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Summary: Victoria Weston lives in New York with her eleven year old daughter when her daughter receives a letter from Hogwarts. Now she is forced to go back to England, where her husband that had raped her before forcing her into marriage lives. She has to face the past, especially her former self known as Ginevra Weasley...
A/N: Guess whose back??? ME! This is the fic that I am going to work on from now on...maybe The Black Rose once in a while don't know... I hope that you like this chapter.
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Chapter 3 – Return to Hogwarts
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Two weeks passed faster than Victoria could ever imagine but it was mostly because Molly had wanted to know about everything in the Wizarding Worlds, from the Dark Mark to the Canary Creams. Although Victoria had told her daughter about everything, it didn't mean that she told her the details for Molly was still a young girl. Mother and daughter were now packing the things that they would need at Hogwarts; although Molly's trunk was already full she was trying to fit the new Muggle Candy that she had bought.
"Molly! Hurry up! We can't be late for the train," Victoria screamed from the other room where she was pushing everything in the trunk while trying to drink her cup of coffee.
"I'm here mum," Molly said pulling her heavy trunk. "This is so heavy!"
"I know dear," Victoria responded taking a sip of her coffee and placing it on the table. "Put it over there. I'll bring it downstairs."
Once again, Victoria turned to her trunk and with one final push was able to close it. She tapped her hands with a smile on her face and turned towards her daughter.
"Molly, can you go check if the cab is here yet?" she asked trying to get the owl from flying around the room.
"Yeah, sure," Molly cried leaving her mother chasing her owl in the room.
After a few minutes of running around the rooms, Victoria finally caught Bella and put it in her cage. Looking around the room, she felt sorry for the cleaners that would come to her room after they left. She put her shoes on but couldn't find her purse. She was looking around the room when her daughter came in.
"Mum, the guy's here," she screamed from the door.
"Molly, have you seen my purse?" Victoria asked becoming panicked.
"I think that it's beside your trunk," Molly said grabbing Bella's cage and walking out of the rooms.
Molly seemed to be right and Victoria found her purse beside her trunk. When she tried to pull the heavy trunk, she wondered that if she could use magic right now it would be much easier. A simple levitation charm, she thought. She sighed as she figured that she possibly couldn't use magic in muggle London and that it would have been much easier is she had rented a room in the Leaky Cauldron. She pulled the two trunks out of the room, and closed the door with the key. As she made her way down to the front office, she received many strange looks from Muggles but she finally arrived at the front desk where her daughter was patiently waiting.
"Mum, let's go before the cab guy decides that he doesn't want to give us a ride," she said pointing towards the cab where the driver kept scowling at the beautiful owl.
"Let's go but do you mind helping with there?" Victoria made a face as Molly quickly came to her rescue.
The trip to King's Cross was pretty boring except for when the owl would start beating it's wings against the cage and the driver would give Victoria an evil look. The two females had to stop themselves from laughing every time it happened. They finally arrived at King's Cross where the driver quickly rode off after being paid. The duo made their way towards the wall that made way to Platform 9 and ¾. After many minutes of convincing Molly that she wouldn't hurt herself by walking into a wall, they finally arrived at the platform. Victoria quickly realised a few faces but no one who was close to her. After getting both trunks onto the train, she said good-bye to her daughter and made way towards the compartment that she was supposed to meet someone in. Who? She didn't know.
As she opened the door, she was met by her best friend from Hogwarts, none other than Hermione Granger. As she got over the shock of seeing her once best friend, the other woman quickly stood up and offered her hand.
"I'm Hermione Weasley and I teach charms at Hogwarts," she said as Victoria shook her hand. Weasley? Weasley! Hermione had married Ron!
"Victoria Weston and I teach Transfiguration," she responded seating herself opposite of the other woman.
"I know, Professor Dumbledore personally chose you as the Transfiguration professor as he also told us of your name," Hermione said smiling but Victoria could see the effects of war in her eyes. They seemed much older.
"Oh," Victoria said not knowing what else to say. "If you don't mind me saying, Weasley's are known for their red hair and you don't see to have red hair."
"Oh no," Hermione said. "I am not a Weasley but birth. I married a Weasley."
"I see," Victoria smiled.
"So I heard that you are from the United States of America," Hermione said trying to make conversation.
"Yes, we're from New York," Victoria answered enjoying this conversation.
"We're?" the brunette asked.
"My daughter," she responded. "She's in first year."
"Do you any other relatives?" Hermione asked but Victoria knew that she was asking if she had a husband.
"No, it's just my daughter and I."
"Oh," Hermione whispered. "So do you mind if I call you Victoria?"
"On one condition," she said slyly.
"And what is that?" Hermione looked taken back.
"If I can call you Hermione," she said as the brunette sighed in relief.
"Oh of course, Victoria," she smiled. "By the way, Albus told me to give this to you."
Victoria accepted the letter from the brunette as she sat back, and opened it.
Dear Professor Weston,
I want to thank you for making the right decision and I would like to apologize for forcing you into it but your help is deeply needed in this war. Please come by my office after the feast ends for we have to have some discussions.
Sincerely, Albus Dumbledore
She closed the letter and sighed. She didn't care that he was sorry for making her come back; point was he made her come back from her life in America. She had only wanted a normal life where she would watch her daughter grow in front of her and achieve something. She hadn't wanted to bring her eleven year old daughter into the midst of a world where war was brewing and apparently, the dark side seemed to be slightly ahead.
She looked up to see the other woman looking at her thoughtfully.
"Is something the matter?" she asked Hermione.
"No," the question seemed to shake Hermione out of her thought. "You just remind me of somebody."
"Might I ask who?" the redhead asked now the exact answer to her question.
"My best friend," Hermione sighed and Victoria could see the pain in her eyes. "She was also my husband's sister. During my last year at Hogwarts, she was abducted by Death Eaters and her death was announced a few months later."
"I'm sorry," Victoria said trying to sound gentle. After all they were talking about her past.
"It's ok," Hermione responded wiping away a pair of tears that had flowed out of her eyes and opening a book in front of her. "I hope that you don't mind me reading. I have to catch up."
"No not at all," Victoria responded. "I have some reading to do myself."
She quickly pulled out one of the extra books that she had bought for Transfiguration, which turned out to be about Animagus. The rest of train ride was either them reading or talking. Hermione told her many things about the Weasley family. She learned that Bill and Fleur's child was now in first year as well. Victoria found it ironic that her oldest brother's child and her child will be in the same grade. Fred and Angelina as well as George and Alicia had gotten married on the same day. Apparently, it was a twin thing. Percy and Penelope had gotten married but Charlie was still single. Ron and Hermione had only married three years ago after deciding that they couldn't wait any longer for the war to finish. Neville and Luna had gotten together but not married and Harry was still single.
After the train stopped, the two women got off the train and used a portkey which Hermione had to get inside of the Great Hall of Hogwarts. She quickly said introduced herself to most of the professors including Harry to whom she gave a cold hello. She couldn't believe that Hagrid had been missing and Harry was teaching Care of Magical Creatures instead. She had been hoping to see the cheerful giant but there was still hope. But she noticed that there was another professor missing, after asking Hermione, she discovered that it was Snape; he was probably on business from Dumbledore. She didn't really care to see anyways...
After a few minutes, the teachers seated themselves as the second years and up came in and seated themselves in their respective tables. After everyone was seated McGonagall came in with a group of nervous looking first years. Victoria's eyes quickly found their way to her daughter who wasn't looking nervous at all. When McGonagall had arrived at the front of the hall, she started to talk.
"When I call your name, please seat yourself on the stool, wait for the hat to call your house and then walk to your house's table as shown by the banners."
"Attat, Aaron," she exclaimed as the blond boy was sorted into Slytherin.
Virginia didn't really care for the rest of the sorting but was closely examining a boy with strawberry blond hair who looked like the younger version of her brother Bill.
"Weasley, Jean-Paul," the boy quickly walked to the sorting hat where he was announced a Gryffindor. Victoria watched as the boy made his way towards her old house table and seated himself beside a boy to whom he gave a high-five.
"Weston, Molly," her attention was once again turned to the sorting hat.
This was the moment to which she will learn the future of her daughter. The hat took his time with her daughter. When people started to whisper, the hat finally announced Victoria's worst fear: "SLYTHERIN!"
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A/N: I know that there is no Severus in this chapter! But I promise you'll be seeing more of him soon enough! I'm not going to change Virginia to Ginevra in the last two chapters if its mentioned but I'll call her Ginevra from now on...
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