Holly Potter was a strange child. She was a quiet child, but she was smart, almost unnaturally so. Her long black hair always fell loose, covering her pale face, elven features, and big green eyes. Everyone said she was just a bit too beautiful, just a bit too odd, a bit too petite, and her eyes were just a bit too big and green. Her eyes were probably her oddest feature. They weren't the normal, average green, instead, they were a bright, forest green, too saturated to be average. And average was what her relatives strived for.

Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley Dursley tried so hard to be normal, they stood out. Neither adult had so much as a speeding ticket on their record, because 'being unlawful is freakish'. Petunia was a stay at home mother, because 'having a woman work is freakish'. Vernon had a company job, because 'taking risks with jobs is freakish'. No Dursley ever showed their soulmark, because 'showing a soulmark in public is freakish'. And, most importantly, they didn't acknowledge Holly, because 'shoving a unwanted freak off on it's hard-working relatives is freakish'.

Charlie Weasley didn't have the broad shouldered Prewett build, or the tall, lanky Weasley build. No, he didn't have either, he had both. Even as a kid, he towered over his brothers, who were all tall in their own right. He was bullied in Hogwarts for being large. The students all compared him to Hagrid, the lovable, but not very intelligent, half-giant who was expelled from the school in his third year. His only friend, other than his brother, Bill, was Nymphadora Tonks, or Tonks for short. She was also an outcast, because of her abilities as a metamorphagous, a witch or wizard who can transform their bodies at will. However, she wasn't in Gryffindor like him, she was a Hufflepuff.

His family, contrary to Holly's, was large and full of love, but with so many kids, Charlie tended to get lost in the background. He wasn't the oldest, Bill, nor one of the youngest, Ron or Ginny, or even the twins, Fred and George, who had a tendency to be loud and act out to get attention. No-one really noticed when he got his soul mark, except Bill, his best friend.

Hi. Welcome to my new story. I'm working on the cover, but I'm in Spanish class right now, and my teacher doesn't allow phones. Hope you like it!

Jade