"Stevie!" I can hear my mother screeching my name and all I can think is what have I done this time? She really gets on my wick at times I can tell you. My whole family is just weird. My mum works for St Mungo's hospital up on one of the closed wards, you know where all the crazy people live. Dad is just dad. We barely see him one day to the next and when we do he's always quiet. And then my brother Lawrence ... well he seems to have convinced himself that is a Muggle who goes by the name of Benedict Cumberbatch. Seriously I'm not joking. Oh and we have a cat called Cat. Just because we apparently can't get any more original than that. No I'm really not joking.
I'm Stefania Nott, known to all my friends as Stevie. And thank god this year I'll be turning 17. I'll finally be of age and I won't have that damned Trace on me anymore. I'm going to be in my final year at Hogwarts, now that I've finally talked my parents out of transferring me to another school.
"Stevie!!! Get down here now!" Mum's still screaming. Guess I'd better go see what the great Hermione Nott wants. That is the formerly great Hermione Nott because let's face it; she isn't exactly all that now is she? How the mighty have fallen.
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