Chapter 1: Quidditch World Cup
Periwinkle and her family arrived in London after their long journey from New York City, they had previously been living there due to mom and stepfather's jobs but were recently transferred to London. Her parents had purchased a house out in the countryside near the Weasley family who was old friends of her mom. They had met the Weasley family, Harry, and Hermione the night before at dinner. They were now meeting with them at a clearing in the woods not far from their houses to go to the Quidditch World Cup, "Arthur," Cassandra greeted.
"Good morning, Cassie!" Arthur said cheerfully, "ready to continue onto the portkey?"
"Definitely. Our girls are very excited about the world cup."
"Let's go then," he said and they continued walking just a bit further.
The group continued walking till they reached where the Portkey would be located at "Whew," Mr. Weasley panted as he removed his glasses and wiped them off, "we made excellent time - we have about ten minutes. We just need to find the portkey," he replaced his glasses then looked back at the group, Cassandra and Richard was already searching.
"Spread out and start searching. It won't be very big," Cassandra told everyone, "Hallie get off, Fred." She told her goddaughter who was on Fred's back because she had gotten tired of walking. She got off and groaned as she searched but mainly stayed close to him.
While the others searched, Periwinkle looked towards the hilltop and spotted two figures approaching them, "we have company," she informed the group just as a man shouted to them.
"Over here, Arthur! We've got it!"
"Amos!" Mr. Weasley smiled as he went over to the man with the rest of the group following. "Everyone this is Amos Diggory. He works for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. I believe most of you know his son, Cedric?"
Periwinkle looked Cedric up and down, "I of course do not know, Cedric," she stepped forward, "I am Peri and these are my sisters," she introduced them all.
"Hi," Cedric greeted looking at everyone. Everyone greeted him back except Fred and George.
"Shouldn't we get going?" Holly asked looking at her watch.
"Yes, it must be nearly time," Mr. Weasley agreed looking at his watch as well, "Do you know whether we're waiting for any more, Amos?"
"No, the Lovegoods have been there for a week already and the Fawcretts couldn't get tickets," Amos said, "there are not any more of this in this area, are there?"
"Except for the Banks family, who are here obviously. There are no other wizarding families in the area. We better get ready…" He looked at those who had never used a portkey before and gave instructions. Periwinkle ignored the instructions; she had used a portkey once with Richard when she was younger and they had gone to Washington DC. She stepped forward and placed a finger on the boot, everyone had to squeeze due to the large group they had. "Three…two…one…"
It happened immediately, Periwinkle although she had done this once before forgot how rough it was to travel through portkey. She felt herself being jerked forward and her feet no longer on the ground. She grabbed onto Cedric's hand with her freehand the best she could; he was closest to her even though she put on this persona of being all tough at times she honestly got spooked easily. Cedric gave her hand a squeeze. All of a sudden, her feet slammed into the ground and fell into Cedric, she sat up slowly and looked at him, "thank you," she said to him as he stood and offered her a hand to stand up which she accepted.
He pulled her up then looked at her, "any time," he then went over to the others to help them.
Mr. Weasley picked up the boot and handed it to a man by the name of Basil. The man took the boot and tossed it into a large box, he began searching his parchment list for where their campsites would be. Periwinkle and her family told the Weasleys, Diggorys, Harry, and Hermione bye then went to their campsite location, they approached a small cottage where a man stood in the doorway looking at the tents. He looked towards them when he heard them approaching.
"Morning," Richard greeted the man.
"Morning," the man replied back
"We have one of your tents booked, I believe the reservation was made a few days ago."
The man nodded and looked at a list, "Name?"
"Banks. Richard Banks."
"Here you are. You have one of our luxury tents close to the walking trail, it appears that your reservation was prepaid."
He nodded, "correct."
"Here is a map of a campsite. Enjoy your stay."
"Thank you," he accepted the map and they walked towards where their tent would be.
"Why did it have to be camping," Hallie whined the entire walk to the tent.
"Hallie, stop whining," Periwinkle hissed, "you can be so annoying."
"Peri, be nice." Cassandra warned her.
Once they reached their tent, which was quite large in size as were the others that surrounded them. This was obviously the area where wizarding families with lots of money were staying or those like their family who did indeed have a lot of money but the ministry was also paying for them to stay here due to their position within the ministry. "This will do nicely," Richard said looking at his wife as Mallory and Alicia went in ahead of them.
"It is very nice. We can watch an excellent game of Quidditch and enjoy time as a family," Richard kissed her head and the rest of them entered the tent. The tent was very large, it sort of reminded Periwinkle of their penthouse apartment back in New York City. The kitchen looked big enough to be a kitchen for a restaurant and they each had their own bedroom.
"Wait I do not have to share?!" Hallie said excitedly, Cassandra and Richard had always had the girls' sharing a room. Alicia and Mallory shared a room together then Periwinkle and the twins shared a room.
"We are not sharing?" Periwinkle asked looking at her parents then towards two of the rooms.
"I told them our girls would be fine sharing rooms," Richard sighed, "It is just for overnight, girls," he informed them noticing they were all becoming excited to not share a room with one another.
The following day during the Quidditch World Cup, they made their way to the Top Box and while they waited for the game to begin Periwinkle glanced around at the other witches and wizards. Plenty of them greeted her parents and welcomed her mother back to England. Holly had stepped over to the buffet that was provided for those in the Top Box. Periwinkle was leaned against a wall minding her own business when she noticed Holly speaking to a young wizard with bleach blonde hair. She smirked just as Holly returned to where their family was, "Who was that," Periwinkle asked glancing over at Draco and his father.
"His name is Draco. He attends Hogwarts."
"Ooo," she said, "he is not bad looking either. If you do not take him I will."
"Peri! You are bad!"
She sighed, "what can I say? I enjoy the fun."
"Hush! The game is starting!" Alicia cheered barely able to contain her excitement.
When the game ended, they returned to their tents, they were inside their tent discussing the game. "I wanted Bulgaria to win!" Alicia complained tossing her hat on the ground.
"At least Krum caught the snitch," Richard told her picking up the hat and giving it back to her, "try to find the good in this. They lost this time but this won't be their last game they will win more in the future."
"You are right, dad," she hugged him as there was a loud boom outside and screaming, "Dad?"
"Stay here," he said and went to look at what was going on. He stepped outside the tent to quickly came back inside, "Run! Now! Death Eaters are attacking the campsites."
"What?" Cassandra said as she ushered the kids outside. They stood outside and everyone was running around screaming, "Peri and Alicia stay together. Hallie and Holly stay together. Mallory come with us. Run!"
They all ran in different directions away from the attacks, "Come on Alicia," Periwinkle grabbed her sister's hand and they ran trying to get to the woods as quickly as possible but due to all the people running around and pushing them, they got separated. "Alicia!" She continued running when she bumped into a man wearing a black trench coat, "So sorry…just trying to escape," she quickly stood.
He did not acknowledge her apology but he did ask while looking her up and down, "Are you related to Severus Snape?
"What? I do not even know who that person is," she was very confused and continued running while her mind continued thinking of everything going on. Where was her sister and the rest of her family? Would everyone be safe? Why did this man randomly ask if she was related to a man by the name of Severus Snape?
As she ran, she ended up running into Cedric and his father who had Alicia with them, "Peri!" Alicia hugged her sister.
"Thank you so much for finding her."
"Of course," Amos said, "now let's get both of you back to your parents."
They nodded and followed them to where everyone was gathered. They soon found their parents, "thank goodness you both are alright. We now have everyone accounted for," Cassandra said hugging her girls.
"Let's get out of here. Thank you, Amos," Richard said shaking his hand.
"Yes, thank you," Cassandra said still hugging Alicia.
Amos and Cedric left as their family found the nearest portkey to go back home. They entered their home, "alright girls. Let's get to bed, I am sure we will have a busy day tomorrow at work." Richard sighed as the girls nodded and headed upstairs to get ready.
Once her sisters were in bed, Periwinkle came downstairs to the living room where her parents were sitting on the couch with cups of tea and a fire crackling in the fireplace, "Peri?" Cassandra questioned seeing her, "what is it?"
"Who is Severus Snape?"
She looked at Richard then back at Periwinkle, "he is a professor at Hogwarts. I used to attend school with him. Why?"
"A man at the campsite asked if I was related to him. I found this very odd and thought I would ask if you knew who he was."
"I do not really know much about him. He was in my year and my house while I attended Hogwarts but never knew much about him. He was good friends with Harry's mother until at some point they had a falling out due them calling her a Mudblood. Otherwise, he usually kept to himself. I know before we graduated Dumbledore offered him a teaching position after he went and got more training."
Periwinkle nodded but suspected there was more to this than what her mother was sharing, "Alright…thank you."
"Of course. I am sure it is just because your hair color is very similar to his. That is all."
She nodded again, "Well...goodnight."
"Goodnight, darling," Cassandra said to her.
"Goodnight," Richard said as Periwinkle headed back upstairs. She paused on the stairs on the way up, "She will discover the truth one day."
"I rather her not. He left me…I was I supposed to let a man who left me be apart of a child's life. I also heard a rumor that he is a death eater although everyone denies it if you dare ask especially Dumbledore."
"If he had not left you. You would have never met me and I highly doubt a man apart of the Order of the Phoenix was also a death eater. They would not have allowed him to join them," he reminded his wife.
She smiled and kissed him, "very true." She placed a hand on her stomach.
Periwinkle made a silent gasp, "My father was a death eater…"