Waking up on your eleventh birthday is like a dream. Mine is in the middle of the summer so I wished to sleep in. But my parents had other ideas.

"Wake her up Henry," I heard a voice whisper in the dark.

"I can't find the light switch darling," my Mum whispered.

Suddenly, light flooded the room, I sat up blinking at the harsh light. "Mum? Dad? Is that you?"

"Surprize!" Mum walked forward, balancing a red velvet birthday cake between her hands. "Go on now, blow out the candles."

I sucked in a huge breath and blew out the candles, all eleven of them. "Thank you."

"Run along and get dressed, I made breakfast for you and Elizabeth, Grace get out of bed!"

Yes, my name is Grace Angelo and I live in England, my best friend is Lilly Potter and I have an older sister Elizabeth in the room next to me. She is sixteen and has long redish brownish hair, while mine is a medium sized dirty blonde.

Pulling on jean shorts and a shirt, I run downstairs and is immedietly hit with the smell of breakfast. Elizabeth is already at the table, she's wolfing down her toast like there's no tomorrow.

"Hey you pig, save some for me," I punched her in the shoulder and sat down.

"Well Princess, just because it's your birthday doesn't mean you get more food than usual."

I scowled at the name she called me, "don't call me Princess. I've told you that exactly forty seven times already."

"Don't go all smart on me," Elizabeth scowled and buttered another peice of toast.

I quickly finished my breakfast, "can I go to the park. Please Mum?"

She turned around from the stove and sighed. "Sure, come back by lunch today."

I raced out the door and ran to the park where I would meet my best pal Lilly. Lilly was sitting glumly on the swings when I saw her, one leg was tucked under her and one leg was dangling in front of her which met she didn't want to swing today.

"Lilly! Hello Lilly!" I ran over to her and sat down on the swing next to her. "What's wrong Lilly?"

It took Lilly a five second count to respond, "I won't be returning to school next year."

"Well why not?" I grabbed the chains holding the swing up.

"I'm going to a boarding school in Scotland," Lilly said but I could tell she was holding her excitement back.

"What? But you cannot leave your best friend to go deal with Regina's friends." I was talking about the school bully that always picked on Lilly and I.

"I'm sorry, I have no choice. You're going to have to deal with Regina's friends yourself." Lilly's blue eyes shone with tears and some happiness.

Anger welled up inside me but I pushed it down, "can't I come with you?"

Lilly chuckled, "I wish you could but they only accept special people."

I crossed my arms, "special people? What's that supposed to mean?"

"I mean you're a mug- I mean just don't qualify for the school." Lilly tried to explain but my pateince was wearing thin.

I stood up abruptly and turned my back on her, "I'm going home now. Goodbye."

"Grace wait-" Lilly called out to me but I already began sprinting home.

I sprinted to my house and slammed the door shut, somebody new was in the kitchen so I peeked around the corner. It was a women with a pointy hat, long green robes and black hair.

"Oh good Grace is home," I heard my Mum say. "Grace can you come here for a second."

I cautiously walked into the kitchen, "yes Mum?"

Mum looked very nervous, "this is Minriva McGonagall. She is the headmaster at- what is it?"

"Hogwarts," Minriva said. "You have been excepted into Hogwarts."

I sat down between Mum and Dad. "But I didn't apply for Hogwarts."

Mum took my hand, "dear. This is a special school, I don't believe it but you are a- you're a witch dear."

"A witch? Like in the fairy tails?" I wrinkled my nose up at the thought."

"Oh dear," Minriva said. "I am a witch too. Just watch." She took out a long stick and pointed at a teacup. "Wingardium Leviosa!" The teacup began to rise and it went where the stick went.

"Whoa," I said in amazement. "That is amazing."

Elizabeth chose that moment to walk in, "holy god-"

Minriva handed me a thick letter, "this is your letter. Read it over, it is your supplies list. If you accept I will taking you and your family to Diagon alley where you would get your supplies."

I quickly scanned the letter, "I accept!"

She smiled, "great! Gather your things I will take you shopping. Take my hand," she held out her arm.

We all grabbed her arm, even Elizabeth and suddenly we were in a new place. Traveling like that made my ears pop and Elizabeth was a pale as a sheet.

Mum and Dad looked around, "where do we get the pounds to pay for this eh?" Dad asked and scratched his neck.

"I've got money," Minriva said. "There are many kinds of wizard money. There is Knutts, galleons and sickles," she quickly explained wizard money.

Dad was drinking in everyword, "that's facisnating!"

"Our kind thinks Muggles are facisnating," Minriva said with a smile.

"Muggles?" I asked, "what is a muggle?"

"Non magic folks like your parents here deary," she patted my head.

I had a lot of questions to ask but I had to keep them coming out slow, "who is the most powerfull Wizard off all time?"

"Well, back about twenty years ago, there was a headmaster named Albus Dumbledore-" her voice cracked. "He was killed by the dark lord- lord Voldemort." She shuddered, "then Voldemort was killed by Neville Longbottom and Harry Potter."

"Potter? I have a friend named Lilly Potter? Are they somehow related?" I said as we started walking.

"You know Lilly Potter? That will make your life much easier. Yes Lilly is Harry's son. I will explain more later," she turned into a shop called Florish and Blotts where we got my books. I was already reading them by the time we went to get our cauldron supplies.

"Grace, stop reading and pay attention where you are going," Mum scolded me.

"Sorry Mum," I said sheepishly.

We got all of my school supplies and even my own wand! It was 12 inches, dragon heart string with holly wood! I couldn't wait to hex Regina..."

"And you must not practice magic in front of Muggles," Proffessor McGonagall said. She told me to call her that.

"But I can't hex bullies?" I complained and I grabbed her arm again.

We traveled again back to our house and then McGonagall left. Elizabeth was steaming mad by then, her eye was twitching and her forehead was red. Mum told me to go pack all my stuff in the truck, I skipped up the stairs to my room and Elizabeth fallowed me.

"So we have a witch in the family huh?" Elizabeth spat and picked up one of my books which happened to be Hogwarts, a history.

"Hey put that down!" I snatched the book from her and put it in my trunk.

Elizabeth crossed her arms and glared at me, "you think you're so perfect huh? Hogwarts? That sounds like a desiese."

"Shut up, You're just jealous," I said cooly, keeping my anger in check.

She sat down on my cluttered desk, "do you even know how you're going to get there?"

"Yes I have to go to Kings Cross station and take the train nine and three quarters." I said, refering to the ticket she gave me.

"There is no such thing," Elizabeth said cruely before exiting my room.

After everything was packed in my trunk I laid down on my bed, what do I do now? School doesn't start until September and it's the middle of August. Suddenly, a snowy white owl fluttered up to my bedroom window and tapped the glass with his beak. I opened the window and took the letter that was rolled in it's beak. It was from Lilly!

Dear Grace,

I heard you're a witch eh? This is how wizards comunicate in our world. We don't use those silly muggle phones. Anyway, what house do you hope to be in? I want to be in Griffindor! Albus is in Slytherin and James is in Griffindor! See you tomorrow or are we still going to the park like we usually do?

From, Lilly Potter.

What the hell was she talking about? Griffindor and Slytherin? I already live in a house. Sighing as the sun went down, I pulled out Hogwarts a History and turned to the first page.