"The house elves really outdid themselves," Blaise grinned as he ate his second plate full of steak and potatoes. He had joined the Potter-Black family as they were eating along with Theo, Neville, Severus, and Regulus. His girlfriend was next to him, leaning her head on his shoulder as they all ate their food.
"I'm just glad Ron got food in him before he exploded!" Neville chuckled, causing all the teens at their table to glance over at Ron who was stuffing chicken wings down his throat.
"This is stressful for Ron and when Ron's stressed.." Cordelia trails off, sharing a knowing look with her godbrother. Cordelia and Ron had the opposite problem, Cordelia barely ate when she was stressed, and Ron stress-ate.
"It'll get easier for him soon I think," Theo comments, glancing at Ron with a worried expression. Throughout these readings, he's gotten closer with not only Cordelia but Neville, Ron, and even Hermione as well. They all have been hanging out when they aren't reading and really getting to know each other, and even he could tell that there was something else that Ron was stressed about.
"How are you feeling darling?" Blaise turned slightly to look his girlfriend in the eyes and smiled slightly as she blushed.
"I'm okay, as we read it's getting a bit harder yet easier, it helps to have everyone here; especially Mum and Dad," Cordelia talked lowly, not wanting the adults to hear her and her issues. She talked with them about enough and she wanted to confide in her friends. "I also am just nervous for everyone to read certain things that Uncle Remmy and I talked about." She pouts slightly.
"Don't worry, unless it's apparently important to the plot of the books; it's not in there because half of our conversations are missing from the books so far," Neville cheers her up, making a smile appear on her face as she realizes that.
"Yeah like the time we pranked the Slytherin common room to-" Cordelia starts to mention but stops at the looks of amusement from Theo and Blaise.
"No, no go on mio care, you were saying?" Blaise leans in, rolling his rs to fluster her and he pouts when she just smirks and winks at him.
"Why do I have a feeling they did a lot we don't know about?" Theo questioned as he glanced at Cordelia and Neville who were making pretty good poker faces as they talked in their broken speech that confused everyone but Luna and Ron (to an extent).
"Because they are devils in disguise," Blaise pratically groaned in response before they joined the conversation, the topics switching to something all four of them could understand as they ate. Meanwhile, the Potter-Black-Snape adults were having their own conversations about less fun topics.
"We have to do something about Dumbledore and how he's running the castle!" Lily fumed as they all ate their servings of food. They were talking about what they had each written down that Dumbledore did wrong and after Severus's special charm, they could talk freely.
"The Founders are definitely helping us along with Amelia but I just don't want to deal with him after the reading, he left Cordelia in an abusive household for no reason, I bet you the blood wards don't even work." James rants, grabbing Lily's hand to calm himself down.
"He's ruined the school curriculum, clearly house prejudice is at its all-time high, and muggleborns/muggle raised are being excluded from proper culture and magical raised are being excluded for their traditions," Regulus practically spit. He had worked so hard to teach the four muggleborns in Slytherin their traditions and most Slytherins still did, it was terrible to see this.
"Uncle Arcturus looks pissed," James nudges Sirius as they glance at him. He was arguing with Dumbledore over something with Mad-Eye and it didn't look good.
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FanfictionCordelia Potter-Black's journey through her first four years of hogwarts--while her family and friends read of course! this was on a03 but was taken down for some odd reason i do not own the text or characters; they are donated by jkr. the origina...