Tom's Triplets and the Sorcerer's Stone.
I own nothing except Lynn Hileodkins. One of my friends owns Liza and another owns Darrissa.
The day was warm and humid due to the nonstop rain the past week and the fact that its summer, more specifically it's four days after three little girls whose very existence will change the fate of the Wizarding world to great extremes. Today is being focused on for now because it's the day their mothers heart stops beating, and they are put up for adoption being named by the people in charge of the orphanage they were born in since their mother passed out after the births and never woke up again.
One month after their birth the eldest girl, named Liza Hileodkins, was adopted by the Malfoys who made her last name a middle one, the youngest child, named Darrissa Hileodkins, was adopted little over a week later by a very light family who didn't change the last name but added theirs to it. The middle daughter, whose name is Susanna Hileodkins, never was adopted. She grows up in the Orphanage like her father with an exception. Her father was raised muggle, she's raised wizard.
As they grow up their abilities either; flourish, are hidden away, or are suppressed. For even by Wizarding standards the abilities these girls have are just plain strange. But about ten years of living not knowing of each other, minus Susanna, they finally meet one another, As well as the boy-who-lived.
Chapter one Diagon Alley
Susanna threads through the crowd skillfully leaving behind the group of older or younger orphans here for shopping for the school year and supplies. Already having the money one of the adults brought to purchase items with in hand she knows her lack of presence will be noticed and they will all be relieved until she returns.
Occasionally picking pockets as she walks Susanna makes it to Ollivanders wand shop at the same time as a pale girl with the same blue eyes as herself. Having seen pictures of her sisters, albeit they were less than a year old at the time, Susanna easily figures out which one she is. "Hello, your first year to Hogwarts as well I take it?" Susanna asks already knowing the answer. The other girl seems startled at Susanna speaking to her so forwardly and holding Ollivander's door open for her.
Stepping through the doorway she nods looking around at all the different wands. Frowning for a moment Susanna decides to try to get her twin to say something by holding out a hand letting the door close as she asks, "I'm Susanna, but most I get to know call me Na, what's your name?"
The girl looks Susanna up and down as though thinking of the possible ups and downs of befriending her, "Liza Hileodkins-Malfoy. Pleasure to meet you, I'm sure." She finally says just as Ollivander reveals himself.
"Ah, hello, I've been expecting you. Though I admit, I was expecting the third to be with you as well but I am sure she'll arrive before the day is out. Hold out your wand hand." Both the girls do as asks holding out their right hand, though Liza holds out both. "Ambidextrous, uncommon but it narrows down the search for your proper wand considerably." Ollivander comments waving his hand causing two measuring tapes to start measuring what seems to be as much of the two as possible.
After a few minutes the tape stops and the old shop keeper hands Liza a wand describing it as she accepts and uses it to blow several wands out of their place, "Quite all right," he reassures her, "this is why I don't bother organizing."
She ends up going through about half the store before she finally finds her own; a stiff red oak wand that is ten inches long, with a Unicorn hair core.
Next is Susanna ending up going through twice as many. She ends up with a flexible yew wand with Basilisk venom core and it is eleven inches long. "Do you also sell holsters?" Susanna asks the old wizard tucking her wand behind her ear temporarily.
"Yes but hardly anyone ever asks, so they're just about as old as I am." He responds slightly surprised.
"So long as they're still in usable condition," Apparently Ollivander had placed a stasis spell on them because they appear brand new. The holsters are also charmed to match whatever colors the user wants them to have so they can change to fit the setting, their favorite color, or their house.
The two leave the shop with their wands hidden away on Susanna's left arm and Liza's right. They head over to Madam Malkins Robes For All Occasions passing by a small boy with messy hair and startlingly bright green eyes, and a lean girl that resembles Lynn and Liza. Lynn of course relieves the girl of a few galleons. As the shop assistants are working while the two stand on stools Liza starts the conversation, "Which house do you think you'll end up in?"
"Slytherin. With the way I am the Puffs would fear me, Claws would try to get me to study more than what's necessary, and don't even get me started on the Lions." Susanna states, "What of you?"
"I'm hoping for Ravenclaw, no matter what you may say about them it should prove interesting and my fellow house mates would likely be able to answer any questions I have." The discussion continues, albeit it looks and sounds more like a debate with every passing second, throughout their entire shopping trip. Susanna buys them both some Ice cream with the extra money she collected knowing her group would take a few hours longer when they change topic.
"How did you end up with more money than when you started?"
Lynn bites into her ice cream buying a bit of time to think on what to say, "The bag is from Gringotts, it magically refills itself." Liza clearly doesn't buy the excuse but doesn't press further, if Susanna doesn't want to talk about it she doesn't have to.
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September first, Hogwarts Express:
Liza and Na met up long before the train left and found themselves a compartment. Liza decided to read one of her books as Susanna watches the crowd through the window. Shortly before the train is scheduled to leave the messy haired boy opens the door, "Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to disturb you."
"It's fine," Na says not looking away from the window, "Go ahead and sit down, just close the compartment please."
The boy comes in and Liza uses her wand to assist him in getting his luggage up, "Thank you, I'm Harry by the ways, Harry Potter." Liza seems excited but all Lynn does is raise an eyebrow and turn her attention to him.
"Liza Hiloedkins-Malfoy, pleasure to make your acquaintance Mr. Potter." Liza holds out her hand and Harry takes it.
"Two last names?" Harry asks her.
"I was adopted by the Malfoys, when they told me I was given the choice of using the name the Orphanage gave me." She responds as Harry nods getting it now.
"May as well let you know who I am, Susanna Hileodkins, call me Na. I still live in the Orphanage." Liza's jaw drops at finding out she has a sister, "If you keep your mouth open bugs will fly in." Liza promptly shuts her mouth blushing lightly in embarrassment.
"You didn't seem surprised about me, why is that?"
"I look through the records whenever the Orphanage master is too inebriated to notice a Death Eater attack right in front of him." Harry winces at the drunken comment. "What's with you?" Na asks already certain of the answer.
"Nothing," Harry says a little too quickly, "Just can't wait to get to Hogwarts." Na nods arranging her expression to seem as though she believes that it was nothing.
A few minutes later the door slams open letting in the girl Na had relieved of galleons, "Harry! I've been everywhere for you."
"Oh yeah, just come barging in like some barbarian why don't you." Na mutters.
"Try saying that to my face." She growls threateningly.
"Oh, I'm sorry. You want to know that you're nothing but a homo habilis only now discovering your opposable thumbs?" Na puts emphasis on the word 'want'. The sentence makes the girl blink in confusion, "Off scorings of carbon and Oxygen says what?"
"What?" Liza and Susanna high five and Harry looks concerned that the two parties he has befriended won't get along.
"Darrissa, this is Susanna and Liza. Guys this is my friend Darrissa, I met her in Diagon Alley." Harry introduces them hoping it will distract from the insults.
"Any friend of Harry's is a friend of mine, nice to meet you Darrissa." Liza politely helps Harry turning instead to her sister, "Na, stop insulting people with words they don't understand."
"But if I continue it may someday turn them to a dictionary."
"You know that won't work."
"I live in hope." Na finishes the dialogue dramatically.
After many insults, bribes, and different forms of coercion they finally get her to sit down and close the door. Afterwards the only times they were disturbed was when Draco showed up, getting shot down in a rather unique yet Slytherin way, and when a Ron Weasley opens the door claiming that all the other compartments are taken. Oh, yes, and when the Trolley came by.
Before they knew it they were getting sorted. Liza, standing to the left and slightly behind Na, is smiling disconcertingly at Dumbledore. Harry is trying not to appear nervous as he stands to the right and slightly behind Na. Darrissa is openly glaring at Susanna from the right of Harry. Na appears nonchalant and relaxed as she stares knowingly into Dumbledore's eyes which lack their usual sparkle.
The tension between the group and the Headmaster goes uncommented as the sorting goes on.
Darrissa is the first to come up and speak with the hat. "Well, what do we have here, someone who shall change everything for Dumbledore's plans for Potter?"
Darrissa sends a question to the hat unsure of how to communicate with it but the hat responds, "I cannot tell you, but what I can is your house. Now let's see here. Not loyal enough for Hufflepuff, Don't have the thirst for knowledge for Ravenclaw, too headstrong for Slytherin, only place for you is GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouts the last bit and she heads over to the proper table, which is clapping the loudest.
Dumbledore raises an eyebrow at this and next up is Susanna who confidently approaches the hat not showing any emotion. "Hello, does such an old and wise magical object have a name?" she asks.
"You know, you're the first one since the founders left to ask that. My name is Magister."
"Really? You realize how close that is to Magic user right? It's only missing a few letters."
"Gryffindor is the one that named me, blame him. Right, now onto sorting you… I can't believe this, you only fit into one house, this never happens!"
"Which would that be?"
"SLYTHERIN!" The hat shouts and the hall claps as Dumbledores expression steeps further to the dark side and she walks to her table.
Several unimportant people follow this until we reach Liza who goes to Ravenclaw after threatening the Hat with several creative muggle ways of permanently removing him from existence. The final person we will pay attention to during the sorting is Harry Potter.
A grand total of three people don't start murmuring when his name is called out, all have gotten to know he's not what rumors crack him up to be. Na gives him a reassuring smile when he glances to her seat letting him know that she doesn't care where he goes.
"Hmm, difficult, very difficult. You, Mr. Potter, could easily go into any one of the four houses. You have the loyalty of Hufflepuff, the urge to learn for Ravenclaw, the cunning for Slytherin, and the courage for Gryffindor. You would do well in all three so I must leave the choice up to you."
"I could go into any of them? Which one would Lynn approve of the most?"
"I would say Hufflepuff because she doesn't have a hand in there yet, but she does in the other three. So is that where you wish to go?"
Harry hesitates thinking of the potential consequences, "Yes, I will be her hold in Hufflepuff."
"As you wish, I think you'll find that where you will prosper most is HUFFLEPUFF!" Harry removes the hat and looks to Na as she nods her approval before he hands the hat back to McGonagall and skitters off to his table.
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The next day Susanna and Liza arrive in the Great Hall at the same time, before anyone else, they decide to sit at the Ravenclaw table having already figured out it's the most neutral. After a few moments Dumbledore comes in, looks at them, pales remembering something from long ago, and sits at his seat. After this other students file in mostly from Slytherin and Ravenclaw. Soon Hufflepuffs, including Harry, are among the student coming in for breakfast. Once he sees the two he comes over and sits on Na's right since Liza is already on her left.
The last ones to arrive, and are also the most asleep, are the Gryffindors. Darrissa comes over and sits opposite Harry. "So, we're related." She says grabbing some eggs and bacon.
"You were not aware? Not terribly surprising since Light family's have the tendency of keeping important facts away from people who need to know." Susanna responds after swallowing her French toast.
Darrissa growls as Liza reminds Na, "You told us yourself that you only knew of us after peeking into the records."
"True, but did either of you think to go back to Gringotts and get a family tree done?" After Liza and Darrissa both shake their heads Na gets a piece of parchment out of her bag. Laying it out on the table she taps the parchment with her wand muttering, "Reveal your secrets." To make ink lines fill up the paper. Black for muggles, purple for squibs, and red for magic users, the shade depends on how much magic they could use. At the bottom of the tree is three names attached to two names that aren't linked.
"These are the three of us," Na says pointing at the ones on the bottom, "And these are our parents, they never married so they aren't linked like the ones above our mother." Their mother is a pale red with dates marking birth to death, above her are numerous purple names that are all deceased as well as dead black names. Their father on the other hand is a very vivid red with a birth date and a question mark as though it's not sure.
Above his name are two others that are dashed meaning they might have been at one point. The female side is a red purple and the male is a blackish purple.
"Why is Tom with a question mark?" Liza asks apparently having finished studying the tree for now.
"The Goblins said it's because he's in between life and death, he's either in a coma or he's nothing more than a wraith trying to gain a new body." Na responds and Liza writes a few things down using a muggle pencil and lined paper, probably to research later.
"Hey, look at who's on top." Darrissa points to a pair of names that happen to be very famous. These names are Salazar Slytherin and Helga Hufflepuff. "I thought Slytherin was with Ravenclaw."
"Apparently legends mixed with History at some point making things incorrect. Probably after some war, after all, 'History is written by the victors,'" Liza states gazing at the parchment.
The conversation is cut short because Susanna restores the charm making all the parchment blank and stuffing it into her bag. "We'll continue this later."
"Good morning students, why aren't three of you at your house table?" Professor Flitwick asks handing Liza her schedule.
"We thought it would be alright what with the Hat talking about House unity." Na says smiling in a disarming way. Flitwick nods and continues on his way.
In less than a minute Snape, McGonagall, and Sprout all come up, ask the same thing being given the same response, and hand over schedules.
Potions, Transfiguration, DADA, and Herbology are classes that Gryffindor share with Slytherin and Ravenclaw share with Hufflepuff. History of Magic, and Charms are between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw and the Slytherin with Hufflepuff. Study hall and Astronomy is Gryffindor with Hufflepuff and Slytherin with Ravenclaw.
"It seems as though the staff actually wants violence between Gryffindors and Slytherins." Liza points out once everyone has their schedules and has had a chance to look at it.
"One would think that if they really want house unity that they would either separate the two houses or get rid of the system entirely." Na says grabbing her bag. "Come on Darrissa, any longer and we'll be late for Double Potions."
"But I just got here!" Darrissa exclaims in disbelief.
"Not my problem, should've gotten here sooner." Na walks off making her run to catch up.
"We should be heading off to Transfiguration as well, come on I was given a map to all the first year classes." Liza says getting up and waiting the few seconds for Harry to get his stuff before walking off.
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A/N: End Chapter one as well as the prologue/summary thing at the very beginning. What do you all think? Good, bad, continue, has potential?