I was in my room listening to my music waiting for my twin brother to walk in. He always came in about this time of night to do homework. They went to the same wizarding school and had the same classes. Every morning they woke up early and flooed to school at their scheduled time. And every afternoon they flooed back. Their mom always had dinner on the table when they were done with their homework. Their lives were just one big routine in a routine like world. Drew walked in like clock work.

"hey Ash, how's charms coming?" He asked. He hated charms and I hated DADA.

"Pretty good. Drew? Do you ever feel like our lives are just a little too routine like?" I asked him. He nodded. He hated routine just as much as I but we still kept getting dragged into it.

"Yeah, its kind of like we are on one of those shows on muggle t.v. The ones with the two kids and perfect parents. The stay at home mom and working dad. Kids top of their class." He laughed realizing how sad our little life sounded.

"Pathetic huh?" I said and we got back to our work. We were listening to the shrunken heads, they were a Carribbean band in the wizarding community. We once went to the Bahamas and saw them in concert while on vacation. Our dad's job with the ministry involved a lot of travel.

"Kids!" Our moms voice was heard from downstairs. We looked at each other and smiled.

"Like clock work." We said in unison. We walked downstairs and sat down at the table in our usual spots. Tonight was different. I could just feel it. Dad wasn't at the table yet.

"hey mom, where's dad?" I asked her as she set the last of the dinner on the table. She looked around and then at us. She seemed a little off but that was replaced by a reassuring smile.

"He's running late at work tonight. He wont be here in time for dinner. So lets eat. Ok." She said putting some potatoes on her plate. We started to eat in silence. Usually dinner was full of conversation aboutour days and classes and homework and the latest gossip. But right now there was only silence.

"Mom, today we learned how to change others hair color. And we were supposed to change our own hair color but we already know that." I said winking at Drew. We were born Megamorphous'. I took a drink of my milk. My mom believed in giving us well balanced meals and drinks. We never really got many sugary things or sodas or anything that was junk food unless we used our own money. My mom didn't seem to be listening. I glanced at Drew and he shrugged.

"Mom are you ok?" Drew asked. She glanced up at him surprised that someone else was in the room.

"Yes, yeah, of course." She mumbled. I was about to ask her what was wrong when the front door swung open with such force that it shook the whole house. Instinctively, Drew, my mom and I looked toward the door way of the dining room looking toward the entry hallway. Three tall figures walked in wearing black robes and masks. My mom grabbed us and we ran upstairs. She put a charm on her room that we had entered. Flashes of green light and red light were darting at us and past us.

"Mom what's going on! Who are those people!" I screamed. She grabbed the container of floo powder and handed it to us.

"I need you guys to go. Go to Diagon Alley and then to the leaky cauldron. Ask for a guy named Albus Dumbledore. The guy will know who you are talking about." She said to us when there was an explosion and we heard our dad yell our names.

"Daddy!" I screamed hoping he would join us. MY mom looked back toward the door. She knew what was coming. She saw that we were hesitant to leave her. She grabbed the floo powder from Drew's hands and pushed us both into the fire.

"I love you guys so much. So, so much." She said with tears in her eyes. She threw the powder into the fire and yelled Diagon Alley. The scene before us swirled too fast and we couldn't jump out in time to be with our mom. We landed in a dark and drab alley. We both stepped out of the fire.

"We need some floo powder!" Drew said. I looked around from some but we didn't see any in sight. We saw the sign that said 'Leaky Cauldron' on it. We entered the place in a hurry looking for some powder. There weren't a lot of people in there, we went straight for the guy in charge.

"We need some floo powder. Do you have any?" I asked him. He was a tall and muscular guy. He had long hair and dark eyes. He was polishing off a drink inside of a mug. He glanced down and then he shook his head no.

"Does anyone have any floo powder?" We asked all of the people sitting in the place having a good time while we were scared to death. An elderly man with a long white beard and half moon glasses stood up. He was one of the tallest people I have ever seen.

"I have some. May I ask why you need it?" He asked.

"Our parents, they are in trouble. We need to go back and help them." Drew said. I nodded. I was still in shock over what had happened and I was fearing that when we got there something might be wrong.

"I'll go with you." He said in a gentle voice.

"Fine, whatever, lets just go." Drew said taking me by the hand and leading me back to the fire that we came from. The man got into the fire with us and we yelled our household name and everything started to whirl around us.

We arrived in the fire place at our house and the first thing we saw was our mom lying on the floor. Her eyes were wide open, as if she was scared to death. Terrified. I dropped to the floor next to her.

"mom, no. Mommy wake up!" said shaking her body. Drew ran past me and into the hallway.

"NO!" I heard him yell. I was crying too hard to get up and see what was wrong. A soft hand was laid on my shoulder. The elderly man was kindly taking me away from my mom's body. I didn't fight it, I couldn't stand there looking at her anymore.