Hogwarts. The school the kids in my school have been dying to go to since it was announced last year that Professor Dumbledore was hand picking ten of us to go to his school. In return, ten students from his school will also be handpicked by our Headmaster Williams. We studied, we plotted, we went against each other, and we were that serious about getting into Hogwarts. Many girls just wanted to go because of 'hot British boys', while I on the other hand had another reason as to why I had to go.

I was given a mission to get close to Harry Potter. Learn his weaknesses, his likes and dislikes, and any other secret I could find out about him. I had made sure my grades were perfect and that I never got into any trouble. When it came down for the time for students to be chosen I was called to the Headmaster's office. At the time I didn't know why I was being called, the headmaster announced that he would call out the names at dinner tonight. I had just gotten out of my potion final and I didn't know if he had discovered I allowed two kids to copy off of me. It wasn't just some random classmates, It happened to be my two best friends that were awful in it.

I walked up the spiral staircase to the fourth floor with my stomach in my throat. I tried to recall every little thing I had done. Well, I have done a lot of stuff. But I never got caught because well I was that good. I glanced up at the steel door in front of me and gulped. I straighten out my hair and pulled my dress down a little. I knocked three times and took a step back.

"Calm down, you've done nothing wrong", I muttered to myself. The door slowly opened and I stepped in. The headmaster's office was covered in books and had pictures of his family up on random walls. Curled up at the bottom of his desk was his black lab named Jess. His ears perked up and let out a little bark. I smiled and knelt down to pet the little puppy's head.

"Ah, Aella!" I stood up and smiled. Headmaster Williams was in his early fifties and just took over from his uncle. His hair was thinning and you could tell he cut it short, so you couldn't tell. He had brilliant blue eyes that were so dark, you swore you staring into the deepest part of the ocean. "Headmaster"

A man stepped out from behind him and I felt a smirk fighting its way onto my face. The man had long white hair and a long beard. It was Dumbledore from Hogwarts. "Albus, this is Aella Athanas. She is the top student in her class and has never been in trouble."

"Aella is Greek, isn't it?"

"Yes sir, it is." I spoke just like how my father told me to. "And your father is Alexander Athanas? The Minister of Magic here in America" My heart sunk, is this the only reason headmaster called me up here? I stiffly nodded. My father was a known dark wizard. My whole family was. My family was always and always will be on Voldemort's side. I was raised like that, I didn't know any better. I really wanted to give my family a good name. I could see a twinkle in the old man's eyes and raised an eyebrow. What did he have planned?

"I do not want you think that is why I chose you to attend my school. Your last name has nothing to do with why I chose you", he grabbed my hand and squeezed it. "Your hard work and attitude is what made me choose you" I was waiting on what he was about to say. He seemed to be very wise and I just had this urge to trust him. Maybe he could help me and my family.

"Thank you, sir. But I do have a question", he patted the top of my hand and smiled, nodding for me to continue. "Where are the others you have chosen?" I gestured around to the office and headmaster stepped forward with his hands folded in front of him. "We want you to choose the remaining nine students. And I must ask you, Aella, don't just pick your buddies." He patted me roughly on my shoulder and I grinned.

I already knew who I was going to pick. And all these people were going to help me with my mission.

"Yes sir. I already know who I am going to pick" I smirked and sat down in the armchair in front of his desk.

000

I heard the bell rung as I stepped out into the hallway. It was about two hours until the headmaster was going to announce the other nine students going to Hogwarts in September. I made it around the corner when I saw two guys I knew I needed to talk to. "Ben! Grant!"

"Aella, where have you been?" Ben had short light red hair; he was muscular and has been my neighbor since I was five. He was always extremely overprotective over me. Ben was known as a ladies man, he literally had a new girlfriend every other week. He was a really sweet guy he just didn't know how to stay faithful to one girl. His father was my father's right hand man. He was a brother to me. Grant was on the shorter side with brown shaggy hair. He always wore black rimmed glasses and converses. He was called a hipster by a group of muggle girls when we were in Rome. I still haven't figured out what that meant, but Grant did and he was somewhat impressed with it, but he never told us what it meant. I dated him back when I was fourteen and it didn't last very long. He was just too into himself. His mother worked in the Ministry while his father was a lawyer for wealthy wizards.

Now these two idiots were my best friends. I grabbed them by the elbows and pulled them into an empty classroom. "Now, I didn't know you were into threesomes Aella." Grant said plopping down in one of the desks.

"Not funny, Grant." Grant rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest. "Remember my mission?" They both nodded. "I was asked into the program by Dumbledore himself."

"Congrats! And who are the other nine?" Grant asked. "Well I was given the option to pick the remaining nine."

"Well, who are they?" Ben asked smirking. "Ben Frankson, Grant Horrent, Isabelle Buller, Jaime Andrew, Luke Patterson, Haley Norton, Everett Mickey, Serenity Gomez, and Mark Mull, you know just some cool people." I muttered checking out my nails in boredom.

"First off, love you! Second off, I understand Ben, Isabelle, and me, but why the others. You hate them", Grant asked. I smirked and strolled over to a desk plopping down. Ben pulled up a seat and propped his feet up on the desk in front of him.

"Alright, you know about the different houses at Hogwarts, right?" Both of them nodded. "I did a little research and discovered their houses are just like ours. We are in Ice, right, so therefore we will be in Slytherin. Fire in Gryffindor, Water in Ravenclaw, and Air in Hufflepuff, so I picked two people out of each house. Are you following me?"

"I am, but by the look on Grant's face… I guess he's lost. But do go on, I'm interested." Ben said resting his hand under his chin.

"Okay. Jaime Andrew is a complete and utter suck up, so I know she will suck up to Potter the second she lays eyes on that scar of his. Patterson is her little lackey, so if she helps me you know he will. Haley and Everett are both class clowns, and from what I heard about Potter's friend Ron, he'll like them no doubt. So, they will also be able to get me information. And finally Serenity and Mark are ranked after me, I don't care what you say both of them are geniuses and can help me plan stuff out. And beside Serenity is pretty cool and she lives down the street from me. So, with all these idiots helping us… I won't disappoint father."

"What makes you think they will help you? We aren't exactly the most popular people. Actually people hate us", Grant said. I smirked and turned towards Ben, who had already figured it out. He had a giant grin on his face and smacked his hand on his knee. "You really are truly brilliant, Aella"

"Am I missing something?" Grant asked.

"You really are a dumbass, aren't you? All of them have either their father or mother working under Aella's father. Everyone knows how much of a daddy's girl she is. She threatens their job and boom, she has herself a group of slaves" Ben leaned forward and patted me on the head. Grant grinned and leaned back in his chair.

"I'm glad I'm your friend and not your enemy", Grant mumbled pulling his wand and tossing it between his hands. That was the thing about Grant, he was a complete dumbass who couldn't sit still and he always had to be playing with something, but when it came down to it if I ever got arrested I had his father who would talk me out of it. And besides that, Grant was a pretty cool guy when he wanted to be.

"So, should we go find Isabelle and tell her?" Ben said jumping up and rotating his shoulders. I nodded and jumped up grabbing my bag.

I just knew there would be no way I was going to fail this time.