Hello everyone! This is my first fic, so might as well get off to a good start. Flames are OK, I guess, but constructive criticism is preferred. Thanks to my Beta, Bekah!
DISCLAIMER: Pssh, yeah right. This applies to all further chapters
PROLOGUE
April 4th, 2007
Rita Skeeter: Hello, luvly. I, as you well know, am Rita Skeeter, freelance reporter. And you, are little Miss Rina Gene, am I correct? Yes, well, I always am.
Rina Gene: I may have lived as a muggle for the first twenty years of my life, but that does not mean I am naïve to your ways. Shall we begin?
Skeeter: Quite... Now, would you mind telling our readers a bit about yourself?
Gene: My name is Rina Gene. I am an actress in the muggle world, a curiosity in the wizarding world, and a savior in both. My mother still doesn't know that wizards and witches exist, and I doubt she would handle the information well. I am American, born and raised. I was first introduced to the possibility of magic in 1991 with the publishing of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, when I was eleven.
Everything said in that interview was the truth, except my name. My name is really Katarina Gene Springer. Can you see where I got "Rina Gene"? I am famous all over the worlds. Yes, worlds plural: wizarding, and muggle. I am a rarity. No one expected someone like me to ever exist. I defied all rules of science and magic, and walked out no worse for the wear. Am I vain? Slightly. Sarcastic? Witty? Sharp? Impulsive? Powerful? Yes, to all. Talented? In many ways. Conceited? Maybe a little. I have a great life. It's not perfect by any means, but I don't think I would trade it for anyone or anything. I have had my share of trials and tribulations, and of ecstasy and happiness. My relationship with the love of my life, my true love, started on lies, on both ends. But still, by the end of our second date, we had come clean, and knew more about each other than any other person we had ever met. We truly have seen it all. My story is a long one, beginning on my birth on July 4th 1980, and ending who-knows when. Would you like to hear it? Very well, I shall begin on the day when I received my assignment, a balmy day in late September of 1999. Where? In New York City, center of the universe.
Ooh, I'm getting all tingly! I'm going to post the first chapter right now, too, that way you actually have something to read! ;-D