Chapter Two

"I see your galleon, and I raise you two galleons!" Fred laughed.

"Ooh, pushing the boat out here lads!" Seamus cried in her Irish tone and they all laughed and joked.

"Rora," Fred got up off his seat and gave her a hug.

"How are you?" George asked and she received a hug from both of them.

"Garr," Aurora winged, "Lavender and Parvati are giving me grief again, like they do," she said sitting down in Fred's seat and picked up his hand, "DOUBLE!" she cried patting down more money, "I raise you four galleons!"

"WHAT?" Fred cried, exasperated, "This is my money you're playing with,"

"Trust me, Frederick," she smiled, playing with the money and her deck, "Juuuuust trust me,"

And as predicted Aurora got Fred's money back plus others.

"Rora, you're brilliant!" he ruffled her hair and the others around the table cheered

"Butterbeers on me guys!" Aurora laughed, lapping up the attention

"I'll hold you to that Diggory," George smiled sipping his fire whisky

"Diggory?" Harry asked and the room when silent

"Yes?" she asked, shuffling the cards, groaning inside her head that someone else had made the connection, her heart sank as she willed him not to talk about Cedric.

"You're a Diggory, as in Cedric Diggory," Aurora's heart dropped.

"Yes, we're twins," She replied and Ron gasped, "What?" she asked, "Something I should know?" She chuckled nervously.

"Well actually there is…" Harry mumbled, "I need to talk to you about Cedric,"

"No, no, no, no," she said waving her hands at him, "No way, not now, it's too late, I need to sleep,"

"Please, you need to know!" Harry said with urgency, there stood there for a moment, surrounded by the thick tension in the air.

Aurora sighed, "Fine, ten minutes,"

"Whoa, it's going to take longer than that!" Ron smiled and they all sat around the fire in the common room. Seamus and Dean did not want to hear the story again to retired to bed but Fred and George stayed to listen. It had turned seven when Hermione came through the door as Harry was talking.

"Hi everyone! I've just got back from the library, I got all my essays done –,"

"SHH!" she was interrupted by Fred shh-ing her, "Harry's talking,"

"I can see that –,"

"SHH!" she was interrupted again but this time by Ron. For Hermione, this really took the biscuit and she flounced off up to bed.

A few more minutes past as Harry retold the story of how Aurora's twin Cedric had died. Aurora at times felt like she wanted to cry but held herself together to hear the rest of the story. When Harry was done, she felt a sense of release but also felt like she needed to pay Voldemort back for the pain and the hurt he had cause her and her family. She could feel her knuckles whitening in her grip and a rush of anger flow over here. She calmed herself down inside her head and blinked back the tears.

"How do you feel?" Harry asked.

"I want to kill him," Aurora spat out with clenched fists.

"That's how I felt," Harry smiled weakly.

"I think it's time for bed," George suggested.

"I think you're right," Fred agreed and they gathered up their belongings.

"Are you okay?" Harry asked Aurora quietly, "I had to tell you, no one else believes me and I wouldn't lie about this! I'm telling the truth,"

"There's no other way to explain it,"

"You mean to say you believe me?" Harry asked.

"Yes I do, I believe you," Aurora said honestly, "It makes sense, and they said he died from one of his own spells rebounding off the walls of the maze and killing him. We traced the spells on his wand and he had never used the killing curse only defensive spells, so he was only defending himself. He was competing in the Tri-Wizard Tournament and Barty Crouch Junior was charged at the Wizard's High Court for –,"

"You know you're stuff," Ron smiled, impressed.

"He was my brother and my best friend, it would be an insult to his memory if I didn't," Aurora smiled weekly.

"That's sweet," someone sourly spat from across the room. They all turned around and saw Hermione stood at the bottom of the stairs.

Aurora, Ron, Harry, Fred and George all turned around to stare at her.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Harry asked. Hermione shrugged nonchalantly and came and sat by the fire, "Hermione, Cedric was killed, Aurora has a right to know, and I think that's more important than knowing about your essays,"

"Gee thanks," Hermione looked bad-tempered.

"Seriously?" Aurora cried, "Are you that self absorbed that wouldn't let you're friends give 2 minutes of their time to talk about someone's dead brother…"

"They're my friends…" Hermione gave Aurora the stink eye

"Ok, you're pathetic," Aurora got up and left the common room, "thanks guys for talking to me," she smiled at the rest of the boys in the room, "Shame people can't be more understanding…" she aimed towards Hermione.

She pushed open the door to the dormitory and the giggling on the left side of the dorm immediately stopped. Unaffected by this she climbed into bed and went straight to sleep.