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𝓔𝓿𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓮'𝓼 𝓟𝓞𝓥
SEVENTH YEAR
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st 1977

I walk down platform 9¾ in boredom as my parents saunter proudly behind me, their heads held up high as they look down their nose at everyone else in sight, and my family's house elf is dragging my trunk along beside me.

A body slams into me and I stumble back, turning to see a guilty looking redheaded girl that I know as Lily Evans.

"Watch where you're going, you filthy little mudblood" I sneer, pushing her away from me.

Her blonde best friend looks as though she wants to pounce on me as she steps forward but Lily holds her back, pleading with her to let it go.

"Got something to say, McKinnon?" I snap at the blonde.

"Nothing for you" Marlene spits back in anger.

"Keep walking, Evangeline" My father demands and I freeze at the venom in his tone "Stop wasting your breath on filth"

Lily sends me a sympathetic smile but I glare at her in anger, turning and strutting away from the pair of Gryffindors.

As I'm heading towards the first carriage that I have sat in the past six years on the way to Hogwarts, the sight of a dark haired boy with a bored look on his face makes a grin tug at my lips.

"Reggie!" I holler, happiness flooding throughout me for the first time since before the summer.

His head snaps up at the call of his nickname and his lips curl up into a smile when he spots me in the crowd. He opens his arms out to me and I ignore the stares of people around me as I make a mad dash towards my best friend. I fling myself at the boy, wrapping my arms around him like a koala and he hugs me tightly, one hand on the small of my back and the other on the back of my head.

"That was a summer from hell without you" I mumble into his neck and he chuckles.

"Tell me about it" He agrees.

I hear the sound of my mother clearing her throat and I huff, peeling myself away from Regulus to face both of our parents.

Orion and Walburga Black have been close friends with Abraxas and Carina Malfoy since they themselves were wandering the Slytherin common room of Hogwarts.

While Regulus's parents have not been sly at all in the hints they've sent me about marrying their youngest son, my own parents would rather I married one of my cousins and kept the Malfoy name instead of taking Black as my last name.

"It's wonderful to see you, Evangeline" Walburga smiles at me widely, reaching out to fix my fringe for me "Although it seems you were happiest to see Regulus"

The woman winks at me and from the corner of my eye I can see my mother roll her eyes before looking at my father with an exasperated look but he gives her a warning glare.

"Of course. I'm ecstatic to see him" I declare, happy to piss off my parents as I take a hold of Regulus' hand and the boy smiles down at me in amusement.