''DIAGON ALLEY!'' I'm woken by- why does everyone have to wake me up?

''No. I neeeeed sleeeep.'' I say, Shannon stands over me. ''Arrrgg! What the-?!''

''Molly invited me over! I get to go to Diagon Alley with you instead of the Malfoy's. I'm staying at yours for the night. I hate being stared at- apparently I look too much like my mother; she was a Death Eater.''

''Yeah, yeah.'' I say, shoving my head under my pillow and Ginny opens the curtains.

''WAKE UP!'' Fred and George shout, scrambling onto my bed, from my ladder, they start jumping on it and they run out the room. I will get them for that. I get changed but then they start teasing me about my colour changing eyes. I'm fully dressed and I've had breakfast.

''I will get you for that!'' I shout and run after them. They chuck some Floo powder into the fire and shout Diagon Alley. I dive in and chase them through the Leaky Caldron. I see Malfoy and his father turn into Knockturn Alley. Knew his family was bad. I chase them into Zonko's joke shop.

''Please could I buy a couple of mega water bombs?'' I ask.

''Yeah! Of course- They fill up with water as soon as you hold the in your hand- they're the same size as a regular sized bucket. They give out five times as much water though.'' The male shop assistant sniggers.

''Okay! Thank you!'' I laugh and hand him sixteen sickles. I prance out the shop and take a balloon out the pack and hurl it at them. They didn't see me. I laugh and pinch some Floo Powder, that I saved and put in my pocket, into the fire. The flames glow emerald green.

''The Weasley's!'' I gasp and swallow a mouthful of ash. I choke on it as I fall out of the fire. Fred and George step out soaked. They look at me funnily and go and get changed. I laugh and go to Mrs Weasley. Harry's with Ron, who is with his mother.

''Hey Harry!'' I say. Ginny walks in and drops the teapot she's holding and it smashes loudly on the floor.

''H- H- Hello H- Harry.'' She stutters, smiling, she brushes the tea pot up quickly and run's out. I run out after her. She's crying. Shannon's smirking slightly.

''What's the matter Ginny?''

''F- First time I m- meet him, I make a fool out of myself!'' She cries. I give her a hug.

''It's fine! You only fancy him.'' I say.

''Fine then, I do.'' She says, clearing herself up.

''So get out there and be brave, bold and stand up for what's right!'' I laugh, standing up. ''I know inside there somewhere there's an amazingly confident girl, who loves to talk, and everyone knows as the bubbly girl called Ginny!'' I say, hand on my heart and bent down to a sitting down Ginny.

''Your good at prep talks.'' She laughs. I shrug my shoulders. I put electric shock on- obviously nightcore- I just bounce on my bed to the beat. I then grab my duvet and a sleeping bag and lay it down on the floor, I lay my duvet on top. I urge Ginny to do the same. We fold the duvet over to it covers us.

''Right, hold the sides of the sleeping bag and the duvet.'' I say.

''Yeah?''

''And PUSH YOURSELF OFF!'' I exclaim in a dramatic voice. The Weasley's staircase is awesome to do this on! Shannon walks into my room and prepares the sofa to sleep on.

''Ah! This is so fun!'' She laughs I end up tolling down the stairs and knocking Fred over.

''I- I- I'm S-Sorry!'' I laugh as I can't speak for laughing too much. As I stand up Ginny tumbles into me, who knocks Fred over, who tumbles into George, who tumbles into Percy, who is reading a book. What a surprise! I hear Percy's wail of being knocked over.

''SORRY!'' Ginny shouts throughout the whole house.

''What is happening?!'' Molly Weasley asks, coming inside the lounge and run's up to the staircase. ''What in Merlin's beard, is going on?''

''We're in the house- Not Merlin's beard.'' George smugly adds. I laugh.

''No seriously!''

''Me and Ginny were playing tumble downstairs in a duvet and sleeping bag. It's rather fun!'' I laugh. ''Do you want to play?!'' I ask childishly. Everyone bursts into laughter.

Ron and Harry walk down- to see what the noise is.

''What the-?'' Ron says, he looks like he needs to go on . Me and Ginny beam at him.

''TUMBLE DOWNSTAIRS IN A SLEEPING BAG!'' We both shout in sync. ''JINX!''

''JINX!'' I beat her to it. She stays quiet and folds her arms. I laugh.

''We're going Diagon Alley tomorrow so get to bed now.''

''Fine.'' We all say and march up to bed.

''DIAGON ALLEY!'' Shouts Ginny and I laugh as I stretch and slink out of bed. I slide on a pair of high waist shorts and a nice owl top- another one from Christmas that my adopted parents gave me. I slide on my enlarged wedges- I made them bigger to fit my feet still. I keep my longish hair down in a side parting and brush it.

I run downstairs and burst into the kitchen. It's silent.

''Okay I'll stay quiet then.'' I say. I go back upstairs and sing out Alive by Natalie Grant. I get a round of applause from behind my door. I walk out and curtsy. I rush downstairs and chuck some floo powder into the fire. I see Shannon walk inside the lounge.

''D- Diagon Alley!'' I splutter, swallowing a mouthful of ash. Only I end up in an old shop, full of- dark magical objects. Harry spins in behind me. We nearly knock over a shelf. The door tinkles and I dive behind a cabinet. Harry dives in. I peek around the side and see Mr Malfoy and his son inside. I gasp and only the small snake seems to hear. He walks around the shop and cross my fingers and creep back around the cabinet. I happen to bump into him behind the cabinet.

''M- Malfoy.'' I stutter.

''Hello Cyrus.'' He sneers and looks at me. ''What are you doing here?!''

''I swallowed a mouthful of ash in the floo network and ended up here in- I don't know instead of Diagon Alley.'' I choke out.

''Ah. How's your filthy muggle family doing?''

''I have nothing to do with them.'' I state calmly.

''How's it going in that one roomed pigsty of a house. Or room should I say?''

''Fine.'' I spit ''House your bratty death Eater mother and father doing?'' I snap and punch him. ''That's for insulting my family.'' I snap and he creeps around the edge of the cabinet whimpering.

''We're going Draco.'' Says a cool, arrogant sneer of his father. He stands there and walks to the other side of the shop and distracts his father then winks at me sneakily, he then points to the fire. He's helping me?

I creep into the emerald flames again.

''Diagon Alley.'' I cough and appear in Gringotts. Mrs Weasley jumps out of her skin when she sees me.

''Oh Kathy! Where's Harry?''

To be honest I thought he was behind me. Fred and George run up to me and burst through the doors on Gringotts on the way.

''Where'd you end up?!''

''Borgin and Burkes- Knockturn Alley. ''

''Whoa! What was it like?!''

''Weird. I kinda felt unsafe but safe but not really comfortable if you know what I mean?'' I say this all really fast.

''No.'' They snigger. I just leave it. We walk into a bookshop- Flourish and Blotts and find a massive queue of middle aged witches. I read the nearest poster- Gilldory Lockhart book signings.

Oh great. I look at my list for books. All of Lockhart's books. Oh great- he's not going to be our professor, is he?

Harry walks in. Oh crap- big mistake. Everything goes silent.

''Harry Potter! The boy I've been waiting to meet since you defeated you know who! Come here my dear boy!'' Lockhart shouted and dragged Harry by the stall, Harry glows up red and tries to get away. ''Together you and I are worth the front page! What young Harry here did not know, was he and his little friends would be receiving my full works each! For absolutely free of charge!'' He drags Hermione, me and Ron over to Harry. Shannon smirks at me and stands by Mrs Weasley by the door. I see her disappear around the corner and hear her yelp. I put on my best disgusted face. I folded my arms and huffed. Lockhart threw several books at me- Oh, these are the books that I need- I need for Hogwarts. Oh no. ''And everyone will be pleased and very much excited that I will be taking up the defence against the dark arts post.''

''Oh Merlin's wand- how awful can my years at Hogwarts get?'' I groaned at Hermione, everyone looks at me. I didn't realise I had been talking so loud. She looks annoyed at me. We walk away.

''Personally I think he's amazing- look at all of the amazing things he's done!''

''What he says he's done.'' I say in defence.

''What's got your wand in such a twist?''

''Look over there.'' I sigh, face palming. Malfoy walks inside- the young one. I refuse to call him Draco.

''Bet you loved that, Potter, Granger and Weasley- more attention.'' He says, do us. He didn't say my name. Ron seems to have noticed.

''Why not Kathy?''

''Oh her? She didn't look happy about it at all.''

''Come on.'' Shannon moans and walks over, being dragged in by Narcissa.

''I'm sorry Narcissa I lied to you but really I'd prefer I went with the Weasley's.'' She moans again to her godmother.

''I don't want you mingling with such filth- Miss Cyrus is okay- we know her situation but no one else.'' She snaps quietly.

''Charming.'' I mutter quietly to myself. Malfoy shoots me a look of filth. I wrinkle my nose up. ''Can someone smell something to pure smelling in here? Maybe pure cow pat?'' I ask Harry. We burst into laughter.

''Maybe it's just him.'' Hermione adds, gesturing to Malfoy. I snigger quietly as the Weasley's and Malfoy's walk over, Fred and George pull me and Shannon out the shop from further humiliation. We walk into Zonko's joke shop and something furry pushes me over.

''DUSK!'' I laugh. Dusk had been running away regularly then appearing at odd places.

''Dusk!'' Fred and George sigh in relief. Shannon laughs and scoops her up and hug's her. Dusk obliges and snuffles into her shoulder then bounces onto me. We browse the shop.

''Fred! George! Look! Instant darkness powder! Also you see that?''

''Yeah?!'' They answer excitedly- I have been coming up with ideas for their dream joke shop.

''That is a pill that turns you into a lion. You could do canary creams- cream tea's that turn you into canary's!''

''Or biscuits- Canary custard creams!''

''That's even better! All in one bite!'' I laugh. We high five each over. I had a feeling I'd need some extra's this year. I walk into another shop and stock up on silver arrows. I see a black padded fabric arrow bag- mine's falling apart. Its glossy black and shines in the light; it has a shoulder strap so I can sling the sack of arrows over my shoulder and be able to move easily. I buy it for three galleons. I buy some Ravenclaw robes again and make jokes, with Shannon, about how slimy the Slytherin robes must be.

We get back to the Floo powder fireplace with huge smiles on our faces and Shannon disappears home, after finally grimacing about having to go back with the Malfoy's.

''I feel seriously sorry for you.'' I say as she disappears and she laughs in my face. I roll my eyes and disappear to the Weasley's again.

My summer holiday is so fun! I meet up with Shannon regularly and we see a few films in the cinema together. We go into town and we go to the beach with Fred and George by shadow walking. I see a few Muggleborn classmates in the muggle town in Newquay- where the awesome beach is.

That night we could visit Hermione's place- we meaning me and Dusk. I used Floo powder to transport me there.

''Hey Herm!'' I laugh, stepping out of the fireplace and shocking Mr and Mrs Granger out of their wits. ''Sorry, Mr and Mrs Granger.'' I say. ''I'm Katrina Cyrus- Hermione's best friend.''

They chuckle and welcome me warmly. Hermione hurtles downstairs and hugs me so tight I feel all the air leave me.

''Hey- H- Hermione.'' I choke. Ashe releases me and squeal's.

''Kathy! We're going to London!''

''Oh yeah!'' I laugh.

''To the London eye then we're going to the zoo and we're going to have lunch out!'' She laughs. I gasp and hug her. ''My parents are paying for you.''

''Oh wow! Thank you!'' I laugh and hurry into the lounge and give Mrs Granger a hug.

''Oh, It's okay dear, Have you been to the zoo before?''

''The biggest one I've been to is Paignton Zoo but that's it.'' I smile.

''That's good, let's go then!'' She laughs. I have twenty muggle pounds in my pocket.

We travel on a long journey in a car to the zoo and then get out. I see Mr and Mrs Dursley battling with their giant son, Dudley. I wave to Aunt Petunia. She doesn't seem to recognise me. I skip in with Hermione and Mr and Mrs Granger pay for us.

''So where should we visit first?'' I ask Hermione.

''The Lion's''

''The birds of prey.'' We both say our house emblems instantly. We chose to just follow the path anywhere. It takes us to the cheetah's.

''Hey cheetah.'' I laugh and it looks at me. It winks. ''You can understand me?'' I ask it- it nods.

''Some powerful witches or wizards have a special connection with the animal which is going to be their patronus.'' She murmurs. ''You must be very powerful she says and fiddles with the strap of her bag. I pull a camera out of mine and snap a few photos of the animal. It comes right up to the enclosure- there's a female in there as well. They both come up.

They roar at me- I understand. ''We want to be free, we can sense you uniqueness.''

''I don't know how.'' I say. ''I understand your will to be free.'' I say. The glass suddenly is not there and they jump through, not many people are there but the few who are yell, scream and run away. The cheetahs rub against me purring and then thank me.

''It's- it's okay!'' I whisper as they start bolting towards the Amazon- the place which they wanted to go. Mr and Mrs Granger look absolutely terrified.

''It's okay! Those animals were friendly. It's a type of magic that witches and wizards have. There's a spell that makes an animal protect them; they have a connection to that animal so they can talk to it.'' I whisper, shaking with laughter. They calm down and we look at the other parts of the zoo.

''Bye Kathy!'' Shouts Hermione as I wave and shadow walk, out of view, to the Weasley's house. I end up in the Weasley's kitchen and no surprise see Mrs Weasley there already. I creep up behind her, I make sure my footfalls are silent, my breathing still and my sense alert.

''Boo.'' I shout right next to her. She screams and whips around with her wand poised and in an attacking position.

''Merlin's beard you scared me!''

''Sorry Merlin's beard sounds ridiculous!'' I laugh, collapsing and clutching my side. I go into a ball and carry on laughing. Mrs Weasley carries on in the kitchen like this happens every day.

The few weeks we all play Quidditch and everything. Soon it was the morning of Hogwarts.