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When I walk out of the door that leads to the basement to get to Hufflepuff's common room and into the main hall (stuffing Doritos into my mouth from the ziploc bag my mom had given me) I see Emma standing across the hallway at the bottom of the steps. She's by the doors that leads to where we will be eating our meals every day called the Great Hall surrounded by a few girls, seeming to have made friends but looks upset.

As I get closer I realize that two of the three girls standing with my sister look familiar. One is taller than Emma, seems to have an athletic body with light skin, black long hair in a ponytail, dark brown eyes and has glasses. The other is the same height as the black haired girl, also light skinned with glasses, average weight, has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. They look like they could be related. Then the last girl that I have no clue on is the same height as Emma, light skinned with bushy light brown hair and light brown eyes.

"Hey." I say when I get to them, realizing that the tallest girls are barely shorter than me.

They all turn to me, Emma half smiles. "Aiden, hey." she looks at the girls, "This is my brother."

I look at all of them and slightly smile, "Hi."

They smile back, "I'm Hermione." the bushy haired girl says.

"Jenny." the averaged weight girl gets in next.

"Breanna." the last one closest to me finishes.

Then Emma looks at me, "They went to No Maj school with us back in Brooklyn." she points to the last two who introduced themselves.

I stare at the two girls that I knew looked like people I've seen before, my eyebrows raising. "Campos and Stuart?" I ask half confidently.

They both smile, nodding.

My smile widens, thank Merlin we found people we know. "Wow, it's been awhile." They smile, but then I realize that they all look a little upset, "What's wrong?" my face drops.

"Long story." Emma says, "Something to be talked about in private."

"There's a study section on the second corridor from the main floors." Hermione tells us.

"Or for us it's the third." Breanna adds.

"We know." I say at the same time as Emma, making them all crack up at our twin moment.

In the UK, floors are reversed. Example, first floor for us is considered the lower floor or basement for them. Then the second is first, and so on. So what would they consider the Great Hall floor and the actual basement? Who knows.

I look at my watch, "We have five minutes till lunch."

"Perfect." Emma says, "Shouldn't take long."

"Can't we do it after lunch? I'm starving."

She smiles. "You just finished a handful of chips."

"He didn't…oh wait, you mean crisps." Hermione says, getting a little red.

We all smile, "Yea, I meant potato chips. Sorry." Emma tells her.

"And it wasn't enough to hold me after missing breakfast." I tell Emma, "I haven't eaten a meal since…" I think, because I realize that I have no idea what time zone it is anymore. "Since…"

"Yesterday afternoon in American time." she says for me.

"Yes, exactly."

"Lunch isn't going to be gone in two seconds, Aiden."

"But…"

"It'll be easier to have privacy while everyone else is stuffing their faces and away from the rest of the castle."

I sigh, nodding. "Fiiiine."

She smiles, grabbing onto my hand. "Good." she looks at the girls, "Meet you in a bit for lunch."

I smile at the others, then allow my sister to pull me away. We head up to the floor Hermione said to go and walk until we find the right room. There are only a few students here right now getting ready to leave as we grab an empty couch in the back.

For a few seconds she seems like she's trying to wrap her mind around where to start first. Then she slightly smiles, "Okay. Well first off, crazy to find Bree and Jenny in school with us, huh."

I laugh, "Totally. They're in your house?"

She nods, "Hermione came to my room this morning. Then Bree accidentally bumped into me on her way out of their room."

"So why the long faces when I got to you guys?"

Her face goes a little slack, then she takes a breath. "You know who is back."

"Who?" I ask confused.

"The you know who. The same you know who that Harry Potter went against at the age of one."

My face goes from smiling to complete shock and terror in a second as my mouth drops open, "What?"

She takes a breath, shaking her head. "It happened at the end of last school year. They had some event and in the last task to win Harry Potter saw him for real."

"That's not possible. He disappeared over ten years ago."

"I know, but they are all friends with him. He's not the type to lie so they believe him."

I take a breath, bringing my fingers to squeeze between my eyes. "And I found out that the Principal isn't the nicest." I look at her, "She's against No Maj wizards. For all we know she's on his side." I shake my head, putting my elbows on my knees and my head in my hands. "We left home just to be thrown into danger."

"That's another problem I just figured out."

I open my eyes and look at her, "What is?"

"Breanna and Jenny have both been coming here since year one."

"Okay?" I ask in confusion.

"They were both born in the states. Just like us, but somehow they got their letters with no problem."

"That doesn't make sense, Em. Dad said we weren't allowed because we weren't born in Europe. He fought to get us in."

"What if it wasn't true?"

I shake my head, "Why would they do that?"

"Maybe there's more to the story on why we didn't get them for our first year."

"Better be a damn good reason, because they knew I wanted to be here since day one."

"I know." She nods, "We'll get to the bottom of it."

We sit here for a few long minutes, trying to process everything she told me. Then we get up and leave what I guess they'd consider a study? Even though it's ginormous. So we head down the steps and go back to the main hallway. We walk right through the doors to go into the Great Hall to eat, not expecting the sight of it.

My mouth drops so wide that I feel like a cartoon character. The place seems to be filled with gold surroundings and is huge, going all the way down so far to the back of the room that it feels like it could go forever. Obviously that's impossible as we just make out a long table where the teachers are sitting with banners hanging above them with the respected house colors and logos. Gryffindor being red and gold with a lion, Hufflepuff is yellow and black with a badger, Slytherin as green and silver with a snake, and lastly Ravenclaw has blue and bronze with an eagle.

Then there's a sea of kids sitting at four separate long gold tables going from the point we are standing to the teachers table. This makes it feel like a million kids are talking at once.

"This is incredible." I say, looking at my sister whose face is lit up like a lightbulb from excitement.

"I saw this in books, but it sure doesn't beat seeing it in real life." she looks up and points, "Look."

I stare up at the ceiling, it being covered in candles that float in mid air. But right now they aren't lit, because the ceiling is reflecting the mood of the sky. We can literally see how it looks outside, the brightness of the blue clear sky shining down on us.

"Whoa."

She laughs, "Whoa for sure."

I turn to her, she's still looking up. "Bet you're happy you came now."

She looks at me, half smiling. "Time will tell."

After the shock of it all we start to walk down the aisle of two sets of tables. I didn't realize till Emma tells me just now that they are all set so that each table is only filled with kids in the same houses. The only reason why I don't know that besides that I don't go all dork mode to read on every little thing, but because practically all of the kids are wearing normal clothing. This keeps me from knowing who belongs in which house. Even the handful of kids who are wearing the cloaks required during classes don't have the logo's of who belongs where.

This makes my stomach go into a knot, because I did not expect sitting away from Emma. We always had meals together. So on top of being divided for everything else there's this. We only have like three classes together.

"Hey, guys." Emma says as she sees the girls from earlier, standing behind them.

They all turn around, smiling up at us. Hermione is sitting beside Jenny while Breanna is beside Jenny on the other side. "Hey."

"All good?" Jenny asks.

We look at each other, slowly nodding. "It's a process to grasp." I say, turning back to them. "I don't see how any of it is possible."

"Well you can't talk about it around anyone who doesn't believe it." Breanna says, "There's a lot of traders here who think it's all a lie and will turn you in to Umbridge."

I go to answer, until I take a better look at all the kids sitting around their group. That's when I notice that Harry Potter, I repeat Harry Potter is staring at me from across the three girls, making my mouth fall open.

Anyone looking at a pale boy with black messy hair, green eyes and round glasses wouldn't think anything of it. But behind the bangs that scatter around his forehead is a just visible lightning bolt scar, making it enough to know who this is to a person like me. That's where the biggest villain in the wizarding universe lost his battle over ten years ago, and the fact that the boy who defeated him is sitting in front of me makes me believe it more that this wizard is also back in the flesh.

"Take a picture, it'll last longer." Breanna teases as Emma nudges me.

I shake out of my daze, seeing that everyone is laughing at me. So my face turns a little red, "S-Sorry."

Harry smiles, "It's okay, mate."

I slightly smile back, "I'm Aiden."

"Pleased to meet you. I'm Harry."

"Smooth, Harry." Jenny says cracking up, "He had no idea."

Now Harry turns a little red and shies away. That's when a girl sitting beside Breanna with long red hair pokes my arm and makes me look at her. "I'm Ginny, fourth year." she turns, "These are my brothers." she points to three also very red haired boys across the table by Harry, two of them being twins.

"Fred, seventh year." one twin says.

"George, same as him." the other says with the smile.

"Obviously." Ginny says, laughing.

"And I'm Ron." the last brother says, "Weasley. Fifth year."

"So you two are the American transfers we heard were coming around." a sandy haired boy with light skin that is beside Hermione asks.

We look at him, nodding.

"I'm Neville." he reaches out his hand, "It's really a pleasure."

I smile and shake his hand back. The same being done with my sister.

"This is Dean." he points to a dark skinned boy across from him, "And Seamus." he points to another boy beside Dean.

I smile, "Nice to meet you. I'm in my fifth as well." I feel a nudge, this time harder than before. "Ow." I look at Emma, "Stop hitting me."

She rolls her eyes, "My brother is clearly rude and doesn't know how to introduce others." I'm Emma, fifth year."

"Twins?" one of the red head twins says with their eyes wide in excitement. I can't tell them apart, so this should be interesting.

We both slightly smile and nod, "Yea."

"Brilliant!" they both yell.

"Oi, Aiden!" I turn around from my name being called and see the boy I met last night named Ernie waving me over from the Hufflepuff table two down from this one.

I smile and turn back to Emma, giving her a sad look. "I'll see you later." I get out a bit low, her eyes saddening now.

"You're both Hufflepuffs?" Ron asks, his eyebrows raised in question.

I slightly smile, "No, just me. Em's with you." I look at her, "Be careful with her, she's a handful."

Everyone smiles as she punches me on the arm, holding back a laugh. "Asshole."

I rub my arm, "Love you too."