A/N I couldn't help myself here's the next chapter for your reading enjoyment. I just couldn't help posting it the more that I write on this the more that I want you to read up to where I've stopped. So I've decided to go ahead and post all of the chapters that I've written of this story so far. I've been working on this for about a month and I like where it's going.

Chapter Three – When Wishes Come True

The escape of the Boa Constrictor at the zoo in combination with Serenity's disappearance had earned them both the longest stay locked up in their cupboard under the stairs. By the time that they were let out, the summer Holidays had begun, and the twins spent most of that time avoiding Dudley and his gang, or preforming chores under Petunia's watchful gaze.

On those rare days when Petunia would get off of her lazy backside and preform the house chores for herself, Harry and Serenity would spend those days attempting to dodge Dudley and his gang. Their only ray of hope was in the knowledge that the next school term Dudley wouldn't be attending the same school as they would, due to the fact that he would be attending Vernon's old school Smeltings Academy.

"You know they like to stuff people's heads down the toilet on their first day at Stonewall. Do you two want to practice," asked Dudley as he eyed Harry and Serenity eagerly?

"No thank you, I'm quite sure that the poor toilet has never had anything as disgusting as your head stuffed down it before. It might get sick," quipped Harry as he grabbed his sister's hand and the two of them hurried from the house before Dudley could figure out what he had said.

Towards the end of July Serenity and Harry were left at Mrs. Figg's while Petunia took Dudley into London to buy his new school uniform for his first year at Smeltings. To their surprise Mrs. Fig wasn't as bad as she normally was toward the twins. As it turned out that she had broken her leg tripping over one of her cats and wasn't as fond of them as before. She allowed them to watch the television and even gave them each a piece of cake that tasted as if it were at least a year old.

As Harry sat on the sofa enjoying the television show, Serenity curled up in the other corner of the sofa idly stroking one of Mrs. Figg's cats and staring at the chair that the dark man had sat in that was now occupied by Mrs. Figg as she knitted. "Are you alright dear," questioned the old woman as she noticed the strange expression on the girl's face? Serenity nodded and attended to the cat on her lap with a new vigor.

The next day there was a horrid stench coming from the kitchen and Harry and Serenity wrinkled their noses as the smell hit them. "Aunt Petunia, what is that," asked Harry pointing to the bits of rag that she was mixing with a large wooden spoon in a large pot in the kitchen sink? Petunia's lips tightened the way that they always did when he asked her a question before she answered him.

"These are the new school uniforms for you and your sister," she said as she pulled out a piece of the uniform and scrutinized the color.

"I didn't realize that they had to be so wet," said Harry cheekily.

"Don't be ridiculous boy, I'm dying them so that they'll be gray like everyone else's," she said as she checked the color of one of the girl's uniforms.

Harry sat down at the table with his sister and seconds later Vernon and Dudley came in wrinkling their noses at the smell of the dye as well. Vernon took up reading his newspaper while Dudley sat down and started hitting everything within his reach with his smelting stick. They heard the sound of the letter box click and Vernon didn't even lower his paper.

"Get the mail Dudley," he said from behind the paper.

"I'm eating, make Harry or Serenity get it," he moaned through a mouth full of food.

"Harry, Serenity one of you go and get the mail," ordered Vernon.

"I don't want to, make Dudley get it," argued Harry.

"Dudley hit them with your stick," said Vernon.

Dudley narrowed his eyes and swung the stick at Serenity who ducked and ran from the room while Harry bobbed and weaved to join her out in the hallway. Serenity bent to pick up the mail and looked through the small pile of mail nonchalantly. As Harry entered the Hall he could hear her voice in his mind. "Bill, bill, postcard from Uncle Vernon's annoying sister, bill, what the," came her voice as she gasped at the address on the last two letters.

"Serenity, what is it," he asked as he took the three bills and the postcard from her?

"Harry, you're not going to believe this but we've gotten mail," came her voice in his head as she handed over the letter addressed to him.

"What, who would be sending us letter's? We don't have any other family," said Harry as he followed his sister into the kitchen and distractedly handed his uncle Vernon the mail. They both started to sit back in their seats at the table when suddenly; Dudley noticed that they had letters and snatched them, making both of them angry.

"Mum, Dad, look, Harry and Serenity have gotten letters," he screamed as he ran around the table and handed the letters over to Vernon.

"Hay, give those back they're ours," protested Harry angrily as he stopped mere feet from his Uncle Vernon's seat.

"Who'd be writing to you," sneered Uncle Vernon as he shook open one of the identical letter's and began to read over it. Harry and Serenity watched as his face went from beet red, to a sickening shade of green. He looked up at his wife whom had a shocked expression on her horsey looking face.

As the month passed on the Letters continued to come, and were destroyed by Vernon. Their house was swarmed with hundreds of hooting owls which had delivered the letters, and were waiting to carry back a reply. This carried on until the start of the week before Harry and Serenity's birthday.

"Ah, Sunday, the best day of the week in my opinion," sighed Uncle Vernon one morning as he took a relaxed sip of tea from his favorite cup. "There's no post on Sunday's," he announced giving Harry and Serenity a positively gleeful look. The next thing they knew, the fireplace in the kitchen started to rumble and the windows in the house began to shake. Two letters came flying out of the empty fireplace and slapped Vernon in the face.

"What," he spat and sputtered angrily? Before anyone could move a torrent of letters came flooding out of the fireplace and flew around the room like hundreds of paper birds. Vernon, Dudley, and Petunia screamed in shock as Harry and Serenity both jumped and grasped one of the letters each. On seeing this, Vernon growled and chased the twins down. He caught Serenity first and slammed her down on the ground placing one of his large fat feet in the middle of her back as he ripped up the letter that she was holding with his teeth.

As Harry saw how their uncle had Serenity pinned to the ground, and heard her screams of pain in his head he suddenly snapped and leapt onto Vernon's back catching him off Gard. When Serenity felt the pressure of Vernon's foot move from her sore back she tried to get up and run only to be grabbed by the hair.

"That's it, I've had it. Pack your bags, we're leaving. If they can't find us then they'll stop sending those blasted letters," he screamed as he roughly threw Harry and Serenity into their cupboard until everyone else was ready to leave. As they were dragged from one new place to another being followed by the letters, Serenity couldn't help wishing that she had stayed with the stranger whom had offered her protection.

Late on a very stormy night while she and Harry lay on the dusty floor of the little shack on the isle that Vernon had dragged them to, her thoughts again turned to the strange man, and she wondered what life would have been like if she lived with the comforting dark man. Harry looked up from drawing a birthday cake in the dust and noticed his sister's distracted expression.

"Pst, Serenity are you alright," he whispered not wishing to wake Dudley whom was sleeping on the sofa?

"Harry, I'm fine, I was just thinking about the night that I got locked out in the rain," came her voice in his head.

"What about it, sis? You never told me the truth about what happened that night," he said as he scooted closer to her.

"Harry, I don't know who he was but, there was a man staying in Mrs. Figg's house while she was gone. He found me in the rain, and took me in and protected me. I was just thinking of what it would be like if we lived with such a caring person, instead of our Aunt, Uncle and the pig that they call our cousin," she said as she looked down at Harry's cake.

"I know how you feel about that Serenity. Hay, look it will be our birthday in ten seconds, "said Harry as he pointed to Dudley's watch. "Five, four, three, two, one happy birthday Serenity," smiled Harry as he and his sister stretched out on the floor together and blew on the dust cake making their birthday wish.

After blowing away the dust cake they both jumped as a loud crash sounded outside the door of the old shack, and quickly got to their feet. It wasn't just something banging on the side of the house; it was someone outside trying to get in. Harry grabbed his sister and quickly pulled her back into the shadows placing himself between her and the potential danger. Boom, boom, boom, came the insistent knock at the door that shook the door on its rickety hinges.

Vernon and Petunia ran down the dusty stairs with a rifle in his hands. "Who's there? I warn you I'm armed," he said pointing the gun at the door. There was a pause in the knocking, and then something smashed into the door making it fly off of its hinges to crash loudly on the floor. A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long shaggy mass of hair and a massive tangled beard; you could barely make out his black eyes glinting in the dim light of the shack.

He entered the house stooping slightly so that his head barely missed hitting the rafters of the top floor, and picked up the door easily placing it back into the hole. The noise of the storm outside went down a little. He turned and looked at them all. Vernon took that time to open his big fat mouth. "I demand that you leave at once sir, you're breaking and entering. Get out of my house," he said shakily pointing the end of the rifle at the giant.

Before he could pull the trigger, the giant stepped over to him and bent the end of the rifle up toward the ceiling. "Dry up Dersley, you great prune," he said as the gun went off making a hole in the upper floor. He then looked at Dudley who was sitting in a window seat with a frightened expression on his face and smiled.

"Blimy, Harry, I haven't seen you and your sister since the two of you were babies. You're a lot more along than I would have expected, especially around the middle," he said as he patted his large stomach. "Where's your sister," he then asked as he stepped toward the sofa and looked around for the girl?

"I-I'm not Harry," stammered Dudley as he inched around the wall toward his parents.

"I'm Harry, and my sister is here with me," said Harry as he cautiously stepped out of the shadows with his sister hiding just behind him.

"Of course you are. Here I've got something for you two. I might have sat on it at some point along the way, but I imagine that it will taste good all the same," said the giant as he pulled a rumpled box out of his large coat and handed it over to Harry and his sister.

Harry and Serenity took the offered box and opened it together to find a pink frosted birthday cake with Happy Birthday Harry and Serenity written across it in green frosting. "I hope that you two like it. I've baked it myself words and all," said the giant man proudly. Serenity bent over and whispered into her brother's ear making him put the cake down on a table beside the sofa and look up at the large man questioningly.

"Thank you sir," said Harry politely as the large man sat on the sofa making it grown under his weight.

"It's not every day that your young man and young lady turn eleven, now is it," asked the giant as he pulled a pink umbrella out from his coat and pointed at the empty fire place making flames burst into life.

"Excuse me sir, but who are you," asked Harry cautiously?

"My name's Rubius Haggrid, I'm the keeper of keys and grounds at Hogwarts. Of course you'll know all about Hogwarts by now," asked Haggrid with a happy smile as he placed a few fat sausages onto the fire to cook?

"Sorry, no," said Harry in a sad tone with Serenity shaking her head sadly behind him.

"No, blimy Harry, Serenity didn't the two of you ever wander where your mum and dad learned it all," asked Haggrid in shock?

"Learned what exactly," asked Harry on his sister's urging in his head?

"You're a wizard and you sister there is a witch Harry."

"We're what," asked Harry in shock?

"A witch and a wizard, and thumping good one's once you're trained up a bit," said Haggrid as he checked the cooking sausages on the fire.

"No you've made a mistake we can't be a witch and a wizard. We're just Harry and Serenity," argued Harry in shock.

"Well just Harry and Serenity, tell me did you ever make anything happen that you couldn't explain when you were angry or scared? Perhaps you've even done something just between the two of you that seems strange," suggested Haggrid as he handed them both a hot sizzling sausage on a fork to eat. Harry and Serenity looked at each other with stunned expressions on their faces and Haggrid nodded as he got to his feet and handed each of them a letter.

As Harry read his letter out loud, he could hear his sister's voice echoing the same letter in his head with her name in the place where his was in his letter. "Dear Miss Potter, we are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to attend school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," said her voice in his head in unison with his own voice before they were interrupted by Vernon.

"They'll not be going, I tell you. We swore when we took them in that we'd stomp any of that rubbish out of them," he said as he stepped up to where Harry and Serenity stood quickly making Serenity start shaking with fear and step behind Haggrid.

"Wait a minute, you knew all along, and you didn't tell us," argued Harry angrily?

"Of course we knew, how could you not be, with my perfect sister being who she was. My mother and father were so proud the day that she got her letter. Isn't it great, we have a witch in the family," she shrieked with a nasty expression on her horsey looking face.

"I was the only one to see her for what she truly was, a freak! Then she met that Potter, and had you and your sister. I knew that the two of you would be the same, just as strange, just as abnormal, and then she went and got herself blown up, and we got landed with you two," said Petunia stepping beside Vernon.

"Blown up, but you told us that our parents died in a car crash," screamed Harry angrily.

"A car crash killed Lilly and James Potter? It's a scandal, an outrage," screamed Haggrid making the Dursley's back into the corner in fear!

"Well we had to tell them something sensible," said Petunia as she hid behind Vernon.

"I don't care what you say they won't be going." Said Vernon as Dudley snuck around and took Harry and Serenity's cake.

"Oh, and I suppose a great fat muggle like yourself is going to stop them, asked Haggrid with an odd look on his face?

"Excuse me but what's a muggle," asked Harry?

"Muggle, it means none magical folks like them," explained Haggrid gently as he smiled down at Harry and his sister.

"These two children have had their names down since they were born. They'll be going to the finest school for witchcraft and wizardry in the world, and they'll be taught by the greatest headmaster that Hogwarts has ever seen, Albus Dumbledore," said Haggrid reverently.

"I'll not pay to have some crack pot old fool teach them magic tricks," snarled Vernon angrily. It was then that Haggrid noticed the Dursley's fat son Dudley making a pig of himself as he scarfed down Harry and Serenity's birthday cake, and he removed his umbrella and pointed it at Vernon menacingly.

"Never insult Albus Dumbledore in front of me," he said as he pointed it at Dudley's backside and a curly pig's tail sprouted from his backside making him and his parents scream in terror. Harry and Serenity watched and laughed softly to themselves as they watched their Uncle, Aunt, and cousin run upstairs screaming hysterically. "Um, I'd appreciate it if neither of you told anyone at school about this. I'm not allowed to do magic strictly speaking, said Haggrid as he quickly ushered the twins from the house and into a boat.

The next morning Haggrid led the twins through London with a happy smile on his hairy face. As they walked Serenity read over her letter and brought the list of supplies to her brother's attention. He read the list out loud, and then looked up at Haggrid questioningly. "Haggrid, my sister and I were wondering, will we be able to find all of this stuff in London," he asked as he showed the large man his school list?

"Sure, you can, if you know where to look," said Haggrid as he lead the two Potter children into the Leaky Cauldron pup.

After both of the Potter children were swarmed by admirers and well-wishers, Haggrid rushed them out into a small brick lined court yard, and tapped some of the bricks on the wall in a pattern. Harry and Serenity gasped in awe as the solid brick wall before them rearranged itself and transformed into an arched door that led out onto a crowded street lined on both sides with shops of all kinds.

"Haggrid my sister and I were wondering, how we're going to pay for everything that we need? We haven't any money," said Harry with his hands in his pockets.

"There's no need to worry about that, you two. We'll just make a little trip into Gringgots Wizard Bank and make a withdrawal," said Haggrid as he led the children into the massive bank that was one hundred times the size of anything that they had ever seen in their lives.

"Harry, what do you suppose those strange looking things behind the desks are," asked Serenity with a fearful tone in her voice as she walked passed the ugly little creatures.

Harry stopped briefly as a goblin crossed his path then he asked Haggrid about them under his breath not wanting to offend anything.

"Those are Goblins. They're not the friendliest creatures, but they're as smart as it gets when it comes to handling money. There's no place safer than Gringgots aside from perhaps Hogwarts to hide something precious," said Haggrid as they reached the front desk with a particularly mean looking goblin sitting there with his hooked nose in a book.

"Mr. and Miss. Potter would like to make a withdrawal," said Haggrid getting the goblin's attention.

"Do Mr. and Miss. Potter have their keys," asked the goblin as he leaned over the edge of his desk and peered down at the two children?

"Yes, I have them right here, said Haggrid as he rooted through his pockets for the two small golden keys. I also have a note from Professor Albus Dumbledore. It's about you know what, in volt you know which," said Haggrid as he handed over the note to the goblin.

After a heart pounding ride in a cart, they stopped at volt's 587, and 588. The Goblin took the Key's from Serenity and Harry each in turn letting each of them into their private volts. Harry entered his volt first and stood there for a moment in shock. He had never seen so much money in his life. When Serenity entered her volt, she walked in and looked around in utter disbelief.

Suddenly Haggrid jumped as he heard a sweet soft unfamiliar girl's voice inside of his head. "Mr. Haggrid, is all of this money truly ours," asked the sweet voice questioningly? Haggrid looked around for the sorce of the voice and Harry joined his sister in her volt as she gathered a few handfuls of gold galleons and placed them into a velvet bag that the goblin had handed her.

"To answer your question, Haggrid, that voice in your head is my sister's way of communicating. She only does it with people who she feels like she can trust, so the fact that she chose to speak to you in this way means a lot, especially since she doesn't trust men," said Harry as his sister joined him and looked up at Haggrid expectantly.

"I'm sorry if I frightened you, Mr. Haggrid," she said with an apologetic expression on her face.

"Oh, erm, I, um, you didn't frighten me little darlin. I just never expected to hear anyone's voice in my head, let alone your sweet little voice," said Haggrid as he happily hugged Serenity and her brother tightly.

"Haggrid, we, can't, breath," gasped Harry.

"Sorry about that kids. You didn't think that your parents would leave you with nothing for the future did you," he asked as he led the twins from the volt?

They left the bank after Haggrid removed something small from volt 713, and went shopping for their school supplies. Serenity loved it when they went to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, because for once her clothes weren't second hand and fit her perfectly. While she was being fitted for her robes there was another girl being fitted who attempted to make girly conversation, but when Serenity was unable to answer her she quickly turned away and called her a snob.

She paid for her purchases, and happily wore a lovely new pink dress, with black ballet flats out. Harry wolf whistled at his sister as she exited the store. He had never seen her look so beautiful.

"Boy, Serenity, you look great. I'm going to have to hex the boys away from you when I get my wand and learn some spells," said Harry making his sister laugh and smile in his head.

"Harry, I don't think that you'll have to go that far. I might not even make any friends, let alone ever want a boyfriend," she said as she thought about the way that the girl in the shop had treated her.

"Don't be silly Serenity, you'll make loads of friends, you'll see," soothed Harry as he wrapped an arm around her shoulder as they walked behind Haggrid.

After visiting several more shops, they finally made their way to Olivander's Wand Shop. Serenity loved the book store that they had just left minutes before, and had her noes buried in one of her books, that surprisingly was not on Harry's school list as they walked. "Serenity, what book is that? It wasn't on my list," said Harry as he peaked over her shoulder and guided her through the streets since she wasn't paying attention.

"It may have not been on your school list, but it was at the top of mine underlined in red, so it must be important," she answered as her brother led her into the wand shop.

"You two wait here, I've got something that I have to do real fast," said Haggrid making Serenity look up fearfully.

"You're leaving us alone, Mr. Haggrid," she asked him fearfully with a panicked look on her face?

"Don't worry, I'll be right back, and you'll be safe here for a few minutes." Said Haggrid placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder as he smiled down at her. Serenity didn't like being left alone in the dusty shop filled with rows upon rows of boxes.

"Ah, Mr. and Miss Potter, I wondered when I'd be seeing the two of you. It seems like only yesterday your parents were in here buying their first wands," said the old man as he pulled two boxes out of a shelf and brought them over to the counter for the twins. "Here we are, try and give these a wave," he said handing Harry and Serenity each a wand. Serenity and Harry both gave their wands a flick and boxes exploded from the shelves. "Apparently not," he said as he ran into the back and rummaged for two new wands.

Serenity gently laid the first wand onto the counter and Harry did the same with a shocked expression on his face. Then Olivander came back and handed them each another wand. "Perhaps these will work," he said as he handed them the new wands. Harry and Serenity gave the wands gentle flicks again, this time shattering two flower vases.

"NO, no, definitely not the wand's for you," he said as he ran back into the shelves and searched again. He ran his fingers over the boxes and paused over two boxes that he never thought to sell, and pulled them out with a thoughtful expression on his face. "I wonder, please try these," he said as he handed them the new wands.

As they touched the wands they felt a warm tingling sensation flow through them starting at their wand hand, and a red glow surrounded them. "Now that's simply curious, very curious indeed," exclaimed Olivander as he tapped his chin in thought!

"Excuse me, but what's curious," asked Harry bringing to light the question that was in Serenity's mind as well?

"I remember every wand that I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. It just so happens that the phoenix who's tail feather resides in the wands of you and your sister, gave another feather, just one. It is curious that these wands should choose you and your sister when it was their brother that gave the two of you those scars," said Olivander pointing at Harry and Serenity's lightning bolt scars.

"Who owned that wand," asked Harry?

"We do not speak his name. The wand chooses the wizard and Witch Mr. and Miss Potter. It is not always clear why, but I think that it is certainly clear that we can expect great things from the two of you. After all He Who Must Not Be Named did great things, yes terrible, but great things," said Olivander as Haggrid tapped on the window to get their attention and held up two large cages with owls in them.

"Happy birthday, Serenity, Harry," he said happily placing a caged owl in each of their hands. Harry's owl was a lovely white snowy owl, and Serenity's was an equally beautiful white barn owl. Later that evening they all sat in the Leaky Cauldron eating a nice hot meal, when Serenity's voice came into her brother's head.

"Are the two of you alright, Harry? You both seem very quiet," observed Haggrid as they sat around the dinner table with their owls eating.

"Harry, ask him, surely he must know something about the night that our parents died," came her voice in his head as she once again buried her nose into one of her books.

"He killed our parents, didn't he? You know the man who gave us these scars don't you Haggrid? We know that you do, please tell us," asked Harry?

Haggrid sighed and leaned back in his chair thinking on how to explain things to them. "First you two, you need to understand this. Not all witches and Wizards are good, a few of them occasionally go bad. A few years back there was this one wizard who went as bad as you can go, his name was-was," trailed off Haggrid with a distressed look on his face.

"Maybe if you wrote it down," suggested Harry.

"No, I can't spell it. Okay, his name was Voldemort," whispered Haggrid.

"Voldemort," echoed Harry!

"Shah, those were dark times, Harry, dark times indeed. Voldemort had started to gather some followers, and brought them over to the dark side. Anyone who refused him ended up dead. Your parents fought against him. Nobody lived once he decided to kill them. Nobody, not even one, except for the two of you that is.

"Us, Voldemort tried to kill us," whispered Harry out loud and Serenity in Haggrid's head in shock?

"Yes, that aint no ordinary cut on your forehead and your sister's throat Harry. Marks like that only come from being touched by a curse, and an evil curse at that."

"What happened to you know who," asked Harry?

"Well some say that he died, cat's wallop in my opinion. Nope, I reckon, that he's out there still, too weak to carry on, but one thing is for certain. Something about the two of you stumped him that night. That's why the two of you are famous, that's why everyone knows your names. You're the twins who lived," said Haggrid in an amazed tone.

Haggrid left them back at number 4 Privet drive later that night warning the Dursley's that if they harassed or harmed Harry and Serenity that he would have Dudley a matching pair of ears to go with that tail, before smiling and leaving handing them both their train tickets. "Don't forget, you two stick to your tickets," he said as he left the house waving happily.

A/N thanks for reading please leave a comment if you'd like to share you opinion. Chapter four – Slytherin's Potter will be next.