As Dite sat there in the quiet compartment that Lily, Alice, Frank and she had pecured for their trip to Hogwarts. It hit her that this is the very first year that she had no memories of the ride to school with Harry and Ron beside her, no memories of all the things that would have happened in her time to go by. Even with the new friends she made, she felt completely alone in that moment, but before she could dwell on the thought of not having memories of her 6th year with those two, she looked over at Frank and Alice. The two where in their own little world, talking quietly to each other as she read her book. Frank's shy smile reminded her of Neville, and how he would smile at her sheepishly after getting a potion ingredient wrong after Snape reprimanded him along with taking points away. Dite knew that she had all these memories of stories of the people she considered friends now, but she still missed those two idiots though. Secretly she was glad that she repeated her 5th year in this time, she would have the OWLs scores to help after leaving Hogwarts even though she would be a member of the Order.
Speaking of the Order of the Phoenix, her Baba's had over the last month spent a great deal of time away from the house. Mana had bought a small villa in Milos, Greece, away from the nearest wizarding settlement, which was on the Isle of Sifnos, Greece. It was a safe house should something happen to the Manor or should those they had the manor warded against get through the warding. Mana had even allowed the three girls to spend a couple of weeks there. Lily had written asking to spend the last month of the summer holiday with Dite due to Snape's ever persistent apologizing and stalking her around the area in which they both live. That couple weeks in Greece, the three found ways to get back at the Marauders for their ego driven Humiliation the end of last term. They were going to have to watch out even though they had forgiven them, they planned to make them suffer some before they told the four boys that they where forgiven. The girls even spoke about Snape and what Lily would like to do; she had explained that she could only for give the boy is he wouldn't hang out with those who actually called her that word all the time. Lily told them that even under the mask Snape had on all the time he wasn't like the other Slytherins, as he grew up in a muggle community.
Which made sense to Dite, but what didn't make sense is why he joined the Death Eaters in the first place if he would turn spy for Dumbledore later on. Maybe it was a muggle known thing called peer pressure or because the Marauders humiliated him one to many times. She wasn't sure about if she could change that bit of the future, but maybe she could. Sure the two had semi-civil conversations over last term. But he basically had told her she was a means to an end since she was friendly with the Marauders.
Speaking of those boys, Remus still received the package of chocolate Greek sweets right before the full moon, even when she was plenty upset with him. She had gotten a letter from him asking if she was still upset, which she explained that she was still his friend but she was disappointed that he hadn't stepped up. Dite also told him that standing up to James and Sirius wouldn't be the end of their friendship. She wasn't sure how much of her letter had gotten through to him. She had seen James, Sirius, and Regulus when the Order held a meeting at the Prewett Estate. She greeted them and waited for them to speak first. James being the one feeling over guilty was the first to apologize with the promise of leaving Snape alone unless he starts a comfrontation. Sirius drug his feet with his apology, given that his Black pride got in the way. He apologized after she told him;
'I yperifaneia einai aftes pou peftoun.' Or Pride is ones down fall.
"Di, Di, Dite, Dite, Aphrodite!" Alice nearly yelled at her to get her attention.
"Sorry Alice was lost in my thoughts." Dite smiled shyly at the other girl.
"I figured Di, so what are you looking forward to this year?" Alice asked.
"A normal year at Hogwarts?" She laughed.
"After last year I would have thought you figured out that there is no normal year at Hogwarts with those four Gryffindors running about." Alice smiled.
"Ok, maybe not normal per say, but quiet after the end of term last year." She rolled her eyes.
"Dite, Alice told me about your families vacation villa, it must be nice to visit Greece now that you live here in England." Frank interjected himself in the conversation.
"It is nice to visit, but I'm beginning to like England just as much." She smiled at him.
The three's conversation came around talking about books, places that the girls had visited while in Greece, foods that Sophia had made them as Alice was in love with the baklava that they all learned how to make, about what may or may not be in for the Marauders. When Lily arrived after the prefect meeting and her rounds, she told them about running into Snape and his friends, which he hadn't defended her when they called her that retched name. She still felt like she lost a part of her, but Dite knew that someone else would replace it soon, that's if he grew up over the summer.
That evening when they disembarked the train, James appeared and helped Lily with her trunk. He didn't call her Lily-flower, Flowerlily, Tiger-lily or any of those nicknames he would whenever he saw her. He just called her Lily, which caused the girl in question to blush to almost Weasley red, causing Dite and Alice to giggle as Frank grabbed both of their trunks. The boy just rolled his eyes and asked James how his summer was. Soon the other three joined, and Dite was planning what the first prank would be on them.
Soon the group was seated at the Gryffindor table, as Dite pictured the boy's shoes adhering to the ground below the table. She silently casted Epoximise the charm that adheres an object to another as if it was glued to it. So the moment the boys would stand to leave they wouldn't be able to get their shoes to move. She nodded at Lily who would be the person to perform the next charm on their unsuspecting friends. Lily made sure that they weren't paying any attention to her as Frank had their undivided attention as he explained this new spell he learned from his father. Lily whispered the Melofors charm, which encases the victim's head in a pumpkin. Then when the boys started to try and get the pumpkin off their heads, Alice Oppugno the food on the table to attack them. Soon the boys where on the floor, shoes stuck to the floor, pumpkin heads cover protecting them from the attacking food. The hall in an uproar of laughter as the other students saw that the boys where getting pranked after all this time that they pranked others. Then with a flick of McGonagall's wand the boy's heads where back to normal and the food had stopped attacking them.
"Who caused this un sanely prank?" She asked eyeing the students.
Lily, Alice, and Dite stood as they tried to calm the laughter that still clung to them. The girls couldn't help it as every time they looked at the boys, they busted with laughter as the image of the pumpkin headed Gryffindors where being attacked by food as if the food where birds pecking them on them head. The Professor couldn't hid the smirk that had formed on her face, she took points from each girl and told them to not cause a secen at dinner again. The giggling girls nodded at the Professor agreeing.
"James! Did you see that!" Sirius asked dramatically as the students got up to leave the hall to head to their dorms.
"I did Pads, I did my friend." James smirked at him, almost like he was fine with being pranked by them.
"Maybe they had forgiven us Prongs!" He said excitedly throwing his arms around the girls or at least two of them.
"We forgive you as long as you don't antagonize the Slytherins this year, unless they started it." Dite rolled her eyes at his over the top dramatics.
"I agree with Dite." Lily smiled at their friends.
"Thank Merlin, James and Sirius where planning one doing something drastic if you hadn't forgiven them." Peter squeaked up from the other side of Remus.
The werewolf just nodded in agreement as they reached the tower before the prefect who was escorting the firsties to the tower.
'Sugarbears.' Lily spoke the password and the group continued into the tower. Sirius hurrying ahead of them to claim the sofa as he flopped on said piece of furniture and hogging the damn thing. Peter snagged a cushion from another sofa and sat on the floor, Dite had noted that the boy had seemed to loose some of his baby fat over the summer and had grown a bit as well. She hoped that it would help with his self-confidence this year. Remus sat in an armchair at Sirius's feet, James taking the other while Lily, Alice and Frank took the love seat that Lily charmed to be the size of the sofa.
"Where am I to sit?" Dite asked putting her hands on her hips looking at everyone.
"Here" Sirius sat up, as if he was going to share the sofa with her to just lay his head on her lap as soon as she sat down.
"I'm not a pillow." She raised an eyebrow at him.
"But your comfy Aphrodite." He smirked at her.
"Are you ever going to just call me Dite?" She asked him.
"Nope." Sirius popped the 'P' in nope grinning at the witch.
As the younger students headed towards their dorms the friends laughed at some of the stories of the summer they shared. Like Alice nearly getting swept away in the waves of Greece, Sirius turning Remus's hair bright pink, James mistaking Regulus for Sirius and dropping a bucket of freezing cold water on the boy, or Peter's ill mother asking him to go pick up some rat traps as she thinks there is a rat in the house. That story was funnier to the boys then the girls, as only Dite knew why. They had finished the animagus transformation. Soon the 7th year prefects told them to go to bed as everyone else was in theirs and they where laughing to loudly. To Dite it was a great start to the new term and her 6th year.
Ayuzachan;
Hmmmm, it might or it might not be, you will have to continue to read to find out. I am enjoying the Greek plot as well, I know that in many stories I see those who mention Seer's so I took that idea and kept it Greek. I'm not a fan of the 'for the greater good' ideology either.
Brooklynhills;
I'm ecstatic that you are enjoying this story! Hopefully you continue to enjoy it as it progresses.