Chapter 1 – Moving

13th July 1973

Two teenagers, a boy and a girl, one could assume were twins could be seen pacing in a bedroom that is filled with what looks like storage boxes.

"Vega, I don't want to leave. I want to stay and go to school with our friends in September. Why do we have to leave Salem and move to Britain, I haven't even heard anything of this Hogwarts mum and dad want us to go to? Have you heard anything?" the boy looked at his sister.

"I know Castor, I don't want to either. But it is what mum and dad want. Dad couldn't pass up this job, it is his dream job! Just because we have the money without mum and dad worrying about work doesn't mean they can sit around all day doing nothing, you know exactly what they are like. Mum is lucky she enjoys spending all day out in the gardens and the greenhouse. I have only heard little things about Hogwarts though, the basis is the same as The Salem Institute it is unplotable. But as for anything else I have no idea. Come on we should probably go downstairs." Vega looked at her brother, it was hard to tell that these two were actually twins, they were completely different.

It was almost like one was night and the other was day. While they both hard stunning bright green eyes and very similar facial structure. It was their hair colour, skin tone and some aspects of their personality that sets them apart. While Vega had light blonde ringlets that came half way down her back and olive skin that was similar to her mother's side of the family, her personality was very bubbly and outgoing, because of this it made it easier for her to make friends. Everyone always suspected that there had to be a veela in the Monroe family tree but to everyone's disappointment there wasn't.

Castor had dark brown hair that would never sit right no matter how times you brushed it and as well as the lighter skin tone that could have been seen on his father side of the family. Even his personality was completely different to his sisters; he was nowhere near out going and bubbly like his sister. It wasn't until Castor got to know people well enough that he completely opened up and let his true self show.

The twins enter the dining room to find their parents have returned. "Mum I didn't expect you and dad to be back this early. I thought it would have taken longer at the bank."

"Yes we assumed as well but it turns out that it was very easy to set up a new vaults in London from here and then the goblins organised the transfer between themselves the only other thing we have to do when we arrive in London is go to Gringotts and sign the last of the paperwork. Now sit lunch is ready I believe."

Without even realising the next week flew by for the twins. They finished packing, hard everything moved to the new house in Herne Bay. They couldn't wait to see what their new house looked like and how the house elves have decorated everything. If the twins were honest they had missed their elves. For the past week the elves had been at the new house making sure everything was ready for them.

The Twins found themselves standing the American Ministry with their parents awaiting their timeslot to be flooed to London before heading off to their new home. Vega was currently staring out the window that was looking out on Salem in hopes that she could remember her home town, while Castor was just sitting in a chair watching his sister wondering when she will break. Castor knew his sister wasn't taking the move well, she didn't want to leave her friends behind and start at a new school and try and make new friends.

Vega was taking in the Salem landscape while thinking about her best friend that she was leaving behind, wondering how she was going to make it at Hogwarts. Even though she was scared she wouldn't let it been seen in public, she always kept emotions hidden away until she was hidden away in her room. She didn't know how she was going to make new friends going into her third year; everyone in her year would already have made friends and their own groups.

"Marissa and Lynx Monroe, we are ready for you now" a ministry worker tried to get the attention of the family.

Marissa looked at her daughter with worry "Vega are you alright?"

"Yes mum, come on lets go. We don't want to hold them up more than we have too." Vega just looked up at her mother smiled and then headed towards the worker.

"Alright so all you have to do is stand in the fireplace and we will do the rest on our end. When you arrive there will be a worker to assist you further. Enjoy London"

The next thing the family knew they saw green flames and felt like their insides were being turned inside out. The family weren't used to travelling by floo, they had no family left and most of the twins' friends lived in the same wizard community they did. Marissa and Lynx did apparate most of the time. When the sensation finally stops the family stepped out of the fire place and they were in awe of what they all saw. It was a luxury looking room with black stone walls and many more fire places.

"Welcome to London, my name is Amelia Smith. If you follow me we will set up everything needed here at the Ministry before we send you off to your new home."

They all followed Amelia down a maze of hallways and endless amounts of doors before they finally reached their destination. It appeared to be Amelia's office. It turns out she works in the department of magical transportation. The next hour was set aside to put all the fire places in the manor on the network as well as names and passwords for certain fire places. It turns out there were 5 fire places in their new home. The main one being in the living room and it was named Monroe Manor, while the rest were in the bedrooms, one each for the twins a master bedroom and of course a guest bedroom. The fire places in the bedrooms had locks put on them that restricted them to floo calls only.

After what seemed like the longest afternoon the twins were finally allowed to head off to their new home. They both stood in the fire place and said Monroe Manor. At the end of the trip the twins stepped out into the most stunning living room. It had one wall covered with a floor to ceiling bookcase which of course was fully stocked, if the twins knew their mother it would be organised in a combination of categories and alphabetic order. Another displayed large windows which overlooked the grounds and the ocean further out, this sight alone wanted Vega to ignore the rest of the house and just go out to the beach but she knew it could wait. The furniture was typical of the parents, large leather couches and armchairs. While the tables were made of a deep wood.

Soon enough the twins parents had entered behind them and there was a crack sounding the arrival of 3 house elves. It was times like these that the twin's hated coming from a pureblood family where it was recommended that the children had their own house elf each, but they learned quickly that there was benefits to such traditions like this. Due to the twins having their own house elf who they hoped knew them very well they were both eager to see their own rooms which would of been designed by their elf.

"Master and Missus we are happy you are finally here please follow us and we will show you the common rooms before splitting off and showing you your own rooms"

The family followed the house elves and were the shown the kitchen, the dining room this was most likely Castor's favourite room mainly for the fact that through the windows you could see the other side of the grounds compared to the living room but aside from this fact you could also see the Quidditch pitch. They continued around to the drawing room which had one wall covered in what appeared to be a Monroe family tree, sadly this was another pureblood tradition. It was always recommended that there was a family tree in all main households. Vega knew straight away that she wouldn't set foot in this room; she always hated realising that she had no family left aside from her parents and brother. Once they were shown the rest of the ground floor they were taken upstairs skipping the second floor and heading to the top. The top floor had no walls as it appeared to be the one room. Castor realised straight away the purpose for this room and knew straight away he would find his sister here every night.

"We know how much astronomy means to Mister and Missus, especially young Missus so we added on this floor and gave it a glass roof so at night you could watch the stars" the head elf said this with such enjoyment one could think he would send time up here as well.

Vega was speechless by this room she couldn't wait until she could come here at night and stare at the stars and clear her head, she notice on the side wall was a small bookcase which would have held the numerous amounts of astronomy books the family owned. As much as Castor hated the Monroe family tradition of astronomy related names, Vega loved it. She has always enjoyed astronomy and when she was younger she would spend hours outside just watching the stars listening to her father point different stars out to her. Marissa was indifferent to the tradition but the names did hold some meaning to her. Lynx on the other hand loved astronomy just as much as his daughter.

Vega had to be dragged out of the room by her brother where they were told to head downstairs to the middle floor. This is where they were being spilt up to have a look at their different bedrooms.

Vega followed her elf to her room which appeared to be across the hall from her brother while their parents seemed to be situated at the end of the hall. When Vega stepped into the room she was shocked. This wasn't a bedroom; it was almost like a suite. The room was huge and had two doors side by side. Before she even got the see what was behind the doors she took in her room. Three of the walls were a cream colour and then there was the wall behind the four poster bed which was a stunning deep purple colour. The floorboards were made of dark wood, while the hangings on her bed were cream to match the walls. She had a desk made of oak in one corner while in the other was a bookcase and armchair. There was a cream rug laid out in the middle of the floor. She noticed that the windows in her bedroom looked out onto the ocean. She finally made way to the doors side by side and opened the first one and was welcomed with her bathroom. Everything was white porcelain with pale purple walls. There was a huge claw foot bath tub in the middle of the room. She went back out into her room and opened the next door. She realised it was her wardrobe; it was absolutely stunning having the same floorboards as her room while the wood of the shelving matched that of her desk and bookcase. At the opposite end of the room was a vanity with a big mirror while on one side had hanging space and the other had draws. It was then she noticed that Misty had unpacked her clothes and put them away. She went back out to her room and noticed that Misty was still standing there waiting for Vega to speak.

"Misty this is amazing. Thank you so much for designing the room, I am a little sad to notice there is no art work on the room but aside from that I love everything else you have done." Vega then hugged misty.

"I am glad you like young Missus, there is no artwork because they are all locked away in the vault at Gringotts. We can access them until you and your parents finalize paperwork. If that is all I need to start on dinner" with another crack Misty left Vega to go through her belongings thoroughly.

Across the hall Castor was examining his own room, it was similar in ways to Vega in terms of furniture placement but it ends there. Castor had no rug on the floor. The wall behind his bed was dark blue. His window looked out onto the Quidditch pitch. The desk and bookcase were made from the same wood. Castors bookcase held mostly Quidditch related books. Castors bathroom had white porcelain with pale blue walls except his did not have a bathtub in the middle, just a spacious shower. Castor's wardrobe was very similar to Vegas but instead of a vanity at the opposite end of the wall there was only a floor length mirror. Castor went back out to his room and noticed that Vika was missing.

"Vika"

With a crack the elf returned. "Sorry Young Master, but I thought it was best if I left you alone to explore your room and I assumed you would call me when you needed me."

"Yes that is true Vika, as always I prefer to be left alone. But thank you for my room. It is perfect. Please continue what you doing before I interrupted you."

With that Vika left with a second crack.

The first week after the Monroe family moved into their new home went by pretty fast making little changes around the home that they thought were necessary, whether it was moving something one place to another or changing the colour of furniture or walls. Luckily Vega had it easy with her changes; the only thing she wanted to change was how her wardrobe was set out. In theory what Misty had done was logical enough, but Vega being the control freak she is when it came to wardrobe set out straight away reorganizing it over and over again until she finally decided how to leave it.

Once Vega finished with her wardrobe she the rest of time outside at the beach or on the rare occasion in the Quidditch pitch with her brother, Vega never went on a broom she was scared she was going to fall off again. When she joined her brother in the Quidditch pitch she would control the Quaffle and float it around the Pitch while her brother tried to catch it.

One morning when the family was seated in the dining room eating breakfast when an owl arrived carry a number of letters. Misty, who was in the room at the time handed out the letters. It seemed as though the twins Hogwarts letters finally arrived but it was their parents that they were curious about.

"Marissa it seems as though Gringotts is ready for us to come and finalize the paperwork for us vaults as well as the one each for the children" Lynx handed the letter over to his wife and couldn't help but notice the smiles on his children's faces.

"Dad does this mean we can leave this house and visit Diagon Alley? Castor and I received our Hogwarts letters along with the list of our school supplies." Both of the twins looked at their parents with pleading looks. They had spent too much time inside this house with just the two of them to occupy themselves.

"Come Lynx you know how much the children want to leave the house, we may as make a day of it and plus the children need to be when we go to Gringotts for their own trust vaults." Marissa looked over to her husband knowing he could never deny his children anything.

"Alright fine we will go soon enough. How about we enjoy the rest of the weekend and we will go on Monday before I go back to work on Tuesday?" he then turned to his children and saw how happy they were.

"Yes that is perfect dad. May we be excused I would like to cross the booklist across our own library?" Vega said this as putting down her cutlery on her plate.

"Yes of course, but you know you don't have to bring the books from our home to Hogwarts you are allowed to buy your own and add them to your library in your room with your old school books?"

"Yes dad, all we wanted to see was where our studies from Salem were compared to where the students at Hogwarts should be according to the booklist for third year." Castor joined in.

"Yes of course that makes sense, please go ahead if you are behind in something don't hesitate to ask us and we will be more than happy to help you out." Marissa smiled at her children as they got up and left.

"Lynx how long do you think this studious behaviour will last once they arrive and make friends?"

"Marissa, I don't think this is studious behaviour, I think it might be more along the lines of not wanting to embarrass themselves when they arrived at the start of term. Come on you have obviously finished your lunch, you have been pushing your food around your place ever since the twins mentioned their Hogwarts letters."

"You're right as always."

When Monday rolled around the twins were found practically running down the stairs awaiting eagerly at the fireplace for the parents to arrive. When their parents finally entered the room they were bombarded with questions from the twins.

"Can we leave yet?"

"How are we getting there?"

"How long are we staying there?"

"What can we get while there?"

"What is it like?"

Lynx held up his hand to stop the twins from babbling. "We are leaving right now, and depending on how long it takes at Gringotts and getting your school supplies depend on how much free time you get. We are also going by floo"

The twins grumbled at their fathers reply but listened either way.

"Alright using the floo is the same as we used to get here except we have to go one by one and say Diagon Alley."

Once they family arrived in the Leaky Cauldron and were shown how to get passed the brick wall they made their way down the alley heading towards Gringotts. When they arrived they walked towards the main desk.

"Good morning. My name is Lynx Monroe and this is my family. We have an appointment with Wagnok." Lynx looked at the goblin working behind the desk.

"Ahh yes follow me" the goblin got down from his desk and let the Monroe's down a hallway before knocking on a door.

The family entered the room and found a much older and angry looking goblin sitting behind a desk.

"You must be the Monroe family. I will be your family financial advisor while you continuing using Gringotts. Now as I understand all of your family heirlooms, valuable artwork, jewels and gold have been sent over from America, all which is needed is for you to sign these documents to have access to the main family vault." Marissa and Lynx both signed all the documents where needed.

"So that is everything that was of importance but I also understand that you would like to set up trust vaults for both of your children? I must inform you that our trust vault system works different to the other banks in America. I believe in America that there is only one option for the trust vaults, but here in Britain we have many different options." The twins sighed knowing it would be a long afternoon.

The family then spent the hour or so learning about the different trust vault options. In the end twins drowned out the conversation. Eventually the parents came to agreement of how the trust vaults will work.

"Vega, Castor assuming that you would of eventually stopped listening to us after some time. So I will explain to you what your father and I have decided on. We decided to have your full inheritance put into your vault so it can collect its own interest." The twins were excited for only minute when they heard the but.

"But you will be given a monthly allowance but since you are away at school for most of the year, during the summer we visit Diagon Alley to collect your new school supplies we will give you the full years allowance then. Now I must warn you, if you spend all of your money before the year is over that is your own fault. There is a plus side. Any school supplies will come out of the family vault. Is this understandable with you both?" The twins nodded in agreement, they were both trying to work out how much their inheritance was.

After the family went down to the vault collect the needed Galleons for both school supplies and the twins they headed off to Madam Malkin's to get sized up for their robes.

"Welcome, now which school am I sizing you for?"

"Hogwarts" the twins replied. It was at that point that a boy with black hair and grey eyes turned around to take in the twins.

"No offence but you two look to old to be first years and I don't recall seeing you in Gryffindor, so what house are you in?"

This is what the twins had been dreading the last week, running into fellow stupids and having to explain everything. Vega looked at Castor and noticed how uncomfortable he looked. In the end it was Vega that replied.

"Were not currently sorted into any house, were actually transfers from The Salem Institute" Vega walked up to the boy to introduce herself. "My name is Vega Monroe and this is my twin brother Castor"

"Wait are you serious about being a Monroe? My parents have spoken about your family on numerous occasions. Your family is one of the twelve pureblood lines in America, of course there isn't many of you left due to marrying outside pureblood lines."

"Well I guess that could due to us not want to end up marrying some random cousin removed how many times. Some of your pureblood lines might believe in that but ours don't" Castor spoke up this time trying to have some courage.

"Yes I understand where you are coming from, my parents believe in that sort of thing, but I don't. In fact I've been standing up against my family, for generations they have all been sorted into Slytherin but I was sorted into Gryffindor, have made friends with so called blood-traitors and I also get so many detentions that it is a disgrace to the family name. Speaking of which, I never introduced myself, my name is Sirius Black."

"Well, well it is a famous Black standing up against his family, I also believe you are not the only one. We of course know about your pureblood lines, we also know yours consist of more of the darker ones. But if you are rebelling against your family I have to say, that if we both get sorted into Gryffindor we will all get along just fine" Castor shook hands with Sirius while Vega smiled at her brother.

"Mister Black you are finished, if you return in an hour they will be ready." Madam Malkin returned from out the back. "If you stand up there I will start taking your measurements."

As Sirius was leaving the shops he turned around to the twins "See you both at Hogwarts"

The rest of the day went without problems, they didn't run into anymore Hogwarts students that questioned them about it. They were able to collect everything they needed for their classes, as well as the many essentials that first years usually collect, they were grateful that the first year supply list was sent along with their third year one. The twins picked up the required textbooks form Flourish and Botts including their electives, Vega had chosen Ancient Runes, Arithmancy and Care of Magical Creatures, while Castor chose Care of Magical Creatures and Arithmancy.

Once they had collected all the needed school supplies, the twins were allowed to have look in all of the other shops and spend some of their money. They spent a lot of time in Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop and Sugarplum's Sweet Shop. They walked back to the Leaky Cauldron to meet with their parents arm in arm with a bag full of stuff while laughing about their plans for everything.