Well, guess I need to UD this again! I hope this is good.

Disclaimer- I don't own Harry Potter (not a rich British woman named JK Rowling). By reviewer request I have decided to do a Timeskip to when they are 11.

I was bored. Very bored. And it was five in the morning. Yeah seriously. I know- everyone but me is asleep at 5 in the morning. I sighed; it's too early for any of my online friends to be awake and nothing short of an earthquake will get Shanunee out of bed before 11 o' clock on a Saturday. I could go back to sleep of course but what's the fun in that?

I slipped out of bed and walked down stairs sitting down by the TV. I CAN'T wait! Today is my birthday! I pretty sure Dudley, Liana and I were getting a new game system- as for what happened to our (we share it with Harry, Phoenix and Severus of course) well 3 words- cookie, balloon and paintbomb.

Unsure of what else to do I went back upstairs and got out a book.

At 6: something I decided to wake up my siblings, cousins and parents. So I walked out of the room that Phoenix and I share. Now a word that describes the house we moved into a few years ago is BIG. It has five bedrooms and three bathrooms! So I went around the house and made my parents and siblings/cousins get up.

''AHHHHHRGH! SEV, that water's freezing cold!''

''I thought you knew not to wake me up so early in the morning?''

Not exactly the smartest thing I've ever done, I thought as went to get a towel to dry my hair.

So eventually-ish (at 11:30) I was told by Sev to go get the mail. Why? Apparently he was still mad about being woken up so early.

Bill, bill, bill, credit card ad, postcard- huh? Is this parchment?

I stared at it. It was made of a thick yellowish paper that looked like it was made of that stuff that the Ancient Egyptians wrote on- papyrus or something. On the paper was WAX seal with a crest that had a badger, lion, griffin, eagle and snake on it.

Pretty fancy for a prank letter . . . , I thought.

''Mom, I think we got a prank letter,'' I called as I walked into the dining room.

I tossed it on the table.

Mom took one look at it and her face whitened.

''The Hogwarts crest . . . ''

She nodded, ''Iris, go get your father and your siblings-slash-cousins.''

I blinked uncomprehendingly. ''It's just a prank . . . right?''

''Iris, now.'' Mom's hand tightened on the letter and she seemed worried for some reason.

''Okaaaay''

We sat on chairs/the floor in the living room.

Mom smiled wanly. ''I have something very important to tell you six . . .''

Dad spoke up. ''Well the fact is that you have been accepted into a special school.''

''We're not retards!'' Shouted Liana.

''aren't we going to the neighborhood middle school,'' asked Harry.

''What makes it so special?,'' said Severus.

''Yeah, what,'' I said rolling my eyes.

Mom pursed her lips. ''It's a school of . . . m-magic.'' As she spoke her voice trembled but I barely noticed.

Dudley was the first to break the silence. ''But magic isn't real! Everyone knows THAT!''

Mom stared levelly at us. ''it is,'' she said in a monotone voice.

I wouldn't have believed her but the look in her eyes was deadly serious.