Since inspiration has hit I thought I would give you another chapter today. I start the new job tomorrow and am excited about it. Enjoy.

Ch 8. Summer of fun and returning for fourth year.

Harriet and Aurora spent most of their summer in Buenos Aires and Rio D' Janeiro, they were attending Carnival and spending time with the friends they had not seen in a few years. Slipping easily back into Spanish and Portuguese. Their home in Buenos Aires just happened to be Aurora's favorite. The two-story mansion trimmed in a pale green and painted a dark forest green the house looked fantastic. They had their own swimming pool and gardens, the roses were in bloom, spreading their colors all over the land. Reds, oranges, yellows, whites, pinks, even purples. Mixed with the other flowers adding the rest of the colors of the rainbow made you feel like you were in heaven. The fountain with a unicorn statue just seemed picturesque. And the stables with the horses added the final touch to their childhood home. They spent a month in Buenos Aires before heading to Rio for Carnival and their home which was Harriet's favorite place.

Harriet loved the simplicity of their home in Rio. While not as fancy as their home Buenos Aires the two-story log cabin home was painted a pale blue, and had deep blue trim. A vegetable garden took up most of the left side of the property and the right side was take up by the peach and pear orchards. This house also had a stable for their horses but Harriet's favorite part was the natural lake at the back of the house that they could go swimming or fishing in. Misty loved roses so you could find a garden of them here as well. The smell of blooming roses could be detected for miles. Though the hill with heather that Misty and Harriet planted when Harriet was five would remain a favorite picnic spot for years to come. They spent a month in Rio before returning to England so they could purchase supplies for their fourth year at Hogwarts.

While some people would not find going to their childhood homes to be that much fun in the summer there was always something to do, like swimming, fishing, picnicking, backpacking, hiking, gardening, horse back riding and many other activities that Harriet and Aurora loved to do, to them it was the perfect summer vacation.

When they arrived back in England they found their book list for forth year waiting for them. They sent letters to their friends telling all about their summer activities and asking to meet up to shop for school supplies. They were sent responses immediately agreeing to meet up in two days in Diagon Alley. The shopping trip was uneventful but they got to see their friends.

Before they knew it, it was September first and time to return to school. The train ride was not what they were expecting when Aurora and Harriet did not return from the bathroom. They were cornered coming out of the bathroom by Ron and a gang of Gryffindors who seemed to have forgotten what happened the last time they attacked Harriet. This time though they had enlisted more of Gryffindor house including Hermione Granger who had been trying to get the group to do as she told them for the past several years. The cursed and beat Harriet and Aurora unconscious and left them in the hall for anyone to find.

Ginny and Cassi went looking for Harriet and Aurora when they did not return, they enlisted the help of Draco who was a prefect and Luna who had stopped by to say hello to them. The quartet found Harriet and Aurora unconscious about an hour after they started searching, They, were hexed and beaten so badly you could hardly recognize them. Draco made his way to the front of the train to send a letter to Hogwarts and they moved Harriet and Aurora to their compartment where neither stirred.

Harriet and Aurora missed the sorting feast as the moment the train arrived it was met by several professors and the headmaster to find out what was going on. They were furious to find out Harriet and Aurora were attacked. They would not be able to find out who did such a heinous act until the girls regained consciousness. But they would be inquiring all the same. Madame Bones and the minister were informed that whoever was guilty this time would be expelled from Hogwarts and their wands snapped if they did not go to another school or get home schooled. Hogwarts would no longer allow students to be bullied or beaten for any reason. The rules had been changed when Flitwick became headmaster and the ministry took over running the school. The culprits knew the punishment they would receive, when they attacked Aurora and Harriet.

Because of the combination of curses and the beating they had received Harriet and Aurora did not regain consciousness until a week before the Christmas Holiday. They told the headmaster, professors and ministry officials that Ron, Hermione and the same Gryffindors as before attacked them again forgetting the consequences of their previous actions. Though Harriet before she lost consciousness heard them laugh and say. "I hope they die so no one can pin this on us." Then they walked away laughing at what they had done. Neither Harriet or Aurora had gotten a chance to fire off even a single spell having been hit with body bind curses first thing. They were defenseless.

Aurora and Harriet were appalled that they had missed so much of their fourth year because of the attack but would do everything they could to catch up over the Christmas Holiday. Thought I would not be that much fun since they would have to put aside their previous plans to go to Sea World in America and see the San Diego zoo as well. They would be too busy catching up on school work. Though Ginny and Cassi made sure to take good notes for them and write down all assignments to they could catch up on school work. Narcissa even said they could use her classroom for all the catch-up work and could even do the potions work assigned if they let her know in advance so she could be there to make sure they were safe.

Harriet and Aurora immediately got to work on their assignments so they could remain at the top of their class this year as well. Ron, Hermione and the Gryffindors were summoned to the headmaster's office to face the consequences of their actions. Hermione this being her first offense was given a lighter punishment than the rest. She would be suspended for the rest of the year and must make it up the next year, she would lose her place as Gryffindor prefect and she would be limited to how much time she could spend studying in the library she would only be allowed in the library for two hours a night, four nights a week. And only when Aurora, Harriet, Ginny or Cassi were not there.

Arthur was furious when he found out that Ron had again attacked Harriet, and to make it worse he attacked Aurora as well. The parents of the other students were informed that their kids were expelled from Hogwarts they had the choice to go to another school if it would take them, be home schooled or have their wands snapped. There would be more charges brought as it was two members of prominent families that were attacked this time. Worse one of those children was the child of Lord Black. Hermione's parents were informed that they would have to go to court and find out how much restitution she would have to pay for her actions. A court date was set over the holiday's so that when school resumed Harriet and Aurora would be able to integrate back into their classes.

Harriet and Aurora managed to finish all assignments by spending all day every day except Christmas day, diligently working to catch up. They even got Narcissa to monitor them while making the assigned potions they had missed. They managed all of this with one day left in the holiday. They spent that day in London going to the Museum and the Zoo since they did not really have time for much else. Though they had a pretty good time at both locations. Their planned trip would be for the next summer and they would spend two months in California learning all about the muggle and magical worlds.

The rest of the year was uneventful and the rest of the school understood that bullying any students would have serious repercussions. Ron and the rest of the offenders were forced to pay 100,000 galleons restitution to each Aurora and Harriet. Hermione got a lighter fee because it was her first offense she had to pay 25,000 galleons to each Harriet and Aurora. She was told to stay away from Harriet, Aurora and their friends. She would return to repeat her fifth year and any classes she had with our heroines she would be kept away from them.