September 1st 1992
Finally the Summer had come to an end, Astrid had left a few days prior leaving Cassie with the Weasleys. So now they were all hurrying through the busy Kings Cross station, almost late. Once they reached the wall between platforms 9 and 10, they hurried through the barrier. Percy went first, then Cassie and Hope, Arthur and the twins went next and finally Molly escorted Ginny through. That left Harry and Ron on the other side.
Everyone was in such a hurry to get off the train that they did not notice that Harry and Ron had not made it onto the platform.
On the train Hope, Cassie and the twins settle into their usual seats. "Ready for fourth year?" Cassie asked.
"Of course…." Fred replied.
"Can't wait to see what we get up to this year," George finishes with a mischievous glint in his eyes. Hope and Cassie chuckle lightly causing George to smile widely in the girls' direction.
"I'm interested to see what trouble Harry, Ron and Hermione get themselves into this year," Hope comments knowing something will happen, last year was only the beginning.
"Hmm, who knows?" Cassie replies staring out of the window. It wasn't long before they were joined by their other friends, Angelina and Lee.
"Did you do that essay that Snape set for over the summer?" Angelina asked. The other occupants of the compartment freeze muttering curses under their breath.
"Nope," they all answer at the same time. Angelina sighs in relief, "Oh good. I thought I was the only one."
They all burst out laughing knowing full well that they were going to get into a lot of trouble, especially Hope and Cassie given how much Snape dislikes the two girls.
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"Ahh, finally. We're back," Hope exclaimed excitedly as they passed through the doors of the great hall and headed towards their table.
As the last of the students sit down Dumbledore quiets everyone down and the sorting hat begins singing the Hogwarts song. After that, like every year McGonagall leads the new first years towards the front where Astrid is waiting.
During the whole ceremony no one noticed that Harry and Ron weren't there, they were too busy catching up with friends and having fun. Meanwhile, Harry and Ron had flown into the whomping willow tree and lost Arthur's car.
September 2nd 1992
"Did you hear that Howler this morning? Mum sounded so pissed off," George commented as he and Cassie walk back to their common room. Molly had sent Ron a Howler, yelling at him about the car and how Ron and Harry had been irresponsible and reckless.
"Yeah," Cassie replied with a chuckle. "Ron's in for it when he goes home."
"Which will be a fresh change since it's usually Fred and I that gets yelled at when we go home," he comments with a smile. Cassie glances up at him with a smile, she lets out a chuckle as she links arms with him as they near the common room.
As they enter the common room they find Hope and Fred already waiting for them. Upon seeing the two enter the common room, Hope and Fred share a look noticing their linked arms. They weren't blind, they knew that George and Cassie liked each other as more than friends, they just hadn't realised it yet. That meant that Fred and Hope had to be the ones that made them realise, no matter how long it took.
The four sat for a few hours catching up on work that should have been done during the summer but wasn't. Of course they didn't finish it, they had gotten distracted and have been talking about random things for the last hour.
Fred looks up at Cassie just remembering something, "Cassie, i've been meaning to ask, who was that Slytherin girl you were talking to earlier. I didn't think you knew or talked to anyone in Slytherin."
Cassie looks at him confused before realising he had seen her, she just hoped no one else had and weren't going to ask questions. "Oh, that was…." she trails off wondering what to tell them, they had no idea about her family, who her father was. "That was my cousin, Ophelia."
"I didn't know you had any other cousins except Aaron," George comments confused.
"Well, her mother, Cassiopeia, was my father's sister," she told them hoping that they wouldn't make the connection to her father. All they knew of her father was that he was dead, that was what she told them, it was easier that way.
When Astrid had started working at the school most people knew her as Sirius Black's wife, it was just after the war so everyone was talking about it. Eventually, over time, people stopped talking about it so publically, now it was just rumours that rarely came up. And so the twins don't know, not yet anyway.
After that the twins don't say anything more about it, they know that she doesn't like talking about her father or the rest of her family much.