New chapter, yay! A few things to discuss my lovely readers! I started a tumblr for this story which you can find here

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Basically it is just outfits for Eve and pictures of what I imagined the characters look like. I'm sure my Game of Thrones obsession shines through quite a bit with my choice of actors for the Eldridge's. I hope you guys like it! Plus I am thinking of doing a prequel for the Year of Everything placed around the 5th book. But, we shall see.

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Grace

Emmery and Eve only went to Hogwarts at the same time for two years. In Eve's third year Emmery had made sure to see her off on the train. It was that goodbye that stuck so vividly in her mind.

Mr and Mrs Eldridge, Emmery and Eve had all loaded into the oddly proportioned red muggle bus with Eve's heavy trunks, screeching owl and rather odd looking robes.

"Eve make sure you get Aves out of his cage when you arrive in your dorm!" yelled Mrs. Eldridge, causing many of the disgruntled bus patrons to find seats farther away from the bellowing woman with a dogwood stick poking out of dark handbag.

"Yes mum!" responded Eve, even louder than her mother. By this point most people had crowded to either sides of the bus, trying to avoid the farm animals and oddly dressed family in the middle of their morning commute.

Eve's heart was pounding. As soon as they arrived at King's Cross Eve grabbed her owl and trunks before bolting off to the Muggle platform nine. There stood crowds of anxious parents trying to give their rambunctious first year kids a lesson on running into a brick wall. Leaning against one of the dirty brick columns was a man with dark auburn hair. It had grown out since he had unpinned the Prefect badge and started Auror training.

"Evie!" yelled the man as he spotted his fourteen year old sister dragging her trunks as she ran speedily to him. He leaped up from the post and grinned brightly.

"Emmery!" she yelled back, letting go of her trunk and running with her arms wide open. The two siblings embraced each other in the middle of the bustling station. The two hadn't seen each other for three weeks, a drastic change from living together for 12 months of the year. Though Emmery didn't mind the privacy and Eve, the extra space.

"You ready to get on the train soon?" he asked, picking up a few of her bags and waving to his parents who were slowly walking over.

"Completely, I can't wait to see everyone."

"Everyone?"

"You can exclude any Slytherin girls."

"The boys?"

"They aren't as interested in me." Eve bolted through the brick wall, squeezing her eyes shit as she felt the cool shiver pass through her. She turned around and waited for her brother's tall, strong build to emerge from the rusty coloured bricks.

"Good, I was never interested in Slytherin girls either." Said Emmery, a little louder than needed in the uncrowded platform 9 ¾. A couple of people turned their heads in shock or disgust, most others just silently chuckled to themselves.

"How's Auror training going?" asked Eve. Emmery turned to her, his face a little fallen. Eve could almost feel a little bit of sorrow dripping off of her brother.

"Absolutely, positively wonderful." Eve's false sense of sympathy faded and she rolled her eyes at her teasing brother.

"The Weasley's should be here soon." said Emmery, checking his watch and the brick wall where their parents had appeared.

"It's almost time to board." said Eve noticing the hordes of first years shyly hopping aboard the train.

"Time to say goodbye." said Mr Eldridge, who had just come up behind his daughter, wrapping his arm around her shoulders.

"I'm going to miss you guys." murmured Eve. Her mother let out a small chuckle and grin.

" You'll be so busy you won't even realize." her mother replied comfortingly.

"Besides you'll be home for Christmas." Mr Eldridge join in.

"I'll try and see you at Hogsmeade." reassured Emmery.

Eve smiled at her family attempts to rid her of anxious thoughts.

"Come on now. Don't want to miss your train." directed her father as he picked up the heavy trunks beside her and gestured towards the train.

"You'll have a such a fun time!" Don't get into too much trouble." Eve stepped up onto the train's steps receiving her trunks from her parents.

"Go find your seat, wave to us through the window!" her mother exclaimed as the train's loud whistle shrieked throughout the station.

Eve dragged her heavy bags through the small corridor and finally found an empty compartment. She dropped her bags and ran towards the slightly fogged window, pulling it down and sitting on the window's frame as she waved frantically to her family.

"I love you sweetie!" shouted her mum happily bouncing up and down as wisps of reddish brown hair escaped from her elegantly braided bun.

"Send lots of letters!" yelled her father, placing his hands in his pockets and smiling so that the laugh lines surrounded his grey eyes.

"Say hi to the professors for me!" the last voice of her family echoed through her ears. Their faces and expression burned into her mind as they were wildfire. Fear and panic swallowed up her thoughts as her family's faces started to grow distant from the now moving train.

Then her view turned fuzzy. The sounds of the train centred in her mind, drowning out the slashing sounds of violent spells being casted within the station. Two flashes of vibrant green bounced off her mother and father. A third hit Emmery harder than the rest, knocking him onto his stomach. Their grinning faces turned blank and empty, falling to the ground in a split second.

Frozen in time, Eve looked at their motionless bodies. Lying so silent on the cold stone. Three figures stepped forward from their bodies.

A woman with dark black hair laughed over Emmery's lifeless body; two men joined in as they stood over the bodies of Eve's parents. Laughing with such intensity it terrified Eve, making her cry out her parents and brother's names. Their faces stared without emotion from where they lay. Eve shut her eyes and sobbed loudly as the faces of her parent's murderers grew smaller and the sounds of the train drifted away and were replaced with soft calls of seagulls and the murmurs of voices.

"It was a nightmare, just a nightmare." she whispered, wiping away a few moist tears from her cheeks as the cracked voiced whispered through her memories, sounding the word through their moist lips, crucio.