Yay! I'm finally 11! I went into Draco's bedroom in the morning. "Dragon? Do you want to open your presents or not?" I said as I opened the door. We never open presents on our birthday it is too 'anti-social' so we do it together the morning after.

He followed me downstairs. "Nash, you know Mother and Father don't like to be woken up." He said.

"Well then we won't wake them up." I said sitting on the sofa and pulling a box towards me.

I unwrapped it and found a model of a Nimbus 2000, since we weren't allowed a broom in first year. My broom was just as good as the Nimbus but I preferred the Cleansweep make.

'Dear Nash,
Happy Birthday
Love Andy, Ted and Nymphadora'

I loved the little broom moving around in the glass box.

"Who was that from?" Draco said

"Aunt Andy" I said.

"Oh, yeah, look she got me a new chess set." He said finding the already unwrapped board "Want to play?"

"Maybe later," I said and opened a box with lots of sweets from Honeydukes. Signed 'From Daphne (and Astoria)'

I popped a Bertie Bott's every Flavour bean in my mouth and sucked at the turkey flavoured bean while pulling the wrapping paper off a bottomless, weightless bag 'Love Mummy' the label said. The green bag had the Malfoy family crest on it.

My next present was a set of vials from our godfather Sev, Draco had the same. Then I took a card off a box that said 'Happy 11th Birthday
Lots of love and kisses from Pansy' with lots of hearts to fill the space in the box was a tight dress that would just cover my bum.

I got hair accessories from Theo, the sexist prat who we all love, Blaise took a different approach and got me a moving model of a Welsh dragon. Vince and Greg gave me books to do with perfecting your magic and wandless magic. Millicent got me charmed boot polish that kept snow and water from ruining the thin dragon hide over time. Tracy had bought me an Appleby Arrows snap-back and jumper, they are my favourite Quidditch team.

Then I got a card from Gringotts that said 100 galleons from Aunt Bella's account had been moved to mine, she had set this up when I was born and this happens each year, though I would prefer to have her out of Azkaban than the money.

Father had given Draco and I new trunks for Hogwarts embellished with the Malfoy family crest.

"Good haul this year, right sis?" Draco said.

I nodded as he put my new hat on my head and pushed it over my eyes.

I set to writing thank you letters to get it over and done with and while I waited for Draco to finish I stared at my mini broom and dragon. The dragon every now and then breathed fire and I had to move out the way before it singed my hair. We sent off the letters with Pine, he's an eagle owl so he goes really fast. Draco and I had breakfast and Father had already gone to work, he is a Hogwarts governor and Ministry of Magic official. He doesn't actually need to work, we have enough money for our great-grandchildren to still live in luxury but I think he has jobs for the contacts.

Mother told us that she had replied to Hogwarts so we will be going and we will be getting our school equipment in August, the first to be exact. I was rather disappointed that we would get our wands for five weeks and five days. Yes I was counting down the days, and Hogwarts was even further away. Draco and I were going to fit as much flying into our summer as possible before school starts so in our thank you letters we invited everyone to play Quidditch tomorrow. The afternoon was filled with eating my Honeydukes sweets and playing wizard's chess while my mini dragon tried to eat some pawns.

After several defeats I got out my model broom and put a pawn on it while the dragon was chasing it around the box, I had closed the lid so nothing can escape.

Eventually Draco wanted his pawn back so I took it off the broom and gave my twin the pawn, this made the dragon rather confused.

The day went on and we fell asleep on the sofa so a couple of house elves took us to our rooms.

I woke up quite late and changed into my Appleby Arrows Quidditch uniform, Father had bought it for me last birthday. I grabbed my brand new Cleansweep Seven, Draco still had a Comet 260 and didn't get a new one because a new Nimbus is apparently going to come out soon and that is his favourite broomstick brand.

Vince and Greg arrived first holding their Beater bats over their shoulders, Theo and Blaise arrived, they chucked the Quaffle around a bit. Astoria and Pansy came to play chasers for the girls' team, Daphne came to be the other Keeper and Tracy and Millicent are the Beaters. I rivalled Draco by taking the place of Seeker. We flew out to our Quidditch pitch, the girls had one more person than the boys but they played Quidditch more, especially as Pansy and Astoria had never played in their lives. The boys didn't have a Keeper and were missing a chaser, but Blaise and Theo thought that they could be chasers and Keep. We were only missing a chaser.

Daphne and Tracy turned out to be quite good at Quidditch but Pansy and Astoria mostly just sat on their brooms not doing anything so I intervened and did some chasing, Millicent was definitely the best on our team other than me, I was quick, small and new strategies that almost always worked.

The game went on for hours. I finally spotted the snitch and raced Draco for it. I knew that we would lose but there was no way that I wasn't going out in style and if the game went on any longer the loss would be embarrassing. I caught the snitch and we lost by 140 points (260 – 400). It was the queue to go home, so everyone departed and I promised myself never to let Pansy and Astoria play Quidditch ever again, well never on my team...

Draco scoffed at me and teased me about the game so I went to the Library and came across a book on the Peverell family tree. I swear that I've heard that name before so I opened it up, it showed how lots of purebloods are related, apparently Millicent is related to me but very far up the generations, like in the Black family some great, great grandfather of mine married a Violetta Bulstrode who is a great, great grandmother of Millicent.

This book would take forever to read, well analysis... Father wouldn't mind me taking one book out of the library to take to Hogwarts... I mean it would be quite interesting to see if anyone else I meet is related to me so I went upstairs and pushed the heavy book under my bed for another day.

The days passed with us flying on our brooms, midnight snacks, played at least one game of wizard's chess a day and waiting for Hogwarts as I counted down the days...