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Another owl flies by and drops it off. Inside Uncle Vernon grabs a handful of letters and rips them up. In the closet, Harry and Aurora hear a whining noise. Aurora looks out the door to see her Uncle drilling wood over the letter box opening.
"No more mail through this mailbox." He says mischievously. Aurora rolls her eyes and sits back down on the small bed
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"Fine day Sunday. In my opinion, best day of the week. Why is that, Dudley?" he asks his only son. Dudley shrugs.
"Because there's no post on Sundays." Harry says. Aurora lied down lazily on the living room floor. They weren't allowed to sit on any of the furniture. You'll ruin it with your dirty clothes!
"Ah, right you are Harry. No post on Sunday. Hah! No blasted letters today, no sir." Aurora looked out the window to see millions of owls are perched. "No sir, not one blasted, miserable-" He got cut off by a letter from the fireplace zooming across his face. There is a rumbling and Aurora gets up and walks to the fireplace to investigate. Suddenly zillions of letters come flying out around her.
"AHH, Make it stop! Make it stop!" screamed Dudley. Petunia and Vernon started screaming as well. She looked around the room to see Harry jumping up on the coffee table trying to get one. He grabs one.
" Come on!" yelled Aurora to Harry. They start to run away to their cupboard.
"Give me that! Give me that letter!" they heard Vernon yell. He chased Harry and Aurora down the hallway. He grabbed on to Aurora's injured wrist and she yelled in pain. He grabs Harry as well.
"Get off! Ahh!" yelled Harry.
"Their our letters, Let go of him!" Aurora yelled. Vernon had let go of her after she kicked him in his chubby shin.
"That's it! We're going away! Far away! Where they can't find us!" their Uncle yelled. Oh how wrong he was.
"Daddy's gone mad hasn't he?" Oh Dudley. Aurora thought. He already was.
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A house, on a rock island somewhere out at sea. The family is sleeping, with the twins on the cold dirt floor, with nothing but a blanket. They had drawn a birthday cake which reads: Happy Birthday Harry and Aurora. Harry looks at Dudley's watch which beeps 12:00.
"Happy Birthday Harry." Aurora says to his twin brother.
"Happy Birthday Rory." He says back. The Dursley's had never gotten them gifts. Well, one time they had given Harry old socks of Uncle Vernon's. Nothing for Aurora. They had never once celebrated the twins birthday.
Suddenly, the door thumps. Harry and Aurora jump. The door thumps again, the twins, and Dudley jump up and back away. Petunia and Vernon appear, Vernon with a gun. The door bangs once more and the door cracks open, a giant man appears. "Who's there? Ahh!" yelled Uncle Vernon.
"Sorry 'bout that." says the large man, as he puts the door back up again.
"I demand you leave at once sir! You are breaking an entering!" said Uncle Vernon, trying to sound brave for his family.
The tall man walks over to Petunia and Vernon. He grabs the gun and bends it upwards. "Dry up Dursley, you great prune." he said. Aurora couldn't help but let out a laugh at that. Harry put a hand over her mouth, not wanting them to get caught.
The large man walks over to Dudley. "Mind, I haven't seen you since you was a baby, Harry, but your a bit more along than I would have expected. Say, where's yer sister?"
"I-I-I'm not Harry." Dudley says, scared to death.
"I-I am." says Harry walking out. Him and Aurora still hand in hand.
"Oh, well of course you are! Got something fer ya. 'Fraid I might have sat on it at some point. I imagine it'll taste fine just the same." He says handing Aurora the cake. "Words and all, heh."
"Thank you!" says Aurora, looking at the cake, which read: HAPPEE BIRDAE AURORA AND HARRY.
"It's not everyday your twins turn eleven, now is it?" He sits down on the couch, takes out an umbrella and point it at the empty fire. Poof, poof! Two sparks fly out and the fire starts. The family gapes, and Aurora looks in awe.
"Excuse me, who are you?" Aurora asks as she puts the cake down.
"Rubeus Hagrid. Keeper of keys and grounds at Hogwarts. 'Course, you two know all about Hogwarts."
"Sorry no." said Harry.
"No? Blimey, didn't you ever wonder where your Mum and Dad learned it all?"
"Learnt what?" asked Aurora, curious to how this man knew about her parents.
"Yer a wizard Harry." Hagrid turned to look at Aurora. "And yer a witch Rory." Aurora's eyes widened at that. A witch? How could she be a witch?
"W-We're a what?" Harry asked.
"Wizard and Witch. And a thumping good one at that, I'd wager. Once you train up a little." said Hagrid.
"No you've made a mistake. I can't be... a-a witch. I mean, I'm just... Aurora. Just Aurora." said Rory.
"Well, just Aurora, did you ever make anything happen? Anything you couldn't explain when you were angry or scared." Aurora softens her expression, thinking about the time where her hair turned a dark red while she was in an argument with Dudley. "Ah." said Hagrid, seeing her change of expression. Hagrid hands Harry the same letter that has been sent the past while. Harry opens it, and Aurora looks over his shoulder so she could see it too.
"Dear, Mr. and Mrs. Potter. We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts' School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!" The twins excitedly read in unison.
"They will not be going! We swore when we took him in we'd put an end to all this rubbish!" yelled Uncle Vernon.
"You knew? You knew all along and you never told us?" Aurora turned around to look at her Uncle, with an angry and disappointed face.
"Of course we knew. How could you not be? My perfect sister being who she was. Oh, my Mother and Father were so proud the day she got her letter. We have a witch in the family. Isn't it wonderful? I was one to see her for who she was. A freak! And then she met that Potter, and then she had you two, and I knew you'd be just the same, just as strange, just as... abnormal. And then, if you please, she went and got herself blown up! And we got landed with you two." Aunt Petunia said. Aurora couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for her Aunt.
"Blown up! You told us our parents died in a car crash!" said Harry, obviously angry as well.
"A car crash? A car crash kill James and Lily Potter?" Hagrid said in disbelief at what the two Potters were told about their parents. They deserved to know the truth.
"We had to tell him something." said Aunt Petunia
"It's an outrage, a scandal!" yelled Hagrid again.
"He'll not be going!" yelled Uncle Vernon with his beet red face.
"Oh, and I suppose a great Muggle like yourself is going to stop him, are you?" Hagrid said back, a little calmer than before.
"Muggle?" the twins asked simultaneously, oblivious to what this new word meant.
"Non-magic folk." said Hagrid looking back at them. "These kids had their name down ever since they was born! They're going to the finest school of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the world, and they'll be under the greatest Headmaster Hogwarts' has ever seen, Albus Dumbledore!" Hagrid finished.
"I will not pay for some crackpot old fool to teach him magic tricks!" Uncle Vernon yelled back.
Hagrid whipped out his umbrella and pointed it at Vernon. "Never insult Albus Dumbledore in front of me." Hagrid said in a threatening tone. Hagrid turns around to see Dudley eating Harry and Aurora's birthday cake. With one flick of the umbrella rear, a tail grows out of Dudleys bottom.
"Ahh!" Dudley screamed. The rest of the Dursleys also screamed. Aurora giggled and Harry smiled.
"Oh, erm, I'd appreciate if you didn't tell anyone at Hogwarts about that. Strictly speaking, I'm not allowed to do magic.
"You're secret is safe with us." said Aurora smiling. Harry nodded at Hagrid. Hagrid checked his clock.
"Ooh, we're a bit behind schedule. Best be off. Unless you'd rather stay of course. Hmm?" He says walking out the door. Harry and Aurora give each other excited looks and turn back to the Dursleys who were still screaming and crying. They looked back at Hagrid and followed him out the door.
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AHHHHH we're getting so close to Hogwarts!
Question: Who is your favorite Harry Potter ghost?