Forever and Always: Book 1 Of Always

I'm A What?

     I'm Rebecca Potter and I live in hell. My twin brother, Harry, even though he has quite the temper is one of the sweetest people on Earth. How did we end up in hell you may ask? Well, when my brother and I were a little over one my parents died in a car crash and we got stuck in a house with my aunt, uncle, and Dudley.
     Again, you may ask why I call it hell.
Age 3: Harry and I were drawing and we gave my uncle a picture of the family and he threw it away.
Age 5: We asked to watch tv and we got shut up in a cupboard.
Age 6: Dudley wanted a play room so our bedroom was made into that and now we live in that same cupboard.
Age 8: My aunt made me wear one of Dudley's shirts and a belt for my first day of school that year.
Age 9: She tried to cut my hair off since and I quote it annoyed her to have to look at red hair. Lucky it grew back real fast.
Age 10: Just yesterday, Dudley had his parents make me and Harry clean his room. Do you know what is in there?
     That is only a sprinkle of the sundae we've been given.
     I heard pounding on the door to the cupboard and my Aunt Petunia yelled, "Get up right now and make breakfast."
I shook Harry and said, "Come on, we better go quick before we get in trouble." He nodded and we walked out to the kitchen. I could hear my cousin yell, "36, 36, but last year but last year I had 37!"
     I mumbled, "36, 36, but last year I got 1."
     "What is it girl?!?" shouted my very purple Uncle Vernon.
     "Nothing," I responded.
     He pointed his finger at my face and started to get closer. If I made him mad, he would never go after Harry. He occasionally slaps or hits me but it's fine.
"Mummy," yelled my cousin, "I don't want them to come. They always ruin everything."
"Don't worry Duddykins," assured my Aunt, "They won't ruin it."
*time skip to Zoo*
     My brother and I were tagging along the whole time. It was surprisingly fun so far but of course it couldn't last.
     We were in the reptile house and Harry and I were looking at a snake. Dudley was beating on the glass but left when it wouldn't move. Harry began to talk to it, "It must be boring in here being stared at all day." "I'm sorry about him though," I added. The snake started to move and looked at us when Harry asked, "Can you hear us?" The snake nodded. I saw a sign in the exhibit, "How was Brazil?"
     The snake pointed to the part of the sign where it said bred in captivity and Harry responded, "We never met our parents either."
     About then Dudley ran up to the glass and pounded but then the glass vanished. The snake slithered out and said to us, "Thanksssss."
     Harry and I simultaneously said, "No problem."
     We got back and Uncle Vernon began to scream at us well mostly me. I had hidden Harry behind me in the hopes he could run to the cupboard.
     The next day Uncle Vernon has me get the mail. My arms had a few bruises but at least Harry was ok.
    I looked through the letters and bills and came across two very strange letters. One was addressed to Harry and the other to me.
     Miss R Potter
     The Cupboard Under the Stairs
     4. Privet Drive
     Little Whinging
     Surrey
     Before I could open it Dudley snatched it from my hands and yelled for my uncle. He looked at the letter and immediately threw it in the fire.
     I told my brother and he couldn't explain it either.
     Everything had been getting weirder and weirder. Letters were everywhere for Harry and I. My aunt and uncle kept trying to avoid them but it wouldn't work.
     There last resort was to go into the middle of the ocean on a lighthouse and stay there to get away from our letters. I couldn't sleep so I looked at Dudley's watch and woke Harry. It was three minutes till twelve. Harry and I drew a birthday cake on the dirt floor and when it the watch went off for twelve we "blew the candles out."
     Suddenly the door of the lighthouse fell and behind was a large man with a scruffy brown beard and hair and all he said was, "Sorry bout that."
     I took Harry and hid. Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, and Dudley all squealed and my Uncle took his gun and tried to threaten the large man. The man just bent it upward causing it to go off and he started again looking at Dudley, "I havn seen you since you were a baby, Arry. Where's your sister?"
     Dudley looked scared and whimpered, "I'm not Harry."
     Harry took my arm and said, "I'm Harry and my sister is here."
    "Well o course you ar."
     "Excuse me sir but who are you?" I asked.
     " Rubeus Hagrid, keeper of keys and grounds at hogwarts. O course you know all about Hogwarts. "
"No, I'm sorry sir," Harry and I replied.
"Well, didn't you ever wonder where your parents learned it all?"
"I'm sorry, but I don't know what is going on?" I replied.
"Your a witch, Rebecca and Harry, your a wizard," said the man, "I reckon thumpin good ones once we train you up a bit."
Harry spoke up, "I think you must be mistaken sir because I can't be a wizard, I'm Harry, just Harry."
I quickly added, "I mean we aren't special at all."
"You ain't special," he chuckled, "Have you ever made something happen when you were angry or scared?"
I thought about it and really I had. When I was about 7 my aunt made me wear a dress that she owned that was pink and far too big except when I put it on it turned black, my favorite color, and almost magically fit me. Also there was a couple of weeks ago with that snake.
     He handed us each a letter, the same one I had wanted to read.
     Dear Miss Potter,
     We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted into Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
                              Deputy Headmistress,
                              Minerva McGonagall
     Behind the acceptance letter was a list of supplies.
     "They will not be going. We aimed to put a stop to this nonsense when we took them in," argued my uncle.
     Harry looked at him and shouted, "You knew?"
     My Aunt Petunia then snarled, "Of course we knew. With my perfect sister being what she was we knew you would be just the same. Of course she went and got herself blown up."
     "Excuse me, What?" I screamed, "You said my parents died in a car crash!"
     Hagrid then joined in, "A car crash killed James and Lily Potter, it's an outrage it's a scandal!"
     My uncle Vernon kept going, "I refuse to let them go!"
     "What are you, a muggle, gonna do bout' it?" shouted Hagrid.
     "Hagrid, what is a muggle?" I quickly asked.
     "It's someone who doesn't have magic."
     Harry replied, "Oh."
     In the end the argument continued but Hagrid won since he made my "precious" cousin have a literal pigtail for eating the cake that Hagrid brought us.
We would get our stuff tomorrow and start something new.