The Potter Twins: Heroes of Two Different Worlds

Chapter 1: Ten Years Later

Hey guys, Butterlover328 here with the next revised chapter of the Potter Twins!! This one was practically rewritten completely due to the fact that this was the chapter that always made me cringe whenever I read it. I'm sorry that I haven't gotten it out sooner, but I did say it would be a week or two until the next reposted chapter. This one just took the full two weeks. (In my defense, it's exam week this week as well as the end of grading period, so I've had a lot of homework and studying to do to prepare.) Anyways, I know you guys want to get onto the next chapter, so I'll see you guys later. Bye!!

~Butterlover328

"Mom!! Got the mail!!" Percy exclaimed as he entered the shabby apartment, setting down the moving newspaper and a few letters and bills on the counter as he returned home from doing chores for old Mr. Clemons downstairs. He had just turned eleven today, and Smelly Gabe went to Vegas so mother and son could celebrate.

To keep up with things in Magical Britain, Sally had subscribed to the Daily Prophet and was surprised to learn that Percy's twin brother had been lauded as the savior of the Wizarding World, even though he had been an infant when Voldemort was defeated. Sally remembered when Percy had been that young, and couldn't imagine how anyone believed such a wild tale, but nonetheless, she knew that the twins were going to have a difficult time while at Hogwarts.

Percy had taken a while to get used to the idea of magic, but after Sally had shown him a few spells with her wand when he was nine, he had quickly grown to love it. Sally had put him in martial arts to get used to dodging as well as Cub Scouts to learn several skills he would need when he was older, including how to shoot accurately, thankfully with a bebe gun instead of a real one. (She loved her son, but he was a terrible shot. She only hoped that getting a wand would improve it.) She almost couldn't believe how fast he was learning, despite having bad ADHD and Dyslexia, which were unfortunately the perks of being a demigod. When she found out he had accidentally used his magic on his contacts so he could read after being called an idiot by Smelly Gabe and bullies in his third grade school (he was later taken out of that school when he told his mother that there had been a stalker on the playground with one eye watching him), she hugged him and told him that he made her extremely proud, even if he hadn't known what he did until she explained magic to him a year later.

Sally walked into the kitchen and saw her son sitting at the countertop looking through the letters and smiled as she thought about how much he's grown over the years. Percy had grown to be 4'11, a healthy weight and lightly toned. With Percy now able to read easier thanks to his magically altered contacts and help from Sally, he had been doing a lot better in school, soaking in everything he learned and not being afraid to ask his mom to explain something he didn't get. Instead of getting the C's that he had before, Percy had started getting A's and B's, being congratulated by his teachers for "finally taking his academic career seriously". (Sally had wanted to hex his teachers for that comment. He had been trying, but they took one look at his record and dismissed him as a troublemaker that didn't care about learning.)

His raven black hair was being held up from his forehead with his right hand, showing the lightning scar Dumbledore conveniently missed that fateful Halloween night as his eyes scanned the words on the envelopes, his face brightening up when he found the letter she expected to arrive today, his Hogwarts Letter.

"Mom!! It's here!! My Hogwarts letter is here!!" Percy exclaimed, excited to finally get the letter he's waited for the past two years. Sally walked over to the countertop and read the words she expected to appear in emerald green ink.

"Mr. P. Jackson

Ms. Jackson's Apartment

East 104th and 1st