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Any character that you don't recognize from the books belongs to me.

A Wolf's Tale

Prologue

Tala was a sixteen-year-old muggle girl with dark brown hair that was short enough to give the impression that she was wearing a thorny skin of a hedgehog on her head. She had blue eyes and tanned skin. She loved going to the beach in summer to lie under the burning sun and get her skin darkened. It was her only free of cost pleasure. Summer was her favorite season, as she was on a vacation from school. She hated her school, because teachers never seemed to understand her. She had conflicts with them almost everyday. Her classmates kept making fun of her because she never bothered to dress up properly for school. Her school shirts had torn sleeves and her skirt was never ironed. She lived with her mother and older brother Remus. Who seemed to love his school, which was mysterious for Tala. Their father has died when Tala was seven. He was murdered by people whom Tala only remembered to be wearing strange looking black cloaks.

Remus' clothes were much better than Tala's. He always had new school uniform at the end of August, and all his books were new. And the funny part was that they were all about spells and magic. Their mother also bought Remus everything he needed for school, but she never did the same for her. She had to 'deal' with what she already had. Her books were collected from the elder students who didn't need them anymore. Her mother told her that they didn't have enough money to buy new school uniform for her, or even new books. But how did she afford Remus' clothes and books? Tala felt jealousy rise in her.

Remus lived at his school all year, and he came home only during Christmas and summer holidays. Their family had a secret though. Remus had a health problem, as Tala thought, which made him transform once in a month into a wolf. A werewolf has bitten her brother when he was younger and since then, on each full moon night, their mother locked him up in his room. His howls and growls always frightened Tala. She spent the full moon nights in her mother's room, afraid that her brother would come and bite them.

Tala was starting to hate her brother for all the attention he received not only from their mother, but also, he had friends who came to visit him during the summer holidays. They went to Remus' school and were his classmates.

One of them had brown hair and blue eyes. He wore round glasses and seemed to have an obsession in ruffling his hair all the time so it would look messy. His name was James Potter.

The other friend also had blue eyes, and his dark brown hair reached his shoulders. It had a slight curl in it. He had a sexy smile (Tala couldn't deny it), and he seemed to be the most daring and trouble loving one among them. His name was Sirius Black.

The third friend was short and fat. He was blond and his front teeth were big enough to show out even when his mouth was shut. His name was Peter Pettigrew. Tala didn't like him (not that she liked James and Sirius). He brought a feeling of insecurity with him whenever he came to their house. Tala could feel that this boy smelled trouble.

Remus seemed happy when his friends came over. They kept playing in the backyard using some stupid sticks by pointing them at each other and muttering some strange stuff. Then, they act like they were shot or something. Boys! Do they ever grow up? Tala always went to her room and locked herself up when Remus' friends came.

Tala didn't know anything about her brother's school. She didn't know that magic really existed. That a school named Hogwarts was the most famous and powerful witchcraft and wizardry school in the world. She didn't know that her father was a wizard, as well as her brother, who was a seventh year student and a Head Boy at Hogwarts. Her mother insisted on keeping it a secret from her for her own safety.

One day, Tala decided that she wanted to know everything about her brother's school. What was so important about it that made him buy a new uniform each year? In addition, the worst part was that their mother always escorted him to school on the first of September each year. She has never taken Tala to school on her first day of September! Tala pretended to be preparing her school bag on the night of August 31st. Instead of putting books in her bag, she put some spare clothes and underwear in it. She looked around her room and saw a cloak on the ground. She has stolen it from her brother's room a couple of days ago. She has seen him use that cloak. It was a strange one. One night, Remus sneaked into the kitchen, and Tala saw him wrap himself with the cloak before going downstairs. It made him become invisible! Now it was her turn to become invisible and follow him to his school. She picked up the cloak and wrapped it around herself. She left her head out and looked at her self in a mirror. She only saw her head. Her body was invisible. Tala smiled at her success and put the cloak in her bag.

Then she lay in bed and fell asleep. She was determined to follow Remus to his school this year, no matter what her school teachers would think or say. As her brother, he was supposed to go to the same school as her, but why did he get the chance to study in a private school while she was being humiliated by going to a public school?

At the same time, Remus was packing his trunk. He was getting ready to his first day at Hogwarts as a Head Boy. He polished his badge and put it on his school robe and then he polished his wand. After finishing he searched the room for something. He had lost a precious item and it didn't even belong to him!

"James is going to kill me." Remus said with panic rising in his heart.