I put the next tape in hoping that it would be better. It wired for a minute before a sigh emitted through the tape.

"Why don't we start farther back? Like at the end of the first war. I was two at the time. When I was two I saw Voldemort kill my father as he kept me from capture. You see, I'm not ordinary, I am a Leftt, Lysa Leftt, and I, am the first female meganimagus. For those who don't know what that is I can turn into lots of animals and I know their language. I am the great-granddaughter of Newt Scamander and I… well… I think that's about it?"

"God, so much background. And I think you are Related to Grindelwald. As am I."

"You aren't, but thank you." She said slightly sarcastic. I decided I liked this Rowen character.

"Back to my story. It was September 1st, 1990. The beginning of our first year…"

September 1st, 1990: Lysa's POV

A bright and cheerful day was what I woke up to that morning but I wasn't feeling it. My trunk had been packed the day before so, it should have been a laid back morning. A few customers were filtering in and out of mum's shop 'Beautifying What's Leftt' but that would be closing soon so that she could take me to the train. It was quite as I ate my poppy seed muffin that I had decided to eat for breakfast and waited for the kettle to whistle, until Rowen decided to bust through my fireplace.

["I remember this part!" Rowen said though the recording. "You were so pissed."

"Yes, yes I was. But back to the story."]

"Alright Bunny, are you ready for a year a magical excitement!" Shouted my deranged cousin.

"Call me Bunny one more time. I dare you." I said before putting the tea mix in the now hot water. (And just for the record… I hate tea… like I loath it. This stuff though… this stuff is alright.)

"Sorry Bunny I didn't hear you."

My crazy cousin promptly started walking backwards into the bright green flames. I had a feeling she would come back so… I went back to eating my muffin and sipping my tea.

By the time she came back, peeking her head through the fireplace to see if I was still angry before climbing through, I had finished my muffin and two cups of tea. Oh, and Leandra had woken. She's my sister. She also decided to eat a muffin.

"Are you ready now?" Rowen asked in a cautioned tone.

"Basically." I responded.

"Can I have a muffin?" She asked reaching towards the tray.

I slapped her hand before saying jokingly "No. There my muffins."

"But she has a muffin." Rowen whined.

"I live here." Leandra piped up. "Do you?" She asked looking over the stump of her muffin.

"Basically, I spend lots of time here!" She responded bouncing on the top of her toes.

"Fine, you may have one." I said waving absently to the tray of frostingless cupcakes.

We sat there munching on our breakfast as mum climbed the stairs, the shop now closed.

"Oh, Hello Rowan!" She said sitting at the table

"Hi Aunt Chrysanthemum." mum rolled her eyes

"You know you can just call me Aunt Chrys."

"But it's more fun to say your full name!" She said showering crumbs onto the table.

"Well you should, and why don't you bring a muffin to your brother. I'm sure that Lila would love for you to be in your house before it's time for you to go."

"mum's busy with a surgery right now, that's why I came here for breakfast, but I guess I could bring one to Seb. "

Rowen shoved another muffin in her mouth, then grabbed another for her brother then shouted a "See yah later, Ly!" before promptly throwing floo powder into fireplace and disappearing into the flames.

We all paused for a mument trying to figure out how Aunt Lila being in surgery had to do with Rowen coming here for breakfast. I broke the silence. "Well I'm going to go get my trunk. I don't want to be late." I said giddily.

I got up from the table and went down the hall to where my trunk was sitting at the end of my bed the key set on top. Hermes, my owl, hooted feebly from his cage "Hey there, boy." I said, patting his head, softly. "You ready? School starts today."

He hooted in response. It translated to "Are you kidding I was born ready." My owl has attitude.

I picked up the cage, the key and my trunk before walking back down the hall and back to the table. I set all my items onto the table before sitting back down.

"What does Hermes think about flying to Hogwarts instead of taking the train?" mum asked taking his cage off the trunk.

"I'm ready to fly!" Shouted/Hooted the over exuberant owl

"He fine with it." I said with a deadpan expression.

"Whats with the face?" My mum asked, an eyebrow raised in confusion.

"Those were not the words he used." I told her still straight faced.

"I have have know idea why you chose that owl." My mother shook her head.

"He amuses me." I said smiling.

I picked my luggage back up from the table and grabbed onto my mum's arm while she yelled for Leanndra. When my sister got into the room she latched onto my mum's other arm and we popped out of existence for a few seconds before appearing in platform 9 ¾.

People were mulling about, shouting to friends, saying goodbye to family and causing general chaos. I had successfully put my trunk and other luggage into the baggage car in the back of the train (with some help from mum) and was walking over to the doors leading onto the train, my family behind me, when a set of hand landed on my shoulders.

"Hey you're finally joining us!" A deep baritone voice said from behind.

"Hey, it's not her fault that she wasn't allowed last year." Another male voice said with a Scottish accent in it.

"Why would they?" I asked knocking the hands off my shoulders and turned around to come face-to-face with my cousin and his friend. "I wasn't eleven."

"Well that's true but, she's still probably smarter than most of the people in our year." Lucas said. "Most of them are idiots." He stuck out his hand when he walked onto the first step of the train so that I could latch on and get pulled up.

"You aren't talking-" Started one voice.

"-about us by any chance-" Continued a second voice that was very similar to the first.

"-are you?" Finished a third, more feminine voice.

"No you guys are pretty smart when you try."

"Oh, well thank you." George, Fred and Arianna said together.

"Its so creepy when you do that." Shivered Sebastian

"Thank you." They all said again.

"OI, brother! Wait the flip up! I have short legs! Unlike you you daddy-long-legged freak!"

"ROWAN!" Aunt Lila shouted as Rowen unceremoniously sprinted and weaved through the crowds in order to get to us.

"Well that's one way to make an entrance." Said Arianna.

"Should we get on the train? I mean like in a compartment?"

"Yah, probably."

"Bye mum." I said partily sad, partily excited as I leaned down from the train steps to give them both a hug, Lucas watching carefully from beside me. "Bye Leandra. I love you both."

"We love you too."

We pulled away from each other and I could see my mum had tears in her eyes.

"Oh, mum don't cry."

"Your father would be so proud." She whispered so I could just barely hear her.

"I know." I whispered now feeling like I was going to start crying too.

"You'll make him proud." She whispered placing a kiss a the top of my head. After that she shooed me to the rest of the group.

Rowen and Sebastian were being peppered with kisses from their mum, both looking like they wanted to die while their dad stood in the background looking amused. When their mum stopped, both Sebastian and Rowen said something that caused her to restart kissing them. She stopped once again to look over to Lucas who also looked very amused and said "Have a good year, Lucas. Try not to get into too much trouble with Seb."

"Okay, mo-Lila."

And then we were off walking to find an empty compartment. "Why the tears Lysa?" Someone whispered in my ear.

"Leave her be for the mument, Luke." Arianna said from in front of me, in the middle of Fred and George who both stopped when she said this, causing Sebastian and Rowen who were trailing behind me to run into Lucas and I's backs.

"If you need to talk all of us are there for you, okay." Said Fred and George.

"I know." I sniffled.

"Uncle Hank?" Rowen asked her head in between Lucas and I. I nodded.

"Why doesn't Sebastian, Lucas, Fred and George go look for the Snack Trolley." Arianna suggested. "Get us some chocolate frogs."

We found a compartment and settled down for some girl talk to calm down. We were relaxed and talking about school when Fred and George burst into the compartment shouting, "GUYS, GUYS! WE NEED HELP!"

"Calm down. What kind of help do you need?" I asked in a clam voice.

They both took some calming breaths.

"Luke specifically said that you needed to come with us." Fred said now less panicky.

"And that he and Seb need help." Finished George also less panicked.

"Okay." I said standing up. "Where are they?"

"Follow us." They said running out of the compartment and down the train.

We ran down half the train to an almost empty compartment where Lucas was telling someone to breath and Sebastian was looking worried while leaning against the door frame, not quite sure what to do.

"Come on now darling, you've got to breath. Yah thats right. In. Out. In. Out. Breath." Lucas said calmly to the person who was following his instructions before looking up wide eyed. "Oh, thank Merlin you're here!"

"What am I supposed to do?!" I mouthed slightly frantic, noticing that Rowen and Arianna were still in the hall . Ariannas had a look of understanding while Rowen looked calm and also surprisingly, understanding.

"Come here. I know you've dealt with something like this before and I don't actually speak growls so…"

"Okay?" I said furrowing my eyes in slight confusion. "It's fine, now. Listen to Lucas talk." I said calmly on the exterior.

["Oh that's what you said? I always wondered.".

"Oh shut up."]

"Shhh, you need to breath." Lucas said, pushing the girl's chin up. Now ignoring me.

Her face was have covered by her strawberry blonde hair that came down to her shoulders. Luke shoved the hair behind her ear so that he could look at both of her eyes. Her eyes that were a solid looking gold and the one that had been covered by her long bangs had three scars starting at the top of the cheek and ending at the middle of her neck.

"Look at me. What's your name?"

The little thing muttered, "J-J-Jane." Just loud enough for Lucas and I to here. Her eyes flickering from gold to blue and then back to gold.

"Alright Jane, this is my friend Lysa. She can help you too."

"Sh-sh-she's d-d-different." She whispered in the same voice as before.

"Yes Lysa can become many different animals."

"Sh-sh-sh-he c-can be a b-b-bird?" she asked quite intrigued or as intrigued as you can be while having a panic attack.

"Yep, and a bunny."

Almost in tears at that comment she whispers "B-bunnies c-can't get a-away. Aren't f-fast e-enough." Her breathing was starting to slow.

When tears started falling down her face I felt like crying for this small girl.

"Yah they can, especially the white ones. They're really fast."

"Ly-Lysa is a w-white one?" Her breathing slowed down even more

"Yep and I'm really fast."

"She's faster than all the wolves. Nothing can catch her, not even you."

"What about the other ones?" Her voice breaking at the end but losing the stutter.

"Lysa can be a lion if she wants. She can protect all the little creatures."

"No more of them will be hurt?"

"Yep, and Lysa can play with you to. She can keep you from hurting yourself. Just like what my uncle's friends did for him." Said Lucas with a slight grin.

"Your uncle is like me?"

"Yep, him and Moony. Do you have a name for her?" Lucas asked

"No,"She said, "Should I?"

"You don't have to. But if you want to I can help." She nodded her head. "What about Wolfy." She looked at him oddly, "No, alright what about Lupa."

"Lucas, Lupa is her last name." Arianna said from the doorway.

"Wow. That's just wow." He shook his head in amusement. "Alright what about Moonette."

"I think she likes that one." The girl whispered looking at her knees that had been pulled up to her chest, her hair had fallen from behind her ear to back in front of her face.

"Good, you think you can stand up now?" I asked, hoping that this little creature wasn't as distraught as before.

She looked up me in what seemed almost defiance her eyes flashing. "I am strong!" she growled.

"I wasn't saying that you weren't but sometimes even people who are strong need help." I said taking a step forward and offering a helpful hand up.

She thought on this for a few seconds before nodding gently and taking the hand but not before whispering a quick, "I'm sorry."

"Okay then, we should probably either go back to our compartment or find a new compartment since all of us rushed here and it probably got taken." I said as I helped the girl up to her feet. She was surprisingly short.

"Uhh, Lysa why would we do that when we could just say here?"

"Wow, that was stupid." I said in reply. "But maybe while you guys get settled in, Jane and I could go find the food trolley."

"Okay, Captain Lysa!" Rowen shouted with a shout causing everyone to jump.

"Please don't call me that, Its General to you soldier." I said sarcastically, exiting the compartment pulling the young short and bright eyed Jane behind me.

We walked in silence until Jane whispered a quiet "Thanks."

"No problem." I said "Can I ask why you started to freak out?"

"M-moonette, she didn't like the many people shouting and all the new smells.

"Ah, that makes sense."

We continued to walk in silence until we reached the food trolley.

"Hello Miss, We would like to order 8 chocolate frogs, 11 Licorice wands, 6 cauldron cakes, a couple of blood pops, 4 bertie botts and 6 pumpkin pasties." I paid her the money and we started to head back to the compartment

"I could of paid for something." Jane whispered

"Nah, It's my treat. Especially since Rowen, Arianna and I have a combined stack of our money just for the trolley."

"What about L-Lucas?"

"Oh he is basically a brother to Rowen and Seb so they pay for him since he's tight on money. I mean he does have three younger siblings and only one person raising him."

"M-Moony?"

"Yeah."

"Wh-what about you? What's your family like?"

"I have a sister and mother. My sister is just a little bit shorter than you and has brown hair. While my mother is just a few inches taller than I am with brown hair also like my sister. She also has bright blue eyes kinda like mine."

"Oh."

After walking for a bit Jane asked "Uhh, which people in the room are exactly Arianna, Rowen and… Seb?"

"Oh, the black haired dude is Seb, actually Sebastian. Arianna is the girl with long black hair. And Rowen is the other girl. There is also Fred and George in there who are identical twins. To tell them apart remember that George will probably be closer to Arianna than Fred."

We walked until we heard loud shouting ringing from our compartment. We both ran after the sound and I yanked open the compartment door.

Rowen was laying across Sebastian and Fred trying to reach for something in Sebastian hand. While George and Arianna were laughing hysterically. And Lucas was sitting squished against the window next to Sebastian looking amused and disdained.

"What are they doing?" Jane whispered to me with confused eyes.

"I honestly have know idea" I told her. "They do random stuff like this all the time."

"But what are they doing?" She asked still confused.

"You poop! Give it back you sh*t!" Yelled Rowen to Sebastian.

"Nah." Said Sebastian his hand reaching farther away from Rowan's hand. "Think I'm gonna keep it."

"What is he he even holding?" I asked slightly curious, mostly for Jane's sake.

"It's my book!"

"You have a small book." Jane said tilting her head.

"I shrank it."

"You're a first year."

"Bound to be Ravenclaw."

"Your point?"

I chucked a chocolate frog at the window to gather their attention. It was effective.

"That chocolate frog totally didn't deserve that."

"What did it do to you?" Rowen whined.

"Aren't you like pro-all animals? Shouldn't that count Chocolate Frogs?"

"No, there not real." I said, "They are transfigured."

"Muggles think unicorns aren't real."

"Unicorns are real?" Jane asked wided eyed.

"Yeah." Rowen said dismissively, waving her hand. "Now GIVE IT BACK! YOU JERK!"

"What's the book about anyway?"

"It's my uh-erm-uh, Herbology textbook?"

"Is it smut?" George said snickering.

"NO IT'S NOT! YOU FUDGING IDIOT!" Rowen screamed still trying to steal the book back but this time red faced.

"It's probably her crime novel." I said

"What? She's writing a crime novel?" Sebastian asked surprised, "I knew you liked to write and read but, what?"

"HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT?!"

"You made me edit it. My question is how do you misspell their, there and they're. You didn't even spell it one of the three ways you spelled it T-H-I-R-Y-R-E."

Well, I'm sorry, that there are three different ways of spelling it. And that one of those ways is not T-H-I-R-Y-R-E."

Fred from his uncomfortable position asked "Can I read it?"

"You can read!?" Arianna said shocked.

"Shut up. I actually want to read it."

"When I'm done with it. Maybe." Rowen said, surprised and happy.

"Thank you."

"Well I have to read it first!" Sebastian said trying to flip open the tiny book.

"None of you are reading it until I'm actually finished writing it." Rowen said continuing to try to grab the book and this time actually snatching it from Sebastian's hands (after removing her legs from on top of Fred's lap).

"I know what the ending is!" Arianna said smugly.

"I haven't even figured out the ending yet." Rowen said pouting.

"It's obvious of how it should end, at least." I said with a tone of arrogance.

"Okay… I'll figure out a better ending then."

Rowen unshrunk her book scribbling in it furiously, leaning as far away as possible from her brother as possible which was basically leaning on Fred.

I shook my head in dismay and pulled Jane past Arianna and George to the two empty seats by the window. We took our seats and I threw the offending candy I had been holding to their owners.

"Thank you, Lysa." They all said in unison

"That was creepy, it's bad when Fred, Arianna and George do it but all of you?"

"So what?"

I rolled my eyes and smiled

...

"And that was that." Finished Lysa, "We chatted and slept for the rest of the ride. Jane sat in between my legs, asleep and soon after I was also asleep. I can't remember much from after that but I do remember Rowen was asleep on Sebastian and Arianna fell asleep on George. Well, that's all I have to say for now."

"Now it's time to make mine! YESH! This is going to be so much fun!"

"Don't get carried away, Rowen."

"You know I won't."

"I really don't think you will."

And the recording ended, whirring.