𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐓𝐇𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑

𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝟐

𝐇𝐨𝐠𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬

It was September 1. The day they go back to Hogwarts. Aurora hadn't been in contact with anyone apart from her Mother, Father and Draco and as the four of them stepped onto the platform, all eyes went to them. They were all wearing black. Draco was sporting his usual black suit with the blazer undone and so was Lucius, although his suit was a lot neater. Draco's curtain bangs falling in front of his eyes while their fathers hair was slicked back as always. Narcissa wore a black dress that had a silky material and it went to her ankles, the point of her shoes sticking out from underneath and Aurora wore a long sleeved short black dress that stopped at her knees, with tights on underneath to keep her warm. The long sleeves hid the little dotted scars around her wrists from the handcuffs and the tights hid the scars around her ankles. Everything went quiet and everyone stopped, whispered and stared. Aurora suddenly felt very self-conscious. She wrapped her arms around her stomach and leaned closer into her twin-brother. Draco looped his arm through his sister's and walked along the platform with her.

The fifteen year olds dropped their trunks on the floor and Lucius pulled his daughter into a big hug and kissed her forehead, while his wife did the same with their son. Lucius let go of Aurora and then patted Draco on the back; the father and son didn't like showing affection outside of their home. Narcissa pulled her only daughter into a hug and then let them go.

After searching the whole train, Aurora and Draco finally found and empty compartment. "I'm nervous Draco." Aurora whispered.

"About what?" Draco asked.

"About what they will think of me." Aurora replied.

"Who? Oh, Pansy and all that? Well, they won't think of you any different. You're their best friend. You're their family. And if they do think any different then then they clearly aren't right in the head. You're innocent."

Just as Draco said that, the compartment door screeched open and Pansy Parkinson flung herself at Aurora.

"Oh, how I've missed you!" Pansy said.

"Hi Pans." Aurora whispered in her ear before another person burst through the door and flung himself at her.

"Why didn't you answer my letters? I've missed you so much!" Blaise whispered in her ear.

"I'm sorry, I haven't found the time to answer them and I've missed you loads too." Aurora responded.

The train ride to Hogwarts was the same as normal; they got sweets off of the trolley, they talked about what Blaise and Pansy had done all summer since Aurora and Draco had stayed in since Aurora had gotten out of Azkaban. Blaise talked about having to meet another one of his mother's partners and Pansy talked about spending her time in Greece and trying all of the food from over there. She talked about the white beaches and the clear, blue ocean water.

When the train finally stopped, Blaise and Pansy went ahead and said that they'll save Aurora and Draco a carriage while Aurora and Draco went searching for his two minions, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, or as the twins know them as, Crabbe and Goyle. If you went up to Aurora and Draco and asked them,

"Where's Vincent and Gregory?"

They wouldn't have a clue who you would be talking about.

They eventually found them eating the leftover sweets from the trolley and Aurora called them some not so nice words. But then she caught sight of the front page of the Daily Prophet that was on one of the chairs in a compartment. Of course she had heard about how Harry Potter used a Patronus Charm to ward off some Dementors, but she didn't know about how people didn't believe him. Aurora had been keeping away from newspapers ever since she had come out of Azkaban because she was always on the front page. She expected everyone to believe that the Dementors had attacked him because, after all, he is the Harry Potter. The front page of The Daily Prophet had a photo of him and it said Potter on top, but then it changed to or Plotter? Aurora smirked and showed Draco and he chuckled.