Chapter two
Lilly found her friends, Rosa her twin brother Tyler and Chloe. Chloe was fun, even if she was a bit odd. She was the president of the James Potter Fan Club. Lily didn't understand how her brother had a fan club. It was how she met Chloe though so it was nice. The got into the same carriage on the way back to Hogwarts. "I missed you guys on the train."
"I was with the other hufflpuffs," Rosa said. "And Tyler was with the other Ravenclaws"
"And Chloe was stalking James," Tyler said with a laugh.
"Hey, I was not. I just happen to be in the same area as him because we're all quidditch members. I just spent most of my time with Lily then ogling James,"Chloe pointed out.
Lily laughed "Yeah. But I saw you looking at James. You're not very discrete, you know."
"Whatever. I spent a good part of the last week getting things ready for the fan club, as well as getting ready for school. I'm glad it's tie for us to back to school."
Lily was quiet a moment. "Are you afraid of the war? I mean they're bombing London. You really think we're safe here?"
"Don't be so paranoid. Hogwarts is the safest place around. Nothing bad is going to happen. I'm sure the war will ware itself out sooner or later then we won't need to worry about it at all,"Rosa said.
"But what about all those seventh years? The ones who went to war instead of finishing school? I know some of them. What if they die?" Lily asked.
"Stop being so upset over this. People die all the time," Rosa said. "I know it's sad, but war is war. It's not playing nice."
"I know I know. And to make things worse, Albus has been distance since we got out stuff at diagon alley. I don't know what's wrong with him"
"There you go again. Stop worrying so much. Everything is going to be fine," Rosa said. "Just be happy we're finally back together and have fun this year."
"Rosa is right. Don' worry about things that you can't control. It's sad that the muggle world is at war, but they have wars all the time. There's no reason to think this war is different than any other war they've had."
"I know. I know. I just-"
"Don't 'just' you're safe. You're family is safe. Most of your friends are safe. Be happy," Chloe said. "If you want to be cheered up, you can come to the fist meeting of The James Potter Fan Club." Chloe said with a smile.
Lily laughed. "Maybe. They always ask so many questions about James when I go there," Lily pointed. "It's not like I know everything about him.
"See got you to laugh," Chloe said.
"I guess that's true," Lily said with a smile. "Well we're here. I'l meet up with everyone tomorrow."
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Albus sat down next to Alek when they when they were at the school. "Alek. Something bad is going to happen. I can't tell you what, but somethng bad is going to happen and I'm scared."
"Why can't you tell me now? You've never kept anything form me." Alek's worry was clear in his voice and how his face. Albus didn't like keeping things form Alek, but this was bad. He was in danger and he wasn't going to put Alek in danger too.
"I just can't okay? I'll tell you as soon as I feel it's safe to tell you," Albus said.
"Safe? What have you gotten yourself into?"Alek asked, worry getting worse.
"I don't know. It's complicated. Everything is so damn complicated. I can't tell anyone what happened. I'm sorry."
"Nothing is going to get better if you don't tell someone what's wrong,"
"I know okay? Can we just drop this? Let's watch the first years get sorted. You know you want to cheer for the new kids don't you?"
"This isn't over,"Alek said. ''I'm going to find out what's wrong."
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Luis was worried about being back. Members of the Hufflepuff Quidditch Team came and said hey or how they were going to win again this year. Luis had to deal with this on his own. His best friend, Ciel, was in Ravenclaw. Luis just smiled and agreed with them. He had to be able to do this.
Molly came over and sat next to him. It was nice that she was in Hufflpuff and on the quidditch team. She chansed off the other members of the team. "I'm sure you'll be fine. The doctors said you might still be able to get back most of your strength. I mean, you're the best seeker at the school. If anyone can make it work it'd be you."
"I hope so. I love Quidich almost as much as I love Dragons. I still love Dragons, even after the accident. I'm sure you're going to be fine. Have guys been messing with you?"
"Only the normal amount. I'm betting I'm going to have a problem the next week or so as the first years get used to me. I hate the start of the school for that reason," Luis sighed. "Though there's a Slytherin seventh year that has been bugging me a lot last year and I'm worried about him. Axel I think he might be worse this year because he's head boy. I just hope he doesn't try to hook up with me."
"Well if he tries anything I'll put him in his place. No one messes with my family," Molly said firmly.
Luis smiled. "Thanks. I'll let you know if he does anything." He figured Molly could actually do something or, rather, get a guy to do it more her if she wanted something done. Luis knew all of his cousins would be ther to help if needed. They were a close family and Luis loved that. Not many people had that many people have their back. He knew James would over react to it if he was told a Slythirn was messing with him. Luis didn't like the attention he would get if James got involvd.
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Fred the second, jr, whatever you wanted to call him, but he prefered just Fred, sat next to Elliann, his partner in crime. Fred was head of what you might call a gang in Hogwarts, the biggest one at least. If you needed something or needed to know something, you went to Fred. He had people in very house and every age, minus first years, and even had some teachers working with him. He was in Slythin, and so was Elliann. He didn't think what house you were in really. It was just a place to sleep. He worked with all of that houses. It would be stupid to not take advantage of people in every house. How could he know about Ravenclaw or Gryffindor if he didn't have people in that house working for him.
Elliaan got the items people wanted. For the right price you could get anything. You went through Fred, but Elliann actually got the items herself. He looked over to his friendd. "Have you heard what I've heard? He asked softly.
"I have. Things aren't going well." The girl never spoke much and only spoke to Fred. There was a problem with ta palijuice and the side of her face never went back to normal. To make things worse animal hair got into the potion. The right side of her face was part animal and there really wasn't much they could do about it. Fred thought it was sad that Elliann didn't have more friends, but he was glad he could at least be there for her. "What's the plan?"
"I'm not sure we need to think of a plan. We don't act on our information. We just give it to people. If something does happen we'll step in and do something, but I don't want to endanger any of our men. If we have to fight we will, but I think we have plenty of time before the others actually do something. We have time to figure out what to do."
"I understand." That was all the response he needed.
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James frowned. "Asher what's wrong with your arm? You keep scratching your arm."
"Just a bug bite. It itches like hell but he'll go way soon," Asher said with a nervous laugh. "Such a pain, but I'm not worried about it."
"Let me look at it. Maybe I know a spell to fix it-"
"No!" Asher said, pulling his arm away from James when James went to grab it. "I mean, I can take care of things myself. Don't worry about me. Excited about quidich his year? I think we have a chance this year. I worked hard over the summer so we can win. You have a whole team with all of your cousins. Do you practice together?"
James didn't like the change of subject, but he'd drop it for the moment. He didn't like not knowing what was going on and something was going on. Asher was acting weird enough that James was sure something big was wrong. Damn it. Why wouldn't Asher just tell him? "Let's just watch the first years get sorted. Don't you think it's fun to see the kids get sorted into Gryffindor, the best option at least. I suppose they can't help it if they get sorted into other houses. They need people in them too. Not everyone is as awesome as us."
James laughed, back in a better mood. Asher wouldn't be so happy if there was something wrong. "Yeah that's true. Too bad my cousins are in every house. Potters and Weasely's had always been in Gryffinor and now they're in all of the houses. I suppose it makes sense that, with that many people, people would end up in every house. "Yeah. I just wish Albus was in Gryffindor. I feel bad for him in Slytherin. I mean, Roxanne, Dominique, and Fred were all in Slytherin so it wasn't as though he was alone. I don't like his friend Alek though. Something just gives me the creeps about him. And then there's Scorpius. I don't like him either."
"Stop worrying about all of this. Can't it wait until tomorrow?" Asher asked.
"Fine whatever."