Harry POV

It was the longest punishment we ever had. We were kept inside the cupboard all day only to be allowed out to use the bathroom. Lena purposely kept asking to use the loo; it was funny to see aunt Petunia face every time she asks to use the loo.

'One good thing about this punishment is that we are missing school, maybe we get to miss the rest of the school days and never get to go back to that dump as we are starting an new school next year.' Lena said.

It was true; we start high school in September so we don't have to go back to the junior school we're at now. That means that we don't have to go to the same school as the Dudley or his friends as we are going to separate high schools.

When we finally allowed out of the cupboard when schools was over but we still see Dudley's idiot friends as they come round and hang around, however most of them are scared of Lena because last time they came over she screamed and punch on of his friends because they wouldn't allow her past in the hallway. Most of the time we spend the day outside in the near by park to get away from them.

'They stuff people's heads down the toilet on the first day at stonewall.' Dudley said at breakfast. 'Want to go upstairs and practice'.

'Well I was about to say yes but then I realise that your head wouldn't even fit in the bowl and I didn't want to break the toilet as I would need it later.' Lena replied.

'What?' he replied?

'God is he stupid' Lena said

One day in July Aunt Petunia took Dudley into town to buy his school uniform lena and I were dumped at Mrs Figg's. She was alright, a bit of a freak about her cats but it gets away from the Dursley's. However she broken her leg by tripping over one of her cats so she allowed use to watch the television and had cake.

'gahh, this taste like crap, its like it was made in 1901.' Lena complained.

'Well its better then what we get at the Dursley's'

That night Dudley pranced around like an idiot in his uniform waving his stupid stick around.

'Wait till I get that stick I whack him one so hard he might walk straight.'

Aunt petunia look like she won a million pounds the way she look at Dudley, crying her eyes out but still looking so proud of her son. He would of look handsome if he didn't have his stomach half hanging out from the top of his trousers or looking like some slob who owns the place. Lena was sitting at the dining room table with a pink face; she was trying not to laugh out loud and had tiers running down her face.

'Maybe we should get him a fake moustache so he could look like Hitler' she said

'What is that horrible smell, it smells like Dudley socks that haven't been washed for weeks' I said

'I don't know but I really don't want to get up and find out' she replied turning over onto her side in the little space available on the bed that we shared in our 'bedroom'. We don't have many clothes, mine are Dudley old clothes and Lena's were either Dudley's smallest clothing he had or from the charity bags that the neighbours put out and we go and steel a few from them. All our clothes were folded under are single bed.

The smell came from the kitchen, aunt Petunia had a huge pot sitting on the counter where the smell came from. I went t go and see what was in the pot, the pot was full of what looked like dirty rags soaked in greyish black water.

"What's this?" I said. If she was cooking then I can't wait to see Dudley face when he has to eat this for breakfast. Aunt Petunia's lips tighten when I asked the question. Number one rule don't asked questions. However Selena loves breaking that rule she'll ask questions all day to get on their nerves it's always the why question she asked. "If there are rules they are meant to be broken" she said when she was first told that she wasn't allowed to asked questions.

"It's yours and your twins new school uniform" she said I looked at it again "oh we have to wear wet dirty clothes"

"don't be stupid you brat, I am dyeing some of Dudley's old clothes for you and some charity clothes I got the other day and Dudley old clothes for you sister. It will look like everybody else's when I finished" she said

'Great' I thought 'look like a big fat elephant with those clothes.'

Selena finally came into the kitchen. Her red hair was tied back into a pony tail which reaches to he bum. Her hair was naturally straight but has small curls at the bottom. One thing that Selena loved the most was her hair – I think it's a girl thing – she refuses to have it chop off to her shoulders when aunt Petunia tried to cut it off. Selena throw the biggest tantrum you ever seen, even bigger then Dudley's. Aunt petunia only gave in when she saw the next door neighbour looking through the hedge and into the kitchen window. One thing that Aunt Petunia hated and feared the most was somebody finding out something to gossip about her.

Selena came over and stuck up her nose; she took one look into the pot and turned away to the cooker. I guess she knew what it was. She had like a sixth sense or something.

Selena was smart, I mean really smart, if anyone knows her they wouldn't believe it as she doesn't look like the studies type – which she isn't but I don't know how but she can remember everything. Every test she ever done she always get over 95% right, she is both street and book smart. But no one knew this besides me because she is known as the 'trouble maker' the one who messes around, cause trouble, pull pranks and would do no school work at all.

As Selena and I make a full English breakfast for the Dursley's. Dudley and uncle Vernon came in, both wrinkled noses because of the smell from our 'new' school uniform. Uncle Vernon was reading the paper and Dudley was smacking his Smeltings stick at the dinner table. Selena and I served breakfast and just sat down when the click of the letter box and the flap of the post on the doormat.

"Get the post Dudley" said uncle Vernon from behind the paper.

"Make Harry get it"

"Make Dudley get it"

"Oh my gosh, I'll just get it you lazy buggers" Selena said.

From where everyone sits at the table, mine and Selena's seats face the door leading to the hallway and to the front door while the rest of the Dursley's faces the kitchen window and the conservatory. I could see Selena picking up the post and from what it looked like there was a post card which had the Isle of Wight in big letters on it, must be from Aunt Marge uncle Vernon sister who went there with her millions of dogs for a week. Also there were Brown envelopes that look like household bills and two fat thick heavy looking envelopes that look slightly yellowish from where I am sitting at the table. When Selena check these two letters, she likes being nosy and she froze. Her eyes went wide and a small squawk came out of her mouth, luckily the Dursley's wasn't paying any attention at the moment. Lena looked at me and shown the front of the envelopes, I squinted my eyes – what I don't have the best eyesight unlike Selena who can see perfectly. One had my name on it and the other had hers but had our cupboard on them as well.

"Hurry up girl we don't have all day" shouted uncle Vernon from across the table. 'Wow he's load. "What are you doing, checking for letter bombs?" he chuckled. Selena rolled her eyes, she hated when uncle Vernon makes bad jokes and laugh about afterwards. She stuffed the two letters through the vents in the door of our cupboards. Good thinking image what uncle Vernon would do if he found out someone is writing to us, actually who is writing to us, I mean we have no friends or relatives so that out the question and we don't go to the library so no overdue books.

Selena came back into the kitchen and shoved the post in uncle Vernon face.

"Watch it brat can't you see I'm eating" barked uncle Vernon.

"Well all that flabbier on you I surprise you can find your mouth" replied Selena.

"Watch your mouth girl don't speak to me like that young lady, GO TO YOU CUPBOARD NOW!" shouted uncle Vernon.

"Look Harry I been promoted from girl to young girl" said Selena

"NOW" his face was bright red and had purple spots appearing on his face.

Selena got up from the table and left for the cupboard. 'Great she didn't get anything to eat' I was worried, Selena hasn't eaten since lunch at school on Monday and now its Thursday. Not there's much to eat. The Dursleys had a full English breakfast but me and Selena had a piece of burnt toast to share.

"Marge is ill" uncle Vernon said after calming down. "It seems she ate something funny from a cheap restaurant.

Dudley lest the table once he finish his breakfast and started to waddle down the hallway, I think he is going upstairs to play on playsation. As he walked past our cupboard he peak inside to annoy Lena, I started to get up to protect her from the whale idiot when I heard "DAD!" he shouted pointing to what I think was Selena as she left the door slightly open "Selena got a letter or something "she must have been reading the letter she shoved in from early. Dudley grab the letter and came back into the kitchen, he past the opened and unopened letter to his father. From what I could see there was a purple wax stamp which stop the letter from being opened. It was some sort of badge with what look like a lion, snake, an eagle and a badger surrounding a letter 'H'.

"That's mine, don't anyone tell you it's rude to snatch things out of people hands Dudley!" Selena said as she ran behind Dudley.

"Who would be writing to you two?" uncle Vernon said while reading the opened letter. His face went from red to blue to green in three seconds flat. I could see Selena having a hard time trying not to laugh at his face as his moustache kept twitching. And it didn't stop there, the next second it was a greyish white colour of old porridge.

"P-P-Petunia!" he finally gasped.

Within a few minutes, me, Selena and Dudley were thrown out of the kitchen – well Dudley was push lightly but Lena and was shoved to the ground with me landing on top of her. I heard a crack from Selena ribs as I landed. "OW Harry I think you broken one of my ribs." Lena said.

"Where, here let me tie this t-shirt around it to make sure it doesn't move". I said as I got one of the t-shirts from under the bed in our cupboard. The amount of times we gotten hurt by the Dursley's we know how to look after ourselves.

After I helped Selena I had laid flat on my stomach to listen through the crack between the door and the floor. Dudley had the key hole and Selena had her ear against the door trying to listen to the conversation inside.

"Vernon" aunt Petunia said look at the address on both of the letters, they know where they sleep? Do you think they're watching the house?"

"Watching – spying- following us who knows?" muttered uncle Vernon.

"What should we do Vernon? Should we write back? Tell them we don't want them –"she was cut off by uncle Vernon.

"NO!" he said "we will ignore it, maybe they will back off if they don't an answer... yes that's for the best... we won't do anything..."

"But what if -"

"I'm not having them in the house, Petunia! Didn't I tell you when we took them in we will kick the freakiness out of them"

He opened the door and all three of us tumbled in "go to your cupboard you two and Dudley just go just go" uncle Vernon said as he got ready for work.

Once we got to our cupboard we sat on our single bed. "What do you think that was all about?" I said to Selena as I tried to fix the t-shirt to help support her crack rib "sorry for hurting you " I said looking into her eyes I really feel bad, I supposed to protect her not hurt her what kind of brother am I.

"It's ok Harry, really it wasn't your fault it was the fat walrus fault." She said

"But still what kind of big brother am I if I cracked your rib" I replied

"Stop it, it's ok and how do you know you were born first? For all you know I could have been stubborn and been born first." She said "and I kinda read the letter before Dudley came in"

"Well what did it say to spook uncle Vernon Out?"

"Well what it said was that I am accepted to a school called Hogwarts" she said while playing with her fingers

"What's Hogwarts?" I said "I think I have heard of it before don't know where though"

"It said something about a school of witchcraft and wizardry and a whole list of stuff I need for school such as spell books and a wand, I think it said the same for you in your letter cause it look exactly the same as mine" she said.

"What the hell, this is a joke" I said surprised on the stuff she said.

"I don't think so, it would be a very big joke that needed a lot of planning and I don't think Dudley had the brains to do that. Also did you see the reaction to the letter, I don't think it's a joke I think it's real, and I have a weird feeling about this Harry and I don't think it would stop either" she said with a scared look on her face and I know this no joke. First Selena has a feeling about this and I know it is no joke. Second the fear on her face, Selena never gets scared, not even when uncle Vernon hits her or getting bullied in at school. And thirdly no way the Dursley's are no actors.

That evening after all the chores are done and uncle Vernon came home from work he did something he never done before without shouting at one or both of us, he came and visit us in our cupboard.

"Where are our letters" I said. Selena and I agreed to pretend that we have no clue what the letter is about even though we don't have enough information to understand it. "Who is writing to use"

"No one it was a mistake." He replied "and I burned it"

"It was not a mistake it had our cupboard on it" Selena said angrily.

"SHUT UP!" yelled uncle Vernon. Couple of spiders fell from the ceiling and one landed on his moustache. He took a few deep breaths and forced a smile which looked quite painful.

"er –yes, Harry Selena about this cupboard, you aunt and I have been thinking... you two are getting to big for it and we been thinking it would be nice if you moved into Dudley second bedroom."

"Why" I said

"Don't ask questions!" snapped uncle Vernon "take you things upstairs, now!"

"But whyyy" Selena said smiling. She's really enjoying this asking why "is it because it said on the letters we got"

"No stop asking and move" he replied walking off.

The Dursleys house had four bedrooms, one for uncle Vernon and aunt Petunia, one for visitors – which is only aunt Marge, one for Dudley to sleeps in and one where Dudley keeps all his toys and things that wouldn't fit in his main bedroom. The second bedroom is really a boxed room it's the smallest bedroom, it can only fit a single bed, chest of draws and a small single wardrobe. It took us two trips upstairs, one with our stuff – clothes and shoes – and the other for the single mattress the shared together. In the room nearly everything was broken. All the birthday presents he got last month were broken and others from pervious years.

From downstairs you can hear the screaming from Dudley to his mother. "I NEED THAT ROOM, CAN'T YOU JUST SHOVE THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE, and MAKE THEM GET OUT..." we both sighed and laid side by side on the bed.

Next morning at breakfast no one spoke, Dudley was still in shock, he screamed, whacked his father with is stick, kicked his mother and throw the vase across the room but still not given the room back. When the post was here uncle Vernon shot up from his chair and ran down the hall way – well if you can call that running. He came back and looks through the pile. That's where I saw the same letter that came yesterday. Before I moved Selena jumped and grab the letter and ran down the hallway. I followed quickly and so did uncle Vernon. He wrestled Selena to the ground to get the letter from her. Selena was turning blue from the weight of uncle Vernon. Helping her out I pushed uncle Vernon off her, but he had managed to get the letters. "Go to your room both of you and you Dudley" he gasped out.

The letters kept coming and this had lead me and Lena lying on the floor in a cabin in the middle of nowhere under a small blanket and a drawn birthday cake on the floor. "Happy birthday Harry" Selena said.

"Happy birthday Lena-"

BOOM

The whole shack shivered and someone was outside trying to get in.