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Prologue
Sitting in a bench over looking Merlin Lake was a young black girl who appeared to be about six or so. Her pale grey eyes clouded with tears and her café-au-it complexion reddened from the onslaught of her emotions. As her body shook with sobs, a boy around the same age with wild black hair and hazel eyes underneath glasses wrapped his arms around her and ran his hand down her back in comfort.
"It'll be okay, Alise," he said. "I promise everything will be okay"
The girl who had tensed up when she felt someone touching her, relaxed when she heard the boy speak. Turning to him, she looked up at him with sorrow filled eyes.
" How can you honestly believe that, James?" she asked as her voice weaving. "Everything is changing. My mum's died because of a stupid muggle and the stupid minister put my father in Azkaban because he hexed said muggle." By now Rain's voice rivaled the shriek of a howler. " But you want to know the worst of it all is James? I have to move to America to stay with my god parents until my father is freed."
James stared at his best friend in shock. All he could do was gape at his best friend with his mouth wide open. Blinking a few times, he finally managed to regain control of his voice.
"Whoa wait a minute" he said confused " I thought your god parents were lived in London. Why the bloody hell would you have to move to America." Alise sighed before looking out at the lake.
"Apparently the ministry decided to make my god-father the ambassador to the American Ministry. Which means I'm moving to New York City with them and I don't think that I going to come back soon."
She said before breaking down in tears again. James pulled Alise on to his lap, letting her bury her face in his shoulder and gave her his silent support as she cried herself into an uneasy sleep. Looking down at his best friend, he prayed, for the first time in his life, that if she left they would meet again.