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Chapter 1

Aries POV

I couldn't believe it was finally time for me to go to Hogwarts, I was so excited.

"Princess calm down, you're going to make yourself sick." Dad spoke but I continued to bounce up and down on the spot while we waited for the Weasley family to turn up and join us.

It didn't matter if I only saw Fred and George a couple of days ago, it was finally time for us to go to Hogwarts and we couldn't wait. After all the stories we've heard from his brother's, we were so excited for it.

We had heard even stories from our parents and it was the stories we heard from my parents that had us the most excited, we had heard about all the secrets that Hogwarts housed and we wanted to be able to find them just like my parents had.

"I can't, I'm so excited. I finally get to go to Hogwarts!" I spoke while bouncing up and down causing my parents to just laugh at me and I frowned.

"Why can't I go to Hogwarts," my brother complained and I looked at him.

"Because you're too young," I poked my tongue at him.

"Mummy…" he whined and I received a look from my mum.

"Baby you are too young, you have to wait a few more years before you can join your sister at Hogwarts and Aries you shouldn't tease your brother like that."

"We've been telling him for a week that he can't go but yet he still questions it…look there they are!" I pointed to where I spotted the Weasley family walk through the barrier before running towards them knowing I couldn't get yelled at for anything else this way.

"Are you excited Aries?" Charlie questioned and I gave him a grin before looking at Fred and George and they grinned as well and I could see Charlie slowly battle with the idea of the three of us being at Hogwarts together.

"I am, really excited. I'm going to have so much fun with Fred and George." I grinned at him and he shook his head.

They had now all discovered just how much like my parents we were, whenever Fred and George was at our house for the day we usually did something that caused trouble. Dad and Moony usually found it funny while mum was unsure sometimes, if mum was yelling at what we did then we knew we were in trouble.

"Please tell me those three aren't actually old enough to start at Hogwarts for another two years and I'm being tricked right now," Charlie looked at our parents, pleading with them causing the twins and I to start laughing.

"Charlie you will enjoy having your brothers and Aries at Hogwarts with you, you love them both." Molly spoke and Charlie gave me a glare before looking at the twins and I had a feeling I knew why.

"No way, those three are terrors. They are going to make my life a living hell…"

"No we won't, there's always Percy and Dora." I grinned at him and I felt someone flick the back of my head.

"Don't even think about it," the voice growled and I turned my head to find Dora standing there.

"Dora!" I squealed before jumping at her causing dad to catch her as she swayed slightly.

"Yes Aries I've missed you as well," Dora laughed before pulling away and I made my way over to Dromeda and Ted.

Dromeda and dad were cousins, I think, I don't know, all I know is that they are family and I haven't seen them all summer because they were in Italy visiting family.

"Now boys, I want you to promise me not to harass your brothers or Dora while you are at Hogwarts. I want you both to be on your best behaviour," Molly warned the twins, I wanted to laugh at it but I knew I would get a lecture from mum and dad as well.

"Baby that applies for you too," I turned and looked mum, ignoring the look on Castor's face, the little brat probably thought this was hilarious.

"Yes mum, I promise to study hard and get good grades." I grinned at her and dad shook his head while mum just gave me a pointed look.

"We will see about that, alright I think you should get on the train now. I'm going to miss you," I hugged my mum before hugging dad, I would really miss my parents. They've always been there for the last 11 years, there was always someone at home while one was at work.

"I'll miss you both as well," I waved at them before following the twins on to the train.

"Alright you three there is empty compartment in here, please don't blow the train up."

"Oh come on Charlie, they aren't that bad…" Dora laughed at Charlie but he just looked at us, I may have just smiled innocently at him but it was obvious he didn't believe me.

"Why would I blow up train? Then we won't get to Hogwarts." Fred spoke and I nodded in agreement.

"Alright fine, just get in there and stay out of trouble." Charlie pointed towards the compartment and we climbed in, he helped us put our trunks up before leaving us alone.

"Alright how do we blow up the train?" George said loudly.

"Don't even think about it," Charlie said yelled from the other side of the door causing us all to laugh.

"Alright but seriously…" George questioned.

"Come on aren't you excited to see Hogwarts, if we blow up the train we can't get there."

"We're magical, surely we can find another way there." Fred joined in and they both looked at me with puppy dog eyes.

"Nope, not now." I grinned at them but me saying not now gave them a glimmer of hope.

The door opened and I looked at who walked in but the kid had a grin on his face and I was instantly curious.

"I just past two kids muttering about idiots blowing up the train, when I questioned they said something about you three being the idiots." His statement caused us to laugh and he sat down with us.

"Ignore them, I'm Aries and that's Fred and George." I smiled at him while he looked at the twins.

"Which one is which?" they both smiled and I laughed, still to this day I'm the only one that can tell them apart properly, well apart from Molly but they have a habit of playing jokes on her to make her convinced she was wrong.

"That one is Fred and that one is George, good luck trying to remember that." I pointed at each other them and the boy waved at them.

"I'm Lee it's nice to meet you, what house do you think you guys will be in?"

"Gryffindor," the twins stated together and they knew it, their whole family had been in Gryffindor for generations.

But I hesitated, I had no idea if I would follow my parents and be in Gryffindor like them or follow the rest of my dad's family and be in Slytherin. It didn't help that mum's family moved here from America when she was 13.

"Aries?"

"Right sorry, Gryffindor." I replied to Lee before turning my gaze out the window, grateful when the twins found something else to distract him with.

I had voiced my concerns to them about what house I would be sorted into, they just told me I was an idiot and would be in Gryffindor with them.

"Aries?" my gaze snapped over at the sound of a familiar voice and I saw Cedric standing there.

"Hey Ced," I got up and made my way over to hug him, it had been a while since I last saw Cedric.

Cedric and I played on the same Quidditch team in our junior league, he was a Seeker while I was a Chaser and we were both hoping to make our house team next year if there is spots up for grabs.

"Cedric this is Lee," I introduced the two strangers and it was then we all began talking about Quidditch because Lee asked how Cedric and I knew each other.

"First years over here," I heard the loud booming voice that belonged to Hagrid off to the side once I left the train with all the boys following.

Hagrid was friends with my parents, he didn't visit as much as other friends of my parents but he did visit enough that we knew who he was, I gave him a smile and a small wave.

We were all incredibly excited about this, we had all heard stories about just how amazing the castle first looked when they were brought in as first years.

"Come on Freddie," I gripped his hand and pulled him along, I used to be able to pull both but then they became bigger than me and I wasn't able to anymore.

He grumbled his reply and I heard a laugh from behind us, "please Freddie…" I looked at him with my puppy dog eyes and I saw him cave, he and George could never say no to my face.

He hung his head before falling into step beside me, I grinned at him as we followed Hagrid towards the lake and it was then we noticed the boats.

"Three to a boat," Hagrid called out and everyone climbed in but I stayed standing there next to Fred.

"It'll be alright, George and I won't allow anything to happen to you." Fred pulled me closer to the boat where George was waiting for us but I just dug my feet into the ground.

I just stared at the water, there was no way I could get in the boat. I didn't even hear what Fred said but it wasn't long until both Fred and George managed to work together to get me in the boat.

As soon as they moved, I began panicking.

"Aries it will be fine."

"No it won't, why couldn't they tell me I had to go on a bloody boat…" I muttered shaking my head while staring at the bottom of the boat. I couldn't look ahead, I couldn't look at the water it brought back too many memories.

"Come on Aries, look up."

"You can see the Castle." I carefully looked up and noticed the castle, I couldn't believe how beautiful it looked like this.

It was then the boat started rock that the panic really sunk it, I wanted to get off the boat, I needed to get off the boat.

"I need to get off," my voice was barely audible, I had no idea if the twins heard me.

The boat didn't stop rocking the whole way to the shore and I was shaking, even having Fred placing his hands on my arms to stop me didn't help. They both had to help me out of the boat and I was still standing there shaking when Cedric and Lee walked over with another guy following behind them.

"Aries are you alright?" Cedric questioned but I didn't respond, I just stood there.

"She'll be fine soon enough."

George replied as Fred pulled me along to follow Hagrid towards the entrance to the Castle, I felt like I was still shaking and I was struggling to keep up with Fred as he pulled me along.

"Are you sure you're alright?" Fred whispered and I nodded, I really did hate the water and the twins couldn't understand considering my house was practically on the beach.

"We'll get some food soon enough and then hopefully you will be alright, just think about it. Gryffindor common room is in one of the tallest towers at Hogwarts, nowhere near the water."

"But Dromeda says the Slytherin common room is under the lake though," I responded, shaking my head not wanting to think about the possibility of living under the lake for the next seven years.

"You won't be in Slytherin, it won't happen, you will be in Gryffindor with us just like your parents were." I placed my head against Fred's shoulder as an older witch with greying hair opened the Castle doors.

It turns out the witch in question was Professor McGonagall, the same witch that my parents and Moony had mentioned on numerous occasions when they were talking about their time at Hogwarts. She was the Head of Gryffindor House and from the sound of dad complaining she was regularly putting them in detention and giving them lectures about the stuff they did.

We all stood there and listened to McGonagall give a speech I've heard a million times before about how the Houses are like your family, something about rule breaking and loss of points but all I could remember was dad's comment at dinner last night.

"If you and the twins manage to lose as many house points as James and I did in our seven years at Hogwarts I will be impressed."

It caused me to laugh while Moony shook his head and mum gave him a pointed look, I know mum joined in on their pranks during their time at Hogwarts but from what I heard it sounds like mum and Moony were the ones making sure James, Castor and dad didn't go completely over the top. It even ended with mum and dad having one of their 'arguments' about the many times mum ended up in detention because of dad.

"Was Charlie right about the dragon?" George questioned from the other side of me and Fred shrugged.

I have no idea what those two were on about in regards to dragons, I don't think Dumbledore would let Hagrid have a dragon on the grounds. I know I've heard him mention in the past how he wants one but actually having one sounds ridicules.

I looked around at the rest of the first years as they took in Great Hall, it was obvious they were shocked by it, hell I was as well. What I loved the most was the ceiling, it looked like the night sky along with the stars and constellations twinkling.

We all watched as McGonagall placed a hat on a stool and both Fred and George grumbled something I was unable to understand and I shook my head. I wonder if that's what Charlie was on about, a dragon and the sorting.

Once the hat stopped singing McGonagall unrolled some parchment and began calling out names, I was actually expecting to be the first one sort but I wasn't.

"Aries Black," I pulled away from Fred and carefully made my way to take a seat on the stool and allow McGonagall to place the hat on my head.

"I was wondering when you would be joining us here, I heard many things about you once you were born. I do wonder, will you follow your parents, your father's family or the unknown that is your mother's family?"

Of course the hat talks, how else would it sort the students?

"Too right you are but on to business, there was a part of both your mother and uncle that made me suggest that Ravenclaw would suit the Monroe family and I see that in you as well. As well as everything that I have seen in the Blacks and placing them Slytherin…"

Why not Gryffindor?

"If you didn't interrupt…" I couldn't help the smirk that was on my face as the hat scolded me. "You aren't the first student I've scolded for interrupting but I suppose there is something different about you compared to them. Now back to business, where to place you….ah I've got it."

The hat stopped talking and I frowned, the silence was annoying. When will the bloody hat say something, I heard laughing in my head before he muttered 'typical'

"GRYFFINDOR!" the hat shouted and I let out a sigh of relief, McGonagall pulled the hat off and I walked down to join the cheering table ignoring the whispers that were being held at the Slytherin table, no doubt about how another Black was in Gryffindor.

"Are you feeling alright, you're looking a little pale?" I turned and saw that Charlie had taken one of the empty seats beside me, I looked at him with a small smile on my face.

"Yes, just the water panicked me is all." He nodded before looking back up at the sorting.

"There is a reason none of us told you about that, we even refused to tell Fred and George in case they let it slip to you."

"Why?"

"Going in the water is something you refuse to conquer, you have fallen off a broom and gotten back on. You won't go back in the ocean or the lake behind the Burrow." I shook my head at him and faced the sorting just in time see Cedric sit up there, I didn't want to talk about this anymore.

I was a little disappointed that Cedric was placed in Hufflepuff but I knew I would still see him around, we would share classes and there was always time outside of classes when I could see him.

I watched the rest of the sorting in silence taking note of who was sorted where, the strange boy standing with Lee and Cedric after we got off the boats was Roger Davies and he was placed in Ravenclaw. It wasn't all surprising that I recognised some of the names of the students sorted into Slytherin as it had come up in many of the family lessons I had with dad over the years.

Fred and George were the last of the students to get sorted and just like they claimed they had been sorted into Gryffindor as well, in fact George had even tried to walk off with the hat but it just caused McGonagall to call him back up there to return and I spotted the small hint of a smirk on his face.

George came over and sat in the seat Charlie had vacated just moments ago and he looked at me, I could tell he was searching for something but I narrowed my eyes before looking at the rest of the first years sitting with us. In total there were nine first years sorted into Gryffindor, five boys and four girls.

In trying to avoid George's gaze I happened to catch Fred's as well, "I'm fine you two," I snapped at them and they didn't have the chance to say anything as Dumbledore had stood up.

"You were the girl that was panicking in the boats," I felt George stiffen beside me as I looked over at the voice, it was one of the boys, Henry Pucey, that would be sharing a dorm with Fred and George for the next seven years and depending on how this conversation, it may not go as easily as he hoped.

"What's your point Henry?"

"Just that maybe you shouldn't be in Gryffindor if you can't even handle a simple boat ride…" he spoke so simply as if it had no effect on him, but it did on me.

I gave Fred and George a quick glance taking note of how angry they seemed to be before focusing on the food in front of me.

"I would be scared too, you didn't see those stupid now Slytherins rocking their boat. We were on the other side and I was worried that our boat was going to flip." I looked over at the three girls sitting on the other side of Fred.

The one that spoke was Angelina Johnson and I knew in that moment that we could potentially be friends, the other two girls nodding in agreement where Alicia Spinnet and Octavia Blake.

I mouthed a thank you at her before we all focused on our dinner, conversation flowed between us all while that annoyed Pucey stayed silent. The whole time we were talking there was something unsettling about Pucey and it was starting to bug me.

"That's right, you and your twin brother were separated. You're in here and he's in there." I spoke and he looked at me with a sneer on his face, I wonder why he wasn't in Slytherin like his brother.

He didn't say anything, just glared at me before going back to his dinner. I have no idea how this was going to play out, having someone who was meant to be a snake in with a bunch of lions, I suppose it is better this way than a lion being in with a bunch of snakes.

I was finally in my bed able to get some sleep when I looked over at Angelina who was in the bed next to mine.

"You didn't have to do that, you speaking up like that to Pucey could make things hard for you."

"They will already be hard with Pucey, our dads work together. I meant what I said though, just because him and his brother weren't in that boat doesn't mean anything. It was still a bunch of Slytherins who took notice of your discomfort and tried to play advantage to it, I just don't think they noticed who you were until the sorting."

"Thank you anyway."

"It's nothing Aries, I have a feeling that Pucey won't fit in amongst us and him having that first shot at you ruined his chance of being friends with you and by the looks of Fred and George them as well. He won't be making his time easy here if he goes around ruining his potential friendships."

"Hmm true, goodnight Angie…" I muttered a goodnight and barely heard her reply before sleep took over.


A/N: So once again I have writers block when it comes to my other stories, this story seems to be taking up so much more of my mind lately. Hope you enjoy it! Please leave a review