THE CHOSEN TWINS

CHAPTER TWO: AWAY FROM PRIVET DRIVE

Author's note: this is the second chapter , please leave your comments for me to improve

"GET OUT OF THE CUPBOARD." Uncle Vernon was Shouting as Hazel tried to open the open the letter.

it said:

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 Ms Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find THE KEEPER OF THE KEYS 43 enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.

Yours sincerely, Minerva McGonagall.

Deputy Headmistress.

Uncle Vernon pulled so hard at the door the lock broke.

"Give me that." he snatched the letter from Hazel.

"if this is true" Hazel murmured.

"then you are "said Harry

"a witch" Hazel completed the sentence." And you are .."

"a wizard." Harry was shocked.

" you both are freaks that's what you are." Aunt Petunia mocked "and you are going to get yourselves blown up just like your parents."

"blown up?" Hazel and Harry screamed together." you said they died in a car crash."

"shut up both of you." Uncle Vernon screamed.

He pushed the twins into the cupboard again and bolted it from outside. " you two are going no where."

'We swore when we took them in we'd put a stop to that rubbish,' said Uncle Vernon, 'swore we'd stamp it out of them! POTTER TWINS magic, indeed!'

'You knew?' said Harry. 'You knew we are ... are magic?'

'Knew!' shrieked Aunt Petunia suddenly. 'Knew! Of course we knew! How could you not be, my dratted sister being what she was? Oh, she got a letter just like that and disappeared off to that – that school – and came home every holiday with her pockets full of frog-spawn, turning teacups into rats. I was the only one who saw her for what she was – a freak! But for my mother and father, oh no, it was Lily this and Lily that, they were proud of having a witch in the family!'

She stopped to draw a deep breath and then went ranting on. It seemed she had been wanting to say all this for years.

'Then she met that Potter at school and they left and got married and had you, and of course I knew you two 'd be just the same, just as strange, just as – as – abnormal – and then, if you please, she went and got herself blown up and we got landed with you!

They left the twins locked into the cupboard and went to sleep.

"Harry ...Let's run away."

"What? are you crazy? we have no money? and no where to go." Harry sat on the bed they shared.

" whatever, if we don't get to go to this school, even if this not true, we can work in soup kitchen or something, Harry i can't live here anymore." Hazel was fed up.

"Oh, Hazey, think about the future, what will happen?" Harry tried to do the right thing.

"Harry, I am leaving, come with me?"

"Hazey, you know I won't stay here if you won't"

"then, let's go"

" how will we get out?" Harry was confused.

"like this". Hazel slipped a card from the bolt and it swung open.

Harry and Hazel Potter unlocked the door and ran out from Privet Drive 4. the walked up to the main road.

"Harry, stop for a moment." Hazel sat on the footpath.

There was a deafening sound.A double decker red bus stopped in front of them.

"Hiya, get on then, Madam Marsh might wake up." Both of them were in the dark.

"Best go wake up Madam Marsh, Stan," said the driver. "We'll be in Abergavenny in a minute."

the Driver looked at them as they boarded the bus.

"By Merlin, Stan, it is Harry Potter," he exclaimed and Hazel stepped on." and Hazel Potter."

"Better alert the Ministry,Ern, they must know," Stan said. "Better yet, we will take them there, i bet Fudge would be pleased with us."

Another loud BANG, and they were thundering down a narrow country lane, trees leaping out of the way.

It was not more then twenty minutes when Stan took Hazel and Harry through a building. Many people were already waiting for them.

"Harry and Hazel, Minister, it's true, there they are." The Twins saw a tall man standing behind a low crouched man with a Bowler's hat. the one who was being called Minister by everyone.

"send an owl to Dumbledore at once." He said.

"No need, Cornelius, i am already here."

Everyone looked back, A man tall with a beard to his stomach, all grey, and half moon shaped spectacles on his nose.

"Albus, so fortunate you have come at such a time."