Disclaimer: I do not and will probably never own any of the rights to J.K. Rowling's works. There, I said it.

"I'm going out!" I yelled to my mom as I raced out the door to meet my friends at the movies. I didn't really talk to my mom or my sister and, as it was summer, I never spent any time at home. Right then, my friends and I were meeting at the Cinema to sneak into a movie and basically squander the rest of the warm, welcoming day. Thinking about that almost made me want to change plans and go play soccer with Lavender. But then I remembered that my twin sister and me were currently not speaking. Not wanting to dwell on our latest argument, I pushed all thoughts of Lavender from my head and jogged to the Cinema.

Halfway through the movie, one of my friends, Kate, left for the bathroom. When she came back, and older man was following her with a grim look on his face, scanning the theater for something. Then she pointed at me and the older man squinted in my direction, beckoning me over to him. Thoroughly confused I stood up and walked over to where the two of them were standing. He walked out of the theater and Kate motioned for me to follow him. So I did.

"Are you Holly Brown?" He asked me in the hallway.

"Yes. Do I know you?" I didn't recognize him at all, so his knowing my name was really creeping me out. Why had Kate trusted him?

"You don't know me. I work for the Ministry of Magic, and I need you to come with me. We need to go have a talk with Miss Lavender Brown. I assume you're twins, based on how much you two look alike." He then turned and walked away. And once again I followed, wondering why the whole time because he could've been some insane stalker or something. But something made me follow him. There was just something that pulled me after him.

What did the Ministry of Magic want with me anyways? I wasn't a witch. There wasn't a magical drop of blood in my veins. (A/N, I have no idea if Lavender is muggleborn or not) Lavender was the one who got the letter of acceptance into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She's the one who went to boarding school every year and she's the one who knows the famous Harry Potter.

We walked down several long, bending back roads until we came to a large Oak tree. The man pulled out a stick of wood, poked the tree, and muttered something. Suddenly a handle appeared on the bark which the man twisted and pulled open, revealing an opening, which he then climbed through. Astonished, I followed.

We were in what looked like an interrogation room. Lavender was already sitting at the table in the middle of the room, with her back towards me. I sat down in the chair next to her and the man sat across from us. That's when I looked at Lavender and saw the tears stains running down her face. Now she seemed to be staring off into space. I got a strong sense of foreboding. I knew that the reason we were here wasn't a happy reason.

"You-Know-Who has claimed three muggle lives today outside of a 'Blockbuster's' food store." I didn't correct him. "One of the lives belonged to a Miss Ivy Brown, age 42, brown hair, black eyes, approximately five foot, seven inches…."

I didn't comprehend anything else he said, though I'm sure he continued talking. I just sat there looking off into space. Who did he think he was kidding? Mom wasn't dead! She couldn't be! It just wasn't possible! Yet the never-ending description pouring from the Ministry man's mouth was just too much of a coincidence. This couldn't be happening. I had just seen mom this morning. What were we going to do? How would we live without mom? Panic started inside me and flashbacks started rolling inside my head. Painting fingernails, skipping rocks, playing soccer, baking pounds of disheveled flour and eggs that slightly resembled cakes, dressing up for Halloween, setting up tents in the backyard, singing, watching movies.

She couldn't be gone. She wasn't gone. This was just some sick joke. But then I looked at Lavender and I saw fresh tears rolling down her cheeks and knew that the awful man from the ministry was telling the truth. Shock fully overtook me.

"Miss Brown!" The man snapped, obviously annoyed that I hadn't answered him earlier, even though Miss Brown could be referring to either Lavender or me. I wanted to slap him. I needed my grieving time, so how dare he intrude on my emotions!

"What!" I shouted back at him. He looked surprised.

"I was just saying that we need to figure out what to do with you now." What to do with me! Like I was some kind of object that needed storage! "You can live with your father if you choose to," I felt my face pale. There was no way I was going to go back to live with that bastard! "But I think that there is another choice that would work out well." I waited. He was probably going to stick me inside of some muggle zoo so that magical people could point and gawk at me. "You can go to Hogwarts with your sister. It would be a great learning experience to live in the magical world. You would go to class and do the written homework, but you wouldn't be expected to perform any magic." Get away from this world? That sounded like it might be a good idea at this point in time. I nodded my head in agreement and promptly burst into tears. "Well if that's settled then, I'll just leave you two to grieve. Feel free to leave any time. We will send you more information as the summer reaches its end." And the man left us there crying. Bastard.

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Three weeks had passed since my mother's death when an owl flew into Kate's room, where I had been staying. I couldn't bear to go back to my house with all the memories resting there. Cautiously I opened up the letter and pulled out the parchment inside. There was a list of school supplies and a letter telling me that I would be staying in the same dorm as my sister, in Gryffindor.

Kate walked in and I showed her the letter. I had told her that I was going to be going to boarding school with my sister, but she didn't seem to understand the whole 'it's a magical school' thing. She read the letter with a sad look on her face. This would be the first year we weren't going to the same school. She had been my best friend ever since the beginning of Kindergarten when she had moved into the house behind mine. I stood up and hugged her, but we both knew that we would be parting ways in less than three days, when my school started. We decided to find Lavender and all three of us would go to Diagon Alley. Kate was allowed to go into the magical world because her family was hosting me.

Lavender led the way into the Leaky Cauldron, out the back door, and next to the trash can, and then she created a doorway in the large brick wall, leading into Diagon Alley. Kate looked shocked. That was the first bit of magic she had seen. We stepped into the magical world and got shopping. None of us felt like talking much, so the shopping passed by a lot faster than it would have normally. I still couldn't believe my mom was dead and gone, just like that.

I felt tears well up in my eyes again, and Kate squeezed my shoulder comfortingly. I wondered how much longer her death would hurt. I didn't think I could stand it much longer. We walked back to the muggle world and took a taxi home.

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It was the day. Hogwarts started today. I would be leaving my life behind and starting all over in a place where no one knew my name, no one knew my past, and no one had passed any judgment on me yet.

Lavender and I walked through the barrier onto platform 9 3/4. She was now allowed to do magic again, so she placed a cheering charm on both of us so that we could get through the day without seeming too depressed. An eccentric girl immediately ran up to Lavender and embraced her. "Um, nice to see you too Parvati." So this was Parvati. Parvati stepped back and glanced at me quickly. Then her eyes did a double take. I guess Lavender never bothered telling her she had a twin. Parvati was still glancing back and forth from me to my sister to me to my sister.

I grinned and introduced myself to her. "I'm Holly, Lavender's sister." Suddenly another Parvati appeared by Lavender and I guessed I wasn't the only twin at Hogwarts.

"Hey Padma!" Lavender exclaimed. Then she linked arms with the identical twins and walked away, onto the train.

I stepped onto the train and found an empty compartment where I sat down. After a couple minutes the compartment door slid open again and three people filed into my compartment. One of them had an unusual scar on his forehead, one was a redhead, female, and the last one was a slightly chubby boy with a wary look on his face.

"Finally, a semi-empty compartment!" The last boy exclaimed as he sat down across from me. He extended his hand towards me. "I'm Neville Longbottom, and these are my friends Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley." I shook his hand, thankful that people were friendly here.

"I'm Holly Brown, Lavender's sister. I'm a muggle, but I've been stuck at Hogwarts this year anyways." The three of them stared at me curiously.

"You mean to say you have absolutely no magic in your blood?" The scarred boy asked.

"Yup."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Harry Potter, I'm from a muggle family myself."

"I know who you are. Lavender's had a crush on you for years." Harry laughed.

I turned to the redhead. "Are you Ron's sister? You have such red hair!" Harry laughed harder. Ginny glared at him and whapped him on the back of the head.

"Yes." She responded to my question. For the next while, Harry and Ginny tried to explain to me what Hogwarts would be like, and Neville sat staring at me in wonder. At the end half an hour Luna Lovegood, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger had also shown up.

The door slid open again, but this time it wasn't a friendly face looking in at us. A pale boy with blond hair and a body to die for was glaring at all of us.

"Whose the new Golden girl?" He inquired, rudeness coating every word.

"Get out Malfoy." Harry snarled at him. Malfoy just smirked.

"No, I don't think I will." He stepped into the compartment, headed towards me and raised his wand. Suddenly I began to feel like I was floating in space. It was the best sensation in the world. 'Tell him who you are' a voice said inside my head.

"My name is Holly Brown." I felt the words roll of my lips as if they weren't my own. Malfoy seemed surprised and as suddenly as it had started, the floating sensation disappeared.

"You mean Brown as in Lavender Brown? Brown has a sister?" I nodded weakly. Harry was looking furious.

"That was an illegal curse Malfoy! Get out of the compartment now or I will hex you overlarge ass off."

Malfoy ignored him and continued talking to me, still with the rudeness coating every word. "Dumbledore let in a muggle! Father will be pissed! This should be interesting. So tell me, why are you just now starting at Hogwarts. Did mommy decide she didn't want you anymore? Or are you running away from Daddy because he hit you one too many times?" I was furious. He had no idea what had happened to me and he was treating me like dirt; as if he was better than me.

"Fuck off." I spat at him

"Hit a nerve, did I?"

"Leave her alone Malfoy."

"Make me."

"Gladly."

There was a blast like a cannon as Malfoy shot backwards, through the glass doors, landing in the hallway with a loud thump. With another wave of his wand, Harry had repaired the glass doors, leaving Malfoy in the hallway. I laughed. Malfoy stood up and shook himself off. Then he looked right at me. A harsh voice spoke in my head. 'This isn't finished Mudblood.' With that, he walked off.

"What's a mudblood?" I asked.

"Where'd you hear that?"

"Around." I didn't want to say I was hearing voices, even if I was almost positive it was Malfoy speaking in my head.

"It's an offensive term for a person of from a muggle family."

"Oh."

The rest of the train ride passed without incident, and I was getting incredibly nervous. I hoped that there weren't too many more jerks like Malfoy because I didn't know if I would be able to stand them. But the alternative would be living with my dad and going to school over there. There was no way I was ever even looking at my dad again. I would never forgive him for everything he did. I would welcome Hogwarts with an open mind. I would make mom proud of me. This year was going to be a year of change. Not just for me, but for the whole magical world as well.

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REVIEW! EVEN IF THERE ARE MORE CHAPTERS AND U WANNA WAIT TILL UR DONE, I DON'T CARE, REVIEW NOW ALREADY DAMNIT I'm gunna put in more Draco later on, so PLEASE READ IT..

this is like the fourth version of this chapter, and there will probably be many more to come.. sigh I guess I'm just really picky and I can never get all the mistakes in one or two goes. ah well.. right now i have 13 chapters up.. YAY.. and im still only like 6 weeks into the school year... im so pathetic.. heehee. and in real life theres only 14 more days in my school year. WHOOOO im excited for summer.. i soooo cant wait.. aggggg now im all gettin hyped up

I don't think my next chapters are as depressing. I just needed to introduce the whole background for my fanfiction. Yeah. This is my first fanfic, so have mercy. Please. Pretty please. But please review. Thanx: ) : D