Second chapter! This is a fun story and I love writing every chapter of it (even though it's only been two chapters). Ever since the third movie I've always had a thing for our favorite red head twins and by the fourth movie, I was hung on Fred. I've this idea for a character that I thought would be a good match for him and then, slowly, the story came along with her. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do!

I do not own any part of Harry Potter or any of J. K. Rowling's characters.

Chapter 2.

Double Trouble

Devony pushed her cart down the Kings Cross Railroad station avoiding the stares she was receiving from the muggles. She didn't know if the attraction was coming from all the strange looking packages in her cart or if it was her golden cage with Archimedes, her owl. She smiled down at her owl as he was patiently waiting on his perch with gorgeous black eyes. He was a beautiful owl with a white face and chest but his back was stunningly assorted with gold, bronze and gray feathers that made him stand out.

Devony remembered when she first got Archimedes in Diagon Alley. She was young and eleven, running from owl to owl. Her parents had told her she could buy whichever one she wanted. It wasn't until she got to the fifth owl when a gold flash caught her eyes. She looked around for the cause and saw an owl, much smaller than the others with the beautiful feathers. She immediately ran over to the creature as it let her run her hands through his coat. All the time she was doing so, his eyes never left hers. The shop keeper thought she should look around more at the other larger owls that were much better than this owl. Devony shook her head and told her parents this was her owl. From then on, that owl became Archimedes and was well loved by her family.

She once again looked down at the ticket in her hands Morgana had brought back with her. Nine and three quarters. Devony looked up at platform nine and ten; nothing read nine and three quarters. She sighed and leaned on her cart, concentrating at the ticket this time to see if there was some hidden code. She gave up and showed it to Archimedes.

"You have any bloody idea what this means?"

Archimedes ruffled his feathers and squinted his eyes at his owner.

"Thought so," Devony said looking at her watch. She still had fifteen minutes before the train left but still felt nervous in the pit of her stomach. Her maroon knit jacket felt a little warm as people continued to look at her strangely. Devony looked around to see if she could see other people with the same type of luggage as her or even the same cage with an owl in it.

She knew if she asked someone where platform nine and three quarters was they would defiantly think she was mental.

Thirteen minutes.

Just as Devony was about to turn and leave the station, someone ran into her side making her jolt to the left.

"Ow!" Devony shouted holding her side. Archimedes stirred in his cage, unhappy with the sudden movement.

"I'm sorry!" A girl about the same age of Devony with reddish brown hair and a bit shorter came rushing to Devony's side. "I wasn't watching where I was going and lost control of my cart."

The girl had a very identifiable Irish accent along with a very identical cart to Devony's. But instead of an owl there was a very fluffy cat who was napping.

"I-it's alright. Are you…are going to Hogwarts?" Devony asked warily.

The girl got a huge smile on her face. "Well of course! I see now you are too" The girl looked at Devony's cart, her blue eyes landing on Archimedes. "But we better get a move on if we want to find an empty car on the train."

"But how are we supposed to get there?" Devony asked as the girl went back to her cart.

"Why through the…well haven't you done this before?"

Devony shook her head.

"You're not a first year, that's for sure¾wait!" The girl's eyes brightened again. "I know who you are! The girl from the Prophet; Devony Laurent. You infested your school with toads and then they expelled you."

Devony half grinned. "That would be me."

The girl furrowed her eyebrows trying to piece everything together. "So, now they sent you to Hogwarts?"

"Right again."

The girl smiled again and led both their carts to the middle of platform nine and ten. She positioned Devony's first. "All you have to do is run straight through that wall. Don't think of crashing or it won't work. Trust me, it's happened."

Devony gave the girl a look to see if she was joking which she was not. Devony looked back forward at the wall. The bricks looked awfully hard. Devony mentally shook her head and only thought confident thoughts. Se took a deep breath and before her mind could wrap around what she was doing, her legs were running and her cart was positioned at the center of the wall. Devony closed her eyes and felt herself whisked into fresher air. She stopped when she heard a loud train whistle.

All around her there was movements. Last minute passengers were taking their things to the train and coming aboard with friends. Mothers and fathers were saying goodbye to teary-eyes first years and even one boy was trying to catch his toad that kept hopping away. She even noticed a couple faces looking at her, whispering and pointing.

"Come on, then," the girl said now beside Devony. Devony jumped in surprise and followed the girl to an empty compartment in the middle of the train.

"I'm Devony, by the way," Devony said to, she hoped, her new friend. She placed Archimedes safely between her trunk and her suitcase while he began to drift to sleep.

"Sorry for not introducing myself, it slipped my mind. I'm Winifred McKenzie." She panted, trying to get her trunk to fit in an almost too small place. She had a lot of things. I went over to help her and finally managed to squeeze it in. She picked up her cat carrier and whipped a bead of sweat from her forehead. "Mum made me take her old trunk; not small or fashionable."

Devony couldn't suppress a small giggle. "Come with me; I want you to meet some of my friends so your won't completely alone here," Winifred said letting her black fluffy cat out of her carrier.

"Wait in the hallway, I have to make sure Archimedes is safe in his cage next to your cat."

Winifred nodded and went into the hallway. Devony took Archimedes and put him on the seat next to the window as he was sleeping. He loved looking out at windows at home. Devony walked out of her compartment and right as she took her first step she collided with something tall and hard. Devony caught herself on the wall by her arm as two red headed guys ran past her without stopping followed by a girl with the same color hair as Janice.

"Watch where your going!" Devony yelled after them, holding her poor arm with her hand. The commotion made other students in their compartments look out into the hallway which made Devony more nervous. She kept her head down and desperately tried to find Winifred.

"Are you looking for someone?" A very masculine voice called out to Devony. She let go of her arm and turned to her right, spotting the voice. It was a tall, very dark brown haired boy who looked her age, maybe a year older. He had on black slacks, white button down shirt with a black sweater vest and a green tie loosely hanging around his neck signifying he was a Slytherin. Even if he wasn't, she could tell from his eyes; they had a glints of ambition and overly clever. "Hello? I asked if you were looking for someone."

Devony snapped out of her trance and nodded her head. "Yes, um, Winifred. Winifred McKenzie. Do you know her?"

The boy sneered walked closer to the girl. His expression turned into a smile that could be worn by the devil himself. "You're the girl from the newspaper aren't you? Devony Laurent, right? You infested Beauxbatons with toads; you are quite popular around here."

Devony instinctively took a step back. "Here?"

"Hogwarts, to be specific. Why did you pull a stunt like that?" He asked the question as if he had been waiting his whole life to ask it.

Devony blinked. "Well, there was this girl who needed a taste of her own¾wait, who are you ?"

He smiled down at Devony like he was the hyena and she was his prey. "Nightly. Vincent Nightly; it's very nice to finally meet you." He took her hand, brought it up to his lips and kissed it very gently. Slightly creeped out, Devony gave a small smile and retracted her hand. She looked down both ends of the hall. Which way did I come? Devony started to back away.

"It was nice meeting you too, Vincent, but I really have to look for Winifred."

Vincent narrowed his a bit and come towards Devony again only giving her about five inches to breath. "You might want to watch the kind you hang around with here at Hogwarts, Devony. The McKenzie's have been nothing but trouble makers for Hogwarts. You of all people don't want to be seen with the wrong kind."

Devony frowned and raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me? What is that supposed to mean?" Vincent grabbed her arm and pulled her forward to him so his mouth was next to her ear.

"A lot of people like Granger, Weasley and McKenzie are no good for Hogwarts. They bring too much mud blood here."

Devony felt like popping him in the mouth but at the moment, she just wanted to get away form him. She inched to her right, still facing Vincent but let her hands fumble behind her for an empty compartment.

"Thank you so much for the help, Vincent. I'll see you later then; I need to find my compartment."

"You know there's plenty of room in my¾"

"No, no. I've found mine, but thanks," Devony said, putting on a fake smile as she finally reached an random, open compartment. She went in and slammed the door shut, breathed out a sigh of relief and turned around. Devony jumped and gave small yell to see she wasn't the only one in the compartment. Sitting on the left and right of the compartment were identical red haired twins. They were the ones who made her fall into the wall. Annoyed, she gave another sigh and said, "It's you two."

"Well don't sound too bloody excited," the one of the right said.

"Yeah; is that any way to treat guests," the twin on the left asked.

"Then again, it's seems you're the 'guest of honor'."

"It does indeed."

"Guest of honor?" Devony asked still not sitting down. "What does that mean."

"You're the girl," the left one said.

"The girl in the paper," the right one finished his sentence.

"You know," they both said. They blew a kiss at her like her photo in the paper. Devony grinned and laughed a bit remembering her article.

"That was a good photo…wait a second, no, I'm mad at you!" Devony pointed an accusing finger.

"Why?" They two asked again at the same time. Peculiar.

Devony rolled her eyes. "While you two were running around like a bull through a china shop, you knocked me into the wall. I would remember that red hair anywhere. Anyone would."

Before any of the two could answer her, Winifred opened the sliding door with pink in her cheeks. She was panting slightly and was taking off her green jacket. "You two are the biggest gits I've ever met."

"We can't help that you're bad at keeping up with us," the red head on the left shrugged.

"Or that the fact we're good at hiding," the other one said putting his finger in the air.

As Winifred sat down on the right side of the compartment she looked up at me and smiled, finally noticing I was here.

"Hi Devony! Sorry that I ran away for a few but these big lug heads," she elbowed the twin she was next to, "took my wand so I had to chase them down. I'd like it back please."

The brother on the left whipped out a short black wand of about eight inches with a white holder on the end. She gave him a smile as sweet as syrup and tucked away in her pocket. She turned to me as I sat down on the left side next to one of the twins.

"Do these 'lug heads' have a name?"

"I'm surprised you haven't heard of them yet on this train." Winifred sat back in her seat with her arms folded. "They're¾"

"Fred¾" the one on the right started.

"And George¾" the one next to me replied.

"Weasley." They said together. Devony chuckled as they said the same thing again. Weasley; is that the name Vincent said?

"Do you always do that?"

"Do what?" They both asked again with cheeky grins. Devony smiled and shook her head as George looked over at Archimedes.

"Is this your owl?"

Devony nodded. "He's Archimedes. My parents got him for me when I was eleven. She noticing that he was well awake now that the train had started to move quite a while ago. He started out onto the beautiful scenery and Devony smiled looking at it as well.

"You've never seen this place before at all?" Fred asked.

"Before yesterday, I lived and breathed the Beauxbaton Academy in France." Devony said with a sad shrug. "My parents thought it would be a better school for me but according to that one article and along with my past record, it never served me well."

"Past record?" George asked. Devony thought she heard a hint of enthusiasm in his voice.

"My 'reckless behavior' record. I've had it ever since I started school there. It's about as long as I am tall."

"Wicked." The twins smiled at each other and then back at Devony. She smiled as well.

"Did your mum ever go there?" Winifred asked.

Devony shook her head. "They both went to Hogwarts. I've never been in my entire life. For a while I forgotten all about it."

"What about the Yule Ball? You didn't go to that?'

"A week before I was dared to put a dung bomb in the head mistress's bedroom. The girl who told me to do it ratted me out. Needless to say, I was banned from going. Pity too; I do like to dance."

"You sound like fun," Fred said with a grin.

George matched his brother's smile. "I hope you get put in Gryffindor. We can defiantly make some memories."

Devony decided not to tell them what her parents had told her. "I'm not sure which house I'll get put into. My dad was a Slytherin and my mum was put into Ravenclaw."

"If you get into Ravenclaw, you'll be with Winnie over here," Fred said nudging Winifred with his elbow. "It would be a low blow if you were put in Slytherin."

"Yeah," Winifred said sitting up again. "I don't mean to pry but…I your dad…does he…"

"No, he's not evil or that sort of thing. He actually told me he was shunned when he was in Slytherin. He's was the nicest one in the lot. He got picked on constantly but he was put in because he was a pure-blood. And if his parents found out he wasn't a Slytherin, he would be disowned. Actually, when my dad first met my mum was when she getting picked on from a bunch of older Ravenclaw's in her third year. My dad was a year older and looked pretty big and scared them off. From then on they were Hogwarts sweethearts."

Winnie made a small sigh of affection while Fred and George rolled their eyes. "Still, I would hate to be in Slytherin. I had my own encounter with one, Vincent…something. I can't remember. I just wanted to get away from him as fast as possible."

Devony looked up to see Fred, George and Winifred all frowning. "We know who your talking about." Winnie sat back again. "Vincent Nightly. He thinks he's so good just because he's pure blood and has his whole House in the palm of his hands. He's such a prat."

"Ever heard of Draco Malfoy?" Fred asked Devony.

She shook her heard.

"He and Vincent are cousins. Malfoy is just as bad with a father three times as evil. Stay clear of them or else they'll use their evil wizarding powers on you!"

Devony laughed to lighten the mood but she had a strange feeling in her gut that they were right. The look in Vincent's eyes were not natural and if Fred was right, then Devony wanted nothing to do with him.

Before anyone else could talk of evil wizards, an elderly woman with a warm grandmother smile rolled up to our closed compartment and knocked on our window. Winifred opened the door.

"Anything off the cart dears?" The lady was pushing a cart full of sweets that would make any ten year old drool with delight. No one seemed to speak up and Devony felt bad with some of the cold coins in her pocket.

"I'll take eight chocolate frogs and four Bettie Bott's."

The lady smiled as Devony handed her the amount silver and gold coins in exchange for some of the candy. Devony thanked her as she took pieces and shut the door.

"Are you really going to eat all that?" Winnie asked in disbelief.

Devony gave a pretend thoughtful look. "Your right. This is far too much for me to eat; can you all help me with it?" She handed her friends each two chocolate frogs and a jellybean packet and they each thanked her.

"Winnie, you make good friends, you know that?" Fred popped a hopping chocolate frog into his mouth. Devony did the same. She looked at her card; Circe. Now she had four.

"I knew from the first moment I saw you, Devony, you were alright," Winnie said putting a yellow jellybean into her mouth. Her eyes got huge her mouth started to pucker as she chewed and then swallowed. "Lemon. Powerful little beans, they are. Come on Dev, we'd better go change into our robes."

"We'll help you!" The twins said eagerly standing up as the two girl did.

"No you will not," Winifred said trying to push the two back into their seats to no avail.

"It's the least we could do, Winnie," George said.

"Devony did after all buy us all the sweets," Fred carried on smiling at Devony.

She rolled her eyes at the boys as she got her black robes. "I think I'll managed without your assistance, thanks. But you can help each other dress since it looks like you've got that covered."

The twins looked down at their matching clothes. The only thing that was different was the color of their sweater as Fred wore blue and George wore red. Devony and Winifred were already in the hallway going to the girls changing rooms before the Weasley twins could respond. Devony and Winifred watched as a short, mousy brown haired girl walked out of the dressing room as they entered.

"You have two very interesting friends," Devony said to Winnie as she walked into a stall.

"Everyone thinks their interesting," Winnie replied. Devony heard a zipping noise and assumed she was getting out of her gray skirt.

"Do they always talk in unison?" Devony asked, finishing putting on her black stockings and started get into her black pleated skirt and white button down shirt.

"Only when their together. I think it's because they're both wizards and they can sense what the other is going to say but neither of them thinks it's true."

"So when aren't they together?"

"Some of their classes are different but not many. Other than that, their inseparable."

Devony walked out of the stall and looked at lone mirror on the wall. She looked plain in with just black skirt, stockings, sweater vest and black robe. She was plain in comparison to Winifred who came out with an identical robe, her blue v-neck sweater, black slacks and blue and bronze tie and now a sleek pony-tail with a blue ribbon.

"You make me look so plain," Devony let out a small laugh as they looked at each other in the mirror.

"You must be joking," Winifred said. "Girls would kill for this color hair." Winnie pulled at Devony's honey blonde hair that reached a little past her shoulders. Devony didn't like it so much. People would think she was just a pretty face and since she was a blonde, they thought she couldn't amount to anything. Devony shook her head of the past rude comment and slid the door open to the hallways.

When Devony and Winnie made it back to the compartment, Fred and George weren't there. The only left of them were their clothes folded neatly in one pile.

"Did they strip down, nude?" Devony asked horrifically.

Winnie laughed. "No, they're just eighteen and can use their powers outside of Hogwarts. The probably used a spell to change out of their regular clothes and into their robes. Right now, they might be chatting with Lee Jordan."

Devony breathed a sigh or relief and sat down next to Archimedes cage who, again, was sleeping. Devony yawed, put her owl gently on the floor and got out a book from her small pack. While Winifred was petting her cat and writing on a piece of parchment, Devony was reading with her legs beside her dawn to her rear end. With the soft strokes of Winnie's quill and the humming of the train, it was easy for Devony to fall asleep with her book on her lap and her head leaned against the window. Soon, she was drifting away into the peaceful, black darkness of sleep and dreams.