Everybody was excited for their new year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, some more so than others. For Fred and George Weasley it was the end year to their compulsory schooling which meant they could finally leave the place they were forced to learn things they didn't particularly like or need. And that meant they could eventually open the shop they'd always craved to make a reality.
The twins bundled onto the train along with Harry, Ron and Hermione and were fortunate enough to find the last remaining compartment, as the goodbyes had seemed to have taken much longer than previous occasions because this time it had seemed that half of the Order of the Phoenix was there.
"Oh great, we have to spend the rest of the journey stuck with you lot" Fred groaned giving Hermione a fake disgusted look who just rolled her eyes and took a seat next to the window watching the platform disappear as the train rolled onwards.
"Yeah, great" George droned, slouching in the seat next to Ron.
"Well you don't actually have to sit with us" Hermione said matter of factly and giving the twins a stern look and flicking her hair off her shoulder before returning to look out of the window as the long concrete platform and brick houses were replaced by long stretches of green countryside.
"Well we don't particularly want to sit with you, do we George?" Fred asked, nodding at his twin brother.
"No Fred, but we don't want to miss out on a possible Dementor attack, do we Fred?" George agreed looking over at Harry with a huge grin on his face.
"No George. After all we want to be present when Mr Harry Potter gets expelled from Hogwarts before we do" Fred winked at Harry before receiving a hard smack from Hermione, who'd had just about enough of their remarks towards Harry.
"Do you two ever give it a rest?" Ron asked looking incredulously at his two older brothers.
"No" They said in unison turning to look at each other with huge grins on their faces.
In what seemed like hours later the group stumbled off of the train onto the platform at Hogsmeade, the twins separated from the group as they found their friend Lee Jordan in a group of seventh years talking about what the new Defence Against the Dark Arts might be like, after all they never last longer than a year.
The students filed into the Great Hall half an hour later after getting to the castle on carriages the same old carriages as always, the one that had nothing pulling them although Luna Lovegood had gone on about only seeing what's there if you've seen death and also about Nargles still existing today. Each student took their seat at their individual house tables and turned to look at Professor Dumbledore apart from Fred and George who were animatedly talking about new products for Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.
After the sorting had taken place Dumbledore introduced the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor ("Professor Umbridge"), a short and stout woman dressed from head to toe in pink who wore a small innocent smile, she interrupted him with an high pitched 'hem, hem' and stood in front of the school. After a long speech about Headmasters in the school and how they'd all brought something different to the school she returned to her seat at the professors table at the head of the hall, receiving odd looks from both the students and fellow professors.
Fred and George gave a laugh and something along the lines of her not lasting while they were still in the school and returned to discussing where to test out their portable swamps. Dumbledore returned to his speech to the school, to which the twins ignored.
"And now for some new students" Dumbledore announced rubbing his hands together, all the students in the hall looked up at the head master confused as the sorting had already taken place before gesturing towards the doors to the Great Hall, which swung open at his command. Two young girls strode down the hall, everyone's heads turned to face the young girls at once, they stopped as they reached the head of the hall where Dumbledore was standing.
"This Ladies and Gentlemen is Beau and Ava Adleman" he announced as the girls turned to face the school. One girl smiled sweetly while the other smirked slyly. The two girls had one thing in common and that was that they were both tall; near to 6ft but apart from that they looked completely different. One was incredibly pale with short slender black hair and slimmer and more defined features, this girl wore a menacing look and stood very stern and upright . Whereas the other wasn't as pale as her sibling and had long wild blonde hair that was coloured a mixture of purple and turquoise; something the school had never seen before and to which Hermione reacted as expected ("That shouldn't be allowed and besides it looks like someone's jinxed her hair" she said incredulously") this girl was a lot curvier than the other and smiled brightly at the students in front of her.
"Are they sisters?" Ron asked looking intently at the two girls in front of him.
"Well Ronald I guess they are seen as they both have the same surname" she said with a tut and shook her head.
"As the sorting ceremony is traditionally for first years and seen as these two young ladies are fifth years" To which Hermione gave a small happy squeal and Ron looked positively excited at the prospect of two new females to their year who did not know he was a total moron when it came to girls "They have been previously sorted"
Ron turned to the Gryffindor table and smirked at his twin brothers who merely shook their heads.
"No chance" They said in unison laughing off the fact that their little brother thought he had a chance with either of the two girls.
"Beau will be situated in the Slytherin house" Dumbledore smiled gesturing to the scarier of the two girls and pointing to the cheering table in which a smug Draco Malfoy wolf whistled at the approaching girl.
"And Ava" he turned smiling broadly and the other girl and patting her on the shoulder "Will be warmly invited into the Gryffindor house" The whole house erupted into cheers as the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws looked on miserably because they weren't getting a new addition to their houses.
"That's weird" Harry said to Ron.
"What's weird?" Ron said clapping loudly and watching the girl take a seat next to Hermione and an excited Lavender Brown.
"Sisters being split into opposite houses, especially Gryffindor and Slytherin" Harry mused looking over at the new addition and deciding not to think about it too much.
