I wake up on a typical Monday morning with nothing out of the ordinary happening. I go downstairs and start making breakfast. My aunt said that if I made breakfast, I could not do the rest of my chores. Who am I? I'm Gemma Ravenclaw. Orphan, freak, know-it-all. I finish making breakfast as my cousin, Addie walks down the stairs. She looks very different then me, I have black curly hair and she has straight blonde, I have green eyes, but hers are brown. As weird as it is, I am jealous of her. My parents died when I was a year old, so now I am living with my aunt and uncle. They treat her like she is the best thing in the world, while I am a servant. I don't usually mind. Today is no exception.

"Good morning Gemma" Addie says as I am putting breakfast on the table. She sits down next to me.

"Morning Addie, tell aunt Penelope I will be in the park all day."
"Okay, why though?"
"Because, it's the one day a year I can do whatever I want for the whole day, and I want to climb a tree."
"Fair enough" she says.

We finish breakfast and I do the dishes. I walk over to the park and see a girl with curly red hair sitting in the tree that I climb every year.

"Hello" I call, looking up.

"Hello, what's your name?" She calls.

"I'm Gemma, Gemma Ravenclaw"
"Nice to meet you, I'm Lily Evans."

"Say Lily, do you mind if I join you up there?"
"Not at all, are you new in town?"
"No. I've lived here for ten years." I say, settling on the same branch as Lily.
"I've never seen you before"
"I don't get out much"
"Oh,"
"You like cats?"
"Yeah? Who does not like cats?"
"The strays around here are particularly friendly, there's one over there, I've seen her before" I say, jumping down. Lily follows me. The cat jumps up, and morphs into a human. We both scream.

"Miss Evans, Miss Ravenclaw, I am Minerva McGonagall, I need to talk to both of your guardians." She says
"My aunt is at home, it's not very far away?" I offer. She nods and the three of us walk to my house. My aunt comes out and sees her and gasps.

"You have come for the freak, haven't you?"
"You will not call her a freak, but yes, I did come for her"
"Good! Take her!"
"Well, this was easier than I expected, come along girls, Lily, we must talk to your parents, here is your letter Miss Ravenclaw."
"Thank you Ma'am"
"You are to call me Professor McGonagall."
"Yes Professor"
"You too Miss Evans."
"Yes Professor" Lily says quietly.
After we talk to Lily's parents, Professor McGonagall apparates us to Diagon Alley, or that's what it is called.

"Ah, Professor Flitwick! Would you mind escorting Miss Ravenclaw to get her school supplies?" McGonagall says, to a remarkably short man, who I assume is another Professor.
"Why of course Minerva" he says, gesturing me to follow him. I do and we walk to what he says is a Wizarding Bank.

I walk in, taking everything in. We go up to the counter and he says, "Miss Ravenclaw would like to make a withdrawal of her account"
"Of course" The goblin says. We follow him into a cave, we get into a mine cart. It felt like being on a rollercoaster. We got to my vault and I saw there was someone about my age at the vault to my left, he was there with his parents. I couldn't help but feel a twinge of jealousy, seeing as my parents are dead and everything. In my vault, there were large piles of bronze, silver and gold. I am handed a small, empty pouch on a string.

"It leads directly into this vault: it will work for only you. Put it around your neck" The goblin explains, I obey. He gives me a ring to wear, I notice it is bronze with sapphires and it has a picture of an eagle on the front.

We leave the store and start shopping. I get all of my supplies and then we go in for my wand.

"Good afternoon Miss Ravenclaw, here for your first wand?" He guesses. I nod. He takes a box off the shelf and hands me the wand inside. "Hickory, Unicorn Hair, twelve inches, rather stiff" I wave it and nothing happens. I try a few more wands, nothing works. I am starting to lose hope as he hands me one, "Bamboo, Mooncalf Blood, very flexible" I wave it and something good happens, I feel like the wand was made for me. My face lights up and I nod earnestly. "Bamboo? Very interesting. That is an odd pairing. That wand was not made by me. It was made by a very old wandmaker in North America, it is a very powerful combination, good luck with it, it will be seven galleons" He says, I give him the money and we walk out. We go to the magical menagerie and I see a cat that catches my eye. But I also see a Raven. I choose the Raven who flies onto my shoulder as soon as I hand the witch behind the counter my money. I get everything I need and go back to pick out a trunk. I pick one with the Hogwarts crest on the top. I purchase it and I get some candy for Addie when I get home. I get extra quills and inkwells and parchment. Even though I don't need it, I want to get them anyway. The whole time, Ebony sits, perched on my shoulder. Professor Flitwick takes me home, through a fireplace. I guess it is like teleporting, because I stepped out of my fireplace at home with all of my stuff. I thank Professor Flitwick and I take my stuff up to my bedroom. Addie walks in as I am shutting my trunk.

"Hi Gemma, where were you?"
"I'm going to a special school this year, it's a boarding school."
"Oh, I'm going to be going to a boarding school too."
"Where?"
"It's very prestigious. And it's in America"
"Cool! My school is in Scotland."
"Boring"
"No, I think Scotland is cool"
"Good for you, but America is still better" Addie says,

I sigh and cave in, "Yes, America is better than Scotland" This satisfies her, she nods and walks out.