DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER, I JUST OWN MY CHARACTERS AND THEIR STORYLINES.
"Chris, be quiet," Diana told the kitsune as they were making their way to their dormitory. "You might wake people."
"Everyone is asleep. No need to be paranoid." Christina whispered as they opened the door of their dorm.
It was past midnight and they were trying to surprise Gabriela with a little cake that they had bought in Hogsmeade. It was her fourteenth birthday and they wanted to cheer the girl with the cake and some present that they got for her.
"Ready?" Evelyn asked them and they nodded their heads. Christina pulled the hangings of the bed only to find a very sleepy Gabriela while Diana started to record with Gabriela's camera. Evelyn gave them a look if they should continue but they nodded their heads for her to continue.
"Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you." Gabriela stirred from her sleep and opened her chocolate brown eyes. "Happy birthday to you, Gabby." The girl sat up and a smile graced her face as she looked at her friends. "Happy birthday to you."
"Thank you." She said with a smile and Evelyn neared the cake close to her.
"Make a wish and blow the candles," Diana told the birthday girl who closed her eyes. She then thought of wish and blew the candles.
"What was the wish?" Christina asked earning the looks from all the other girls. "Oh, I forgot you aren't supposed to tell."
Diana turned the camera off and looked at the girls. "I need to cut this but don't you open the presents without me."
"We won't," Evelyn assured her and Diana moved to cut the cake. "How does it feel like being fourteen?"
"Same as thirteen," Gabriela answered as she shrugged her shoulders.
"I can't wait to turn fourteen but it's such a long wait," Christina stated earning incredulous looks.
"Your birthday is in April. That's a month away. It's not a long wait." Evelyn pointed out and Christina shrugged her shoulders.
"Comparing it to your birthday, of course, it's not a long wait." Christina pointed out with a raised eyebrow.
"Whatever you say, Chris," Evelyn mumbled and soon Diana joined them with plastic plates with cake and forks. They all sat on the bed cross-legged and started to eat the cake.
"You didn't have to do this," Gabriela told the three girls who all waved their hands at her dismissively.
"We don't regret it. We want you to have a good birthday." Evelyn assured her friends before eating a piece of the cake. "This is good."
"Open up the presents we got you." Christina moved to get the bag and Gabriela put away her plate. She got the bag and opened it a little.
The first present she got was a book in hardcovers. She touched the engraving in front of the book. It wrote 'Call Of The Wild' by Jack London. She gasped in surprise as someone remembered that she had wanted to read this book since the beginning of the year. It was her grandfather's favourite book and he always told her that she was going to read it. He never did end up giving it to her as he passed away and the book was never found. Her uncle joked that he took it with him in the grave.
"You mentioned that you wanted to read it a couple of times because your grandfather loved it and I just knew I should get it for you," Diana spoke and Gabriela gave her a big smile. Tears started to well up in her brown eyes.
"Thanks a lot, Dee." The girl returned the smile and Gabriela went to grab another present. She unwrapped it only to see that it was an album.
Not just any album, Janis Joplin's album called Pearl. Gabriela smiled as she looked at it. "You mentioned that you were raised listening to her when your mother cooked, so I got it for you," Evelyn explained to her friends who was looking at the album and a tear dropped on it.
"Thanks a lot, Eve." Gabriela sniffed a little. Christina let out a scoff at the whole thing.
"Good jobs, girls. You made her cry." Christina said and then she grabbed the gift she got for her friend. "I think this will make you happy. I called some favours with that."
Gabriela could see even with the wrappings that it was a book. She started to unwrap it and she raised an eyebrow to see that it was 'Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them'.
"Thanks, Chris." She said with a frown as she already had this book in her possession. She still read even though they hadn't used since their first year.
"Open it." Gabriela did as she was told to do and gasped when she saw what it was written on the first page.
Happy birthday Gabriela. I hope we will meet in the future and talk about how fantastic and fascinating creatures live among us.
Newt Scamander
Gabriela let out a shriek and the other girls started to laugh at her reaction. She seemed truly ecstatic about the gift that Christina told her. "Told you I gave her the best gift ever."
Christina almost fell off the bed when Gabriela jumped to hug her. Evelyn and Diana started to laugh at the sight of their two friends.
Dear mum
I miss you lots and I can't wait for the Easter holidays to start so I can come home to you. I hope you're not lonely and I hope you're going out with people, not staying home and watching The Brady Bunch. I don't even get why you like that show.
Either way, life at Hogwarts has been more interesting this couple of days because of the club. It has been going good even though there is tension between girls. A lot of it but I think it will get better with time. Diana came with the name. It's named Girls' Fight Club as we are fighting together a girls for our rights. We have set a few rules but we are going to set more in the coming meetings.
Elena has joined the club too. She didn't talk much in the only two meetings we had. But her presence is quite evident as she is the reason why the other girls in Slytherin joined the club. She is nice to the girls even me. I judged her without actually knowing her fully well. That's stupid of me but we still have four other years ahead in Hogwarts. There is something wrong with her. She has become quite skinny and she always looked really tired. I thought that maybe the stress of the school was doing that to me as it certainly is doing that to me but I was wrong. I found her in one of the girls' bathroom one day, vomiting. I think she did it intentionally because when I offered her some cookies, she said that she couldn't eat it.
I went to the library and searched for her condition. I found two disorders that are called anorexia and bulimia. That is what the muggles called them. Anorexia is when the person thinks that they are overweight and they start to eat less food, they start to exercise more than needed and they make themselves vomit. Bulimia is the disorder when someone eats a lot in a short period and then makes themselves vomit. I don't know which one of the disorders Elena has but I want to help her with them. I think she needs someone's help even me. Not the most ideal person to help her but sometimes people need to help each other. Please write me and give me some advice.
I love you mom and I just hope this two weeks go fast so I can see you soon.
Love Eve
She finished her letter and got up from her desk in her library inside her suitcase. She folded the letter and put it in the envelope. She put the pen down and moved to get out of the suitcase.
"That's not fair." She heard Gabriela whine. Evelyn looked up only to see Christina smiling and moving up and down.
"What's not fair?" Evelyn asked as she closed the suitcase and put it under her bed.
"Christina has gotten her period," Diana informed and Evelyn raised an eyebrow. Christina looked pretty relaxed, unlike Evelyn and Gabriela who couldn't even sit up when they were going through their menstrual cycle.
"I feel weird a little as I'm bleeding right now but I don't feel any pain at all." Christina pointed out making Evelyn scoff a little.
"That certainly isn't fair." Evelyn agreed with Gabriela about Christina's painless period. "Gabby and I can barely walk when we have them."
"Maybe it has to do with her being a kitsune," Diana suggested. Christina shrugged and put her hair in a ponytail.
"I'll ask mum about it." She responded before fixing her skirt. "Seems like you're the only one left Dee."
"Is it ironic as I'm the oldest of us four?" Diana said as she put her books in her bag.
"A little bit yes but you'll get them soon enough," Evelyn assured her before turning to look at Gabriela. "So what do you want to do for your birthday?"
Gabriela shrugged her shoulders. "Nothing big. I think the cake and the gifts you got me are enough."
"That's bullshit," Evelyn said earning shocked looks from her friends. "Oh, piss off! That won't happen as you are probably going to get more gifts and maybe another cake."
"Eve, you should stop eating cake so much. You might get diabetes." Diana advised her but Evelyn shook her words away.
"Or fat," Christina added.
"Diabetes is dangerous. Being fat isn't dangerous until you become obese." Diana informed the kitsune who shrugged her shoulders.
"But the boys won't like her as much." Christina pointed out making Gabriela frown.
"I thought boys should like you because of your personality," Gabriela said and Christina laughed a little.
"They should but they don't." The kitsune told the birthday girl who nodded her head.
"But we women do the same, don't we?" Evelyn spoke as she grabbed her bag. "We start to like most boys because of their appearance. I started to like Rabastan because I found him handsome."
"You didn't find him handsome until he answered every question in Herbology in the beginning of the second year." The other girl started to laugh at Diana's words while Evelyn stuck her tongue out.
"It seems like I found intelligence attractive. It's kinda predictable." She moved to the door and turned to look at them. "I'm going to the owlery." She heard Christina whistle making her head snap at her directions. "To owl this to my mum."
"Sure Eve." It was Gabriela who teased her this time.
"Please tell me, fourteen is going to be the year which you become sassy." Diana directed her words to her birthday girl who on my shrugged her shoulders in response.
"I'm going now." Evelyn got out and closed the door of the dorm. She headed to the common room which had a few students in it. She noticed that the only one from her year some Barty was reading something.
She walked out of the common room and headed to the owlery. When she reached the owlery, she saw that her owl Caterpillar was sleeping.
"Caterpillar." The owl opened its eyes and tilted its head to look at Evelyn. "I need you," She showed the letter to her owl. "To give this to mum." The owl flew to her shoulder making Evelyn glad that she had cut her hair. "Here." She put the letter on his claws. The owl immediately flew away.
Evelyn turned to the window to look at her owl fly away in the beautiful spring day. A smile graced her features as the owl disappeared out of her sight.
She looked at the Hogwarts grounds from her window and couldn't help but think that the reason why it was such a lovely and peaceful day, was because of Gabriela. The girls who was the most lovely and peaceful person Evelyn had ever met in her thirteen years in the world.
The blonde then headed to the Great Hall to find the girls and the boys already seated there. She saw that Gabriela was holding some sort of a book.
"What you got there?" She asked as she took the seat across from Gabriela and next to Carter.
"They got me a book about unicorns and their origins." She showed the book title and it said 'Over The Rainbow'.
"Why do unicorns and rainbows have to be connected?" Edrick asked making everyone look at him.
"Because they're both are magical and they bring happiness," Gabriela responded with a smile and Edrick seemed to be satisfied with her answer. He only shrugged before biting on his toast.
"Do you want a party for your birthday?" Carter asked and before Gabriela could respond, he started to give orders. "Juliet, you're in charge of inviting people after all you're the social butterfly of the group. Ed, you're in charge of the drinks. Henrik, you're in charge of the food. Diana, you're in charge of the music." Gabriela was trying to stop him but he wasn't even paying attention to her. "Christina, you're in charge of unwelcome people."
"Why am I in charge of the unwelcome people?" She asked as she put down her fork.
"Because you're scary to people under 50." He responded to her as he continued to talk to who should we invite.
"I'm not scary." Christina seemed to think that Carter was talking nonsense. "Am I scary?"
"A little bit," Diana answered, a comforting smile adorning her chocolate coloured face.
"Now from Gryffindor, we will invite the Prewett twins, Marlene and her girls, the Marauders because you know they helped me out when none of you did-" Gabriela decided to cut him off.
"Carter, stop! I don't want a birthday party. I want to spend my birthday like we spent each day here in Hogwarts." He pouted his lips at her words but said nothing else.
"Fine, it's your birthday. You do whatever you want in it." He accepted the defeat and Gabriela gave him a comforting smile.
Just then, an owl flew towards their table and a pack with a letter on it was in front of Gabriela.
"I prefer the mail by post then by owls." Diana pointed out making Christina and Edrick frown as they didn't understand what the word 'post' meant.
"What?" They both asked in sync.
"You'll learn it in Muggle Studies," Evelyn told them not having the patience to explain to them.
Gabriela had opened the letter first and now was reading through the lines. "Mum is feeling way better. She wrote the letter." The girl started to get teary-eyed and Diana put an arm on her back to comfort her.
Gabriela whipped her tears away and then looked at the package. She opened it and saw that it was filled with things. There were two dresses, one was blue like the Ravenclaw blue colour and the other was light pink. They had gotten her sugar quills which she was addicted to it, she had an empty photo album that had a note that said.
Fill it with your memories
She then noticed that they had gotten her a camera. A polaroid.
"What is that?" Carter asked looking at the camera in her hand. "Is it a recording camera like Evelyn's?"
"No, it's polaroid. You take the photo and then the photo appears from this hole immediately. You have to wait for the picture to be ready to be seen for like a minute." She explained to him and it seemed that all of her friends expect Diana seems to have never seen.
"I dink we need a photo," Henrik said and they all nodded their heads in agreement.
"But who should take it?" Christina asked. Evelyn turned to look at anyone around who could have a clue how to use their polaroid.
Her blue eyes landed to a redhead in the Gryffindor table. "Hey, Lily." Lily turned around to look at Evelyn. "Do you know how to use a muggle camera?"
"Like yours?" Lily called with a quite loud voice as the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw tables were separated by the Hufflepuff one.
"No, like a polaroid." Lily nodded her head. "Can you come and take a photo of us?"
The redhead got up from the table and Evelyn, Carter and Christina moved to the other side of the table. Gabriela handed the polaroid to Lily who took it.
"Say cheese," Lily told them as she was about to take a photo but Edrick's voice stopped her.
"Why should we say cheese? I hate cheese."
Everyone groaned at him expect Christina who gaped. "How can you not like cheese?" She asked in disbelief. The rest of the group let out a groan while Lily smiled in amusement.
"How can you like it?" He shot back at her.
"Stop acting like five years old and say cheese like Lily said," Diana said with a quite an angry voice which made the other two quiet.
"Cheese." The whole group said in unison and Lily took the photo. They all saw the photo slid from the hole and Lily moved to get it. She gave the polaroid and the photo back to Gabriela. "By the way, happy birthday."
"Thanks." Lily walked away after Gabriela thanked her.
"Why is it black?" Christina asked as she looked at the photograph.
"You need to wait until the photo appears," Gabriela explained and everyone moved away so they could finish their breakfast.
"Do we have Charms in the first period?" Henrik asked and he got a nod from Carter.
"Please tell me that we didn't have any homework," Edrick said and they all shook their heads in response. "Oh good, I gave two of my last essays over the deadline."
"The two essays that you copied from Diana," Christina added, earning an eye roll from Edrick.
"Says the girl who copies most of her work from Baby Evie."
"Baby Evie here," She pointed her hand to Evelyn who was eating her egg and not paying much attention to the conversation. "does the essays the night before we have to hand them. She is the reason why I do them last minute."
Evelyn looked up from her plate. She had a scowl on her face. "You should be thankful I give them to you. Not bitch around about it."
Everyone started to laugh at her making her scowl deepen. "You just used your American accent," Diana informed as the group was still laughing.
"Hilarious," Evelyn muttered before she returned to eating her scrambled egg.
"I love it when her accents slips," Carter informed making Evelyn groan a little.
"It happens when she gets angry mostly," Henrik added and Evelyn grumbled something about missing Don but they didn't hear her.
"What do you think it's the story behind Lupin's scars?" Edrick asked his best friend as they were sitting in Charms. Remus Lupin was sitting a few rows before them.
"I dink its none o' my business. It's not yours either." Henrik responded but his auburn-haired friend didn't listen to him.
"I think he's just clumsy. I've seen him fall quite often." Edrick pointed with a knowing look.
"Eve is far more clumsy dan 'im. Why doesn't she 'ave scars?" The Irish boy pointed out, their eyes moving to Evelyn who was sitting with Marlene McKinnon. She wasn't paying much attention to the lesson as she was chatting with the blonde Gryffindor.
"Eve's first instinct is to cover her face when she falls. She said it herself." The Welsh boy added and Henrik eyed him a little.
"Like I said it's none o' me business. Ahr yours fahr dat matter." Henrik repeated to his friend who groaned a little.
"You're no fun," Edrick stated before he turned his attention to their Charms teacher and head of their house.
Henrik looked at his friend for a little before thinking his words. Was he no fun at all?
He thought that he was fun. He thought that reading books was fun and writing was fun. He didn't find Quidditch fun or football for that matter. He knew that they were people who agreed with him.
But those people weren't in his group of friends. Evelyn enjoyed reading just as much as he did, Diana didn't find Quidditch that amusing but she always went to watch the games to support Carter and Christina, Edrick, Christina and Carter were the opposite of him and Gabriela enjoyed reading books about plants, animals and creatures. The only one who had more things in common with him was Don.
Henrik found the prologue of Hobbit more interesting than a Quidditch game. The only time he enjoyed Quidditch was when Ireland played.
He didn't even want to go see the finale of the World Cup as Ireland had lost to Syria last week. He had to as he wanted to see his friends especially Don who he hadn't seen since December.
Henrik felt like the odd one in the group. The one who belonged in another group. He belonged with Barty, Bertram, John and Stephen. Not the Soaring Eagles as they were named by Diana. He wasn't as smart as Evelyn and Diana, he wasn't as talented as Christina and Gabriela, he wasn't as good of a friend as Don, he wasn't as popular with the girls as Carter and Edrick. The only girls he ever talked to were the girls in his group and Jenna O'Malley.
Henrik tried to listen to professor Flitwick but something distracted him. He felt like someone was looking at him from behind. He felt weird and turned around only to see emerald eyes on him. The girl's cheeks turned just as red as her hair and Henrik not knowing how to react turned around immediately.
He couldn't believe Lily Evans had been staring at him. He could feel his cheeks heat a little and he looked down to the desk to hide it.
"Mate, why you blushing like a little girl?" Edrick who had noticed him asked.
"It's just 'ot in dis class," Henrik responded as he grabbed his parchment to fresh himself a little. Edrick's eyebrows shot up but he didn't say anything. He went on to taking notes.
Henrik didn't tell him because he didn't want to be teased by Edrick. He didn't even know why Lily had been asking. He also didn't plan to ask her. He never talked her to her in his three years of school.
The only interaction he had with her was in breakfast when she had taken a photo of them with Gabriela's polaroid. He had seen him around with her Gryffindor roommates, he knew that she was best friend with that Slytherin that never bothered to wash his hair and he knew that James Potter had the biggest crush on her. He thought Edrick had it bad with Jenna but it was nothing compared to James with Lily. At least Jenna talked to Edrick without shouting, Lily Evans seemed like she wanted to bury James six foot under with her words and looks.
Henrik moved his head a little and noticed Lily glance at him before she looked away and started to talk to Alice Fortescue who started to giggle. He didn't have a clue why she looked at him again.
"Hey, Gabriela!" The whole group stopped and turned to look at Mona who was rushing to come to them.
Her ponytail was flipping as she was practically running towards them or to be more exact towards Gabriela. "You can go." The tanned girl told her friends who were heading to Defense Against The Dark Arts.
"Alright," Evelyn said and they all moved to go to the class.
"Come on, let's go to the bathroom." Mona caught Gabriela's arm and dragged her to the nearest bathroom. They entered the bathroom and Mona turned to her with a smile. "Sorry that I couldn't wish you a happy birthday before and give you the present but I fell asleep taking a shower."
"You did what?" Gabriela asked as she started to giggle a little.
"It seemed like I wasn't satisfied with sleep so my brain decided to sleep a little more. If it wasn't for Regina, I would have probably died." Mona explained to her. Gabriela still couldn't comprehend that the girl had fallen asleep in the shower. She didn't think it was possible.
"Are you feeling okay?" Gabriela asked worried that her friend might have gotten a cold.
"Never better. That shower refreshed me." Gabriela smiled at the joke the Hufflepuff just said.
"Here is your present." Mona gave her a box with a purple wrapping paper.
"You didn't have to," Gabriela told the girl who waved her hand as to dismiss the Ravenclaw's words.
"Don't speak nonsense. It's not very Ravenclaw of you to do that."
"You should know that we Ravenclaws love to speak nonsense. Diana says that we do that because we want to confuse other houses." Mona laughed and Gabriela moved to open the box.
She saw that it was a jewellery box and she looked up to Mona who smiled at her. "Open it, Gabriela. I have to go to class."
She did open it only to see a pin in form of an eagle. An eagle that was coloured blue and bronze just like the Ravenclaw colours. "Merlin, you shouldn't have."
"I did. Do you like it?" Gabriela nodded her head as she looked at the pin with much adoration. "Do you want me to put it?"
"Yeah, I would love that." Gabriela took it from the box and handed it to Mona. The redhead took it and then pinned it down to her robe.
"It goes with your colours." Mona joked making Gabriela laugh a little as she looked at the pin.
"Thank you, Mona," Gabriela said to the redhead who pulled her hands away from the tanned girl.
"No problem, Gabriela."
"You can call me Gabby." After all, most of her close friends used it and she thought Mona as one of her close friends.
"I prefer Gabriela." Gabriela's brown eyes met with Mona's hazel ones. They stood like that for a few seconds before Mona looked away. "I have to go now or Sprout will have my head."
Mona waved at her before walking out of the bathroom. Gabriela put the box in her bag and decided to head to her class. She rushed a little as she didn't want to be late for class.
She saw that the lesson had yet to start and she moved quickly to Christina's seat who was tapping her quill against the desk not caring that she was leaving marks by doing it.
"Nice pin," Christina commented as Gabriela took a seat in the desk.
"Mona gave it to me," Gabriela informed the kitsune who nodded a little.
"I figured." Christina then turned behind to say something at Carter about their Quidditch practice later. Gabriela moved to touch her pin. She felt her cheeks flush a little and her heart skip a bit. She had no idea why.
Edrick ran up as fast as he could towards the Ravenclaw tower. He was a fast runner and now he was used with the many stairs of Hogwarts. It was after lunch and after talking to Evelyn, he learned that they had Potions and he remembered that he left the essay in his dorm room.
He said the riddle that the eagle knocker gave to him before he ran up to his dorm. They were only three beds now in his dorm as Don's bed had been moved away. They hadn't told anyone about that in fear of Evelyn hearing, they knew she would get quite sad knowing that even Don's bed wash in its place.
Edrick began to rummage through his stuff to find the essay. He only hoped that he wouldn't be late in Potions. He was sure that Slughorn didn't like him as Edrick had caused many damages in the class during his three years in Hogwarts. He didn't care at all that the Potions teacher didn't like him. He had other things to worry about.
"Where the bloody hell did I leave it?" Edrick wondered and then he looked under his bed only to find it covered in dust. "Oh, bollocks." He cleaned the dust a little before he put his essay in his bag.
He then started to rush out of the dorm which led to him almost slamming into a sixth-year girl who had a free period. "Sorry." He apologized before he hurried out of the common room.
Edrick ran like a mad man and he got scolded by many students as he made his way to the dungeons. "Bloody hell, mate." A boy said as Edrick had pushed him out of the way.
"I'm sorry." He grunted an apology before he continued to rush.
Soon, he found himself in the dungeons but he wasn't lucky enough to go to the class. "Where are you going, Ed?"
Edrick turned to face Evan Rosier and the rest of his Slytherin friends which included Damian Avery, Malkolm Mulciber and Severus Snape. The only one missing was Rabastan Lestrange.
"Class, Ev. I think you should go there too." Edrick tried to walkway but he was blocked by the big body of Malkolm Mulciber. "Really?"
"Do you want to know something about Ed here, Snape?" Damian said with a quite low voice. Edrick sighed knowing that he wasn't going to make it in time for his class. "He's the least loyal person I know."
"What do you mean?" Severus Snape asked with a boring tone to his voice.
"We all used to be good friends with him. We used to spend time with him when we were younger." Edrick took a deep breath before looking at Evan who had continued Damian's words. "But when we came to Hogwarts, he changed."
"He decided to join that group of friends." Malkolm spat making Edrick take a step back. He didn't want to have any spit in his face.
"He liked a group of blood traitors, half-bloods, mudbloods," Edrick flinched when Damian called Diana that way. "And bastards."
"You should mind your tongue, Avery," Edrick told him with a threatening voice.
"No one scared of you, idiot. We pity you." Evan said a crude smile on his face. He had been friends with all of them including Rabastan. Evan had been maybe his best friends but when he got in Hogwarts, he saw the true colours of his childhood friends.
"Pity me? Because I have good friends. You shouldn't pity me, I should pity you all." Edrick snapped at him. The smile on Evan's face disappeared.
"Good friends? I wouldn't call a bastard a good friend." It was common knowledge that Damian hated Evelyn and the blonde hated him since Q detention in the first year.
"First of all, you shouldn't call her like that. Second, she's a better friend than you can't even imagine. Third, the only bastard I know is you, Avery." Edrick responded to the boy who seemed to have lost the amusement he had in his face.
"I bet someone like you agreed with her speech and the pathetic club she has formed," Severus spoke like he was sure that Edrick didn't agree with Evelyn or the other girls. Yet Edrick was trying to learn that people should be treated all equals.
All his life he had been raised to believe that pureblood wizards were the one who deserved the world. Not witches or anyone who wasn't a pureblood. His friends had taught him. Each of them was an outcast to his family's society and he found the outcasts better than the people he was used to be around with.
"I'm seeing her point. Everyone should be treated equally." A smile appeared on Edrick's face when he remembered who was Severus's best friend. "Isn't it Lily Evans in the club too? Evelyn mentioned that Lily partakes a lot in the club. She is also a muggleborn. and aren't you a half-blood. You seem like hypocrite group to me."
"The only hypocrite here is you, Ed." Evan shot back at him and Edrick let out a laugh.
"I have learned what is right and what is wrong. I think it's time you do to before you get included in activities you don't enjoy." Edrick referred to being a Death Eater. A term he had heard it a lot in his mother's family.
"What are you referring to?" Malcolm asked. He was playing the oblivious card.
"I'm referring to being your Dark Lord's little bitch," Edrick responded and before he could say something, the other three boys had drew their wands in his direction. Severus didn't draw his, he seemed just as shocked as Edrick was. The auburn-haired boy didn't know if it was because of Edrick's words or the wands being pointed to his direction.
"You don't have the authority to call him that," Damian told him but Edrick didn't say anything. He knew his friends and he knew what they were capable to do from a young age. He was scared but he wasn't going to show that.
He waited for a hex to be sent his way but someone stopped him. "Put your wands away." Rabastan Lestrange ordered his friends as he came to the view. "What the bloody hell are you three thinking?"
"He used his name," Malcolm told the taller of all of the group.
"I heard but there is no need for you to attack him." Rabastan's voice was chilling calm and it scared Edrick more than wands being directed at him. "There is no point getting in trouble for that."
"But-" Evan was cut off by Rabastan.
"Edrick isn't daft. I can assure you, he won't speak it again." The Ravenclaw nodded his head before moving to grip his wand just for safety. "Now, put away your wands." Malkolm and Evan put their wands back in their robes but Damian kept it still directed towards Edrick.
"You can't tell me what to do," Damian said, his eyes fixed to Rabastan.
"I'm advising you to put your wand away. You have embarrassed yourself enough while using that wand." Edrick had to strain a laugh knowing Rabastan was referring to the many timed when Damian had challenged Evelyn or the Marauders which had ended in everyone laughing at him.
Damian did so but he still glared at Rabastan. "You can go now." Rabastan directed his words to Edrick.
Without saying another word, the Welsh moved away towards the class. He wondered why did Rabastan help him. Did he do it because he didn't want his friend in trouble? Did he do it because he didn't think it will be fair for one to go against three? Did he do it out of the goodness of his heart? The last one Edrick doubted as he knew that Rabastan wasn't that good. Or did the Slytherin boy do it for an ulterior motive?
Edrick opened the door of the Potions class. "Sorry that I'm late, professor. Couldn't find my essay." Edrick lied not wanting to tell the professor what happened.
"It's okay, Mr Decan. Take a seat please." Edrick did so and took a seat next to Henrik who was looking at him with a frown.
"What was de real reason why you were late." His friend asked him.
"I'll tell you later," Edrick responded before he turned to listen to Slughorn.
"Why the hell are you scanning the pitch like a madwoman?" Carter asked Christina as they were walking towards the Quidditch practice for their practice. It was the last practice as on Sunday was the finale between Slytherin and them.
"I'm looking for any surprise visitors." But the stands and the whole pitch was empty expect the Ravenclaw Quidditch team.
"Has there been any surprising visitors this year?" Carter asked with a frown as he fixed his glove.
"James Potter and Sirius Black tried last year but it didn't work for them," Christina responded to him and he laughed a little.
"They should have done that this year too as Gryffindor was the worst house of all this year," Carter added as he looked at Christina who chuckled.
"That is indeed true. I have to admit that they are talented but they need a better Seeker and better tactics." Christina pointed out as her eyes moved to her Quidditch team who were warming up.
"Why don't you become their captain next year?" Carter teased her.
Christina turned to glare at him before a smile appeared on her face. "I will be too busy being your captain."
"I will be quitting as soon as you become captain," Carter informed the kitsune who turned to look at him with the least amusing look she could muster.
"Why?"
"Because you're scary enough as a Seeker. I can't imagine you as the captain." Carter walked away laughing his words off.
But Christina stood in her place. She was kitsune, kitsunes were considered monsters by many wizards and witches and monsters were scary. All her life she wanted to say that she wasn't like her mother. A woman who everyone was tired of even her father. Her mother always made crude remarks about the fact that Christina was attending Hogwarts, not Mahoutokoro.
Her father had attended Mahoutokoro until he was thirteen before moving to London with his parents and started Hogwarts. Her mother had studied and graduated from Mahoutokoro. Her brother was attending Mahoutokoro but Christina never wanted to.
The reason was pathetic and embarrassing. The reason was that the school was daily. She had to return to her home in Japan with her mother while her father was in Tokyo, London or like these days around the world. He was only home in the summer but when he was there, he spent every second with his children.
Her father loved her mother and she loved him. They loved Norm, her little brother. But her mother didn't love her. Her mother thought that her daughter embraced her Quidditch skills more than she embraced her kitsune side. Her mother hated her for that. She hated the fact that her daughter didn't embrace her powers.
She didn't understand that Christina was afraid of her powers. She found them scary especially when she got angry or sad. She remembered almost making a hurricane when they were almost losing to Hufflepuff next year. She could have hurt people, she could have hurt her friends.
"Christina, why are you stalling?!" Edgar Bones, the captain of the team shouted at her. The kitsune looked up to him. "Hurry. Get on your bloody broom and try catching the Snitch while Carter and Beau try to hit you with the bludgers."
She nodded her head in understanding and hopped on her broom. She took a breath and tried to spot the Snitch with her amber eyes.
She could feel the bludgers being sent her way but she deflected with no problem. It was the Snitch she couldn't see because of how late it was getting.
She had no clue where the Snitch was and minutes were passing. She couldn't leave the team waiting for her to catch it. They looked tired before they got here. She could feel the bludgers sent her way to slow down.
Carter and Beau were getting tired each second more and more. She wasn't. An advance of being kitsune was that she couldn't get tired as easily as the others. Still, it wasn't fair to let Carter and Beau get tired. They probably had tons of essays and homework. She knew Carter had as every professor had given them homework.
"Bloody hell, Christina! Why is it taking so long?" She heard Edgar shout.
In that moment, she decided to do something that she never wanted to do in her life.
Her amber eyes turned orange and her pupil turned to a line. She was using her powers while playing. A promise she had given her father and herself never to do.
She spotted a snitch and with the speed of the light itself, she caught in mere five seconds leaving the whole team watch with mouth shocked.
She heard them cheer which led to her to turn her eyes back to normal. She moved back down to the ground. The whole team was looking at her in awe.
"Bloody amazing, Christina. If you do that in the game on Saturday, we would win without someone even scoring." Barbara said leaving Christina to give her a smile that didn't reach her eyes.
"Whatever you did up there, you need to do it in the game," Edgar told her. Christina nodded at him but she wasn't going to risk exposure even if it led to the team winning.
Diana sighed as she moved to get a book about Charms in the library. She was the only one studying in the library. Carter and Christina were in Quidditch practise, Edrick and Henrik went to see the Chess tournament, Evelyn had gone to the Gryffindor common room and Gabriela had wanted to sleep. Evelyn and Diana had wanted to spend time with her but the birthday girl had fallen asleep as soon as they had walked in their dorm.
Diana paid no attention to the person who was also reaching for the same book. She had already taken the book from the shelf but she stopped when that person spoke.
"I got here first." Diana looked up to see no one other than Gideon Prewett looking at her with a hint of smile.
"It only matters who gets it." She responded as her stomach stirred in his presence.
He rose his hands up and gave her a defeated look. "I understand." Diana couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
"We can do the essay together." She suggested, his bright brown eyes shone with joy at her suggestion.
"Thanks, I would like that." He told her and then he pointed his behind his back. "Let's go to the place I'm studying. Pince won't even notice us talking."
"Yeah, why not." Diana got her things and followed Gideon. She kept telling herself to calm down. They were just going to do homework together, nothing else.
"Here." He let her sit first before he took the seat next to her. Diana took a shaky breath before she turned to look at him.
"Have you started? Because I wrote like 8 inches by now." She told him as she opened her parchment to reveal her essay.
"Oh, I wrote" He opened the parchment. "The title of the essay."
Diana let out a laugh and then tried to quiet herself on fear of Madame Pince.
"I can help you write those inches." She opened the book she got from the library and her notes in a notebook.
"Is that a notebook?" He asked and she nodded her head at him in response. "Sometimes I forget that you're muggleborn."
Diana didn't know how to react as she didn't know if Gideon even thought her as an equal. "Maybe I should leave." She suggested but his frown stopped.
"Why?" He seemed confused as to why she wanted to leave in the first place.
"Muggleborn." She pointed to herself. "Pureblood." She pointed to him.
Gideon scoffed at her words. "I don't care about that nonsense. You're the same."
"I'm sorry, I just guessed that you are a pureblood. I didn't mean no offence." Diana wanted to kick herself to even think that Gideon cared about those things.
"I don't blame you. This school makes you think that every pureblood is prejudiced and idiotic. Trust me, the only ones are in Slytherin." Diana laughed at his last words and looked down. "For example, my brother in law would find you fascinating and he is a pureblood."
"Why's that?" Diana asked, interested to know why would a pureblood find her fascinating.
"He just adores muggle things and muggles in general. He even works at Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office in the Ministry." He explained to her.
"Wow, I remember finding wizarding thing fascinating when I learned I was a witch." She told him remembering the day McGonagall came in her house and informed her that she was a muggleborn witch. "I still find it difficult to understand most of the things."
"Are you an only child?" Diana shook her head and a smile appeared on her face.
"I have five other siblings." She responded to him. Gideon's eyebrows shot up in surprise at the information he had just received.
"Are you the oldest?" He asked her and she shook her head.
"The youngest one. The first one is Cece who is married and has a four-year-old boy now. Then comes Reggie who got married last summer. Then comes Josie who is eighteen, she is an university now. Then it's Samantha, she's seventeen. David is fifteen and there is me. The youngest." Both Diana and Gideon didn't notice that they stopped doing essays, they were too focused on the conversation. "You?"
"My sister Molly who is married to the muggle lover and of course, Fabian and I," Gideon responded to her. "I'm the youngest too in my family."
"Seems like the youngest are the best kids." Diana joked earning a laugh from Gideon.
"That is an affirmative." Diana chuckled a little.
"If you want to chat and laugh, you can use your common rooms." Madame Pince's voice was heard a few feet away from them.
They both nodded their heads in understanding. The woman narrowed her eyes at them before walking away.
They stayed silent before Gideon turned to look at her. "Can you tell me the reason why muggles use a rubber duck?"
Carter dried his short hair using a towel as he entered the dorm room. Henrik and Edrick weren't there, so he was alone in his dorm. Carter moved to wear his uniform as he wanted to head for supper. He was tying his shoes when his eyes landed on a letter on his bed that he hadn't opened in days. It was from his father and he knew what was behind that letter. He had expected it to happen since he had been nine. He gave up and moved to get the letter. He opened it and let out a sigh.
Carter
Your mother and I have decided to get a divorce. You will be living with me in Liverpool as your mother is moving back to Israel.
Your father
Carter sighed before he ripped his letter apart. His parents never thought of him. They only cared about themselves. They were selfish and Carter knew that the only reason they even got married was because his mother had gotten pregnant. He would prefer being called a bastard like Evelyn than have parents that didn't love him.
The only person who cared for him was his uncle but he rarely saw him as he spent most of the time in Jerusalem. His mother's family was from Israel. She was Jewish which led to Carter always celebrated Hanukkah and Christmas at the end of the year. With or without his family. Last year, he had celebrated with Edrick and the auburn-haired boy found it so interesting.
He didn't let tears well up in his eyes as she moved to throw the letter in a bin. He then rushed to the Great Hall. He knew his friends would keep his mind out of it. He entered the hall to find only Edrick and Henrik from his friends.
"Rabastan Lestrange stopped dem from 'exin you?" Henrik asked which earned him a nod from Edrick.
"Who was about to hex you?" Carter asked as he took the seat across from them.
"The Snake Group minus Rabastan who saved me." Carter raised his eyebrows on shock. He wouldn't expect Rabastan to save Edrick. He knew that Edrick had been friends with them before he befriended them. He had seen him the halls but Edrick never talked about it.
"Why would Rabastan Lestrange 'elp you? Henrik asked the same thing Carter had been thinking.
"He could have wanted to play fair, after all, it was three against one." Edrick pointed out.
"Since when do Slytherins play fair?" Carter shut down the first suggestion of Edrick.
Edrick shrugged his shoulders. "I don't think he did out of goodness of his heart. He maybe did it for his friends not to get in trouble. Or maybe he has an ulterior motive?"
If Rabastan had an ulterior motive, Carter knew what it was. His friends had no clue. "What ulterior motive?" Henrik questioned.
Carter's eyes moved to the entrance of the hall and right on cue, the ulterior motive walked in. "The ulterior motive is walking towards us."
Henrik and Edrick frowned when they saw Evelyn walk towards the table. "Eve? Rabastan likes Eve?"
Carter nodded instead of talking as he didn't want Evelyn to listen to him. "What are you 'oldin?" Henrik asked the blonde girl who took the seat next to Carter.
"Don got Gabriela a gift. Flitwick gave it to me in the Entrance Hall." She responded before getting some chicken wing for herself.
Henrik and Edrick began to talk about the Chess tournament. Carter's mind drifted to the letter and he tried to shake any sad feeling of him. He wasn't going to let them ruin his mood.
"You okay?" Evelyn asked, her blue eyes filled with worry.
"Just tired. Edgar tired me out today." He lied not feeling comfortable telling.
"Go to sleep after supper." She said to him.
"Thanks, mum."
"Hey, I'm not the mum friend. Dee is." Evelyn protested which made Carter laugh.
"When she isn't here, the role falls to you." Evelyn stuck her tongue out at him. "Who is the dad friend?"
They all stopped for a moment before Henrik talked. "De dad friend is de one who tries to look after 'is friends and fails. Bad at showing affection."
"Grumpy. Makes lame jokes." Evelyn added. Carter thought she was referring to her father. "Clumsily helps his friends."
"Loves weird stuff." Edrick joined on listing things. "Loyal to no fault.
"You forgot trying to be cool," Carter added to the list and they all looked at each other knowing who the dad of the group was.
"Don." The four of them said in sync before starting to laugh.
"Why are you mentioning Don?" Christina asked them as she joined them alongside with Gabriela.
"He's the dad friend of our group," Edrick answered to the question.
"It makes sense," Gabriela added as she took a seat next to Evelyn. "Dee is our mum friend."
"I'm not the mum friend." Diana defended herself making the others jump a little.
"Where did you come from?" Christina asked as she hadn't seen Diana heading to the Great Hall.
"The Gryffindor table." Everyone raised their eyebrows in surprise.
"With who?" Edrick asked.
Diana looked down with a smile on her face. "With Gideon."
She heard whistles, cheers and claps come from her book as she sat next to Edrick. "Damn, Dee! Finally making a move." Christina exclaimed. A grin written in her face.
"I just got to know him." Diana shrugged as she rested her chin on her palm.
"In the book, that's a move," Evelyn added before she remembered that she was holding Don's gift to Gabriela. "This is from Don."
She handed the gift to Gabriela who opened it with a smile. "It's a photograph of all of us on Evelyn's last birthday. He framed it in a frame with engraved Nifflers on."
"That's creative." Christina pointed out.
"There is a reason why he was sorted in Ravenclaw," Diana stated and everyone agreed.
"My gift is the best one," Christina added and everyone rolled their eyes at her.
Carter was glad that he got sorted in Ravenclaw and meet these people because this friends of him made his life good. Not his parents, his eight friends. The Soaring Eagles made his life good.
I hope you enjoy reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing this. I love the Soaring Eagles and I think that their story is needed to be told. They will receive more focus from now on, but Evelyn will keep on being the main character and the story centres around her.
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