Disclaimer: I don't own any characters except the main one. and a few minors

It was a cold rainy day on Golden Street in the small Australian farming town of York. All the residents were inside busying them selves to keep their mind off the biting cold that plagued the hill. All was quiet except for the patter of the rain falling down of the roof tops and the occasional bark of a dog wanting to be let in out of the rain. All of a sudden the peaceful morning quiet of Golden Street was shattered by a shout.

"Samuel don't you DARE play silly buggers with my breakfast!"

Those neighbours that weren't deaf with age ignored the exclamation, used to the amount of noise that came out of house number 45. This house belonged to a family of six the Warnock's. The Warnock family had lived in York and the surrounding area almost 17 years and was well loved around the community and was a respected family. But every one you meet in the town would say that there was something peculiar about their second oldest child Natalie, and there was.

A few weeks ago as Natalie was getting ready for bed she saw a flash of light and had been rendered unconscious. She woke up later to find that she had suddenly obtained powers. She didn't know what the full extent were but she knew that she could control; air, earth, fire, water, the weather and atoms. She could also read the emotions of people near her.

This was why the Warnock household was in an uproar. The Australian Ministry of Magic had decided that she needed the best education and were sending her to Hogwarts School for witchcraft and wizardry in England. After much discussion and arguments and meetings, it was decided that she would go and study. But before she was to start the school term she was going to be introduced to the wizarding world by staying with a wizarding family.

And it was on this rainy day in the middle of the winter school holidays (England's summer) that a representative from the Ministry of Magic was coming to collect her

"Mum where is my shoe?" Natalie called down the passage way from her bedroom.

"Is it in your room?" her mother Tanya called back

"Umm….no it's not I remember putting it down and then…. Timothy! You little prat give that back I'm leaving in about...Now"

Natalie then proceeded to chase her youngest brother around the house to try and commandeer her shoe back before the representative came.

After wrestling her brother and finally getting all her belonging she would be taking with her to Hogwarts. She sat down and took a breather while watching her two brothers Samuel 12 years old and Timothy 10 years old have a completion calling each other fatties. Her older sister Kitty then came in carrying their Jack Russell Terrier named Cassie and plopped the poor pooch down near her dog bowl, and then marched off to hide in her temporary room. Just as Kitty left Kim, Natalie's farther came in and collected his stuff for work. He stopped and looked her up and down taking in the petite girl.

"Now, be good, study hard and don't forget that our love will be with you always" Kim started to lecture "and if you need anything just write, or call us or how ever it is that you can…..oh dear I'm running late. Goodbye sweetie-pie, look after yourself."

With that Natalie's farther kissed her forehead left for work with tears in his eyes.

Tanya and Natalie's brothers left as well saying a sad but cheerful goodbye ten minutes later. Kitty then came out of her room and gave Natalie a quick reassuring hug bade her farewell and went back into her room to get ready for her uni class.

Natalie looked at the clock on the wall in the kitchen it read 8:20 am. Who ever the representative was he was 20 minutes late. Natalie sighed and wondered for the eighteenth time that morning weather she was doing the right thing. It had taken a lot of convincing from other people to get her to go. In her opinion Magic was a bit scary, but now everyone was her to go, telling her that the training will help her with understanding herself more and find out what her destiny was to be.

The doorbell suddenly sounded bringing her from her pondering. She got up from her seat and shushed the barking dog, by booting her into the laundry then opened the door.

There were three people standing out side all looked slightly wet . One was a young female, she had a pale heart-shaped face, dark eyes that seemed to be drinking in everything around her and what shocked Natalie the most was she had bright pink hair that was short and closely cropped. The second person was a black man with no hair at all on his head he also had a single gold earring in one ear. The last person was portly man; he had a smile plastered onto his face and was twirling a lime green bowler hat in his hands, which in Natalie's opinion did not suit him at all.

"Hello" the chubby man said "I am Cornelius Fudge the Minister of Magic."

Natalie just stared. The girl snickered snapping Natalie back to realty.

"Sorry, I'm Natalie. I thought you were sending a representative." she apologized with gesturing them to come in.

"Well change of plans" said the pink hair lady brightly.

"Erm ok…I'll just get my stuff and then we can be off" Natalie made her way to her room and came back dragging a large trunk that hade been sent over, and had a messenger bag slung over her shoulder. After a nod from Fudge the black man picked up her trunk as if it was nothing.

"Come on we better be going" the minister turned towards the kitchen fireplace and threw some powder on the flames. The flames turned green and then with a quick flick of his wrist the minister caused the fire place to grow. "We have a lot of things to discuss at the ministry before you go to your wizarding family"

"Bye Kitty" Natalie hollered causing the two males to wince and the female to grin.

"See ya" was the reply.

The minister then motioned her towards the fire place and threw a hand full of power at the fire "ministry of magic England" he intoned and then pushed Natalie into the flames. Then the party of three quickly followed.

After a long while of spinning around and feeling quite sick, Natalie emerged from a large and stylish fireplace in a massive atrium. She was greeted by a smiling witch who pulled her from the fireplace just before the flames flared up and the three people that had collected her came through in a quick succession.

"Kingsley, could you place take Miss Warnock's things to the Weasley's." the minister addressed the large brown man. Who turned and left still carrying Natalie's trunk. "Miss Tonks, thank you for your assistance, you may leave now. Come Natalie lets go to my office to do business"

When they were seated in Fudge's office with a cup of tea each, they started to discuss how much per annium the ministry would pay Natalie if she kept studying at Hogwarts, to cover educational costs, where she could stay during holidays, any functions that she would attend as a guest of the ministry and other such details. It was long after lunch was served when a man cam to escort Natalie to meet her host family.

It was bright, sunny and hot in Diagon Alley, Completely opposite weather to Australia. Arthur, Fred and George Weasley strode along the cobbled walkway that wormed its way along between the shops skilfully avoiding other shoppers.

"What are we doing..?" asked Fred

"And where are we going?" finished his twin brother George.

"We are going to Gringotts to collect the Australian girl Natalie that we agreed to look after for the rest of the summer holidays." answered Mr. Weasley panting slightly.

"Oh so that's who's luggage we saw come in this morning." muttered Fred to his twin.

"Yes, and NO pranking her she's new to the wizarding world, and she's from Australia." Said Mr. Weasley sternly, eyeing his sons.

"Yes dad." they chorused identical grins of mischief pasted on their faces.

"Ah that must be her." Arthur pointed to a girl that was leaning against the side wall of one of the shops closest to Gringotts.

She was fairly short in height and filled out her clothes nicely. She was wearing a black singlet top underneath a pink ballet wraparound top and army green shorts that came halfway down her thigh. Her hair was long and slightly wavy reaching down to her waist, it was brown with some pink highlights She had brown eyes that were alert and drawing in everything around her. She stood with a straight back and shoulders had an air about her that demanded respect which was a contrast to her tan skin and the carefree smile that was on her face. She also had a messenger bag slung across her shoulders.

"Natalie Warnock?" Mr. Weasley inquired as he approached her nodding to the man that stood near her that he recognised from the ministry.

"That's me." Came the reply accompanied by a grin "you must be Mr. Weasley."

"Call me Arthur. Oh and these are Two of my sons Fred..."

"Hello"

"And George"

"Hi"

"Now have you gotten any money from Gringotts yet? No ok we will go there first" Mr. Weasley then instructed them forward towards the huge bank after seeing her negative response.

She followed them quietly taking in there appearances and checking there emotions, they seem nice people to her, but then again she had learned before that appearances can be deceiving. Mr Weasley check out ok feeling only a little curious mixed with content; the twins on the other hand reeked of mischief, curiosity, anticipation and amusement. They walked up the steps of the bank and a Natalie almost had a heart attack. There was a small creature slightly ugly in appearance standing there guarding the door. Noticing her shock and confused look George decided to fill her in.

"That's a Snoodle Imp; they are dangerous creatures and can read your mind at will."

"George!" Mr. Weasley interrupted sharply "that's enough. Its ok Natalie there not that bad and there called goblins. They control the bank. Ah ok Miss Warnock would like to get some money out of the bank"

They had arrived at a desk that seated a particularly nasty looking goblin. He asked for the key which Natalie promptly handed over, having to stand on her toes to reach up. As he looked her over she wondered if they really could read minds.

"Very well" the goblin croaked handing the key back "Follow Pernickle there and he will take you to your vault." The exited the main room and walked through a wide corridor that ended at a set of tracks leading away in to darkness. A cart rolled up to them and they all got in.

After a very wild cart ride there of which Natalie commented to the Weasley's that it was much like a roller coaster ride and her being questioned by Arthur about them they arrived at vault number 42.

"How is that you have an old family vault and wizarding money if you only just found out about us?" inquired Fred over the clunking the door made as it was being unlocked.

"Well it was part of the bargain to come here the Ministry are giving me a lump sum and then some more each year for expenses plus as I said some family of mine used to have this volt 1000 years ago and there was still some money left in it" she explained. "Other wise I couldn't come my family don't have that much money"

"We know the feeling" said George gloomily.

As they stepped in they gasped the entire vault was over flowing with bronze, silver and gold coins, as well as large tables protruding out of the sea of coins with a large assortment of books, trophies, weapons and other old things.

"How much was the lump sum?" gasped Fred.

"Umm I think it was around ….let me think, oh yer it was fifty eight thousand and six hundred galleons. Though I have no idea which ones those are."

The Weasley's stood there in shock.

"Why so much if you don't mind me asking" asked Mr. Weasley recovering from his shock.

"Apparently my family back in 1006 or so helped some wizard thing or such, over in Scotland. And a lot of the money in here is from that time. Apparently I'm, and I quote minister Fudge 'one of the richest people in wizarding England' second to only some family beginning with M, Mayfly or something" She explained

"There is way more than that here though"

"Really?" Natalie turned Pernickle the goblin look piercingly at the girl.

"We have a statement prepared for you to look over" he offered the girl a piece of parchment. Natalie took it and read

Vault 42 Warnock Family Vault

Current Heir/ Principal Withdrawer: Natalie Anne Warnock

Location: Gringotts Bank Diagon Alley

Sublevel: 4 Ancient Families

Section: Small Vaults

Current Balance855,771,729,987 Galleons and 70 Sickles and 10 Knuts

Current interest: 1.75 per annum compound

Last transactions

Balance- 855,771,729,987 Galleons and 70 Sickles and 10 Knuts

Deposit – 58,600 Galleons- Ministry of Magic England- 18/8/ 1994

Balance- 855,771,671,378 Galleons and 70 Sickles and 10 Knuts

Deposit - 1000 years interest at 1.75 per annum compounded – Gringotts Bank

13/12/994-13/12/1993

Balance- 25000 Galleons

Withdrawal – 562 Galleons and 5 Knuts – Warnock Heir- 12/5/994

Heir Security Level: Trust - not allowed to let balance fall below 80,000 Galleons

Heirlooms must stay in vault, minus any on table 2.

"Well that explains it" Natalie stated after the shock wore off

"What explains what?" asked Fred

"Well the last amount that was in here was only 25,000 Galleons but I have an interest of 1.75 per annum compounded so after 1000 years of no vault activity I have got a lot of money."

"Oh"

Natalie turned and had a quick whispered discussion with Pernickle about transferring a large sum to the Weasleys vault to cover the costs for taking her in for the rest of the summer holidays and making sure that it was non returnable. After that mission was accomplished she turned to the Weasleys.

"Now what's what?"

After having the currency explained Natalie brought out two tissues from her messenger bag and laid them on the ground. She stood back and closed her eyes then when she opened them again the tissues had turned into soft leather pouches.

"What the... you can't do that. That's underage magic." Spluttered Fred flabbergasted

"He's right you know" a grim faced Mr. Weasley stated.

"Oh what that" laughed Natalie "that's not magic as such I just rearranged the atoms by using my powers."

She then busied her self counting out coins. In one bag she counted 40 Knuts, 34 Sickles and 50 Galleons. Then remembering that the ministry was paying her 200 Galleons every year she counted a large sum of galleons into the second bag and then placed both bags in her messenger bag. They then went to leave the vault when George spotted a table with particular items on it and a large 2 hanging above it.

"What's that?" he asked pointing it out to Natalie.

Natalie walked over to it and picked something up from it. After a while looking things over she told them;

"It's my family crest and stuff. Look here's a banner, some embroidered crests, a shield, some jewellery and documents. Hmmm I think at the end of the year I'll come back and get these. Except"

Natalie picked up the crests and banner as well as a box and placed them in her bag as well. She then hefted the shield and shrunk it to fit into her pocket

"Ok let's go" she said "we have shopping to do"

They spent the rest of the afternoon collecting Natalie's school supplies; she fell in love with the book shop she found tucked away in a quiet corner of the alley and purchased several books on wizarding history and legends. She amused her self buying different types of inks and bought a lot of ink that came out multicoloured.

Finally they were on their way to Ollivanders' wand shop. Natalie stepped into the darkened shop by herself the Weasley's had offered to stay out side. She looked around the shop. To her it looked like time had ceased to exist for the small place, and she could smell the rich fragrance of wood mix with the musty smell of dust and age. She immediately took a small liking to the place.

"Good afternoon" said an old voice close to her. She jumped startled as she had not heard the speaker approach.

"Hello sir" she replied. Covering her rapid breathing "My name is Natalie"

"Ah, a nice name that is, come, come let's begin. Hold out your wand arm" the old man instructed.

"Umm sir I don't quite know how to say this, but the kind of 'magic' as you call it, that I do does not require a wand" she waited for a response.

"Ahhh, wand less magic a rare gift prey tell what is it that you can do" he had a look on his faced that indicated he knew already.

"I can control the elements, the weather and atoms." She stated

"I see, well let us try anyways you never know" she gave him a small smile as she detected his emotions of weariness and amusement when he said it

"Yes life is full of surprises." She responded.

Fifteen minutes and many wands later they decided that she really wouldn't be able to use a wand as not even a spark nor puff came form the wands. As she turned to leave he called out to her from the back of the shop to come and see something.

He was standing by a glass case that contained what looked like a ladies suit of armour only it was made of soft leather suede that was a light tan colour. It was made up of a torso covering, gloves that came to the elbow, boots, a cape and leggings, and to Natalie's complete shock it had the Warnock crest on engraved in it.

"That….that" she gaped "that's my families crest"

"Then it would seem you're not the only one of your family to have been involved in our world. This must have belonged to your ancestors that helped us along time ago." Murmured the old man. "I think this will take place of your wand."

When Natalie stepped out of the shop it was very late in the after noon. She apologized to the Weasley's and they would have nothing of it. They then made their way to the Leaky Cauldron, and Natalie was flooed to the Weasley's house.

As she stumbled out of the fire place she heard a person talking then another one exclaiming

"Who the bloody hell are you?"