Callie Lupin sat down on her bed and started to write a letter to her
favourite godfather, the one that was alive anyway.
IDear Padfoot.
How are you? It's Callista. Dad says he's teaching at Hogwarts again this year and mum has agreed and we're moving to England. Some place in Little Whinging Surrey, London. Been there before? Silly question, you've been everywhere. Dad says that he doesn't know anyone around there so they wont be able to judge him 'cept Bella. I think it was 5 Privet Drive? I don't know. Dad's gone out. Since you'll be in England, Dad also said you could stay with us.
I hear London is really neat. Is it? Allie, Beau and Connor say hi as well. We'll be leaving tonight and getting there tomorrow. Just think, if you move in with us, you may be able to see Arabella, wont that be good? She misses you, dad asked her about it in a letter and she says she wishes she knew where you were because she believed in your innocence.
I have to go! Dinner calls. Hope to see you soon 'Snuffles' (where did you come up with that anyway?)
Love Callie.I/
Callie smiled at the note and tied it to her father's owl's leg. In truth she couldn't wait to get to England, it would be so cool! As in seriously, cool. Callie, Allie, Beau and Connor all lived in Australia with their mother and father, Delilah and Remus Lupin. Padfoot was Callie's godfather, his real name was Sirius Black and he was on the run from the ministry of magic.
Down in the kitchen dinner was being served and by the time Callie had arrived, it was already on the small table. The Lupin's lived in a small little house in a small village, it had two other wizard families living in it, but Callie didn't know either family, only that they were both Muggle- born witches and wizards.
"Come on Callie. We're waiting for you." Her father smiled at her when she sat down. Her father looked extremely tired, it was the last full moon the night before and he was always tired after transforming, even if he did have wolfsbane potion with him. Allie, too, was looking tired, she was tired often though.
"I'm coming dad." Callie smiled at her dad and sat down on one of the cane chairs. The Lupin's weren't very wealthy; in fact most of their things were second hand, due to her father hardly ever being able to keep a job, which was being a werewolf downer.
Dinner that night was quick, but tasty, and before they knew it everyone was piling into a taxi and driving into town for the late plane that left for Sydney, then the plane to England. Callie fell asleep halfway through the plane trip.
~*~
Callie woke up with a bright light in her eyes.
"Turn off the light mum." She mumbled.
"Pardon dear?" Asked an unfamiliar voice. Callie opened her eyes and once she had got her blonde hair out of the way saw that it wasn't her mum, but one of the flight attendants.
"Sorry. Just a little confused." Callie shook her head and saw her mother and father sitting in their seats in front of her, her brothers and sisters were in the chairs next to her.
Connor was smirking at her.
"Oh go eat some Frogs Liver." Callista snapped, getting mock angry and punching her brother playfully on the arm.
Her twin sister Allie was sitting next to her and looking out the window with a thoughtful expression. The two of them looked exactly the same, but Allie was a lot more creative, and Callie a lot more brave. They made a great pair together because Allie could think of pranks, while Callie would help her dish them out.
"Allie." Callie said waving her hand in front of Allie's blank face. She didn't even notice. "Allison Lupin!" Callie said, faking her mother's angry voice, which got Allie's attention right away.
"Yes mum-hey! Callie!" Allie glared playfully at her. "I was busy."
"Doing what? Counting the bugs outside the window?" Callie joked.
"No, we all know she was daydreaming about." Connor trailed off suggestively while Allie glared at the two of them. Callie snickered and her mother turned around.
"Leave your sister alone." She said sternly. Allie smiled gratefully at her.
"I was just trying to cheer her up!" Connor said defensively. Callie put a protective arm around her sister.
"Don't worry mum, I'll keep her out of harms way!" She said brightly. Allie raised an eyebrow but said nothing and went back to looking out the window. Callie knew it was her dream to go to England, and she was willing to bet that her twin sister hadn't had a wink of sleep all night, too busy waiting for them to get to England.
Around half an hour later, they finally arrived at the London Airport.
~*~
Harry sat on his bed, extremely bored and sick of going over the Tri-Wizard tournament details in his head. It was a Saturday and the Dursleys' were inviting the new people from across the road to dinner, meaning Harry was too stay in his room the whole time. There was still two hours to go though.
"BOY GET DOWN HERE AND CLEAN THE DINING ROOM!"
"Yes Uncle Vernon." Harry said, nowhere near as loudly as his Uncle had called.
Harry trudged down the stairs with a heavy heart. Things sure weren't going good lately. His Aunt was down stairs cooking up a lovely meal, it appeared there was quite a troop coming today, seeing as there were six extra plates. She was talking to someone on the phone.
"Yes. Twins you say? I always wondered what it would like to have twins." There was a pause. "Callie and Allie?" Another pause. "Lovely names."
He saw his Aunt make a face of disgust when she said lovely names.
"And the others?" . "Connor and Beau? You're Australian right?" . "Oh, so you are but your husband isn't. I see. He was British?"
Harry shook his head, he really didn't want to hear it, and after all, he wouldn't get to meet them anyway, which was probably a good thing if they were anything like the Dursleys. Then again, he had never met any Australian's before.
He started cleaning the dining room as his Aunt continued to talk on the phone. Who ever she was talking to, Harry felt sorry for. that woman could talk a dumb person to sleep. (Meaning that they can't hear by the way.)
After he had finished, and just as the doorbell rang, Harry retreated to his room, his Aunt had hung up the phone around twenty minutes before hand.
~*~
Callie and her family waited outside the Dursley home. Callie could see her sister nervously flattening her dress every few moments, Allie hated dresses.
On Allie's left forearm, right up the top near the elbow, was a tattoo with an intricate "A" etched into it, patterns flowing around it. Callie also noted the way she kept trying to hide it as well. If Callie didn't know better, she would have suspected they were going to meet the queen.
Callie was allowed to get a "C" on her arm if she had wanted too, but she had chickened out and said they would still be able to tell them apart, even if only Allie had the tattoo. It wasn't that she wasn't used to pain, she just didn't want a tattoo . that was all.
The door opened after her father had knocked and a bony looking woman appeared, behind her were two large boys. One was a man; Callie figured he was most probably Mr. Dursley, they other, however, was a boy who could have passed as a wale. That must have been Dudley.
"Hello Mrs. Dursley. Mr. Dursley. Hello Dudley." Dad greeted kindly.
"Hello. You must be Remus? Come in, let us get acquainted."
The Lupin's all entered and Callie's first thought was 'clean, very clean.' The living room was a little small, like all houses around here, but it looked fairly comfortable.
Callie saw a picture with a beach ball dressed in baby clothes on a shelf and almost laughed, she ended up choking when she realized it was Dudley!
"Are you alright dear?" Petunia asked.
"Fine thanks. I just got over tonsillitis and choked on the air." Callie lied, pretending to look honest. Petunia seemed to accept that and sympathized.
"Oh you poor dear. I remember once when Dudder's had that awful virus. Did you take the proper medication?"
"Yes ma'am. Thanks for asking." Callie smiled at her. "I'm Callie." She said and held out her hand. Mum was doing the same with Vernon.
"Delilah," she said. "Pleased to meet you."
Allie and Dudley were talking just behind Petunia, well Dudley was talking and Allie was politely nodding and agreeing every now and then.
"Tattoo's are cool aren't they?" Dudley was saying.
"Yes, I do believe they are."
"I was going to get one for my birthday. Do you have one?"
Callie smiled at Allie's nervousness as she too her hand away from the tattoo, she had gotten it done recently and it looked a little red, which was why she always seemed nervous about showing it off.
"Cool. Is that an donut hiding underneath all the funny squiggles?"
Callie almost choked again and Petunia gave her another sympathetic look. This time Callie could see the fakeness behind it.
"No. It's an 'A'." Allie said slowly and clearly.
"Why?"
"Because my names Allie, it stops Callie and I getting mixed up with each other." Allie smiled at him before coming over to Petunia, whilst Connor and Beau went to bombard Dudley with questions of England, and he bombarded them back with questions of Australia.
Connor was sixteen and in his sixth year at school, while Beau was seventeen and in his last year. The Twin's were fifteen, the same age as Dudley, unfortunately.
"This is Allie." Callie said and Petunia and Allie shook hands.
Once everyone was settled, they started the dinner. It was quite a lovely dinner as well, and talked.
"So it's just you, Dudley and Petunia?" Dad was saying to Vernon.
"Yes. My Dudder's goes to Smeltings he's in his fifth year there." Vernon said proudly. "What school are your children attending?"
Callie noticed her father tense a little, but he answered all the same. "It's a private school in Scotland." He said calmly, it wasn't a lie at least.
"Why Scotland? There are plenty of good school's in England, cheaper too!"
"Yes, but I'll be working there and Beau, my oldest, is on a scholarship." Dad lied again.
"So, what are your hobbies?" Petunia asked from the other side of the table, talking to her mother.
"I like to garden. And, I also like to paint!" She said.
"Really? I like painting a little." Petunia said, she didn't seem to interested. "I like to paint things like houses and things, but only if they are based on truth." She added hastily.
If Callie didn't know better, she would say the Dursleys were hiding something because they just acted TOO normal.
"What do you think of Dudley?" Allie asked with a small smirk, her eyebrows raised slightly.
"I think he's an inquisitive whale, what about you?" Callie asked. Allie chuckled.
"He reminds me of that Hippogriff that tried to demolish our Care of Magical Creatures teacher." Allie whispered back, maybe a little too loudly because Dudley looked up sharply, the two girls just appeared to be eating their dinner innocently.
~*~
Harry could hear laughter from downstairs. One voice sounded really familiar, he just couldn't place it.
Hedwig came and tapped on his window. He took the letter from around her legs and read the letter.
I Dear Harry.
How are you? How are the Dursleys treating you? I'm sorry, I know you wanted to go to Ron's, but Dumbledore says you can't. I can't write for too long, another owl just arrived and Hedwig is getting impatient.
Keep the Muggles in line and if you need someone to talk to, just call, I'm sure we will be able to find a way to talk.
Snuffles.I/
Harry folded up the letter and smiled despite his depressed mood. He suddenly felt an urge to use the toilet, but he couldn't. He had locks on his door, plus he could hear a troop of people coming up the stairs so instead he started to write back to Sirius.
~*~
After dinner, Dudley offered to take everyone on a tour of the house. They first did the downstairs floor; it looked much like Callie's did.
"And this is the toilet." Dudley said and he opened a door on the top floor. "There's my mum and dad's room. Here's my room."
They moved back down the hallways they came from. Callie was a little surprised to see a door that had at least ten locks going all the way down it.
"What's in there?" Connor asked mischeviously.
"Oh, that's just got some of dad's old junk in it." Dudley said waving his hand nervously at the door. "And that's the bathroom. Let's go downstairs." . . . . . (A/N) Hey. So, did ya's like it? Hope so. If you read, please REVIEW! I LIKE REVIEWS! Oh, and please read my other stories as well. *Smiles sweetly* *Allie* Also, can anyone tell me how to get Italics writing?
IDear Padfoot.
How are you? It's Callista. Dad says he's teaching at Hogwarts again this year and mum has agreed and we're moving to England. Some place in Little Whinging Surrey, London. Been there before? Silly question, you've been everywhere. Dad says that he doesn't know anyone around there so they wont be able to judge him 'cept Bella. I think it was 5 Privet Drive? I don't know. Dad's gone out. Since you'll be in England, Dad also said you could stay with us.
I hear London is really neat. Is it? Allie, Beau and Connor say hi as well. We'll be leaving tonight and getting there tomorrow. Just think, if you move in with us, you may be able to see Arabella, wont that be good? She misses you, dad asked her about it in a letter and she says she wishes she knew where you were because she believed in your innocence.
I have to go! Dinner calls. Hope to see you soon 'Snuffles' (where did you come up with that anyway?)
Love Callie.I/
Callie smiled at the note and tied it to her father's owl's leg. In truth she couldn't wait to get to England, it would be so cool! As in seriously, cool. Callie, Allie, Beau and Connor all lived in Australia with their mother and father, Delilah and Remus Lupin. Padfoot was Callie's godfather, his real name was Sirius Black and he was on the run from the ministry of magic.
Down in the kitchen dinner was being served and by the time Callie had arrived, it was already on the small table. The Lupin's lived in a small little house in a small village, it had two other wizard families living in it, but Callie didn't know either family, only that they were both Muggle- born witches and wizards.
"Come on Callie. We're waiting for you." Her father smiled at her when she sat down. Her father looked extremely tired, it was the last full moon the night before and he was always tired after transforming, even if he did have wolfsbane potion with him. Allie, too, was looking tired, she was tired often though.
"I'm coming dad." Callie smiled at her dad and sat down on one of the cane chairs. The Lupin's weren't very wealthy; in fact most of their things were second hand, due to her father hardly ever being able to keep a job, which was being a werewolf downer.
Dinner that night was quick, but tasty, and before they knew it everyone was piling into a taxi and driving into town for the late plane that left for Sydney, then the plane to England. Callie fell asleep halfway through the plane trip.
~*~
Callie woke up with a bright light in her eyes.
"Turn off the light mum." She mumbled.
"Pardon dear?" Asked an unfamiliar voice. Callie opened her eyes and once she had got her blonde hair out of the way saw that it wasn't her mum, but one of the flight attendants.
"Sorry. Just a little confused." Callie shook her head and saw her mother and father sitting in their seats in front of her, her brothers and sisters were in the chairs next to her.
Connor was smirking at her.
"Oh go eat some Frogs Liver." Callista snapped, getting mock angry and punching her brother playfully on the arm.
Her twin sister Allie was sitting next to her and looking out the window with a thoughtful expression. The two of them looked exactly the same, but Allie was a lot more creative, and Callie a lot more brave. They made a great pair together because Allie could think of pranks, while Callie would help her dish them out.
"Allie." Callie said waving her hand in front of Allie's blank face. She didn't even notice. "Allison Lupin!" Callie said, faking her mother's angry voice, which got Allie's attention right away.
"Yes mum-hey! Callie!" Allie glared playfully at her. "I was busy."
"Doing what? Counting the bugs outside the window?" Callie joked.
"No, we all know she was daydreaming about." Connor trailed off suggestively while Allie glared at the two of them. Callie snickered and her mother turned around.
"Leave your sister alone." She said sternly. Allie smiled gratefully at her.
"I was just trying to cheer her up!" Connor said defensively. Callie put a protective arm around her sister.
"Don't worry mum, I'll keep her out of harms way!" She said brightly. Allie raised an eyebrow but said nothing and went back to looking out the window. Callie knew it was her dream to go to England, and she was willing to bet that her twin sister hadn't had a wink of sleep all night, too busy waiting for them to get to England.
Around half an hour later, they finally arrived at the London Airport.
~*~
Harry sat on his bed, extremely bored and sick of going over the Tri-Wizard tournament details in his head. It was a Saturday and the Dursleys' were inviting the new people from across the road to dinner, meaning Harry was too stay in his room the whole time. There was still two hours to go though.
"BOY GET DOWN HERE AND CLEAN THE DINING ROOM!"
"Yes Uncle Vernon." Harry said, nowhere near as loudly as his Uncle had called.
Harry trudged down the stairs with a heavy heart. Things sure weren't going good lately. His Aunt was down stairs cooking up a lovely meal, it appeared there was quite a troop coming today, seeing as there were six extra plates. She was talking to someone on the phone.
"Yes. Twins you say? I always wondered what it would like to have twins." There was a pause. "Callie and Allie?" Another pause. "Lovely names."
He saw his Aunt make a face of disgust when she said lovely names.
"And the others?" . "Connor and Beau? You're Australian right?" . "Oh, so you are but your husband isn't. I see. He was British?"
Harry shook his head, he really didn't want to hear it, and after all, he wouldn't get to meet them anyway, which was probably a good thing if they were anything like the Dursleys. Then again, he had never met any Australian's before.
He started cleaning the dining room as his Aunt continued to talk on the phone. Who ever she was talking to, Harry felt sorry for. that woman could talk a dumb person to sleep. (Meaning that they can't hear by the way.)
After he had finished, and just as the doorbell rang, Harry retreated to his room, his Aunt had hung up the phone around twenty minutes before hand.
~*~
Callie and her family waited outside the Dursley home. Callie could see her sister nervously flattening her dress every few moments, Allie hated dresses.
On Allie's left forearm, right up the top near the elbow, was a tattoo with an intricate "A" etched into it, patterns flowing around it. Callie also noted the way she kept trying to hide it as well. If Callie didn't know better, she would have suspected they were going to meet the queen.
Callie was allowed to get a "C" on her arm if she had wanted too, but she had chickened out and said they would still be able to tell them apart, even if only Allie had the tattoo. It wasn't that she wasn't used to pain, she just didn't want a tattoo . that was all.
The door opened after her father had knocked and a bony looking woman appeared, behind her were two large boys. One was a man; Callie figured he was most probably Mr. Dursley, they other, however, was a boy who could have passed as a wale. That must have been Dudley.
"Hello Mrs. Dursley. Mr. Dursley. Hello Dudley." Dad greeted kindly.
"Hello. You must be Remus? Come in, let us get acquainted."
The Lupin's all entered and Callie's first thought was 'clean, very clean.' The living room was a little small, like all houses around here, but it looked fairly comfortable.
Callie saw a picture with a beach ball dressed in baby clothes on a shelf and almost laughed, she ended up choking when she realized it was Dudley!
"Are you alright dear?" Petunia asked.
"Fine thanks. I just got over tonsillitis and choked on the air." Callie lied, pretending to look honest. Petunia seemed to accept that and sympathized.
"Oh you poor dear. I remember once when Dudder's had that awful virus. Did you take the proper medication?"
"Yes ma'am. Thanks for asking." Callie smiled at her. "I'm Callie." She said and held out her hand. Mum was doing the same with Vernon.
"Delilah," she said. "Pleased to meet you."
Allie and Dudley were talking just behind Petunia, well Dudley was talking and Allie was politely nodding and agreeing every now and then.
"Tattoo's are cool aren't they?" Dudley was saying.
"Yes, I do believe they are."
"I was going to get one for my birthday. Do you have one?"
Callie smiled at Allie's nervousness as she too her hand away from the tattoo, she had gotten it done recently and it looked a little red, which was why she always seemed nervous about showing it off.
"Cool. Is that an donut hiding underneath all the funny squiggles?"
Callie almost choked again and Petunia gave her another sympathetic look. This time Callie could see the fakeness behind it.
"No. It's an 'A'." Allie said slowly and clearly.
"Why?"
"Because my names Allie, it stops Callie and I getting mixed up with each other." Allie smiled at him before coming over to Petunia, whilst Connor and Beau went to bombard Dudley with questions of England, and he bombarded them back with questions of Australia.
Connor was sixteen and in his sixth year at school, while Beau was seventeen and in his last year. The Twin's were fifteen, the same age as Dudley, unfortunately.
"This is Allie." Callie said and Petunia and Allie shook hands.
Once everyone was settled, they started the dinner. It was quite a lovely dinner as well, and talked.
"So it's just you, Dudley and Petunia?" Dad was saying to Vernon.
"Yes. My Dudder's goes to Smeltings he's in his fifth year there." Vernon said proudly. "What school are your children attending?"
Callie noticed her father tense a little, but he answered all the same. "It's a private school in Scotland." He said calmly, it wasn't a lie at least.
"Why Scotland? There are plenty of good school's in England, cheaper too!"
"Yes, but I'll be working there and Beau, my oldest, is on a scholarship." Dad lied again.
"So, what are your hobbies?" Petunia asked from the other side of the table, talking to her mother.
"I like to garden. And, I also like to paint!" She said.
"Really? I like painting a little." Petunia said, she didn't seem to interested. "I like to paint things like houses and things, but only if they are based on truth." She added hastily.
If Callie didn't know better, she would say the Dursleys were hiding something because they just acted TOO normal.
"What do you think of Dudley?" Allie asked with a small smirk, her eyebrows raised slightly.
"I think he's an inquisitive whale, what about you?" Callie asked. Allie chuckled.
"He reminds me of that Hippogriff that tried to demolish our Care of Magical Creatures teacher." Allie whispered back, maybe a little too loudly because Dudley looked up sharply, the two girls just appeared to be eating their dinner innocently.
~*~
Harry could hear laughter from downstairs. One voice sounded really familiar, he just couldn't place it.
Hedwig came and tapped on his window. He took the letter from around her legs and read the letter.
I Dear Harry.
How are you? How are the Dursleys treating you? I'm sorry, I know you wanted to go to Ron's, but Dumbledore says you can't. I can't write for too long, another owl just arrived and Hedwig is getting impatient.
Keep the Muggles in line and if you need someone to talk to, just call, I'm sure we will be able to find a way to talk.
Snuffles.I/
Harry folded up the letter and smiled despite his depressed mood. He suddenly felt an urge to use the toilet, but he couldn't. He had locks on his door, plus he could hear a troop of people coming up the stairs so instead he started to write back to Sirius.
~*~
After dinner, Dudley offered to take everyone on a tour of the house. They first did the downstairs floor; it looked much like Callie's did.
"And this is the toilet." Dudley said and he opened a door on the top floor. "There's my mum and dad's room. Here's my room."
They moved back down the hallways they came from. Callie was a little surprised to see a door that had at least ten locks going all the way down it.
"What's in there?" Connor asked mischeviously.
"Oh, that's just got some of dad's old junk in it." Dudley said waving his hand nervously at the door. "And that's the bathroom. Let's go downstairs." . . . . . (A/N) Hey. So, did ya's like it? Hope so. If you read, please REVIEW! I LIKE REVIEWS! Oh, and please read my other stories as well. *Smiles sweetly* *Allie* Also, can anyone tell me how to get Italics writing?