The Unlikely Quartet

Chapter 1: Days Of Summer

[Authors Notes: This is a co-written story between myself and my best friend, @LauraAlexandra879, we don't own any of the characters you may recognise. The original characters are all ours though.

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Sunday 18th August 1991

Georgia was laying on the living room sofa, at her home in Wales, hands behind her head tapping her feet and singing along to the music that was coming out of her Walkman that her parents had gifted her for her 13th birthday. She was waiting impatiently for her best friend to come over with her father, to collect her, so that she could go and stay with her at her family home in Devon for the final two weeks of the summer holidays. Her own parents were Muggles and as much as she loved them they had no concept of her magical life and it made going shopping for school supplies and heading to Kings Cross for the Hogwarts Express a little difficult. She couldn't wait to see her friend as she had so much to fill her in on! Yes, letters had been exchanged between but sometimes you just needed a girls-only catch up.

The third song had started to play when she heard a pop cutting through the music, she didn't think much of it as she was used to her earbuds breaking and needing to be replaced, by her dad, as she liked to have her music up a little too loud and her magical core interfered a lot with Muggle technology. Just as she paused the Walkman to inspect the headphones her eyes happened to notice a green light coming from the fireplace that had been temporarily linked to the floo network for easy travelling, taking a proper look at it she let out an excited squeal and throwing her Walkman and earphones onto the sofa she walked over to the fireplace and pulled her best friend into a hug.

"Eeeeeek I am so glad you're here, finally! How was the journey?" She enquired, noticing Ruby looked a little flustered and her hair was slowly falling out of the bun she had obviously spent most of the morning perfecting.

Ruby dusted herself down and happily returned the hug, so glad to see her again. The two girls had met almost three years ago when they'd both been sorted into Gryffindor and Ruby had quickly befriended the brunette witch, introducing her to two of her other friends. Fred and George Weasley. They were twins and pranksters to boot. But having grown up over the hill from them, and their parents being friends meant Ruby had known them for longer than she could remember. Her summer so far had been the best four weeks of her life, she'd spent most of her time by the otter river with the twins or playing quidditch with them in their backyard. And just a few days earlier her older brother Onyx had arrived back for a short visit from Romania where he'd gone studying dragons with his best friend Charlie.

"Quick" the blonde witch laughed, more than glad to be back on her two feet. "I don't think I'll ever get used to that," she added, throwing an accusing look at the fireplace. Moments later a tall man with mousy brown hair stepped out of the fireplace behind her.

"Alright Mr Wilkins" Georgia greeted politely, in her thick Welsh accent.

"Hello, and I've told you. Ralph is fine" he chuckled, placing a hand on his daughter's shoulder.

"Maaaaaam!! Roo is here!!" Georgia called out the door.

"Hey Mrs. G!" Ruby yelled after her, thankful that she was letting Georgia come and stay with them before school started back up. Georgia's mum, Kay Goshawk, came hurrying into the room, and greeted Ralph. Thanking him for allowing her daughter to spend time at his home as she and her husband had to get back to working at their jobs. Kay fussed over her only child, making sure she looked presentable, giving her instructions to behave herself and to remember her manners. Georgia promised and finally they were off. Once at the Wilkins home, Ralph carried Georgia's school trunk off to the storage cupboard in the hallway to store it with Ruby's until they needed packing.