Harry stood in the kitchen and closed his eyes.
"Empty your mind remember." April said.
"I don't understand why we're still doing this, I know that Voldemort can't access my mind."
"This is something different." April said.
"What different?" Harry snapped as he opened his eyes. April just stared at him.
"Close your eyes and empty your mind, it'll help you to Apparate." April said. Harry glared at April and closed his eyes. He tried to empty his mind but the only thing he could think of was Jenny and his friends on their way to Hogwarts.
"I can't." Harry said after about ten minutes of trying.
"Fine." April said with a sigh. "Now, Apparition is a form of wandless magic. It's rather easy to do but not quite as easy to actually transport all of your clothes with you." Harry looked at April intently. He was learning to apparate, that meant that he could possibly go to Hogsmeade and visit his friends. "Now, all you have to do is think of the place you want to go and in your head say the words, apparitio then the place name. Like this, I will apparate next to the fire. You can say the words out loud. Apparitio Fire" April disappeared with a crack and appeared again next to the fire. Harry spun and looked at April. "Now you try, say it out loud first, it will allow you to apparate easier then once you've mastered apparating saying it out loud then we'll do silent apparating. You'll need to Apparate before I can start your auror training, now. Harry. Have a go." Harry took a few deep breathes. "Apparate to the fire here" April said walking away. Harry nodded and closed his eyes.
"Apparitio Fire." Harry said. He heard a crack and then another crack. He opened his eyes very slightly to see where he was. Everything was very blurry.
"Here you go." April said. She put something into Harry's hand. It was his glasses. He put them on and then looked at himself. The only thing missing was his shirt. April had that in her hands as well.
"That was very good for your first try." April said impressed. "It took me three goes before I could Apparate with all my clothes. Though I recall your mother being able to apparate completely on her first try." April said with a smile. Harry gave April a slight smile as he put his shirt on. "No, try and apparate back to the table." Harry nodded and closed his eyes.
"Aparitio Table." Harry said. There were the two cracks and when he opened his eyes he looked down to make sure he had everything. He grinned when he found nothing missing and that he was by the table. He turned to April.
"I did it." He said.
"Forgot your wand." April said holding his wand in the air.
Jenny leaned her head against Ginny's shoulders as the train carried on towards Hogwarts, this had to be THE most boring trip they'd ever taken. The lack of Seamus or Pavarti had left Dean and Lavender quite depressed and Hermione and Ron were sitting whispering rapidly to each other.
"I'm bored." Ginny said.
"Well, we can't do anything about it." Jenny said.
"Lets go and pick on some Slytherins." Ginny said, "George gave me some-"
"No Ginny." Ron said. Ginny scowled at him,
"Fine, let me go for a walk." Ginny said,
"Fine." Ron said.
"Come on Jenny." Ginny said. She helped Jenny up and they left the compartment. The train was eerily quiet as they walked down it. Half the Carriages of the Hogwarts express were empty and nobody was out running down the carriage to go and catch up on talk and gossip from over the summer. Ginny looped her arm through Jenny's and they started to turn around when they were pulled into a compartment.
"Hello Marsden," Malfoy said, "You ok?" He asked dangerously.
"Yes. Why would you care?"
"I have a promise to keep. Just checking on you. Weasel, tell Mudblood and Weasel king that you will be getting your Prefect Badges back soon." Malfoy told Ginny
"How are we going to be getting them back?"
"Head students get to choose the prefects this year." Malfoy said, "I would give you a prefect badge Marsden but that wasn't part of my deal with Potter. How's he looking after my broom?"
"It's next to his firebolt at home" Jenny said.
"Good. Now off, I don't want to be seen with you two for much more then a couple of minutes." Ginny rolled her eyes and left the Compartment. Jenny stayed for a few more minutes looking at Malfoy.
"Why are you doing this?" Jenny asked.
"I told you, now go." Malfoy said. Jenny turned and followed Ginny.
"Hey, Ginny, wait up." Jenny said. Ginny stopped for a moment and her eyes widened. She whipped out her wand as Jenny felt a tugging on her robes.
"Hello Marsden." Said Emma. She pushed Jenny forwards onto her knees and stood over her. "Potter not here to look after you is he?"
"Get lost Emma." Jenny said, "I don't want to have to fight you." Jenny got to her feet
"And why not?" Emma asked innocently. She pulled off a very convincing innocent look but Ginny and Jenny could see straight through it. They recognised the look from Harry.
"Because you're Harry's sister, I'm not going to risk losing our relationship over you." Jenny said. Emma's eyes lit up, Jenny found it slightly scary how much they looked like Harry's. She glanced at Ginny and then slowly got her wand out.
"I'm not related to him in any way." Emma snarled,
"I thought you went to Durmstrang, why are you here?" Ginny asked. Hermione had filled them all in on what she knew on Emma Malfoy.
"Father wanted me to go here, where I can learn from Voldemort. Now get back to your Compartment or I'll be forced to hurt you really badly."
"You won't do anything like that Emma." Malfoy said coming out of the Compartment.
"Draco, since when have you cared."
"Father would be very disappointed that you started picking fights on your first day. You don't want Father to be angry with you." Malfoy said. Emma scowled and nodded.
"Fine, watch your back Marsden." Emma said before turning on her heel and storming off down the train. Malfoy looked at Jenny and Ginny before following his sister.
"Did he just save us?" Ginny asked.
"No." Jenny said, "He just put off the attack. Come on." They returned to the Carriage and told Ron and Hermione about what Malfoy had just done.
"I guess he's really keeping up his side of the bargain." Hermione said.
"What bargain?" Dean asked.
"We'll tell you later." Ron said, "Well, I still don't trust him. He knows how close we all are to Harry. I wouldn't be surprised if he hands us all to Voldemort on a silver platter."
"But he saved us from Emma. I think that's saying something." Ginny said.
"Emma?" Lavender asked.
"There is no way she can be related to Harry, she's too evil." Jenny said, "There's no way-"
"Hold ON!" Lavender screamed at them. "Who's Emma? What's going on?"
"Malfoy has a sister, Emma Malfoy, who's actually Harry's blood sister. The Malfoy's adopted her and she's evil but I don't get why because she's the heir of Gryffindor, like Harry. She's one of his descendants." Jenny said. Ron and Hermione looked at Jenny.
"Harry's Gryffindor's heir?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah." Jenny said.
"Why didn't he tell us? How do you know?" Ron asked. Jenny bit her lip.
"He told me." Jenny told them.
"Doesn't he trust us or something?"
"He told me he'd told you" Jenny said.
"Obviously he doesn't trust us." Ron said.
"Or he forgot." Hermione told them. "I mean there's a lot he's hiding from us, it's obvious. Just let him tell us at his own pace."
"But we're his best friends" Ron said.
"I'm his girlfriend and he doesn't tell me everything." Jenny said.
"Yeah well." Ron said, "You seem to know more then us."
"My mum is head auror." Jenny said.
"Still doesn't stop you from-"
"Silencio." Ginny said. She sank into her chair and put her wand down. "You love the sound of your own voice don't you Ron?" Ron glared at his sister. Lavender was trying to hide a smirk. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Finite Incantatum" Hermione said getting her own wand out.
"What's wrong with you?" Ron asked Ginny. Ginny let out a small moan and leaned her head against Jenny's arm.
"Shut up Ron. I have a headache." Ginny said, "You've been like this all summer."
"But-" Hermione gave Ron a warning glare and he shut up. Lavender noticed this, having a keen eye for these kinds of things, and she turned to Dean.
"No, you're just not a good substitute for Pavarti." She said sulkily.
"Well, there's Hermione." Dean said pointing to Hermione.
"It's rude to point." Lavender said. "And Hermione's ok, but when she's the one you want to gossip about then it's a bit difficult."
"I'm sitting right here." Hermione said coldly.
"I know and no offence Hermione but I'm sure you'd feel the same if Ron disappeared as well. I feel like my other half is missing without Pavarti, she's my best friend." Lavender said.
"Don't worry." Hermione said slightly kinder. "Where is Pavarti anyway?"
"I don't know. She just said that she wouldn't be coming back to school." Lavenders said.
Ron sat next to Hermione as they sat down at the Gryffindor table. Lavender and Dean sat opposite them. He had already come to the conclusion that they'd become quite close this year as they were the only seventh years in their house. They looked up at the staff table. All the old members of staff were there but none of them looked too happy. The only people who weren't there was Dumbledore. McGonagall, Sprout, Flitwick, Grout and even Trelawney were sitting at the staff table. In Dumbledore's place, next to McGonagall was an evil looking man, he didn't even look like a man. He had a snake like face and red cat like eyes and slits for a nose. Ron looked at Hermione, who was also looking at the staff table. Lucious Malfoy came out of a small room carrying an ancient looking hat. The line of terrified first years were urged forwards and was about to be sorted when the hat spoke up
"Do I not get to do my speech?" The hat asked. Lucious Malfoy looked at Voldemort, who nodded.
"I see no reason to break with Tradition." He said. Lucious Malfoy put the hat on a small stool.
"About a thousand years ago,
I was newly sewn,
By four great wizards,
Who all four are known,
Godric Gryffindor, whole and brave,
Helga Hufflepuff, sweet and kind,
Rowena Ravenclaw, clever and wise,
Salazaar Slytherin, cunning and sharp of mind,
For many years they worked,
To teach wizards and witches,
Things of great importance,
Poitions, transfigurations and the catching of snitches,
Then one day, Slytherin and Gryffindor,
Had an argument foul,
In which Slytherin left the school,
Leaving the rest in a dreadful howl,
Now he has returned,
To rule the school as he feels it should be,
To teach the young wizards of today,
Ideals which mean nothing to me,
But below his own nose,
Are the return of those he wishes not,
And students forming alliances,
To see the return of those he forgot
So students take heed of my advice
And follow the example of he who leads
I will sort you now to you houses
But it is the cruellest of deeds"
Everyone looked at each other confused, that had to be the strangest sorting song they had ever heard.
"What was that about?" Ron asked.
"It knows, about Harry and Malfoy" Hermione whispered. Ron looked slightly wide eyed.
"As we have a new student joining and she will be moved to the sixth year due to her extensive knowledge, she will be sorted first" Lucious Malfoy said, "Malfoy, Emma." Everyone went quiet. The shock that Draco Malfoy seemed to overcome the fact that everyone knew what house she was going to be sorted into already. The red haired Emma Malfoy stepped up to the stool smiling. Lucious Malfoy gave her a cold smile and she sat on the stool. He had just about put the hat on Emma's head when the Hat shouted out her house.
"GRYFFINDOR!"
A/N:-I love writing Sorting hat songs...I dunno if they're n e good but i love writing them n e wayz. But yeah, about everyone going back to Hogwarts...I'll tell you know that hte only reason they're being kept alive is because of a certain reason tht will be revealed at hte end of the story. Basically Voldemort wants them alive and April wants them to get a good education....well as good a education as they can get and GInny and Jenny can't exactly perform magic out of school until they're in 7th year and Hermione and Ron's reasons were a few chapters ago. I just thought i'd say that coz someone sed they were confused.
Anyway, can't be bothered to do review replies so I'm gonna do a double update instead...toodles