Chapter 1: The Insane Twin

Dyani Malfoy was sitting on her bed, staring out the window at her twin brother, Draco, practicing Quidditch on his broom. Show off, she thought. I could do that dive just as easily as he could. It was overcast outside, cold and it looked like it was going to rain. She got off her bed and walked out the door, down the stairs and into the kitchen. Her mom was baking cookies.

"Are you all packed?" she asked.

"Yes, for the tenth time. I don't know if Draco is though," Dyani replied as she grabbed a warm cookie off the plate.

"Do you know where he is?"

"Outside."

"In this weather? He'll catch cold. Go tell him to come in, please."

"Whatever." Dyani got up and walked to the front door, grabbed her black sweatshirt, pulled her hood over her head, slipped her shoes on, and walked outside.

It was colder than she thought. Draco is insane. I love Quidditch too, but there is no way in hell you are going to get me to practice chasing in this weather, she thought to herself as she walked, then realized her father had forbidden her to join the team at school anyways.

"Get out of the way!!" Draco yelled as he swooped past her and caught the golden ball.

"Mom wants you inside. She says you'll get sick."

"What?" he yelled from about twenty feet above her.

"Mom says you have to come inside!!" she yelled back.

Draco flew his broom towards the ground and stopped next to her, got off and picked up his broom. "You could have said so earlier," he said with a smirk and started walking with her to the front door.

"You're insane."

"That makes you just as insane as I am."

"Suure..." she said as she started walked inside the door.

"Draco! Why in the world would you go out on your broom in this weather?! You could catch cold!" the twins mother asked as Draco started walking up the stairs to his room.

"I had to practice. Simple as that."

"And your trunk?"

"No... it's almost done though."

"March up to your room and finish packing for school! How dare you go out and goof off when you didn't pack for school!!"

"School doesn't start until Monday, and we don't have to get on the train until Saturday. I have loads of time to pack!"

"Draco, it's already Friday," said Dyani from a chair in the living room.

"It is?!" Draco said as he started to run up the stairs.

"You are sure you have everything packed, Dyani?" her mother asked.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. I just have to put Magic in her carrier."

"Okay then. Oh, Draco was going to have Crabbe, Goyle, and some new friend of his spend the night and we are going to take them to the station tomorrow. You can have a few friends spend the night."

"Ok, thanks!"

Dyani rushed up stairs to write to her friends. She plopped on her bed, and started digging through the drawer on her bedside-table. Where is it? She thought. I was talking to Kathrin last night—I couldn't have moved it very far...she thought as she continued to dig through the drawer. She gave up and closed the drawer, looked around the room and spotted what she'd been looking for on her desk. She walked over to it, pulled out the chair and sat down. She wrote Raven Granger on the top of it and started to write.

Raven Granger is Hermione Granger's cousin; however, Raven has magic parents.

Raven? Raven, you there? She wrote.

Yeah, I'm here. Which of my friends is using W.I.M. to write to me today? Raven wrote back. (WIM Wizard Instant Messenger)

Oh, hey, this is Dyani.

Oh, hi. What's up?

My mum said I can have a few friends spend the night. We were going to take everyone to the station tomorrow too.

Oh, cool. Let me ask my mom.

Ok. Dyani waited for about five minutes.

Yay! I can! I'll be over right away. Bring my trunk, right?

Yeah.

Oh, is it okay if I bring Night?

Well if you need it for school, I would.

Oh, yeah, huh? See you in a few!
Ok... bye!

She then decided to write to Kathrin, then quickly remembered she only lived next door and could walk there.

Kathrin Potter is Harry's fraternal twin. Kathrin lives with James's parents next door to the Malfoy's.

Dyani and Devi had spent a summer in a Muggle exchange program across the sea in the United States, and had at that point, learned about phones. They persuaded their families into installing one in their homes so they wouldn't have to keep sending their owls back and forth.

Dyani decided to call Devi first, and then go to Kathrin's when Raven and Devi arrived. She picked up the phone again and dialed the number.

"Hello? You've reached the Woods."

"Hey, Oliver, is Devi there? It's Dyani."

"Hold on please," Oliver said. Devira Wood, Devi for short, was Oliver's younger sister.

"Hey, Dyani. I swear, my brother answers the phone like an answering machine. I get confused sometimes when I call my own house!" said Devi.

Dyani laughed. "My parents said I could have some friends spend the night. They're gonna take all of us to Platform 9 ¾ tomorrow. Wanna come?"

"Sure! Sounds like fun! Let me ask my dad real quick though." She left the phone for a minute or two. "Ok, I'll be over soon!"

"Great! See ya soon!" she said as she hung up the phone.

Dyani ran downstairs to wait for Raven and Devi. Just as she got down, the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it!" she yelled, assuming it would be for her. She opened the door to find a boy, about her age, her height, and her build. He was wearing a green sweatshirt and black pants. He had brown hair that was spiked and green eyes. He also had a trunk and an owl with him. "You must be Draco's new friend."

"Yeah," he said. "The names Elijah. Elijah Dursley. Sadly related to Harry and Dudley."

"Dyani. Erm, don't like Harry that much?"

"No!! He annoys me waay too much."

"Really."

Draco came down the stairs. "Oh, hey Elijah. I see you've met my sister."

"Yeah... she looks just like you. How many years difference? 1? 2?"

"I'll let you explain that one, Draco, he's your friend." She said as she sat on a stool in the kitchen.

"What's there to explain?"

"We're twins, you moron."

"Really? Haven't seen her around school. I figured she must be a first year or something."

"Whatever. C'mon, we get to sleep in the tent outside. You can just leave your trunk there by the door though. Dyani, when Crabbe and Goyle come, just send them to my room."

"Whatever."

Draco and Elijah walked up the stairs to Draco's room. By the time Dyani could no longer see them from her stool, the doorbell rang again. This time, it was one of her friends, Raven. She had black hair, about shoulder-length, and blue eyes. She was wearing a green shirt with a pair of black pants. In front of her trunk, was her bird cage, her owl was squawking madly.

"Sorry. He's still not used to the car rides."

"That's ok. You can put him up in my room, just leave the trunk there."

"Who all else is coming?" Raven asked as the two girls walked up the stairs.

"Well, I invited Devi, and when she gets here we are going to go next door and get Kat. Crabbe and Goyle are coming for Draco's sake, and one of his friends is already here."

"Who?"

"He's a Dursley, I remember that much, but I can't remember his name. He is related to Kat though."

"Speaking of Kathrin, when was the last time she saw Draco?" The two girls continued talking as they dropped off Night in Dyani's room and went back down the stairs.

"I don't know, but for sure, if he did anything to signify her existence, she stopped dead in her tracks and stared for a while. She was over the other day when he went to take the garbage out and she was staring at him from my window."

They pulled up two stools to the bar in the kitchen and began munching on the cookies Dyani's mom had baked earlier.

"So what do you want to do tonight? We have the whole night. If we are too tired in the morning, we can always sleep on the train," asked Dyani.

"I dunno. What are Draco and his pals doing?"

"Who knows? Everyone is sleeping in the backyard though. Dad set up two tents."

"We have to sleep in the backyard?!"

"My parents were saying if we were gonna be up all night, they didn't want us keeping them up. So my dad went out and bought tents."

The doorbell rang again. This time, it was Crabbe and Goyle. Both had their trunks and pets.

"Draco said to send you two upstairs... but I think I'll call him down here," Dyani said. "DRACO!!!!"

"Will you at least let them in?! I've been stuck behind them for five freaking blocks!!! Not only do they have slow brains, but their parents drive slow, and the both of them walk slower than a freaking snail!!!" Yelled a voice from behind Crabbe and Goyle. Suddenly, Crabbe and Goyle were pushed towards Dyani. Dyani moved and the two stumbled across the hallway. There stood Devira Wood. Devi was average height, but Crabbe and Goyle could still easily cover her up. She was wearing black pants and had on a navy blue sweatshirt. Devi whipped her light brown hair out of her face and shot her brown eyes at Crabbe and Goyle. "You two need to teach your parents what a freakin' gas pedal is!"

"You two are more idiotic than Elijah!!" Draco yelled from the top of the stairs, looking down upon the two boys, still standing by their trunks. Draco and Elijah came down the stairs, Draco tripped over his own feet, which made the girls laugh. As he quickly stood up and tried to look as cool as possible.