Nymphadora Tonks and the Secret Gate
"So Hanna couldn't come?" Diana asked pulling out some chocolate frogs, handing them out to the girls in turn. "That sucks"
"Yeah," Azka said, having already eaten her chocolate frog, "So it is just us four."
"Why did hey nah vite 'emus?" Jenna asked. The other girls looked at her; she swallowed and said everything over "Why did they not invite Remus? James and Sirius, I mean"
"I dunno," Dora said, almost at once, "I thought the Mauderer's were supposed to be a kind of second family"
"They are," Diana said, with a scared look in her eye, "Only a week ago, did I see Sirius bending over a present for James, and he was singing!" Diana looked around as though expecting them all to yell 'He did what?', Azka however merely yawned.
"So?? I have seen Dora singing all the time. She doesn't shut up when she is bored or happy, so I have to keep her in between!" The others laughed and Dora punched her twin lightly on the arm, grinning.
"Sleeping time!" Andromeda called from the kitchen window. The girls mumbled, before getting into their sleeping bags, looking up at the sky.
"Now!" A voice shouted, somewhere right beside Azka. Azka, who had always been an excellent fighter, jumped up and punched the air widely.
"Come here you cowards" She mumbled, tripping and falling into the lake.
Dora stood up, closely followed by Diana and Jenna. "Who's there?" The three girls asked, looking around and spotting the shapes of three boys. "Not you guys!"
James chuckled as he watched Sirius help Azka out of the lake. Remus was leaning against a tree nearby, watching the whole scene with a mildly interested look on his face. Dora blushed when she saw him, but kept glancing over at Sirius as if expecting him to shove Azka back in.
"T-thank you," Azka muttered, before grabbing Sirius and pushing him in "No one comes out alive after doing that to me" She said, jumping to the side as James had thrown himself at her.
"What's all the noise?" A girl's voice came from the house next door, the house that belonged to the Evans. A head came out of the window, red hair falling down beside her face. "James? Is that you?" Lily asked, looking very surprised, even at the distance from the lake.
"Yeah," James said, sitting up in the lake, and ruffling his hair with a hand.
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The girls where standing outside King Cross, their bags ready and waiting for Hanna, who had seemed to have disappeared.
"Where is she?" Jenna asked, looking around, "If she thinks the Express is going to wait for her to get done with him, then she has another think coming," Jenna was indicating a Hufflepuff boy, same age as the girls. This boy's name was Truls, a name which Jenna usually liked to point out to Hanna, reminded her of trolls. Jenna insisted he looked like one too. Dora secretly agreed to this, but afraid to hurt Hanna's feelings, didn't say so.
"There she is," Diana said, already on the Hogwarts Express, she was leaning out the window, her blond curls falling neatly beside her. And sure enough, Hanna came through the crowd, looking on the verge of tears. The girls entered the compartment before rounding on Hanna.
"What's the matter?" Azka asked, putting away Huy, her barn owl. "You seem tearful,"
"I am," Hanna replied, before collapsing on the train seat and lying motionless on the seat. Jenna rolled her eyes, before sitting down on one of the seats and taking out The Quibbler.
"You still read that?" Diana asked, surprised "After everything you said to make me stop reading it, you have started reading it?"
"Yeah," Jenna replied "It's much better than Witch Weekly and the new copy of Which Broomstick hasn't come out, so I am reading the Quibbler. What's wrong with Hanna anyway? Troll broke up with her?"
"Har, har," Dora said, putting away her bag "Very funny Jen." Jenna glared at her, she hated being called Jen, and when she sometimes got called Jen, the person often regretted it. But instead of flinging a curse at Dora, Jenna only hit her on the head with the Quibbler.
"She's right" Hanna said, her eyes opening slowly. "Truls did break up with me, said he met another girl," Hanna broke into hysterical sobs, and none of the girls heard the compartment door open and slide shut.
"Hello" A tall brown haired boy was standing in the compartment, he was dressed in Slytherin robes and had a barn owl on his shoulder. "My name is Alex, mind if I sit here?"
"Sure," Azka said, quickly smiling at him. I have a crush, she declared to herself and glanced back at Hanna "I'm Azka, this is my twin Dora and our friends, Hanna, Jenna, and Diana" She pointed to each of them in turn.
"Hello" Diana and Jenna said, both reading a article in the Quibbler. Hanna, who was sobbing to hard to say anything, merely raised her hand in welcome.
"What house are you in then?" Alex asked, putting away his owls cage and a trunk.
"I'm in Slytherin and Dora is in Gryffindor" Azka said, "Hanna and Jenna are Gryffindors as well, but Diana is a Ravenclaw." Alex looked at Dora, Hanna and Jenna, as if trying to figure out if they were worthy enough to talk to a Slytherin.
"I thought you and Dora were twins..." Alex said slowly.
"Oh, we are, just have different houses" Dora said, now playing with her kitten, Gumball.
"Cool," Alex said, sitting down beside Azka, as all the other places were taken. Azka smiled at him. Never say no to a new friend, Dora thought, watching the two from the corner of her eye.