Evolynn Potter watched as her older brother leaned against the snake's glass cage. He was making raspy sounds and it seemed to her that he was talking to the snake...and it was listening! She rubbed her eyes and blinked a few times before looking back, but this time was even more queer-she swore she saw the snake nod at something her brother had said. But her eyes must have been playing tricks on her. She had to convince herself of this. But as she moved a little closer to join her brother, a huge force knocked her out of the way.

"MUM! Look what Harry's doing!" shouted her horrible cousin Dudley. He and his friend Pierce shoved Harry out of the way so they could get a closer look. So I wasn't fooling myself, Evolynn thought. Dudley saw it too. But at that moment there was a yell of fright and Evolynn was again knocked out of the way by her monster of a cousin. This time though, it was in the opposite direction. Her hands hit the ground first and a shot of pain flew through her wrists. She was outraged at Dudley and humiliated that tears were welling up in her eyes in the middle of the zoo where everyone could see her. Out of nowhere, she heard a splash and she looked up to see that Dudley had flown across the room and landed in the water in the snake's cage.

A shriek issued from her petrified Aunt Petunia. She rushed over to her Diddy-Kins to help him out of the water and out of the reptile house, Pierce following close behind. Evolynn looked over to Harry and saw that he had also been knocked to the ground. He was laughing. When the siblings made eye contact, Harry winked gleefully at his little sister.

But this moment was short-loved. A glance up at their Uncle Vernon's livid face and Evolynn saw that she and Harry were in for it. Uncle Vernon waddled as fast as he could over to where the the small girl sat and grabbed her ear, pulling her up by it. Seeing this, Harry sprang up and rushed over to see where his uncle and sister stood, attempting to come to his sister's aid. But Vernon Dursley was too quick for him. In a matter of seconds the massively fat man had both his niece and nephew by the ear and was leading them out of the reptile house, out of the zoo, and into the car.

"Uncle Vernon," said Evolynn between small cries of pain, (he still had them both by the ear) "that was almost like magic back there, wasn't it?" She smiled at the mixed look of horror and fury on her uncle's face. She, unlike her elder brother, often found joy in infuriating her aunt and uncle by the subject of the M word.

Uncle Vernon's red face turned purple. He let go of both of their ears and slowly pivoted around on his fat feet to face her. "There is no such thing as magic," he hissed. She knew this, she just loved to see his face turn purple.

Evolynn and Harry had been living with the Dursleys for her entire life. When Harry was a year old and Evolynn was only a few weeks old, their parents had been killed in a car crash. The same car crash that had given her brother that funny looking scar on his forehead. This was all the two had ever been told, though. Nothing more. Evolynn, being the more daring of the two, had always ventured to ask questions about her parents. All had been answered with a loud "DON'T ASK QUESTIONS!" from her purple-faced uncle.

When the Dursleys and the Potter kids had arrived home to Number 4 Privet Drive, Harry and Evolynn were sent to their room (the Durlseys didn't want to waste an extra room on one of them) to be without food for...however long Vernon Dursley felt like it. This turned out to be about four days, and on the fifth day when they were finally allowed to come out, the very first letter came. Harry had been sent to retrieve the mail, and when he came back carrying a letter that seemed to be addressed to him, Evolynn wasn't the only one to notice.

"Dad, Harry's got a letter!" cried Dudley. The whole room went silent and still before everyone lunged for the piece of paper in Harry's hand. At last, the three kids were shoved out of the room by a scared-looking Uncle Vernon. There was a silent battle between the three for the position of listening at the keyhole. In the end, Dudley got the keyhole, Harry got to lie on the floor to listen at the crack between door and floor, and Evolynn had to push around between them to find somewhere to press her ear against.

"NO, Petunia, we swore we would put a stop to this!"

"But Vernon, when we send them, they'll be gone! We won't have to worry about them any more!"

Their voices reduced to whispers and the three kids could no longer hear. But they heard nothing about the letter until the next day when three more appeared in the letter box. These too were snatched by Uncle Vernon's meaty fingers and never seen by Harry or Evolynn again. This occurred day after day, each time the amount of letters almost doubling. After a week and a chimney full of letters, Vernon Dursley started to go mad. He packed up his car and brought his whole family with him to only he knows where he was headed. All Evolynn knew was that Dudley was throwing nightly temper tantrums about his lack of television time and the loss of his computer. Before she knew it, though, the car was parked at a beach and soon she was crammed in next to Harry on a tiny row boat out to the ocean. In the distance, she could see an old house perched upon a huge rock. She spoke for the first time all day.

"Why are we going there?" she said, looking right at Uncle Vernon? He ignored her, looking right at the old shack, a look of gleeful malice on his piggy face. A few moments later they were standing in the mess of a house Uncle Vernon had found. The sleeping arrangements were made; Petunia and Vernon in the only bedroom, Dudley on the lumpy sofa, and Evolynn and Harry on the floor.

As Evolynn was falling asleep, she happened to look over at Harry. He was staring at his wristwatch. She saw the digits turn to 12:00 am and she suddenly remembered that her brother was now eleven. She was just about to wish him a happy birthday when a huge crash sent dust flying everywhere and brought a scream from the bedroom.

Evolynn stared in shock as the silhouette of a gigantic man appeared at the doorframe. The shape cleared its throat and stepped into the house.

"Sorry 'bout that," he said gruffly. Gruffly but not unkindly. As she saw her brother stood up, so did Evolynn, and for the first time she saw the man properly. He was enormous, taking up the entire sofa that Dudley had vacated before he sat on it. Promptly, he looked at Harry with small black eyes that just barely showed from beneath his beard.

"Happy Birthday, Harry! Seems like just yesterday yeh was only a baby. And this," he turned to Evolynn, "mus' be Baby Evie," he said with a smile hidden by beard. He reached into one of the many pockets of his coat and withdrew a small white box that appeared to have been sat one at least once. He turned and handed the box to Harry. Evolynn came over to see what was inside as her brother hesitantly opened it. Inside was a cake with green icing that read-

Happy Birthday Harry

Harry opened his mouth to say something but Evolynn beat him to it.

"Who are you?" she asked. The man chuckled and replied,

"Rubeus Hagrid. Keeper of Keys and grounds at Hogwarts." But Harry and Evolynn simply stared at him. This explanation had not helped them at all. The man called Hagrid's face fell. "Don' yeh tell me yeh two have never heard abou' Hogwarts!" When neither said anything, he turned, outraged, and looked at Uncle Vernon.

"YEH NEVER TOLD 'EM?" he shouted. "Yeh mean ter tell me there two know nothin'?"

"We know stuff," said Evolynn.

"Yeah," added Harry, "you know, math and stuff..."

Hagrid waved his hand dismissively. "'Bout our world. My world, yer world, yer parents world."

"What?" they said at the same time.

"Yeh mean ter tell me that yeh didn' ever wonder where yer parents learned it all?" he asked incredulously.

"Learned what?"

"DURSLEY!"

"What am I missing here?" shouted over Hagrid and ignoring the looks Uncle Vernon was shooting her that clearly said, "Be quiet!" But she persisted. "Because if I'm not being told something, I would appreciate someone telling me."

Hagrid looked at both of them. "Yeh two are famous. Not a person in our world doesn' know yer names."

"Famous for what?" Harry asked.

Hagrid again turned to look at the Dursleys. "They know nothin'? They don' even know who they are? I knew they wasn' gettin' their letters but this is too far."

Uncle Vernon spoke for the first time. "STOP! Stop! I forbid you to tell him anything else!"

"Shut up, Dursley, yeh great prune!" Hagrid bellowed. He stared at Harry and Evolynn for a moment before saying, "Yeh're wizards. Both of yeh."

"We're what?" said Harry. "That's not possible. I'm just Harry. And believe me, she's nothing special either." Evolynn shot him a nasty look.

"Nothin' special?" Hagrid repeated. "Nothin' special? With parents like yers? I'd be darned if yeh two wasn' thumpin' good ones at that. Now, yeh should see yer letter now, Harry, I should think," he said as he once again reached into one of his many pockets. He pulled out a letter with green ink written across the front that read-

Mr. H Potter

The Floor

House-on-the-Rock

Evolynn watched as her brother pulled out the letter and read it. She tried to move read over his shoulder but Harry pushed her away. She tried to protest but eventually gave it up. A few moments later, Harry looked up from the letter with widened eyes. "What?" she asked, desperate to know what it said.

Instead of answering his sister's question, Harry looked up at Hagrid. "Howarts? Am I really going?"

"O' course yer goin'!" said Hagrid, "Yeh've had yer names on the list since yeh was born."

Evolynn cut in, "What's Hogwarts? And how do you know we're both wizards?"

"Did yeh ever make anything happen? When yeh were angry? Or scared?"

Now that Evolynn thought about it, she realized that all the strange things that had happened to her and Harry could only be explained this way. Like when Aunt Petunia's crystal vase had out of thin air shattered into a million pieces after she had refused to sign Evolynn's permission slip to a field trip to the London Zoo, or when Harry had escaped Dudley and his group of horrid friends by ending up on the school roof, or the time just last week when the glass had disappeared in the reptile house and Dudley had flown across the room and landed in the snake cage.

"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," started Hagrid, "is the school for our kind. Yeh'll learn all yer magic there-"

"Do I get to go too?" interrupted. She had noticed that Hagrid hadn't handed her a letter.

"Yeh get ter go next year," Hagrid said-as if that should have been obvious. Then, out of nowhere, Aunt Petunia said,

"You mean we'll still have her? When we agreed to take them in, they said that when he turned eleven we would be rid of them!" Hagrid seemed prepared for this because he said, "Don' worry, yeh don' have ter have them any more."

"What?" said Evolynn, confused. "I thought I wasn't going till next year."

"Yer not. Yer going with yer godfather."

This time it was Harry's turn to cut in. "She has a godfather? How come we never knew?" He said this looking at the Dursleys, not Hagrid. The look on his face had the same expression of outrage was the same as Evolynn was feeling.

"Yeah, she's got a godfather. His name's Severus Snape."