Prologue

"Come back before it gets dark!" our mother shouted a last time, "And try not to get seen by any Muggles if you use your brooms!", before she stepped back and closed the wooden door.

"Wanna race with the brooms?" my older brother, Liam, asked.

"You only ask because you know I'm bad at flying."

"It's called taking advantage of the situation. You're gonna need to learn that when you go to Hogwarts next year.

"Anyway, let's go into the forest, if you don't want to take the brooms." he suggested, when a thought struck me.

"Uh, Liam, do you know Harry Potter?" I asked curiosly.

"Yeah, he's in the Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Insanely good seeker. And that only as a first year. Second year now, though." he said, walking into the dark forest behind our house.

"Can I come with you, when you go to Diagon Alley?" I asked hopefully.

"Yeah, sure. You'll have to go there next year anyway."

"I hope I get sorted into Ravenclaw. Or at least Slytherin." Apparently I said something wrong, because Liam stopped immediately.

"Why would you want to go to Slytherin of all houses?" he said, rather loudly.

"Because I'm slightly ambitious. What's so bad about Slytherin?"

"No one likes Slytherins, except for Slytherins. I hope you get sorted into Ravenclaw. I could introduce you to everyone then."

"Then I'd be a first year with several fourth years on my side. Not bad." I said imagining the great time I'd have at Hogwarts.

"Yeah, there should be people to protect you. Hogwarts isn't as safe as it used to be. You-Know-Who was at Hogwarts last year. Harry fought him again." he explained, looking as though he was thinking back.

"Anyways, where are we going?" I said, trying to change topics.

"I saw something really cool yesterday. I think it was a Kappa, at the little pond about half a kilometre into the forest. Wanted to show it to you." he said, his expression lightening up a bit.

As we could already see the pond, I became faster, to look at the Kappa. But what I saw, wasn't a Kappa, at least not a whole one. I only saw blood and what I thought would be a heart. It was gruesome and horrible. Liam pulled me back.

"We're going back home. You won't tell mom or dad what you saw, ok?" he said with a serious expression on his face.

"O-ok, but what did that?" I asked, walking fastly by the side of my brother.

"I don't know, and I don't want to know. Right n-" he was interrupted by our mother's voice.

"Oliver? Liam? Come home, it's getting dark!"

"That's mom! Let's- Wait..." I realised something wasn't right.

"You noticed it too, huh? You're a true Ravenclaw."

"Our house is in the other direction, why would mom call us from there?"

"That wasn't mom. Come on, faster."

At that point, he was practically dragging me back to the our house.

"HELP! HELP! LIAM, HELP ME, PLEASE!" We heard our "Mother" scream as though she was being torn apart.

"What if it is her?" I asked worried.

"It isn't. Just ignore it."

Just then, we heard the rustling of a bush we had passed merely ten seconds ago. I turned around and saw the most terrifying creature I've ever seen. It had the body of a deer, was walking on all four, the claws of a bear and a deer skull for a head, with blood dripping down from it's mouth.

"W-W-What is that?" I whispered, paralyzed with fear.

"Wendigo." my brother muttered.

"Incendio!"

Red sparks, then a flame came bursting out of the end of his wand. They engulfed the monster, wich let out a horrifying screech.

"RUN! TELL MOM WHAT'S GOING ON!"

Liam shouted.

"AND WHATEVER YOU HEAR, DON'T TURN BACK ALONE!"

I ran, tears in my eyes, back to our parents.

"Liam... Forest... Kappa..." I couldn't tell them. It was too difficult, my were lungs burning and I still wasn't sure what I just saw.

"Come down, buddy. So, where's Liam?" asked our father.

He was a Muggle, so I turned to our mother und whispered a word that caused my family's world to be turned upside down.

With my last breath, I whispered:

"Wendigo..." before I passed out.