What we can't see

Magic really does exist.

No, not the fake magic, when people pull rabbits out of hats; but I mean real magic.

You Muggles love watching movies, so I would be correct in assuming that you have seen Chris Columbus’ version of J.K. Rowling’s, Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone?

Hardly anyone in your world know that this story really did happen and those characters really do exist.

You see about four years ago, an author, who also went to Hogwarts when she was younger, (JK Rowling) heard of how Harry Potter, the boy who lived, didn’t know he was a wizard and how he saved the world from you-know-who – what? You don’t know, who you-know-who is? Well I suppose I could tell you, just this once. Voldemort, there don’t make me say it again.

Anyway, where was I? Ah, yes, well J.K decided to sell a story about Harry Potter to the Muggles. She had to do a lot of arguing with Fudge, the minister of Magic, to let her. But in the end she won and published the story, which was a huge success surprisingly. She has written a story about each of Harry’s years at Hogwarts so far and they have made a movie about the Philosophers Stone, luckily you Muggles are closed minded and don’t believe anything if you can’t see it.

When will you learn that, just because you can’t see something, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist?

My name is Caroline Malfoy. You may have heard of my cousin, Draco Malfoy, the bad guy of Hogwarts?

Not only do I attend Hogwarts, but so does my cousin (from my mother’s side) Tom Felton, yes the Tom Felton.

Tom and myself are both Gryffindors, much to my parents delight. They can’t stand anything to do with Draco’s parents, and therefore cannot stand Draco. We are all in the same year, which is a pretty big coincidence, for three cousins to be in the same year at school.

When we first started we met Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley on the train there. As soon as I introduced myself to Ron, he assumed I was Draco’s twin sister, the horror, because of my looks. (Pale, White-blonde hair, grey eyes, sharp features, the fact that we’re both part Veela.) To say that he didn’t like me at first would be a lie; he hated me, and didn’t give me a chance to explain that I was nothing like Draco. But when I got into Gryffindor he started to figure out that maybe I wasn’t that bad, thankfully, and he gave me a chance to explain. When Ron finally realized that I was the complete opposite of Draco, we became best friends, we became the ‘famous four’. Then on Halloween night someone let a troll in and me, Harry, Ron and Tom had to save Hermione from being killed in the girls bathroom. From then on she became part of our ranks and we became the ‘famous five’. We did everything together, watched Quidditch matches, cheered Harry on when Gryffindor were playing and got into plenty of scrapes together. Draco, being who he was, spent the majority of his time throwing insults at us, trying to get us into trouble at every opportunity. But Tom and me knew him better, he was jealous.

Mine and Draco’s parents never really got along with each other but occasionally they are forced to see each other, like family reunions. During these we are forced to be in the company of Draco for longer than five minutes. He’s never really had real friends like us; his ‘friends’ were more like business associates rather than people he could talk to about problems and anything else. It’s hard to believe that we’re even related; all three of our personalities are different. Myself being most outgoing, wearing clothes other people frown upon, bending the rules to suit my advantage, charming certain people to get what I want from them. Harry once said that I’d do well in Slytherin with Draco, but I soon shut him up, I chucked a pillow at him and started a huge pillow fight.

Tom is more like Hermione, with a bit of Ron throw in there too. He’s a straight-A student, who doesn’t really agree that we should try and break Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs’ record for most rules broken, which we are ten away from beating I might add. He’s also got a temper that is incredibly short, if he’s feeling incredibly grouchy it only takes the smallest thing to annoy him, that’s why it’s best to avoid him first thing on a morning, at least until he’s had two cups of coffee, that is.

And Draco, well Draco is cold hearted, jealous, even shorter temper than Tom, and stuck up. He likes to rub it in people’s faces, just because his parents are rich, big deal. I’m a Malfoy too, and my personal Gringotts account is bigger than most families, and Tom’s is just as big, if not bigger, what with all the royalties he’s acquired over the years from acting. We just don’t like to show it all off, I’m saving most of mine for when I get older and I’m going to buy a big house with huge grounds, not as big as Malfoy Manor though, maybe the same size as the Malfoy estate where I live. The rest of my money I like to spend on my friends, although most of them won’t let me buy something for them outright so I slyly buy them elaborate gifts for Christmas, Easter, birthdays and whatever else happens to pop up. Don’t get me wrong I love to shop; it’s an addiction, a drug. If I see something I like I just have to have it. Which probably explains why my closet is bigger than all the girls’ in my dormitory combined.

Anyway I’m getting lost again aren’t I?

The reason none of you Muggles, have read about me, Tom, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, in the books is because the publishers thought it would be best for them not to include us in the books. The things that the books say Harry, Ron, and Hermione did, actually did happen they just missed out the fact that there were two, sometimes more, people involved. Not to mention people would find it a bit suspicious if they were reading, what they thought was a fantasy book, and suddenly Tom Felton pops up out of nowhere.

That’s why I’m writing this, to let Muggles know that they are closed mined about things and should realize that there’s more than meets the eye.