, with eager curiosity. I wipe the tears from my eyes and get up from the chair, I stuff the letter into my pocket. "Where do you think you are going missy?" She questions the back of my head.

"I was planning on going for a walk to clear my head, is that okay with you?" I ask turning my head slightly. "My murdered parents knew that they were going to be killed and wrote me a letter to tell me that. So I think I'm going to go take that walk now."

"Fine!! Be back by dinner or you don't eat." She shouts as I walk away.

"Fine!!!" I shout back. I've been late to dinner these past couple of nights because I have been going in to the forest and loose track of time. I open the huge oak doors of the orphanage and take off at a sprint. I run as fast as I can without tripping and go straight to my secret meadow that nobody but me knows about.

I stop dead in my tracks when I realize that I hear footsteps following me. Great. Just what I need right now. Barbara and her posse, they have had it out for me the day I arrived here. I'm turning eleven and she is SIXTEEN.

I start to walk the opposite direction of the meadow and hear an owl hoot. It wasn't a graceful hoot either, It sounded like a pained, plead for help. I look around for a solid ten minutes, before I spot a brown baby owl with its leg caught in a snare.

I run over and examine the leg. "Shhh. It's going to be okay. I'm going to help you." The owls head turns to look me in the eyes. If I didn't know better I would have thought that it's eyes widened in shock.

"Is it just me or do you understand what I'm saying too." I just loosened the knot when she spoke to me, I accidentally dropped her onto the ground. She hoots in pain, I wince.

"I'm sorry. W-wwwwait. Did you just talk to me?? And did I just talk back to you??? Am I still talking to a bird???" I stumble over the questions.

She just laughs and nods if birds can do that. "Well are you going to help me or not??"