I hear someone call my name downstairs but I can't remember who that voice could belong to. Someone knocks on my door and says, "Andromeda, come on out your god father wants to take you out for your birthday."

I fall off the window sill that I had been balancing on like it was a broom stick even though my father had yelled at me for doing it many times before. Even though I'm still on the floor I say, "Come in!"

My father opens the door and sees me in a heap on the floor from where I fell off of the window sill and I swear that I see him crack a tiny smile but no one is ever sure. He yells, "Andromeda Lily Serena Minerva Victoire Lycurgus-Snape! What in Merlin were you doing? How many times do I have to tell you not to try and balance on the window sill you will break it!"

I'm look at him and say like the rebel I am, "If I want to be a great quidditch player I have to be good at balancing." I say as I'm standing up and brushing myself off. My father then looks at the black shorts and green tank top I'm wearing and how my long black hair is in a mess down to my waist. As he sees this he narrows his eyes at me.

He yells, "You change into something proper of your status right now, Andromeda!" He then turns on his heels and walks away. Ever since I can remember I've been trying to live up to my father's name but I tend to be more like my mother than my father except everyone says I have my dad's personality. I then close the door and pull out my brush and run it through my hair and put it in a long braid down my back. I look in my closet and see the long black dress that I have that my God Father, Remus Lupin, had gotten me for New Year's last year. I pull it on and see that it fits perfectly and allows me to move in it easily. I pull on my black boots that I love wearing ever since my father got them for me for Christmas. Today is my 11th Birthday and my father already knows that I'm a witch because my father made me mad and things started flying around the room. We are only waiting on my Hogwarts letter and no matter how many time I have asked him if the quill at Hogwarts has written my name down he won't say.

I come down the stairs and see my father glaring at my god father. My father didn't want Remus Lupin to be named my god father because Remus had almost killed him in their time at Hogwarts together but my mother was friends with both boys. I inherited my mother's ability of calming a werewolf down even after he is fully transformed, her ability to call a werewolf and control them, her ability with wandless magic, and the immunity of the bite of a werewolf that has run in my mother's family for years but only the females can get it. Remus looks up, sees me and smiles at me. He and I have always gotten along even if my father hates him. Remus is always civil to my father even though my father is never civil to him. Remus tells me all about his work as an Auror in the Ministry of Magic. Since my mother was an Auror and Remus is one I want to also be one but my father doesn't agree and he keeps saying that is why my mother died, "Because she went looking for the Dark Witches and Wizards and she found some that were too strong for her when she didn't have back up." He thinks that will stop me but it just makes me want to try harder to prove to him that I can do it.

Remus smiles and says, "Are you ready to go, Andromeda?"

I look at him and nod. He holds out his arm but before I take it my father says, "Andromeda, behave yourself and remember that we are going to the Malfoy's at 6 tonight." I then take Remus's arm and we apparate to Remus's house which is where we usually go when we go out.