Geminus

Prologue

"Crucio."

As the screams echoed around the room the few remaining Death Eaters cringed inwardly from the anger radiating from Voldemort.

"What are you trying to tell me Wormtail; there is a way that Black can return?"

The limp figure on the floor struggled to stand and finally settled on sitting up.

"Yes, my lord. And if he does...."

"I am fully aware of the implications Wormtail but I was led to believe that the Geminus family were no more."

As Voldemort said this, the Death Eater who supplied this information looked for an escape route and, realising there was none, fell to Voldemort's feet.

"Forgive me, my lord. My sources...."

"Crucio."

As the screams faded away Voldemort turned to address his followers.

"I trust none of you plan to fail me as Graggby has. I want to know where the Geminus family are hiding and now."

With Voldemort's words the Death Eaters, including Graggby, Apparated. This left only Wormtail to face Voldemort's wrath. Surprisingly a smirk flitted across Voldemort's face.

"Well Wormtail, again you continue to serve me most faithfully. Your information is ... most interesting."

"But my lord, what if Siri ... I mean Black returns?"

"He will not, I will see to that. Looks like soon there will be one less wizarding family standing in my way."

Chapter 1

"Jenna, will you hurry up?"

Kara sighed as she waited in the entrance hall for her twin. 'Thank god I didn't get the lateness gene as well,' she mused.

"I wish I was going."

Kara's brother Jacob pouted. He was sitting on the stairs looking longingly at Kara's trunk.

"You have your NEWTs already and besides you would have to do work and I know how much you hate that."

A smile played across Kara's lips as her brother scowled. He was too easy to wind up.

"Don't know what you are worrying about. We are Apparating there anyway."

Kara looked exasperatingly at her sister as she headed down the stairs, her belongings floating in front of her.

Looking at the two girls an outsider wouldn't believe they were twins. Kara, currently dressed in tight jeans and a skinny top, had long brown-red hair which hung in loose curls. She had a naturally curvy figure. Jenna, on the other hand, was wearing loose jeans and a Chudley Cannons T-shirt and had long blond-brown layered hair, which framed her face. She wore small, thin framed, oval glasses, which were red in honour of their Gryffindor hopes. She was naturally slim but was well toned thanks to Quidditch.

Jenna grinned at her sister, annoying her was her second favourite past time next to annoying her brother.

"You said goodbye to Mum and Dad?"

"Yes Jacob, last night as they had to get to work this morning. You going to give us a hug?"

Jacob hugged his sisters and stepped back as they gathered their things.

"Ready Kara?"

"Yep."

There was a loud crack and Jacob was left standing in the entrance hall alone.

"I definitely wish I was going."

The twins appeared in an alleyway next to Kings Cross Station. Grabbing their belongings, they headed inside.

"So platform 9 ¾?"

"Yeah that's the one. Well here's 9 and 10. I don't see anyone else with an owl though."

Jenna looked down at her eagle owl, Nicodemus, and then glanced up and down the platforms.

"There."

Kara pointed at a silver headed boy who was walking between what could only be described as two goons. Before Jenna could react Kara had stepped up to the boy and was talking to him. 'Typical,' she thought as she rolled her eyes and headed towards them, 'trust Kara to find an attractive lad to chat up before we even get there.'

"I'm Draco. This is Crabbe and Goyle. You seem a little old to be starting Hogwarts?"

"Well we are, the genius of private schooling allows us to enter the sixth year."

Kara shot a look at Jenna then turned to smile at Draco.

"Ignore my sister; sarcasm seems to be a problem of hers. So what house are you in?"

"Slytherin."

"Oh."

The smile faded on Kara's lips but she quickly recovered and put on her best flirtatious look.

"So can you show us how to get on to platform 9 ¾?"

"Of course, follow me."

"Thank god we lost that Slytherin jerk. I suddenly love prefects."

"Shame, he was gorgeous."

"Kara! Honestly you are terrible. Look this is the last carriage, if it's not empty we will have to just share."

As Jenna slid back the door, three pairs of eyes turned to meet her: two brown and one bright green.

"Hi."

"Hi, can we share this carriage?"

"Sure, I'm Ginny Weasley. This is Neville Longbottom and Harry Potter."

"I'm Jenna Geminus and this is my sister Kara."

As the girls sat down they performed the instinctive flick of the eyes up to Harry's scar causing him to smile slightly.

"I don't recognise you two but you don't seem like 1^st years."

Jenna smiled.

"I guess we are going to have to explain this a lot. My sister and I were privately schooled in Ireland up to OWL level thanks to the wonder of Lord Voldemort...."

"You're n-n-not scared to say h-his name?"

Neville looked at the twins, his eyes wide with fear. Kara just shrugged.

"Our parents say it so I guess we never learned to be scared of it."

"Anyway," continued Jenna, "now he is considered 'officially' back our parents decided Hogwarts was the safest place for us."

The conversation was interrupted at the appearance of the sweet trolley. After everyone bought what seemed enough sweets to last them a week, the conversation restarted.

"So what house are you three in?"

"Gryffindor."

"Cool, that's the one we hope to be in. So are any of you on the Quidditch team?"

At this Harry's eyes lit up and soon he, Jenna and Ginny were involved in a deep discussion about Quidditch. As Kara turned to talk to Neville, two new arrivals entered the carriage.

"Hey guys ... oh, who are you?"

"Hermione and Ron, this is Kara and Jenna Geminus."

Jenna smiled at them before returning to the Quidditch talk, which Ron soon joined. After Kara explained herself to Hermione the talk turned to school.

"So what NEWTS are you taking?"

"Potions, Defence against the Dark Arts, Charms, Transfiguration and Arithmancy. Jenna's taking them same except for Care of Magical Creatures instead of Arithmancy."

"Similar to me, Harry and Ron then. So I take it you are not into Quidditch?"

The look on Hermione's face clearly showed that she wasn't.

"I don't mind it. I'm not too bad at it either but my sis is crazy about it as you can tell."

"So what grades did you two get for your OWLS?"

"Both got O's and E's."

"Well, beautiful and smart!"

Draco smirked as he leaned against the doorframe of the carriageway. Crabbe and Goyle stayed looming behind.

"Shame you can't choose your friends better, Mudbloods and Weasels...."

Ron and Harry flew to their feet but before they could do anything Jenna and Kara had pointed their wands at Draco.

"Impacto."

Draco flew backwards into Crabbe and Goyle and they fell in to a tangled heap outside the carriage.

"Well done."

Hermione was grinning as she shut the door on the three Slytherins' feet. Ron laughed as he sat back down.

"That was bloody brilliant; you two are definitely one of us."

Chapter 2

Walking into the Great Hall was daunting enough for Kara and Jenna but it got worse when their new friends left to sit at their table.

"Let's just hang at the back."

"Absolutely."

After the sorting of the 1^st years, Dumbledore stood up and addressed the students.

"Welcome all, to what I hope will be another wonderful year at Hogwarts. We have the pleasure of two transfer students this year, Jenna and Kara Geminus. They were previously at a private school in Ireland and have joined us for their NEWTS; I know you will make them feel welcome."

With this speech all eyes turned to the twins who uncomfortably made their way up to the sorting hat.

"First they will be sorted, then after an announcement we can eat."

Jenna stepped up and Professor McGonagall placed the hat on her head.

"Hmm, now what do we have here?"

"Gryffindor ... please Gryffindor."

"As you wish ... GRYFFINDOR!"

Jenna grinned as she ran over to join Harry and co. Kara stepped up, her heart pounding.

"Now this is interesting, the brains for Ravenclaw, and the cunning for Slytherin although...."

"I want Gryffindor."

"Yes alright I was getting to that ... GRYFFINDOR!"

If felt as if a huge weight had been lifted as Kara ran over to join her sister.

"Yes, yes well done. Now I have two more announcements. First we have a TA this year- I'm sure you remember Oliver Wood?"

The Gryffindor table erupted as a good-looking boy headed up to sit as the main table. Jenna leaned back in her seat to check out the new arrival, 'he's kind of cute for a TA,' thought Jenna. Kara looked her sister, 'Oh no, she's found her crush.' At that moment her sister fell back off her seat onto the stone floor, the hall erupted in laughter and so did Jenna, Kara simply rolled her eyes, 'Yep definitely found her crush.'

Jenna was too busy laughing at herself and didn't notice that the good-looking lad Oliver Wood had stopped in his tracked and turned around to help her up.

"You ok?" asked Oliver extending a hand to help her to her feet.

"I'm fine; it's only my arse I hurt."

Oliver helped her to her feet and she dusted the back of her robes before meeting the eyes of her helper, she was momentarily lost for words. 'Say something cool you freak, don't just stare.'

"Mr Wood, Miss Geminus," interrupted Dumbledore.

"Sorry," muttered Jenna and Oliver, neither knew why they were apologising so they both returned to their seats, Oliver to the head table and Jenna to her seat next to her sister at the Gryffindor table.

Once everyone was seated and quiet Dumbledore continued with his announcement.

"Also, as you may have noticed, the Defence against the Dark Arts chair is empty; due to the full moon it was felt best that Professor Lupin...."

Before Dumbledore could finish three of the tables in the Great Hall were cheering and clapping.

"I can see this announcement pleases most of you and I am sure that Professor Lupin would be glad to hear he got such a warm welcome and on that note I only have two more words to say: Perlabor pallium. Now let the feast begin."

Jenna and Kara exchanged worried looks. Kara shook her head at her sister to ignore it and both were gob smacked when food materialise in great quantities on to their plates.

"Oh my..." exclaimed Kara.

"Cool," came her sister's reply as she looked at the heavily laden table.

After the feast ended, Hermione and Ron stood and went to escort the Gryffindor 1^st years to the dorm. Jenna was talking to Ginny about Oliver Wood so, shaking her head in amusement, Kara wandered over to Harry.

"Hi."

"Hi ... Kara?"

"Yeah, so how was your summer?"

Harry winced and Kara realised, with horror, what she had said.

"Oh god, I'm so sorry! Look, Dumbledore told me and Jenna during the summer what has been happening so...."

Kara looked so worried as she trailed off that Harry couldn't help but laugh.

"It's ok really. It's nice that you are being normal around me. Ron and Hermione are still trying to be 'careful'."

As they headed upstairs the talk became more relaxed until it felt like they had known each other for years.

"... and then he turned Malfoy into a ferret?"

"Yeah, even I thought he was cute then!"

They were still laughing as they reached the portrait of the Fat Lady.

"Password?"

"Err...."

The portrait swung back as Ron stuck his head out.

"There you two are, the password is animagus."

When the sixth year Gryffindors entered the common room it was to find a group of fifth and seventh year girls gathered around Oliver Wood.

"Hey Oliver, how's it going?" called Harry and Wood manage to disengage from the fifth and seventh Year girls.

Jenna rolled her eyes at the group of girls before starting to unbutton her school robes in the middle of a crowded common room.

"Jenna what are you doing?" asked her sister.

"Shedding some layers," she replied as she removed her robes to reveal her jeans and Chudley Cannons Quidditch top.

"Much better."

Jenna flung her robes onto the back of an occupied armchair causing it's occupant a fourth year dark haired female to glare at Jenna before returning back to her conversation with her fellow fourth years.

"Hi Harry, thought I'd come and visit the old place, I'm the new TA, I'll be working with Lupin and Madam Hooch this year, let us know if you need a hand with tactics, although I heard you managed quite well last year, with what you had."

"Yeah but Dumbledore has sorted it and my ban's been lifted so I'm back on the team this year, we're down 3 Chasers, although Ginny is more than likely to fill one of those and we could do with a couple of decent Beaters."

"Who's captain this year?"

"Not sure yet, probably either me or Ron, I'd prefer if it was Ron he's better with plays and strategies and stuff."

"I'm sure you'll do fine, let me know if you need a hand, I'll be more than happy to see a Gryffindor win again," said Wood, "Excuse me a minute Harry."

Wood added spotting Jenna chatting to Lavender, Parvati and Kara and made a beeline for them.

Wood tapped Jenna on the shoulder and Kara gave her an unneeded nudge in the ribs.

"You're a Cannons Fan then," said Wood as Jenna turned to face him.

"Take it you're not?"

"No I'm a Puddlemere United Fan myself, although I may be a bit biased."

"How so?"

"Want to go over there and chat?"

Wood pointed to a quiet corner in the common room instead of answering her question, Kara gave her sister an encouraging nudge forwards.

"Quit it," mumbled Jenna to her sister before turning to answer Oliver.

"Yeah sure."

With that Jenna and Oliver went into a corner and started a debate on the various Quidditch teams. 'Dear god,' Kara thought, 'Quidditch again.' She looked around for somewhere to sit.

"Over here."

Harry called her over. He was playing Wizard's Chess with Ron and Hermione was looking on.

"Right and I can sit where?"

"Here."

Harry moved over on his armchair allowing Kara to sit down, admittedly half on Harry's lap. Ron and Hermione exchanged looks; it looked like Cho was well and truly forgotten.