A/N: I don't own Harry potter. Just this fanfiction.

"I don't care what you think,

As long as it's about me

The best of us can find happiness, in misery"

I don't care, Fall Out Boy

Hey. My name is Azalea Primrose Evans. I was born on the 30th of January, 1960. I'm also a witch. Not one of those old hags from the fairytales, with warts. In fact, if I were to go out in public, I wouldn't be recognized as a witch.

I also have a twin sister named Lily. We had very similar appearances, with our eye color and hair length and color as our main distinguishing features. Lily had striking green eyes and long, silky red hair flowing down her back, while I had short, messy brown hair and brown eyes. We both weren't very popular in primary school, either. The boys and girls thought us freaks, whenever Lily made flowers bloom in the winter, and whenever I got mad at someone, they tripped over themselves. As you can imagine, most kids don't want to be scared or their friends.

I found it odd when the summer after our 10th birthday, a boy approached Lily and me in a park. He introduced himself as Severus Snape and started teaching us that. That was when the best, and worst, times of my life started.

Lily and I learned a lot from Sev about magic, and we got a new friend. Our older sister, Petunia, didn't like him, but she didn't have very good taste in friends. For the next Muggle school year, we were inseparable. Once we got our Hogwarts letters, Tuney started disliking Sev even more.

Soon enough, we were on our way to Hogwarts. Lily had been pleading for Tuney's forgiveness for the entirety of the car ride to the King's Cross and through the passageway to Platform 9 3/4...

"...I'm sorry, Tuney, I'm sorry! Listen, maybe once I'm there- no, listen Tuney! Maybe once I'm there, I'll be able to go to Professor Dumbledore and persuade him to change his mind!" Lily cried, grasping Tuney's hand, unwilling to let go.

"I don't- want- to- go!" shrieked Tuney, shaking off Lily's grip. "You think I want to go to some stupid castle and learn to be a - a-"

Her piercing blue eyes scoured the platform's inhabitants with caged owls and cats, over the students in black robes and weird, black hats, over the parents in weird arrangments of Muggle clothes. She turned her gaze back to Lily, a venomous glare in her eyes.

"-you think I want to be a - a freak?" Tuney sneered.

"Sure seemed like it when you begged Dumbledore to let you into Hogwarts." I muttered, seeing the tears swelling in Lily's eyes. Tuney turned her glare to me.

"Beg? I didn't beg!"

"I saw his reply. It was very kind, much more kind than your reply to Lily's offer of talking to Dumbledore." I countered.

"You shouldn't have read-" Petunia whispered, horrified, "that was my private-how could you-?" Lily and I both half-glanced at Sev. Tuney gasped.

"That boy found it! You two and that boy have been sneaking in my room!" Tuney accused, her stone-hard glare impaling Sev.

"No- not sneaking- Sev saw the envelope, and he couldn't believe a Muggle could have contacted Hogwarts, that's all! He says there must be wizards working undercover in the postal service who take care of-" Lily defended.

"Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!" muttered Petunia. "Freak!" she added venomously, then scampered off to our parents.

We quickly gathered our trunks and said our goodbyes. After our spat with Petunia, we had a quarter hour to get on the train. I had just pulled out a book in an empty compartment while Lily stared out the window, when two rambunctious boys opened the glass door.

"All the other compartments are full. Can we sit here?" asked the boy with messy, black hair, hazel eyes, and glasses. I glanced up. He had a mischievous sense about him, like he was constantly planning a prank to pull. The other boy seemed much more aristocratic. He had long, black hair, grey eyes, and high cheekbones.

Lily and I nodded our consent, and the boys sat in front of us. I returned my attention to my book. It was about the popular wizarding sport, Quidditch and the main teams of Great Britain.

"My name's Sirius. What's yours?" asked the grey eyed boy.

"Azalea," I replied, without looking up.

Sirius positioned his head so that he could see the title if my book.

"Quidditch throughout the Ages, huh? I fancy you're excited for flying lessons this year." Sirius continued. I nodded my head, unfazed by his attempt at small talk. I could hear the other boy trying for a conversation with Lily.

After an hour or two, I had finished reading my book. All my other books were in my trunk, so I started attempting a conversation with Sirius. He responded, pleased that I had stopped reading. He introduced me to his friend, James, and we started talking about Hogwarts.

A sharp rap on the door interrupted the conversation, and I turned to see Sev.

"I don't want to you," she said, tears swelling in her eyes.

"Why not?

"Tuney h-hates me. Because we saw that letter from Dumbledore." Family was always important to Lily.

"So what?" Sev never understood her whole idea of family.

"She's my sister!"

"She's only a-" he shook his head." But we're going! This is it! We're off to Hogwarts!" Lily nodded. I glanced at James and Sirius, both absorbed in their own world.

"You'd better be in Slytherin," Sev said, pleased with her new attitude.

"Slytherin?" James questioned. "Who wants to be in Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" Sirius, however, did not smile.

"My whole family have been in Slytherin," he said.

"Blimey, and I thought you seemes all right!" James joked. Sirius cracked a grin at this.

"Maybe I'll break the tradition. Where are you heading, if you've got the choice?"

James lifted an imaginary sword.

"'Gryffindor, where the brave dwell at heart!' Like my dad."

Sev made a soft grunt and rolled his eyes.

"Got a problem with that?"

"No. If you'd rather be brawny than brainy-"

"Where're you hoping to go, seeing as you're neither?" interrupted Sirius. James roared with laughter. Lily stuck up, and looked from James to Sirius with blatant dislike smeared on her face.

"Come on Severus, let's find another compartment."

"Ooooooo..."

James and Sirius mimicked Lily's voice, trying to trip Sev on his way out. I stood up with my things and made my way out, eventually returning and kicking the boys hard in the shins. I couldn't let them go scot-free for bullying Sev and Lily, could I?

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