Harry sighed heavily as he packed up his trunk, his forehead was scrunched up in thought as he crouched over to look under the bed to look for his favorite shirt. With a triumphant cry, he crawled out with his hand clenched around the sleeve of a yellow and striped Henley shirt with a wasp on the front, and printed in large letters across the back was Wimbourne Wasps.
"Found what you were looking for?" an amused voice asked for the doorway, looking up he saw Hermione standing there smirking with her trunk packed at her feet.
"Yep" he said happily holding it out for her to see.
"And you left packing until the last moment again didn't you?" she asked raising an eyebrow.
"I have no idea what you are talking about" he responded loftily.
"I'm sure you don't" she sniggered.
"Are you two ready to go?!" Tom called down the east wing hallway.
"YES!" they yelled back in unison.
"Ready for a new year at Hogwarts?" she asked grinning as they walked down the hallway towards the fireplace so they could floo to Platform 9 to catch the Hogwarts Express, only people who worked for the Ministry and could afford the outrageous expense could have their floo hooked up to the Platform.
"Are you kidding?" Harry responded.
"I'm seeker of the Slytherin team, spending more time with Freddie more and all our friends, tormenting the new Defense teacher, and pulling the wool over Dumbledore's eyes for another year. It's going to be brilliant!" He laughed.
"You have no intentions to study do you?" Hermione said rolling her eyes, Harry scoffed and raised an eyebrow at her.
"Yeah, I didn't think so" Hermione snorted.
"You two ready?" Cassiopeia asked smiling when her children walked into the room, she was standing with Tom and the disguised Bellatrix and Rodolphus waiting to take the children to Kings Cross.
"Yes mum" Hermione nodded.
"I think so" Harry grinned unrepentantly as his mother just sighed and shook her head exasperatedly.
"He gets this from you" she accused her husband who just smirked at her before swooping her into a deep kiss.
"Ew" Harry declared as he watched his parents.
"Shush" Hermione said as she elbowed him in the stomach.
"Ow! That hurt!" he cried pushing her.
"Children!" Cassi cried in frustration as Harry and Hermione pushed each other around again.
They reached King's Cross at a quarter past ten, with plenty of time to spare they busied themselves with alternating between annoying each other and searching for their friends.
"Oh thank Merlin" Cassi whispered.
"There is Lucius, and Narcissa" she said loudly enough for the twins to stop their bickering, turn around and wave excitedly at their cousin as he made his way over.
"Hey Draco" Harry said grinning.
"You guys ready for a dreadful year of defense?" Draco laughed.
"Oh yeah, it's going to be soo much fun" Harry said sarcastically.
"Just behave yourselves" Narcissa pleaded at the three smirking twelve year olds.
"When do we not?" Harry asked in faux innocence causing Tom, Cassiopeia, Narcissa, Lucius, Bellatrix and Rodolphus to groan.
"Giving you grief?" Narcissa asked sympathetically as she watched their children wave widely at a newly arrived Blaise and Theo.
"Oh Merlin, I love them but I just want to curse them" Cassi whispered.
"They have been bickering since we got up this morning" Tom said shaking his head.
"Hey you guys" Theo greeted as he reached them, before wrapping Hermione up in a hug.
"Hey" Harry greeted him back with equal enthusiasm.
"Have you seen the others?" Blaise asked he dropped his suitcase beside them panting heavily.
"Not yet" Harry shook his head.
"You do know there is the Feather-light charm, to make things easier to carry, don't you?" Hermione said smirking at her friend, Blaise's silence was enough for Harry to get an answer.
"You forgot again didn't you?" he asked laughing.
"Oh shut up" Blaise grumbled.
"Children, it is time to find a compartment" Tom interrupted with a fond smile.
"Yes Father" Harry nodded.
"I'm going to miss you so much" Cassi whispered as she wrapped her arms around her children.
"We will write every week, and we have the mirrors with us" Hermione soothed her Mother as Harry promised his Father the same.
"A new year at Hogwarts, what shall we do to pass the time" Harry snickered as they loaded their trunks into a small compartment near the back.
"Cause havoc and mess?" Daphne's voice said as the blonde haired, blue eyed girl entered.
"Make therapy needed for students" Pansy added grinning from behind Daphne.
"Hey!" Harry cried indignantly.
"I am not that bad" he defended, receiving incredulous looks in response.
"Okay, so maybe I am" he conceded with a grin.
"Did you know you have Blibbering Humdinger's swarming around your head" Luna's soft and floaty voice filled their already cramped compartment.
"What are those?" Hermione asked tiredly, she loved her friend but sometimes it was hard keeping track of all the girls creatures.
"They feed on nefarious thoughts" she said smiling vacantly.
"That explains why they follow Harry" Hermione sniggered.
"I am an absolute innocent angel" Harry declared, his friends dissolving into giggles and laughter at the serious tone the boy had adopted.
"You're a Cambion, just like the rest of us" Draco snorted.
"You lot are impossible" Harry sniffed, before sitting down, unfortunately due to the amount of them in the limited space, he ended up sitting on Theo before the brunette pushed him off onto the floor with a yelp.
"We should've gotten a bigger compartment" Harry grumbled as he rubbed his lower back.
"We can do the extension charm" Hermione said looking at Harry curiously. The charm was extremely difficult, most seventh years couldn't do it correctly, it was also regulated by the ministry because if used in Muggle areas it could risk their exposure. Over the summer though Rabastan and Rodolphus had taught it to them, because of the difficulty of the charm, they had struggled alone but together they had managed.
"Sounds good to me" Harry grumbled pulling his wand out.
"Together?" she asked, he nodded as he forced himself to relax and concentrate.
"One" Harry said.
"Two" Hermione counted.
"Three" they said in unison before waving their wands and speaking the incantation together perfectly.
"Capacious extremis" they grinned as their magic weaved into each others creating one magic ball which split into threads and then spread out forcing the compartment to move with it, people on the outside unaware of the changes happening in front of them.
"That's better" Harry said smugly as he fell backwards onto the seats which could now fit ten or more people instead of the six from before.
"I have room!" Draco cried happily as he stretched out across his side of the compartment.
"Move it Blondie, the space isn't just for you!" Pansy demanded as she shoved Draco's legs off the leather before sitting down herself.
"Bitch" he mumbled.
"What was that?" she asked sweetly, her eyes flashing dangerously.
"Nothing" he squeaked causing Harry to laugh at him.
"Oh no, my Mother found yours" Blaise said his voice full of dread as he looked out the window to see their Mothers all talking a small group.
"That's never a good thing" Harry said fearfully, the last time their Mothers had conversed it ended with all of them being roped into a shopping trip for all new wardrobes, individually they were scary, together they were lethal.
"Oh Merlin, my mother has seen them" Theo groaned, smacking his head on the window.
Bellatrix Lestrange, Narcissa Malfoy, Cassiopeia Riddle, Marigold Parkinson, Caterina Zabini, Camille Greengrass and Samantha Nott had all been friends since their own Hogwarts years. They were famous for enjoying their children's suffering, their shopping trips and all were taught The Dark Arts and made formidable opponents.
"Salazar knows what they are planning" Pansy said peeking outside from above Harry, who had been forced into a crouch.
"Probably the wedding for one of us" Daphne said scornfully, she loved her parents but the amount of times she had to fight them over marriage contracts was ridiculous.
"Ugh!" Harry, Hermione, Draco, Theo and Blaise all shuddered in disgust before moving back to their seats.
"Speaking of weddings and betrothals" Hermione spoke suddenly gaining everyone's interest, the one thing their Mothers had passed on to their children, was their love for gossip.
"Where is your other half?" she asked Harry.
"No idea, I haven't seen any of their family since we got here" Harry admitted looking worried.
"The train leaves any minute" Daphne said shocked.
"I wonder what is keeping them" Theo pondered.
"Who knows, with parents like that I'm surprised they managed to make their way here each year" Blaise scathed, Weasleys were considered the disgrace of the Wizarding World, almost every pureblood family had some kind of feud with either The Weasley clan or The Prewitts. Although because of Muriel Prewitt and her nephews Fabian and Gideon Prewitt, their family name wasn't quite as low as The Weasley's.
"There they are!" Draco cried as they watched Molly and Arthur Weasley entered through the barrier, panting and frazzled, with Ginny and Rose Potter on either side of them, Harry had forgotten the Potter's children had stayed with the Weasley family. Something to do with the parents having to be at the school to prepare and not having time to drop the children off at the station Fred had said.
Percy Weasley, the eldest of those still at Hogwarts, third eldest in total, ran ahead of his family, presumably to reach the prefect carriage.
Fred and George followed laughing loudly as they somehow managed to crash their trolleys into each other. Harry grinned as he relaxed back, they had made it. Fred looked up and saw Harry looking out at him, the redhead smirked and sent Harry a wink, causing the second year to blush, before he and George took off, likely to find their friend Lee and a compartment.
"I didn't see Potter or the youngest male Weasel" Hermione commented absently as she looked at the nails Daphne was currently painting.
"Neither" Theo said as he browsed through the Quibbler that Luna had handed him earlier. Each of them enjoyed the magazine and it's quirky ways, they were all subscribed to get their own editions, but because of Xeno they received them for free. This month's edition was all about the Thestral herds that occupied their world and their uses. Despite what many people out of Slytherin believed it wasn't all about 'make believe' creatures. Almost everyone in Slytherin was subscribed to show support for a favourite house member.
"Maybe they aren't coming back this year?" Draco said enthusiastically.
"A tad too optimistic of you don't you think?" Theo said dully never looking up from the pages on Thestral hair use in potions.
"Maybe they did so bad in their exams they got expelled?" Blaise offered hopefully.
"No such"
"Luck sorry" everyone turned to see Fred and George standing in their open door grinning madly with Lee shaking his head behind them.
"Hey Freddie" Harry greeted the boy happily with a hug.
"Ew" Hermione gagged.
"Oh shut up" Harry sneered, Hermione just smirked and flipped him off with the hand that was already finished.
"So where are they?" Daphne asked curiously as she played with Luna's long hair.
"No idea, just wanted to come say hi while I could" Fred admitted blushing slightly, fortunately it looked cute and endearing on him, unlike his younger brother.
"And we got dragged along to play the invisible ones" George spoke up sarcastically, laughing Harry tilted his head past Fred.
"Sorry. Hi George. Hi Lee" he said grinning bashfully before retaking his seat before Draco could stretch out hogging it again.
"Hello Harry" George responded cheerfully, as if he hadn't complained a second earlier.
"You know, if you guys want to join us, we learnt some privacy charms over the holidays so that no one would bug us?" Hermione asked as Fred was clearly looking at the open space next to Harry with longing, she had barely finished before Fred had sat down smiling at the surprised yet happy second year.
"I guess that answers that" George muttered as he sat between Luna and Hermione and opposite Fred while Lee sat with Pansy.
#Colloportus# Hermione hissed.
#Muffliato# Harry hissed following her lead.
"What was that?" George asked curiously, he was still a little shocked whenever they spoke in Parseltongue around him, Lee on the other hand hadn't heard it before and was pale in fright.
"You guys speak Parseltongue?" he asked shocked.
"Relax, we used the basic locking spell and a sound silencer spell we learnt last year. The only difference is, that if done in Parseltongue then it can't be unlocked by a simple Alohomora" Hermione explained.
"Nice" George said nodding while Lee just stared at them in shock, but Harry wasn't worried about him, he had the twins talent for accepting things quickly, and he was loyal to Fred and by extension Harry and his friends.
"We are lucky that you guys managed to grab one of the bigger compartment" Fred commented as he leant back relaxing into his seat, his arm making its way around Harry's thin shoulders, his simple statement had been met with a series of chuckles.
"What?" he asked confused.
"It wasn't a big compartment" Harry explained with a soft smile, one that had been previously only really used for Hermione and their parents.
"Our uncle taught me and Hermione the undetectable expansion charm" he finished, shrugging like it was no big deal.
"But that's a charm" Fred started
"taught in Sixth year" George whispered.
"My older brother graduated, and he still struggles with it" Lee said in awe.
"Our Father insists we learn the important and useful stuff at home" Harry shrugged.
"Because of it we are ahead in our education" Hermione added. Harry was grateful that unlike James Potter, Fred, George and Lee, hadn't questioned him as to why he called his 'stepfather' Father, Fred had told him when Harry asked it was because it wasn't his business how Harry's family worked. It was rare to see the serious side of the prankster but when it did show it was usually because Harry needed reassurance about something.
"What's that?" Fred asked curiously as Harry placed a little black journal back into his suitcase before turning to face the redhead.
"My Father's journal from when he was at Hogwarts" Harry explained with a broad grin.
"He charmed it to talk back to his bloodline, so his 16 year old self talks to me about his time at Hogwarts, he entrusted me with it for my studies" Harry said proudly, carefully avoiding the full truth behind the Horcrux.
"That is awesome" Fred exclaimed.
"Yeah, it also tells me his embarrassing stories" Harry smirked, suddenly he had everyone's attention, the Cambions were eager to hear embarrassing stories of their Lord, whereas Fred, George and Lee were just shocked at the idea of having dirt on a parent.
"Yep, apparently, it isn't only Mother we get our 'Cheeky' side, as Father calls it, from" Harry said grinning.
"What? Really?" Hermione asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yep, he used to call teachers by their first name, and just saying, he was a kiss ass" Harry laughed.
"Oh! Has he told you about his time at Hogwarts?" Hermione questioned excitably, despite loving their Uncle Severus, their Father had been taught by the legend, Horace Slughorn himself.
"Oh yeah, can't believe that Dumbledore is still alive, I mean he was old when Father was a student" Harry chortled.
"Wait, isn't your Dad French? Wouldn't he of gone to Beauxbatons?" George asked curiously and slightly lost.
"Your Father isn't that old" Fred said at the same time, Harry looked at them carefully before coming to a decision.
"It isn't my Father Dion's, it's my birth Father's, he died when I was little, and was in his late 50's I think" Harry told them honestly, or at least as honestly as he was willing at this stage, he knew he would eventually tell Fred and by extension George and maybe Lee, the full truth but he just wasn't sure they were ready for the full truth just yet.
Hey guys, I apologise for any mistakes, there may be more than usual as I have just gotten a new laptop and after so long of using a tablet, it is a big change. =) I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Let me know if there is anything you are curious about or if you feel I have left stuff out, although some things are waiting until the third book to be talked about. I may start publishing my Harry Potter/Walking Dead Crossover at some point in the next month as well for those that enjoy Walking Dead. I will be starting my facebook account soon as well and it should be up and running with the next chapter =) Thank you so much reading!