They first met in an empty compartment on the Hogwarts express. Percy had just dropped Fred and George off in their own compartment, when another older witch escorted a young girl their age into the same compartment. The older witch was all blonde hair, green eyes, and sour attitude as she deposited her younger sister and her belongings into the compartment, greeted the twins briefly, and hurried off to sit with her own friends. The little sister wasted no time in introducing herself.
"Hello. I'm Cassandra. What are your names?" She asked, hoisting her small frame into the seat across from the twins. She was the opposite of her sister, black hair, pretty gray eyes, and a small smile on her face.
"I'm Fred" He had always been the more brazen and outgoing of the twins. He flashed a bright grin at Cassandra and elbowed his brother.
"I'm George" George was much shier, especially when it came to new people. Granted they were both more outgoing than any of their three older brothers and especially the little one. Ron was such a crybaby that Fred and George could hardly wait to begin their first year at Hogwarts just so they could be away from the constant crying and whining of their two younger siblings. Ron and Ginny were just barely a year apart, which made them nearly equal in how spoiled and squishy they were.
"Nice to meet you" Cassandra kicked her feet in the seat, her short legs just barely able to reach the ground. "Was it your brother that we saw on the way here?"
"Tall, pointy nose, weird glasses?" Fred asked.
Cassandra nodded.
"That's Percy" George nodded. "Our brothers Bill and Charlie are in Hogwarts too. But Bill was busy with his friends and Charlie has prefect stuff to do. So Percy had to make sure we got on the train."
"Was the blonde, sour looking git your sister?" Fred asked impulsively.
Both twins froze, realizing what Fred had just said. To their surprise Cassandra burst into laughter. She wiped tears away from her eyes as her laughter subsided, nodding as she did so.
"That's October. She's just mad that Mother made her walk me onto the train." Cassandra said, grinning at them. "She's a prefect too. What houses are your brothers in?"
"They're all in Gryffindor." Fred said loudly.
"Our parents were in Gryffindor too" George agreed.
"My sister is in Slytherin" Cassandra crinkled her nose. "Father was a Ravenclaw. And my mother went to a school in America"
"So you want to be in Ravenclaw?" George asked, genuinely intrigued by Cassandra.
"Uh huh" Cassandra nodded. "Daddy says I'm smart enough to be in whatever house I want to be. But Mother swears to Merlin I'm a Gryffindor though. Ever since I brought home a spitting turtle."
George and Fred shared a look.
They definitely liked Cassandra.