𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐃 ; d.malfoy

18

It was September the first again and that meant that we were now finally returning to Hogwarts. Timothee was rather excited to go to Hogwarts that he packed his bags in the middle of August and had urged me to do the same. He was worse on the first day of September as he woke me up at 5 in the morning and told me to get ready.

Begrudgingly, I carried myself out of bed and dressed myself. Once I arrived downstairs, I saw that Timmy was already dressed in a suit and was urging me to eat our breakfast. 'Chop, chop... hurry up. If you keep eating at that pace we'll be be arriving at the station at 4PM!' his words did nothing but make me want to eat even slower.

Though I found his antics rather annoying, I couldn't help but feel bad for him as I knew he was just anxious to see his ginger friends again. This realisation made me remember about Draco Malfoy and how he hadn't responded to a single one of my letters. Either he was in trouble or just bothering me and I hope it isn't the latter.

Arriving at the station, Timmy and I pushed our trunks towards the barrier between platform 9 and 10. Both of us didn't dare utter a word to each other as we both were drowning in our own anxiety. We went across the platform together and were greeted by the scarlet train that would take us to Hogwarts.

Instead of helping me get on the train, he pushed his trunk near the edge of the platform which appeared to be covered with bundles of ginger and red hair. Immediately, I knew where he was leading me, towards the Weasleys.

'Oi! It's Timmy and little Levesque!' exclaimed one of the twins, who I believed to be Fred.
'Did someone say Levesque?' said another ginger whom I had never seen before. 'Oh my! It is the Levesques. Bill! They really are Vix's siblings!'

I expected to be bombarded with questions from the twins, instead, me and Timmy were greeted by two strangers, whom we had never met before.

'Charlie Weasley! I'm sure Vix has said loads about me,' he grinned.
'Um, who are you? And who's Vix?' I asked, nervously.
'Huh? You don't know Vix? Y'know, your older sister, Vixillia,' Charlie said as a matter-of-factly.

Almost at once, both me and Timmy's eyes widened at the mention of our sister. 'Y'knew Vixillia? That's insane,' said Timmy.

'Yeah, me, her and Dora were like three peas in a pod!' said Charlie. I wondered who Dora could be but I didn't have any chance to ask him that since we were interrupted by another figure.
'Yeah, you three caused me loads of trouble back in my prefect days,' said the oldest Weasley.
'Oh grow up, Bill!' said Charlie.

Then, the oldest Weasley whose name I believed to be "Bill" looked at the pair of us with a wide smile. 'Bill Weasley, lovely to meet you both!' he said as he shook our hands, 'your sister, Vix, was quite the trouble-maker back in our days.'

'Vixillia and a trouble-maker? You're joking, aren't you?' said Timmy.
'No, I believe she once charmed poor Charlie's hair into a green colour. Took 3 days for it to wore off,' he said and his words made Charlie lightly slap him.

'No, now you're definitely joking,' I say, 'Vixillia isn't like that at all. She's always like "ministry this, ministry that"...'
'Ministry get to her head too?' asked Charlie, 'I'm starting to think the ministry has some sort of brain-washing program. First Percy and now her..'
'No, no. Percy's just like that,' joked Bill.

'Is that who I think it is--oh! It is Timothee Levesque,' said a woman who appeared to be the mother of all the Weasleys, 'it's so good to finally see you again. We would've loved for you to come over at The Burrow.'
'Mrs Weasley, hello! I'm well and I wished to come there too but y'know how mother is...' he shrugged.
'Well, it's lovely to see you, nonetheless,' she said.

'Ah! And you must be Yn Levesque! I've heard so much about you from Fred and George,' Mrs Weasley turned to me, 'you're in Ron's year, aren't you? Maybe, next year you can stay over for the summer--you are friends with Ron, right?'