“Cat! Cat, come downstairs!” her mother yelled. “Coming mum!” Cat, a young girl with bright green eyes and short dark-brown hair, called down the stairs as she opened the door to her room. As soon as Cat was downstairs she immediately asked, “What is it mum? Did Mrs. Dursley need us for… who’s that from?”

   She was pointing at a small letter in her mother’s hand. “It’s a letter from your friend, Farm is it?” her mother asked. “You mean Fern? We’re not really friends, she just likes having someone to write to.” Cat answered, taking the letter from her mother’s waiting hand.

   As Cat started to walk away her mother called after her again, “Cat! About Mrs. Dursley,” “I know, I know, she wants me and Kade to help her again.” Cat said for what felt like the millionth time that month. “Actually no. She wants you two to go to her house for dinner tonight.” her mum said.

   “And you're going to go. Your father and I need the night off and you and Kade need to go do something that isn’t staying cooped up in your room writing and talking all night. Also before I forget, she said dinner starts at half past seven so you two should get ready and leave soon. Don’t forget to tell Kade.” her mum added when Cat opened her mouth to protest. “Fine, I’ll go tell Kade we’re going to have dinner with the Dursleys.” she sighed as she was walking up the stairs to her room.

   When Cat got back into her and Kade’s shared room, she put the letter from Fern down on her side of their desk. “Kade, we have to go to the Dursley’s tonight for dinner.” She told her brother, a boy with bright yellow eyes and the same dark-brown hair as her just a bit shorter, who was sitting on his bunk in their room. “Do we have to? You know I don’t like them. Dudley makes me want to put a curse on him.

   “Maybe if we wear long cloaks we can sneak up on him and make him fly in the air.” her brother, Kade, said as he peeked his head out from the top bunk.

   “Mum says we have to and that we can’t stay here tonight. You should get ready. I’ll get ready after I write something real quick. And I already know how much you hate Dudley but we aren’t allowed to do magic outside of school. We’re underage,” Cat said as she lifted up her mattress to grab a small blue rectangular book with the word “Diary” written on it. Her brother grumbled something as he climbed down the ladder as she wrote,

Dear diary,

                  My brother and I’s 12th birthdays were a little over eight months ago since today is July 28th. Tonight we (me and Kade) have to go to the Dursleys house for dinner. Hope I remember that their house is number four, not number two this time. They have a son who tries to hide that he bullies but Kade and I always catch him and his friends beating up a boy. Neither of us can remember his name unless we’re face-to-face with him, though I know I’ve heard it somewhere around the Dursleys house. I think the Dursleys' son's name is Dummy?

   Oh wait, that’s what me and my brother nicknamed him because he’s not very smart and it sounds like his name, which is actually Dudley (though you knew all that already now, didn’t you?). Anyway, I hope nothing weird happens there. You know like me or Kade, accidentally breaking glass stuff with our uncontrollable magic or you know the other thing that could happen to either of us. Wish us luck.

                                                                                                                                   Sincerely, Cat Brooks

   After she was done writing in her diary, she put it back under her mattress and got ready for dinner. After putting on a beautiful purple dress that touched her shins that had a hand-sewn pocket, she looked in the mirror. She scanned herself in the mirror for anything out of place before feeling satisfied with her look and walking down the stairs.

   “We’ll be back soon mum!” the twins called out to their mother in unison, when she and Kade got to the front door before opening it and walking outside.

   Once outside the house, Cat looked back at it, the number 32 by their front door reminding her that they lived further down the street from the Dursleys. “We better walk fast to make it on time.” Cat said to her brother. “Or, we could walk normally and make them wait longer?” Kade suggested. She started walking faster, Kade called out to her as he practically ran to catch up.

   When they reached the Dursley’s front door, the twins heard a loud bang coming from inside and, without thinking, she opened the door saying, “Is everyone ok?”

   Her brother said the complete opposite, “Did someone die?”

   Standing there in front of her and Kade were the three Dursley’s and a boy laying on the floor that she recognized from somewhere, though she couldn’t remember who he was. They were all staring at the two before she suddenly realized that they had come in without permission. “S—Sorry,” she stuttered. “I’m not.” Kade said quietly enough for only him and Cat to hear, “I thought someone got hurt so…” but she stopped apologizing when she finally recognized who the boy on the floor was. “Harry?

   “What are you doing here?” she asked before suddenly remembering how famous he was in the wizarding world. “Woah yeah Harry, what are you doing here?” Her twin asked, sounding just as curious as she was. Mr. Dursley answered, sounding a bit angry and shocked, “He’s…. He’s staying over this summer! Yeah, he’s my nephew and his parents asked if—”

   “Mr. Dursley, if I could talk to Harry for a bit to actually figure out what’s going on.” Cat cut in, knowing that Mr. Dursley was trying to lie to her.

   Her brother whispered to her saying that it was good she cut him off, he never liked hearing long stories, especially not from the Dursleys. “Of course, but why would you want to talk to Harry when I’m obviously telling the truth.” Mr. Dursley said acting like he was a bit hurt, his anger rising so much that he was starting to turn red. She ignored Mr. Dursley and, grabbing Harry and Kade’s wrist’s, went back outside where she and her twin had just come from. Once they were outside, Cat turned to Harry and asked, “Why are you here? What was that loud noise that we heard before we found you on the ground?

   “Why were you on the ground?” Her brother cut in before he could answer, “I was just about to ask the same things so you better answer her.” Harry, not pleased to be dragged outside, said, “First of all, Dudleys my cousin and I’ve lived here with them since I was a baby. And secondly, it’s none of your business what that noise was or how I ended up on the floor.”

   “Well that explains a lot.” Cat said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice, her brother nodded in agreement to his sister’s reply, though they now knew why Dudley always picked on him so much.

  She'd barely noticed that Harry was backing away from her and Kade. “What are those…” he asked as he pointed at the top of the both twins’ heads.  “Oh no, not again…” they said together, feeling the ears popping out from their heads along with their tails slowly popping out. “Don’t freak out Harry, we can get rid of them.” She pulled a hat out of the pocket in her dress, took out the bow in her hair and put the hat over her folded fussy ears, her brother also putting on a hat and the long jacket he was carrying.

   “Is this better?” she asked, annoyed that it happened again.

   “Now it’s my turn to ask the questions. What are those? Why did that happen? And are they real?” Harry asked, getting a bit closer. “These are cat ears, we don’t know why they did that again, and yes they are real.

   “Don’t touch them!” she shouted, slapping Harry’s hand away as he tried to touch one of her hidden cat ears. “Why’d you do that?!” Harry yelled as he drew his hand back to massage it. “My ears are very sensitive to touch. —”

   “Mine aren’t.” Kade interrupted with a sigh.

   “Would you rather have me bite you when you do touch them?” Cat asked, her tail just barely moving her nearly-long-enough dress as it swished back and forth. She really wanted to go home and hide in her and Kade’s room. “I wouldn’t bite unless I didn’t want to be touched, which I don’t right now.” Kade said as he adjusted his hat. “I’m sorry for hitting you, but I would rather not bite someone today,” Cat said, turning away from Harry to go back inside, her twin following her back inside as he buttoned his long jacket.

   The Dursleys looked curious as to why she and Kade were wearing hats but never asked about that or why her twin wouldn’t let them take his jacket. The twins had left as soon as they finished eating, she made sure to ask Harry a question she had been meaning to, before they headed home. Once they made it home, her and Kade’s older brother, Bill, called to them from the kitchen saying, “Cat, Kade? Are you home already?! If you are then you both got letters! I think I put them in the sofa room! They’re from that wizard school you go to!”

   “Thanks Bill!” Cat called as she went to the sofa room to find hers. “Yeah, thanks Bill!” Kade called as he followed his sister, finding his letter on the table. She found hers lying down on the sofa and picked up the letter. On the front it said written in an emerald green color,

                    Ms. C. Brooks

               Second Floor Bedroom

               12, Privet Drive 

               Little Whinging

               Surrey

   Once she read the front, she slowly opened the letter. Inside it said,

   Dear Ms. Brooks,

                               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. You and any others with an acceptance letter in your household will be taken to get your supplies by the headmistress, Professor Minerva McGonagall on July 31 at exactly 10 in the morning.

   Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.

   Yours sincerely,

   Minerva McGonagall

   Minerva McGonagall,

   Deputy Headmistress 

   Inside she found what uniform’s she needed (three sets of plain black work robes, one plain black pointed hat, one pair of dragonhide or similar protective gloves, and one black winter cloak with silver fastenings) along with all the school books and other equipment she would need this year. She smiled when she realized that she could have her own broom, looking over at Kade. “You want to try-out for Quidditch this year, don’t you?” he asked when he realized why she was smiling. “Not even close. They don’t have an opening anyway so I wouldn’t be able to.

   “I just can’t wait to go back and learn more magic!” Cat said, a strange purring noise behind her. She turned around to see her kitten, Serafina, purring in the hallway door. “You hear that my furry little baby? You get to go to Hogwarts this year!” Her cat had been a birthday/welcome home present when they’d gotten back from Hogwarts.

   Kade hadn’t gotten an animal since he already had Muck, a brown barn owl, for school. Muck had delivered both the twins’ mail in their first year since Cat hadn’t wanted to spend her little wizard money on an owl. She never really liked birds, there was just something off about the look they gave her. Thankfully, Muck never looked at her strangely, it seemed that he, unlike every other bird, really liked her. She could hardly fall asleep that night. About a week passed and the twins were together in Diagon Alley to get their supplies.