I'm not your normal witch, I guess that's something I should get straight right now. While other kids had the wonder of random childhood magic I could do it whenever I wanted to.

Another thing I should clear up right now is that my family is anything but normal. For example my dad has had over 5 wives. I know you'd think that by now females wouldn't want to get with him but they all seem to be flocking. The 5 wives have had quite mysterious endings his first wife for example walked off the edge of a cliff and died and the second was hit by a train. But you get the picture.

You're probably wondering what my name is its Alyssa, I'm the youngest of the Ashwood kids. Now that wouldn't seem like much except for the fact I have 12 older brothers. That's right it's not a typo 12 older brothers.

We all live with our father (considering all our mothers are dead) and don't exactly get along great. But before we get into that I best tell you all about my brothers.

Markus – the eldest is 21, born to wife number 1

Oliver – second eldest is 20, born to wife number 1

Charles and William – the eldest set of twins are 19, born to wife number 1

Ayden – fifth eldest is 19, born to wife number 2

Jason – sixth eldest is 18, born to wife number 2

Blake and Jayden – middle set of twins are 17, born to wife number 3

Jack – fifth youngest is 17, born to wife number 4

Percy – fourth youngest is 16, born to wife number 4

Leo and Max – youngest set of twins are 15, born to wife number 5

Alyssa (me) – the youngest, I'm 15, born to wife number 3

Now you might have picked up some inconsistencies that's because my father wasn't exactly a faithful man, he often had two women on the go at once. (which I personally find disgusting).

You might have also noticed how I have two 17 year old brothers, that's because my mother never suffered a tragic accident. After the birth of the twins she found out my father was going behind her back with another woman and she left. Four kids later she reappeared 'apparently' completely broke, my father a sucker for a pretty woman took her back in and nine months I'm born and she dies in child birth.

You might have noticed the 'apparently' before that's because after her passing the Ministry found her will and saw that she left her large fortune to her three kids Blake, Jayden and myself. My father was furious and tried to fight the Ministry to gain access to the vault but he couldn't access it as she had already thought of that and sealed it off from him completely.

This made my father go into isolation, he cut us off from the world only allowing us to attend school. I never saw the outside of the Manor. My brothers were allowed to play on the grounds but father considered it to improper for it for a girl to be allowed to run rampant like a boy.

On my 15th birthday my eldest brother Markus found my father dead in his study, the healers say it was suicide. 30 days later the Australian Minister for Magic arrives with fathers will.

He left us all and equal share to the money and the entire estate to his heir Markus. Unfortunately guardianship of those underage was left unknown. We didn't know if we had any close relations, but the Ministry was only to happy to help. So we were all packed and Port-keyed off to England to live with our only relatives, father's cousins the Malfoy's.