Despite being best friends with one of the most popular and beautiful girls in the school, Lily Evans, I, Maisie Ann Warren, am not very well known. It's hardly surprising. I'm not beautiful like Lily, I don't have silky red hair or the perfect emerald green eyes.

Instead, I am cursed with long, curly blonde hair, which flows not-so-elegantly down to my hips. I wouldn't say it was an Afro, per se, but it does tend to frizz up like one in the slightest bit of humidity. Lucky, right?

I'm..well.. fat. Lily always tells me I'm being "too harsh with my negative thoughts," but I know she's trying to make me feel better. I accept it really, not all of us can have perfect figures. I've lost a lot of weight since second year though. I got bullied when I first started Hogwarts.

Especially by the four infamous boys who call themselves 'The Marauders.'

They really knew how to push my buttons. If they thought I couldn't hear them calling me ''Maisie Mammoth," they are so wrong. It hit me, hard. Therefore, I lost weight. I'm still fat though, and everybody knows it.

Lily was the only one who defended me against The Marauders. She loathes James with her everything in her. I have a sneaky feeling that's why she defended my honour in the first place, just to put James in his place.

Don't get me wrong. Lily was -and still is- one of the nicest people you'd ever meet, but up until she found out who was bullying me, not even she spoke to me.

After that, Lily made it her personal mission to protect me from everyone who dared speak a word against me. This automatically dragged her friends in, Mary, Marlene, Dorcas and Alice. I'm glad they all ended up liking me. I really appreciate it.

I've got brains, that's it. Sure, that's important but it kind of hurts when all your best friends are stunning and wanted by most boys in the
school and you're still called "Maisie Mammoth," sometimes, not that anyone would ever dare call me that in front of Lily, or any of my other
best friends.

My mum, being my mum, thinks I'm the most beautiful girl in the world. Of course she would think that. She doesn't think I'm fat either, just
"extra curvy" as she likes to call it.

I don't know what my dad thinks about me, he left when my mum told him she was a wizard. He thought she was crazy and didn't believe her.
When she did magic to prove it to him, he accused her of putting drugs in his drink to make him 'see things' and then left.

I don't care about my dad. I wasn't even born when he left. He put my mum in a financial rut and it gave her depression, which I'll never forgive him for.

I have an older brother and sister, they're twins. Louie and Elizabeth, (We call her Liz or Lizzy for short though) and I've always found it
amusing how their names rhyme when we called her Lizzy. They've long finished Hogwarts.

They have a different dad to me. A dad who loves and cares for them despite the fact their wizards. (Mums always had a thing for muggles, apparently.)

My friends think I'm "beautiful in my own way." They tell me they find my sarcasm humorous and they like that I'm start so they can do well
in exams. I know they're only 'pulling my wand,'

but sometimes I can't help but wonder if it's true.

AU: There's the first chapter, just so you can have a quick look at Maisie's background and what she's like and stuff.
The start of the story will be up soon.

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