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Disclaimer/ AN: I use some parts of the first few chapters of the book very closely to the original to show the few small changes that occurred, this will change once I hit a part where things start to diverge more, although this may occur again later in the story for specific conversations I believe need to stay the same or very similar to the original. I have done almost word for the last paragraph of the first chapter of the first book because it is my favorite paragraph in the series and wanted to give it a spotlight here. All recognizable writing from the books comes from J.K. Rowling and is not my work.

AN: Well here's Chapter 2, I hope you enjoy!

Summary:

We've all read the stories or seen the movies, of a young wizard named Harry Potter. We've grown up or watched as our children grew up with stories of the Boy Who Lived. But what if something was different, what if he hadn't been alone at the Dursley's? What if Harry had a twin, a young girl named Katrina? How would things have been different? Well, you're about to find out.

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June 23rd, 1991- Number 4 Privet Drive

"Up! Get up! Now!"

Katrina woke with a start as her brother elbowed her jumping at their aunts rapping on their door.

"Up!" she screeched. They heard her walk away to the kitchen. Katrina rolled her eyes looking at Harry who looked back.

"You have the dream of the motorcycle too?" He asked quietly squinting to see her. She nods reaching out to grab both their glasses, Handing Harry his round ones and her putting on her own thick rectangular 'Nerd' glasses as Dudley called them.

"Are you up yet?" Aunt Petunia was back to get them.

"Nearly" said Harry, Katrina sitting up bowing her head.

"Well, get a move on you two, I want you to look after the bacon and sausage. And don't you dare let it burn, I want everything perfect on Duddy's birthday." Harry groaned, Katrina whacking him for it, knowing their aunt would be pissed.

"What did you say?" their aunt snapped through the door.

"Nothing, nothing..." Harry sits up pulling socks out from under the double cot him and his sister shared, pulling a spider off one and flicking it at his sister with a smile. Katrina whacked him upside the head. The two were used to spiders, because the cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where they slept.

The two dressed and climbed out of the cupboard quickly going to the kitchen to watch the food. The two eat breakfast quickly knowing their cousin had a tendency to flip tables when upset. Katrina zoned out through her cousins rant about the number of present he had gotten being less than the year before, having finished her food already. Snapping out of it and sending a glare as Dudley's best friend Piers Polkiss arrived for their trip to the zoo, she was not happy with having to accompany them to the zoo even though she wanted to see the animals.

After a chaotic car ride in which Harry had nearly caused them to crash by stupidly mentioning him and his sister's shared dream to Uncle Vernon, they finally arrived at the zoo, going in the twins where each bought lemon Ice Pops when the ice-cream woman had asked what they wanted before the Dursleys could rush them away after having gotten Dudley and Piers ice cream.

"That Gorilla looks like Dudley" Harry whispered to his sister as they watched while licking their ice pops.

"Yeah, cept it isn't blonde" Katrina giggled, quickly falling silent when her uncle sent her a look.

The two even got to split a Knickerbocker glory when Dudley didn't want his first one because according to him it didn't have enough ice-cream when they had lunch. It was going very well the Twins keeping a bit away from the others so they could talk and avoid getting hurt by Dudley or Piers. But as was fate the good day did not last.

After lunch they went to reptile house. Dudley wasted no time in finding the largest snake there.

"It's big enough to wrap around uncle Vernon's car… at least twice" Harry whispered in awe.

"And maybe even around Uncle Vernon once" Katrina snickered back looking over the giant sleeping snake. Uncle Vernon was tapping the glass trying to get the snake to move for Dudley, when that didn't work Dudley shuffled away in boredom to see the other creatures. Katrina and Harry moved closer to the tank, Katrina reading the sign while Harry stood lost in thought. Katrina looked up startled when the snake moved having opened its eyes it had raised its head up to be at eye level with her and Harry when it… winked? Katrina gasped eyes widening before grinning at Harry. The two of them winked back.

The snake jerked its head toward Uncle Vernon and Dudley, and then raised its eyes to the ceiling. As if to say plainly:

"I get that all the time."

"I know," Harry murmured though the glass unsure if the snake could hear him. "It must be really annoying."

The snake nodded vigorously.

"Where do you come from, anyway?" Harry asked.

"The sign says Brazil, and that he was bred in the zoo." Katrina supplies the snake nodding along to her words.

"Oh so you've never actually been there?" The snake shook its head almost sadly, a deafening shout behind the twins making the three jump.

"DUDLEY! MR. DURSLEY! COME AND LOOK AT THIS SHAKE! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT IT'S DOING!"

Dudley came waddling over to them as quickly as he could.

"Out of the way, you two," he said punching both Harry and Katrina in the ribs sending the two to the hard concrete floor. What happened next would confuse everyone for weeks to come; no one saw exactly what happened. One second Piers and Dudley were leaning real close to the glass the next they were jumping back with howls of horror.

Harry sat up with a gasp; the glass of the boa constrictor's tank had vanished. The great snake was uncoiling itself rapidly, slithering out onto the floor. People throughout the reptile house screamed and started running for the exits. Katrina sat up beside her brother eyes wide as she pushed her glasses up her nose grabbing her brother hand in fear and shock.

As the snake slid past them the twins could have sworn they heard a hissing voice say "Brazil, here I come…. Thanksss, amigos."

The keeper of the reptile house was shocked.

"But the glass," he kept repeating, "Where did the glass go?"

After almost an hour of the Zoo director apologizing to Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon and Dudley and Piers telling anyone who would listen the story, which got more insane with each telling; they were finally on their way back home in the car. Where Piers just had to open his big mouth. "Katrina and Harry where talking to it, weren't you?"

Uncle Vernon waited until Piers was safely headed home before turning on the twins. He was so angry he could hardly speak. He managed through his own seething breathes to say, "Go – cupboard – stay – no meals," before collapsing into a chair where Aunt Petunia gave him a large brandy.

Katrina and Harry lay on their cot in their dark cupboard hours later, unsure if the Dursleys had yet gone to sleep. They could not sneak to the kitchen for food until they knew for sure or risk more yelling… or worse.

They had lived with the Dursleys for ten years, ten years of misery. Ten years of being treated as basic slaves. They had lived there since their parents had died in a car crash, or so their aunt had said. Neither of them could remember the night in which they had died, although both could recall if they truly tried a blinding flash of green light and a burning pain in their foreheads, they guessed it was the crash. The Burning pain had to have been when they got their matching lightning bolt scars. Katrina had spent a lot of time in the school library trying to figure out where the green light had come from, never finding anything. Neither had any recollection of their parents, they didn't even know their names for sure; let alone being sure of what they looked like. When they were young Katrina had asked her aunt if she looked like her mother, she had scoffed but had agreed that besides the black uncontrollable hair she was the spitting image of her, from the shape of her face to the color of her emerald green eyes. She had managed to get that Harry was the same, but for their father, other than his eyes and nose which matched his twins. They assumed they got their black hair from him. Petunia had admitted once that their mothers name of Lily and she had red hair, when she had scoffed at a women in a shop muttering about how she had the same unruly red hair of her late sister Lily. This brought them to believe that their fathers name was James seeing as Lillian was Katrina's middle name and Harry's was James, it was the only logical conclusion the two eight year olds could make.

When they were young the two used to spend hours coming up with crazy stories of some unknown relative coming and whisking them away from the pain and horror they faced every day. Although this never happened the two did seem to run into people that seemed to know them, strange people who would bow to them in shops or shake their hands then rush away or seem to almost disappear, they never did figure out why, having never gotten a chance to ask any of the strangers.

At school the two only had each other as the other kids where either to terrified of Dudley and his gang to befriend them, or thought they were weird in their large baggy hand me down clothing of Dudley's and broken glasses. Even the teachers barely spoke with them, thinking them dumb from their poor grades although they were very much the opposite, in fact they would be top of the class if they did not hold themselves back having learned early on if they did better than Dudley there would be consequences.

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AN: Well that's chapter 2, I hope you enjoyed, see you next time. Please Favorite, Follow, and Review if you did!