'So you are sure you have got everything?' Harry asked Ollie as she dragged her heavy trunk out to the car.

'Yes' Ollie replied as she passed it over to her dad so he could lift it into the boot.

'Are you sure?'

'Dad, we go through this every year, I have packed everything!'

'Ok, just making sure' he replied as Ollie handed over her owl cage, containing a very moody Bluebell, who hated being locked up in her cage.

'All set?' Ginny asked, walking towards them a twin on each arm. She helped them climb into the car before strapping them into their seats.

When the twins were safely settle, Ollie climbed in beside them as her father and Ginny sat in the front and he began to drive away from the house. Soon they were flying through the early Autumn sky on their was to Kings Cross Station.

'Is the invisiblitly device still working?' Harry asked Ginny, who was sitting next to him in the passesnger's seat.

'Yes' she replied, looking at the various dials on the dash board. This car had been a wedding present from her family and was modelled on the Ford Angleia they had owned when she was a child, though it had some improvements.

'Everything ok in the back?'

'We're fine Dad, concentrate on the flying' Ollie replied, before returing to entertaining the twins, who were listening attentively to what ever she was saying. She was currently telling them a story about a knight, a princess and an evil dragon, a story she vaguely remembered from her childhood.

'Did you tell Ollie this story?' Ginny whispered to Harry as Ollie used her wand to illustrate certain points. At this moment the twins were watching in awe as Ollie pretended to be the fire breathing dragon and had conjured some fire.

'No, maybe Luna did' Harry replied, focusing on the direction they were travelling in.

'Have you told Ollie about our relocation to Hogwarts and your new job?' Ginny asked. 'Harry!' she exclaimed, taking his silence as a no.

'Is everything ok? Ollie asked, hearing Ginny's exclamation.

'I just thought that your dad was heading in the wrong direction' Ginny told her step daughter hastily.

'Dad can you please get us there on time this year?' Ollie asked her father, remembering the mad undignified dash she had make for the train last year.

'Harry you need to tell her' Ginny told her husband in a hushed voice. 'You know her better than I do, but even I know that she is going to flip when she finds out, especially since you ave left it so late to tell her. At least give her the train journey to cool off'

'Right' Harry replied absentmindedly. 'We're starting out descent' he announced

'Where's platform nine and three quarters Arrie?' Ollie asked holind on tightly onto the two year old's hand as they walked through the busy Kings Cross station.

'There' Arrie replied, pointing at an ordinary brick wall.

'No, that's not it' Ollie replied, uring the small girl around to where there seemed to be a large collection of people with trunks waiting around.

Watching her daughter and Ollie, brought back many memories for Ginny of when she went to platdorm nine and three quarters year after year to see her brothers off, wating imapatiently untilit was her turn to go. She looked at Ariana and Ollie who were waiting as Harry when through the barrier first, pushing the trolley, laden with Ollie's heavy trunk.

'Ready?' Ginny asled, looking down at her small black haired son. Nicholas nodded is head, holing on to her hand tightly.

'One, two, three' Ollie counted as they went throught the barrier together.

I've put you're trunk and Bluebell onto the train' Harry announced

'Thanks Dad' Ollie replied, giving him a hug.

'Ollie no go' Arrie cried, laching onto one of Ollie's legs

'Ollie no go' Nicholas repeated, following his sister's example and grabbing onto his sister's other leg and grasping it tightly.

'Hey, hey, don't cry' Ollie stated, crouching down, with some difficulty, to be at eye level with the twins. Her violet eyes trying to clam down the twins' distressed hazel.

'I'll see you soon mes petits' sne whispered, giving them both a hug and kissing the tops of their heads. 'Draw me lots of pictures' she told them as she handed them over Ginny.

'You take care' Ginny said, giving her stepdaughter a kiss on the cheek, before pushing her towards the train.

'See you at Christmas!' Ollie called out before boarding the train.

'Harry, you forgot to tell her' Ginny said in alarm.

'Damn!' Harry exclaimed before running after Ollie. 'Ollie!' he called out 'Ollie'

'Yes Dad?' Ollie asked, standing at the door of the carriage door, in everyone's way.

'I...' Harry struggled to find the words to tell his daughter about his new teaching positions, knowing how much it would upset her. In the end he was doing it as a favour for Remus and Professor McGonagall because they had done so much in the past for him and there was no one else who could do it. 'Just look after yourself and try not to get into too much trouble' he said finally.

'Bye Dad' Ollie replied, before entering the train, puzzled by her father's actions.

'Did you tell her?' Ginny asked as she stood on the platform, waving goodbye to the train, next to her sisters-in-law, Fleur and Audrey, who had both put daughters on the train that morning.

Harry shook his head. 'I just couldn't tell her' he replied.

'Then you'd better hope she's in a good mood' Ginny replied

Ollie walked along the Hogwarts Express, trying to find an empty compartment and her friends, whom she had promised to meet on the train. She spotted a small strawberry blonde haired girl lurking nervously in the hallway. 'Hi Dominique, are you ok?' she asked, the small Weasley.

'Oh, hi Ollie' she replied. 'Tori, Millie and Teddy went off together and then Molly found her friends, so I don't know what to do'

'Well since I haven't been able to find any of my friends, why don't we go and find an empty compartment?' Ollie suggested to the shy girl.

Dominique was the quietest out of all the Weasley cousins, even quieter than little Lucy and was normally found at family gatherings curled up in her favourite armchair with a good book. Tori was the more outgoing sibling and Dom was the shy one.

They soon found a compartment and settled into a comfortable silence. Dom pulled out the latest book she was reading, a well thumbed copy of Little Women and Ollie sat next to the window, watching the countryside fly past. Suddenly the door of the compartment was flung open, causing its occupants to jump.

'Finally found you!' Phoenix exclaimed as she and Jon entered the compartment. 'We had nearly given up looking for you; trust you to be in the carriage furthest away from the prefects and the rest of our year. Ellie and Maisie are up with Archie and Dylan, a couple of carriages back'

'It's good to see you Jon. Did you have a good summer?' Ollie asked, interrupting her friend's ramble and standing up to give Jon a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Jon blushed and Phoenix raised an eyebrow, but Ollie did not know what was wrong with greeting Jon like that. They were just really good friends.

'Yeah, it was really good' Jon replied as he sat down. 'Sorry I was not able to meet up with you in Diagon Alley Kitty, I had had a big family gathering because Uncle Oliver has finally got engaged to Alicia. Oliver wants to know when your step mum will be able to start playing on the England team again'

'He called you Kitty!' came a small voice in the corner, which up to that point had been quite, watching the older teenagers with interest. 'It's just, I thought that no one was allowed to call you anything related Katarina, we had to call you Ollie' Dom said, clarifying her previous statement.

'Kitty's fine, it's just Katarina I really object to' Ollie replied before introducing the strawberry blonde eleven year old to her friends. 'Guys, this is Dominique Weasley, Dom this is Phoenix McQueen and Jonathan Wood'

'Hi' Dom said shyly

'Victoire's sister?' Phoenix asked and Dom nodded her head.

'She's nothing like her sister' Ollie added sensing that Phee was thinking about how mean Victoire had had been to her sister, Raven, last year. Raven had started to fancy Teddy Lupin. Victoire, who was a year younger than Raven, had had a crush on Teddy since her childhood and did not like the fact that he was getting all this attention. Teddy, being a typical teenage boy had not realised what was happening behind the scenes in Gryffindor tower.

'So what house are you hoping to be in?' Jon asked Dom

'I guess I would like to be in Gryffindor because everyone else in my family is in that house and I don't want to be different, though I suppose Ravenclaw wouldn't be too bad, but it's up to the sorting hat' she replied.

Dom was a very perceptive eleven year old and she could tell that the seventh years wanted to discuss something without her presence. 'Thanks for looking out for me Ollie but I think I'll go and find some first years or Tori' she said collecting her things together.

'No problem Dom, come back anytime' Ollie replied, calling out after her as she left the compartment, leaving the three friends behind.

'Sweet kid' commented after the door had closed behind Dominique.

'Right, so what are we going to do about Austin?' Phoenix asked, completely changing the topic.

'Wait a minute, what's going on between Kitty and Mr-I'm-going-to-be-the –next-minister?' Jon asked, no knowing the latest developments in Ollie's love life.

'Austin has been a complete jerk to Ollie this summer' Phoenix stated

'What has he done?' Jon asked, angry on behalf of his friend.

Phoenix began to tell Jon about what was going on, or what was not going on between Austin and Ollie.

'Oh, that must've been awful' Jon remarked as Phoenix recounted what Ollie had told her about what happened when Austin had come round for dinner.

'It was rather awkward' Ollie replied as Phoenix continued with her rant against her second cousin.

'So let's get this straight' Jon said finally once Phoenix had finished. 'He did not take you on any romantic dates this summer because he was too busy, he acted like an arrogant prick when he came around for dinner, made you feel really awkward and uncomfortable and didn't even write to tell you that he had been made Head Boy?'

'Maybe he wanted to make in a surprise?' Ollie suggested timidly

'Kitty, he told Heather'

'Well, she is Head Girl'

'Ollie why haven't you broken up with him yet?' Phoenix asked seriously

'Because, I haven't had the time, and I have hardly seen him this summer. We were really good friends, we got on so well and he made me laugh.'

'Honey, have you noticed you're speaking in the past tense' Phoenix added gently.

'But he acted so differently last year when we were at school compared to how he has acted this summer' Ollie replied 'He was so nice last year' she said wistfully, remembering the dates to Hogsmeade, where he had made her laugh so hard her sides had ached how she had got butterflies in her stomach when they kissed under the old oak tree by the Great Lake. That Austin seemed to be a completely different one to the Austin she had spent a limited amount of time with in the summer. 'I'm just going to see what happens' she said finally 'I could just be over analysing our relationship'

'Honey, if he does not listen to your points of view and makes you feel bad about yourself, are you-'Phoenix was cut off by a knock on the compartment door. 'Well speak of the devil' she muttered as Heather and Austin entered the compartment.

'Ollie!' Heather squealed, pulling her best friend into a big hug. 'I missed you so much'

'I missed you too' Ollie replied. 'Look at you Head Girl, how was New York?'

'Well it was-'

'Heather you must be hungry after that long prefects meeting, do you want to go and track down the food trolley with me?' Phoenix asked

'Well-'

'I'm really hungry and you could you it as an opportunity to check on some of the first years and make sure the prefects are obeying your orders and doing all their jobs'

'I'll come with you' Jon added hastily, finally getting what Phee was trying to tell him.

'Do you want anything off the trolley?' Phoenix asked Ollie, as though it wasn't blatantly obvious what she was trying to do.

'Just a couple of chocolate frogs thanks, how about you Austin?'

'A pumpkin pasty would be great Phoenix' Austin said

'We'll catch up later' Ollie called out to Heather as she was dragged away by Phee and Jon, leaving the couple alone in the compartment.

'Well, that was awkward' Ollie commented as Austin sat down next to her.

'I do wish that Phoenix would act more maturely' Austin said snobbishly 'We're seventh years now'

'Tell me about it' Ollie replied. 'My Dad spent the better part of last week saying that he can't believe that I'm in my last year at Hogwarts'

'How is your father?'

'He's ok, working hard as usual in the Auror Department' Ollie replied. 'How was Luxemburg?'

'It was an incredible experience...' and so began Austin's monologue about how fabulous the Wizarding Youth Parliament had been '...Mr Shaklebolt said that I showed great promise and that I reminded him of the young Percy Weasley'

'It sounds like you had a good time, I just wish you had written to me more' Ollie stated.

'I'm sorry' Austin replied, wrapping an arm around his girlfriend's shoulder. 'I was just so busy, I didn't have the time.'

'But you had enough time to write to Heather, to tell her that you had been made Head Boy, but you did not have enough time to tell your girlfriend'

'Heather wrote to me so I replied'

'I had to find out from Phoenix!'

'Well if you had written to me telling me some more interesting things, like what was going on beck home in the news, I might have written more. You only told me about you and your family had been up to which wasn't very interesting. I wish you had more interest in politics.'

'Ollie was absolutely astounded by what she had just heard. 'I told you I had been made Quidditch Captain which to some people is as important as Head Boy.' She replied steadily, trying to remember why she liked this boy. 'You forget Austin that I spent my childhood surrounded by the intrigues of international politics and as a consequence I have grown to have rather a healthy dislike of politicians. You talk so much about international affairs, yet you can only speak English, whereas I am nearly fluent in three languages'

'Well it was hard to understand what was being said without a translator' Austin admitted grudgingly. 'I'm sorry, I've just got a lot going on at the moment, being Head Boy and sorting out an application for a position in the Department of International Relations next year and Mother's-'

'I know, we've all got a lot on at the moment. I've had the madness of the twins this summer and I've now got to sort out a new quidditch team, but please don't speak to me like that again' Ollie said calmly, not wanting to fight.

'I'm so sorry' Austin repeated, stroking her hair and pressing a tender kiss to her temple.

Ollie sighed and rested her head on his shoulder. This was the Austin that she remembered, she thought, trying to convince herself that everything was going to be ok.