Hi guys! This update is a little early, but I had it done and I wanted to post it because it may be a while before the next update. Also, this is the last call for anyone who wants a character in Hogwarts, because I may not be able to add you in once I have finished the second part of this. Ok, so the ending of this is a little rough, because I was writing it and then realized it was suddenly 3000 words and about 9 pages. This update is almost as long as the entire Mahoutokoro part (which had 3679 words to this chapter's 3395).

And lastly, I want to that the guest reviewers and itsKelsey (your character will be in the second part) for reviewing. It means so much to me that you guys left reviews, because I've seen stories with multiple chapters and no reviews, so I know not everyone gets reviews and it make me so happy when I see that someone left their opinion thank you so so much! There are a few cameos in this chapter and will be a lot more in the second part. Um, I think that is all. Oh! One last thing! I put the expected update date for the next section up in my bio, so if you're ever wondering, just go check it out. Ok, I think that's all. Sorry this is such a mess, but I don't know a better way to organize it. So, yeah, enjoy! Read and review! -H. Star

Disclaimer: I realized I didn't put this in the first two chapters/sections/snapshots (not quite sure what to call them), but I assume this is fairly obvious: I am not J.K. Rowling, I do not own Harry Potter, I do not own any of the magical schools. If you recognize something, then it probably isn't mine.

Hogwarts Part 1

"I can't believe we won't see you guys for an entire year!" Zoe said distressed, "Do you really have to go to boarding school?"

"I do. My parents say it is best for us." Rowan said sadly, "But I'll write you letters all the time!"

Zoe smiled slightly, "Does Ethan know yet?"

"No, Carter is telling him now." Rowan replied. Just then, the two previously mention boys entered the room.

"I assume you know." Ethan said, as he and Carter entered the room. The group of ten year olds exchanged sad glances before lapsing into silence.

"Well, maybe it won't be so bad," Carter said, trying to lighten the mood, "I mean, we'll still see you guys over the holidays, and summer."

"I know, but Ethan and I will miss seeing you two everyday. I mean, we've been best friends since pre-K. There aren't any other sets of twins in our grade to hang out with." Zoe moaned, Rowan and Carter were basically the pairs only friends. The four of them had a reputation for causing strange things to happen, so most people just stayed away.

"I know, I bet there won't be anyone for us to hang out with at school either." Rowan added.

"What is the name of the school you guys are going to?" Ethan questioned, "I don't this either of you mentioned it."

"Oh!" Carter said, taken aback, "It's um…" Just then Rowan and Carter's' mom called from downstairs

"Hey kids, Zoe and Ethan's parents are here, they need to go home now!" She said

"Coming Mrs. Stone!" Zoe shouted, as she Ethan, Rowan, and Carter came out of Rowan's room, and went downstairs. "See you guys tomorrow!" She said, putting on her shoes and heading out the door, Ethan right behind her.

Seeing as they lived right next door to their friends house, the walk home was not very long, but when they arrived, the received the surprise of their life.

"Mom, we're home!" Ethan called as they walked through the front door, "Why did you call us home so early?"

"Ethan, Zoe, you'd better come meet me in the family room." Their mother answered.

The twins shared a look, wondering why their mother was acting so strangely, but walked quickly to the family room. Zoe, who was in front of Ethan, stopped suddenly when she saw the people in their family room. Ethan also stopped before coming into the room, then their mom beckoned them to come in, so they continued walking into the room before coming to a stop close to their mother.

"Ethan, Zoe, I would like to introduce you to Professor Mcgonagall, and Mrs. Granger." said their mother

"Nice to meet you." Zoe said politely, looking with confusion at the two ladies strange attire. The older woman was wearing an emerald green set of robes and a matching witch's hat, while the younger woman was wearing a navy blue dress that would look completely ordinary if not for the matching robe.

"Hi!" Ethan said, earning a subtle kick from his sister with his informal reply

"They have something interesting to discuss with you, why don't the two of you take a seat." The twins mom said, patting a space on the couch next to her. The twins came and sat.

"Hello, I am Professor Mcgonagall, from Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry." The older woman said, introducing herself

"I am Hermione Granger, Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, but really I'm just here to answer any questions you might have." The younger woman added.

"Magic?" Ethan asked confused.

"But there is no such thing as magic." Zoe stated, finishing her brother's sentence

"Ah, but there is." The younger woman, Hermione, said with a smile. "I was like you when I was a child, and knew nothing of the magical world, but I promise it is real, and you two will soon be a part of it."

"Prove it!" Ethan said suspiciously, still not believing in the two women

"Ethan!" Zoe and her mother said in tandem

"It's quite alright!" Hermione said laughing, "I often get asked to prove that magic is, in fact, real. What would you like me to do?"

"Um," Ethan said thinking, "Make that teacup float." He said, pointing to a small periwinkle colored teacup sitting on the table that was in front of the couch.

"Alright." Hermione said, pulling a stick out from her cloak and saying, "Wingardium Leviosa."

Zoe, Ethan, and their mother all gaped in awe as the teacup rose and hovered in mid air. The twins father chose then to enter the house, back from work. He looked wide eyed between the floating teacup, the oddly dressed women, and the rest of his family before promptly fainting. The twins tried, and failed, to hold back snickers at their father's reaction, but their mother was succeeding in hiding her laughs. Even Professor Mcgonagall and Hermione Granger seemed to be amused.

"Hermione, if you will." Professor Mcgonagall said, motioning to the unconscious man.

"Of course Professor," Hermione said, raising her wand again, "Rennervate!" The twins father awoke suddenly and quickly stood up.

"Hello, Mr. White. It appears that you came in at a bad time, why don't you take a seat with the rest of your family, and we'll catch you up." Hermione said, sitting back down in her chair across from the couch. It took a while to get the twins father caught up, but he eventually did, then Professor Mcgonagall started to explain the school.

"Hogwarts, as you may have guessed, is a school of magic. But not just silly tricks that you muggles like to call magic. This is real." Mcgonagall explained.

"Muggles?" Zoe asked curiously, "What are muggles?"

"Well," Hermione answered kindly, "It is what witches and wizards call people who aren't magic."

"Am I a witch?" Zoe asked quietly

"Yes, you are. And your brother is a wizard." Mcgonagall replied gently

"Wicked!" Ethan exclaimed, "You mean all of that weird stuff we've been able to do is magic!" For once his sister and mother didn't shush him, both lost in their own thoughts. Their mother was thinking about how she had never really noticed it until it had been brought up, while Zoe was thinking about how Rowan and Carter had been able to make things happen too.

Hermione, noticing the brief lull in conversation, decided to move on, "Here are your letters." She said, pulling out two envelopes and handing them to the twins. Each tore open their letter with excitement while their parents continued to ask Hermione and Professor Mcgonagall questions.

"So how do we pay for this?" Mr. White asked, finally getting over the shock that he had magical children.

"Well we have a different currency than muggles, but that is not a problem, because you can exchange your money for wizarding money at Gringotts." Hermione answered, "It can be confusing at first, but you'll soon get the hang of it."

"Is Gringotts a bank? Where is it?" Mrs. White asked

"Yes, it's a wizarding bank, but it is in Diagon Alley, which is accessible through the Leaky Cauldron in London. All the information you will need on acquiring school supplies is on a separate piece of paper in the envelope that contains the acceptance letter." Mcgonagall replied, "Now I think we have covered everything, Hermione."

"Yes, I believe we've covered everything. I'm sorry to rush out, but we have many muggle borns to see today. Congratulations on being accepted, and be excited, your world has been forever changed." Hermione said, pulling out her wand, and she and Professor Mcgonagall disappeared with a crack.

The family continued to sit in shocked silence until Mr. White spoke, "So….my daughter is a witch and my son is a wizard." He said casually as though talking about the weather, "I definitely didn't see that one coming."

"I had never noticed it before, but now that I think about it, a lot of things make sense. Like when the candy on the top shelf would appear in your room, or the strange things that teachers would tell me about. It was magic." Their mom said incredulously, "Did the two of you know about this?"

"Well," Ethan said, because Zoe was still lost in thought, "We knew strange things happened around us, but we never knew it was magic. We were always just different, but I'm glad we aren't like, secretly aliens or anything." He looked over at his twin sister, "Zoe, are you alright? You haven't really said anything."

Zoe was silent for a moment before responding, "Rowan and Carter…. They were always able to do strange things too. That's why we were friends." She said quietly, as if unsure of herself, "They said they were going to a boarding school, that their parents said it would be best for them."

"And they never told us the name." Ethan said, catching on, "Carter got nervous when I asked the name. You don't think-"

"That the boarding school they are going to is Hogwarts?" Zoe finished, "I think it is!" Zoe leaped up from her seat, letter in hand, and ran across the street to Carter and Rowan's house with Ethan trailing closely behind her, their parents still sitting dumbstruck in the family room. Zoe ran up to the front door, ringing the doorbell and knocking loudly. Rowan answered, looking confused.

"Zoe? Wha-" She began to ask before Zoe interrupted her.

"Hogwarts…." She said breathlessly, "The boarding school…...Strange things happened around all of us…..Muggles." She finished just as Ethan caught up.

Rowan looked between Zoe, Ethan, and the letter clutched in Zoe's hand for a few moments before shrieking in joy.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE GOING!" She exclaimed, jumping up and down before wrapping both Ethan and Zoe in a hug. "I was so convinced it was just Carter and I making everything happen! I convinced myself not to hope too much that it was you guys as well! I mean, what are the odds? But it was! We're going to Hogwarts!" Just then, Carter came to the door to see what all the commotion was about.

"What's going on?" He asked confused, "What's with all the noise?"

"We're going to Hogwarts too!" Ethan exclaimed, "We just got our letters!" He grabbed Zoe's hand that was still clutching the letter, and almost pulling her over trying to show Carter.

Carter stood in shock for a moment, like Rowan had, before excitedly shaking his friend, "NO WAY!"

Rowan, having calmed down slightly, suddenly remembered that they were talking about a wizarding school, in very loud voices, in front of their very Muggle house, in their very Muggle neighborhood, "We should probably go inside." She said, looking around to make sure no one had heard their celebrations, "You can tell us all about how you got your letters!" The other three quickly agreed before running upstairs into Carter's room.

"So what happened?" He asked as they all sat down on the floor in a circle, something they had done for as long as they could remember, "Did they just owl you letters or did someone come and talk to you?"

"Owl us letters? What does that mean?" Ethan asked

"Oh, well I guess you wouldn't know that." Rowan stated, "Well, in the wizarding world, the primary means of communication are by owl. You know how people used to use pigeons to send messages? It's basically like that, except with owls."

"That is so cool!" Ethan exclaimed

"Though a bit impractical, no offense. Wouldn't it just be easier to send texts?" Zoe asked

"Well, there aren't phones in the wizarding world." Carter explained, "There really isn't any Muggle technology."

"Ok, now back on topic." Rowan interrupted, before the twins could ask any other questions, "We can explain everything later, but right now I'm dying to know what happened!"

"Haha ok. So when we got home, our mom called us to the family room, and there were two woman standing with her. One introduced herself as Professor Mcgonagall, Headmistress of Hogwarts, the other woman was Hermione Granger, the head of some department, but she was there to answer questions, because she was like us." Zoe explained

"Wow, you met Hermione Granger! I have a bunch of chocolate frog cards of her, but I've never actually met her. She was a war Hero." Carter said excitedly

"Chocolate frogs? War?" Ethan asked confused

"Uh uh uh, story first, questions later, and technically it would be Heroine. She's a girl. Now keep talking!" Rowan said impatiently

"Um, well not much happened, she made a teacup float, our dad came in while the teacup was floating and fainted. And we got our letters." Zoe continued, "There, we explained what happened, now you have to answer our questions!"

"Ok, where should we start?" Asked Carter

"Chocolate frogs!" Ethan exclaimed, going with the choice that sounded most delicious.

"Ok, chocolate frogs are a wizarding candy, and they come in boxes, and when you open the boxes the frogs are enchanted to jump around and act like a real frog. But most people buy them for the cards. So you know how some Muggles collect baseball cards?" Carter waited for Zoe and Carter to nod before continuing, "Well it's a lot like that. So each card has a picture of famous witch or wizard on one side, and then the other side has information about them." He got up and went to his dresser, pulled a small box out of one of the drawers, and came back to the group. "Here are my cards." The twins spent the rest of the afternoon asking questions about different aspects of the wizarding world they were now a part of. Eventually their parents came over, and the family was invited to stay for dinner at the Stone's house. There were so many things to learn, it was a while before the conversation was drawn back towards the previously mentioned war.

"So, you said something about a war earlier." Ethan said, changing the topic from quidditch.

"Oh, yeah." Rowan said, looking slightly uncomfortable with having to explain such a dark topic to her friends, "So before I go into all of us this, you have to understand these were very dark times for the wizarding world. Nothing this bad had happened before this, and nothing has happened after. I don't want you guys to think it is like this all the time."

"Man, it must really be bad then." Ethan said, growing serious

"Yeah, it was. It's also kind of complicated, so I'll just give you the big picture." Carter said, taking a deep breath before beginning, "In the 1970s, a power hungry wizard named Voldemort- everyone used to call him you-know-who or he-who-must-not-be-named some still do call him that- started a war. He wanted all the muggleborns gone from the wizarding world, so he tried to kill them all. He wanted a world where not only was he in charge, but everyone was a pureblood.

"Pureblood?" Zoe asked, curious about the new term

"Its someone who has magical parents." Rowan explained, "A half blood is someone who has one magical parent and one non-magical parent. And a muggleborn is someone who has no magical parents."

"Some pureblooded witches and wizards think they are better than muggleborns, and they have a really foul name for them. It's about the worst thing you can call someone in our world." Carter continued

"What do they call them, well, us?" Carter asked

"Mudbloods." Rowan said the word with disdain, "It means dirty blood. If anyone ever calls you a mudblood, you could probably hex them into next week, which I encourage you to do, and not get into too much trouble."

"If anyone does call you a mudblood though, it'll probably be a Slytherin." Carter said

"Slytherin?" Zoe and Ethan said together, it seemed all they could do today was ask questions.

"Oh! Did we forget to explain the houses!" Carter exclaimed

"Yeah." Ethan replied

"Sorry. Well, at hogwarts there are four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. They are named after the four great witches and wizards who created hogwarts, Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin. When you arrive at Hogwarts, you are sorted into your houses by an enchanted hat- you'll understand when you see it. Gryffindor is for the brave, Hufflepuff is for the kind, Ravenclaw is for the intelligent, and Slytherin is for the sly and cunning. The majority of the house were supporters of Voldemort, not a nice lot." Rowan explained

"Well surely they aren't all bad." Zoe argued, refusing to believe that there was an entire house full of only terrible people. The odds of that were slim to non.

"Well, I'm sure some of them are decent, but I've never met one." Carter said

"And how many Slytherins do you know?" Zoe asked smirking

Carter squirmed, "None." He muttered

"Haha!" Zoe exclaimed triumphantly, "That's what I thought. I will prove that not all Slytherins are bad, you watch me."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. I'm telling you now, they're all a bunch of slimy snakes." Carter argued

"So…" Ethan said, deciding to change the subject, "Rowan. Your name sounds a lot like Rowena Ravenclaw. Were you named after her or something?"

"Well, sort of. My family are very distant descendant of Rowena Ravenclaw. Like, really distant. But my mom wanted to 'honor our heritage' so here I am. Plus both she and my dad were Ravenclaws." Rowan said laughing

"Thats cool!" Zoe exclaimed. Just then, the four kids were called down to dinner by their parents, and the discussions over the wizarding world continued well into the night before the White family went home to bed, and had dreams full of new and exciting magical lands.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed that! It took a long time to write! I doubt anyone will read this or my "little" note at the top, but thanks a bunch of you do! Just for clarification, Rowan and Carter Stone are twins who live in the muggle world, and their parents went to Hogwarts. Zoe and Ethan White are muggleborn twins who live across the street from the Stones. Sorry if I wrote more from the girl's point of view, I just have more experience writing girls (plus I am one!), but I'm trying to get better. Let me know how I did, and who I need to write more/less of. Feel free to leave any advice for editing in the comments, also if you want a character in Hogwarts this is your last chance! Please leave a review, it just makes my day! So I hope you are having a good day, and I'll see you next time!