As September 1st approached, Dite became even more nervous as Sophia, Fabian, Gideon stood infront of the gates of Hogwarts with her. Waiting for either Headmaster Dumbledore or the Deputy Headmistress McGonagall to meet them. The triad had written the headmaster to request a meeting to discus the transfer of Aphrodite to Hogwarts. She was still rearing from her confrontation with the Marauders a week before. They all looked so young, Peter didn't look mangy like he did in her third year when he was reverted from his rat form to human form. Sirius didn't look like he had been to hell and back. Remus even looked healthy compared to when she last saw him. She felt a sting in her heart that she had met James Potter when Harry never got the chance to.
Now she stood outside a school that she had spent five years of her life trying to survive as a muggle-born witch. Where she battled a troll her first year, was petrified her second, third was relatively normal until she helped Harry save Buckbeck and Sirius, the tournament ending with the Dark Lords return her forth and the pink toadied Ministry women that made her life and lives of other student hell. Now she was to pretend that she knew nothing of the secret corridors, the pathways to different parts of the castle, everything she explored with Harry and Ron.
Dite was pulled from her own mind and memories when her fathers called out to their old head of house. She quickly hid all her old memories of the past time line in the little box in one of the fake memories that she and Sophia created over the last month. She referred to it as Pandora's box, since she had to create a whole new life with memories, some where Sophia's that they watched in a pensive and changed them to that they could be Aphrodite's memories of her child hood in Greece. They even morphed some of the Hogwarts memories with a visit to the Institute in Greece where a woman there knew Sophia and granted her access to the school.
The spell work put into creating this whole life was extensive and it amazed her. Somewhere things that Sophia picked up as a field Unspeakable, some from interesting books she's read.
"Hello Prewetts, it's been a while since you three have visited here." McGonagall smiled at them before she noticed Aphrodite.
"Very true Professor, I hear you have a new group of pranksters now." Fabian spoke with a chuckle.
"Yes and they might be worse then you and your brother." She glared at the twins in good manner.
"Well, the next generation seems to always be. We're hoping that we brought you another lion for your den." Gideon waved the good-hearted glare off and gestured to Aphrodite next to him.
"You both know she could end up in Slytherin too you ilithioi." Sophia rolled her eyes at the commented.
McGonagall looked right at Dite and smiled. She was the same stern head of Gryffindor that she grew up with. But this McGonagall was a bit younger and her hair wasn't as gray as it was in her time. She still wore the large green hat that matched her rodes. She had less wrinkles across her brow, all in all she was younger. The older women was taking in the girl as much as the girl was taking her in, almost like sizing each other up. But in Aphrodite's past she was taught to respect those older then you. So Dite lowered her head and shyly introduced herself to the older witch.
"Chairete, I'm Aphrodite Prewett, it's nice to meet you." She spoke softly.
"I'm Professor McGonagall, I taught all three of your parents. What year are you joining?" McGonagall asked as the group stepped into the carriage that the Professor brought with her.
"Hopefully my 5th year Ma'am." Dite answered.
As they pass along the pathway from the gate towards the castle, Dite started to feel the excitement of seeing the school, along with the anxiety of what Dumbledore will say about letting her transfer. She knew that a transfer student hasn't come to Hogwarts since during the time of Grindelwald's rain of terror through the wizarding world. So it might be a slight sell to convince him. Stepping down out of the carriage, Fab gave her his hand to help her. She still couldn't get over the fact that they wanted her as apart of their family. Learning that Sophia couldn't conceive due to a curse that hit her while in the field, she happily played the shy daughter. Since she came to this time she felt at home, that might be because her core felt at home in this time and also due to who became her family. At times she has felt as though she was losing Hermione Granger the more she played Aphrodite Prewett. But her dads and her mum reassured her in this time, that she would always be who she was then and who she was now. It was a matter of when to use the Knowledge that she had and how to use it. They have all told her that she could continue to be the wall flower she decided to be in this time or grow more out going as she got comfortable in this time.
"Irish Taffy." McGonagall said at the entrance of the Headmasters tower. The Gargoyle began to move and the group ascended to the Office of Dumbledore. The Professor knocked on the door to announce the arrival of the Prewetts.
Dumbledore looked up from the paper work be was looking at.
"Enter." He called out as he vanished the parchments that littered his desk and greeted them with a smile. She noticed a child walking in with them that looked like a mini of Sophia Meadowes but with the Twins blue eyes and freckles doting her cheeks. She looked around with wide curious eyes that roomed the office till they landed on him. She then drew herself close to Fabian, or was it Gideon as shyness came to be the girls draw back to new people he suspected.
"Hello everyone, what bring three former students to my office long after they have left the school?" He asked with a smile.
"Well you see Sir. I would like to see if you would take a transfer from the Eronmayervos Institute for her 5th year." Sophia asked as they sat down on the chairs in the office.
"Why would she be transferring?" He asked as his curiosity laced his being.
"Well you see Sir, she's our daughter." Sophi ran a hand over Dite's hair.
"I didn't realize you three had a child, let alone a fifteen year old." Dumbledore spoke alittle shocked at this.
"Well I found out I was expecting after the end of term ended after my sixth year. My mother place a curse on me that I couldn't speak, write or hint that I was expecting or I would have came to you sir. I gave birth during the winter Holiday our seventh year." She gave a quick explanation.
"Her mother lifted the silence curse and placed the Wed Lock Curse on her to keep the fact that their daughter had a child out of Wed Lock, the evil sods." Gideon muttered.
"You know that Sophi's parents moved to Greece soon after she finished school and stayed there till they passed just after the beginning of the New Year." Fabian added.
Dumbledore listened to the story that the three told as he watched as the child looked at her parents fondly. Like any child that found there home after all this time. His heart couldn't help but open to the girl, she seemed like a wallflower that could benefit being close to those who love her.
"I see, I don't see why with that story I wouldn't let her transfer. But I would like to ask her if that's what she wants. She has spent the last four years at the Institute in Greece." Dumbledore turned his gaze to the girl that shared the chair with Sophia.
"I, um, I wasn't really liked in Greece sir." She spoke softly looking at her hands that seemed to fidget as she spoke.
"I like it in Britain, it's not as sunny as Greece. But I like it here. I um, I would like to stay sir." When she spoke those 6 words. He saw what she wanted him to see. The fake memories of being picked on at the institute, they way she was raised in Greece.
"Very well child, I need two things for the transfer." He smiled at her as he drew from her memories she let flash for him.
"That is sir?" She asked timidly.
"Well I need your transcripts, and to place the sorting hat upon your head to see where you would be place while finishing your schooling. Unless you would like to be sorted with the first years." He smiled as Gideon pecured her transcripts from the pocket of his rodes. Then he stood and walked over to where the hat sat when not being used through the year and gently placed it on your head.
Aww, I see that your early, much earlier then you are to be sorted. The hat whispered in her mind.
I know I am. She responded letting the look at the fake memories with old mixed in.
A Gryffindor with the cunningness that would make Slytherin second-guess his views on muggleborns. But where to put you, its true that you have many Slytherin traits like your mum next to you but you are far more Gryffindor then she was at 11 years old. Both houses you could go through with out drawing much attention. She was having another hat stall until the hat decided to place her where she was placed in her time, Gryffindor sounded across the office.
The twins whooped for joy as Sophi just smiled and shook her head. Dumbledore had the very same twinkle in his eyes he had in her time as well.
"Well child, looks like the lions gained another lioness to their ranks, good thing to since there are only two others in your year." The elder wizard chuckled putting the hat back. When he sat back behind his desk he summoned a letter from somewhere that she couldn't see and handed it to Dite. She knew it was the acceptance letter, when she took it from him he welcomed her to Hogwarts.
The feeling of relief washed over the family when they left the school. Dumbledore allowing them to use the Flue to go home instead of having them walk back to the gates to apperate. Once back at home they all breathed a collective sigh of relief. The twins pulling out a bottle of fire whiskey and both had a shot. They where able to keep the secret from one of the greatest wizards in History, now it was time for them to plan a trip to Diagon to get school supplies. Then the trip back to Hogwarts with the other students, hopefully she can go unnoticed on the train and then during the feast. Dite did not want to run into the Marauders on the train either. But she knew that the possibilities of that wish coming true was about a 1% chance if none at all.