Wizards of Waverly Place "Premise"

Wizards of Waverly Place centers on the Italian-Mexican Russo family, which lives on Waverly Place in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood. The family consists of siblings Justin(David Henrie), his younger sister Alex (Selena Gomez), and their younger brother Max (Jake T. Austin). The three Russo siblings are wizards in training and live with their Italian-Americanfather Jerry (David DeLuise), a former wizard, and their Mexican-American mother, Theresa(María Canals Barrera) who is a mortal. When they all complete their wizard training, the three siblings will participate in a competition to decide who will become the family wizard of their generation and keep their powers forever while the others will lose their powers for good and become mortal. Because of this, Jerry tries to teach the children not to become dependent on magic, as two of them will not have them after coming of age. While living in the mortal word, the siblings are required to keep their powers a secret, though Alex's best friend Harper (Jennifer Stone) found out about the Russos' secret in the Season 2 episode "Harper Knows".