Hiya! Ok so I have been on fanfiction for a couple years, but never tried to post a story until now. I am going to try my best not to completely screw this up, so I could really use some CONSTRUCTIVE criticism and suggestions. I'm in High School so I will try my best to update every week, but that might not be possible all of the time. This story is going to be "pre-walkerness", and will follow IvyRose through the seven years at Hogwarts. The sequel will be when the Walking Dead arc happens. I am making this story MY OWN WAY, meaning it will follow the same time line, but the event will be altered to how I think they should fit in my story. This goes for both the Harry Potter arc and the Walking Dead arc. Don't like it, don't read it. Plain and simple. Ok, now that I am done boring you with all of this "fancy" talk, on to the story!

Warnings: Will be some mentions and displayed child abuse, graphic zombie slayin' (not until the sequel though), and the Dixon brothers (that requires a warning in itself!) so of course there will be cursing in this story. I might change the rating to M later on in the story, depending on how everything turns out.

Disclaimer: No matter how much my heart cries to own Harry Potter and The Walking Dead, I have no rights to either of them what so ever.

" Of all the places, WHY did your company have to send us to Atlanta for vacation!"

If you haven't guessed it yet, that was my annoying Aunt Petunia. She just doesn't seem to get that she's lucky to even go on vacation. But I'm getting ahead of myself, I haven't even told you who I am yet!

My name is IvyRose Lily Potter. I have dark red hair to the point where it looks black, and emerald green eyes. I am six years old and I love to sing and play sports, and I despise the color pink or anything remotely girly. I'll be the first to admit, I am not perfect. I have a horrible temper, and can be lazy very often, which doesn't help when you live with the Dursleys. Which brings me back to my "family". I live with my Aunt Petunia, my Uncle Vernon, and cousin Dudley. I swear, its like living with two whales and a giraffe! I guess I sound a bit mature for my age, but you would to if you lived with them. One thing I learned living there is that you have to grow up fast.

Oh! One more thing before I get back to the present, I know I am a witch. I found all of my Mom's stuff in the attic when I was forced to clean it out. Now I never leave the house without the lily necklace I found that my Dad gave my Mom. One cool thing I learned I could do is change my appearance at will! How cool is that! I love adding purple and green highlights to my hair when I'm alone, it's soooo much fun!

So, now that you know me, I should probably get back to the present. My Uncle won an all expense paid trip to a "mystery" location, and since Ms. Figg is at a family reunion, they had to take me with them. I don't see why Aunt Petunia is complaining, I think Atlanta is beautiful. I absolutely love how there is so much nature surrounding the city.

My Uncle grunted loudly." They've been trying to settle a deal with another company down here, must be the catch we were looking for in this "free" trip, huh." Wow, can you get anymore unappreciative? I thought. At this point we were walking around the city, because the hotel "wasn't to their standard". Honestly, they were just looking for things to complain about, they always do. All of us continued walking down the humid city streets, trying to stay cool in the 92 degrees weather. I'm most likely going to get either a tan or sunburn, since a freak like me doesn't deserve sunscreen. And then the most brilliant thing happened, someone bumped me as they were walking by, and I tripped. Now as you know the first reaction when falling is to grab the closest thing to you, which just happened to be my cousins arm, pulling him down with me.

( I was soooo tempted to leave it here, but I'm nice, so I won't. J )

ohh crap, I am in trouble now! I though as I watch my Uncle's face turn beet red in anger. By now then man who bumped me, and what looks to be his brother turned to watch the events take place. My Uncle bent down to grip my arm, as my Aunt fawned over her " poor Duddykins". He quickly looked around to make sure no one was watching, obviously not seeing the two brothers, and dragged me into a nearby alley.

"HOW DARE YOU INJURE MY SON YOU WORTHLESS FREAK!" My Uncle whisper-yelled at me. He raised his hand and slapped me twice. Now remember when I said I have a bad temper, well looks like you are gunna get to see that in action. I know it was stupid, but I couldn't help it, I spit in his face. He quickly turned a dark purple as his rage became more intense. "WHY YOU LITTLE BITCH!" He screamed. He raised his hand to strike me again, but before he could, a hand came out of nowhere and gripped his wrist.

" Now, me and mah brudder would like tah know, what exactly gives ya the right tah be goin' 'round hittin' lil girls like that?"

Sorry this chapters a little short, I'll be sure to make the next one a lot longer. Please Review!