Alright, here it is, my first Harry Potter fan fiction. I had started this on long ago on a different site, but now I feel my writing has improved to the point that I can do this justice. You'll notice the AU, sorry it's not mentioned in the summary. Enjoy everyone! XOXO
~Alex
Prologue
Taryn Coffer was born one month before Fred and George Weasley. Her parents were close friends with Arthur and Molly and the children began to have play dates at just a few months old. They all loved each other and she became something like their third twin.
Taryn was a metamorphmagous. If you've never seen a baby metamorphmagous (and something tells me you probably haven't) then you do not know how amusing they re. They mimic the appearance of those around them. On more than on occasion did the Coffer's pick up one of the three identical babies and not realize until diaper changing time that it was not their daughter. See, even then the three were partners in crime.
They grew up inseparable. At the age of six Taryn uncovered another rare talent. She was a Healer. Like her morphing ability this was not something that required a wand. Injuries, both mental and physical, minor and serious, disappeared with a touch of her hand. The Healer gene evidently skipped every other generation on Mrs. Coffer's side of the family, just as the metamorphmagous gene did on Mr. Coffer's side.
Needless to say, it was a very good thing that Taryn and the twins were so close. She was constantly saving there asses and helping them with schemes. They adored her. The three of them had a unique relationship.
Taryn's parents, both full time ministry employees, often dropped her off at the Burrow for Molly to watch her. This meant Taryn was practically adopted into the already very large Weasley family. Molly and Arthur loved her like on of their own. Which meant that Molly was as overprotective of her as she was of her biological children.
Physically, it appeared Taryn needed this looking after. She was very petite. No matter how much sun she got, her natural skin stayed a pale shade of ivory. She had round, innocent looking eyes and they always had light shadow under them, no matter what she did to the rest of her appearance. She was a frail looking child, no doubt about it. However, if you knew her as Fred and George knew her, well, she was anything but frail.
The three all got their acceptance letters on the same day, and all at the burrow. Molly hugged Taryn equally as tightly as she hugged her boys. Though Taryn's parents gave her the money, Molly Weasley took her to Diagon Alley with the rest of the Weasleys.
That was the day Taryn, Fred and George fell in love with Zonko's.
"Ya know what?" a young Fred Weasley said, looking around in wonder.
"What?" George and Taryn had replied, both of them taking their wide eyes off the display and turning them to the red haired boy.
"One day, we're gonna have ourselves a shop like this. We'll have our own joke shop, the three of us." and he grinned that scheming grinned that the other two knew oh so well.
"Fred," George began, looking at his twin with admiration.
"You're brilliant mate." Taryn finished, a smile on her face.
Two weeks later, they were ready to go to Hogwarts.