A/N Thank you for reading my story so far. Please review. No one is, and I'm getting kind of discouraged. Please review. Did I already say that?

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, unfortunately.

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The platform was over-crowded with students,trunks,pets, and teachers desperatly trying to direct students through the carraiges. Laurel, Athena and I were masters at getting through crowds. It was one of the skills we had aquired from living in large cities.

Once we got to the grounds we saw horseless carraiges waiting to take the students to the school. We climbed in and waited for more people to fill the carraige.

We were deep deep in conversation about nothing in particular, so when the boys, meaning Fred,George, and Lee, came up to the carraige and shouted, "Hey Girls!" we were so shocked, we screamed.

"Whoa, someones a bit jumpy aren't they?" muttered George while climbing into the carraige.

"Sorry." the three of us muttered.

"Do you guys know what houses you have been sorted in? Or do you have to be sorted with the 1st years" Lee asked grinning at the thought.

"Ha,ha." Laurel said sarcastically.

"We were sorted during the summer." I told them.

"and..."

"And what?" I asked.

"What houses are you in?!"

"Oh, sorry. We were all sorted into gryffindor."

"hmm..." said Fred.

"What?" I asked him.

"I just thought you'd be sorted into Ravenclaw."

"So did we." Athena answered quietly.
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We arrived at the school about five minutes later.

"Wow." Athena breathed when she saw the castle.

"I know." I answered her. "Come on, we should get inside for the feast."

I could almost see Laurel's ear perk up when she heard me utter that last word.

"Feast?" she asked. I nodded, and she practically dragged us into the castle.

"Where's the food?" she asked sadly when we got into the great hall. She saw that the four long tables were filled with many empty platters.

"The food comes after the sorting. Let's go find a seat."

They took their seats across from me in the middle of the table. After a few minutes with Laurel sighing every so often, Athena got fed up and said "I can't beleive you are irritated just because the food isn't here yet."

"Hmph." was all Laurel said.

Less than a minute later the boys came through the entrance to the great hall. Athena and I greeted them,
but Laurel just grunted.

"What's wrong with her?" asked George who was snapping his fingers in front of her face as if she was in a trance.

"I told her there was a feast, and she got really excited. Then she realized she has to wait, and got like this." I pointed to her.

"Oh, that's why you ran off, I just thought you were just crazy and resisted my good looks and charm." he kissed his biceps. We all laughed. "What?" He asked looking genuinly confused. That made us laugh even harder. Laurel was the one who stopped us.

"What are they staring at?" she asked gazing over my shoulder.

"She speaks!" squealed George.

We ignored him and looked over to where she was staring. It was the first years entering the Hall. Almost every single one of them was looking up. We then did the same.

"That's so awesome." Laurel said.

"I agree." said Athena.

"I almost forgot about the ceiling." I said dreamily. I was snapped out of my daze when the sorting hat started singing.

Once the song and the sorting was over, and the nervous first years took their seats, my grandfather stood up and started speaking.

"Welcome back to another year at hogwarts. What happened at the Triwizard Tournament last year was unforunate, and that Voldemorts threat is getting greater each day. Now on a lighter note, i'd like to remind you that the forbidden forest remains forbidden to all students." he paused and looked over in my direction. I heard a soft chuckle from Fred and George and realized it was them he was looking at. "There is a new list of banned items posted on Mr.Filch's door if you wish to check it. Anyway, I will not keep you from the delectible feast so... dig in!" he clapped his hands and the empty platters filled with food.

Everyone (Laurel, Athena, me, and the entire male population at Hogwarts) started eating as if they hadn't been fed properly in months. There was no real conversations, except for grunts of appreciation and muffled sentences.

A few minutes later a girl a couple of seats down from us pointed at us and said to her friend, "They're eating like BOYS!"

"So?" Laurel said.

"Was I talking to you?" The girl asked.

"No, but you were talking about me, which gives me the right to enter in your conversation." Laurel said matter-of-factly. "Anyway whatever-your-name is, I think it is perfectly healthy to actually eat your food and not just poke it around your plate."

"Be nice!" Athena told her laughing.

"My name is Parvati!" The girl said angrily.

"Mhmm." Laurel answered her, then returned to her food.

"Don't you guys worry about getting fat?" Another girl sitting across from Parvati asked.

We looked at them, looked at each other, and then started laughing hysterically.

"Shut up Lavender!" Paarvati hissed while we were still laughing.

When Laurel went back for her 8th helping of chicken Athena and I stopped her.

"Save room for dessert!" I scolded her.

"There's dessert?" She asked her eyes widening like a kid in a candy shop.

I nodded, and she became completely silent staring at the platters.

No later than 5 minutes later all of the platters were cleaned and filled with dessert.

Once all the dessert was cleared and each student was sufficiently stuffed, my grandfather stood up again to speak.

"Well now that our bellies our full, it is time to get some rest, for classes start tommorow." The whole great hall groaned. My grandfather smiled. "First years please follow your prefects to your common rooms. You are dismissed."

We all got up and headed out of the great hall. I suppose we were pretty fast in getting out of there because when the boys caught up to us they were panting heavily.

"Why...do...you guys...walk...so..fast!?" Lee asked.

"Oh,sorry." I told them and we all slowed down.

"Thank you."

When we turned a corner George asked "How do you guys know your way around?"

"Maddy knows because her grandfather is the headmaster, but for Laurel and I we use this." she pulled out a map from her pocket. "Maddy made it, we've been studying it all summer."

"Can I see that?" Fred asked pointing at the map. Athena handed it over to him. "Hmmm..." he uttered while looking over the map.

"What?" I asked him.

"The map.. it looks a lot like... never mind."

"The Mauraders map?"

"How do you know about the map?" he asked bewildered.

"When I was younger I snuck into Filch's office and took it. When I finally got it open, I made a copy of it. Then I returned it to his office. How do you know about it?"

His eyes glazed over with the memory. "We nicked it when we were younger, from Filch's office of coures. It helped us with alot of pranks. We gave it to Harry in our 5th year though, he needed it more than we did." he said lazily, still thinking of the memory.

I smiled at this seeing him revisit his past, he seemed so...calm.

We both snapped out of it when we reached the portrait hole.

"Password dears?" the fat lady asked.

"Do any of you know the password?" George asked. We all shook our heads.

"Oh,no." Laurel said sighing.

"Damn it.." George muttered.

"What're we gonna do?" Athena asked.

" I dunno." Lee answered her.

"I have an idea!" I said.

"What?" Laurel asked.

"This." I said turning to the portrait. "Serapis."

The Fat Lady chuckled, "Good one dear." She opened the portrait hole.

"Thanks." I told her as I walked into the common room. I turned around and saw that everyone else was still standing outside the portrait hole. "Are you comin' in or what?" I asked them.

"Does she do this often?" Fred asked ignoring my question.

"All the time." Athena answered.

"She thinks it's funny." Laurel added.

"It is funny! Just not for you!" I said.

"True." George said finally coming in, followed by everyone else. "We do stuff like this all the time. I guess we forgot what a prankster you truly are, should've remember. Though that was not up to your normal standards" he said grinning.

"Well forgive me, I've been out of practice. I've had to live with these two whom don't have a great sense of humor like you. Besides, I'm better at planning them not going through with them."

"Hey!" Athena and Laurel both shouted, insulted.

"You'll live." I told them.

We went up to the dormitory and into a room marked "6th years" and entered. There were 6 beds lined up in room, with 6 desks separating them. Our trunks were already laid neatly at the end of our beds.

"This is so cool!" Athena squealed while jumping on her bed.

"Remind me again why we went to American muggle schools all our life?" Laurel asked while looking over her books that were already neatly put into alphabetical order on her shelf.

"To help save the wizarding world?"

"Oh. Right."

I went over to my own book shelf and picked up a book. "I'm gonna go read down in the common room."

They both nodded, and I headed downstairs.

The common room was packed. There were atleast twice as many people as there were chairs. Luckily for me someone was just getting out of one of the chairs near the fire. I sat in it before anyone else had a chance to grab it.

I don't know how long I was there,reading, but when I finally looked up the common room was empty. I figured now would be a good time to head back up to the dormitory. As I was standing up Fred walked down the steps.

"Hey." I said as he walked towards me.

"You said we could talk later about why you left?" he said nervously.

"Right." I flopped back down on my chair. "The day after my 11th birthday party, I was at Hogwarts, and my granfather said he had something important to talk to me about. We were in his office and he started talking about these 2 girls. One named Athena, an american witch whom was living in a muggle orphanage with no knowledge of her parents being magical. Then there was a muggle born witch named Laurel whom was living in another orphanage. She was a great leader, and used her pre-developed magical ability to it's best. Then he told me about how if we used our magic together we could help bring a lot of useful information to the wizarding world. Then he told me I would have to move America and leave my friends."

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"I know this will be hard for you, to leave all of your friends, but the information you will gather will help us with the fight against Voldemort."

"Isn't he dead?"

"Not entirely. I will explain more into detail later on that matter. I beleive he is trying to rise again since Harry Potter is coming to school next year. We need the three of you to help us."

"Okay, I'll do it,"

"Really?"

"I trust you grandpa."

"Wonderful, I'd like you to meet Athena Proctor, and Laurel Rotter." he opened the door to his study where two girls were sitting, talking.
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"... from there we hit it off, and became good friends, soon to become best friends. Then it hit me, we were going off to America the next night, and I had no time to say goodbye to all of you! Heres what happened..."

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"You girls are leaving tommorow night," Grandpa told us. The other girls had no problem with it, having lived in America their whole lives. I however, did have a problem with it.

"You mean I don't have time to say goodbye?" My eyes started to water when he shook his head.

"We have to make this a clean break, Fred and George can't know anything about this. Molly and Arthur know everything of course, but they can't. I want your last memories with them to be happy. I must say I rather enjoyed that little stunt you pulled on Molly in the kitchen." he said chuckling.

I ignored his compliment and spoke, in utter horror, "Last memories?! You mean forever??!!"

"Oh no! I didn't mean it like THAT." he laughed. " I just didn't want your last day with them for now to be filled with sorrow. You understand don't you?"

"I understand." I told him.

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"Wow." was all Fred said.

We were silent until he asked another question.

"How do you know about the Order if it was started this summer?"

"Easy, we were already doing work for the order, we just had to join officially this summer. The reason you didn't see us at headquarters during the summer, is because we were on vacation."

"Oh."

I looked dowm at my watch and saw it said 12:00 am.

"I think we should go to bed it's getting really late,"

"Yeah, you're right," We both got up. Before he turned to go I stopped him.

"Fred?"

"Yeah?"

"You can't tell anyone about this, I know you know not to tell about the order, but also about me being Dumbledores granddaughter. You can tell people close to you, i guess. i trust you to choose wisely." I said in a mock authoritative voice.

"I know, I know." he said smiling.

We parted ways and went up to our dormitories. When I got into mine, I saw Laurel still up, reading. I also saw that there were threes more girls asleep in the extra beds. I signaled my goodnight to Laurel and fell asleep wondering about what would happen tommorow.