"What a sweet girl our little Rae is! Aye, she's always been a good lass!" is the praise that Rae would receive from her muggle adoptive parents. But what they really meant was that Rae was a quiet young thing who never did much of anything.

Rae was born to a young single mother who was a witch, but also could not afford to keep her child. Knowing no other family, not even the father of her child, Rae was left on a doorstep of a church and soon taken into an orphanage. When she was still just a baby, she was adopted by the Hart family who had no idea that she was a young witch, and so Rae grew up knowing nothing of magic, but always feeling quite different.

She had a good life, she supposed. Her family moved quite a bit throughout Britain, but she never really stayed all that long in one spot. She didn't mind, though, as she found it difficult to make friends. There was always something that made her stand-offish and shy.

And it wasn't until one day when an old brown owl was hooing at her door with a letter in its beak that she realized why. She can honestly say that getting accepted into Hogwarts made her the happiest that she's ever been in her young life.