The Twins Who Lived

Summary: What if Lily and James had not one, but two children, twins. Follow Harry and Jade Potter as they make it through their years at Hogwarts known as the children who overcame Lord Voldemort, known as the twins who lived…

Chapter 1

"Up! Get up!" Petunia Dursley banged on the door of the cupboard under the stairs, much harder than necessary. Ten year old Jade Potter opened her brilliant green eyes from behind the door. She quickly shut them again, trying to get back to sleep; she had been having an amazing dream before she was woken by her aunt. The dream involved a flying motorbike, a giant and a lot of green flashes. It was the kind of dream that would get her locked in the cupboard for weeks if her Uncle Vernon found out.

Hearing a loud crash, she sighed and sat up. Trying to go to sleep now was hopeless as she heard what seemed like the start of one of Dudley's infamous tantrums.

Yawning, she allowed her eyes to adjust to the semi-darkness before standing up and brushing the sawdust out of her silky, black hair.

"Harry!" she exclaimed while pulling her overlarge jumper over her head, marveling at how her twin managed to sleep through the racket their cousin Dudley was creating. Apparently his eggs weren't scrambled enough and the tantrum he was throwing literally shook the house.

"Oi freaks! Wake up!" Harry groaned at the high pitched screech of Dudley's sister, Veronica as she stomped down the stairs.

Dodging the pillow Jade flung at him he stood up unsteadily, still rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He pulled a harmless spider out of his shoe and quickly got dressed while his sister continued to brush her long hair. Running a hand through his own wild tresses he followed Jade out into the kitchen.

They were met with complete chaos in the usually spotless kitchen. Seeing a flying plate of scrambled eggs hurtling towards them, Harry ducked, pulling Jade with him. They twisted around to see the plate hit the wall where Jade's head had been only moments ago.

Their Uncle Vernon chose that moment to enter the kitchen, seeing the twins on the floor his eyebrows shot up into his hair, "Get of the ruddy floor and make yourselves useful for gods sake. What are you two playing at lying around on the floor like that, for anyone to trip over you!"

Rolling their eyes at their cousins' immature behavior, the twins cautiously stood up again, the worst of the tantrum seemed to be over as Aunt Petunia promised to buy him a new computer game if he calmed down. Sighing Jade automatically headed towards the stove, another day in the insanely boring life of Harry and Jade Potter.

Half an hour later all six of them were sitting around the kitchen table. Jade had made some more scrambled eggs, Aunt Petunia made the tea and Harry –who could only be trusted with toast, which he burnt frequently- laid the table. Dudley and Veronica were listening keenly to their father's stories from his school days, not surprisingly many of these stories involved picking on the younger children, stealing peoples lunch money and just generally being mean to people.

Sitting at the table, Harry looked around him, on his right sat Dudley, his double chin bouncing while he chewed on his scrambled eggs, his tiny, blue eyes bulging out as he concentrated on his toast, Harry wondered how he had managed to get bits of it stuck in his short, blonde hair. To Jade, he looked rather like a cross between a pig and a toad, she swore she had seen something like him in her science textbook and claimed he was some sort of new, undiscovered species.

Next to Dudley sat his equally pig-like sister. Her dirty blonde hair coming up to her shoulders and her piercing blue eyes were glaring at her untouched food. She was on diet at the moment, hoping to lose some of the many extra pounds she had.

Next to Veronica, Jade looked even skinnier than she actually was. She was wearing her cousin's old clothes which were at least three sizes to big. While she ran her fingers over the lightening shaped scar on her right palm, her brother stared at her, concern etched on his face.

Jade was extremely pretty, her long dark hair was smooth and silky as opposed to Harry's uncontrollable locks, he brushed his hair out of his usually bright green eyes, which were now blank, empty, as were Jade's. Next month the twins were being sent of to boarding school. Different boarding schools.

Jade was Harry's twin sister, he knew her like the back of his hand, and he knew that even though she acted like she didn't give a shit, she was actually beyond terrified at the thought of being sent half way across the country without him. He felt the same way, though he was more open about his feelings and had begged their Aunt not to separate them. Jade on the other hand had held her head high and pretended it didn't affect her at all. Harry had always admired his sisters' ability to hide her emotions, only letting Harry see how she actually felt. It was a trait Harry knew he would never know.

He was deep in thought when he heard a tapping noise at the window, a high pitched screech from Veronica that temporarily deafened them and a crash as another plate of scrambled eggs was thrown, this time it flew all the way out of the window and Harry saw it land in the distance.

Looking up he saw Jade glaring daggers at Dudley since she would have to clean up the mess he had made, he could tell that she was about to blow up.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? CAN YOU STOP BEING SUCH A SPOILT BRAT?! IF THEY'RE STILL NOT SCRAMBLED ENOUGH FOR YOU, THEN MAKE YOUR OWN BLOODY SCRAMBLED EGGS!"

For once Dudley ignored the insults she threw at him and pointed at the window, his hand shaking. Everyone looked followed his gaze, seeing a tawny brown owl. The four Dursleys gasped and looked at the owl as if carried some deadly disease. Jade rolled her eyes and walked towards the owl, ignoring her Aunt and Uncle's threats.

She smiled as she stroked his head, wondering why it was here. It cocked its head to one side and showed her two envelopes tied on his leg with a string. Confused, she untied the envelopes and turned them over to see one addressed to Harry and the other to her.

"Give me that!" growled Uncle Dursley as he snatched the letters away from Jade, ignoring her protests.

"They're for me and Harry! They've got our names on them, give them back!"

Hearing this Harry jumped up and made a grab for the letters.

A lot of kicking, scratching and a few more deafening screeches later, the twins found themselves locked out of the kitchen with their cousins.

As soon as the door closed, all four children attached themselves to it, hoping to hear what was being said in order to find out what was going on.

"Vernon, they're not stopping. First they came through the post, now they've started coming with owls. What will the neighbors think! Oh Vernon what will we do?"

"Shush, Petunia we promised we'd get rid of this nonsense when we took them in. We'll just ignore the letters and they'll know we're not interested."

Hearing footsteps coming towards the door the four ran for it. The twins headed towards the yard to contemplate over what they just heard.

"What were they talking about Harry?" Jade asked while twirling blades of grass around her fingers.

"I really have no idea." He answered, "They said there had been more letters, but who would write to us?"

"Maybe we have some long, lost relative who wants to take us away!" Jade's eyes lightened up.

"I don't think so; Uncle Vernon would have given us up immediately." Harry watched sadly as the spark in Jade's eyes died once more.

The rest of the day went by even more slowly than it normally did.

At night the twins lay awake both deep in thought, thinking about anything and everything from how different life would be next month, to wondering what the letters said, to planning how to sneak some strawberry ice-cream out of the freezer without their Aunt noticing.

BANG!!!

The children jerked upwards, hitting their heads on the low ceiling. Rubbing their aching heads they ran out of the cupboard to see what was going on. They were met by the most peculiar sight. An unusually large, rather hairy man in an oversized, scruffy, black jacket stood in the hallway the front door unhinged in his hands.

The twins stared at him in awe, their eyes wide. They heard a stifled gasp and turned to see all four Dursley's standing behind them in their night clothes.

The man looked at the door in his hands and chuckled, "Sorry, I might have gotten a bit carried away."

He pointed a pink umbrella, which the twins hadn't noticed at the broken door, and everyone watched with bated breath as it repaired and re-hinged itself to its frame.

"Rubeus Hagrid, games keeper at Hogwarts, pleasure to meet you."

This was followed by another one of Veronica's horrifying shrieks.


AN: Okay so this is my first story, constructive criticism will be greatly appreciated. Please review :)