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Chapter 1: Through the Portal

An eleven years old girl, who held the hand of her two years younger little sister, hurried through the crowd at King´s Cross station. Her golden blond hair was as usual pulled up in a braid that reached just below her shoulder blades and her sapphire blue eyes shined with excitement.

The girl walked so fast she bumped into a lot of people and had to apologise.

"Jennifer MacAvity slow down, it isn´t good for our reputation if you knocked people over," her mother Anne MacAvity said irritably.

It was only the girl's mother who called her by her full name, her father, Henry MacAvity, called her Jenny but everyone else called her Jen.

"But, mother, the train is nearly here and I want to see when they come out from the platform," Jen said excitedly before she started to drag her little sister Olivia even faster through the crowd.

Their parents followed them in a much slower pace.

When they came to the wall between platform 9 and 10 they stood and waited next to a group red haired people. After five minutes the first of the students stated to come out of the wall.

It didn´t take long until a blond and blue eyed boy of fifteen came out of the portal laughing together with two of his class mates. The boy was pushing a trolley whit a trunk and on the trunk were a cage with a brown barn owl.

"Peter!" Jen called before rushing to him and throwing herself around his middle in a tight hug. "I missed you!"

"I missed you too, little sister." Peter said before hugging her back.

After he had hugged Jen he hugged Olivia too but he only said a polite hello to their parents. After they had all said hello they started to walk back to the car.

Peter had just finished his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; Jen could still remember how the strange man, that they later discovered was a wizard, had barged into their house and told Peter he was a wizard. None of them had believed him until he had turned one of the flower pots into a turtle with a flower growing from the shell.

Jen, Peter and Olivia had all been really excited about that magic existed but their parent's hadn´t been nearly as excited. Both Mr and Mrs MacAvity were very successful lawyers and they didn´t want anything ruining their reputation and if one of their children was a wizard they thought that that could definitely ruin their reputation.

They had nearly forbidden Peter to go to Hogwarts but he had begged them until they finally said yes. But they also said that they didn´t want to have anything to do with anything magic.

So Peter had gotten a bit of money from their parents and then he had followed the wizard to a place that was called Diagon Alley.

Jen and Olivia had also wanted to come with them but their parents had forbidden it. Jen who had been seven at the time had been very angry and cried and screamed before she had ran up to her room and cried.

Jen´s parents had never let her follow Peter to Diagon Alley, they said that they didn´t want Jen or Olivia to become like him and that they believed that if the sisters were allowed to go to Diagon Alley it was more likely that they took after Peter.

When the whole family MacAvity had packed themselves into the car Mr MacAvity started to drive home from King´s Cross.

"Peter, you got to tell us about your year!" Olivia said excitedly.

"I´ll do it when we come home," he laughed as he ruffled her brown hair, but Jen saw him cast a glance at their parents disapproving looks.

Jen and Peter had both taken after their father with golden hair and sapphire blue eyes. In fact people always use to say that Jen looked like a girl version of Peter. Olivia, though, had taken after their mother with forest green eyes and chocolate brown hair.

"But while we are waiting till we come home you can tell me about your year," Peter said and looked at Olivia expectantly.

Olivia immediately cast herself into a long story about her really good grades and her friends.

Olivia had always good grades and was really good at making friends and neither any of their parents nor had any of the siblings seen her do any accidental magic. It was no surprise that Olivia was Mr and Mrs MacAvity´s favourite child.

Before they knew Peter was a wizard he had been their parents favourite. He had always been good in school and gotten the highest grades in class, he was polite and he had had a lot of friends.

Jen had always been the odd one out of the three siblings. She got okay grades but she didn´t have many friends, she was in fact bullied at school. She had also shown many signs of accidental magic, to her parent's great disappointment. Jen was really glad that she was showing signs of magic because she really wanted to get in to Hogwarts.

Mr and Mrs MacAvity hated that Jen was showing signs of accidental magic and tried to tell her to not do it again, when she had done some form of accidental magic, but Jen always said she didn´t do it knowingly. Her parents didn't believe her and she was often admonished of her parents for it.

Suddenly Jen realised that Olivia had stopped talking so she looked up and out of the window and saw that they was nearly home. They had just drove onto Rose Street with it´s perfect three storey houses painted in pale pink or pale yellow, perfectly cut hedges and lawns and the expensive cars. Jen had always hated living here, everyone living here was rich and the only thing they cared about was their money and showing others that they were rich.

If you ever walked into one of the houses it was like walking into a furnishing magazine and the pale pink house with a number seven on that belonged to the MacAvity´s were no different. Their cars were expensive, their lawn and hedges perfectly cut and the house perfectly furnished. The only difference from the other hoses was that the pictures of the children at the mantel piece and the children's rooms on the third floor, that they had furnished themselves.

Olivia's room was nearly all pink and was styled like a girl of nine would like. Peter had styled his room in blue and bronze so he could show that he belonged to Rawenclaw house at Hogwarts. He also had a lot of books that was stuffed in a bookcase, a large desk where he could do his homework and a place beside the window for his owl Popcorn. Jen´s room was quiet simple she had a big bookcase, a desk and an armchair where she could sit and read.

They drove up to their hose and everyone jumped out, their parents and Olivia walked up to the house while Peter took out his trunk and Jen helped him with Popcorn´s cage. They walked up to Peter´s room and he dumped his trunk at the foot end of the bed while Jen put Popcorns cage on the desk and then let him out of the cage.

About five seconds after Jen let Popcorn out of his cage Olivia came into the room.

"You know Popcorn isn´t allowed to be out of the cage," she said as fast as she saw him flying around the lamp in the ceiling.

"What mother doesn't know, doesn´t hurt her," Jen said. "Besides he has been sitting in a cage all day so he deserves to stretch his wings a little bit."

Olivia nodded before she went and sat on Peter's bed; Jen followed her and sat down beside her.

"Can you tell us about your year at Hogwarts now Peter?" Olivia asked excitedly.

"Yeah! Please, Peter!" Jen said as excitedly as her little sister.

"Okay, Okay!" Peter said laughing. "Well as I told you in my letters I have been chosen to play Beater at the Rawenclaw Quidditch team."

"It´s you who´s beating at the Bludgers, right?" Jen asked.

Jen and Olivia had each gotten a book about Quidditch from their brother for Christmas in his first year and Jen had read it at least a thousand times.

"Yes, exactly!" Peter said with a smile. "We on the team trained really hard but we lost against both Gryffindor and Slytherin but we won against Hufflepuff."

Peter proceeded to tell them about his year at Hogwarts and he finished his story by telling them about how Rawenclaw had come on third place in the house cup after Gryffindor and Slytherin.

When he had finished telling them about his year Olivia went down to help their parents with the food while Jen stayed.

"So how has your year been?" Peter asked Jen as he put Popcorn back in his cage again.

"It has been quiet good," Jen said. "Danvers and her gang hasn´t been that bad and my grades are actually better, even math."

Tracy Danvers was the girl that was bullying Jen at school. Tracy had a gang that always helped her bully Jen and all of them lived at Rose Street. Worst of all was that Tracy lived next door.

"And have you been showing any more signs of accidental magic?" Peter asked.

"I think I have," Jen said. "But mother and father don't know."

"Okay, what did you do?" Peter said smiling.

"Danvers was teasing me in the cafeteria and I got a bit angry and suddenly she wasn´t in front of me anymore, she was at the other side of the cafeteria lying in the food trays." Jen said. "And I promise that it was an accident, I didn´t do it willingly!"

Peter looked at her for some seconds before nodding.

"I believe you."

"Thank you!" Jen said and hugged her brother.

Just when Jen ended the hug they both heard Mrs MacAvity calling that the food was ready and they walked down to the bottom floor, where the dining room where, to eat with the family.