NAT WOKE UP THE FOLLOWING MORNING TO find Harry and Hagrid already having breakfast. "Good morning Nat!" Harry wished her.
"Good morning Harry." she wished back yawing and stretching herself.
"'Best be off, Harry, lots ter do today, gotta get up ter London an' buy all yer stuff fer school.'" Hagrid told them.
"Um – Hagrid?"
"Mm?" said Hagrid, who was pulling on his huge boots.
"I haven't got any money – and you heard Uncle Vernon last night – he won't pay for me to go and learn magic."
Nat snorted at his comment and told him "Do you actually think that Mom and Dad didn't leave us anything?"
"But if their house was destroyed –"
"You don't keep your gold in your house Harry! Ever heard of a thing like 'a bank!'? "Nat said sarcastically.
Harry's mouth turned to an 'O' shape when he realised that.
" First stop fer us is Gringotts. Wizards' bank. Eat somethin'" Hagrid told them.
" 'Wizards have banks?'" Harry asked shocked.
"'Just the one. Gringotts. Run by goblins.'" Hagrid told him.
Harry dropped his sausage in surprise.
"Goblins?"
"Yes Harry. Goblins. Merlin Uncle and Aunt are really bastards" Nat said muttering the last part under her breath but Harry heard her and bursted out laughing.
"Yeah – so yeh'd be mad ter try an' rob it, I'll tell yeh that. Never mess with goblins, Harry. Gringotts is the safest place in the world fer anything yeh want ter keep safe – 'cept maybe Hogwarts. As a matter o' fact, I gotta visit Gringotts anyway. Fer Dumbledore. Hogwarts business." Hagrid drew himself up proudly.

Nat smiled at that comment and then zoned out of that conversation thinking about Remus. She had been worried because it was full moon this week, instead of spending it with the Weasley's like she did she'd go to Cat's place after visiting Diagon Alley with Harry.
"Got everythin'? Come on, then" Hagrid told them.

So after buying everything required for Harry and herself , the two of them sat in front of Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour eating two cups of ice-cream and talking. They had gotten to know each other after missing out ten years , so naturally there were lots to talk about. She told him about Hogwarts, the wizarding world, her friends, her godfather (leaving out the part that he is a wearwolf) and stuffs. The two sat talking for about two and half hours when Hagrid decided it was time for Harry to get back home (If you could call it one). So after hugging her brother and promising to come and him sometime, Harry and Hagrid departed and Nat walked to Leaky Cauldron to go to Cat's place.

Catherine was excited to have her bestfriend over. Since the two are always attached hip to hip, Summer was always a blur , going between houses. The pranking queens were always together and the professors were started to get annoyed with their antics but everyone knew that all the people in the Hogwarts castle were always entertained and surprised by their pranks except maybe Argus Filch but that's his fault that he doesn't know how to have fun. As soon as Nat landed at the Tonks's residence , she was pulled upstairs by Cat who was exciting to hear the storied of how meeting her brother went.
The girl's sat in Cat's bed and talked for hour's about anything and everything ranging from boys to their powers. The two of them have improved greatly over the two years with respect to their powers. Classes were amazing too. Nat was third in Transfiguration after Cat who was first in Transfiguration and Athena who was second - Fifth in Charms after Aurora, Athena and two Ravenclaw's - First in potions which is her favourite subject and First in DADA. HoM was a joke to the Slytherins so that's that.
Since the girls were thirteen already (Almost fourteen) , puberty was another thing. Nat was sure that most of her friends would have matured over summer especially her friends because Athena's birthday is in September which means she is oldest and Cat being the youngest who was born in May. Nat also went through a few changes but nothing very huge and thank goodness for Molly and Andromeda. Nat wasn't sure of how Remus would have reacted if she told him that puberty started for her. Remus was scared because being the godfather of a teenage girl is no joke , it was something he didn't even about. He was afraid of the changes and especially boys. Remus had full confidence in Nat that she wouldn't do anything rash, but it's the boys he didn't trust. He grew up with the two most craziest guys in school- One madly in love with a girl out of his league (James) and the other was a player who couldn't get his crush out of his mind for years (Sirius). So naturally Remus was scared.

Nat also saw Dora who was now out of Hogwarts (graduated last year with Charlie) and was doing her Auror training. The girls always considered Dora as their role-model (In terms of ambition) and wanted to become Auror's as well. So with that girls continued talking as well as cursing the twins every now and then.

Summer's for Aurora was nothing but a nightmare. Hearing her grandmother rant about her being in Slytherin is nothing compared to Gran's rants on her having Slytherin friends whose parent's are ex-deatheaters, blah, blah blah. Aurora had learnt to mute the old woman's voice which helped a great deal. So she mostly sat in her room with no company. Her baby brother had been banned to talk to her but Neville couldn't stay away from his sister , so he usually sneaks in to keep her company. Neville never cared about his sister being in Slytherin because he knew she would never join the people who tortured their parents. Neville knew that he still had his same caring and brave sister and no house will change his love for her. All they have is each other and swore to keep it that way.
Since Neville is going to join Hogwarts this year, Gran made it harder for him to meet his sister because she thinks lesser the interactions between, lesser the chances of him going the same way as his sister but Gran can't stop them at Hogwarts. So the sibling's were waiting for September 1st.
Gran was also horrified about Aurora becoming a teenager because that meant drama, hormones and heartbreak. Even though the woman disapproves of her granddaughter's choices doesn't cover the fact she loves her which made it even harder. Augusta was very scared that she was growing up so quickly and she would soon start rebelling (As if she already wasn't). Boys were another thing that worried her but she decided to calm herself down by thinking that Aurora was smart and knows what is right and wrong.

Athena had one word for her summer holidays - dreadful. Her vacation's were truly and absolutely dreadful. Try dealing with a furious uncle, an aunt who gives you silent treatment and a cousin who is forced to act like you don't exist. Yeah. Not fun right? That is precisely what's happening in the Malfoy Manor right now. Obviously her guradians were thrilled that she was sorted into Slytherin otherwise Bellatrix would have a fit if she find's out. That's not the problem here. It's her friends. It always was her friend's. Natalie was okay since she was the sister of the Boy Who Lived. It was Catherine and Aurora who were the problem. Catherine's mother happens to be her aunt who was disowned from the family for marrying a muggle-born. So hanging out with her cousin blew Uncle Lucius off and made Aunt Narcissa stop talking to her. Aurora was a blood-traitor as well because it was her mother who had tortured Aurora's parents. Even though the girls talked that out way back in the first year, Athena was forced to stop talking to her. So in a nutshell her past two years at Hogwarts was bad. Having Evelyn for company pissed Athena off because Evelyn was a pure-blood stuck-up and always taunted her friends. Although Athena wasn't their bestfriend ,for Athena the three girls were the only people who seem to accept her ideals and actually cared for her. But she was forced to stay away from them, so she stopped talking to girls back in the first year and kept her interactions to the minimum.
Wondering how uncle Lucius found out about Athena hanging out with the trio? Evelyn. She write's complaining to her parents who informs Uncle Lucius.
Moreover Draco starts this year as well. So hanging out with her friends is out of option because as much she loves her cousin he still follows the pure-blood traditions so if he see's Athena doing anything wrong he'll tell uncle Lucius.
The rules are simple :
to pureblood norms.
in all major classes
detentions
4. Be good at everything.
5. No blood-traitor friends.
Simple but hard for Athena to follow especially the fifth one. The no detention rule was compulsory for her because if she gets into trouble Uncle Lucius will hit her. That's right. Physical Abuse still exists in the pureblood households where father's tend to hit their children for misbehaving. After her first year Athena had received quite a handful of them for talking to Cat and Nat. This summer too she got some but not like last year's. She sometimes wonder what happened if it was Aunt Andromeda who took her in? It wouldn't be this bad. She was dying to meet her aunt but obviously wasn't allowed to. Athena also wonders how much of the hitting can she take, she is thankful for having Dobby with her. Dobby was an elf that works in the Malfoy manor. It was Dobby who taught her that all magical blood is the same and that everyone is special. Unfortunately it's always Dobby who is mistreated in the manor and she thinks about setting him free but uncle Lucius will never do that. So summer at the Malfoy Manor was dreadful and she couldn't wait to go to Hogwarts.

Nat was at the Weasley's for a few days before she goes to Grandpa Lyall's place. Summer at the Burrow was amazing except for Fred and George. They seemed to be getting ruder and more annoying as the months pass by. For example they turned her nose to a parrot beak! She had to walk around three hours mute. Her only means of communication were writing and sign language and finally after lots of research Molly was able to charm it back to normal. She was glaring at the twins who were laughing their assess off. She swore she'd get them back. The next day the twins came down looking green. Literally. She charmed their body soaps to turn their skin green and Green skin with ginger hair is a ridiculous combination.
They got her back that evening by putting a dung-bomb in the girls room to which she had to take a shower for 4 hours to get the stink off. She shaved their eyebrows manually and they didn't know because she put a temporary sleeping potion in their drinks. She also tied a bucket of pink paint to their door and put oil in their floor. Nat couldn't wait to see their reaction in the morning.

Nat was happily eating breakfast when she heard screams which startled almost everyone except Nat who was trying to control her laughter. Soon two boys stormed (fell down two flights of stairs because they slipped) downstairs , fell face down and stood up with no eyebrows and pink paint all over them and threw her dirty looks. Everyone at the breakfast table bursted out laughing as Molly turned them back to normal. They tried to storm back upstairs but they slipped again and fell on top of each other knocking the milk over the table. Milk fell all over them and Nat had tears coming out of her eyes from laughing too much. "Alright. Enough entertainment for the morning. Go clean up boys. Breakfast will be ready." Molly told them trying her best to hide her amusement.
Arthur had left for work after breakfast, so it was Percy, Nat, the twins and Ginny. Bill is in Egypt working as a curse breaker and Charlie is in Romania training Dragon's which Nat found so cool that she begged him to take her to Romania once.
Nat got pranked the following afternoon. She was sandwich when she saw the twins smirking which meant only one thing. Trouble. She quickly finished her sandwich and went to her room to check what they did. She entered and found everything pretty normal. This made her even more suspicious. It wasn't until she opened her wardrobe. A huge fake body fell out of it with fake blood over it, but seeing the body she gave a shrill scream and ran to the opposite side of the room and knelt down. Flashbacks of her mother's corpse flashed before her as she dissolved in tears sobbing loudly Ginny, Percy and Molly came rushing to the room and saw Nat down on the floor shaking with tears down her eyes. Molly saw what had bothered the girl and walked over to fake doll and understood why Nat screamed.
She closed her eyes to forget everything. 'Its just a cruel prank. Just a prank.' Nat thought to herself. Molly was furious, she was seething when she yelled "FRED , GEORGE! GET UP HERE ! NOW!".
The twins came up as if they didn't do anything but seeing their angry mother made them gulp. That's when they noticed Nat. She was shaking , her head in her hands while Percy and Ginny consoled her. That's when they understood they had gone too far. But they were too proud to admit it or apologise.
"What mum? The snake deserved it. After all with the people she hangs out, I'm sure this will be nothing. It will real people next time if you don't watch out." Fred said coldly.
Nat looked up in shock. He did say some mean stuff but never like this. This was too much. Did they really think she'll turn evil and ruthless? Even George was looking shocked at his twin. What had happened to the kind and joyful Fred Weasley?
She didn't hear what Percy or Ginny or Molly was screaming at them. She just stood up walked upto them looked at them dead in the eye him a cold look. Fred looked back at her but this time with something different. Was it guilt? No it was disgust. She looked at his eyes her green facing his blue and asked him with no emotion "Tell me Fred. Having you seen someone die?".
Fred gulped at her. He knew he went too far and seeing her eyes gave him chills. He never knew what she had seen. He knew she had nightmares but she never told them what they were. That's when he asked himself. What were her nightmares about? Did she see someone die?.
"Answer me Weasley." Nat asked him, her voice cold. Fred snapped out of his thoughts and shook his head to a no.
Seeing his reaction, Nat replied "Pray that you never get to see it thne. You don't know how it feels to watch someone you love being murdered."
With that she grabbed her diary walked out without a word and walked outside to the orchard's and sat down under a tree. The book she carried wasn't a diary actually. It was more like scrap book that had a lot of stuffs ranging from sketches to quotes to doodles and sometimes her dreams. Her quotes usually related to what she felt. Her sketched reflected them too.
With that she took out a pencil (a muggle tool that Remus showed her), it was charmed to change into any colour or blend of colours to make it easy. So she started sketching her parents, a picture she'd seen taken on their wedding day.
By the time she was done she heard a "Wow!" behind here. She jumped and in the process dropped her book on floor and looked back to see the owner of the voice. It was Percy , looking at him she said "Jeez Perce. You scared me.". Ignoring her comment he asked "You miss them don't you?". Nat just sat there and didn't say a word for a whole minute taking in his question in. "I don't know Perce. Sometimes I wonder what life would be if they were there but then at the same time I wonder if I am just being selfish. I have people who still love me like papa you , Mum, the rest of your siblings, Grandpa Lyall and my friends. Some people are still out there suffering and living without love. I do miss them but then I was three when it all happened. Okay now that's you asked me that I am confused." she told him.
Percy kissed her head and whispered "Yeah. Forget it Nat. Fred's a jerk."
Nat didn't reply anything , she just sat there with Percy liking the comfortable silence after which the two of them went inside to join the rest of them.

The rest of the day went quite peacefully. Obviously the Twins and Nat exchanged dirty looks all the time but nothing severe happened which Nat was thankful. After dinner Molly and Nat sat down for some girl talk. The two of them sat up quite late and Nat had fallen asleep on the couch and Molly who had gone to the kitchen to do something walked in to find the girl asleep on the couch. Smiling, she grabbed a blanket and draped it on the sleeping girl , kissed her head and went upstairs to sleep.

Fred woke up in the middle of the night feeling extremely thirsty, so he walked down to the kitchen to grab a glass of water when he saw a small figure asleep on the couch. Curious, he walked to the hall and switched on a night lamp to see that Natalie was the one asleep on the couch. His face looked like Christmas had come early. Seeing this as a perfect opportunity to prank his enemy, he crept back to his room and grabbed whatever he needed and slowly went back down.
As he approached the girl, he saw her shaking and mumbling in her sleep. He stopped for a moment and looked closer. She was crying with her eyes shut tight.
"No Mom. Please! Mom." she muttered as she tossed her head sideways with sweat dripping from her face and tears running down her cheeks. She was shaking as she continued talking in her sleep.
"NO MUM!" She yelled as she jolted awake and almost hitting Fred in the process.

Nat woke to a start from her nightmare. It was the same nightmare that had haunted her for years. Her mother dying infront of her and it always gave her chills to watch it again and again as she sat there helpless.
She looked around and saw that the light was on and a person was sitting infront of her. The last person she wanted to see to be precise.
Nat had hoped it was Percy or Ginny who was there instead of Fred, but nope it had to be him- The last person she wanted to confront. He had seen her crying in her sleep and she knew that he'd never give her the end of it.
"What are you..?" she started questing still hearing her mother's screams in her head but then she saw what was in his hands. He was about to prank her.
"I should have known." she muttered under her breath.
Wiping her tears she got up and left without another word.

After spending her vacation with the Weasley's and Grandpa Lyall along with visiting Harry in between, she was back with Remus in his cottage and was busy painting. She had a separate book for her paintings as her scrapbook wasn't made for watercolours. So she sat there painting to hearts content when janet her owl came swooping in and dropped a letter.
She saw it was from Cedric and Leo. The two boys have become her close friends since they had met at Hagrid's. Obviously for others it took sometime getting used to the fact that the three Slytherin girls have friends from all the houses because usually the people in her house tends to be secretive and selective and trusting only a few people. Obviously the girls only trust five people apart from themselves - Adrian, Terrance, Michael, Cedric and Leo but they do love to socialise. Athena would have been in the list had she not alienating herself from them by the end of first year.
Nat opened her letter :

Nat!
Summer is great. Leo is here too and I swear mom loves him more! Anyway I'm so excited this year because Chole is joining too. Isn't your brother joining this year as well? Finally I get to meet The Boy who Lived seeing his sister is my bestfriend. Okay before Leo breaks my hand by snatching the quill away I'd like to say one last thing. Do you want to come over for a few days? Mum and Dad are dying to meet you. Please? I think Chole will be happy to have girl around the house. Cat is busy and you know Rora's situation.

Nat! It's Leo. How's summer sis? Come over please. It's amazing. I finally get some air after my mum forced me to study this year's textbook's by-heart. But you will always be the smartass. Wish Rora could write letters but her Gran's crack! Atleast mine doesn't piss me off. Anyways I'm dying to meet you because I can't take Ced's gossipinganymore.I swear he's the girl in the group you are amazing.
Love
The Gossip queen Cedric and the complaint box Leo.

Nat was laughing by the end of the letter. The boys bickering and lame jokes always made her happy and being with them means that there is not a dull moment. Leave it to Leo to crack the worst jokes possible and to Cedric to argue which keeps the girls entertained. She could say that they were like the twins even though she would never admit it.
She had to ask Remus about going to the Diggory's to keep Chole who was Cedric's younger sister (Harry's age duh) company and to meet the boys.
Finally after a lot of convincing Remus allowed her to go to the Diggory's for three days after which she must spend quality time with her godfather because over summer they didn't get the time. So finally she was allowed.

Three days with the Diggory's was fun. Obviously not like the Burrow but similar. Chole was already going crazy with her brother and his bestfriend annoying her and she was thankful for having Nat around. She wondered if her head will be sane by the time she started Hogwarts. Anyway they are right now in Ced's room paying exploding Snap talking, joking and laughing. They were playing for about half an hour when they heard a tapping, turning around Nat saw it was an owl. Ced walked up to owl and took the letter from it's legs looking confused because they already got their Hogwarts letters. Flipping over he looked shocked. Looking at Leo he said "It's for you from Dumbledore!". The two girls were surprised too but Leo looked like it was normal for Dumbledore to write him letters. 'EHM. Leo. It's a letter from one of the greatest wizards in history and why are you so cool!' Nat thought to herself.
"Merlin Leo. Your only in third year. Are you expelled already because that's new! Think about it. A ravenclaw!" Chole retorted. Nat couldn't help but laugh. The girl sure had sass on and Nat loved it.
"Oh come on! What's wrong with my uncle sending me a letter?" Leo asked them as if it was nothing.
"YOUR UNCLE! WHAT?" The three of them shouted shock evident on their faces.
"Grand uncle actually. My grandad is his brother." Leo informed them with a sheepish grin on his face.
"And we are knowing this now why?" Nat asked him.
"Because I didn't want to make it a big deal!" he replied
"It is. Dude the headmaster is your uncle! How cool!" Ced told him.
"See this is exactly why! I want to be treated normally. Not be given special treatment because of this. Thank god he's my mother's uncle and not my dad's otherwise having Dumbledore as a surname sure would have been a mess." Leo told them being a little pissed.
"Oh! Sorry. It's just we got excited. My bestfriend is Dumbledore's great nephew!" Ced exclaimed.' Such a girl!' Nat thought looking at Ced.
"You're right. I know how it feels because my brother is The Boy Who Lived. I'd want to be normal too." said Nat "But it's cool. I can now prank the twins to my heart's content. All I need is for you to stick up for me" she told them jokingly. The group bursted out laughing. "That's there" Leo added.

With that summer was busy and fun as usual.

Filler chapter!