SPOV

"Well there's an interesting sight." A voice said parting the curtains and jumping up onto the bed.

"Who… wha?" Said Al jolting up from a dead sleep and ripping entirely out of my arms.

"Aurora… go away… you are always up much too early to be healthy." I said stealing Al's pillow and putting it over my head. "Besides how did you undo the charms on the curtains?" I mumbled from beneath my pillow.

"Bugger that. Why is she back in the boys dorms?" asked a curious Al who fell back onto the bed.

"Silly Scor you use the same charms to keep me out of your room at the Manor. I learned a long time ago how to undo them. Oh and Al I went to sleep in the vacant bed next to Scor's so technically I'm not back but have been here all along. I thought it was too good a chance to pass up." She sang in a tone of voice that suggested she was smiling her infernally devious smile. "And shouldn't you be more worried that I might tell your father about this little… indiscretion?" Aurora added creepily.

"Don't bluff rori, it's considered bad form for a Slytherin to threaten anything they can't deliver on. Telling Father would result in my unpleasant death and we both know that would ruin your plans for me." I mumbled.

Suddenly I felt something burrowing beneath the pillows and opened my eyes to Al's smiling face. "Why don't you come out so we can understand what your actually saying. Your hissings from this little snake pit are incomprehensible." He added smiling warmly. "Besides what if she decides to join us?"

"I'm up! I'm up!" I cried shooting from beneath the mound of pillows and sheets.

"Aurora, I was going to invite Scor to eat with me at the Gryffindor table, would you and Matheus like to join?" Al asked in his good natured and warm way about him. I found it funny that one good nights sleep was enough to put him in a cheerful mood when he had been so sad last night. Something tells me him and Louis are always snuggling under a mound of pillows and blankets, and from what he mentioned of his little sister I bet she joins them too. I wonder what siblings and cousins would have been like to grow up with…

"Sorry Al, Maddy and I might just wait awhile before attempting something that dangerous." She said smiling. "But I will remember that you offered."

Aurora can play vicious and she has even been known to hatch a clever scheme on more than one occasion, but in really, she can actually be quite sweet.

"Its really not a problem Rori. Next time."

Another thing is that she also never forgets anything. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Aurora kept a mental record of every kindness or slight ever done to her with designs to return each ten fold in turn to those who had delivered them. Rori had seen how familiarly I treated Al and would honestly remember that he had thought to invite her himself. Something told me Al and Rori would be getting along quite well. Poor Maddy.

"Rori when you have a minute I'd like to talk to you about Volo, Ok?" I asked seriously, getting out of bed to stretch. I hoped Al hadn't already notice how tense the topic made me. "Well as long as tonight I get to join one or both of you."

"Deal!" Al yelled in a tone that suggested I was right to assume he and his family had often snuggled.

"Allllllll. You can't just agree to things for me."

"Sure he can, that is what best friends do." Rori said calculatingly, rising from the bed as well. "So stop whining Scor."

"See how she set that up. Just you watch… she'll worm her way in and start making decisions for us before the week's out!" I started before turning to catch her in a hug from behind. "I'm teasing you you know." I offered before pulling us both back down onto the bed.

"Aurora and I were childhood friends before her and Maddy moved away for political reasons. She always had the craziest ideas. She's been planning our wedding since she was old enough to understand the concept." I offered to Al playing with some of Rori's hair.

"Come on you two we'll miss breakfast, I'm going to go body slam Maddy to wake him up. I'll see you both for potions first period right?" Rori asked getting back up and throwing a pillow at my face. She was walking away when I thought...

"What are you looking at troll! Never seen a girl before? Well I'd guess not. With a face like that I'm sure you scare them all away." she spat at a third year boy she'd caught staring. He must have been in Volo's year but she hadn't thought twice about yelling at him. He looked smugly content at Rori's vigor.

"You can always join me here instead if the kiddies get boring." he offered patting the bed to her as she passed. Oh no that was a very bad idea. Aurora is as beautiful as her name and can be as sweat as caramel but she is as deadly as ….

"OWWWWW" the boy screamed as she flung a stinging hex at his face.

"BYE GUYS!" she called walking to the far side of the dorm where Matheus must have been sleeping without so much as a backwards glance.

"I have a feeling she's going to be a lot of fun." said Al smiling.

"You have no idea what you're talking about." I cast at him solemnly. Take back surviving seven years of rescuing Al from the rest of Slytherin, try surviving seven years of Rori, who would only get worse as she got older. Maybe I should just send Father the letter about sharing a bed with a Potter, maybe he'd end the suffering early.

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APOV

Since I had barely paid attention to the sorting after our unfortunate … incident, I was pleased to learn at breakfast that the rest of the event had gone by normally. I learned later from Teddy that, Rosie had been put in Ravenclaw and Louis, Lucy, and Fred had all made Gryffindor. This would be the last packet of Weasleys to come to Hogwarts before Lils, Hugo and Roxy brought up the rear next year. That was of course unless my aunts or uncles had spawned any more cousins for me. Weasleys were known to do that on more than one occasion.

"Here Here! To my god-brother and cousin both green bellied snakes!" Shouted Teddy raising his glass as we apprehensively sat down across from Rose who was also eating at the Gryffindor table.

"Teddy you're a little too loud." said Vicky who was looking prettier than ever. She is unnatural. I can never seem to concentrate when she talks to me. I would have guessed it was her Veela magic but Domi doesn't have the same effect on me.

"Congratulations may not be in order, but you let me know if I need to hex anyone's faces off for giving you trouble K?" pitched in Domi.

Well, she would be more likely to socially destroy someone before she considered pulling her wand out, but I thought better of commenting.

"I hope you don't make a habit of bringing him." James said thumbing rudely at Scor as though he weren't there.

"Oh enough." said Louis throwing a grape at James. "Besides you had better get used to him since I'm telling both of them the password so they can all join us in Gryffindor tower for games and study." Louis shot at James sticking his tongue out.

"You are not!"

"What kind of a password is Lion's Paw anyway?" Interrupted Rosie who had obviously already been invited as well. "As much as I love figuring out the riddles to Ravenclaw tower I would love the familiarity of a set password." she finished with a mouthful of eggs.

"ROOSSEE!" James screamed.

"Jaammees" she parroted closing her book.

"We are going to be late for potions if we don't hurry." Scor said casting a wandless tempus.

"See you there. I have to grab a book" cried Rose practically rocketing off.

"Scor I'll see you there too I want to talk to James. It'll take me two seconds." I offered pushing a reluctant Scor towards the exit. He left with a concerned backwards glance.

"What do you want twerp?"

"James. If I am going to be stuck in Slytherin, you might as well let me be friends with him. Besides he is really nice. If you feel so strongly about it you can be suspicious, just try and at least act civil ok? I'm gonna be late so I will see you later." I said as quickly as possible not letting him speak. Always best never to let James say anything. As I told him on the train, speech is for the more evolved members of society.