BOOM!

Dudley jerked awake. "Where's the cannon?" he said stupidly.

Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia came down the stairs, Uncle Vernon was armed with a rifle. Now they knew what had been in the thin package before. "Who's there?" he shouted. "I warn you, I'm armed!" The door crashed open and standing in the doorway was a giant of a man. Dudley screamed as the giant walked into the room.

His face was covered with a bushy beard, his hands were the size of dustpans and his boots were as big as baby dolphins. "Sorry bout that," he apologised, picking up the door and returning it to its hinges.

"I demand you leave at once, you are breaking and entering!" Uncle Vernon yelled, bravely.

The giant stomped over. "Dry up Dursley ye great prune," the giant bent the barrel of the rifle and threw it across the room.

Uncle Vernon made a small noise, like a mouse being stepped on.

The giant walked over to the sofa and sat down. "Budge up ye great lump," he said to Dudley.

Dudley squealed and ran to hide behind his mother. The giant then locked eyes with the twins, who were frozen in shock, holding each other's hand.

"Blimey I haven't seen the two of ye since you were babies. Harry, yer look a lot like yer Dad but you got your Mum's eyes an Selena, you look jus like yer Mum." he said.

The giant turned to the empty fireplace and snorted. He pulled out an umbrella, pointed it at the fireplace and shot a ball of energy and a fire was lit up in seconds. Harry and Selena felt the heat wash over them as if they had just sunk into a hot bath.

The giant then pulled out a squashy package of sausages, a poker and a teapot. He slid four thick, fat sausages onto the poker and held them over the fire. "Don't touch anything he gives you Dudley." Uncle Vernon hissed.

"Ehh your great pudding of a son don' need fattin anymore Dursley don' worry." The giant said darkly.

The giant then slid two cooked sausages into the twin's hands. "There ye go, eat up. The two of you mus be famished."

The twins, being so hungry began to scoff down the sausages without a second thought. The giant started fidgeting around in his coat which had one too many pockets.

"Now, where was I? Ah yes, I wanna wish you both a Happy Birthday. Got something for you both, I mighta sat on it at some point but it'll taste alright."

He pulled out a squashy white box and handed it to the twins. "Baked it meself,"

Harry and Selena opened it with shaking hands and saw a thick, rich chocolate cake with the words: "Happy Birthday Harry and Selena", written in green icing.

"Thank you," they said together. Selena set the cake box on a bench as Harry stammered out the question everyone was asking.

"Excuse me, who are you?" he asked.

"Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys an Grounds at Hogwarts. Now I expect you two would know all about Hogwarts by now."

"No, we don't." the twins said together.

Hagrid stared at them, concerned. "You don'? Blimey, did either of you ever wonder where yer Mum and Dad learned it all?"

"Learn what?" Selena asked.

Hagrid looked shocked. Selena looked at the giant in fear. "Sorry," she said quickly, afraid she had offended him.

"It's not you that should be sorry, it's them!" Hagrid snapped, pointing a finger that the Dursley's.

"What are you talking about?"

"Now wait jus a minute!" Hagrid got up from the sofa and marched up to the Dursley's with a look of madness in his eyes.

"You mean to tell me that these two," he pointed a finger back at the twins. "Know nothing about anything?!"

"Know what?!" The twins demanded.

"You're a witch and wizard." said Hagrid.

The twin's jaws dropped in shock as silence filled the room. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of waves crashing against the rocks.

"We're what?"

"A Witch an Wizard, an thumpin good uns too."

"N-no, we can be a witch and wizard, we're just normal children." Harry said with Selena nodding beside him.

"Well, just normal children," Hagrid chuckled.

"Did either of you make anything happen? Ye know, things ye couldn't explain?"

Harry and Selena looked at each other shocked. "The python at the zoo!" Selena said through her mind.

"Y-yes, we have." Selena said.

"What's this Hogwarts place?" she asked, confused.

"On'y the finest school of magic in the world!" Hagrid explained in a nutshell, before turning back to the Dursley's. "And you nev'r told 'em about it?!"

"Of course, we didn't tell them." Uncle Vernon snapped back.

Harry and Selena glared at their Aunt and Uncle in an outrage. "You knew! Both of you knew all along!"

"Of course, we knew." Aunt Petunia hissed. "My perfect sister being who she was. My mother and father were so proud. I was the only one who saw her for what she was, a freak. It was always, Lily this and Lily that. Then she got her letter and went off to that school where she met your Father and they got married and had the two of you. I just knew you'd both be just as, abnormal. Then she went and got herself blown up and we ended up with you."

Selena went chalk-white. "Blown up?"

"You said that they died in a car crash!" Harry snapped.

"CAR CRASH! HOW COULD A CAR CRASH KILL LILY AN JAMES POTTER? IT'S AN OUTRAGE! A SCANDAL!" Hagrid roared in a fury.

"They will not be going!" Uncle Vernon hissed.

"An how's a great Muggle like you gonna stop them?" Hagrid mocked.

"Muggle?" Harry asked.

"What's a Muggle?" Selena questioned.

"Non-Magic folk," Hagrid explained, before continuing his rant.

"These children have had their names down since you were born. They are off to the finest school of Witchcraft and Wizardry an they'll be under the protection of the greatest wizard in history, Albus Dumbledore."

"I'll not pay to have some crack-pot old fool teaching them magic tricks!" Uncle Vernon shouted.

Hagrid pulled out his umbrella pointing it dangerously at the Dursley's.

"NEVER. INSULT. ALBUS. DUMBLEDORE. IN. FRONT. OF. ME!" he aimed the umbrella at Dudley and a blast went off.

Suddenly, Dudley was dancing on the spot, clutching his fat bottom, howling in pain.

As he whirled around, Selena and Harry saw a curly pigs tail sticking out of his pyjama bottoms. Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon screamed, taking Dudley into the next room.

Uncle Vernon shot Hagrid a look of terror before disappearing into the room. Hagrid turned to the twins, who were laughing like mad. "Better not mention that to anyone. I'm not really supposed to use magic. Now, I think the two of you have waited long enough for these," he pulled out two of the letters and handed them to the twins.

Harry and Selena opened them up, excitedly:

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 Selena Potter,

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

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall,

Deputy Headmistress

Harry's was the same but addressed to him. "What does it mean by 'we await your owl'?" Selena asked.

"I'll explain later," Hagrid said, pulling the door off the hinges again. "You two coming? Unless you want to stay."

Selena and Harry looked at each other, grinning wildly.

The next morning, they were all in London. Harry and Selena were looking over their letters. "It says that we need: one standard sized cauldron; pewter, one wand, Standard Book of Spells Grade One and students may bring; an owl, a cat or a toad." Harry read out.

Selena stared in shock. "Hagrid, can we really buy all this in London?" Selena asked.

Hagrid smiled mysteriously. "If ye know where to look. There we are, The Leaky Cauldron." Hagrid said, pointing to a grubby looking pub.

But what surprised the twins the most was the fact that people kept walking past, not giving it a second glance. Then it occurred to the twins that only they and Hagrid could see it. They walked through the door and Selena clung tightly to her brother's hand. The bartender seemed to recognise Hagrid as he asked.

"Ahh Hagrid, the usual?"

"No thanks Tom, I'm on Hogwarts Business. Helping young Harry and Selena with their school stuff." He said, ruffling the twin's hair.

Tom, the bartender stared in wonder at the twins. "Bless my soul, it's the Potter Twins." As he said that all the talk and card games ended as almost everyone in the pub turned around at stared at the twins.

A couple people even got out of their chairs and ran to greet the twins. Harry and Selena soon found themselves shaking hands with almost everyone in the pub, even Tom came out from behind the counter to shake their hands.

"Welcome back Potters, welcome back,"

"Doris Crockford, Miss Potter I can't believe I'm meeting you at last."

"Harry and Selena, it's such an honour to finally meet you both."

A tall thin man in a purple turban approached them. "H-Harry and S-S-Selena, I c-can't t-t-tell you how p-p-pleased I am t-too m-m-meet you t-two."

"Hello Professor, didn't see you there," Hagrid greeted. "Harry and Selena, this here is Professor Quirrell, he'll be one of your teachers at Hogwarts."

"Oh," Selena said, smiling.

"Nice to meet you," Harry said, shaking his hand.

"What subject do you teach?" Selena asked, doing the same thing as Harry.

"D-Defence A-Against T-T-The D-Dark A-Arts."

To Harry and Selena, it seemed like the poor man was scared of his own subject. "I-I'll b-be s-s-s-seeing y-y-you at H-Hogwarts t-t-then," he stammered.

Hagrid chuckled. "Well, later Professor, we best be off. Got lots ta do." Hagrid said, dragging the twins into the back.

Once they were out back, Selena freaked out. "What was all that about?!"

"Selena's right, what's with all those people back there and how do they know our names?" Harry agreed.

"Because the two of ye are famous."

"Famous for what?" Selena questioned. She and Harry had never done anything worth of fame. They hadn't written any music or were in the acting business. "I can't tell ye yet."

"Hagrid, we have a right to know!" Selena argued.

Hagrid ignored her and tapped a couple bricks on the wall. The twins gasped as the wall began to open, revealing an alleyway lined with shops, restaurants, pubs and other things. "Harry, Selena, welcome to Diagon Alley."

Harry and Selena gapped at all the beautiful magical shops, along with people dressed in robes and pointy hats, carrying wands up their sleeves or in pockets.

The happy moment was soon ended when Harry realised they had no money to buy the things they needed. "Hagrid, we have no money,"

Selena glared at her brother, which was something she rarely did. "Thanks for ruining my happiness, Harry."

"Calm down you two, there's your money up ahead," Hagrid said, pointing to an ivory white building. "Gringotts Wizard Bank, safest place on earth. Except perhaps Hogwarts." He commented.

As they stepped into the building, the twins immediately took notice of the bank employees. They were short, wrinkly and had pointy noses and ears. Selena whimpered as one particularly mean looking one glared at her. "Hagrid," Harry stammered, feeling his sister take his hand again. "What are these things?"

"They're Goblins, tricky little creatures but not the friendliest. Better stay close you two."

"But I thought Goblins were make-believe." Selena quivered as they approached a free desk and Hagrid spoke to the goblin sitting at the desk, counting small gold coins.

"Mr Harry Potter and Miss Selena Potter wish to make a withdrawal." explained Hagrid. The Goblin stared the twins down. "And do Mr and Miss Potter have their key?" he questioned, almost intimidatingly.

"I've got here somewhere – ah, there's the little devil," Hagrid said, pulling out a golden key, giving it to the Goblin. "Oh, and there's one more thing," he pulled out an envelope. "Professor Dumbledore gave me this, it's about the You-Know-What in Vault 713."

The Goblin took the envelope, opened it and read the letter. Selena looked up at Hagrid. "What's that all about?"

"Can't tell ye, top secret Hogwarts business." He replied.

The goblin appeared satisfied by the letter and handed it back to Hagrid. "Very well, I'll send someone to take you both vaults. Griphook!"

A short, scruffy looking goblin approached them, holding a lantern. "Please escort these people to their Vaults."

"Vault 787," Griphook announced. Selena and Harry got off the cart that had taken them to the vault. It felt like they had been on the fastest roller coaster in the world.

Hagrid himself was looking a little ill. "Key please," Griphook asked.

Hagrid handed him the key. Griphook then lead them over to a large vault door with the numbers 787 imprinted into the door. Griphook slid the key into the lock, the lock clicked and the door swung open.

Inside the vault was a huge pile of gold, silver and bronze coins. "The gold ones are Galleons; the silver ones are Sickles and the little bronze ones are Knuts. 17 Sickles to a Galleon and 29 Knuts to a Sickle. It's easy enough." Hagrid said, scooping some of the coins into a little pouch.

"That should be enough, come on. There's still one more vault we need to visit." Hagrid said, getting back into the cart.

The twins sat down beside him and Griphook up front. "Can't ye go any slower," Hagrid pleaded.

"One speed only!" Griphook said as the cart took off. Selena and Harry whirled their heads around seeing a burst of flames from another corner. Hagrid mentioned to them about there being dragons kept down there to guard the vaults, but they never got a good look at what it was. He also mentioned that he'd always wanted a dragon. "Vault 713," he announced, five minutes later.

They all got back out and Griphook slid one, long, bony finger down the length of the door. "That's powerful magic that is, on'y a Gringotts goblin can open that. If you attempted, you'd be sucked in forever." Hagrid explained. Selena gulped.

Harry decided to ask Griphook a question. "How often do you check if anyone's broken in?"

"Once every ten years!"

"Ten years?" Selena gasped.

"Like your friend mentioned earlier, little girl, you'd be mad trying to rob this place." Griphook sneered.

The door opened and both twins expected it to contain a large pile of jewels or some mysterious golden object, but instead, sitting alone in the vault was a tiny, grubby package.

Hagrid was quick to swoop in and snatch it up, stuffing into one of his coat pockets. "Best if neither of you mention this to anyone, top secret this is. Now, we best get your school things sorted."

Once they were back out into Diagon Alley, their pockets rattling with money they stopped in front of a robe shop. "Can I go in Hagrid, please?" Selena pleaded.

"Alright, Harry and I will go collect your books and cauldrons. Then we'll go look at wands, alright?"

"Sounds like a plan, see you Harry." Selena said, hugging her brother.

Uncertainly, she walked into the shop. She didn't have to look around for long when a kind looking woman approached her. "Hello dear, Hogwarts too?"

Selena nodded.

"Right this way dearie, another boy is being fitted as we speak."

The woman led Selena behind a curtain where a blonde boy around the same age as her, was being fitted. "Hello," he said, making conversation. "Hogwarts too?"

Selena nodded.

"Father's next door buying books and my mother's up the street looking at Potion ingredients. Then we're going to meet up later and get my wand. Maybe I'll drag them off to look at brooms. It's stupid that first years aren't allowed to bring their own broom,"

Selena stared at him for a moment, then she remembered that witches were supposed to ride on broomsticks. That sounded so cool. Selena also continued to stare at the boy. He reminded her so much of herself and he was kind of cute. "Do you have your own broom?" he asked.

Selena shook her head.

"Play Quidditch at all?"

"No,"

"I do, Father says it's a crime if I'm not picked for the team. I already know what house I'm going to be in, Slytherin, all my family's been. Imagine if I get put into Hufflepuff, I'd think I'd leave."

"I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch your name?" Selena asked politely.

"Oh, where are my manners, I'm Draco."

"Selena,"

"That's a very pretty name,"

"Thanks, it means 'Moonlight'"

"Good Lord, look at that man!" Draco cried, his mouth agape. Selena turned her head and saw Harry and Hagrid in the window, holding ice creams and a pile of books.

"Oh, that's Hagrid and that boy with him is my twin brother." Selena explained.

"Oh, I've heard of this Hagrid, he's a sort of servant, isn't he?"

"He's the gamekeeper,"

"Father says he lives in this little hut on the school grounds, then he gets drunk, tries to do magic and ends up setting fire to his bed."

Selena frowned. "I think he's brilliant,"

"Why is he with you and your brother, Selena. Where are your parents?"

Selena hung her head, sadly. "They both died when I was a baby."

"I'm sorry, they were our kind at least?"

"If you mean they were a witch and wizard, then yes. I actually didn't learn I was a witch until last night."

"Why?"

"I was raised by these despicable Muggles, my Aunt and Uncle on my mother's side. Awful, abusive lot they are."

"You were raised by Muggles, that's horrible."

"My Aunt and Uncle are, but not all Muggles are bad. They may lack magic, but they make up for it with creativity in things like music. You should listen to some of it." Selena said.

Draco chuckled. "You're a music fan then. I think my Father will kill me if I listened to Muggle Music. Say, what's your surname, you look kind of familiar."

"That's it," Madame Malkin chimed. "You're all done dear,"

"Well, I'll see you at Hogwarts."

"Bye then," Selena said, waving. Selena then left the shop with two sets of uniform robes for herself and Harry and possibly a new friend.

"Hello sis, who was that you were talking to?" Harry asked, handing her an ice cream cone (Strawberry and chocolate swirl, her favourite).

"Just making a new friend," she said, licking her ice cream.

Harry got raspberry and chocolate with chopped nuts. They stopped at more shops to collect things like Potion ingredients, cauldrons and a few other trinkets. Harry checked over the list to make sure they got everything.

"All we need is a wand," he said.

"A wand, well you'd better head off to Ollivanders now then, best place for finding a wand." Hagrid said, pointing in the direction of a shop that had the text 'Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C.' written in gold paint.

"Why don' you an' Selena run along an' wait, I won't be long."

Harry started dragging Selena by the arm into the shop. The shop was strangely empty of customers. It was dark, musty and there were stacks of thin cardboard boxes behind the counter.

"H-Hello," Selena stammered.

"Is anyone there?" Harry continued.

An old man with silvery blue eyes emerged from behind a stack of boxes. He grinned when he saw the twins. "I wondered when I would be seeing the two of you, Mr and Miss Potter. You look so much like your parents, especially you Selena. I nearly mistook you for your mother Lily."

The man who must have been Ollivander said, as he reached for two boxes. "You look exactly like her."

He opened up the boxes and handed each twin a wand. "Selena, give yours a try,"

Not sure what to do, Selena flicked her wand and an entire stack of boxes tipped over. "I-I'm so sorry," she apologised profusely.

"Not the first time that's happened dear, don't worry." Ollivander assured her.

"Harry, give yours a wave." Harry jumped but copied his sisters move. Instead, a lamp shattered to pieces.

"No, no and definitely not." Ollivander uttered, going back behind a stack of boxes for another wand.

There was a pause and they heard Ollivander murmur: "I wonder," before he re-emerged from behind the boxes. He opened up the boxes and handed the wands to the twins.

Selena and Harry both expected something else to break, but instead sparks flew out of both wands and a warm feeling overcame the twins when the sparks joined together.

Ollivander's blue eyes twinkled creepily. "Curious," he murmured under his breath. "Very curious,"

"Sorry," Harry started. "But what's curious?"

Ollivander took the wands back and packed them back in their boxes, which Selena paid for with five Galleons each. "I remember every wand I've sold Mr Potter, including your parent's wands. Both your wand and your sisters are made from the same kind of wood; holly, but from different trees. No two Ollivander wands are exactly the same, but they can however be similar, such as the case for your wands."

"Then what's curious?" Selena asked, taking an interest in the subject.

Ollivander heisted for a moment and said: "Every wand has a magical core; unicorn hair, dragon heartstring or phoenix feather, just to name a few. Your wands have Phoenix feathers. But this particular Phoenix gave three feathers away, just three. Two of these feathers reside in your wands. It is curious how you two are destined for these wands, when their brother…gave you those scars." He finished, pointing at the twin's foreheads.

Harry and Selena paled.

"Mr Ollivander, who owned that wand?" Selena asked.

Ollivander flinched slightly. "Ah Selena, we dare not speak his name. The both of you must remember this, the wand chooses the witch or wizard, though it is not always clear why. But I think it is clear that we can expect great things from the two of you. After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things, terrible yes, but great."

The twins were broken out of the conversation when they heard a familiar voice calling them from the window. They spun around and saw Hagrid holding two cages, each containing an owl, one snowy and one a great horned owl. "Happy Birthday!" he cried.

Later that day, they had returned to the Leaky Cauldron for a bite to eat. Harry and Selena couldn't shake off what Ollivander had told them back in the wand shop. Their wand's brother gave them their scars? What did that mean? They had to know.

"Hagrid must know something, you saw him earlier." Selena said through her mind.

Harry replied with: "I know what you mean Lena, maybe we should ask."

"You alright there you two, you seem rather quiet." Hagrid asked them, concerned.

Harry spoke up first. "He killed our parents, didn't he? The one who gave Selena and I our scars."

Hagrid sighed heavily.

"You know Hagrid, we know you know." Selena urged.

"Alright but yer need to remember this you two. Not all wizards and witches are good. A few years ago, there was a wizard who went as bad as yer could go and his name was V-" he trailed off as he visibly shuddered.

"Maybe you could write it down?" Selena suggested.

"Nah, I can' spell it. Alright, Voldemort."

"Voldemort?!" The twins nearly shouted.

"Shh!" Hagrid hissed and began to tell a tale, the fire in the fireplace flickered in the background.

"It was dark times kids, dark times. Voldemort started gathering followers, brought em o'er to the Dark Side. Those who refused, ended up dead. Your parents fought bravely to protect you both, but no one lived once He decided to kill them," Hagrid explained with a hint of sadness. "No one, not one, except you two."

The twins gulped in horror.

"Us! Voldemort tried to kill, us?" They murmured.

Hagrid nodded. "Those aren't any normal cuts you have on your foreheads. No, those are what you get when a powerful, evil curse touches you."

"What happened to Vol-sorry, You-Know-Who?" Selena asked.

Hagrid shrugged. "Some say he died, codswallop in my opinion, don' think he had any human left in him to die. No, I reckon he's still out there somewhere, too weak to carry on. But something about the two of you stopped You-Know-You that night he murdered your parents. That's why the two of you are famous. That's why every little boy an' girl in our world knows your names. You are The-Twins-Who-Lived."