"A letter, I've got your letters, oh I'm so proud!" their mother cried rushing into the room holding two pale envelopes in her hand. Everyone in the sitting room looked up at her happy face.

"Well open it, love." Their father said excitedly setting down his evening paper and gazing at his three daughters, two who seemed to take after their mother for the most part. While the third took after him.

"To Miss Lily and Iris Evans, it is my humble honor to inform you that you have both been excepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Her mother read and two of the girls smiled at each other while the third sneered.

"We made it Lily." Iris smiled at her twin sister who was grinning crazily. She gazed at her sister who was chattering like a bird with their mother, they were twins and she was the oldest by three minutes but they looked nothing alike, except for the eyes. They both shared their mother's green eyes while Lily had their mother's reddish curly hair and pale complexion. While she had inherited her father's dark hair though unlike him hers was more a very dark red that looked black and her complexion was more on the tan side.

"Mother would you let me see the letter I'd like to see what classes we will be taking." She asked.

"Of course Iris." Her mother said passing the parchment over to her. "School starts on September 1st that's in a week, tomorrow we will be going to the place marked to gather your things." She smiled, their older sister made a disgusted noise then stood storming out sneering at her younger sisters who ignored her while their father went to placate her.

After much chatting and fawning over by their mother the two sisters retired to a there shared room.

"So are you going to tell your secret friend about your acceptance?" Iris asked.

"Yes, tomorrow."

"Am I ever going to meet this mysterious person?" Her sister replied with a secret smile but said nothing. That wasn't unusual for her sister, unlike the rumor of most twins they weren't attached at the hip. They were close but like ordinary sisters. Iris and her sisters were opposites in nearly every way. She was dark while her sister was light, her sister was more popular in the muggle school than her and most interesting of all was that though they were twins they were born on different days. Lily was older by three minutes and born on September 21st while she was born September 22 at 12:02 also the first day of fall.

Lily had told her about this stranger she had met after showing there older sister Petunia what she was able to do with a flower bud and making it grow. Apparently, he had seen her do it and approached her and made the flower float. Since then she had often visited this stranger when she wanted to know about magical things, never in the two years she had been seeing him had she ever taken Iris to meet him. She wasn't even sure that the boy knew Lily had a twin sister. With a roll of her green eyes she turned off the bedroom lamp and crawled under her sheets she was tired and excited about going shopping in London marrow for her school belongings.