Kissie Sparrow let out a sigh when she walked into Hogsmeade. She could not believe this was where she was gonna live from now on. Hogsmeade!? Such a dull little town. Her mother had handed her a brochure from a travelling shop right before she got on the train to go there. Now, standing right outside the town, she decided to have a look at it.

"Hogsmeade - a genuine wizarding town", was the title, and Kissie shuddered reading it. Genuine!? How dared they. She was from a genuine wizarding town - and updated 20th century wizarding city. Calling it a wizarding metropol wasn't even overstating it. It was the fashion center of the European wizarding community, and everyone who was anything lived there. So what if England had the Ministry of Magic – Metropolis had every magical designer, and musician worth mentioning.

Kissie found the brochure so upsetting, she had to sit down for a minute. She could not believe Metropolis would not be her home anymore. Nevermind all the friends she had there, or the fact that she had gone to the Metropolis Magic Academy for five years now, noo, just drop her off at bloody Hogsmeade and have her live with her dad and go to Hogwarts. What a great idea!

While muttering about how unfair her life was, Kissie walked down the main street in Hogsmeade. She knew her father would be at work now, so she would have to go and meet him there, and she figured in a town this small it couldn't be a problem finding the auror station. She noticed a goat was eating from a bush in the middle of the street, and almost screamed out loud. Who would leave a wild animal untied in the street like that? Goats might feed of grass and stuff, but she was sure it would kill her with those nasty horns if it got the chance. Feeling the goose-bumps popping up, she hurried on.

Having had to stop once to ask for the way, she finally found the auror station. It looked like everything else in the town, a small wooden house, and the only thing that made her sure she was right was a sign on the mail box saying "Hogsmeade Auror Office". Kissie had a claustrophobic moment before finally daring to go inside.

The door slammed shut behind her, and in front of her, two men that had been sitting comfortable by their desks put down their copies of The Daily Prophet as one man, and eyed her suspiciously. Then, one of them shone up and smiled at her.

"Kissie!" he exclaimed. "You're early!"

"I have a very fast broom", she joked, as he got up and hugged her.

"Your mother's spoiling you, of course", he laughed. "Ted, this is my daughter", he then added and turned to the other man. He had already picked up his paper again, and greeted her with a nod and a grunt. "Yeah, Ted doesn't talk much. But you must be starving after such a long journey, let me see... No, we never have anything to eat here, so I'm not even gonna look. But maybe you could..."

"Dad", Kissie interrupted. "It's fine. I'm not hungry. I'd rather just go home and unpack."

"Unpack? Why would you do that?"

"Well, I'm gonna live with you, remember?"

"Only for a couple of nights, honey. Didn't your mother tell you Hogwarts is a boarding school?"