In Number Four, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, two adults and their son were sleeping peacefully in their beds. The adults' names were Petunia and Vernon Dursley, their son's name was Dudley. The House of the Dursleys had four bedrooms, one for Petunia and Vernon, one for guests - mainly Vernon's sister Marge -, and two for Dudley. Since Dudley had two bedrooms for himself, one was used as a storage room for any toys broken in temper tantrums.
As for a fact, Petunia - who had a soft heart for Dudley - and Vernon gave Dudley everything he wanted - with the results of Dudley being an overweight, baby-whale-sized and spoiled rotten kid. A side effect was that Dudley didn't want to learn and so performed only good enough to pass that year.
In the living room were many pictures of Dudley and his parents. Most of them showed Dudley as a fine boy - which was a bit ironic since Dudley had the brain of a mouse when it came to social contact. He screamed at and scared away every person who wanted to approach him but his family and friends was a special case since he was around them so often and knew how to behave.
It didn't show that there were two more people living in Number Four, Privet Drive. They were children - siblings in fact - who grew up there but hadn't the best upbringing. They were a boy and a girl. Their features were so similar that they could be mistaken as identical twins. They had red hair and green eyes, but the hair had one difference: the boy's was messy and the girl's was as soft as silk. Another difference was their age. The boy was ten and the girl was nine. Height could be counted as a difference since the boy was larger - even if it wasn't very much - as a result of being older.
Their bedroom was the cupboard under the stairs. Everything they owned was lying on the shelves that were attached to one side of the wall of the cupboard. Since the boy had very bad eyesight, he was forced to wear glasses. These glasses were actually second-hand ones, which Aunt Petunia simply bought when he was six because the school nurse found out that his eyesight was bad. Since the shelves were on only one side, they had to find a good sleeping position - which was required since the floor was only big enough for only one of them. They had agreed that the girl would sleep between the boy and the shelves in case the girl fell asleep and the boy didn't want to wake her.
The children had to do chores for the Dursleys since Uncle Vernon didn't want to throw out money for freaks like them. These were cooking, cleaning, gardening and removing the dust from shelves. There were many shelves where the two couldn't reach everything, but the boy found out at age eight he could intentionally levitate small objects up to one foot above the ground and managed to improve it to almost no height and weight restriction almost a year later - including his sister.
They only got enough food for one of them for that day in addition of being starved and thrown into the cupboard regularly. The lack of food caused them to be smaller than normal - which didn't mean they couldn't grow to a size that didn't fit into the cupboard anymore.
They only had a few clothes. The most of them were hand-me-downs from Dudley. The girl also had dresses since their school - the Little Whinging Primary School - required them. Aunt Petunia had gone shopping with the girl and bought cheap dresses for the girl - which, what the boy found out later that month, wasn't the cheapest option that was also allowed at their school. Still, the girl was bullied because most of the others had more expensive dresses.
Dudley and his gang actually were the most vocal voice at the Little Whinging Primary School - meaning he and his gang had the control of all pupils of the school. Since Dudley hated the Potter siblings they were outcast - it was easy for them to outcast them as the boy wore Dudley's oversized clothes and the girl wore cheap dresses.
The children would be punished for not doing their chores in time, being better than Dudley in school and showing their freakishness. Since Dudley didn't want to learn the two children had only a small margin if they didn't want to do that school year again.
The boy found out at age six that Dudley hated places with books and thus libraries when he hid in the Little Whinging Library for that afternoon. Since then both of them found regularly refuge in the library and read the books there.
The librarian, a nice woman who wasn't affected by Aunt Petunia's gossip about the two of them, often talked with the two of them and answered almost every questions she got and and always had books for reference in her mind - the only ones she couldn't she knew where to search in the library to find the answer.
The children were not allowed to ask questions at the Dursleys. The boy found it out when he asked about his parents - they died in a car accident while driving drunken and that was the only answer he got. They were too happy when they found out that they could ask the librarian almost anything.
The boy found out he could memorize almost anything by skimming the text over the length of a half year. He then found out that the girl had the same gift. This was the reason that they had memorized the content of almost every book in the Little Whinging Library by the time the boy was ten. The boy convinced the girl to do the homework twice - once to not anger the Dursleys and once normal.
Suffering the same way had the two children grow together and grow up. They had nicknames for each other: Angel for the girl and Hero for the boy. The children were named Harry and Ella Potter.
The Dursleys were acting different around Ella. Harry always got hit harder than Ella and Ella got exercise books and pencils more easily than Harry - something Harry was a bit jealous about. Aunt Petunia gave Ella a diary on her ninth birthday - something she didn't do the same to Harry.
They were currently lying in the cupboard in their normal sleeping position. Harry was already awake thinking about the last day while Ella still slept. Yesterday a boy out of Ella's class had insulted her badly and hit her. She then ran away. The older brother instincts instantly kicked in and Harry aimed at the boy but the boy dodged the fist. A teacher had seen that and gave Harry detention for that afternoon. Harry had searched for Ella in the library and found her in a corner. He managed to convince her to go to the Dursleys. When she was in her cupboard she had broken down crying. Ella cried herself to sleep and Harry fell asleep a while after her. They hadn't gotten any diner because they didn't do any chores.
Suddenly there was a knocking on the cupboard door. "Get up! Now! The bacon is on the stove.", the shrill voice of Aunt Petunia said.
Since Harry was already awake he had heard what Aunt Petunia said and moaned. Why did it always hit them? They didn't do anything wrong. He put on his glasses.
Harry pressed his arms in Ella's chest and whispered into her ear, "Wake up and rise, my angel." He kissed Ella on the forehead. Ella's eyelids opened.
"Morning. What do we have to do, Harry?" a half asleep Ella said.
"Cooking. It's your turn today, Ella."
Then loud steps were heard and the voice of their cousin Dudley, saying happily, "We're going to the zoo! We're going to the zoo!"
When Harry opened the door to go out of the cupboard, Dudley pushed Harry back in. He unfortunately fell onto Ella.
"Ouch!", Ella complained.
"Dudley had pushed me back in.", Harry defended himself.
"Let's make him feel bad for that.", Ella said, even they couldn't do that.
"Yeah. Great idea."
Harry stood up and helped Ella up.
"Are you okay, Ella?" Harry asked.
"Of course I am. You are too concerned about me, Harry. Think of something else."
"I'm your big brother, Ella. I have to look after you," Harry said and Ella giggled and rolled her eyes.
Harry and Ella walked out of the cupboard. Ella looked after the bacon.

When Ella had finished cooking the bacon, Aunt Petunia went to fetch Dudley.
Aunt Petunia walked in with her hands over Dudleys eyes. She and Uncle Vernon began to sing "Happy Birthday to you". When they finished, Dudley began to count his presents.
Dudley finished counting with a red face. "Thirty-six! That's two less than last year."
"Sweetie, you haven't seen the present under the big present of Aunt Marge.", Aunt Petunia said.
"That's thirty-seven. That's still less than last year."
"Sweetie, I'll buy you two more presents when we are out. Two more."
Dudley had trouble with Numbers greater than Thirty-six, so out of his mouth came, "That's thirty … thirty…"
"Thirty-nine."
Uncle Vernon came and said, "A good Boy. When you are big, you gonna be leading my company."
Then the phone rang. Uncle Vernon went to answer the call. When he came back, he looked serious and displeased.
"Mrs Figg has broken her leg. She stumbled over one of her cats. She can't take in Harry and Ella."
"What's with your sister, Vernon? Could Marge take them for that day?"
"It's not a good idea. She hates them."
Dudley began crying loudly. Even an idiot could see that he was pretending to cry.
Aunt Petunia came over, hugged him and said, "Don't cry, Duddykins, I won't let them spoil your birthday."
"I... don't... want... them... to... come...", he said.
"The car's new, so sitting in there would be no option.", Uncle Vernon said.
"We could stay here.", Harry said.
"With the house in ruins and both of you gone? That's not an option.", Uncle Vernon said.
Nothing could go wrong today. They promised each other to keep everything quiet as possible. Since they spent somewhere else than the cupboard or Mrs Figg, they thought, it could be worth. One thing they didn't know was that they would be in the most serious trouble.

When they heard that one of Dudley's friends would come over to come with them to the zoo, both of them it was hard to keep that promise. They squeezed into the car, with Harry and Ella sitting in the back.
Uncle Vernon was complaining about the cars when Harry said, "I had a dream with a motorbike. It was flying."
This angered Uncle Vernon so hard that he nearly drove into the car in front of them. When they finally stood, Uncle Vernon screamed, "MOTORBIKES DON'T FLY!"
"I know they don't.", Harry said. "It just was a dream."
Uncle Vernon calmed down.

When they entered the zoo, they've bought ice-cream for everyone, even Harry and Ella.
Dudley then ran to the reptile house. Harry and Ella sighted. They went after Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia and hoped to get no punishments. When they caught up with Dudley, Dudley was standing in front of a snake.
He said, "Get it moving, dad."
Uncle Vernon hammered against the glass pane. The snake didn't move.
Uncle Vernon hammered again against the glass pane, but harder now. The snake still didn't move.
"The snake is boring. Let's go somewhere else.", Dudley said.
Harry and Ella went to the glass. Ella thought that the snake might have died because of the boredom.
Suddenly the head of the snake moved.
Harry looked at it surprised.
"What's wrong, Harry?" Ella asked.
"The snake said that it gets this every time," Harry said with a very serous face
"No way. You're kidding, Harry."
"I'm telling the truth."
Harry exchanged some hissing noises with the snake.
"It's a Boa Constructor. The species comes from Brazil, but the snake itself was bread in captivity.", Harry said.
"I'm sorry. Never seen your origin land.", Ella said. She felt bad for the snake because it hadn't seen Brazil in its life.
A shout made all three jump.
"DUDLEY! MR DURSLEY! COME AND LOOK AT THIS SNAKE! YOU WON'T BELIEVETHAT IT'S DOING!"
Dudley came and pushed both of them out of the way.
In a split of a second, when Dudley and Piers were pressing against the glass, it vanished and both plunged into the tank.
The Boa Constructor hissed something.
Because of the trouble of the two boys falling into the snake tank, it was easy for the boa constructor to escape.
When Dudley tried to escape, the glass pane had reappeared.
Ella didn't know who caused the glass pane to vanish, but she and Harry were in trouble.

The zoo director apologized heavily to the Dursleys although he couldn't explain how a glass pane could simply vanish into thin air and then reappear, although he suspected it broke down due to the force applied to the glass. Aunt Petunia had instantly screamed at the director that her Dudders hadn't done anything wrong and it must have been the two freaks Harry and Ella
Dudley and Piers was finally rescued out of the thank after half an hour. It was the worst half hour he had experienced. He had fallen into the pond in the tank and thus all of his clothes were wet. He got warped into a towel.
As soon as they've got home, Uncle Vernon cornered them and said, "Go into your cupboard. Now."
Harry and Ella instantly did. "At least we got some ice-cream," Ella said after Uncle Vernon locked the door.
"It definitely was the best birthday of Dudley we had without being sent to Mrs Figg."
"True. What was wrong with that snake? You seemed surprised."
"It spoke with me. You won't believe me anyway, Ella."
There came no response. Harry realised that Ella had to be sleeping. Even her grip around Harry was suggesting it.
"Sweet dreams, my angel," Harry said and closed his eyes.

They were the next day in the cupboard and were bored. It was for the punishment for vanishing the glass of the snake tank.
"I don't know what we did wrong that day, Harry," Ella said.
"It must have to do something with the fact that I can levitate things on shelves," Harry said. Nobody could fault that logic. He felt Ella nodding.
"And it must be something you could lern. Look at yourself, Harry. You could do it."
"It must also be emotion-driven. You, Ella, didn't master it but managed to do it under strong emotions."
But they didn't come further than that. The only conclusion was that the people that also had their gifts had to keep itself secret or the other people simply didn't talk about it.
"It's strange why everyone has it and Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon act like that." Harry said when they came to that conclusion. They then decided that it was most likely kept secret. But which Community wanted to be secret and managed to stay secret? Somebody should find out something about the community because of children like Harry and Ella.
Harry had managed to get onto the roof of the school after being chased down by bullies. He couldn't explain how it had happened. Another time Aunt Petunia sent him to the barber and he came back with seemingly uncut hair. Aunt Petunia had cut them with a pair of kitchen scissors. Harry felt embarrassed of the haircut - the next day they were back normal.
Ella had managed to push a girl much harder than she should be capable after that girl had managed to anger Ella. The girl flew into the tree behind her and was seriously injured.
Harry suddenly had to think of a girl he and Ella worked with in the library. She had bushy brown hair and brown eyes and her name was Hermione. They only studied together because they were bullied elsewhere. They were lucky that Hermione's bullies also didn't like the library but Harry guessed that it was Dudley and his gang.
Then something hit him. He knew Hermione was in his year but didn't get to know her over the years. It was normal for them to change the school after this year and she probably would go to another school where they don't see each other anymore. The only happy thing would be if Uncle Vernon or Aunt Petunia signed Ella to the school she was going - but they may not be able to ask her before the end of the school year.