"Your mother and I-" Harry began, but was suddenly cut off as a large tawny owl came soaring through the open window and landed before Marie. Marie just stared at it. Suddenly, a second one flew through and landed in front of Mia. Mia quickly untied the letter from the owls leg and gave it a piece of toast. The owl hooted softly at her then took off through the window. Marie slowly reached out and untied her letter. The owl impatiently nipped at her hand until she handed it some toast. The owl ruffled its feathers indignantly and flew off. Both girls opened their letters.
"I've been accepted…" they both said at the same time and then continued reading quietly to themselves.
Harry and Hermione smiled at one another as they both recalled how they felt when they had received their acceptance letter, well for Harry it had been many.
Mia finished reading first and looked at Marie who paused in her reading to smile at her sister.
"Well congratulations girls, I'm very proud of you" Hermione said smiling at them.
"Yes, same here" Harry said smiling as well.
"So what were you about to tell us?" Mia asked.
Harry cleared his throat again. "Well your mother and I have something very important to tell you"
"Yes we gathered that" Marie said sarcastically.
"Marie, don't take that tone with your father" Hermione scolded.
Marie opened her mouth to argue but Mia cut her off. "Can we just continue please?"
"Yes, that's a good idea" Harry said. "Well as you both know you are witches."
Marie rolled her eyes and mouthed "duh"
Hermione shot her a look.
"But what you two don't know is that you have other powers as well, powers that most witches and wizards don't have."
Marie and Mia sat up and looked at each other with wide eyes.
"Powers?" Mia asked breathlessly "What kind of powers?"
"Very unusual ones" Hermione said.
"You see girls there is another world that most witches and wizards don't even know exists. Well actually there are many worlds. You see I am King of Demons and your mother is Queen of Evaporations."
"Wha-" Marie began, but Hermione cut her off.
"Girls please just listen, this is very confusing, if you just listen we will explain and if you have and questions we will be more than happy to answer when we're done." She nodded at Harry to continue.
"Demons are not as the name suggests, we are not evil. In the days when the power first emerged they were thought of as evil because they did not know how to control their powers. However we now have a very strong knowledge of our powers and this allows us to control them. Demons can do many things, for one they can transport. Lower class Demons transport in red light while royalty transport in red flames, like so-"
Harry was suddenly engulfed in red flames and disappeared.
Mia let out a little squeak of fear.
Marie yelled "Awesome!" as Harry appeared behind Hermione in red flames.
Harry grinned, "Demons can also throw fireballs" He then whipped out his hand and a fireball appeared hovering in his palm.
Mia and Marie stared in wide-eyed wonder.
"They are used to defend ourselves, if there is an attack fireballs can be thrown as weapons" he then threw it into the wall where it caused a small explosion and caused bits of the wall to fly. Hermione gave him a disapproving look, but Harry just grinned sheepishly and shrugged.
"These are the two main powers of Demons" Harry continued "Hermione do you want to explain the Evaporation powers?"
Hermione nodded. "Evaporations are a power of light, we never had a bad reputation"
Harry grinned at her little jab.
Hermione continued, "We can transport as well, accept we transport in blue light, flames for royalty, same as the Demons. We can also create fireballs, although once again ours are made of blue flames, not red. However we have one power that Demons do not. We can heal. We can heal just about anything, although we do have our limitations."
Marie and Mia just stared at their parents in shock.
"Is this for real?" Marie asked.
"Yes honey, it is completely 'for real'" Hermione said gently.
"Well then what does this have to do with us?" Mia questioned with a confused look on her face.
Hermione and Harry looked at one another.
"Well-" Harry began but stopped and shrugged helplessly at Hermione.
Hermione took a deep breath and looked at her daughters. "Because girls, the heirs to the throne inherit it on their 13th birthday, or once the current royalty dies."
"But….it's our 11th birthday…" Marie stammered.
Suddenly Mia gasped and tears filled her eyes. "No!" she yelled.
"Mia?" Harry asked concerned.
Suddenly Hermione gasped as well realizing where her daughters thoughts had gone. "Oh honey no! You're father and I aren't about to die!"
"But..but you said-!!" Mia wailed.
Harry finally caught on. "Mia no that's not why we're telling you girls this on your 11th birthday. We're telling you now because we need to train you. For the next two years your mother and I are going to be training you so that on your 13th birthday you will take over the thrones."
"Wait a second, if there are two different worlds, then who gets which one?" Marie asked.
"Well I will be giving my title of Queen of Evaporations to Mia" Hermione said.
"And Marie you will get my throne and take your place as Queen of Demons" Harry finished.
Marie and Mia looked at one another.
"Do you girls have any questions?" Hermione asked gently "I know this is a lot to process"
Mia just shook her head dazed.
Marie looked at her father "I have just one question"
"What's that?" Harry asked.
"When do we get started?!" Marie asked with a grin.
