Allies.
When the Saxton sisters returned to the common room they were met by a boy by the name of Draco Malfoy, and they went into his room.
"What do you want?" Vida asked.
"I want to propose and alliance between us. My father told me about the Saxton family, he's one of your family's allies on the inside of the Ministry."
"Yeah, we were told of that, he's one of the ones who helped with Sirius' trial." Vida said.
"I know that you'd never come to this place unless it's some sort of mission, I'm not asking to know it, only if I can be any help."
Vida and Layla looked at each other before agreeing.
"Wizard vow first." Layla said.
Draco pulled out his wand and made a vow not to tell any of their secrets.
"Right. We can't tell you them all, but two we can tell is that we're going to try and unite all the houses, the other is to gather evidence against Dumbledore so all his titles will be stripped from him and he'll be thrown in Azkaban." Vida explained. "The Potters are in on the plan as well."
"Tomorrow, we'll meet at the entrance to the hall and sit down at a table together, showing we don't care about houses, hopefully others will follow suet." Layla said.
"Okay." Draco said.
The sisters left their room and went to their own.
"I wonder if Dumbledore will make a connection between the guards of our minds and our Marauder forms." Layla said.
"Who cares if he does, he already knows we're trouble from the fact that we have guards for our minds." Aria said, appearing beside Vida.
"I wonder if his plans for us will change." Vida said.
"Probably." Aria said.
"Now, the stone. It's most likely on the third floor and Dumbledore made it more than clear with that threat of death. Now all we have to do is work out how to get it." Vida said. "I can use my illusion powers to make invisible so we can check what the protections on the third floor are, Layla, you can use you powers to get through any obstacles."
Until they went to bed, the triplets worked out how to get to the stone.
The Black twins walked down the hall when they spotted Neville.
"Hey, Neville!" Harry called out as they walked up to him.
"You look happy." Matilda said.
Neville indeed was happy, he was nearly jumping in the air.
"I've just got my letters from my aunt and the Saxtons, tomorrow I'm going to get my blocks removed and getting a new wand."
"Good for you Nev'." Harry said, patting Neville's shoulder.
"Nev'?" Neville asked.
"Yeah, it's a nickname."
"Thanks."
"Hey, Nev', do you want to go with us to breakfast tomorrow?" Matilda asked.
"Really?"
"Yeah, we'd like you to come."
"Thanks, I will."
Harry and Matilda said their good byes to Neville and continued their way back to the Ravenclaw tower. They were making friends while also enacting their plan of uniting the houses; they had the Saxton sisters for Slytherin, themselves for Ravenclaw, and now Neville for Hufflepuff, all that was left was a Gryffindore and then they could really start it off. Once back to their rooms they wrote a letter to the Daily Prophet that explained their edited back-story and sent it off before going to bed
When morning came Harry, Matilda, Layla, Vida, Draco and Neville met at the entrance hall.
"Malfoy?" Neville question when he saw Draco.
"Believe it or not, I'm not like how people view my father and I, and the twins convinced me to do it." Draco said, pointing the Saxton twins. "They can be very convincing."
"Shall we go?" Matilda asked.
"I can't wait to see people's reactions." Harry said.
The group of six walked through the entrance to the Great hall and decided to sit at the Hufflepuff table. They were amused by the various reactions from the pupils and teachers but pretended to not notice them as they talked about their first day of school.
"The transfiguration professor, McGonagall, was very impressed when we turned our matchsticks into needles on the first try." Harry said. "She said that we must have inherited our skills from our father, who was very good at transfiguration."
"It's a good thing we studied before coming here." Matilda commented.
"It also helps that you both graduated from middle-school and were about to start high-school before you got you're letter." Vida and Layla commented.
Some nearby muggle-borns and some half-bloods who knew of the American school system looked over at the group.
"You were about to start high-school?" one asked.
"Yes." Matilda answered.
"But…but that's more than four years ahead for someone you're age!" stated another.
At this, others looked over.
Matilda waved them off. "So what, there are plenty of other children out there who are smarter that someone else their age."
"You're too modest." Draco said.
"Whatever. So, twins, what was you're first day like?" Matilda asked the Saxton sisters.
"Not much, we did fairly well for our first day." the sisters answered. "But we have been getting some weird looks from others."
"No offence, but I think it's because you're freaking them out. You speak at the same time, have expressionless faces and voices, and all the Slytherins saw you getting Peeves to back down from pranking us by just looking at him." Draco commented.
"Don't blame us, blame a movie that we shouldn't have been watching at our age." the sisters said.
"Movie?"
"It's a moving picture with sound that can't interact with you and tells a story." Matilda explained. "Which movie was it?"
"The Shining." the sisters answered with a sinister grin.
"Let me guess, you used examples from that to get rid of your babysitters." Harry said.
"Yes we did. Our favourite part was saying, 'Come play with us'."
"Can we move off the subject you're scaring me." Neville said.
"Fine." the sisters said.
"So, when are you leaving, Nev'?" Harry asked Neville.
"Miss Sprout will be taking me after breakfast." Neville answered.
"Good luck, can't wait to see how much better you'll be with all those blocks off." Matilda said.
"What are you talking about?" Draco asked.
"We found out that Neville had blocks on his magic that shouldn't be there, so he's being taken to have them removed." the sisters said.
"So that's why he's a near squib?"
"Yes it is. Once I have them removed I'll do better at magic as well as other stuff." Neville replied excitedly.
Miss Sprout walked over to their table and addressed Neville. "Ready to go, Neville?"
"Yes, Miss." Neville replied as he got up. "See you guys later."
And with that Neville left with Sprout.
The Saxtons sisters looked over to the head table.
"I wonder why Dumbledore doesn't look happy." they said, though they knew why.
"I don't know why, but I think it's because of Neville leaving." Harry said, he and his sister already knowing as well.
"But he would know Neville's going to get the blocks removed." Draco said, it dawning on him what the others already knew. "Unless he didn't want Neville's blocks removed."
"Exactly what we were thinking." the sisters said.
"Aren't you worried about anyone else just hearing what we said?" Draco said, looking nervously around.
"We put up a muffling charm around us before we started discussing it, and a silencing charm for anyone who tried to listen in from the head table." the sisters said, implying that Dumbledore tried but failed to listen in on what they were saying.
"Listen, we need to stay together no matter what. I have a feeling that Dumbledore will try to separate us." Matilda said. "The Saxtons explained to us that they believe Dumbledore will try to control us, and one of those ways is going to be separating us from people who don't trust him and making us friends with people who do, like Ron Weasley."
"Agreed." they all said.
"Speaking of Weasleys…" Draco said as he watched the Weasley twins approach them from behind the Saxtons.
"Well, hello there." they both said, talking a seat either side of Vida and Layla.
"He's Fred-" said one.
"And he's George-" said the other.
"Better known as-"
"Gred and-"
"Feorge."
As the twins spoke, Aria did a quick scan of them and saw no ill intent from them, they did want to be friends but not because of Harry and Matilda's fame and wealth.
"What do you want?" asked the sisters.
"Well-" said Fred.
"Ickle firsty-" said George.
"We wanted to meet-"
"The new pair of twins of Hogwarts-"
"We've seen and liked-"
"Your twin act-"
"And love the way you manage-"
"To freak people out."
"Your twin bond must be very strong-"
"Like ours-"
"To speak at the same time."
The Saxtons smiled and even laughed a bit; the Weasley twins managing to get them to crack their masks slightly, all three triplets immediately took a liking to them. The Black twins and Draco gaped at the sisters reactions.
"You actually managed to get them to like you within minutes of meeting you." Harry said. "No one ever managed to do that before."
It was true, even though Vida and Layla had approached the twins and took them to their house, it was because they wanted to inform them of magic and such, their original intention was not to make friends with Harry and Matilda.
"Is it something to do with both twins being identical?" Matilda theorised.
"Well, whatever the reason, welcome to the group." Harry said, sticking out his hands for the twins to shake.
The twins shook his hands.
"Pleasure to be part of it." the Weasley twins said.
"So-" said George.
"Have any of you any of you-"
"Any idea who-"
"The new Marauders are?"
"No." was the response.
"Why do you want to know?" the sisters asked.
"Didn't you see us yesterday?" asked Fred.
"We want them to teach us." said George.
"We've been the biggest pranksters here since we started."
"But now the successors of the Marauders are here,"
"They pulled off a great prank in such a short amount of time,"
"So we want to meet them and learn from them."
The Blacks and Saxtons smirked inwardly.
*They're big pranksters? Aria asked. *That's it, they're part of the group, no matter what.*
"I'm sure you'll meet them one day." the sisters commented.
Once again, Owls flew down into the hall, dropping off letters and the newspapers. The Saxton and Black twins pocketed the letters that Hedwing brought them while the Weasley twins picked up a newspaper.
"It's about you two again." the Weasley twins addressed the Black twins.
Draco, Harry, Matilda, Layla, Vida, Fred and George all gathered around the newspaper to read it.
History of the Potter twins revealed.
Last night the Daily Prophet received a letter from the Potter twins themselves explaining the history they were willing to give out, here is the letter they sent.
'Dear Daily Prophet
We have come to realise that many people will want to know what happened to us, since we don't want any false rumours about us, we shall explain our history and ask that you publish it for everyone to read. For the safety of the people involved with the story, the names shall not be disclosed.
When we were born there was another family who was also having a baby at the same time in the same hospital, at birth Matilda had problems and was taken to be treated, and also was the baby girl of the other family. It is still unknown to us how, but somehow Matilda and the baby girl were swapped around without anyone noticing, The Potters got the other family's baby, who then died, while Matilda went home with the other family. For just under seven years Matilda grew up with the other family who ended up getting in trouble with the law, so while they ran away Matilda was left with a kind woman who adopted her. Not long after her adoption Matilda found out about the mix-up at the hospital and searched for her real family, she found out about the death of the Potters and where Harry lived. Matilda and her adopted mother travelled to England and met with Harry's guardians, they let Matilda's adopted mother adopt him too and take him back to their home. So we lived with our adopted mother until our Hogwarts letters came.
Signed
Harry and Matilda Potter.'
We at the Daily Prophet would like to thank the Potters for sending in this letter and clearing up the confusion surrounding them.
The writer went on about various other things to do with the subject before ending the story.
"Wow." Draco muttered.
"So-" said Fred.
"When did you two-" said George
"And the Saxtons meet?"
"We moved in near them while they were in England." the sisters said.
"We didn't really interact with each other until they found out we were magic and their family offered to show us Diagon alley." Matilda said.
"We started to become friends after that as we went round to theirs to catch up on the magic world." Harry said. "Not long after that they worked out who we were."
"It's almost time for lesson, let's get going." Matilda said as she looked at her watch.
"See you." they all said as they went to their separate lessons."