"Ah, another Malfoy," the hat sounded amused. "You are not what you seem, or what your family and peers see, are you? Your heart is double. A Malfoy in name, but your true lineage is hazy, which makes you quite tricky to place. You would do well in...
Hermione and I were sat reading together in the Great Hall, when Cedric and a few of his mates all came in.
"Come on, Ced! Put it in!" They all cheered him on as they approached the Goblet in the middle of the room.
He walked through the Age Line with no problem, his hair and robes all damp from the rain. He put his name into the goblet, and turned around. He smiled at me before walking away with his friends.
"Yesss!" That's when Fred and George came running in, George holding a small vial up into the air.
"Thank you, thank you! Well lads, we've done it," they said.
"Done what?" I stood up quickly and approached them.
"Cooked up an ageing potion," Fred told me.
"Boys, this is the worst thing you've done, and it's not going to work!" I tell them both.
"Oh yeah! And why's that, Ally?" George asked as he crouched down to my height.
"You see this," I motion to the line drawn around the goblet. "It's an age line. Dumbledore drew it himself, so a genius like Dumbledore couldn't possibly be fooled by something pathetically dimwitted such as an Age Potion," I tell them.
"That's why it's so brilliant," Fred replied.
"Because it's so pathetically dimwitted," George finished.
Shaking their vials, the boys both crossed their arms as they stood up on one of the benches next to me, and drank, before jumping over the age line.
They gave it a few seconds and when nothing happened, they high-fived each other. That's when they took it a step further and placed their names in the goblet and again, when nothing happened, they cheered. But that's when the flames spewed outwards and threw the boys across the room.
I ran up to them, my long hair swirling around me, as I crouched down between them. They had both been aged to appear like old men, with white straggly hair and matching beards. In their anger they started fighting each other, but once they had each other in head locks, it was more the two of them rolling about on the floor.
After breaking the pair apart, I fix them with a glare and they both look sheepish at me. "Once you two admit that you're both idiots, I know a spell that will change you back. Although, you both look fine like this," I tell them.
"We're both complete and utter idiots," they both chorus quickly. "Please turn us back Ally!"
I roll my eyes at them, but I do reverse the spell on them from the ageing line. The doors open again and Viktor Krum and Igor Karkaroff walked in, Krum places his name straight into the goblet and I notice his smile at Hermione.
***
My birthday came round quickly, - fourteen, - and I was up early. I woke up before Gaia and dressed in my robes, before leaving Slytherin dorms to meet with Harry. He said that I could borrow his invisibility cloak to sneak out of the castle. Over the summer, he and Ron were now in the know over my situation, along with the rest of the Weasley's.
Mrs Weasley keeps asking me to bring them over so she can meet them; it's something I have to bring up, but I'm sure it'll happen.
I charge down over the castle grounds to where I know the TARDIS will be waiting for me and I see Amy and River Song first. They're stood outside, River wearing a dress and Amy has her back to me. She's wearing a comfy looking, baggy red hoodie.
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"You're all here," I rush up to them and they each gave me a hug, Amy's lasting longer.
"Happy birthday, baby girl," Amy says.
Rory walks out of the TARDIS then, and smiles at me. "Happy birthday Ally."
Amy motioned for me to come over to her, and she turns me around. She places a gold necklace around my neck and I feel the small charm, the letter "A," which sits in my suprasternal notch. It's the same as she has around her neck.
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"When does this tournament begin, then?" The Doctor came out.
"The champions will be chosen at tonight's feast and the first task won't be much longer after that, I don't think." I say.
"Wonderful! We'll join you," he replies.
"Fine. But you'll have to wear this," I pass River the invisibility cloak. "I'll tell you when you're clear to take it off."
And that was how I found myself sneaking my family through the halls of Hogwarts and down to the dungeons. The Doctor asks about why we are going down to the dungeons and I explain to them about the history of Slytherin house, and I didn't have to see their faces to understand the conflict.
"Okay, we're in my dorm now, we're fine," I say.
Rufus was asleep on my bed.
"Oh! She's here!" The Doctor grinned and I turned around and gaped upon seeing the TARDIS here, in mine and Gaia's room.
"How did it know?"
"You're the grandchild of time, part of you is human because of your grandparents - Amy and Rory, but the rest of you..."
The door swung open and Gaia tumbled in. "Hi! You must be Ally's family, Ally's real family I mean. It's nice to meet you all."
"Gaia, you can't tell anyone about them being here, alright!"
"I won't tell a soul," she nods. "This is for you. Cedric wants to see you!" She beams at me.
"Who's Cedric?" Rory and Amy both ask at the same time.
"A boy Ally keeps mooning over," Gaia says, and I step on her foot.
"He bought me sweets on the train journey here, this year! That is the only interaction we've had," I explain.
"Doesn't change the fact that you clearly like him," Gaia grins stupidly.
"He's a Hufflepuff! Once Draco catches on he's going to tell mother and father and then I'm not sure what will happen! I don't know how far they're willing to go for blood purity," I say bitterly.
"You're not still allowing them to influence you, are you? You're not a Malfoy!" Gaia argues.
"To them, I am. They haven't any idea I know anything about my who my biological family are. I don't know if they should know that I know; or, they may stop me from seeing them," I tell her.
"Would they?!" Amy asks. "Could they actually prevent you from seeing us?"
I turn around to look at her. "I wouldn't put it past them. They served the Dark Lord until the night he lost his power, thirteen years ago. Mothers' sister, Bellatrix Lestrange, she's still in Azkaban because of everything she did during that time, and her loyalty to the Dark Lord."
While I went to meet with Cedric, they promised to stay in our room or in the TARDIS until I came back.
