"Erin. My name is Erin." She finally said, again trying to get out the door. Bellatrix stepped back and Pettigrew stepped to the side to let Erin and her friends through.
So Erin, Spencer, Molly, and Dallas rushed off to see if the boat to Gryffinzar Island was docked. The boat wasn't there, but luckily, Nikolas had just stepped off of the boat from Wyndemere.
"Dad, we need to go to the school and the boats not here." Spencer said to his father.
"The school isn't really ready yet." Nikolas said shrugging off the kids.
"Erin is supposed to go there to help her grandfathers with some of the work." Spencer whined.
"If the boats not there, there really is nothing that I can do to help you. Try calling your mother, Erin. Tell her that you can't get to Gryffinzar Island." Nikolas sighed.
"I would if I could, but I can't. My mother hates cell phones." Erin sighed.
"Have the boat take you to Gryffinzar, refuel, then return here." Nikolas sighed as he walked up the stairs near the docks.
"Thank you so very much, Mr. Cassidine." Erin said as the others boarded the boat.
"Just don't let this happen again. Next time I won't be so generous with the boat." Nikolas reprimanded. Erin joined the boat. Spencer had already spoken to the captain, who agreed to the run."
The four friends made it to Gryffinzar Island to meet up with Godric and Salazar, who met them at the front gate.
"Where is your mother? She was supposed to be here two hours ago." Salazar questioned Erin.
"I don't know where she is. I thought she was here." Erin shrugged as they started walking.
"Does your father know where she is?" Godric asked.
"He thought she would be here with the two of you." Erin answered.
"She never turned up. Do you think something happened to her?" Salazar said.
"If something happened, she would have turned up at GH. Dada would have been the first one to know. Maybe there was a problem with one of the other kids at summer school." Erin suggested.
"What about the lady that we ran into at Kelly's?" Spencer asked as they walked up to the front door of the castle/school.
The door opened and out walked Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"What lady that you saw at Kelly's?" Hermione asked.
"Some lady started asking Erin questions. She even knew who Erin was." Spencer blurted.
"What did this lady look like?" Draco questioned coming to the door and standing next to Harry.
"She had dark, unruly curly hair, quite thin and some what petite." Molly answered.
"That sounds like Bellatrix Lestrange." Hermione sighed.
"Did she have anyone with her?" Harry asked.
"The guy had the face of a rat. There's not much more that I can say about him." Dallas said.
"That sounds like Pettigrew. What do you figure they want?" Ron sighed.
"I don't know, but whatever it is, they definitely did their homework." Harry answered.
"They knew who Erin's mother was, but they didn't know her name. They called Mrs. Drake by her maiden name. They also could pick Erin out from the lot of us." Spencer whispered to Harry.
"You're sure that they knew who Mrs. Drake was?' They even knew who Erin was, but not by name or face?" Draco questioned.
"I'm positive. Those two knew who they were looking for and where to find her. This was no coincidence. Bellatrix and Peter were looking for Erin." Spencer said walking into the foyer.
"Who'd looking for Erin?" Evelyn questioned hearing only the last part of Spencer's comment.
"Your fathers' have been looking for you everywhere. Where have you been?" Harry questioned.
"Matthew got into trouble at school. I didn't want to disturb Noah at work, so I turned around and went back to the school."
"Well, Erin got a visit from two of the Hogwarts baddies." Harry said.
"Erin's a good girl. She knows who to and who not to hang out with." Evelyn said.
"You're not worried?" Draco questioned.
"Nope. Erin will lose interest in them before she gets too involved anyway." Evelyn sighed. Harry, Draco and Evelyn walked into the castle.
"Evelyn, the furniture was delivered last night."
"That's great, Dad."
"Erin, why don't you and your friends help us sort it out while your grandfathers talk to your mother." Harry suggested.
"We don't know where the furniture go." Molly whispered to Draco.
"The desks and chairs need to go into the classrooms, the beds need to go into the dormitories, and the wingback chairs and couches need to go in the corners of the common rooms, staff lounge, staff offices and Divination classroom." Draco replied.
"Wingback chairs and sofas don't go in the Divination room. Cushions and bean-bag chairs go in your mother's classroom." Harry said.
"Whatever." Draco sighed.
"Let's just get this over with so that we can go home." Dallas said.
Three hours later, Spencer, Dallas, Molly and Erin were sipping iced tea in the hall.
"Erin, I don't want you hanging out with the two that came looking for you this morning." Evelyn said.
"Mom, lighten up. Besides, the four of us stick mostly together." Erin shrugged.
"And don't let Spencer push you into anything. Think for yourself, not for and of the others all of the time." Evelyn said in a motherly tone.
September first rolled around quickly. Georgie had taken a leave of absence from the hospital to help Evelyn with the work load at the school. Georgie and Lulu had begun showing signs of powers around…eight years ago, so Godric and Salazar had taken them to Ollivander's to get wands for them. And they had shown them how to use them. Generally taking the two of them under their wings.
Godric tried to talk Mr. Ollivander into coming to the school to get wands for the students, but without success. So he and Salazar took them four at a time to Diagon Alley, via floo powder that Arthur Weasley had set up for us. The students arrived at the school via the boat that ran between Gryffinzar Island and Port Charles. They sat around a hat, which Evelyn had knitted in her spare time (what spare time? She was a mother of …four and a doctor to boot), that was bewitched by Headmaster Slytherin.
"The sorting will start as soon as everyone has stepped up to the staff table in the front of the room." Georgie said. The students walked up to the staff table and waited.
"You all have wands, correct?" Remus asked. The students help up their wands in response.
"We will begin alphabetically. Barrett, Ryan" Georgie said, "Just sit on the stool, place the hat on your head and…"
Ryan, a blonde haired boy, placed the hat on his head, and almost immediately it shouted, "Potter!"
"Now to be fair, Madam Marquez did not explain the traits of the houses before starting the sorting." Said Salazar.
"That's right. I forgot. To be in the Potter house, you must be brave and strong willed. To be in the Weasley house, you need to be clever, cunning, witty and smart. To be in Cassidine house, you must be loyal and true, fair and understanding. To be in Drake house, you must be brave, cunning, loyal and smart. You must have one of those traits to make it into any of those houses." Georgie said.
"Before you call the next name, I just want to make some things perfectly clear. There is to be no dueling in the halls, no magic outside of the classrooms, unless directed from a staff member. Absolutely no leaving the island unless told so. The forest is off limits at all times to all students." Draco said.
"Cassidine, Lola." Georgie said. A little dark haired girl put the hat on next.
"Weasley!" The hat shouted. Ryan sat the potter table on one side of the room and Lola sat at the Weasley table on the other side of the room.
"Cassidine, Spencer." Spencer put on the hat and the hat called, "Potter!" Spencer joined Ryan at the Potter table.
"Corinthos, Jason."
"Weasley!" The hat called after a few moments of contemplation.
"Corinthos, Paul." Georgie said after Jason joined Lola at the Weasley table. Paul walked over and put on the hat. "Drake!" The hat called out. Paul walked over to the table next to Potter and sat down. "Corinthos, Rose." Georgie called. Rose put on the hat and instantly it called, "Cassidine!" She walked over to the last table that was available.
Oliver Wood, the quittach coach, referee took over the list. "Drake, Anita" Oliver called. Anita put the hat on. Five minutes went by before the hat called out, "Weasley!" She joined Lola and Jason at the table. "Drake, Benjamin." Ben put the hat on and it called, "Cassidine!" "Drake, Farrah." "Wood called. "Drake!" The hat called before it even touched her head "Drake, George." "Potter!" It called after some thought. "Drake, Jordan." Jordan sat on the bench, hesitant to put the hat on.
"Is there a problem, Mr. Drake?" Professor Snape asked.
"N-n-no, sir" Jordan said putting the hat on his head. "Drake!" The hat called out. "Drake, Matthew." Oliver said and handed the list over to Pete Marquez 'Weasley!" The hat called.
"Hayes, Brady." Pete called. "Weasley!" Brady joined the table. "Hayes, Karen." "Cassidine!" "Jacks, Josephine." Pete said. The hat thought, and then said, "Weasley!" "Johnson, Eleni." "Drake!" "Johnson, Elton." Pete said. "Cassidine!" The hat called. "Julian, Alexandra." "Potter!"
Professor Snape took the list from Pete and handed it to Logan. "Julian, Charlemagne." Logan called. Logan handed the hat to Charlemagne. He put it on and it called out, "Drake!" "Lansing, Adam." Logan called. "Potter!" The hat shouted. "Lansing, Bianca." He said. "Cassidine!" The hat called out. "Lansing, Molly." Logan said. "So you don't know where you belong?" The hat said inside her head. "Please say Drake. Please say Drake." Molly thought. "Drake!" The hat called. Molly joined the cheers at the Drake table. "Lupin-Black, Joshua." Logan said. "Cassidine!" The hat shouted. "Lupin-Black, Lindsay." Logan called. Lindsay stepped up and put the hat on. "Drake!" The hat yelled.
Severus stepped foreword to call out the rest of the names. "Marquez-Drake, Erin." Erin stepped foreword, sat on the stool and placed the hat on her head.
"Not Weasley. Please not Weasley. Anything but Weasley. Drake would be a fix. I could easily get into Cassidine. Even Potter would be better than Weasley." Erin thought.
"So, not Weasley, eh? You could become a great sorceress if you went into Weasley.' The hat said.
"Not Weasley!" Erin scolded the hat.
"Then it should be--." the hat muttered. "Potter!" It shouted quite loudly.
Erin joined Spencer at the Potter table. "What took so long?" Spencer asked.
"The hat wanted to put me in Weasley, said I could be a great sorceress if I went into Weasley. I don't want to be in Weasley." Erin sighed.
"This is better anyway. We get to be in the same house and no one would be the wiser." Spencer said putting his hand on her thigh.
"My mother would. There's a reason she's the Divination teacher." Erin said removing his hand from her thigh.
"Why's that?" Spencer asked.
"She's a seer. Hasn't had a premonition in ages, though. Grandpa Godric said that the eye comes and goes, it's not a constant thing." Erin shrugged.
"Maybe the gift is gone." Spencer suggested.
"It never leaves. It lays dormant until it wants to be heard from again." Erin said as though from a text book.
"And where did you read that, Marquez?" Commented Jake Morgan, who was placed in Weasley House. Dallas was placed in Drake with Molly.
"Mind your own business, Morgan!" Snapped Spencer.
"Why don't you come over here and make me, Cassidine." Jake said. Caleb Weasley was placed in the Potter House.
"You boys better not even think about fighting in here. " Rowena said breaking it up before it even started.
"Yes, Professor Ravenclaw." They both said, thoroughly chastised.
The rest of the sorting day proved to be uneventful. The next day, however, the first day of classes, would prove to be interesting. It had been a lovely beginning to a rivalry between the Potter and Weasley Houses. The first class that Erin had that day was Divination. The sixth and seventh year Potters' and the first year Weasleys' were together in the same room. For over an hour.
After the bell had rung, signaling the beginning of class, Professor Drake took a role call.
"Corinthos, Jason?" "Present!" The petite dark haired boy replied with a raised hand. "Drake, Anita." "Here." Said a dark haired girl. "Drake, Matthew?" "Here." The boy replied. "Jacks, Josephine?" "Present." Said a little blonde girl. "Julian, Alexandra?" "Here." She replied. "Marquez-Drake, Erin?" "Here." Erin mumbled. "Morgan, Jacob?" "Present." Jake smirked.
"Here's how this class is going to work. If I am going to make a prediction, if at all, I could do it while teaching a lesson. So I first am going to teach you the signs of a prediction. The eyes of the seer get really glassy and clouded. They go into a trance-like state, and their voice goes all frog-like. Most of all, the seer will never remember what they have just said. You must never try to snap a seer out of their trance." Evelyn said.