Selena woke up pretty early to get ready for classes. She got up and saw some clean school robes sitting on the stool next to her bed. She climbed out of bed, picked up the robes and walked towards the attached bathroom quietly as Vanessa was still asleep in her bed. Selena chuckled at her and walked into the dorm bathroom to wash up and get dressed. Odessa, and Adeline were already there, dressed and ready doing their hair and make-up. "Good morning, Selena. Dream about Malfoy?" Odessa giggling.

Selena glared at the shorter girl. "Really? Still, freaking still. It's been a day already and you're still on about it?"

"She's right Odessa, quit teasing the poor girl." Adeline stepped in, brushing her hair and teeth at the same time.

She then frowned at Selena for some reason.

Selena raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"Girl, you're a mess this morning."

"So what if I've got a case of bed hair? Big deal, I'll just brush it."

"No, no, no, Selena. What I mean is that you need to look presentable for your first day at Hogwarts."

"Fine, just don't doll me up."

"Good, but first, shower. No offense girl, but you stink."

Selena laughed. "I suppose I do."

After a quick shower, Selena came out of the shower cubicle wearing her robes. She stood in front of the mirror as Adeline and Odessa set to work. Operation: First Day Makeover, they called it. "How do you get your hair this silky? Seriously, what's your secret?" Adeline asked as she started drying Selena's hair with a blow-dryer.

"I guess it's always been like that."

"Wow, it's a lovely shade of red as well, it really goes well with your eyes."

"My mother's eyes. Apparently, I look just like her."

"Is that so?" Adeline asked, putting curlers in Selena's now damp hair.

"Yes, I haven't got any pictures of her though and my Aunt and Uncle refused to talk about them."

"Dirty Muggles, my bio parents were Indian Muggles. They abandoned me as soon as I was born, I'm what people call a 'Dumpster Baby',"

"I'm sorry," said Selena sadly.

Adeline half-chuckled. "It's fine, after that I was adopted by two half-blood witches, Mummy Tatiana and Mummy Astra."

"How do you know you look like your Mum, Selena?" Odessa asked.

"Hagrid told me, Harry apparently looks like our Dad, but he has Mum's eyes."

"There you go," Adeline said, waving her wand to make the curlers disappear and Selena's hair fell in waves and curls as she tied her hair up in a loose ponytail with her green ribbon. "Now make-up!"

Selena waved her hands up in protest. "Not too much, I don't want to look like a seventh year."

Adeline chuckled. "Relax, it's just some lip gloss and blush."

Selena narrowed her eyes at Adeline through the mirror. "Just those, okay…"

"Whatever you say Selena." Adeline opened up a make-up bag and powdered Selena's cheeks with rose coloured blush, while Odessa coated Selena's lips in a shiny gloss of the same colour. "There we go, what do you think?"

They stepped back and Selena couldn't even recognise the girl in the mirror. Her reflection showed that her dorm mates had curled her hair to make sideways waves rather than her usual waves that was natural for her. Her cheeks were pink from the blush and her lips sparkled under the light from the bathroom window.

"That stuff as also got some special powder in it were it'll stay on all day, even if you have something to eat or drink." Adeline explained.

"I love it, thank you girls so much." Selena said, loving her new look.

The door opened and there was a chuckle. "Oh Merlin, Selena. What have these girls done to you?" Vanessa asked sarcastically.

"We've just perfected her for her first day at Hogwarts." Odessa explained.

"She was perfect already, she didn't need to be dolled up."

"You wouldn't say that if you saw her an hour ago."

Selena glared at Adeline. "Hey!"

The tanned girl smiled sheepishly. "Sorry Selena."

Odessa packed up the beauty things and asked. "Hey, has anyone got the time?"

Vanessa looked down at her watch. "Just gone 8."

The girls gasped. "Yipe! Breakfast starts at 8:30 and classes start at 9 o'clock!" Adeline shrieked.

"We better get going now!" Selena cried.

Selena gathered up her school books, wand and timetable and ran down stairs into the common room. The common room was empty, save for the glowing orange fire crackling in the fireplace. She and her dorm mates seemed to be the last people to get up that morning. The girls exited the common room and half-ran down the stairs, trying to remember the directions to the Great Hall.

When they arrived, the Great Hall was filled with students chattering at each of the House Tables, with the teachers sitting up front like the previous night. Selena spotted Harry sitting next to Ron Weasley at the Gryffindor table, eating bacon and eggs. "There's my brother over there next to Ron, let's go join them."

The girls nodded at her, approvingly. "Sounds like a plan," Adeline smiled and all five girls walked over to where the two boys were sitting.

Harry's eyes brightened when he saw his twin. "What happened to you?" he asked when he noticed her new appearance, as Selena tackled her brother into a hug.

Selena chuckled and looked back at her overly excited dorm mates. "Ask them," she said, pointing her thumb back at the two girls who had given her the makeover as the latter giggled behind her. "Mind if we join you boys?"

"I can't refuse my own sister."

The girls giggled and sat down around the table, helping themselves to some breakfast.

Ron finally looked up from his food and was taken aback. "Woah, you look great Selena, who are your friends."

Selena nearly face palmed herself for forgetting to introduce her new friends. "Oh right, Harry, Ron, these are my dorm mates. Adeline Knotley, Odessa Digby and Vanessa Shadowmend,"

The brunette looked up from her Chai tea and said: "Just call me Loch Ness."

The boys just nodded. "Nice to meet you girls," Harry said, offering to shake each girls hand. "I'm Harry Potter,"

The girls giggled. "We know, you're The Boy Who Lived and Selena's twin brother." Odessa guffawed.

"I'm Ron Weasley," said Ron with a mouth full of scrambled eggs. The girls cringed in disgust but did their best to hide it.

Selena then started to take notice of all the different platters that were set upon the table. Eggs; poached, fried, boiled and scrambled; bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans, crumpets, muffins, waffles, pancakes, porridge, cornflakes and toast. Selena's mouth watered at the sight and smell. She began piling three fluffy looking pancakes onto her plate and started drenching them in maple syrup and topping with whipped cream.

"Steady now ya sweet tooth!" Vanessa chuckled. "Potter, control your sister."

Harry chuckled. "You only control Selena if you have a Death Wish," he said, nudging Selena as the red-haired girl laughed.

"It's true." She muttered, before digging into her pancakes.

"Anyone checked the timetable yet?" Adeline asked. "Lemme check," Odessa said, reaching into her book bag and checking over her timetable.

"Apparently, Potions is with the Slytherins." she added, sending a smirk Selena's way. Ron groaned at the mention of Potions.

Selena's roommates all started 'oohing' in her direction. Ron and Harry frowned at their actions. "Why are you girls doing that?" Ron asked them, completely bewildered.

Odessa giggled like an idiot. "Selena's got an eye out for Malfoy."

Selena nearly choked on her pancakes. "I DO NOT!" she snapped.

Harry gave his sister a look of shock. "I thought you said you didn't like Malfoy?"

"I don't, not in that way at least. Draco's my friend."

"She's blushing!" Odessa teased, pointing at Selena's bright red face.

Ron nudged Harry in the ribs, rolling his eyes. "Girls,"

Turned out the girls only had enough time for a single helping of breakfast before classes started. Harry and Selena were quick to learn that they were the main gossip of the school.

"There, look."

"Where?"

"With the tall kid with the red hair."

"With that group of Gryffindor girls,"

"Wearing his glasses,"

"Wearing her ribbon,"

"She's rather pretty,"

"Did you see their faces?"

"Did you see their scars?"

Whispers followed the twins from the moment they left the Great Hall. People even lined up outside classrooms standing on their tiptoes to get a better look at them, or doubled back pass them in the corridors again, staring.

It didn't help that it was a daily obstacle course to get to classes. The castle had a hundred and forty-two staircases: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway you had to remember to jump. Then there were doors that wouldn't open unless you asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, or the most annoying; doors that weren't really doors at all, but solid walls of stone pretending. It was extremely hard to remember where everything was, because it all seemed to change around a lot.

However, there was some help at hand. The people in the portraits and Nearly Headless Nick were always happy to point the First Years in the right direction, but Peeves the Poltergeist was worth two locked doors and a trick staircase if you bumped into him on the way to class. He would drop wastepaper baskets on your head, pull rugs from under your feet, pelt you with bits of chalk, or sneak up behind you, grab your nose, and screech, "GOT YOUR CONK!"

And then, once you had managed to find them, there were the classes themselves. There was a lot more to magic; as Harry and Selena quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.

They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the movements of the planets. Selena wasn't too ecstatic upon hearing this news as it reminded her too much of a science lesson and she was more than eager to go back to bed. Three times a week they went out to the greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology, with a dumpy little witch called Professor Sprout, where they learned how to take care of all the strange plants and fungi and found out what they were used for. Easily the most boring lesson was History of Magic, which was the only one taught by a ghost. Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staff room fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him. Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates and got Emetic the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up.

Charms Classes proved to be the most entertaining. Professor Flitwick, the charms teacher was a short, quirky little wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. At the start of their first class he took the roll call, and when he reached Harry and Selena's names he gave an excited squeak and toppled out of sight.

Professor McGonagall was again different. She wasn't exactly the kind of teacher you'd like to cross paths with. Strict and clever, she gave them a talking-to the moment they sat down in her first class. "Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts," she said. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned." After taking down a lot of complicated notes, they were each given a match and started to try to turn it into a needle. By the end of the lesson, only Hermione and Selena had made any difference to their matches; Professor McGonagall showed the class how the matches had gone all silver and pointy and gave the girls a rare smile.

The classes everyone had been looking forward to was Defence Against the Dark Arts, but Quirrell's lessons turned out to be a bit of a joke. His classroom smelled strongly of garlic, which everyone said was to ward off a vampire he'd met in Romania and was afraid it would be coming back to get him someday. His turban, he told them, had been given to him by an African prince as a thank-you for getting rid of a troublesome zombie, but no one was sure if they believed him or not as Quirrell stammered nervously anytime the story was brought up. Another clue as to suggest the story was baloney was when Seamus Finnigan asked eagerly how Quirrell had fought off the zombie, Quirrell went pale and started talking about the weather; for another, they all noticed that a funny smell hung around the turban, however the Weasley Twins insisted that it was stuffed with garlic too, so Professor Quirrell would be protected everywhere he went.

Friday was an important day for Harry and Selena. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall for breakfast without getting lost once, which was a big relief.

"What's on for today?" Harry asked Ron.

"Double Potions," said Ron. "Snape's Head of Slytherin House. They say he always favours them."

"Wish McGonagall favoured us," said Selena, buttering her toast.

Professor McGonagall was Head of Gryffindor House, but that hadn't stopped her from giving them a mountain of homework the day before. Just then, the mail arrived.

The twins had gotten used to this by now, but it had given them a bit of a shock the first morning, when about a hundred owls suddenly streaming into the Great Hall during breakfast, circling the tables until they saw their owners, and dropping letters and packages onto laps. Hedwig and Elvis hadn't brought the twins anything so far, as expected.

Sometimes they flew in to nibble their ears and have a bit of toast before going off to sleep in the owlery with the other school owls. This time however, both owls flew by the twins and each dropped a letter onto their laps. This surprised the twins has they hadn't expected to get mail at all, unless it was from someone in school. Harry opened up his letter and saw the messy scribble belonging to Hagrid. The letter read:

Dear Harry and Selena,

I know you both have Friday afternoons off,

so, I was hoping you two would like to come down to my hut for some tea and a chat around three.

I want to hear all about your first week. Send me an answer back with Hedwig.

Sincerely,

Hagrid

Harry borrowed Ron's quill, scribbled Yes, please, see you later,on the back of the note, and sent Hedwig off again. "That sounds like fun, I wonder if Ron and the girls would like to come."

Selena said as she read her own letter, with Elvis flying off shortly afterwards. She frowned upon seeing it was an anonymous note and not a letter. It read:

Ms Potter,

I know that you have telekinetic powers so for your safety,

I shall keep your secret from the other students and teachers.

Because you are Lily's daughter I will tell you of a place where you can practice them.

There is a big oak tree on the lakeside far from the castle, just head east.

Do not ask who I am,

Just know that your secret stays safe with me…

Selena felt a lump in her throat. How did this person know she had telekinesis? Did Draco dob her in? She looked up at the Slytherin table where Draco was showing off a very expensive looking broach he must have received in the mail. She had to know.

Excusing herself from the table she walked over to the Slytherin table, walking up behind Draco and tapping him on the shoulder. Draco's jaw dropped when he saw her standing there behind him. She was an angel. He was broken out of his trance when he finally spoke. "Selena?" Draco exclaimed. "What are you doing here?"

"Draco, can I talk to you? In private?"

Draco looked at the other Slytherins, who all shrugged, then back at Selena. "Sure." He said, following her away from the table and into the corridor outside the Great Hall.

"Did you tell anyone?"

"Tell anyone what?" Draco asked, genuinely confused.

"That I had telekinesis?" Selena hissed under her breath.

Draco frowned at her. "What? No! Why would you think that I dobbed you in?"

Selena held up the letter she got. "Funny thing is, I got this anonymous letter in the mail today. Read it," she said, pushing the letter into Draco's hand.

The blonde boy read the message and his eyes widened in shock. "What the bloody hell?" he muttered.

"I know, someone else clearly knows my secret."

"Selena, I swear on Slytherins soul that I did not tell anyone your secret."

"Then how could this person have known I have psychic powers."

"Maybe someone else in the school has psychic powers. I heard that Snape can also read minds, but look at it again Selena. Whoever this person is, is trying to help you."

Selena rolled her eyes. "What if they're lying?"

Draco shook his head. "Selena, the message is written in a magically incrusted ink. You can't write down a lie with it."

Selena looked at him with pleading eyes. "Promise?"

"Promise,"

"I'm just scared Draco, I'm already getting stares from people over having my scar." She whimpered as she started to cry.

"Hey, hey," Draco said, dabbing her eyes with a hanky. "It's going to be okay. You've got a Malfoy on your side. Tell you what, I'll come with you to the location to keep you company." Selena smiled and hugged him, causing Draco to blush bright pink as he nervously returned the hug.

It was lucky Harry had tea with Hagrid to look forward to, because the Potions lesson turned out to the worst thing that had happened to him so far. At the start-of-term banquet, Harry had gotten the idea that Professor Snape disliked him. By the end of the first Potions lesson, he found out he had been wrong. Snape didn't dislike Harry – he hated him.

But oddly enough, Snape seemed to like Selena for some unknown reason as they discovered that day in Potions Class.

Potions were held in the castle dungeons and the whole classroom smelled of chemicals and pickled onions.

Selena found a seat next to Harry, while being surrounded with her friends. Selena and Harry sat together at desk. Draco was sitting down the front row with Blaise. "Hey Slytherin, sorry I didn't get Sorted into your House." Selena said, sitting a row behind him.

"I-It's fine Selena," He said with a tinge of red coming to his cheeks. Selena reflected his affectionate stare, brushing a strand of hair behind her ear. "Thank you," she uttered, sitting down at her desk.

Adeline was sitting in the row behind her. "Mixing with the Slytherins again." she whispered.

"You know, Draco not so bad once you get to know him. I think all the Slytherins should be given a chance to prove they're not at all like the stereotype, I'm sure there are other kind hearted Slytherins."

"Fair point, I on the other hand want to know who that Italian boy next to Draco is, what was his name? Brandon?"

"I think his name is Blaise,"

"Right,"

"Why do you ask? Like him?" Selena teased.

Adeline gulped. "No, just curious."

The door bust open and Professor Snape strutted to the front of the class. "There will be no foolish wand waving or any incarnations in my class," He began, eying all the students with a cold stare. "I could teach you all," he paused looking to Draco and Selena, smiling slightly. "how to bottle fame, brew glory and even put a stopper in Death."

Woah…Selena thought.

Snape turned to Harry, who was writing down notes to what was being said aloud. "Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts with abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough, to not pay attention!" he snapped.

Selena jabbed Harry, shaking her head at him to tell him to stop. Harry looked up in attention. Snape eyed the Potter Twins strangely. "Mr. Potter and Miss. Potter, our new celebrities."

The class started murmuring and the twins started to feel rather awkward.

Snape turned to Harry. "Tell me, Mr. Potter. What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"

Selena thought back to her Potions text book, thinking she might know the answer. It was clear that Hermione knew the answer as her hand shot up instantly.

Harry was shifting uncomfortably in his seat. "I-I don't know…" he said nervously.

"Interesting…" Snape said. "How about this: where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar?"

Hermione's hand shot up again.

Selena smirked and raised her hand, knowing the answer was the stomach of a goat and that a bezoar was a kind of stone that could cure most poisons.

"Don't know that one either," Snape said. "This one should be easier: what's the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?"

Selena lowered her hand and frowned. It appeared that Snape was intimidating Harry and that ticked her off when he completely ignored her and Hermione's hands.

Maybe he was doing this because he was the Head of Slytherin house and had it out for the Gryffindor House.

On the way to class, Ron mentioned that no one really enjoyed Potions, besides the Slytherins because Snape could turn really nasty towards anyone who wasn't in his house.

Snape smirked at Harry after he shook his head again. "Tsk, tsk, clearly fame isn't everything."

Selena cleared her throat, having enough of this joke. Snape turned to the young girl and narrowed his glare at her and pacing the room. "Ms. Potter, perhaps you know the answer." Selena smirked and stood up from her desk.

"I do Professor; there is no difference between monkshood and wolfsbane as they are in fact the same thing. As for the other questions, a bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and is used to cure most poisons and a powdered root of aspheral to an infusion of wormwood would create a sleeping potion so strong its known as the Draught of the Living Death." She finished with a smug look on her face.

Snape had stopped pacing and stared at her, a surprised look on his face.

The whole class stared at the young girl in shock, even Hermione stared at her in shock. "That…is…correct,"

Snape started. "At least one of you has had the decency to open up a book."

After that remark, Professor Snape continued on by writing instructions on the blackboard for the potion they were supposed to make. "All of you will be paired up and you and your partner will make a potion that will be used to cure boils. Potter, you will work with Mr. Malfoy."

Selena squealed in delight, at the same time Harry groaned "No!"

"Wait…which one of us?" The twins asked together.

"Ms. Potter will be working with Mr. Malfoy. Knotley will be working with Mr. Zabini. Ms. Shadowmend will be working with Ms. Granger; Mr. Potter will be working with Mr. Longbottom and Ms. Digby will be working with Ms. Parkinson."

The class all shifted seats to be next to their partner. Selena hugged Draco as she sat down beside him. "Hey, partner." They said together.

Snape walked around the classroom, criticizing everyone, except Draco and Selena, whom he seemed to like. There was a loud explosion, followed by a whimper, and Longbottom was drenched in the potion.

Boils were spurting all over his body. "Idiot boy!" snapped Professor Snape as he cleared away the mess with his wand. "Did you put the porcupine quills after you took the potion off the fire? Potter, why didn't you tell him. That's two points you've lost for Gryffindor."

Selena's head shot up like a bullet, but she swallowed her pride and continued to sit down in her seat.

"Someone take Mr. Longbottom up to the Hospital Wing!"

When class was over, Selena approached Snape at his desk. "Pardon me Professor, but don't you think you were being a little extreme with Neville and my brother?"

Snape looked up from what appeared to be some Seventh-Year homework assignments he was marking.

"The potion was a very simple concoction to brew. The fact that Longbottom couldn't brew it properly, even with the supposed help from your brother, is rather pathetic."

Selena frowned. "So you expect us all to come into your classroom, with no previous knowledge of potion making and concoct a perfect brew on the first try. Is that what you expect us to do?"

Snape stared at her in surprise, his mouth opening and closing like a codfish as he couldn't find anything to say except: "Then what you do expect me to do then, Ms. Potter?"

"I expect that you would try and a little nicer."

Snape narrowed his eyes at her. "I suppose I could try."

He said, forcefully. Selena gave him a small smile. "Thank you, I'll be going now. Goodbye Professor."

"Goodbye Li- I mean, Selena." he said, looking uncomfortable.

Selena turned around in surprise and Snape turned a shade of ghostly grey, a shocked look on his face.

"Pardon?" Selena asked him.

"I think it's time you left now, Selena." Snape said quickly.

As they all met up at the steps out of the dungeons, Harry's mind was racing and his spirits were low. He'd lost two points for Gryffindor in his first week – why did Snape hate him so much? And why did he seem to like Selena?

"Cheer up," said Ron, "Snape's always taking points off Fred and George. Can I come and meet Hagrid with you?"

"Sure," Harry said.

"I'll ask the girls if they'd like to come to." Selena said, adding. "Also, I asked Snape if he could try and be nicer to you Harry."

Harry and Ron stared at her like she had just admitted that she had a crush on Dudley. "You did what?!"

"Yeah, he said he was going to try."

"WHAT?! How did you do that?" Ron asked as they ascended the staircase.

"I think Snape's already picked you as one of his favourites, and on the first day."

"I figured that, as to why he favours me, I have no idea…" Selena murmured.

At around five to three they left the castle with Vanessa and a Hufflepuff girl named Asha, who turned out to be a childhood friend of Vanessa's.

Odessa and Adeline had to decline the offer to visit Hagrid as they already had plans.

"Evan couldn't come, Ravenclaw's don't have the afternoon off like we do." Vanessa had said on the way.

"It's fine, perhaps I'll meet her some other time." Selena replied.

Hagrid lived in a small wooden house on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. A crossbow and a pair of galoshes were outside the front door. When Harry knocked they heard a frantic scrabbling from inside and several booming barks.

Then Hagrid's voice rang out, saying, "Back, Fang – back." Hagrid's big, hairy face suddenly poked through the crack as he pulled the door open. "Hang on," he said. "Back, Fang."

He let them all in, struggling to keep a hold on the collar of an enormous black boarhound. There was only one room inside. Hams and Pheasants were hanging in the rafters, a copper kettle was boiling on the open fire, and in the corner stood a massive bed with a patchwork quilt over it.

"Make yerselves at home," said Hagrid, letting go of Fang, who bounded straight at Selena and started licking her ears.

Like Hagrid, Fang was clearly not as fierce as he looked. "This is Ron, Asha and Vanessa," Harry told Hagrid, who was pouring boiling water into a large teapot and putting rock cakes onto a plate.

"Another Weasley, eh?" said Hagrid, glancing at Ron's freckles. "Spent half me life chasin' yer twin brothers away from the forest."

The rock cakes were shapeless lumps with raisins that almost broke their teeth, but the kids pretended to be enjoyed them as they told Hagrid about their lessons. Fang laid on his back, panting as the girls rubbed his tummy affectionately.

Everyone was delighted to hear Hagrid called Filch, the school's caretaker that everyone hated, "that old git."

"An' as fer that cat, Mrs. Norris, I'd like ter introduce her to Fang sometime. D'yeh know, everytime I go up ter the school, she follows me everywhere? Can't get rid of her – Filch puts her up to it."

Harry told Hagrid about Snape's lesson. Hagrid, like Ron, told Harry not to worry about it, that Snape liked hardly any of the students.

Until Harry mentioned that Snape seemed to favour Selena. "He seemed to really hate me, but he seems to really like Selena."

"Rubbish!" said Hagrid. "Why should he hate you Harry?"

Selena looked up at Hagrid and said. "I asked Snape if he could try and be nicer to Harry and he said that he'd try."

Hagrid had a look of surprise, like he hadn't expected that at all. "Huh, that is odd. But I wouldn't worry too much about it. Ron, how's yer brother Charlie? I liked him a lot – great with animals." Harry and Selena exchanged glances, wondering if Hagrid had changed the subject on purpose.

So a bit more on Adeline's character, a muggle-born, adopted by lesbian parents, born with unique hair and eyes and fancies Blaise Zabini... hmm

And someone knows about Selena's powers?