"JUDE GET UP!" Jude jerked awake and was greeted with the sight of his older brother Matt who was glaring at him.

"Wha' 'oo want?" Jude asked.

"Mum said breakfast's ready," Matt sneered and stormed out of the room. Jude sighed and got up walking down three flights of stairs for the bathroom where he showered and got dressed. When he approached the table there was a plate ready for him between Greg and Rupert. Jude smiled as he sat in-between his favorite brothers. They were the only two siblings who had not taken the micky about the way he spoke. Not even when he was a baby and their parents were shocked about the fact as they were the practical jokers of the family and friends with the Weasley twins Fred and George, but they only stuck up for him.

"Hay Jude," they both said in unison.

"Hay Gweg and Wupewt," Jon replied.

"Freak," Matt muttered under his breath only to get a cuff around the head from Mrs Law. "Sorry," he mumbled but he had his fingers crossed and Jude knew it. He just nodded and carried on eating his breakfast talking about Pranks and such with his brothers, and then about Hogwarts and what house he would be in only for Matt to snort.

"Wha'?" Jude asked.

"You would never get into Hogwarts. You're a freak! and even if you did there isn't a house for you! they'd have to make a whole new one for retards like you!" Matt sneered.

"MATHEW LAW! GET UPSTAIRS THIS MINUTE!" Mrs Law bellowed. Her second to youngest son scurried upstairs while her youngest ran outside crying. He felt so alone. Why couldn't his brothers and sister like him? why couldn't they understand him? it just wasn't fair. It wasn't his fault that he was born not breathing and it had affected his brain and therefore his speech. Heck he had only learnt to speak at the age of six and he couldn't walk until he was eight and a half. It was a mirical he could at all. Jude sat there looking up at the sky and hoping, preying! something good would happen to him for once.

He knew there were people worse of then he was and that he shouldn't complain. He had a house, food and parents who loved him. As well as two of his older siblings out of four. That was better than nothing. Even his younger sister seemed to dislike him because he got more attention then she did even though she was the only girl in the family so seemed to think she was the most important being on the Earth to the Law family. Jude didn't even want all the attention he just wanted to be normal with friends and people who would not make fun of him.

When Jude returned to the house it was past midday. He walked in to see Mr and Mrs Law at the table with Greg and Rupert. "We have to find him," Greg said desperately.

"We will. If he isn't back by tonight we'll go looking," Mrs Law consoled her sons.

"But something could have happened to him by then!" Rupert said standing up with his twin in hot per-suite.

"That is a risk we have to take. Technically a person is not missing until they are gone 24 hours. Jude had only been gone six hours."

"I fin'," Jude said making the Law's jump and turn to him.

"JUDE!" Greg and Rupert coursed pulling their little brother into a hug.

"David Jude Heyworth Law where were you?" Mrs Law asked.

"Pon'," Jude replied.

"You were by the pond?" Mr Law asked and Jude nodded then spotted the letter on the table with his name on it and the Hogwarts crest. He pointed to it and smiled.

"'or me?" he asked.

"Yes sweety it's for you," Mrs Law smiled passing her son the letter who tore into it and read the letter.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL

of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,

Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Mr. Law,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

Jude grinned and jumped up and down waving the letter about happily. "'ogwawts!" he cried finally.

"Well done sweetheart," Mrs Law smiled pulling her son into a hug and kissing his face any where and everywhere.

"MUM! NO!" he yelled laughing.

The next day they went to Diagon Ally and they all split off. "Right choose a partner," Mrs Law demanded. Clair stayed with her mother. Greg and Rupert paired up together Matt ran over to Paul and stood with him leaving Jude on his own knowing that Mr Law would go with Paul and Matt. Jude looked down dejected.

"Come on Jude! you can come with us!" Greg and Rupert said at the same time causing a smile to break out on Jude's face as he went with Greg and Rupert. When the shopping was finished Jude saw a kitten hiding in an alleyway shivering with a broken leg.

"AWE! kitty," Jude soothed walking over and holding out his hand. The kitten emerged and Jude gasped at it. The fur was light blonde like Jude's hair and the eyes were sea blue again like Jude's. "Gweg Wupewt can I keep him?" Jude asked.

"Dunno little bro. Lets see what mum says," Greg replied as Jude picked the kitten up and walked off with his brothers.

"What is that?" Matt asked sneering as he pointed to the kitten in Jude's arms.

"Kitty," Jude replied. "Mum keep him?" Jude asked.

"Oh I don't see why not," Mrs Law smiled.

"NOT FAIR! WHY DOES HE GET A PET AND I DON'T?!" Matt roared.

"Do not raise your voice at me Mathew Law," Mrs Law said in a calm voice but you could see the fury in her eyes. "And you have a pet. You have Scrats," Mrs Law said.

"But he was Paul's first," Matt said crossing his arms and glaring at Jude who was hugging the skinny kitten to him.

"Fou' him," Jude said to Mrs Law.

"You can keep him honey. What are you going to call him?" Mrs Law asked.

"Seabwue," Jude replied.

"Seablue?" Mrs Law asked.

"He has sea bwue eyes wike me," Jude replied. Mrs Law smiled.

"Seablue is perfect," she said.

That night Jude moved his stuff into Greg and Rupert's room and curled up on the bed with a now clean and well fed Seablue on his chest. Soon he would go to Hogwarts and hopefully make some friends.