"Casper my dear this is Molly and Arthur and their children Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny." Dumbledore introduced me to each one and I gave them each the kindest smile I could. They were all invested in the food Dumbledore had conjured up other than Percy who extended his hand. I flinched violently and everyone looked up at me.
"I'm sorry I should probably go." I said starting to stand up but sitting back down at the stern look McGonagall sent my way.
"Casper I hope you don't mind if I tell Molly and Arthur a bit about you." Dumbledore said and I knew what he meant.
"If you'd like to scare them away although I really have nothing to lose." I answered gaining quizzical looks Molly and Arthur.
"Mother may I be apart of this conversation." Percy asked politely and Mrs. Weasley looked at me I shrugged and Percy beamed.
"Oh me foo." Charlie added, food in his mouth making all the Weasleys laugh. I smiled sadly and nodded. "Score!"
"Charlie you better not choke Gryffindor needs you to keep the Quidditch Cup this year." McGonagall told him sternly and he gave her a little wink. Dumbledore started his story and I watched peoples reactions. The story ended with the recent events of today and I assessed everyones faces. Mr. Weasley was stiff and white-faced, Mrs Weasley was looking at me with tears streaming down her face, Charlie had broken the glass in his hand, and Percy was silent but other than that seemingly unaffected.
"Miss. Potter here doesn't much like physical contact as you can probably tell, I've known her for about two months and she has just started letting me into a room with her alone. Although I'm sure thats changed." Dumbledore told them looked at my passive face.
"Why can't I know about Casper?" Ginny asked obviously annoyed but everyones attention was now to the two twins who were standing on either side of my chair.
"I must say Miss. Potter this prank sounds decent although with us it could be amazing." One of them said, Fred maybe and looked at the other brother.
"Yes Fred I do believe it could be better with us." George answered.
"That's why we are asking if you would like to join us, for the sake of pranking and all that is good." It was Fred again. I smiled and turned around to look at them.
"I'll get back to you on that."I said and they gave each other a high five.
"Oh dear Albus you're going to have your hands full this year with those two." Arthur commented as Mrs. Weasley yelled at Fred and George.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING? IF YOU HAD ANY IDEA WHAT THAT GIRL HAS BEEN THROUGH!"
Everyone turned to look at me and I looked down at the food I hadn't touched. I hated that I was getting into their row.
"Casper dear the food isn't poisoned." Dumbledore pointed out, taking a bite of a blueberry muffin as proof.
"I'm not hungry." I answered feeling sick at the thought of food.
"You must eat or you'll starve yourself you're skin and bone." McGonagall said disapprovingly.
"Yes well as likely as it is that I'll drop dead right this second." I grumbled and half the table roared with laughter. I gave a little smile and McGonagall frowned at me.
"That's not funny."
"It's funny to me."
"You have a bad sense of humour."
"You don't even have a sense of humour."
I laughed with everyone else as McGonagall's face turned bright red.
"She's got you there Professor." Charlie laughed.
"I happen to find many things funny." She retorted and I laughed again.
"Yeah like what?" I challenged.
"That is not a conversation for today Casper." She said and everyone laughed, including Mr. Weasley and Dumbledore.
"Alright that's enough for today some of us have to get up early for tomorrow it was nice speaking to you Minerva and Albus if the twins are a problem just send owl, it was great to meet you Casper I'm sure we'd love having you over at the Burrow sometime soon. Come on you lot." Mrs. Weasley herded her large family to the door and Fred and George turned around to look at me.
"Meet us at the platform tomorrow and we'll talk." One of them said and I nodded warily. They turned around and walked out the door.
"You'll get along well with the twins." Dumbledore noted, cleaning up the food.
"Yes I'm sure I'll have a year long headache as well." McGonagall sighed and looked at the door, "Tom's still not back yet I'll go get him." I looked at Dumbledore for a long time before answering.
"I suppose I'll have to talk to someone even if it's just briefly." I sighed thinking about Devin. I felt numb just thinking about him.
"You've definitely had some bad luck." He said sitting next to me. I scooted away to give us some distance and I could swear I felt Devins wand against my neck.
"Don't remind me." I muttered standing up.
"I wasn't really done talking to you dear." He told me not turning around.
"Well I was." I said and walked up the stairs into my room. I fed an angry Erwen and sat in bed for a long time thinking. Tomorrow my life really begins. I stayed up for a while after that just thinking until sleep final took me.
Authors Note- So this was a short chapter. Sorry. I just got new soccer cleats though. :) Till next time!